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That's a pretty good explanation. I had a full on black day on Sunday. I knew what was going on, I knew it would be better in a couple of days (if not a couple of hours) and I did not care. I felt like I had absolutely nothing to look forward to, ever, and absolutely no purpose in life. Thankfully, I am not and never have been suicidal because that would have been it for me on Sunday. There was no trigger, nothing that set it off (there rarely is) and everything that went wrong was absolutely unbearable. It's almost funny today (almost) at how I cried over dropping a spoon on the floor (and then threw it when I picked it back up), or at the very thought of putting dishes in the dishwasher. When I bumped my knee hard enough to bruise, I was inconsolable. It was horrible proof that everything was against me. All I wanted to do was go to sleep - it was time for the day to be over before 2p for me. My husband is very familiar with this and did his best to distract and not annoy me. I did my best to not take my darkness out on him (that's really hard) and eventually we played LEGO LotR for a couple of hours. I did NOT want to play, but I knew it would probably distract me enough so I did it anyway. I hate those times. Today, I'm ok. Not a single thing in my life has changed since Sunday except that I care about reading the next book in a series, watching the next episode of that show I like and that my 18th wedding anniversary is this month. I wish that they would develop something that would let you treat the full black days without screwing you up the rest of the time. Something that takes a month to work and takes six months to come off of isn't what I'm looking for. I don't tend to stay in full black for more than a day or two. Most days are OK - I can keep interested in something and don't want to crawl into bed and stay there. Some days are actually great and fun. My previous experiences with SSRIs and SNRIs (Paxil, Cymbalta, Prozac, Welbutrin, Effexor, Zoloft and a few I can't remember over the years) weren't very good. They made me feel worse more of the time that I did without them - I didn't have as many full black days, but every day was gray and it was hard to get interested in doing anything that wasn't absolutely required in order to function. Forget reading (and I love to read). I was a zombie. I'd try a drug for six months, then switch to something else - did this for about five or six years. Ativan worked well on the super black days to get rid of the anxiety, but I haven't been able to find a doctor who will prescribe it for any length of time regardless of how well they know me. Ah well. I just got health insurance again and will begin the horrible process of finding a doctor worth a damn, so maybe there's something new out there that won't ruin my ok and good days. TL;DR: Yep. That's how it is.

That's a pretty good explanation. I had a full on black day on Sunday. I knew what was going on, I knew it would be better in a couple of days (if not a couple of hours) and I did not care. I felt like I had absolutely nothing to look forward to, ever, and absolutely no purpose in life. Thankfully, I am not and never have been suicidal because that would have been it for me on Sunday. There was no trigger, nothing that set it off (there rarely is) and everything that went wrong was absolutely unbearable. It's almost funny today (almost) at how I cried over dropping a spoon on the floor (and then threw it when I picked it back up), or at the very thought of putting dishes in the dishwasher. When I bumped my knee hard enough to bruise, I was inconsolable. It was horrible proof that everything was against me. All I wanted to do was go to sleep - it was time for the day to be over before 2p for me. My husband is very familiar with this and did his best to distract and not annoy me. I did my best to not take my darkness out on him (that's really hard) and eventually we played LEGO LotR for a couple of hours. I did NOT want to play, but I knew it would probably distract me enough so I did it anyway. I hate those times. Today, I'm ok. Not a single thing in my life has changed since Sunday except that I care about reading the next book in a series, watching the next episode of that show I like and that my 18th wedding anniversary is this month. I wish that they would develop something that would let you treat the full black days without screwing you up the rest of the time. Something that takes a month to work and takes six months to come off of isn't what I'm looking for. I don't tend to stay in full black for more than a day or two. Most days are OK - I can keep interested in something and don't want to crawl into bed and stay there. Some days are actually great and fun. My previous experiences with SSRIs and SNRIs (Paxil, Cymbalta, Prozac, Welbutrin, Effexor, Zoloft and a few I can't remember over the years) weren't very good. They made me feel worse more of the time that I did without them - I didn't have as many full black days, but every day was gray and it was hard to get interested in doing anything that wasn't absolutely required in order to function. Forget reading (and I love to read). I was a zombie. I'd try a drug for six months, then switch to something else - did this for about five or six years. Ativan worked well on the super black days to get rid of the anxiety, but I haven't been able to find a doctor who will prescribe it for any length of time regardless of how well they know me. Ah well. I just got health insurance again and will begin the horrible process of finding a doctor worth a damn, so maybe there's something new out there that won't ruin my ok and good days. TL;DR: Yep. That's how it is.

YouShouldKnow

t5_2r94o

c98he82

That's a pretty good explanation. I had a full on black day on Sunday. I knew what was going on, I knew it would be better in a couple of days (if not a couple of hours) and I did not care. I felt like I had absolutely nothing to look forward to, ever, and absolutely no purpose in life. Thankfully, I am not and never have been suicidal because that would have been it for me on Sunday. There was no trigger, nothing that set it off (there rarely is) and everything that went wrong was absolutely unbearable. It's almost funny today (almost) at how I cried over dropping a spoon on the floor (and then threw it when I picked it back up), or at the very thought of putting dishes in the dishwasher. When I bumped my knee hard enough to bruise, I was inconsolable. It was horrible proof that everything was against me. All I wanted to do was go to sleep - it was time for the day to be over before 2p for me. My husband is very familiar with this and did his best to distract and not annoy me. I did my best to not take my darkness out on him (that's really hard) and eventually we played LEGO LotR for a couple of hours. I did NOT want to play, but I knew it would probably distract me enough so I did it anyway. I hate those times. Today, I'm ok. Not a single thing in my life has changed since Sunday except that I care about reading the next book in a series, watching the next episode of that show I like and that my 18th wedding anniversary is this month. I wish that they would develop something that would let you treat the full black days without screwing you up the rest of the time. Something that takes a month to work and takes six months to come off of isn't what I'm looking for. I don't tend to stay in full black for more than a day or two. Most days are OK - I can keep interested in something and don't want to crawl into bed and stay there. Some days are actually great and fun. My previous experiences with SSRIs and SNRIs (Paxil, Cymbalta, Prozac, Welbutrin, Effexor, Zoloft and a few I can't remember over the years) weren't very good. They made me feel worse more of the time that I did without them - I didn't have as many full black days, but every day was gray and it was hard to get interested in doing anything that wasn't absolutely required in order to function. Forget reading (and I love to read). I was a zombie. I'd try a drug for six months, then switch to something else - did this for about five or six years. Ativan worked well on the super black days to get rid of the anxiety, but I haven't been able to find a doctor who will prescribe it for any length of time regardless of how well they know me. Ah well. I just got health insurance again and will begin the horrible process of finding a doctor worth a damn, so maybe there's something new out there that won't ruin my ok and good days.

Yep. That's how it is.

4benny2lava0

We are not seeing eye to eye here. also this is straying from the post to you telling me who I am. I started selling drugs to provide a low cost reliable source of quality drugs to my friends and acquaintances. I switched majors and universities two years ago; moved to another state and began a large live in restoration and renovation on a home built in 1908. I took on this project to help my parents earn more retirement income. three months ago my family fell apart and I left. I am by no means addicted to anything other than cigarettes. I have plenty of friends and family I can stay with, I earn my stay using my many skills to help them the ways I used to do for free for anyone I met who was in need. This consists of repair and inprovement of houses and cars; design, drafting, and tutoring in mathematics, physics, chemistry, economics, and mechanical engineering courses. Right now I can get a full time job and my own apartment and take one course at a time. I will be almost thirty when I finally earn a masters degree. My other option is to sell more drugs to cover my bills, cover my books, and provide the little money I need to live semi comfortably and be an engineer in two years where I will have the rescources I will use to support myself for the rest of my life. I am sorry your brother was an addict. I am fully aware of the mental and emotional strain that situation puts on everyone involved in the addicts life. Being your sibling it would have been especially difficult for you. I have three long time friends who are now recovered addicts who had me by their side every step of the way. One of them is in Iraq right now serving so you can maintain your first ammendment right to pass sarcastic judgement on others. If that is the definition of a junkie then fuck me sideways because my life is by no means easy but it is productive and fulfilling. Seeing a neighbor backing out of his driveway on his way to the job that keeps food on his families table in a car that I fixed for no advancement of my own interest produces a better feeling than any bag of dope ever will.I am building my self which means I have to live in a way that you would not want to so that one day I will live in a way that you will never be able to. tl;dr all the things that make me not a scum bag junkie

We are not seeing eye to eye here. also this is straying from the post to you telling me who I am. I started selling drugs to provide a low cost reliable source of quality drugs to my friends and acquaintances. I switched majors and universities two years ago; moved to another state and began a large live in restoration and renovation on a home built in 1908. I took on this project to help my parents earn more retirement income. three months ago my family fell apart and I left. I am by no means addicted to anything other than cigarettes. I have plenty of friends and family I can stay with, I earn my stay using my many skills to help them the ways I used to do for free for anyone I met who was in need. This consists of repair and inprovement of houses and cars; design, drafting, and tutoring in mathematics, physics, chemistry, economics, and mechanical engineering courses. Right now I can get a full time job and my own apartment and take one course at a time. I will be almost thirty when I finally earn a masters degree. My other option is to sell more drugs to cover my bills, cover my books, and provide the little money I need to live semi comfortably and be an engineer in two years where I will have the rescources I will use to support myself for the rest of my life. I am sorry your brother was an addict. I am fully aware of the mental and emotional strain that situation puts on everyone involved in the addicts life. Being your sibling it would have been especially difficult for you. I have three long time friends who are now recovered addicts who had me by their side every step of the way. One of them is in Iraq right now serving so you can maintain your first ammendment right to pass sarcastic judgement on others. If that is the definition of a junkie then fuck me sideways because my life is by no means easy but it is productive and fulfilling. Seeing a neighbor backing out of his driveway on his way to the job that keeps food on his families table in a car that I fixed for no advancement of my own interest produces a better feeling than any bag of dope ever will.I am building my self which means I have to live in a way that you would not want to so that one day I will live in a way that you will never be able to. tl;dr all the things that make me not a scum bag junkie

opiates

t5_2r0y3

c99ksc8

We are not seeing eye to eye here. also this is straying from the post to you telling me who I am. I started selling drugs to provide a low cost reliable source of quality drugs to my friends and acquaintances. I switched majors and universities two years ago; moved to another state and began a large live in restoration and renovation on a home built in 1908. I took on this project to help my parents earn more retirement income. three months ago my family fell apart and I left. I am by no means addicted to anything other than cigarettes. I have plenty of friends and family I can stay with, I earn my stay using my many skills to help them the ways I used to do for free for anyone I met who was in need. This consists of repair and inprovement of houses and cars; design, drafting, and tutoring in mathematics, physics, chemistry, economics, and mechanical engineering courses. Right now I can get a full time job and my own apartment and take one course at a time. I will be almost thirty when I finally earn a masters degree. My other option is to sell more drugs to cover my bills, cover my books, and provide the little money I need to live semi comfortably and be an engineer in two years where I will have the rescources I will use to support myself for the rest of my life. I am sorry your brother was an addict. I am fully aware of the mental and emotional strain that situation puts on everyone involved in the addicts life. Being your sibling it would have been especially difficult for you. I have three long time friends who are now recovered addicts who had me by their side every step of the way. One of them is in Iraq right now serving so you can maintain your first ammendment right to pass sarcastic judgement on others. If that is the definition of a junkie then fuck me sideways because my life is by no means easy but it is productive and fulfilling. Seeing a neighbor backing out of his driveway on his way to the job that keeps food on his families table in a car that I fixed for no advancement of my own interest produces a better feeling than any bag of dope ever will.I am building my self which means I have to live in a way that you would not want to so that one day I will live in a way that you will never be able to.

all the things that make me not a scum bag junkie

Hedzx

The day that nintendo stops making money off their handhelds because of phone gaming is the day the earth freezes over. I like phone games as much as the next guy, but honestly, without buttons its really hard to get the same experience. When "analysts" who know nothing of gaming claim that phones are going to take over, they always forget to realize that the people who prefer those games would most likely not want a handheld console anyway. People are silly lol. TL;DR: Handhelds 4 lyf

The day that nintendo stops making money off their handhelds because of phone gaming is the day the earth freezes over. I like phone games as much as the next guy, but honestly, without buttons its really hard to get the same experience. When "analysts" who know nothing of gaming claim that phones are going to take over, they always forget to realize that the people who prefer those games would most likely not want a handheld console anyway. People are silly lol. TL;DR: Handhelds 4 lyf

3DS

t5_2ruhy

c98t5i1

The day that nintendo stops making money off their handhelds because of phone gaming is the day the earth freezes over. I like phone games as much as the next guy, but honestly, without buttons its really hard to get the same experience. When "analysts" who know nothing of gaming claim that phones are going to take over, they always forget to realize that the people who prefer those games would most likely not want a handheld console anyway. People are silly lol.

Handhelds 4 lyf

fezir108

I always meant to play Bioshock and Bioshock 2, and I especially want to now that Infinite's out. I played the Bioshock demo on XBL years ago and that's the last time I touched it, but I do remember it being pretty creepy yet awesome; it definitely feels like a gaming experience that I for one would be a fool to miss out on. I know Infinite has nothing to do with the first two games, but, for what's worth, I definitely plan on playing them before the new one and I think you should too. **TL;DR: Yes.**

I always meant to play Bioshock and Bioshock 2, and I especially want to now that Infinite's out. I played the Bioshock demo on XBL years ago and that's the last time I touched it, but I do remember it being pretty creepy yet awesome; it definitely feels like a gaming experience that I for one would be a fool to miss out on. I know Infinite has nothing to do with the first two games, but, for what's worth, I definitely plan on playing them before the new one and I think you should too. TL;DR: Yes.

ShouldIbuythisgame

t5_2ud8h

c98c6uh

I always meant to play Bioshock and Bioshock 2, and I especially want to now that Infinite's out. I played the Bioshock demo on XBL years ago and that's the last time I touched it, but I do remember it being pretty creepy yet awesome; it definitely feels like a gaming experience that I for one would be a fool to miss out on. I know Infinite has nothing to do with the first two games, but, for what's worth, I definitely plan on playing them before the new one and I think you should too.

Yes.

Dustywalrus

In my opinion, Bioshock 1 is a must, so much fun, its a darker game, a bit jump scary at time, but the story is very good. Bioshock 2 is also a fun game, but I would not consider it a must. The story is not as great as the first and infinite, but if you like the series I suggest you get it. TL;DR: 1 is a must, 2 if you like the series.

In my opinion, Bioshock 1 is a must, so much fun, its a darker game, a bit jump scary at time, but the story is very good. Bioshock 2 is also a fun game, but I would not consider it a must. The story is not as great as the first and infinite, but if you like the series I suggest you get it. TL;DR: 1 is a must, 2 if you like the series.

ShouldIbuythisgame

t5_2ud8h

c98ih3c

In my opinion, Bioshock 1 is a must, so much fun, its a darker game, a bit jump scary at time, but the story is very good. Bioshock 2 is also a fun game, but I would not consider it a must. The story is not as great as the first and infinite, but if you like the series I suggest you get it.

1 is a must, 2 if you like the series.

kelsiemay77

Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck Five years ago I got a couple of boils on my lower right calf and ankle. One cleared on its own, but the other turned into this monstrous skin infection that made my leg swell up and left me with a tennis ball-sized open, infected wound on my ankle. Worst pain of my life. I was dumb enough to think it would heal on its own, but it kept getting worse (obviously). I finally went to the doctor, who WTFed at me for taking so long to see him and sent me home with antibiotics and silver cream. Turns out it was a combination of flesh-eating staph and strep, but thankfully not MRSA. The culprit was my skateboarder boyfriend, who had fallen and skinned his elbow on a dirty cement surface and picked up bacteria, which somehow found its way into my pores. He didn't clean the wound thoroughly enough apparently. Now I have a tennis ball-sized purple scar on my ankle. TL;DR CLEAN YOUR WOUNDS THOROUGHLY AND SEE A DOC ASAP IF SHIT GETS WEIRD

Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck Five years ago I got a couple of boils on my lower right calf and ankle. One cleared on its own, but the other turned into this monstrous skin infection that made my leg swell up and left me with a tennis ball-sized open, infected wound on my ankle. Worst pain of my life. I was dumb enough to think it would heal on its own, but it kept getting worse (obviously). I finally went to the doctor, who WTFed at me for taking so long to see him and sent me home with antibiotics and silver cream. Turns out it was a combination of flesh-eating staph and strep, but thankfully not MRSA. The culprit was my skateboarder boyfriend, who had fallen and skinned his elbow on a dirty cement surface and picked up bacteria, which somehow found its way into my pores. He didn't clean the wound thoroughly enough apparently. Now I have a tennis ball-sized purple scar on my ankle. TL;DR CLEAN YOUR WOUNDS THOROUGHLY AND SEE A DOC ASAP IF SHIT GETS WEIRD

WTF

t5_2qh61

c98r3vz

Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck Five years ago I got a couple of boils on my lower right calf and ankle. One cleared on its own, but the other turned into this monstrous skin infection that made my leg swell up and left me with a tennis ball-sized open, infected wound on my ankle. Worst pain of my life. I was dumb enough to think it would heal on its own, but it kept getting worse (obviously). I finally went to the doctor, who WTFed at me for taking so long to see him and sent me home with antibiotics and silver cream. Turns out it was a combination of flesh-eating staph and strep, but thankfully not MRSA. The culprit was my skateboarder boyfriend, who had fallen and skinned his elbow on a dirty cement surface and picked up bacteria, which somehow found its way into my pores. He didn't clean the wound thoroughly enough apparently. Now I have a tennis ball-sized purple scar on my ankle.

CLEAN YOUR WOUNDS THOROUGHLY AND SEE A DOC ASAP IF SHIT GETS WEIRD

horseyhorseyhorsey

not all antibiotics work on all bacteria. also, as bacteria reproduce rapidly, the fact that not all reproductions produce exact copies is accelerated. Sometimes a mutation may produce a bacterium that is resistant to a particular antibiotic. in the presence of such antibiotics the "new" one will thrive and eventually become a dominant strain. the excessive use of antibiotics since their discovery (e.g. used as prophylactics in animal feeds, and given to people for viral infections by doctors just to get them out of their surgery) has contributed to this. This is why we have stuff like MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) today. The TL;DR to your question is: Natural Selection

not all antibiotics work on all bacteria. also, as bacteria reproduce rapidly, the fact that not all reproductions produce exact copies is accelerated. Sometimes a mutation may produce a bacterium that is resistant to a particular antibiotic. in the presence of such antibiotics the "new" one will thrive and eventually become a dominant strain. the excessive use of antibiotics since their discovery (e.g. used as prophylactics in animal feeds, and given to people for viral infections by doctors just to get them out of their surgery) has contributed to this. This is why we have stuff like MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) today. The TL;DR to your question is: Natural Selection

WTF

t5_2qh61

c98oinj

not all antibiotics work on all bacteria. also, as bacteria reproduce rapidly, the fact that not all reproductions produce exact copies is accelerated. Sometimes a mutation may produce a bacterium that is resistant to a particular antibiotic. in the presence of such antibiotics the "new" one will thrive and eventually become a dominant strain. the excessive use of antibiotics since their discovery (e.g. used as prophylactics in animal feeds, and given to people for viral infections by doctors just to get them out of their surgery) has contributed to this. This is why we have stuff like MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) today. The

to your question is: Natural Selection

BomarrPunk

A little story: best friend and I enlisted together, got stationed at separate bases. On his first deployment, he had his personal bag stolen within minutes of getting in country. It contained a nice laptop, cash, but more importantly his mobility records, dog tags (we were AF, it was a non-combat location, didn't have to wear them), all kinds of important stuff. He calls me up back in the States, frantic. I help him out, get him some new dog tags made, new forms created, etc., and ship it all over to him. Saves his butt. He was determined to pay me back. So, on my following deployment, he demanded I request some stuff for a care package. I already had a wife and parents sending me stuff; I didn't need anything. He insisted. So I generated a ridiculous list to make him feel better about himself. From what I can remember: A used Danielle Steele novel Big League Chew Original crayon drawing from an elementary student A G.I. Joe figure and lots more Box shows up, dude delivered on it all. Most memorable care package ever. No beef jerky or candy. Just random awesome stuff plus one used Danielle Steele novel. TL;DR: get some random awesome stuff and send it.

A little story: best friend and I enlisted together, got stationed at separate bases. On his first deployment, he had his personal bag stolen within minutes of getting in country. It contained a nice laptop, cash, but more importantly his mobility records, dog tags (we were AF, it was a non-combat location, didn't have to wear them), all kinds of important stuff. He calls me up back in the States, frantic. I help him out, get him some new dog tags made, new forms created, etc., and ship it all over to him. Saves his butt. He was determined to pay me back. So, on my following deployment, he demanded I request some stuff for a care package. I already had a wife and parents sending me stuff; I didn't need anything. He insisted. So I generated a ridiculous list to make him feel better about himself. From what I can remember: A used Danielle Steele novel Big League Chew Original crayon drawing from an elementary student A G.I. Joe figure and lots more Box shows up, dude delivered on it all. Most memorable care package ever. No beef jerky or candy. Just random awesome stuff plus one used Danielle Steele novel. TL;DR: get some random awesome stuff and send it.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c98ep3m

A little story: best friend and I enlisted together, got stationed at separate bases. On his first deployment, he had his personal bag stolen within minutes of getting in country. It contained a nice laptop, cash, but more importantly his mobility records, dog tags (we were AF, it was a non-combat location, didn't have to wear them), all kinds of important stuff. He calls me up back in the States, frantic. I help him out, get him some new dog tags made, new forms created, etc., and ship it all over to him. Saves his butt. He was determined to pay me back. So, on my following deployment, he demanded I request some stuff for a care package. I already had a wife and parents sending me stuff; I didn't need anything. He insisted. So I generated a ridiculous list to make him feel better about himself. From what I can remember: A used Danielle Steele novel Big League Chew Original crayon drawing from an elementary student A G.I. Joe figure and lots more Box shows up, dude delivered on it all. Most memorable care package ever. No beef jerky or candy. Just random awesome stuff plus one used Danielle Steele novel.

get some random awesome stuff and send it.

onyxleopard

>Just a little thing about our language changing with technology. There's nothing linguistically novel about such sentences, just the circumstances in which a speaker would have a good reason to report their location as such. >If you were telling someone where you were, you were either yelling it and they were nearby, or you were at a phone For the former situation it is not hard at all to imagine a speaker uttering, "I'm on the bus." E.g., say Bob walked onto a lot with a parked bus and any number of other kinds of vehicles. Alice, unbeknownst to Bob, is on the bus. Bob says, "Hello?" Alice responds, "I'm on the bus." No telephonic communication involved at all. Sure, it's a contrived example, but there are infinite grammatical sentences that would only make sense under particular circumstances. tl;dr Just because a situation that used to be uncommon has become common does not mean there has been any diachronic linguistic change. edit: A more linguistically interesting phenomenon—IMO—would be the elision of the verb in something like Boost Mobile's (former?) branding slogan, "Where you at?"

>Just a little thing about our language changing with technology. There's nothing linguistically novel about such sentences, just the circumstances in which a speaker would have a good reason to report their location as such. >If you were telling someone where you were, you were either yelling it and they were nearby, or you were at a phone For the former situation it is not hard at all to imagine a speaker uttering, "I'm on the bus." E.g., say Bob walked onto a lot with a parked bus and any number of other kinds of vehicles. Alice, unbeknownst to Bob, is on the bus. Bob says, "Hello?" Alice responds, "I'm on the bus." No telephonic communication involved at all. Sure, it's a contrived example, but there are infinite grammatical sentences that would only make sense under particular circumstances. tl;dr Just because a situation that used to be uncommon has become common does not mean there has been any diachronic linguistic change. edit: A more linguistically interesting phenomenon—IMO—would be the elision of the verb in something like Boost Mobile's (former?) branding slogan, "Where you at?"

linguistics

t5_2qhos

c98q22g

Just a little thing about our language changing with technology. There's nothing linguistically novel about such sentences, just the circumstances in which a speaker would have a good reason to report their location as such. >If you were telling someone where you were, you were either yelling it and they were nearby, or you were at a phone For the former situation it is not hard at all to imagine a speaker uttering, "I'm on the bus." E.g., say Bob walked onto a lot with a parked bus and any number of other kinds of vehicles. Alice, unbeknownst to Bob, is on the bus. Bob says, "Hello?" Alice responds, "I'm on the bus." No telephonic communication involved at all. Sure, it's a contrived example, but there are infinite grammatical sentences that would only make sense under particular circumstances.

Just because a situation that used to be uncommon has become common does not mean there has been any diachronic linguistic change. edit: A more linguistically interesting phenomenon—IMO—would be the elision of the verb in something like Boost Mobile's (former?) branding slogan, "Where you at?"

jacktheork

Haha, but then again half the people here wont know who Parker is. But yeah, it was so cool, I was just buying merch and being generally pissed off that I missed their signing session (this was at a festival btw), but then when I got to their stall, I said what shirts I wanted, looked up and saw it was Parker selling them to me. So I got my shirt signed by him and Kevin, and spoke to Kevin and told him how awesome they are, and he shook my hand and stuff. And then as I was leaving the whole merch area, Kevin must have told Parker what I said to him, cause Parker saw me, put his hand on my shoulder and was like "alright dude" and I almost died. TL;DR TSSF are the coolest guys ever.

Haha, but then again half the people here wont know who Parker is. But yeah, it was so cool, I was just buying merch and being generally pissed off that I missed their signing session (this was at a festival btw), but then when I got to their stall, I said what shirts I wanted, looked up and saw it was Parker selling them to me. So I got my shirt signed by him and Kevin, and spoke to Kevin and told him how awesome they are, and he shook my hand and stuff. And then as I was leaving the whole merch area, Kevin must have told Parker what I said to him, cause Parker saw me, put his hand on my shoulder and was like "alright dude" and I almost died. TL;DR TSSF are the coolest guys ever.

teenagers

t5_2rjli

c99lmfh

Haha, but then again half the people here wont know who Parker is. But yeah, it was so cool, I was just buying merch and being generally pissed off that I missed their signing session (this was at a festival btw), but then when I got to their stall, I said what shirts I wanted, looked up and saw it was Parker selling them to me. So I got my shirt signed by him and Kevin, and spoke to Kevin and told him how awesome they are, and he shook my hand and stuff. And then as I was leaving the whole merch area, Kevin must have told Parker what I said to him, cause Parker saw me, put his hand on my shoulder and was like "alright dude" and I almost died.

TSSF are the coolest guys ever.

philip1201

In case you didn't notice, we have nuclear missiles of our own, so we'd fuck you up just as hard (oh no, you have superiority on the air and at sea, that is so much more horrifying than 50% of both our populations burning to a crisp within hours of the declaration of war), and we're your allies, so actually you guys are fucking people up on our behalf, while we have to pay only a fraction we normally would have to for such a large military. tl;dr You would never go to war with us, so all you're doing is footing the bill for our security.

In case you didn't notice, we have nuclear missiles of our own, so we'd fuck you up just as hard (oh no, you have superiority on the air and at sea, that is so much more horrifying than 50% of both our populations burning to a crisp within hours of the declaration of war), and we're your allies, so actually you guys are fucking people up on our behalf, while we have to pay only a fraction we normally would have to for such a large military. tl;dr You would never go to war with us, so all you're doing is footing the bill for our security.

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In case you didn't notice, we have nuclear missiles of our own, so we'd fuck you up just as hard (oh no, you have superiority on the air and at sea, that is so much more horrifying than 50% of both our populations burning to a crisp within hours of the declaration of war), and we're your allies, so actually you guys are fucking people up on our behalf, while we have to pay only a fraction we normally would have to for such a large military.

You would never go to war with us, so all you're doing is footing the bill for our security.

cygnets

Here are my nausea coping tricks. I have to mix it up a lot cause if I get sick of a food it only adds to the nausea. I have been living on a variety of applesauce, cinnamon swirl toast, bagels with cream cheese, spinach and cheese ravioli with butter, plain pasta with butter, goldfish crackers, saltines, dry cereal, lemon water, watered down Gatorade, soups, ice pops, mashed potatoes and hard candy. I also got some of the seabands from the pharmacy. They seem to take a bit of the edge off. I also try not to get too hungry or too full. Because yikes, it doesn't end well. Yuck. Unfortunately I haven't found many consistent tricks. Good luck with your research! TL;DR - potatoes, breads, applesauce and sometimes cheese

Here are my nausea coping tricks. I have to mix it up a lot cause if I get sick of a food it only adds to the nausea. I have been living on a variety of applesauce, cinnamon swirl toast, bagels with cream cheese, spinach and cheese ravioli with butter, plain pasta with butter, goldfish crackers, saltines, dry cereal, lemon water, watered down Gatorade, soups, ice pops, mashed potatoes and hard candy. I also got some of the seabands from the pharmacy. They seem to take a bit of the edge off. I also try not to get too hungry or too full. Because yikes, it doesn't end well. Yuck. Unfortunately I haven't found many consistent tricks. Good luck with your research! TL;DR - potatoes, breads, applesauce and sometimes cheese

BabyBumps

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Here are my nausea coping tricks. I have to mix it up a lot cause if I get sick of a food it only adds to the nausea. I have been living on a variety of applesauce, cinnamon swirl toast, bagels with cream cheese, spinach and cheese ravioli with butter, plain pasta with butter, goldfish crackers, saltines, dry cereal, lemon water, watered down Gatorade, soups, ice pops, mashed potatoes and hard candy. I also got some of the seabands from the pharmacy. They seem to take a bit of the edge off. I also try not to get too hungry or too full. Because yikes, it doesn't end well. Yuck. Unfortunately I haven't found many consistent tricks. Good luck with your research!

potatoes, breads, applesauce and sometimes cheese

The_Punniest

Look the "F" word was a joke and the last comment was a joke. I am sorry if I offended you. I love everyone and don't care what anyone's sexual orientation is, it does not effect me. I hope that everyone can find happiness in whatever they do. I am sure that you are a wonderful person and that we would get along great if we ever met each other. Again, I am sorry and I hope that you didn't get too upset with what I have said. #tl;dr: i'm not really a bigot.

Look the "F" word was a joke and the last comment was a joke. I am sorry if I offended you. I love everyone and don't care what anyone's sexual orientation is, it does not effect me. I hope that everyone can find happiness in whatever they do. I am sure that you are a wonderful person and that we would get along great if we ever met each other. Again, I am sorry and I hope that you didn't get too upset with what I have said. tl;dr: i'm not really a bigot.

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Look the "F" word was a joke and the last comment was a joke. I am sorry if I offended you. I love everyone and don't care what anyone's sexual orientation is, it does not effect me. I hope that everyone can find happiness in whatever they do. I am sure that you are a wonderful person and that we would get along great if we ever met each other. Again, I am sorry and I hope that you didn't get too upset with what I have said.

i'm not really a bigot.

Mitschu

It's still a good idea to read the sidebar before asking questions. There's a reason why these things are called FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions. People have asked us often enough about whether or not we're for feminism, or against women's rights (see: have you stopped beating your wife yet? Yes or no?) that our *top* sidebar link is a discussion on why we reject feminism, yet aren't against women's rights. > When people hear the word feminist, even if the first image that comes to their mind is an overweight angry lesbian, they still tend to associate the word with women’s rights. Men’s rights is straight forward with the name. So basically, the average “on the fence” person would think feminism for girls and men’s rights for boys; two movements that are the polar opposites of each other. This is how most people define the two movements and it is understandable how many would come to this conclusion. Of course, all of those people would be wrong. Simply put, most of us *don't believe that feminism is a women's / human rights movement, and that's why we're against it.* If feminism were a women's rights movement, we'd be supporting it as a brethren cause. As for the snippiness, it's a sad fact of the movement that most of us are tired. Imagine if you had to explain your core beliefs on a daily basis to people who should know what your beliefs are, but refuse anything less than a complete explanation. Imagine, for example, if every time you said "I'm against slavery." (and lets say you lived in a world where slavery was still an accepted practice, so you're hopefully saying this often) you had to start from the beginning, from the belief of innate human rights, then work your way up to individual civil rights as an extension of that, before explaining that racial prejudice and bigotry was inappropriate, giving a solid platform of reasoning for that from a stance of human dignity. You also cover the economic facts of the matter, as well as the social and legal aspects of the matter, in depth, nothing less. Never mind the fact that you've printed volumes of books on the topic explaining exactly what you believe, and that you give those books out for free to anyone who asks. No, they refuse to read what you've already written, and insist that you explain your views from the beginning to the end to them directly, before they'll even consider accepting your opinion as valid. Wouldn't you also get tired at the intellectual laziness of others eventually? TL;DR - Read the sidebar before asking commonly asked questions. Unless you're a troll trying to waste our time and make us look bad in the court of public opinion for not wanting to answer the same questions we've already answered repeatedly.

It's still a good idea to read the sidebar before asking questions. There's a reason why these things are called FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions. People have asked us often enough about whether or not we're for feminism, or against women's rights (see: have you stopped beating your wife yet? Yes or no?) that our top sidebar link is a discussion on why we reject feminism, yet aren't against women's rights. > When people hear the word feminist, even if the first image that comes to their mind is an overweight angry lesbian, they still tend to associate the word with women’s rights. Men’s rights is straight forward with the name. So basically, the average “on the fence” person would think feminism for girls and men’s rights for boys; two movements that are the polar opposites of each other. This is how most people define the two movements and it is understandable how many would come to this conclusion. Of course, all of those people would be wrong. Simply put, most of us don't believe that feminism is a women's / human rights movement, and that's why we're against it. If feminism were a women's rights movement, we'd be supporting it as a brethren cause. As for the snippiness, it's a sad fact of the movement that most of us are tired. Imagine if you had to explain your core beliefs on a daily basis to people who should know what your beliefs are, but refuse anything less than a complete explanation. Imagine, for example, if every time you said "I'm against slavery." (and lets say you lived in a world where slavery was still an accepted practice, so you're hopefully saying this often) you had to start from the beginning, from the belief of innate human rights, then work your way up to individual civil rights as an extension of that, before explaining that racial prejudice and bigotry was inappropriate, giving a solid platform of reasoning for that from a stance of human dignity. You also cover the economic facts of the matter, as well as the social and legal aspects of the matter, in depth, nothing less. Never mind the fact that you've printed volumes of books on the topic explaining exactly what you believe, and that you give those books out for free to anyone who asks. No, they refuse to read what you've already written, and insist that you explain your views from the beginning to the end to them directly, before they'll even consider accepting your opinion as valid. Wouldn't you also get tired at the intellectual laziness of others eventually? TL;DR - Read the sidebar before asking commonly asked questions. Unless you're a troll trying to waste our time and make us look bad in the court of public opinion for not wanting to answer the same questions we've already answered repeatedly.

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It's still a good idea to read the sidebar before asking questions. There's a reason why these things are called FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions. People have asked us often enough about whether or not we're for feminism, or against women's rights (see: have you stopped beating your wife yet? Yes or no?) that our top sidebar link is a discussion on why we reject feminism, yet aren't against women's rights. > When people hear the word feminist, even if the first image that comes to their mind is an overweight angry lesbian, they still tend to associate the word with women’s rights. Men’s rights is straight forward with the name. So basically, the average “on the fence” person would think feminism for girls and men’s rights for boys; two movements that are the polar opposites of each other. This is how most people define the two movements and it is understandable how many would come to this conclusion. Of course, all of those people would be wrong. Simply put, most of us don't believe that feminism is a women's / human rights movement, and that's why we're against it. If feminism were a women's rights movement, we'd be supporting it as a brethren cause. As for the snippiness, it's a sad fact of the movement that most of us are tired. Imagine if you had to explain your core beliefs on a daily basis to people who should know what your beliefs are, but refuse anything less than a complete explanation. Imagine, for example, if every time you said "I'm against slavery." (and lets say you lived in a world where slavery was still an accepted practice, so you're hopefully saying this often) you had to start from the beginning, from the belief of innate human rights, then work your way up to individual civil rights as an extension of that, before explaining that racial prejudice and bigotry was inappropriate, giving a solid platform of reasoning for that from a stance of human dignity. You also cover the economic facts of the matter, as well as the social and legal aspects of the matter, in depth, nothing less. Never mind the fact that you've printed volumes of books on the topic explaining exactly what you believe, and that you give those books out for free to anyone who asks. No, they refuse to read what you've already written, and insist that you explain your views from the beginning to the end to them directly, before they'll even consider accepting your opinion as valid. Wouldn't you also get tired at the intellectual laziness of others eventually?

Read the sidebar before asking commonly asked questions. Unless you're a troll trying to waste our time and make us look bad in the court of public opinion for not wanting to answer the same questions we've already answered repeatedly.

Lonxu

LP gains are based on the MMR (elo) distance to next promotion series. Player 1 @ Silver 1 has 1600 MMR, 70 LP. Player 2 @ Silver 1 has 1500 MMR, 90 LP. Gold 5 is 1550 MMR. Player 1 wins a game and gains 30 LP -> enters series. He already had the MMR needed for promotion series so the system really wants him there. Player 2 wins a game and gains 3 LP, is now at 1515 MMR of the 1550 needed for series. Distance to series 35 MMR, but only 7 LP. Next games will be worth the around the same 3 LP for wins. Losses can be like -15 LP, but it doesn't mean much. The weak LP gains like player 2 has are common in division 1 of any league. That's because the MMR distance between leagues is greater than the distance between divisions within the league. Only at Diamond 1 the LP truly shows the distance to promotion series I think. TL; DR; Shit LP gains are caused by MMR distance to series being much greater than the LP would indicate. Keep playing and winning more than 50% and you will get to promotion series, sooner or later. **The MMR gains for losses and wins are the same, it's just that they're hidden.**

LP gains are based on the MMR (elo) distance to next promotion series. Player 1 @ Silver 1 has 1600 MMR, 70 LP. Player 2 @ Silver 1 has 1500 MMR, 90 LP. Gold 5 is 1550 MMR. Player 1 wins a game and gains 30 LP -> enters series. He already had the MMR needed for promotion series so the system really wants him there. Player 2 wins a game and gains 3 LP, is now at 1515 MMR of the 1550 needed for series. Distance to series 35 MMR, but only 7 LP. Next games will be worth the around the same 3 LP for wins. Losses can be like -15 LP, but it doesn't mean much. The weak LP gains like player 2 has are common in division 1 of any league. That's because the MMR distance between leagues is greater than the distance between divisions within the league. Only at Diamond 1 the LP truly shows the distance to promotion series I think. TL; DR; Shit LP gains are caused by MMR distance to series being much greater than the LP would indicate. Keep playing and winning more than 50% and you will get to promotion series, sooner or later. The MMR gains for losses and wins are the same, it's just that they're hidden.

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LP gains are based on the MMR (elo) distance to next promotion series. Player 1 @ Silver 1 has 1600 MMR, 70 LP. Player 2 @ Silver 1 has 1500 MMR, 90 LP. Gold 5 is 1550 MMR. Player 1 wins a game and gains 30 LP -> enters series. He already had the MMR needed for promotion series so the system really wants him there. Player 2 wins a game and gains 3 LP, is now at 1515 MMR of the 1550 needed for series. Distance to series 35 MMR, but only 7 LP. Next games will be worth the around the same 3 LP for wins. Losses can be like -15 LP, but it doesn't mean much. The weak LP gains like player 2 has are common in division 1 of any league. That's because the MMR distance between leagues is greater than the distance between divisions within the league. Only at Diamond 1 the LP truly shows the distance to promotion series I think.

Shit LP gains are caused by MMR distance to series being much greater than the LP would indicate. Keep playing and winning more than 50% and you will get to promotion series, sooner or later. The MMR gains for losses and wins are the same, it's just that they're hidden.

ComedicSans

Depends what you consider "religious", too. Consider - the Silmarils were to a certain extent religious icons, because they literally contained the sacred light of Eru via the Two Trees. Yavanna made Galathilion to recall Telperion, and it was Galathilion that was the ancestor of the White Tree of Gondor, via a seedling's being saved by Isildur. The White Tree was sacred to Gondor in part for the same reason - it was a (nominal?) descendant of the Trees of Valinor, which derived their sanctity directly from Eru. TL/DR: When the Men of Gondor wore the White Tree sigil, they were recalling Arda and Eru by proxy.

Depends what you consider "religious", too. Consider - the Silmarils were to a certain extent religious icons, because they literally contained the sacred light of Eru via the Two Trees. Yavanna made Galathilion to recall Telperion, and it was Galathilion that was the ancestor of the White Tree of Gondor, via a seedling's being saved by Isildur. The White Tree was sacred to Gondor in part for the same reason - it was a (nominal?) descendant of the Trees of Valinor, which derived their sanctity directly from Eru. TL/DR: When the Men of Gondor wore the White Tree sigil, they were recalling Arda and Eru by proxy.

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Depends what you consider "religious", too. Consider - the Silmarils were to a certain extent religious icons, because they literally contained the sacred light of Eru via the Two Trees. Yavanna made Galathilion to recall Telperion, and it was Galathilion that was the ancestor of the White Tree of Gondor, via a seedling's being saved by Isildur. The White Tree was sacred to Gondor in part for the same reason - it was a (nominal?) descendant of the Trees of Valinor, which derived their sanctity directly from Eru.

When the Men of Gondor wore the White Tree sigil, they were recalling Arda and Eru by proxy.

fieroandrew

I used to be in that boat. I was working with adolescent males who were in DCS care in a group home. Unfortunately, I was also having to deal with PTSD from a deployment which really did not help my mental situtation. I eventually managed to release my guilt from not being able to help some of the guys, but it really wasn't easy. I can still remember staying up at night having break downs because some of them weren't getting "better." Eventually I came to grips with the fact that I could only offer to help them, if they wanted to change their personal situtations, a lot of it was up to them. I could only help those who wanted to change. At first, it was hard to accept it, but over time (and seeing some who wanted the help grow and mature), it got a whole heck of a lot easier. I still had the occasional guilts, but for the most part I managed to climb out of it. TL;DR: You have to stop feeling guilty for not helping the people who didn't want to utalize your help. Not easy, but it's the best way (from what I've seen/experienced).

I used to be in that boat. I was working with adolescent males who were in DCS care in a group home. Unfortunately, I was also having to deal with PTSD from a deployment which really did not help my mental situtation. I eventually managed to release my guilt from not being able to help some of the guys, but it really wasn't easy. I can still remember staying up at night having break downs because some of them weren't getting "better." Eventually I came to grips with the fact that I could only offer to help them, if they wanted to change their personal situtations, a lot of it was up to them. I could only help those who wanted to change. At first, it was hard to accept it, but over time (and seeing some who wanted the help grow and mature), it got a whole heck of a lot easier. I still had the occasional guilts, but for the most part I managed to climb out of it. TL;DR: You have to stop feeling guilty for not helping the people who didn't want to utalize your help. Not easy, but it's the best way (from what I've seen/experienced).

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I used to be in that boat. I was working with adolescent males who were in DCS care in a group home. Unfortunately, I was also having to deal with PTSD from a deployment which really did not help my mental situtation. I eventually managed to release my guilt from not being able to help some of the guys, but it really wasn't easy. I can still remember staying up at night having break downs because some of them weren't getting "better." Eventually I came to grips with the fact that I could only offer to help them, if they wanted to change their personal situtations, a lot of it was up to them. I could only help those who wanted to change. At first, it was hard to accept it, but over time (and seeing some who wanted the help grow and mature), it got a whole heck of a lot easier. I still had the occasional guilts, but for the most part I managed to climb out of it.

You have to stop feeling guilty for not helping the people who didn't want to utalize your help. Not easy, but it's the best way (from what I've seen/experienced).

RedfoX2015

Personally I would say; Don't. I had it myself for a time and only did it to "extend" the lifetime of my rig back then as I was lucky enough to find a second GPU of the same time used for cheap. From the get go I therefore wouldn't. Why you ask. Well here is what I think: - Higher power consumption - Higher heat output which needs to be taken into account - Benefit if you buy a new GPU won't be that visibile until a few years pass (if you get a good GPU you will run almost everything mayed out) - If the Games don't have proper support for it, it might cause more harm than good - ... I will stop here as I think that you get my point. Hope it helps. TL:DR: I would say it doesn't really make any sens.

Personally I would say; Don't. I had it myself for a time and only did it to "extend" the lifetime of my rig back then as I was lucky enough to find a second GPU of the same time used for cheap. From the get go I therefore wouldn't. Why you ask. Well here is what I think: Higher power consumption Higher heat output which needs to be taken into account Benefit if you buy a new GPU won't be that visibile until a few years pass (if you get a good GPU you will run almost everything mayed out) If the Games don't have proper support for it, it might cause more harm than good ... I will stop here as I think that you get my point. Hope it helps. TL:DR: I would say it doesn't really make any sens.

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Personally I would say; Don't. I had it myself for a time and only did it to "extend" the lifetime of my rig back then as I was lucky enough to find a second GPU of the same time used for cheap. From the get go I therefore wouldn't. Why you ask. Well here is what I think: Higher power consumption Higher heat output which needs to be taken into account Benefit if you buy a new GPU won't be that visibile until a few years pass (if you get a good GPU you will run almost everything mayed out) If the Games don't have proper support for it, it might cause more harm than good ... I will stop here as I think that you get my point. Hope it helps.

I would say it doesn't really make any sens.

tazunemono

Don't forget KIDS - jesus they are expensive! Just when you think you won't have one, BAM pregnant. Then you're screwed. $180/week for childcare $60-80 week for diapers $50-60/week for food (including formula and jars) TL;DR - get as much as you can for what you can honestly afford, and SAVE the rest (for a rainy day)

Don't forget KIDS - jesus they are expensive! Just when you think you won't have one, BAM pregnant. Then you're screwed. $180/week for childcare $60-80 week for diapers $50-60/week for food (including formula and jars) TL;DR - get as much as you can for what you can honestly afford, and SAVE the rest (for a rainy day)

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Don't forget KIDS - jesus they are expensive! Just when you think you won't have one, BAM pregnant. Then you're screwed. $180/week for childcare $60-80 week for diapers $50-60/week for food (including formula and jars)

get as much as you can for what you can honestly afford, and SAVE the rest (for a rainy day)

ProfoundShit

I've always seen this argument as a mental wall that tall players, and those with big hands build within themselves. Yao was a terrific FT shooter and K.Leonard at the Spurs is developing into a terrific shooter, despite his enormous hands. I believe that it is harder to shoot if you are tall and have big hands, but that many players develop a mental block because of this. TL; DR it's in their heads

I've always seen this argument as a mental wall that tall players, and those with big hands build within themselves. Yao was a terrific FT shooter and K.Leonard at the Spurs is developing into a terrific shooter, despite his enormous hands. I believe that it is harder to shoot if you are tall and have big hands, but that many players develop a mental block because of this. TL; DR it's in their heads

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I've always seen this argument as a mental wall that tall players, and those with big hands build within themselves. Yao was a terrific FT shooter and K.Leonard at the Spurs is developing into a terrific shooter, despite his enormous hands. I believe that it is harder to shoot if you are tall and have big hands, but that many players develop a mental block because of this.

it's in their heads

TurboSexaphonic

Actually, I tried this. I read something about an interview with Rondo and how he finds it hard to shoot because of the size of his hands compared to the rest of his body, and they described it as trying to throw a tennis ball into the hoop. To me, I'm barely pushing 5'11" on a good day and with normal, proportionate hands. I took a mini basketball that I have for a little hoop in my office and I tried to shoot around with it on the court and it was infinitely harder. The fact that I had more control over the smaller ball actually made it more difficult because now I couldn't just roll the ball off the tips of my straightened, flat fingers. I had to instead use more wrist and almost kinda push the ball which dropped my accuracy a ton. Sure I started getting better after a while, but it was mostly for fun and curiosity. The fact that the ball was way lighter also made me grossly overshoot or undershoot too, and that remains true with different regulation sized balls as well. I've got a ball with clearly thicker leather, and another made only for in-door play and there is an obvious weight difference, but my accuracy is so much higher with the heavier one. Just thought I would explain my experience here, considering I can't imagine another time this would ever come up in casual conversation lol. tl;dr tried to shoot smaller ball, was way harder.

Actually, I tried this. I read something about an interview with Rondo and how he finds it hard to shoot because of the size of his hands compared to the rest of his body, and they described it as trying to throw a tennis ball into the hoop. To me, I'm barely pushing 5'11" on a good day and with normal, proportionate hands. I took a mini basketball that I have for a little hoop in my office and I tried to shoot around with it on the court and it was infinitely harder. The fact that I had more control over the smaller ball actually made it more difficult because now I couldn't just roll the ball off the tips of my straightened, flat fingers. I had to instead use more wrist and almost kinda push the ball which dropped my accuracy a ton. Sure I started getting better after a while, but it was mostly for fun and curiosity. The fact that the ball was way lighter also made me grossly overshoot or undershoot too, and that remains true with different regulation sized balls as well. I've got a ball with clearly thicker leather, and another made only for in-door play and there is an obvious weight difference, but my accuracy is so much higher with the heavier one. Just thought I would explain my experience here, considering I can't imagine another time this would ever come up in casual conversation lol. tl;dr tried to shoot smaller ball, was way harder.

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Actually, I tried this. I read something about an interview with Rondo and how he finds it hard to shoot because of the size of his hands compared to the rest of his body, and they described it as trying to throw a tennis ball into the hoop. To me, I'm barely pushing 5'11" on a good day and with normal, proportionate hands. I took a mini basketball that I have for a little hoop in my office and I tried to shoot around with it on the court and it was infinitely harder. The fact that I had more control over the smaller ball actually made it more difficult because now I couldn't just roll the ball off the tips of my straightened, flat fingers. I had to instead use more wrist and almost kinda push the ball which dropped my accuracy a ton. Sure I started getting better after a while, but it was mostly for fun and curiosity. The fact that the ball was way lighter also made me grossly overshoot or undershoot too, and that remains true with different regulation sized balls as well. I've got a ball with clearly thicker leather, and another made only for in-door play and there is an obvious weight difference, but my accuracy is so much higher with the heavier one. Just thought I would explain my experience here, considering I can't imagine another time this would ever come up in casual conversation lol.

tried to shoot smaller ball, was way harder.

IncredibleSulk

Current Psychopharm graduate student - been working in these labs 5+ years (started as an undergraduate). There may be some "stigma" when talking to laypersons who don't understand why we want to help drug addicts or study drugs of abuse at all, but within the field this is non-existent. However, money literally is the root of all evil, and will be the determining factor as to whether or not you get to study what you want to. Finding a professor who has similar research interests as you is key. Either their methods or their drugs of interest. Most professors will be willing to adapt a new method or entertain a new drug that they don't commonly study, but not both. The next step is selling the idea. Most likely the ideal faculty to work under will already have a contract or grant to study this shared topic, if not you as a graduate student will be required to write a grant and compete for your own funding within the field. Acquiring funding goes beyond proving that your idea is interesting and you are capable of executing it -- it has to be relevant. That is the problem with studying many "obscure" drugs. If it is not socially relevant, abuse isn't on the rise, etc. then your idea won't get funded. Lots of people in academia have good ideas, but funding these experiments is expensive, and it often doesn't happen because of this. My best suggestion would be to look into faculty in the university you are attending that do similar research to pharmacology that you could intern with as an undergrad. Experience plays a large role when applying to graduate programs. Many graduate programs don't have a terminal M.S., they are actually straight PhD programs. Through the years if you're good at networking you can find a professor who has overlapping interests with you and try to work with them as a graduate student. TLDR: Not a pipe dream, feasible & done quite often within the field. However, as you said, you have a long way to go before then & many people find that their interests & focus shift once they start gaining experience in the field.

Current Psychopharm graduate student - been working in these labs 5+ years (started as an undergraduate). There may be some "stigma" when talking to laypersons who don't understand why we want to help drug addicts or study drugs of abuse at all, but within the field this is non-existent. However, money literally is the root of all evil, and will be the determining factor as to whether or not you get to study what you want to. Finding a professor who has similar research interests as you is key. Either their methods or their drugs of interest. Most professors will be willing to adapt a new method or entertain a new drug that they don't commonly study, but not both. The next step is selling the idea. Most likely the ideal faculty to work under will already have a contract or grant to study this shared topic, if not you as a graduate student will be required to write a grant and compete for your own funding within the field. Acquiring funding goes beyond proving that your idea is interesting and you are capable of executing it -- it has to be relevant. That is the problem with studying many "obscure" drugs. If it is not socially relevant, abuse isn't on the rise, etc. then your idea won't get funded. Lots of people in academia have good ideas, but funding these experiments is expensive, and it often doesn't happen because of this. My best suggestion would be to look into faculty in the university you are attending that do similar research to pharmacology that you could intern with as an undergrad. Experience plays a large role when applying to graduate programs. Many graduate programs don't have a terminal M.S., they are actually straight PhD programs. Through the years if you're good at networking you can find a professor who has overlapping interests with you and try to work with them as a graduate student. TLDR: Not a pipe dream, feasible & done quite often within the field. However, as you said, you have a long way to go before then & many people find that their interests & focus shift once they start gaining experience in the field.

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Current Psychopharm graduate student - been working in these labs 5+ years (started as an undergraduate). There may be some "stigma" when talking to laypersons who don't understand why we want to help drug addicts or study drugs of abuse at all, but within the field this is non-existent. However, money literally is the root of all evil, and will be the determining factor as to whether or not you get to study what you want to. Finding a professor who has similar research interests as you is key. Either their methods or their drugs of interest. Most professors will be willing to adapt a new method or entertain a new drug that they don't commonly study, but not both. The next step is selling the idea. Most likely the ideal faculty to work under will already have a contract or grant to study this shared topic, if not you as a graduate student will be required to write a grant and compete for your own funding within the field. Acquiring funding goes beyond proving that your idea is interesting and you are capable of executing it -- it has to be relevant. That is the problem with studying many "obscure" drugs. If it is not socially relevant, abuse isn't on the rise, etc. then your idea won't get funded. Lots of people in academia have good ideas, but funding these experiments is expensive, and it often doesn't happen because of this. My best suggestion would be to look into faculty in the university you are attending that do similar research to pharmacology that you could intern with as an undergrad. Experience plays a large role when applying to graduate programs. Many graduate programs don't have a terminal M.S., they are actually straight PhD programs. Through the years if you're good at networking you can find a professor who has overlapping interests with you and try to work with them as a graduate student.

Not a pipe dream, feasible & done quite often within the field. However, as you said, you have a long way to go before then & many people find that their interests & focus shift once they start gaining experience in the field.

moksori

Save money early! Even small coins because it WILL add up. Eventually, you can buy something really nice and useful or use it as an emergency fund. I started saving 5php (around 10 cents in USD) coins of my loose change nearly every day when I was 12. I had this old unused fish bowl to put them in. Over the course of 5 years or so, I had a bit past 8k php, just around $200. To some that may be a small amount, but it helps. TL;DR: Get into the habit of saving. It's easier to start young rather than as a broke adult. (edit:punctuation)

Save money early! Even small coins because it WILL add up. Eventually, you can buy something really nice and useful or use it as an emergency fund. I started saving 5php (around 10 cents in USD) coins of my loose change nearly every day when I was 12. I had this old unused fish bowl to put them in. Over the course of 5 years or so, I had a bit past 8k php, just around $200. To some that may be a small amount, but it helps. TL;DR: Get into the habit of saving. It's easier to start young rather than as a broke adult. (edit:punctuation)

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c9at3p0

Save money early! Even small coins because it WILL add up. Eventually, you can buy something really nice and useful or use it as an emergency fund. I started saving 5php (around 10 cents in USD) coins of my loose change nearly every day when I was 12. I had this old unused fish bowl to put them in. Over the course of 5 years or so, I had a bit past 8k php, just around $200. To some that may be a small amount, but it helps.

Get into the habit of saving. It's easier to start young rather than as a broke adult. (edit:punctuation)

shnuggle

Usually with contouring your face, you add shadows and highlights to highlight certain shapes on your face. If you have a round face, by adding in some bronzer under your cheekbones and highlighting above the blush, you can create a "thinning" effect. I saw a really awesome post the other day that can give a visual to what I'm talking about [here]( . There are also lots of good youtube videos and blogs floating around. [This one]( is my favourite, I think she really nails it. Hope that helps! What I meant by saracir1's nose is that I think she created very straight, shadowy lines that make her nose appear straighter and thinner. Maybe it was from highlighting on the side too, I'm not sure, but the straightness seems a bit unnatural. Maybe she just has a perfect nose :P TLDR; Highlighting and contouring can give the illusion that magical fairies changed your face shape.

Usually with contouring your face, you add shadows and highlights to highlight certain shapes on your face. If you have a round face, by adding in some bronzer under your cheekbones and highlighting above the blush, you can create a "thinning" effect. I saw a really awesome post the other day that can give a visual to what I'm talking about [here]( . There are also lots of good youtube videos and blogs floating around. [This one]( is my favourite, I think she really nails it. Hope that helps! What I meant by saracir1's nose is that I think she created very straight, shadowy lines that make her nose appear straighter and thinner. Maybe it was from highlighting on the side too, I'm not sure, but the straightness seems a bit unnatural. Maybe she just has a perfect nose :P TLDR; Highlighting and contouring can give the illusion that magical fairies changed your face shape.

MakeupAddiction

t5_2rww2

c9btvnn

Usually with contouring your face, you add shadows and highlights to highlight certain shapes on your face. If you have a round face, by adding in some bronzer under your cheekbones and highlighting above the blush, you can create a "thinning" effect. I saw a really awesome post the other day that can give a visual to what I'm talking about [here]( . There are also lots of good youtube videos and blogs floating around. [This one]( is my favourite, I think she really nails it. Hope that helps! What I meant by saracir1's nose is that I think she created very straight, shadowy lines that make her nose appear straighter and thinner. Maybe it was from highlighting on the side too, I'm not sure, but the straightness seems a bit unnatural. Maybe she just has a perfect nose :P

Highlighting and contouring can give the illusion that magical fairies changed your face shape.

gbill34

Everyone. Get a butter boat. These things are the cat's pajamas. It is a 3 piece set- a porcelain butter dish (and lid) that fits on top of a larger container that is filled with cool water. This keeps the butter just below room temperature for perfect spreadability. But wait, it gets better! In the summer when it is hot, as the water evaporates, it creates an endothermic reaction, thus lowering the temperature of the butter dish, and your butter is STILL PERFECTLY SPREADABLE. Science. TL;DR: Get a butter boat, the French nailed it on this one.

Everyone. Get a butter boat. These things are the cat's pajamas. It is a 3 piece set- a porcelain butter dish (and lid) that fits on top of a larger container that is filled with cool water. This keeps the butter just below room temperature for perfect spreadability. But wait, it gets better! In the summer when it is hot, as the water evaporates, it creates an endothermic reaction, thus lowering the temperature of the butter dish, and your butter is STILL PERFECTLY SPREADABLE. Science. TL;DR: Get a butter boat, the French nailed it on this one.

AskCulinary

t5_2t82m

c9bklzb

Everyone. Get a butter boat. These things are the cat's pajamas. It is a 3 piece set- a porcelain butter dish (and lid) that fits on top of a larger container that is filled with cool water. This keeps the butter just below room temperature for perfect spreadability. But wait, it gets better! In the summer when it is hot, as the water evaporates, it creates an endothermic reaction, thus lowering the temperature of the butter dish, and your butter is STILL PERFECTLY SPREADABLE. Science.

Get a butter boat, the French nailed it on this one.

kingofthejaffacakes

Charts like this are always presented as if they are fact -- that all investments inevitably follow the same path. Nonsense. Human beings are pattern recognition machines; we desperately want the new thing to be just like the old thing so that we can understand it. Wanting it doesn't make it so. This is even more true with something like bitcoin, the like of which has never been seen before, and will likely never be seen again (in the sense that there can only be one "first" cryptocurrency). This is, essentially, the mistake that most mainstream media makes when they report on it -- it must be a bubble, because any other investment with that sort of growth curve would be. TLDR; forget trying to fit Bitcoin onto sinusoids, there is no reason to suppose that it will follow any such cookie-cutter path.

Charts like this are always presented as if they are fact -- that all investments inevitably follow the same path. Nonsense. Human beings are pattern recognition machines; we desperately want the new thing to be just like the old thing so that we can understand it. Wanting it doesn't make it so. This is even more true with something like bitcoin, the like of which has never been seen before, and will likely never be seen again (in the sense that there can only be one "first" cryptocurrency). This is, essentially, the mistake that most mainstream media makes when they report on it -- it must be a bubble, because any other investment with that sort of growth curve would be. TLDR; forget trying to fit Bitcoin onto sinusoids, there is no reason to suppose that it will follow any such cookie-cutter path.

Bitcoin

t5_2s3qj

c9bid1p

Charts like this are always presented as if they are fact -- that all investments inevitably follow the same path. Nonsense. Human beings are pattern recognition machines; we desperately want the new thing to be just like the old thing so that we can understand it. Wanting it doesn't make it so. This is even more true with something like bitcoin, the like of which has never been seen before, and will likely never be seen again (in the sense that there can only be one "first" cryptocurrency). This is, essentially, the mistake that most mainstream media makes when they report on it -- it must be a bubble, because any other investment with that sort of growth curve would be.

forget trying to fit Bitcoin onto sinusoids, there is no reason to suppose that it will follow any such cookie-cutter path.

afcagroo

This is an awesome movie, and was an SF groundbreaker. This is mainly due to Kubrick's visual style. He did multiple things that no one had done before. For example, no sound in space. Most SF films previously had ignored the fact that sound doesn't propagate in a vacuum. Kubrick did things like playing the Blue Danube Waltz, and having you listen to the astronauts' breathing inside their helmets. His depiction of zero gravity was a first. Remember, this is pre-CGI, and making a guy walk through a doorway and turn upside down while he was doing it was non-trivial at the time. He added neat little touches like Pan Am (a major airline at the time) running the shuttle going up to the space station. The film is mostly a beauty to watch, except the star gate sequence near the end (more on that later). Kubrick had a great collaborator in making the movie, SF writer Arthur C. Clarke (inventor of the communications satellite). The story came mostly from him, and was sourced from ideas in some of his previous works like "The Sentinel" and "Childhood's End". **The story goes in 3 major parts, with a subplot added in the middle part. The theme of the movie is intelligence and evolution, not space travel.** 1st part: Homo-whatever is a bunch of monkeys with potential. Aliens put a black monolith among them to enhance their intelligence, and suddenly they learn to use the first tool. Unfortunately, they choose to use the tools to attack their cousins and beat the shit out of them. But, so it goes. 2nd part: The aliens wanted to know when the monkey-men became a spacefaring race. So they left a sentinel buried on the moon (another black monolith, maybe the same one). When mankind exposed it to sunlight, an automatic signal was sent out towards Jupiter announcing that the kids were growing up and were ready to leave home. The mission was mounted and the crew sent off to see what was going on out there near Jupiter, hoping they might find aliens. (More about this part later.) But the crew wasn't told the whole story about why they were going. 3rd part: David Bowman finds another monolith orbiting a moon of Jupiter. When he flies near it, the top opens up and....it's full of stars. It is not full of stars actually, it is a stargate that takes him on a tour of the wonders of the universe. (Unfortunately, Kubrick got carried away with his attempts to make a visually cool movie here, and a lot of this is just crap. But hey, no CGI back then.) At the end, Bowman finds himself in a sterile white room with another of those monoliths. Like in Part 1, it fiddles with his brain (or DNA, or whatever) and helps him evolve to the next stage of mankind's evolution. He is represented as an embryo floating in space at this point. He has more power than humans can even imagine. (In the book, he decides to do something fairly drastic.) Back to the 2nd part: There was a subplot with the computer HAL9000 and the crew, playing with the idea of what intelligence really is. (This is a major theme of the entire movie.) HAL was an Artificial Intelligence, and could do amazing things. But he was given conflicting programming requirements...the requirement to keep the mission details secret from the crew, and to make the mission succeed at all costs. When the crew started to question what the mission was all about, he decided that the only way to make the mission succeed without them knowing what was going on was to kill them and finish the mission without them. That achieves both goals! Was HAL driven insane? Was it a reasonable way to reconcile the goals he was given? Was HAL truly intelligent, or did he just simulate intelligence? Did he have feelings? Are emotions and empathy important for an intelligence to have? Is it OK for an intelligent species to create another intelligent species? This whole subplot was really meant to explore those kinds of ideas, since the whole movie was about the nature of intelligence. And remember what the monkey-men did when the first monolith enhanced their intelligence and they first started using tools? Anyway, that's a long-winded summary. The trick to enjoying and appreciating the movie 2001 is to read the book first, then watch the movie. If you do, it is one of the great SF movies of all time. And the last few pages of the book are awesome in a way that the movie can't be. **TL;DR** - It's about intelligence and evolution. Watch it again after you read the summaries here, or read the book.

This is an awesome movie, and was an SF groundbreaker. This is mainly due to Kubrick's visual style. He did multiple things that no one had done before. For example, no sound in space. Most SF films previously had ignored the fact that sound doesn't propagate in a vacuum. Kubrick did things like playing the Blue Danube Waltz, and having you listen to the astronauts' breathing inside their helmets. His depiction of zero gravity was a first. Remember, this is pre-CGI, and making a guy walk through a doorway and turn upside down while he was doing it was non-trivial at the time. He added neat little touches like Pan Am (a major airline at the time) running the shuttle going up to the space station. The film is mostly a beauty to watch, except the star gate sequence near the end (more on that later). Kubrick had a great collaborator in making the movie, SF writer Arthur C. Clarke (inventor of the communications satellite). The story came mostly from him, and was sourced from ideas in some of his previous works like "The Sentinel" and "Childhood's End". The story goes in 3 major parts, with a subplot added in the middle part. The theme of the movie is intelligence and evolution, not space travel. 1st part: Homo-whatever is a bunch of monkeys with potential. Aliens put a black monolith among them to enhance their intelligence, and suddenly they learn to use the first tool. Unfortunately, they choose to use the tools to attack their cousins and beat the shit out of them. But, so it goes. 2nd part: The aliens wanted to know when the monkey-men became a spacefaring race. So they left a sentinel buried on the moon (another black monolith, maybe the same one). When mankind exposed it to sunlight, an automatic signal was sent out towards Jupiter announcing that the kids were growing up and were ready to leave home. The mission was mounted and the crew sent off to see what was going on out there near Jupiter, hoping they might find aliens. (More about this part later.) But the crew wasn't told the whole story about why they were going. 3rd part: David Bowman finds another monolith orbiting a moon of Jupiter. When he flies near it, the top opens up and....it's full of stars. It is not full of stars actually, it is a stargate that takes him on a tour of the wonders of the universe. (Unfortunately, Kubrick got carried away with his attempts to make a visually cool movie here, and a lot of this is just crap. But hey, no CGI back then.) At the end, Bowman finds himself in a sterile white room with another of those monoliths. Like in Part 1, it fiddles with his brain (or DNA, or whatever) and helps him evolve to the next stage of mankind's evolution. He is represented as an embryo floating in space at this point. He has more power than humans can even imagine. (In the book, he decides to do something fairly drastic.) Back to the 2nd part: There was a subplot with the computer HAL9000 and the crew, playing with the idea of what intelligence really is. (This is a major theme of the entire movie.) HAL was an Artificial Intelligence, and could do amazing things. But he was given conflicting programming requirements...the requirement to keep the mission details secret from the crew, and to make the mission succeed at all costs. When the crew started to question what the mission was all about, he decided that the only way to make the mission succeed without them knowing what was going on was to kill them and finish the mission without them. That achieves both goals! Was HAL driven insane? Was it a reasonable way to reconcile the goals he was given? Was HAL truly intelligent, or did he just simulate intelligence? Did he have feelings? Are emotions and empathy important for an intelligence to have? Is it OK for an intelligent species to create another intelligent species? This whole subplot was really meant to explore those kinds of ideas, since the whole movie was about the nature of intelligence. And remember what the monkey-men did when the first monolith enhanced their intelligence and they first started using tools? Anyway, that's a long-winded summary. The trick to enjoying and appreciating the movie 2001 is to read the book first, then watch the movie. If you do, it is one of the great SF movies of all time. And the last few pages of the book are awesome in a way that the movie can't be. TL;DR - It's about intelligence and evolution. Watch it again after you read the summaries here, or read the book.

explainlikeimfive

t5_2sokd

c9bo6ba

This is an awesome movie, and was an SF groundbreaker. This is mainly due to Kubrick's visual style. He did multiple things that no one had done before. For example, no sound in space. Most SF films previously had ignored the fact that sound doesn't propagate in a vacuum. Kubrick did things like playing the Blue Danube Waltz, and having you listen to the astronauts' breathing inside their helmets. His depiction of zero gravity was a first. Remember, this is pre-CGI, and making a guy walk through a doorway and turn upside down while he was doing it was non-trivial at the time. He added neat little touches like Pan Am (a major airline at the time) running the shuttle going up to the space station. The film is mostly a beauty to watch, except the star gate sequence near the end (more on that later). Kubrick had a great collaborator in making the movie, SF writer Arthur C. Clarke (inventor of the communications satellite). The story came mostly from him, and was sourced from ideas in some of his previous works like "The Sentinel" and "Childhood's End". The story goes in 3 major parts, with a subplot added in the middle part. The theme of the movie is intelligence and evolution, not space travel. 1st part: Homo-whatever is a bunch of monkeys with potential. Aliens put a black monolith among them to enhance their intelligence, and suddenly they learn to use the first tool. Unfortunately, they choose to use the tools to attack their cousins and beat the shit out of them. But, so it goes. 2nd part: The aliens wanted to know when the monkey-men became a spacefaring race. So they left a sentinel buried on the moon (another black monolith, maybe the same one). When mankind exposed it to sunlight, an automatic signal was sent out towards Jupiter announcing that the kids were growing up and were ready to leave home. The mission was mounted and the crew sent off to see what was going on out there near Jupiter, hoping they might find aliens. (More about this part later.) But the crew wasn't told the whole story about why they were going. 3rd part: David Bowman finds another monolith orbiting a moon of Jupiter. When he flies near it, the top opens up and....it's full of stars. It is not full of stars actually, it is a stargate that takes him on a tour of the wonders of the universe. (Unfortunately, Kubrick got carried away with his attempts to make a visually cool movie here, and a lot of this is just crap. But hey, no CGI back then.) At the end, Bowman finds himself in a sterile white room with another of those monoliths. Like in Part 1, it fiddles with his brain (or DNA, or whatever) and helps him evolve to the next stage of mankind's evolution. He is represented as an embryo floating in space at this point. He has more power than humans can even imagine. (In the book, he decides to do something fairly drastic.) Back to the 2nd part: There was a subplot with the computer HAL9000 and the crew, playing with the idea of what intelligence really is. (This is a major theme of the entire movie.) HAL was an Artificial Intelligence, and could do amazing things. But he was given conflicting programming requirements...the requirement to keep the mission details secret from the crew, and to make the mission succeed at all costs. When the crew started to question what the mission was all about, he decided that the only way to make the mission succeed without them knowing what was going on was to kill them and finish the mission without them. That achieves both goals! Was HAL driven insane? Was it a reasonable way to reconcile the goals he was given? Was HAL truly intelligent, or did he just simulate intelligence? Did he have feelings? Are emotions and empathy important for an intelligence to have? Is it OK for an intelligent species to create another intelligent species? This whole subplot was really meant to explore those kinds of ideas, since the whole movie was about the nature of intelligence. And remember what the monkey-men did when the first monolith enhanced their intelligence and they first started using tools? Anyway, that's a long-winded summary. The trick to enjoying and appreciating the movie 2001 is to read the book first, then watch the movie. If you do, it is one of the great SF movies of all time. And the last few pages of the book are awesome in a way that the movie can't be.

It's about intelligence and evolution. Watch it again after you read the summaries here, or read the book.

thekraken27

This is sort of out of place, but in 2008 after i graduated high school, i was rewarded with a family trip to new Orleans. We were looking for a restaurant for dinner, as i spent most of my day browsing the French quarter and listening to a bountiful amount of music and worked up quite an appetite. We stumbled upon this corner restaurant i believe it was called "marcels bistro." So we sit down to start eating and it's still early, maybe 5:45/6:15pm-ish give or take. The restaurants empty aside from my family and maybe 2 other tables. So while struggling to figure out how to eat a crawfish, i hear the front door open and in walks drew breeze and two offensive linemen and the tight end from the new Orleans saints, all toting their absurdly attractive female counter parts. So after about 30 minutes of being non chalantely star struck...i build up the courage to turn around in my chair and i uttered sheepishly "mr. Breeze, i know this probably happens way too often and I'm deeply sorry if I'm interrupting your dinner, but, I'm here celebrating my recent graduation, and I'm a big fan of yours. It would be incredible if i could maybe get your autograph."... So he not only autographs my fresh new new Orleans t-shirt, but pays for my families meal, insists we get dessert on him, takes pictures with us, and then asked us to come along with them so they can give us a personal tour of the city. TL;DR ate dinner behind drew breeze while vacationing in new orleans, he paid for dinner and insisted on showering us around the town.

This is sort of out of place, but in 2008 after i graduated high school, i was rewarded with a family trip to new Orleans. We were looking for a restaurant for dinner, as i spent most of my day browsing the French quarter and listening to a bountiful amount of music and worked up quite an appetite. We stumbled upon this corner restaurant i believe it was called "marcels bistro." So we sit down to start eating and it's still early, maybe 5:45/6:15pm-ish give or take. The restaurants empty aside from my family and maybe 2 other tables. So while struggling to figure out how to eat a crawfish, i hear the front door open and in walks drew breeze and two offensive linemen and the tight end from the new Orleans saints, all toting their absurdly attractive female counter parts. So after about 30 minutes of being non chalantely star struck...i build up the courage to turn around in my chair and i uttered sheepishly "mr. Breeze, i know this probably happens way too often and I'm deeply sorry if I'm interrupting your dinner, but, I'm here celebrating my recent graduation, and I'm a big fan of yours. It would be incredible if i could maybe get your autograph."... So he not only autographs my fresh new new Orleans t-shirt, but pays for my families meal, insists we get dessert on him, takes pictures with us, and then asked us to come along with them so they can give us a personal tour of the city. TL;DR ate dinner behind drew breeze while vacationing in new orleans, he paid for dinner and insisted on showering us around the town.

TalesFromYourServer

t5_2v480

c9euq1p

This is sort of out of place, but in 2008 after i graduated high school, i was rewarded with a family trip to new Orleans. We were looking for a restaurant for dinner, as i spent most of my day browsing the French quarter and listening to a bountiful amount of music and worked up quite an appetite. We stumbled upon this corner restaurant i believe it was called "marcels bistro." So we sit down to start eating and it's still early, maybe 5:45/6:15pm-ish give or take. The restaurants empty aside from my family and maybe 2 other tables. So while struggling to figure out how to eat a crawfish, i hear the front door open and in walks drew breeze and two offensive linemen and the tight end from the new Orleans saints, all toting their absurdly attractive female counter parts. So after about 30 minutes of being non chalantely star struck...i build up the courage to turn around in my chair and i uttered sheepishly "mr. Breeze, i know this probably happens way too often and I'm deeply sorry if I'm interrupting your dinner, but, I'm here celebrating my recent graduation, and I'm a big fan of yours. It would be incredible if i could maybe get your autograph."... So he not only autographs my fresh new new Orleans t-shirt, but pays for my families meal, insists we get dessert on him, takes pictures with us, and then asked us to come along with them so they can give us a personal tour of the city.

ate dinner behind drew breeze while vacationing in new orleans, he paid for dinner and insisted on showering us around the town.

Arrythenameless

I main Leona support. She's all about hp, imo. I generally go 0/9/21 for the Defense tree HP and armor and for the extra CDR, starting gold, etc the utility tree provides. I find the extra ward and biscuit are invaluable early on. It allows me to recover if a trade goes poorly, or to stay in lane if we get the kill. I almost always start with 4 green wards, a rejuv bead, and an hp potion. This start allows me to ward drag and tribush twice, with the Explorer's Ward for their front bush or wherever it's needed. I position myself close enough to the front of our bush (or theirs if they're late to lane) so that I can AA -> Q -> AA the first ward they throw in the bush. This keeps them from having brush control and allows you to be a hell of a lot scarier (you keep them zoned simply because they can't see you and most supports can't facecheck it and live). Lulu's the exception, of course. She'll just poke you from afar. Make sure you time your abilities to let your ADC proc your passive at least twice, and hopefully all 3 times. I E in, AA, *then* Q. Not only do I get another 60-ish damage, but they're rooted for long enough that the ADC usually gets his first hit in. And hey, if they flash... all the better. You reset and do it again. First back, I buy (in order) at least 2 wards, my philo stone, and start building the sight stone. I usually finish off my ruby sightstone during laning phase, before boots. With Leona, HP ends up being more important than boots... if you're gonna die, you're gonna die, and 80% of the time they're not going to escape you because you're personally lacking 25 MS (all your damage is up front). TL;DR: Always come to lane with at least 2 wards. Philo Stone is great. Past that, HP, HP, HP. And sightstone.

I main Leona support. She's all about hp, imo. I generally go 0/9/21 for the Defense tree HP and armor and for the extra CDR, starting gold, etc the utility tree provides. I find the extra ward and biscuit are invaluable early on. It allows me to recover if a trade goes poorly, or to stay in lane if we get the kill. I almost always start with 4 green wards, a rejuv bead, and an hp potion. This start allows me to ward drag and tribush twice, with the Explorer's Ward for their front bush or wherever it's needed. I position myself close enough to the front of our bush (or theirs if they're late to lane) so that I can AA -> Q -> AA the first ward they throw in the bush. This keeps them from having brush control and allows you to be a hell of a lot scarier (you keep them zoned simply because they can't see you and most supports can't facecheck it and live). Lulu's the exception, of course. She'll just poke you from afar. Make sure you time your abilities to let your ADC proc your passive at least twice, and hopefully all 3 times. I E in, AA, then Q. Not only do I get another 60-ish damage, but they're rooted for long enough that the ADC usually gets his first hit in. And hey, if they flash... all the better. You reset and do it again. First back, I buy (in order) at least 2 wards, my philo stone, and start building the sight stone. I usually finish off my ruby sightstone during laning phase, before boots. With Leona, HP ends up being more important than boots... if you're gonna die, you're gonna die, and 80% of the time they're not going to escape you because you're personally lacking 25 MS (all your damage is up front). TL;DR: Always come to lane with at least 2 wards. Philo Stone is great. Past that, HP, HP, HP. And sightstone.

summonerschool

t5_2t9x3

c9c5fw8

I main Leona support. She's all about hp, imo. I generally go 0/9/21 for the Defense tree HP and armor and for the extra CDR, starting gold, etc the utility tree provides. I find the extra ward and biscuit are invaluable early on. It allows me to recover if a trade goes poorly, or to stay in lane if we get the kill. I almost always start with 4 green wards, a rejuv bead, and an hp potion. This start allows me to ward drag and tribush twice, with the Explorer's Ward for their front bush or wherever it's needed. I position myself close enough to the front of our bush (or theirs if they're late to lane) so that I can AA -> Q -> AA the first ward they throw in the bush. This keeps them from having brush control and allows you to be a hell of a lot scarier (you keep them zoned simply because they can't see you and most supports can't facecheck it and live). Lulu's the exception, of course. She'll just poke you from afar. Make sure you time your abilities to let your ADC proc your passive at least twice, and hopefully all 3 times. I E in, AA, then Q. Not only do I get another 60-ish damage, but they're rooted for long enough that the ADC usually gets his first hit in. And hey, if they flash... all the better. You reset and do it again. First back, I buy (in order) at least 2 wards, my philo stone, and start building the sight stone. I usually finish off my ruby sightstone during laning phase, before boots. With Leona, HP ends up being more important than boots... if you're gonna die, you're gonna die, and 80% of the time they're not going to escape you because you're personally lacking 25 MS (all your damage is up front).

Always come to lane with at least 2 wards. Philo Stone is great. Past that, HP, HP, HP. And sightstone.

evryvillainislemons

I have always used Microsoft Security Essentials, and thought it was great. Norton will bog down your computer and bug the shit out of you once your subscription is near expiring. I got it for a year free on a laptop, removed it after a couple of months because it was slow and didn't work so well. Trend Micro is what I use at work, and it's okay, but no better than MSE so I don't know that I would pay for it. I don't have any personal experience with Avast. But MSE is what my university recommends, it's what I use on my own personal computer, and even though I do a lot of risky downloading, it's done a great job of blocking viruses on my computer. TL;DR My vote is for Microsoft Security Essentials

I have always used Microsoft Security Essentials, and thought it was great. Norton will bog down your computer and bug the shit out of you once your subscription is near expiring. I got it for a year free on a laptop, removed it after a couple of months because it was slow and didn't work so well. Trend Micro is what I use at work, and it's okay, but no better than MSE so I don't know that I would pay for it. I don't have any personal experience with Avast. But MSE is what my university recommends, it's what I use on my own personal computer, and even though I do a lot of risky downloading, it's done a great job of blocking viruses on my computer. TL;DR My vote is for Microsoft Security Essentials

techsupport

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I have always used Microsoft Security Essentials, and thought it was great. Norton will bog down your computer and bug the shit out of you once your subscription is near expiring. I got it for a year free on a laptop, removed it after a couple of months because it was slow and didn't work so well. Trend Micro is what I use at work, and it's okay, but no better than MSE so I don't know that I would pay for it. I don't have any personal experience with Avast. But MSE is what my university recommends, it's what I use on my own personal computer, and even though I do a lot of risky downloading, it's done a great job of blocking viruses on my computer.

My vote is for Microsoft Security Essentials

TheEnormousPenis

Yeah and none of that would have stopped the recent shootings. Newtown guys mother had a safe and the guns weren't his. He wouldn't be the one passing any checks so your background check crap and mental health crap wouldn't make a bit of difference. TLDR: You'll never write enough laws.

Yeah and none of that would have stopped the recent shootings. Newtown guys mother had a safe and the guns weren't his. He wouldn't be the one passing any checks so your background check crap and mental health crap wouldn't make a bit of difference. TLDR: You'll never write enough laws.

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Yeah and none of that would have stopped the recent shootings. Newtown guys mother had a safe and the guns weren't his. He wouldn't be the one passing any checks so your background check crap and mental health crap wouldn't make a bit of difference.

You'll never write enough laws.

ghostnappa82

I also think that there wasn't complete closure on the survival of the X. I'm fairly sure with their power and potential that they could have survived an explosion like that, after all, the X had to coordinate with each other in one way or another in order to stay up on their game in trying to remove samus. I really would like to the see more about the X in the future because they definitely have untapped potential and it could allow for more character development from samus because she still has to adapt to being part-metroid. If the X were to have survived to explosion and escape from SR388(or have already existed outside of it due to somehow having the metroid as a predator which means that they would have to have encountered each other at some point), they would present a true threat to the galaxy and samus would be their one and only true hope. The idea of the X parasites coming back and going on the offensive could also make for a new trilogy(maybe this time with a final boss battle that isn't a big disappoint) **TL;DR** : The X most likely are still alive and their comeback would make for an excellent continuation in the series.

I also think that there wasn't complete closure on the survival of the X. I'm fairly sure with their power and potential that they could have survived an explosion like that, after all, the X had to coordinate with each other in one way or another in order to stay up on their game in trying to remove samus. I really would like to the see more about the X in the future because they definitely have untapped potential and it could allow for more character development from samus because she still has to adapt to being part-metroid. If the X were to have survived to explosion and escape from SR388(or have already existed outside of it due to somehow having the metroid as a predator which means that they would have to have encountered each other at some point), they would present a true threat to the galaxy and samus would be their one and only true hope. The idea of the X parasites coming back and going on the offensive could also make for a new trilogy(maybe this time with a final boss battle that isn't a big disappoint) TL;DR : The X most likely are still alive and their comeback would make for an excellent continuation in the series.

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I also think that there wasn't complete closure on the survival of the X. I'm fairly sure with their power and potential that they could have survived an explosion like that, after all, the X had to coordinate with each other in one way or another in order to stay up on their game in trying to remove samus. I really would like to the see more about the X in the future because they definitely have untapped potential and it could allow for more character development from samus because she still has to adapt to being part-metroid. If the X were to have survived to explosion and escape from SR388(or have already existed outside of it due to somehow having the metroid as a predator which means that they would have to have encountered each other at some point), they would present a true threat to the galaxy and samus would be their one and only true hope. The idea of the X parasites coming back and going on the offensive could also make for a new trilogy(maybe this time with a final boss battle that isn't a big disappoint)

The X most likely are still alive and their comeback would make for an excellent continuation in the series.

ValentinoZ

Nice sob story and all, but really stop hacking and you wont get banned. It's that simple. Look it's not like a CS rep logged into a the game, saw <n> reports on you and hit the ban button. They logged into a spook account, and watched you. They maybe even baited you with a few spooks that you couldn't hit unless you were using tools. When I got a new computer my k:d fucking skyrocketed because of the change from 5fps to 60fps. I'm *positive* I had people report me after a particular lucky string when attacking a biolab, and many other scenarios. Many other people in TEST and other large outfits have users with similar stories: why aren't they banned? Because they don't fucking hack. Don't hack and you don't get banned. It's that simple. They wont tell you why you were banned, they won't tell you when they found out, it could have been the first 5 minutes of your hacking. SOE and SCEA's stance on hackers is "fuck em", but they sure as hell gather evidence on their end. tl;dr: Don't hack and you wont get banned.

Nice sob story and all, but really stop hacking and you wont get banned. It's that simple. Look it's not like a CS rep logged into a the game, saw <n> reports on you and hit the ban button. They logged into a spook account, and watched you. They maybe even baited you with a few spooks that you couldn't hit unless you were using tools. When I got a new computer my k:d fucking skyrocketed because of the change from 5fps to 60fps. I'm positive I had people report me after a particular lucky string when attacking a biolab, and many other scenarios. Many other people in TEST and other large outfits have users with similar stories: why aren't they banned? Because they don't fucking hack. Don't hack and you don't get banned. It's that simple. They wont tell you why you were banned, they won't tell you when they found out, it could have been the first 5 minutes of your hacking. SOE and SCEA's stance on hackers is "fuck em", but they sure as hell gather evidence on their end. tl;dr: Don't hack and you wont get banned.

Planetside

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Nice sob story and all, but really stop hacking and you wont get banned. It's that simple. Look it's not like a CS rep logged into a the game, saw <n> reports on you and hit the ban button. They logged into a spook account, and watched you. They maybe even baited you with a few spooks that you couldn't hit unless you were using tools. When I got a new computer my k:d fucking skyrocketed because of the change from 5fps to 60fps. I'm positive I had people report me after a particular lucky string when attacking a biolab, and many other scenarios. Many other people in TEST and other large outfits have users with similar stories: why aren't they banned? Because they don't fucking hack. Don't hack and you don't get banned. It's that simple. They wont tell you why you were banned, they won't tell you when they found out, it could have been the first 5 minutes of your hacking. SOE and SCEA's stance on hackers is "fuck em", but they sure as hell gather evidence on their end.

Don't hack and you wont get banned.

Bonarz

I've seen a couple of comments in here about weed not being a gateway drug. First and foremost it depends on how you define "Gateway Drug". Speaking from my experience: Harder drugs (i.e. Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, etc.) aren't anywhere nearly as readily available as Pot and Alcohol. Also, the users of that crowd don't generally interact much with people who have not done drugs, and are more secretive about using. However, when you are smoking out (at a young age generally) it is easier to say "Hey man I got this other stuff too we can try while we blaze", opposed to just trying to run it by a friend you go skateboarding with. As you already know they are doing "lighter" things. It is a matter of how general society has labeled these things. The harder drugs are more frowned upon thus are generally not the first things people try. It's a matter of psychology and how it is portrayed in society. Also, another influence on "your personal decision to actually try drugs" is the negative effects of the drug. Pot has very few negative effects, and most certainly does not have the probability of death (unless you got some weird allergy). Whereas most other drugs do carry the weight of overdosing, and potential death. Due to this it is easier for people to justify using pot in their early stages of drug use. Once they have some friends saying..."Hey, you should try this coke man...it is pretty good! Especially when you mix it with a joint!". If you are getting the advice to try something harder from someone you "trust" and like...you are more apt you do it. Also, seeing someone else has done it and they aren't dead, gives you more confidence that you will also be ok. Under this description...Yes, I can say it is a gateway drug. However, by no means do I agree that just because you smoked some pot...means you're going to do harder stuff too. tl;dr - I took the time to write it...read it. :)

I've seen a couple of comments in here about weed not being a gateway drug. First and foremost it depends on how you define "Gateway Drug". Speaking from my experience: Harder drugs (i.e. Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, etc.) aren't anywhere nearly as readily available as Pot and Alcohol. Also, the users of that crowd don't generally interact much with people who have not done drugs, and are more secretive about using. However, when you are smoking out (at a young age generally) it is easier to say "Hey man I got this other stuff too we can try while we blaze", opposed to just trying to run it by a friend you go skateboarding with. As you already know they are doing "lighter" things. It is a matter of how general society has labeled these things. The harder drugs are more frowned upon thus are generally not the first things people try. It's a matter of psychology and how it is portrayed in society. Also, another influence on "your personal decision to actually try drugs" is the negative effects of the drug. Pot has very few negative effects, and most certainly does not have the probability of death (unless you got some weird allergy). Whereas most other drugs do carry the weight of overdosing, and potential death. Due to this it is easier for people to justify using pot in their early stages of drug use. Once they have some friends saying..."Hey, you should try this coke man...it is pretty good! Especially when you mix it with a joint!". If you are getting the advice to try something harder from someone you "trust" and like...you are more apt you do it. Also, seeing someone else has done it and they aren't dead, gives you more confidence that you will also be ok. Under this description...Yes, I can say it is a gateway drug. However, by no means do I agree that just because you smoked some pot...means you're going to do harder stuff too. tl;dr - I took the time to write it...read it. :)

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I've seen a couple of comments in here about weed not being a gateway drug. First and foremost it depends on how you define "Gateway Drug". Speaking from my experience: Harder drugs (i.e. Cocaine, Heroin, Meth, etc.) aren't anywhere nearly as readily available as Pot and Alcohol. Also, the users of that crowd don't generally interact much with people who have not done drugs, and are more secretive about using. However, when you are smoking out (at a young age generally) it is easier to say "Hey man I got this other stuff too we can try while we blaze", opposed to just trying to run it by a friend you go skateboarding with. As you already know they are doing "lighter" things. It is a matter of how general society has labeled these things. The harder drugs are more frowned upon thus are generally not the first things people try. It's a matter of psychology and how it is portrayed in society. Also, another influence on "your personal decision to actually try drugs" is the negative effects of the drug. Pot has very few negative effects, and most certainly does not have the probability of death (unless you got some weird allergy). Whereas most other drugs do carry the weight of overdosing, and potential death. Due to this it is easier for people to justify using pot in their early stages of drug use. Once they have some friends saying..."Hey, you should try this coke man...it is pretty good! Especially when you mix it with a joint!". If you are getting the advice to try something harder from someone you "trust" and like...you are more apt you do it. Also, seeing someone else has done it and they aren't dead, gives you more confidence that you will also be ok. Under this description...Yes, I can say it is a gateway drug. However, by no means do I agree that just because you smoked some pot...means you're going to do harder stuff too.

I took the time to write it...read it. :)

badphish94

Man, I haven't even gotten past the fucking gargoyles in Dark Souls and I've looked at plenty of video guides. I don't enjoy rape, so I just don't play the damn game. I think, with guides, it's okay to use them if you don't figure something out immediately and become confused. If I can't figure something out in 10-30 minutes, depending on what it is, I'll check a guide. In RPGs, I also like to make sure that I haven't missed anything. TL;DR - Dark Souls== Rape. If something is getting in the way and making the game less fun, use a guide.

Man, I haven't even gotten past the fucking gargoyles in Dark Souls and I've looked at plenty of video guides. I don't enjoy rape, so I just don't play the damn game. I think, with guides, it's okay to use them if you don't figure something out immediately and become confused. If I can't figure something out in 10-30 minutes, depending on what it is, I'll check a guide. In RPGs, I also like to make sure that I haven't missed anything. TL;DR - Dark Souls== Rape. If something is getting in the way and making the game less fun, use a guide.

truegaming

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Man, I haven't even gotten past the fucking gargoyles in Dark Souls and I've looked at plenty of video guides. I don't enjoy rape, so I just don't play the damn game. I think, with guides, it's okay to use them if you don't figure something out immediately and become confused. If I can't figure something out in 10-30 minutes, depending on what it is, I'll check a guide. In RPGs, I also like to make sure that I haven't missed anything.

Dark Souls== Rape. If something is getting in the way and making the game less fun, use a guide.

valjean260

I guess I'll wade into this one... I should note that I have a bias. I am a blogger. That's me, a few down the page with the [blog about the McDonald's incident]( So, as you can imagine. I like the blogs. I like being able to post mine here. I work hard at creating original content and I enjoy sharing it with other parents in this community. I'm careful not to blog spam. I don't post and run. And I take feedback graciously. What I worry about is when people call to isolate and exclude a single form of content on this page. No images, they need their own page. No blogs, they need their own page. No memes, they need their own page. Eventually everything is so split up we lose the power of aggregation and the content is what suffers. Now I get the image thing, and I think wallet Wednesdays has been working well. It is fun. I think the mods do a wonderful job at policing spam on this sub. Having been an admin on another site, I can imagine you don't see half of the stuff that they catch and stop while doing their unpaid, volunteer job. I think the true test of a good front page of a subreddit is variety and content. Let's look at the [current front page of r/parenting]( * 11 Self Posts * 4 Articles * 4 Blog Posts * 3 Videos * 2 Pictures That seems like a pretty healthy mix for me. It's not all gold, and I don't claim that my writing is the bees knees - but some folks really like it. Anyway, you're welcome to your opinion and I'm glad you posted it. We have the "I hate blogs" conversation here every few weeks and I usually stay out of it - because I have some personal interest in being able to post here. But I feel like I'm a part of this community too, and I find value in some of the blog posts I find here. Not all of them, but enough to not ban them. Anyway, thanks for reading this whole thing. And if you didn't... TLDR: I like blogs John

I guess I'll wade into this one... I should note that I have a bias. I am a blogger. That's me, a few down the page with the [blog about the McDonald's incident]( So, as you can imagine. I like the blogs. I like being able to post mine here. I work hard at creating original content and I enjoy sharing it with other parents in this community. I'm careful not to blog spam. I don't post and run. And I take feedback graciously. What I worry about is when people call to isolate and exclude a single form of content on this page. No images, they need their own page. No blogs, they need their own page. No memes, they need their own page. Eventually everything is so split up we lose the power of aggregation and the content is what suffers. Now I get the image thing, and I think wallet Wednesdays has been working well. It is fun. I think the mods do a wonderful job at policing spam on this sub. Having been an admin on another site, I can imagine you don't see half of the stuff that they catch and stop while doing their unpaid, volunteer job. I think the true test of a good front page of a subreddit is variety and content. Let's look at the [current front page of r/parenting]( 11 Self Posts 4 Articles 4 Blog Posts 3 Videos 2 Pictures That seems like a pretty healthy mix for me. It's not all gold, and I don't claim that my writing is the bees knees - but some folks really like it. Anyway, you're welcome to your opinion and I'm glad you posted it. We have the "I hate blogs" conversation here every few weeks and I usually stay out of it - because I have some personal interest in being able to post here. But I feel like I'm a part of this community too, and I find value in some of the blog posts I find here. Not all of them, but enough to not ban them. Anyway, thanks for reading this whole thing. And if you didn't... TLDR: I like blogs John

Parenting

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I guess I'll wade into this one... I should note that I have a bias. I am a blogger. That's me, a few down the page with the [blog about the McDonald's incident]( So, as you can imagine. I like the blogs. I like being able to post mine here. I work hard at creating original content and I enjoy sharing it with other parents in this community. I'm careful not to blog spam. I don't post and run. And I take feedback graciously. What I worry about is when people call to isolate and exclude a single form of content on this page. No images, they need their own page. No blogs, they need their own page. No memes, they need their own page. Eventually everything is so split up we lose the power of aggregation and the content is what suffers. Now I get the image thing, and I think wallet Wednesdays has been working well. It is fun. I think the mods do a wonderful job at policing spam on this sub. Having been an admin on another site, I can imagine you don't see half of the stuff that they catch and stop while doing their unpaid, volunteer job. I think the true test of a good front page of a subreddit is variety and content. Let's look at the [current front page of r/parenting]( 11 Self Posts 4 Articles 4 Blog Posts 3 Videos 2 Pictures That seems like a pretty healthy mix for me. It's not all gold, and I don't claim that my writing is the bees knees - but some folks really like it. Anyway, you're welcome to your opinion and I'm glad you posted it. We have the "I hate blogs" conversation here every few weeks and I usually stay out of it - because I have some personal interest in being able to post here. But I feel like I'm a part of this community too, and I find value in some of the blog posts I find here. Not all of them, but enough to not ban them. Anyway, thanks for reading this whole thing. And if you didn't...

I like blogs John

collar

As the other person who replied to this said, it's extremely common that (rock) guitarists can't read music. There's really not that much reason to, basically guitar tab suits the purpose of learning how to play someone else's songs (which is a format that has close to 0 learning time). Then once you know a certain amount of chords (or less than a certain amount, rock on all those kids just pounding out power chords), note position on the board, maybe a few scales and chord composition theory, off you go. Most popular guitar based music is not extremely technical to play and most bands aren't amazing technical musicians, they are just people who are either great song writers, know great song writers or have a great feel for music. Yes, there are some amazing professional musicians, but that raw technical skill tends to count for bugger all unless you are hitched to someone who can write great songs. Metal tends to set the ability bar higher, but rock isn't an exclusive club, that's always part of the appeal. A couple of kids can barely know their instrument, get together, crank up whatever dodgy gear they have and totally rock out. TLDR; rant about rock music not being about formal knowledge that will get buried.

As the other person who replied to this said, it's extremely common that (rock) guitarists can't read music. There's really not that much reason to, basically guitar tab suits the purpose of learning how to play someone else's songs (which is a format that has close to 0 learning time). Then once you know a certain amount of chords (or less than a certain amount, rock on all those kids just pounding out power chords), note position on the board, maybe a few scales and chord composition theory, off you go. Most popular guitar based music is not extremely technical to play and most bands aren't amazing technical musicians, they are just people who are either great song writers, know great song writers or have a great feel for music. Yes, there are some amazing professional musicians, but that raw technical skill tends to count for bugger all unless you are hitched to someone who can write great songs. Metal tends to set the ability bar higher, but rock isn't an exclusive club, that's always part of the appeal. A couple of kids can barely know their instrument, get together, crank up whatever dodgy gear they have and totally rock out. TLDR; rant about rock music not being about formal knowledge that will get buried.

todayilearned

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As the other person who replied to this said, it's extremely common that (rock) guitarists can't read music. There's really not that much reason to, basically guitar tab suits the purpose of learning how to play someone else's songs (which is a format that has close to 0 learning time). Then once you know a certain amount of chords (or less than a certain amount, rock on all those kids just pounding out power chords), note position on the board, maybe a few scales and chord composition theory, off you go. Most popular guitar based music is not extremely technical to play and most bands aren't amazing technical musicians, they are just people who are either great song writers, know great song writers or have a great feel for music. Yes, there are some amazing professional musicians, but that raw technical skill tends to count for bugger all unless you are hitched to someone who can write great songs. Metal tends to set the ability bar higher, but rock isn't an exclusive club, that's always part of the appeal. A couple of kids can barely know their instrument, get together, crank up whatever dodgy gear they have and totally rock out.

rant about rock music not being about formal knowledge that will get buried.

Onlinenobodyknows

No, just makes him very likable. Besides best musician ever is an opinion. Many people would consider Mozart the best musician ever because of how he changed how music was written. Others might say Johnny Cash because of how he mixed genres so well. Dave Grohl might be considered best because he was one of the first popular grunge guitarists and a really popular alternative(idk what genre For Fighters is, that's sad) band. However, he's Reddit's favorite musician because: 1.) He did a bit chin AMA. 2.) He's rather funny. 3.) He's intelligent. 4.) He's really really nice to everyone and hasn't let fame go to his head. TL;DR: Dave Grohl might not be the best, but there's reasons he's our favorite.

No, just makes him very likable. Besides best musician ever is an opinion. Many people would consider Mozart the best musician ever because of how he changed how music was written. Others might say Johnny Cash because of how he mixed genres so well. Dave Grohl might be considered best because he was one of the first popular grunge guitarists and a really popular alternative(idk what genre For Fighters is, that's sad) band. However, he's Reddit's favorite musician because: 1.) He did a bit chin AMA. 2.) He's rather funny. 3.) He's intelligent. 4.) He's really really nice to everyone and hasn't let fame go to his head. TL;DR: Dave Grohl might not be the best, but there's reasons he's our favorite.

todayilearned

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c9el352

No, just makes him very likable. Besides best musician ever is an opinion. Many people would consider Mozart the best musician ever because of how he changed how music was written. Others might say Johnny Cash because of how he mixed genres so well. Dave Grohl might be considered best because he was one of the first popular grunge guitarists and a really popular alternative(idk what genre For Fighters is, that's sad) band. However, he's Reddit's favorite musician because: 1.) He did a bit chin AMA. 2.) He's rather funny. 3.) He's intelligent. 4.) He's really really nice to everyone and hasn't let fame go to his head.

Dave Grohl might not be the best, but there's reasons he's our favorite.

imposingpotato

Well, as Bayern Munich supporter I can give you my thoughts on all of the teams in a hope to try to quantify why your friends might find Barca as the easiest draw. Dortmund- Bayern and Dortmund play each other multiple times in a year, and in the past they have proven to give us difficulty. They had been our bogey team and while this season we have done well against them playing Dortmund still gives me the chills, there is just too much familiarity there. Barca- Out of the four teams in this years semi-finals in order of possession football (from most to least) I would say it goes Barca-Bayern-Real Madrid- Dortmund. Bayern and Barca have the most similar play style in regards to possession football and the same can be said vice versa for Dortmund and Real Madrid. I feel like Bayern has a good chance against Barca because the Barca center backs are really suspect for me, and Bayern can find some really piercing runs through the Barca defense. Real Madrid- Real Madrid matches up pretty well against Bayern, in that I feel they could take advantage of us in set pieces. Real Madrid can be pretty good out of corners due to the height in their side, and Bayern has proven this season to be susceptible to corners and set pieces. Jupp is often forced to play the slower Van Buyten to help with set pieces. TL;DR: Dortmund has too much familiarity, scares Bayern fans. Real and Barca are close, but I feel like Bayern fans believe in the sides ability to exploit the shaky central defenders of Barca.

Well, as Bayern Munich supporter I can give you my thoughts on all of the teams in a hope to try to quantify why your friends might find Barca as the easiest draw. Dortmund- Bayern and Dortmund play each other multiple times in a year, and in the past they have proven to give us difficulty. They had been our bogey team and while this season we have done well against them playing Dortmund still gives me the chills, there is just too much familiarity there. Barca- Out of the four teams in this years semi-finals in order of possession football (from most to least) I would say it goes Barca-Bayern-Real Madrid- Dortmund. Bayern and Barca have the most similar play style in regards to possession football and the same can be said vice versa for Dortmund and Real Madrid. I feel like Bayern has a good chance against Barca because the Barca center backs are really suspect for me, and Bayern can find some really piercing runs through the Barca defense. Real Madrid- Real Madrid matches up pretty well against Bayern, in that I feel they could take advantage of us in set pieces. Real Madrid can be pretty good out of corners due to the height in their side, and Bayern has proven this season to be susceptible to corners and set pieces. Jupp is often forced to play the slower Van Buyten to help with set pieces. TL;DR: Dortmund has too much familiarity, scares Bayern fans. Real and Barca are close, but I feel like Bayern fans believe in the sides ability to exploit the shaky central defenders of Barca.

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Well, as Bayern Munich supporter I can give you my thoughts on all of the teams in a hope to try to quantify why your friends might find Barca as the easiest draw. Dortmund- Bayern and Dortmund play each other multiple times in a year, and in the past they have proven to give us difficulty. They had been our bogey team and while this season we have done well against them playing Dortmund still gives me the chills, there is just too much familiarity there. Barca- Out of the four teams in this years semi-finals in order of possession football (from most to least) I would say it goes Barca-Bayern-Real Madrid- Dortmund. Bayern and Barca have the most similar play style in regards to possession football and the same can be said vice versa for Dortmund and Real Madrid. I feel like Bayern has a good chance against Barca because the Barca center backs are really suspect for me, and Bayern can find some really piercing runs through the Barca defense. Real Madrid- Real Madrid matches up pretty well against Bayern, in that I feel they could take advantage of us in set pieces. Real Madrid can be pretty good out of corners due to the height in their side, and Bayern has proven this season to be susceptible to corners and set pieces. Jupp is often forced to play the slower Van Buyten to help with set pieces.

Dortmund has too much familiarity, scares Bayern fans. Real and Barca are close, but I feel like Bayern fans believe in the sides ability to exploit the shaky central defenders of Barca.

DataPhreak

You're confusing the deep web with the dark web, i think. The deep web is everything on the internet that is buried too deep for a search engine to access. Pictures on your facebook account, for example, are deep web. You already are a part of the deep web. The dark web consists of TOR, I2P, VPN, and other networking over ip protocols. Think of it more as a tool. For example, if you set up a web server or IRC server on a laptop, and make it accessible on tor as a hidden service, no matter where you access the internet from, or what IP address, the server will be accessible from the same .onion address, and aside from some incredibly sophisticated and luck reliant attacks, is completely untraceable. TL;DR: Get tor, create a new identity. Become a ghost.

You're confusing the deep web with the dark web, i think. The deep web is everything on the internet that is buried too deep for a search engine to access. Pictures on your facebook account, for example, are deep web. You already are a part of the deep web. The dark web consists of TOR, I2P, VPN, and other networking over ip protocols. Think of it more as a tool. For example, if you set up a web server or IRC server on a laptop, and make it accessible on tor as a hidden service, no matter where you access the internet from, or what IP address, the server will be accessible from the same .onion address, and aside from some incredibly sophisticated and luck reliant attacks, is completely untraceable. TL;DR: Get tor, create a new identity. Become a ghost.

Cyberpunk

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You're confusing the deep web with the dark web, i think. The deep web is everything on the internet that is buried too deep for a search engine to access. Pictures on your facebook account, for example, are deep web. You already are a part of the deep web. The dark web consists of TOR, I2P, VPN, and other networking over ip protocols. Think of it more as a tool. For example, if you set up a web server or IRC server on a laptop, and make it accessible on tor as a hidden service, no matter where you access the internet from, or what IP address, the server will be accessible from the same .onion address, and aside from some incredibly sophisticated and luck reliant attacks, is completely untraceable.

Get tor, create a new identity. Become a ghost.

Stormflux

We already know why, and how to bring the rates down. Ask any sociology professor. From what I can recall, most of it can be traced back to the dismantling of the Great Society programs in the '80's. The problem is, we can't bring these programs back because it is politically unpopular to do so. Voters don't want to spend money if it's going to help black people. TL;DR Republicans

We already know why, and how to bring the rates down. Ask any sociology professor. From what I can recall, most of it can be traced back to the dismantling of the Great Society programs in the '80's. The problem is, we can't bring these programs back because it is politically unpopular to do so. Voters don't want to spend money if it's going to help black people. TL;DR Republicans

todayilearned

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We already know why, and how to bring the rates down. Ask any sociology professor. From what I can recall, most of it can be traced back to the dismantling of the Great Society programs in the '80's. The problem is, we can't bring these programs back because it is politically unpopular to do so. Voters don't want to spend money if it's going to help black people.

Republicans

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But, look at page 5 of your source. That shows that in California only 30.3% of admissions were for violent crime in 2010. In 2011 the figure was 31.9%. The numbers you posted above to a large degree reflect that violent crimes have long sentences. EDIT: Also, you omitted local jails. Wikipedia has the local jail population as 785, 556. Here's the [most recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics]( It has the number of inmates admitted for violent crime around 25%. TL;DR: Omitted local jails' roughly 700,000 inmates, only 25% of whom are violent offenders. Also, your statistics are skewed because violent offenders have longer sentences.

But, look at page 5 of your source. That shows that in California only 30.3% of admissions were for violent crime in 2010. In 2011 the figure was 31.9%. The numbers you posted above to a large degree reflect that violent crimes have long sentences. EDIT: Also, you omitted local jails. Wikipedia has the local jail population as 785, 556. Here's the [most recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics]( It has the number of inmates admitted for violent crime around 25%. TL;DR: Omitted local jails' roughly 700,000 inmates, only 25% of whom are violent offenders. Also, your statistics are skewed because violent offenders have longer sentences.

todayilearned

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But, look at page 5 of your source. That shows that in California only 30.3% of admissions were for violent crime in 2010. In 2011 the figure was 31.9%. The numbers you posted above to a large degree reflect that violent crimes have long sentences. EDIT: Also, you omitted local jails. Wikipedia has the local jail population as 785, 556. Here's the [most recent report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics]( It has the number of inmates admitted for violent crime around 25%.

Omitted local jails' roughly 700,000 inmates, only 25% of whom are violent offenders. Also, your statistics are skewed because violent offenders have longer sentences.

DownvotingSpartan

As a high school Policy debater, I debated about the criminal justice system for an entire year. My case was to require federal inmates to perform community service. A surprisingly high number of inmates are non-violent, so it would be a relatively small threat to public safety. [This]( is how many people we are paying room and board for with absolutely no return on investment. This population report is updated weekly -- Every Thursday, I believe. The federal prisoner recidivism rate (meaning the rate at which former federal prisoners return to a life of crime) is approximately 22%. Unfortunately, a big part of the problem is that our federal inmates have no work experience going into prison, and have no work experience when they leave prison. No work = A life of crime is the only way to make a living. “We must accept the reality that to confine offenders behind walls without trying to change them is an expensive folly with short term benefits – winning the battles without winning the war. It is wrong. It is expensive. It is stupid.” – Chief Justice Warren E. Burger [Here]( is just one of dozens of examples of how beneficial state prison inmate labor has been to communities. There is no reason why the Federal BoP (Bureau of Prisons) shouldn't implement the same thing. We spend so much money on new prisons/prison expansions every year, that a program like this would easily pay for itself. And in case you are curious, [here]( is the official Bureau of Prisons sheet of statistics on its prisoners telling what they are in for, ages, ethnicities, length of sentences, etc. **TL;DR** Non-violent federal prisoners could be put to work, but they are not. Such a system would benefit both the communities they are in, and it would help them acquire invaluable work experience that would undeniably help them get jobs after they leave prison. Helping inmates get post-prison jobs helps keep them out of crime.

As a high school Policy debater, I debated about the criminal justice system for an entire year. My case was to require federal inmates to perform community service. A surprisingly high number of inmates are non-violent, so it would be a relatively small threat to public safety. [This]( is how many people we are paying room and board for with absolutely no return on investment. This population report is updated weekly -- Every Thursday, I believe. The federal prisoner recidivism rate (meaning the rate at which former federal prisoners return to a life of crime) is approximately 22%. Unfortunately, a big part of the problem is that our federal inmates have no work experience going into prison, and have no work experience when they leave prison. No work = A life of crime is the only way to make a living. “We must accept the reality that to confine offenders behind walls without trying to change them is an expensive folly with short term benefits – winning the battles without winning the war. It is wrong. It is expensive. It is stupid.” – Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Here shouldn't implement the same thing. We spend so much money on new prisons/prison expansions every year, that a program like this would easily pay for itself. And in case you are curious, [here]( is the official Bureau of Prisons sheet of statistics on its prisoners telling what they are in for, ages, ethnicities, length of sentences, etc. TL;DR Non-violent federal prisoners could be put to work, but they are not. Such a system would benefit both the communities they are in, and it would help them acquire invaluable work experience that would undeniably help them get jobs after they leave prison. Helping inmates get post-prison jobs helps keep them out of crime.

todayilearned

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As a high school Policy debater, I debated about the criminal justice system for an entire year. My case was to require federal inmates to perform community service. A surprisingly high number of inmates are non-violent, so it would be a relatively small threat to public safety. [This]( is how many people we are paying room and board for with absolutely no return on investment. This population report is updated weekly -- Every Thursday, I believe. The federal prisoner recidivism rate (meaning the rate at which former federal prisoners return to a life of crime) is approximately 22%. Unfortunately, a big part of the problem is that our federal inmates have no work experience going into prison, and have no work experience when they leave prison. No work = A life of crime is the only way to make a living. “We must accept the reality that to confine offenders behind walls without trying to change them is an expensive folly with short term benefits – winning the battles without winning the war. It is wrong. It is expensive. It is stupid.” – Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Here shouldn't implement the same thing. We spend so much money on new prisons/prison expansions every year, that a program like this would easily pay for itself. And in case you are curious, [here]( is the official Bureau of Prisons sheet of statistics on its prisoners telling what they are in for, ages, ethnicities, length of sentences, etc.

Non-violent federal prisoners could be put to work, but they are not. Such a system would benefit both the communities they are in, and it would help them acquire invaluable work experience that would undeniably help them get jobs after they leave prison. Helping inmates get post-prison jobs helps keep them out of crime.

Holmsian

African Americans predominantly live in an environment that fosters crime. As the education systems are poor and the welfare systems enable single parent households, many black kids turn to crime as a means to support themselves and their families. Understand that many times crime is completely rational. Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed this in 1965. Please understand that it's the environment that essentially shapes people, and that there is nothing inherently malicious, lazy, or wrong about African Americans -- their disenfranchisement is literally the fault of poor public policy. We can manipulate their environment to create a better future for African Americans -- it's the duty of the Generation Y politicians and voters to do just that. Read about Jack Kemp. Moynihan and Kemp were PROGRESSIVES that believed that welfare was ultimately corrosive as it is currently designed because it doesn't enable them to aspire to greater things, instead creating a negative environment. Moynihan was a moderate and Kemp was a 'conservative liberal' ( I understand the conflict between conservative and progressive -- fiscal conservatism can still be progressive, and he was just that) Kemp's policies were iffy in ideal and shitty when implemented, but he still had the right idea. Moynihan never got the attention that he deserved at the right time, more people think of him as an Ambassador to India and the UN than as a Senator/Assistant HUD Secretary. Moynihan: Kemp: TL;DR: These guys gave a shit about African Americans, and they thought welfare was bad.

African Americans predominantly live in an environment that fosters crime. As the education systems are poor and the welfare systems enable single parent households, many black kids turn to crime as a means to support themselves and their families. Understand that many times crime is completely rational. Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed this in 1965. Please understand that it's the environment that essentially shapes people, and that there is nothing inherently malicious, lazy, or wrong about African Americans -- their disenfranchisement is literally the fault of poor public policy. We can manipulate their environment to create a better future for African Americans -- it's the duty of the Generation Y politicians and voters to do just that. Read about Jack Kemp. Moynihan and Kemp were PROGRESSIVES that believed that welfare was ultimately corrosive as it is currently designed because it doesn't enable them to aspire to greater things, instead creating a negative environment. Moynihan was a moderate and Kemp was a 'conservative liberal' ( I understand the conflict between conservative and progressive -- fiscal conservatism can still be progressive, and he was just that) Kemp's policies were iffy in ideal and shitty when implemented, but he still had the right idea. Moynihan never got the attention that he deserved at the right time, more people think of him as an Ambassador to India and the UN than as a Senator/Assistant HUD Secretary. Moynihan: Kemp: TL;DR: These guys gave a shit about African Americans, and they thought welfare was bad.

todayilearned

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African Americans predominantly live in an environment that fosters crime. As the education systems are poor and the welfare systems enable single parent households, many black kids turn to crime as a means to support themselves and their families. Understand that many times crime is completely rational. Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed this in 1965. Please understand that it's the environment that essentially shapes people, and that there is nothing inherently malicious, lazy, or wrong about African Americans -- their disenfranchisement is literally the fault of poor public policy. We can manipulate their environment to create a better future for African Americans -- it's the duty of the Generation Y politicians and voters to do just that. Read about Jack Kemp. Moynihan and Kemp were PROGRESSIVES that believed that welfare was ultimately corrosive as it is currently designed because it doesn't enable them to aspire to greater things, instead creating a negative environment. Moynihan was a moderate and Kemp was a 'conservative liberal' ( I understand the conflict between conservative and progressive -- fiscal conservatism can still be progressive, and he was just that) Kemp's policies were iffy in ideal and shitty when implemented, but he still had the right idea. Moynihan never got the attention that he deserved at the right time, more people think of him as an Ambassador to India and the UN than as a Senator/Assistant HUD Secretary. Moynihan: Kemp:

These guys gave a shit about African Americans, and they thought welfare was bad.

Ovaldo

I had a similar issue when I tried to exit skype one day, the "Quit Skype" line stayed until i restarted, I would say just restart, if it keeps happening then try and fix it with [chriswatt's comment]( TL;DR: Restart if it's just a one time thing, if it persists follow other comment(s) for fix(es). Hope it gets sorted for you, it's in a really annoying spot, mine was on the bottom near the clock.

I had a similar issue when I tried to exit skype one day, the "Quit Skype" line stayed until i restarted, I would say just restart, if it keeps happening then try and fix it with [chriswatt's comment]( TL;DR: Restart if it's just a one time thing, if it persists follow other comment(s) for fix(es). Hope it gets sorted for you, it's in a really annoying spot, mine was on the bottom near the clock.

windows

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I had a similar issue when I tried to exit skype one day, the "Quit Skype" line stayed until i restarted, I would say just restart, if it keeps happening then try and fix it with [chriswatt's comment](

Restart if it's just a one time thing, if it persists follow other comment(s) for fix(es). Hope it gets sorted for you, it's in a really annoying spot, mine was on the bottom near the clock.

Fraktyl

Speaking as a divorced father. It's not always about "the kid". It's about perceptions. Kids are your legacy, you don't want things to interfere with that. It is how we are wired, and when things get in the way we get our backs up and bar the fangs. My ex-wife used our child as a pin in her martyr cross. That was very difficult to overcome. I also lived in a state where the child got to choose the parent when they were of the ripe old age of 13. It is what it is. I spent a lot of time trying to get my daughter. And failed almost every step of the way. TL:DR Opposing view points on child rearing do not always mesh well.

Speaking as a divorced father. It's not always about "the kid". It's about perceptions. Kids are your legacy, you don't want things to interfere with that. It is how we are wired, and when things get in the way we get our backs up and bar the fangs. My ex-wife used our child as a pin in her martyr cross. That was very difficult to overcome. I also lived in a state where the child got to choose the parent when they were of the ripe old age of 13. It is what it is. I spent a lot of time trying to get my daughter. And failed almost every step of the way. TL:DR Opposing view points on child rearing do not always mesh well.

aww

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Speaking as a divorced father. It's not always about "the kid". It's about perceptions. Kids are your legacy, you don't want things to interfere with that. It is how we are wired, and when things get in the way we get our backs up and bar the fangs. My ex-wife used our child as a pin in her martyr cross. That was very difficult to overcome. I also lived in a state where the child got to choose the parent when they were of the ripe old age of 13. It is what it is. I spent a lot of time trying to get my daughter. And failed almost every step of the way.

Opposing view points on child rearing do not always mesh well.

vxannihilation

Not too much of a fan. Wayyyy better than Cals. In all honesty I would invest in some Billets if I were you. Not too great for fucking around on, lovin' the baseplate angle and rake though. They're a bit heavy too, the fact they still have a support pin is fucking perfect, they're stable and turny, sort of like a cast Aera would feel, pretty good freeride feel and stable downhill feel. There's not that many cons, but if you bought Billets you would not regret it. Trust me man, I've had K3's, Billets 40/40, Strummers and Munkaes. All precision "freeride/dh" trucks, and Billets were the best. Aeras are my second favorite because of the price and less downhill appropriate feel. Munkaes are fucking sick, and Strummers are so nice. But seriously, Ronins are definitely worth every penny. TL;DR: If you want to know about trucks, read the wall of text, otherwise, don't bother reading it.

Not too much of a fan. Wayyyy better than Cals. In all honesty I would invest in some Billets if I were you. Not too great for fucking around on, lovin' the baseplate angle and rake though. They're a bit heavy too, the fact they still have a support pin is fucking perfect, they're stable and turny, sort of like a cast Aera would feel, pretty good freeride feel and stable downhill feel. There's not that many cons, but if you bought Billets you would not regret it. Trust me man, I've had K3's, Billets 40/40, Strummers and Munkaes. All precision "freeride/dh" trucks, and Billets were the best. Aeras are my second favorite because of the price and less downhill appropriate feel. Munkaes are fucking sick, and Strummers are so nice. But seriously, Ronins are definitely worth every penny. TL;DR: If you want to know about trucks, read the wall of text, otherwise, don't bother reading it.

longboarding

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Not too much of a fan. Wayyyy better than Cals. In all honesty I would invest in some Billets if I were you. Not too great for fucking around on, lovin' the baseplate angle and rake though. They're a bit heavy too, the fact they still have a support pin is fucking perfect, they're stable and turny, sort of like a cast Aera would feel, pretty good freeride feel and stable downhill feel. There's not that many cons, but if you bought Billets you would not regret it. Trust me man, I've had K3's, Billets 40/40, Strummers and Munkaes. All precision "freeride/dh" trucks, and Billets were the best. Aeras are my second favorite because of the price and less downhill appropriate feel. Munkaes are fucking sick, and Strummers are so nice. But seriously, Ronins are definitely worth every penny.

If you want to know about trucks, read the wall of text, otherwise, don't bother reading it.

MegalomaniacHack

Frankly, that's more about player abilities. Generally, smarter players will have the ideas or figure out the puzzles in the game no matter how low their character Int or Wis scores are. Likewise, a player who reads about war all the time is going to be throwing out all these maneuvers to use in combat even if their character is a 1st level wizard who has never read a book about combat. Also, a character with 3 charisma is going to out talk every other player if the player is Don Juan. It's up to the DM to make the penalties matter at that point and not just give RP XP like far too many playing-favorites DMs do. If you're not going to reward a player for being able to beat the other players in wrestling (grapple), you shouldn't reward a player for making the most convincing argument in the game and tricking the NPC, either. Like Slashlight says 10/11 is no penalty and considered average. Anything above is smarter, and anything below is less smart. 3 is the lowest you can go, I believe, without having animal intelligence. Some people play low intelligence as Chaotic Stupid, yet many less intelligent people just have a harder time figuring things out or catching meaning. They don't pull the level just because it's in the middle of the room. Instead, they either don't say anything when the party leader asks for advice, or they offer really bad advice. In other words, less intelligence does not equate to suicidal. tl;dr 11 is like the average person you meet. C or B average in school (depending on the classes). Not gonna be great at their job, and not going to screw up a lot. Will have rare moments of greatness or stupidity, as will many players.

Frankly, that's more about player abilities. Generally, smarter players will have the ideas or figure out the puzzles in the game no matter how low their character Int or Wis scores are. Likewise, a player who reads about war all the time is going to be throwing out all these maneuvers to use in combat even if their character is a 1st level wizard who has never read a book about combat. Also, a character with 3 charisma is going to out talk every other player if the player is Don Juan. It's up to the DM to make the penalties matter at that point and not just give RP XP like far too many playing-favorites DMs do. If you're not going to reward a player for being able to beat the other players in wrestling (grapple), you shouldn't reward a player for making the most convincing argument in the game and tricking the NPC, either. Like Slashlight says 10/11 is no penalty and considered average. Anything above is smarter, and anything below is less smart. 3 is the lowest you can go, I believe, without having animal intelligence. Some people play low intelligence as Chaotic Stupid, yet many less intelligent people just have a harder time figuring things out or catching meaning. They don't pull the level just because it's in the middle of the room. Instead, they either don't say anything when the party leader asks for advice, or they offer really bad advice. In other words, less intelligence does not equate to suicidal. tl;dr 11 is like the average person you meet. C or B average in school (depending on the classes). Not gonna be great at their job, and not going to screw up a lot. Will have rare moments of greatness or stupidity, as will many players.

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Frankly, that's more about player abilities. Generally, smarter players will have the ideas or figure out the puzzles in the game no matter how low their character Int or Wis scores are. Likewise, a player who reads about war all the time is going to be throwing out all these maneuvers to use in combat even if their character is a 1st level wizard who has never read a book about combat. Also, a character with 3 charisma is going to out talk every other player if the player is Don Juan. It's up to the DM to make the penalties matter at that point and not just give RP XP like far too many playing-favorites DMs do. If you're not going to reward a player for being able to beat the other players in wrestling (grapple), you shouldn't reward a player for making the most convincing argument in the game and tricking the NPC, either. Like Slashlight says 10/11 is no penalty and considered average. Anything above is smarter, and anything below is less smart. 3 is the lowest you can go, I believe, without having animal intelligence. Some people play low intelligence as Chaotic Stupid, yet many less intelligent people just have a harder time figuring things out or catching meaning. They don't pull the level just because it's in the middle of the room. Instead, they either don't say anything when the party leader asks for advice, or they offer really bad advice. In other words, less intelligence does not equate to suicidal.

11 is like the average person you meet. C or B average in school (depending on the classes). Not gonna be great at their job, and not going to screw up a lot. Will have rare moments of greatness or stupidity, as will many players.

MegalomaniacHack

Incorrect everywhere I've seen the term Intelligence used, gaming or otherwise. Wisdom is the knowledge you've gained and application of that knowledge. In many games, it is also used for perception under the idea that you know what to look for, not just your physical eyesight or hearing. Intelligence is your capability to learn. It's how quickly you learn in school, how quickly you size up a situation (Wisdom factors in there, too), how much you can learn (like spells), etc. tl;dr Wisdom is recognizing there's a puzzle in front of you, and assuming you haven't seen its like before (if you have, still wisdom), Intelligence is then used to figure out how the puzzle works/to solve it.

Incorrect everywhere I've seen the term Intelligence used, gaming or otherwise. Wisdom is the knowledge you've gained and application of that knowledge. In many games, it is also used for perception under the idea that you know what to look for, not just your physical eyesight or hearing. Intelligence is your capability to learn. It's how quickly you learn in school, how quickly you size up a situation (Wisdom factors in there, too), how much you can learn (like spells), etc. tl;dr Wisdom is recognizing there's a puzzle in front of you, and assuming you haven't seen its like before (if you have, still wisdom), Intelligence is then used to figure out how the puzzle works/to solve it.

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Incorrect everywhere I've seen the term Intelligence used, gaming or otherwise. Wisdom is the knowledge you've gained and application of that knowledge. In many games, it is also used for perception under the idea that you know what to look for, not just your physical eyesight or hearing. Intelligence is your capability to learn. It's how quickly you learn in school, how quickly you size up a situation (Wisdom factors in there, too), how much you can learn (like spells), etc.

Wisdom is recognizing there's a puzzle in front of you, and assuming you haven't seen its like before (if you have, still wisdom), Intelligence is then used to figure out how the puzzle works/to solve it.

EnigmaticChemist

Beliefs. Snobbery. Being a zealot. Ignorance. When someone puts beliefs ahead of science this is what happens. I work with a lot of religious people in my lab, and they are all accepting that the bible is more of an allegorical tale of morality. It is meant to make an impact and impart and outlook. It is not fact. And they are not ignorant as all hell to the real world, scientific advancement, and research. When you make the bible fact, you tend to make yourself stupid. I cannot take someone seriously that tells me the earth is 6000 years old when fossil records and Carbon 13 dating prove otherwise. I have not spent all this time getting a Ph.D. in science for someone to go well God says your wrong. There belief that the bible is fact (I mean really, how many versions and how many translations. And the ideology that Jesus was a white man in the middle east, and virgin birth, etc etc.) falls under so many logical fallacies it is amazing. They use circular logic to cement their faith. The mere reality that they cannot see the Bible is their claim, not their proof is a good indication they have no understanding of the scientific process. She attacks science like it is a boys club, only letting scientists in. We accept any verifiable, reproducible experimental results. As long as they follow the proper process. But she thinks otherwise, and that we act like a cult. Hiding information from the masses, she has obviously never read a peer reviewed science journal. We let the facts and data fall as the may and interpret the results. But she thinks we sweep things under the rug, which is not the case. She cannot accept that people would fraudulently create scientific evidence, it must be real if it supports her cause. She gets her information from other militant zealots, and not reputable sources. She harps on initial evidence, without reading any further into the findings. She is a typical moronic zealot who has tunnel vision on her beliefs, religion, and cause only. She won't listen to logic either, and uses the largest fallacies possible as an argument/proof. Then we get to the upper white crust of America, Likely she had nothing to do until this. I would venture to guess she was a militant christian suburban housewife. Those ones that argue with the school board, report people to the home owners association for their trashcans being infront of their house instead of the side, tattled on members of her church to the pastor to look better in the eyes of her god. TL;DR: She believes the bible is fact, despite no evidence of this being so. Obviously paid no attention in science courses, maybe even went to school so long ago she did not take them seeing as how women were schooled in america 50 years ago. Likely had nothing better to do with her life but make others miserable, and rolled with it. Oh, and also is extremely rude to anyone trying to argue against her.

Beliefs. Snobbery. Being a zealot. Ignorance. When someone puts beliefs ahead of science this is what happens. I work with a lot of religious people in my lab, and they are all accepting that the bible is more of an allegorical tale of morality. It is meant to make an impact and impart and outlook. It is not fact. And they are not ignorant as all hell to the real world, scientific advancement, and research. When you make the bible fact, you tend to make yourself stupid. I cannot take someone seriously that tells me the earth is 6000 years old when fossil records and Carbon 13 dating prove otherwise. I have not spent all this time getting a Ph.D. in science for someone to go well God says your wrong. There belief that the bible is fact (I mean really, how many versions and how many translations. And the ideology that Jesus was a white man in the middle east, and virgin birth, etc etc.) falls under so many logical fallacies it is amazing. They use circular logic to cement their faith. The mere reality that they cannot see the Bible is their claim, not their proof is a good indication they have no understanding of the scientific process. She attacks science like it is a boys club, only letting scientists in. We accept any verifiable, reproducible experimental results. As long as they follow the proper process. But she thinks otherwise, and that we act like a cult. Hiding information from the masses, she has obviously never read a peer reviewed science journal. We let the facts and data fall as the may and interpret the results. But she thinks we sweep things under the rug, which is not the case. She cannot accept that people would fraudulently create scientific evidence, it must be real if it supports her cause. She gets her information from other militant zealots, and not reputable sources. She harps on initial evidence, without reading any further into the findings. She is a typical moronic zealot who has tunnel vision on her beliefs, religion, and cause only. She won't listen to logic either, and uses the largest fallacies possible as an argument/proof. Then we get to the upper white crust of America, Likely she had nothing to do until this. I would venture to guess she was a militant christian suburban housewife. Those ones that argue with the school board, report people to the home owners association for their trashcans being infront of their house instead of the side, tattled on members of her church to the pastor to look better in the eyes of her god. TL;DR: She believes the bible is fact, despite no evidence of this being so. Obviously paid no attention in science courses, maybe even went to school so long ago she did not take them seeing as how women were schooled in america 50 years ago. Likely had nothing better to do with her life but make others miserable, and rolled with it. Oh, and also is extremely rude to anyone trying to argue against her.

wendywright

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Beliefs. Snobbery. Being a zealot. Ignorance. When someone puts beliefs ahead of science this is what happens. I work with a lot of religious people in my lab, and they are all accepting that the bible is more of an allegorical tale of morality. It is meant to make an impact and impart and outlook. It is not fact. And they are not ignorant as all hell to the real world, scientific advancement, and research. When you make the bible fact, you tend to make yourself stupid. I cannot take someone seriously that tells me the earth is 6000 years old when fossil records and Carbon 13 dating prove otherwise. I have not spent all this time getting a Ph.D. in science for someone to go well God says your wrong. There belief that the bible is fact (I mean really, how many versions and how many translations. And the ideology that Jesus was a white man in the middle east, and virgin birth, etc etc.) falls under so many logical fallacies it is amazing. They use circular logic to cement their faith. The mere reality that they cannot see the Bible is their claim, not their proof is a good indication they have no understanding of the scientific process. She attacks science like it is a boys club, only letting scientists in. We accept any verifiable, reproducible experimental results. As long as they follow the proper process. But she thinks otherwise, and that we act like a cult. Hiding information from the masses, she has obviously never read a peer reviewed science journal. We let the facts and data fall as the may and interpret the results. But she thinks we sweep things under the rug, which is not the case. She cannot accept that people would fraudulently create scientific evidence, it must be real if it supports her cause. She gets her information from other militant zealots, and not reputable sources. She harps on initial evidence, without reading any further into the findings. She is a typical moronic zealot who has tunnel vision on her beliefs, religion, and cause only. She won't listen to logic either, and uses the largest fallacies possible as an argument/proof. Then we get to the upper white crust of America, Likely she had nothing to do until this. I would venture to guess she was a militant christian suburban housewife. Those ones that argue with the school board, report people to the home owners association for their trashcans being infront of their house instead of the side, tattled on members of her church to the pastor to look better in the eyes of her god.

She believes the bible is fact, despite no evidence of this being so. Obviously paid no attention in science courses, maybe even went to school so long ago she did not take them seeing as how women were schooled in america 50 years ago. Likely had nothing better to do with her life but make others miserable, and rolled with it. Oh, and also is extremely rude to anyone trying to argue against her.

sanjurotsubaki

That is absolutely NOT an option. You would need to drastically expand the base. Involved with that are business owners not willing to sell, other venues, major roads, and ultimately a project that would take a very long time to accomplish. The new owners have purchased quite a few of the surrounding establishments, but only for personal gain. It's impossible. Again, we don't have the luxury as the Yankees. They had the land, the state funds, and the ability to not affect the flow of the local community with the construction. TLDR: Just, no.

That is absolutely NOT an option. You would need to drastically expand the base. Involved with that are business owners not willing to sell, other venues, major roads, and ultimately a project that would take a very long time to accomplish. The new owners have purchased quite a few of the surrounding establishments, but only for personal gain. It's impossible. Again, we don't have the luxury as the Yankees. They had the land, the state funds, and the ability to not affect the flow of the local community with the construction. TLDR: Just, no.

baseball

t5_2qm7u

c9fekok

That is absolutely NOT an option. You would need to drastically expand the base. Involved with that are business owners not willing to sell, other venues, major roads, and ultimately a project that would take a very long time to accomplish. The new owners have purchased quite a few of the surrounding establishments, but only for personal gain. It's impossible. Again, we don't have the luxury as the Yankees. They had the land, the state funds, and the ability to not affect the flow of the local community with the construction.

Just, no.

backcountry52

One of the reasons why I love engineering is because it keeps surprising me. I'm fairly confident in my abilities and I know for a fact that I can succeed in industry by working hard and listening to others, I proved that to myself the summer after sophomore year. I returned to school after that and felt like my glass was full. I thought "Yeah I got this engineering shit. I understand calculus, just enough physics, and can put my ideas and thoughts onto paper clearly." And then I took my first Electrical Engineering class (our Aerospace Engineering curriculum requires two semesters of it). HOLY FUCKING EGO CHECK BATMAN I couldn't do it. I couldn't conceptualize the flow of electricity in a circuit like I could the flow of air over a wing. Went to my professor for help and he just told me to keep pushing. He said he went through the same thing studying electricity. So I bit down and pushed. Studied like I never studied before, actually read one of the supplemental text books listed in the syllabus (crazy, I know). And then I got it, it became easy. WHAM. FUCK THIS DC BULLSHIT TIME FOR SOME PHASORS ASSHOLE. AC hit me like a ton of fucking bricks. Again. I was struggling to keep up in class, drowning in a sea of i's and j's. Nothing made sense. The same concepts that were easy now were hard again. So I kept pushing, and got out of EE 1 with a B. Now I'm in EE 2 and I finally get alternating current. My professor said one fucking sentence and I finally understood why we need complex math to represent electricity. "The real part of the voltage is dissipated in the resistors as heat, the imaginary part of the voltage is trapped in the circuit's magnetic and electric field." Enter: light bulb, stage center Cue: Eureka music He said that right before the end of class. In passing. I went up to him and shook his hand and said thanks. I told him how clear he made everything in one fucking sentence. The high you get when you have a Eureka moment is amazing. Engineering lets me work toward that every day. TL;DR After a MUCH needed ego check, engineering brought me back to the fountain of knowledge for one more go. Like a junkie to the needle.

One of the reasons why I love engineering is because it keeps surprising me. I'm fairly confident in my abilities and I know for a fact that I can succeed in industry by working hard and listening to others, I proved that to myself the summer after sophomore year. I returned to school after that and felt like my glass was full. I thought "Yeah I got this engineering shit. I understand calculus, just enough physics, and can put my ideas and thoughts onto paper clearly." And then I took my first Electrical Engineering class (our Aerospace Engineering curriculum requires two semesters of it). HOLY FUCKING EGO CHECK BATMAN I couldn't do it. I couldn't conceptualize the flow of electricity in a circuit like I could the flow of air over a wing. Went to my professor for help and he just told me to keep pushing. He said he went through the same thing studying electricity. So I bit down and pushed. Studied like I never studied before, actually read one of the supplemental text books listed in the syllabus (crazy, I know). And then I got it, it became easy. WHAM. FUCK THIS DC BULLSHIT TIME FOR SOME PHASORS ASSHOLE. AC hit me like a ton of fucking bricks. Again. I was struggling to keep up in class, drowning in a sea of i's and j's. Nothing made sense. The same concepts that were easy now were hard again. So I kept pushing, and got out of EE 1 with a B. Now I'm in EE 2 and I finally get alternating current. My professor said one fucking sentence and I finally understood why we need complex math to represent electricity. "The real part of the voltage is dissipated in the resistors as heat, the imaginary part of the voltage is trapped in the circuit's magnetic and electric field." Enter: light bulb, stage center Cue: Eureka music He said that right before the end of class. In passing. I went up to him and shook his hand and said thanks. I told him how clear he made everything in one fucking sentence. The high you get when you have a Eureka moment is amazing. Engineering lets me work toward that every day. TL;DR After a MUCH needed ego check, engineering brought me back to the fountain of knowledge for one more go. Like a junkie to the needle.

EngineeringStudents

t5_2sh0b

c9fgmfa

One of the reasons why I love engineering is because it keeps surprising me. I'm fairly confident in my abilities and I know for a fact that I can succeed in industry by working hard and listening to others, I proved that to myself the summer after sophomore year. I returned to school after that and felt like my glass was full. I thought "Yeah I got this engineering shit. I understand calculus, just enough physics, and can put my ideas and thoughts onto paper clearly." And then I took my first Electrical Engineering class (our Aerospace Engineering curriculum requires two semesters of it). HOLY FUCKING EGO CHECK BATMAN I couldn't do it. I couldn't conceptualize the flow of electricity in a circuit like I could the flow of air over a wing. Went to my professor for help and he just told me to keep pushing. He said he went through the same thing studying electricity. So I bit down and pushed. Studied like I never studied before, actually read one of the supplemental text books listed in the syllabus (crazy, I know). And then I got it, it became easy. WHAM. FUCK THIS DC BULLSHIT TIME FOR SOME PHASORS ASSHOLE. AC hit me like a ton of fucking bricks. Again. I was struggling to keep up in class, drowning in a sea of i's and j's. Nothing made sense. The same concepts that were easy now were hard again. So I kept pushing, and got out of EE 1 with a B. Now I'm in EE 2 and I finally get alternating current. My professor said one fucking sentence and I finally understood why we need complex math to represent electricity. "The real part of the voltage is dissipated in the resistors as heat, the imaginary part of the voltage is trapped in the circuit's magnetic and electric field." Enter: light bulb, stage center Cue: Eureka music He said that right before the end of class. In passing. I went up to him and shook his hand and said thanks. I told him how clear he made everything in one fucking sentence. The high you get when you have a Eureka moment is amazing. Engineering lets me work toward that every day.

After a MUCH needed ego check, engineering brought me back to the fountain of knowledge for one more go. Like a junkie to the needle.

theDashRendar

**Crusader Kings 2** Playing as Sweden, I had conquered a third of Europe, all the way to Constantinople (reclaiming it from the Fatamid dynasty), and established the Latin Empire. Within days of establishing this mighty, massive superower, my beloved Emperor, Jedvard, dies of a pox. This was a bit unexpected since he was only 40, and his sheer charisma and leadership were keeping the peace in the empire and it was all a very delicate balance. (One other really cool aspect of this campaign was my Ethiopian splinter branch of the family dynasty - that all ended up ruling the Finland-Estonia region of my Empire. They were white still, but their culture was Ethiopian, so they all wore turbans and silks, and because they were a different culture than the rest of my Empire, they were always deceitful and traitorous and always plotting to kill my Emperor.) The Emperor has only two children -- Nessa, a birlliant young girl who is nine, and Anders, a small five year old. Because males supersede females, Anders becomes the new Emperor. Given time, he was shaping up to be the greatest Emperor imaginable -- but because he is still a small, inexperienced child, a great many of the factions in my Empire rebel, sensing an opportunity to seize power for themselves. So poor six year old Anders is facing an all out civil war, where he is outnumbered and betrayed even by his family (not Nessa of course). The war is tilting badly against Anders, and worst of all, he has become very ill. Oh, and his 'regent' is a fat useless drunk. So I'm about to accept the crippling white peace, in order to save face and keep at least a small chunk of the Empire that I once had ruled. But Anders sudden death, to the same pox that took his father, leaves the very last of my direct dynasty -- Nessa, now 16 and mature and totally remarkable in every respect, in total command of the Empire. This turn of events, coupled with an upset victory where a small force of ten thousand professional mercenaries beat back an army of almost eighteen thousand, renews my will to fight and take back control of my Empire. Nessa isn't one to let a crisis go unwasted. Since the remaining loyalist forces are totally enamored with her, she goes to 'Very High' crown authority, and basically becomes the absolute ruler of everything in the Empire. Her charming personality starts winning back friends that had been enemies, and the tide of the war slowly starts to shift - and for the first time in the entire war (now gone on for almost ten or more years), I am able to take the offense to my enemies. The war is a long and brutal affair. Early in the war, two or three armies of 25K+ men were common sights. By the end, any of us were lucky to field a single army of 5K - the war whittled all of us down and had terrible cost. But they all eventually surrendered. One after another. And Nessa, of course, was merciful, and had the traitors stripped of titles and banished, but not executed. She became the amazing Empress that everyone had wished for, and even though she was a girl - the first to ever sit on the throne of my kingdoms - she proved to be the greatest leader ever. She ruled for twenty years of peace and prosperity, and when the Golden Horde arrived, she formed a grand army, and pushed them back into Russia, and forced them to broker a peace and convert to Catholicism (even their 100K doomstack was crushed under the might of my loyalist-mercenary-crusader mixed regiment). Now of course, everything about Nessa was extraordinary, and surely this would have to be true about her line of succession as well. She married the King of France's younger brother Raymond - a kind, reasonable, and subordinate man. And shortly thereafter, she gave birth to twins - Jedvard II and Anders II. And of course, one single Emperor for one single massive Empire would have been too easy and too convenient. This would be destined to get messy. But what happened next - even I couldn't have imagined (and it was AWESOME!). An attempt to kill Anders II is made, but botched by the assassin that tries to kill him. When the assassin is captured and interrogated, it is revealed that none other than Raymond, Empress Nessa's husband, was the one behind the plot to kill Anders II. Nessa sent Raymond to prison for life, but I couldn't bring her to kill him. Although he had tried to murder her son, he was doing it in the interest of the realm and of stability, and I couldn't bring myself to blame him. So they were never divorced, and Raymond spent the remainder of his life under house arrest, and the twins grew up. When Nessa finally died, peacefully at 46, the entire continent mourned The two twin children would soon come to blows with one another in another great civil war, but that is another story... TL;DR -- A glorious spunky redhead (basically my own Elizabeth I) saved my fragmenting super-empire, defeated the Mongol invaders, and then gave birth to twins to set off the ultimate power struggle when she dies.

Crusader Kings 2 Playing as Sweden, I had conquered a third of Europe, all the way to Constantinople (reclaiming it from the Fatamid dynasty), and established the Latin Empire. Within days of establishing this mighty, massive superower, my beloved Emperor, Jedvard, dies of a pox. This was a bit unexpected since he was only 40, and his sheer charisma and leadership were keeping the peace in the empire and it was all a very delicate balance. (One other really cool aspect of this campaign was my Ethiopian splinter branch of the family dynasty - that all ended up ruling the Finland-Estonia region of my Empire. They were white still, but their culture was Ethiopian, so they all wore turbans and silks, and because they were a different culture than the rest of my Empire, they were always deceitful and traitorous and always plotting to kill my Emperor.) The Emperor has only two children -- Nessa, a birlliant young girl who is nine, and Anders, a small five year old. Because males supersede females, Anders becomes the new Emperor. Given time, he was shaping up to be the greatest Emperor imaginable -- but because he is still a small, inexperienced child, a great many of the factions in my Empire rebel, sensing an opportunity to seize power for themselves. So poor six year old Anders is facing an all out civil war, where he is outnumbered and betrayed even by his family (not Nessa of course). The war is tilting badly against Anders, and worst of all, he has become very ill. Oh, and his 'regent' is a fat useless drunk. So I'm about to accept the crippling white peace, in order to save face and keep at least a small chunk of the Empire that I once had ruled. But Anders sudden death, to the same pox that took his father, leaves the very last of my direct dynasty -- Nessa, now 16 and mature and totally remarkable in every respect, in total command of the Empire. This turn of events, coupled with an upset victory where a small force of ten thousand professional mercenaries beat back an army of almost eighteen thousand, renews my will to fight and take back control of my Empire. Nessa isn't one to let a crisis go unwasted. Since the remaining loyalist forces are totally enamored with her, she goes to 'Very High' crown authority, and basically becomes the absolute ruler of everything in the Empire. Her charming personality starts winning back friends that had been enemies, and the tide of the war slowly starts to shift - and for the first time in the entire war (now gone on for almost ten or more years), I am able to take the offense to my enemies. The war is a long and brutal affair. Early in the war, two or three armies of 25K+ men were common sights. By the end, any of us were lucky to field a single army of 5K - the war whittled all of us down and had terrible cost. But they all eventually surrendered. One after another. And Nessa, of course, was merciful, and had the traitors stripped of titles and banished, but not executed. She became the amazing Empress that everyone had wished for, and even though she was a girl - the first to ever sit on the throne of my kingdoms - she proved to be the greatest leader ever. She ruled for twenty years of peace and prosperity, and when the Golden Horde arrived, she formed a grand army, and pushed them back into Russia, and forced them to broker a peace and convert to Catholicism (even their 100K doomstack was crushed under the might of my loyalist-mercenary-crusader mixed regiment). Now of course, everything about Nessa was extraordinary, and surely this would have to be true about her line of succession as well. She married the King of France's younger brother Raymond - a kind, reasonable, and subordinate man. And shortly thereafter, she gave birth to twins - Jedvard II and Anders II. And of course, one single Emperor for one single massive Empire would have been too easy and too convenient. This would be destined to get messy. But what happened next - even I couldn't have imagined (and it was AWESOME!). An attempt to kill Anders II is made, but botched by the assassin that tries to kill him. When the assassin is captured and interrogated, it is revealed that none other than Raymond, Empress Nessa's husband, was the one behind the plot to kill Anders II. Nessa sent Raymond to prison for life, but I couldn't bring her to kill him. Although he had tried to murder her son, he was doing it in the interest of the realm and of stability, and I couldn't bring myself to blame him. So they were never divorced, and Raymond spent the remainder of his life under house arrest, and the twins grew up. When Nessa finally died, peacefully at 46, the entire continent mourned The two twin children would soon come to blows with one another in another great civil war, but that is another story... TL;DR -- A glorious spunky redhead (basically my own Elizabeth I) saved my fragmenting super-empire, defeated the Mongol invaders, and then gave birth to twins to set off the ultimate power struggle when she dies.

truegaming

t5_2sgq6

c9fqlzx

Crusader Kings 2 Playing as Sweden, I had conquered a third of Europe, all the way to Constantinople (reclaiming it from the Fatamid dynasty), and established the Latin Empire. Within days of establishing this mighty, massive superower, my beloved Emperor, Jedvard, dies of a pox. This was a bit unexpected since he was only 40, and his sheer charisma and leadership were keeping the peace in the empire and it was all a very delicate balance. (One other really cool aspect of this campaign was my Ethiopian splinter branch of the family dynasty - that all ended up ruling the Finland-Estonia region of my Empire. They were white still, but their culture was Ethiopian, so they all wore turbans and silks, and because they were a different culture than the rest of my Empire, they were always deceitful and traitorous and always plotting to kill my Emperor.) The Emperor has only two children -- Nessa, a birlliant young girl who is nine, and Anders, a small five year old. Because males supersede females, Anders becomes the new Emperor. Given time, he was shaping up to be the greatest Emperor imaginable -- but because he is still a small, inexperienced child, a great many of the factions in my Empire rebel, sensing an opportunity to seize power for themselves. So poor six year old Anders is facing an all out civil war, where he is outnumbered and betrayed even by his family (not Nessa of course). The war is tilting badly against Anders, and worst of all, he has become very ill. Oh, and his 'regent' is a fat useless drunk. So I'm about to accept the crippling white peace, in order to save face and keep at least a small chunk of the Empire that I once had ruled. But Anders sudden death, to the same pox that took his father, leaves the very last of my direct dynasty -- Nessa, now 16 and mature and totally remarkable in every respect, in total command of the Empire. This turn of events, coupled with an upset victory where a small force of ten thousand professional mercenaries beat back an army of almost eighteen thousand, renews my will to fight and take back control of my Empire. Nessa isn't one to let a crisis go unwasted. Since the remaining loyalist forces are totally enamored with her, she goes to 'Very High' crown authority, and basically becomes the absolute ruler of everything in the Empire. Her charming personality starts winning back friends that had been enemies, and the tide of the war slowly starts to shift - and for the first time in the entire war (now gone on for almost ten or more years), I am able to take the offense to my enemies. The war is a long and brutal affair. Early in the war, two or three armies of 25K+ men were common sights. By the end, any of us were lucky to field a single army of 5K - the war whittled all of us down and had terrible cost. But they all eventually surrendered. One after another. And Nessa, of course, was merciful, and had the traitors stripped of titles and banished, but not executed. She became the amazing Empress that everyone had wished for, and even though she was a girl - the first to ever sit on the throne of my kingdoms - she proved to be the greatest leader ever. She ruled for twenty years of peace and prosperity, and when the Golden Horde arrived, she formed a grand army, and pushed them back into Russia, and forced them to broker a peace and convert to Catholicism (even their 100K doomstack was crushed under the might of my loyalist-mercenary-crusader mixed regiment). Now of course, everything about Nessa was extraordinary, and surely this would have to be true about her line of succession as well. She married the King of France's younger brother Raymond - a kind, reasonable, and subordinate man. And shortly thereafter, she gave birth to twins - Jedvard II and Anders II. And of course, one single Emperor for one single massive Empire would have been too easy and too convenient. This would be destined to get messy. But what happened next - even I couldn't have imagined (and it was AWESOME!). An attempt to kill Anders II is made, but botched by the assassin that tries to kill him. When the assassin is captured and interrogated, it is revealed that none other than Raymond, Empress Nessa's husband, was the one behind the plot to kill Anders II. Nessa sent Raymond to prison for life, but I couldn't bring her to kill him. Although he had tried to murder her son, he was doing it in the interest of the realm and of stability, and I couldn't bring myself to blame him. So they were never divorced, and Raymond spent the remainder of his life under house arrest, and the twins grew up. When Nessa finally died, peacefully at 46, the entire continent mourned The two twin children would soon come to blows with one another in another great civil war, but that is another story...

A glorious spunky redhead (basically my own Elizabeth I) saved my fragmenting super-empire, defeated the Mongol invaders, and then gave birth to twins to set off the ultimate power struggle when she dies.

bigsbeclayton

I've gotten it for two straight years now having lived in a big city. I do believe the other posters are correct in that you won't be able to get it if DirectTV is available in your area (I live in a big city, so it's not possible for me to get it). But I'll answer your questions anyway. 1) HD can be hit or miss on this. The first year games skipped a TON and the quality was quite poor. I even went as far last year to call my credit card company and ask them what sort of protection I could be afforded if the quality was as bad as the year prior. That said it was a lot better last year than the year before. One thing I will say is I think a MAJOR part of it is out of your control. You need pretty good download speeds from your ISP to keep the quality good, but in all honesty, you don't really have any control over that. I switched to a realitvely good ISP because I was on the highest tier plan for DL speeds with a crappy ISP and I was getting crap quality on Sunday Ticket. And when you call any three of the companies to complain (Sony, DirectTV, the ISP) they will all give you the runaround and tell you its not their fault and to call the other guys. So unless you are sure you can get a solid internet connection all the time, it might not be worth it. You'll be looking at a lot of buddering, skipping and standard def or worse quality if that's not the case (I have a good ISP and I even encounter these issues sometimes, most likely because of network traffic). TL;DR the quality is ok, I would probably just get DirecTV satellite service over the PS3 version if I could. 2) The value of it depends on where you live and what games are on TV I would think. You're a pack fan, and the pack have a pretty good national following, so they probably have a lot more games on TV than other teams. Unless you are a diehard that wants this to watch so that you can watch redzone/other games you want, I would say the value of it probably wouldn't be too great for you. But if that's why you're getting it, you definitely make your money back by not going out to the bar and spending $30-60 every Sunday. 3) See above. I only get the service because it's my only option to watch the Pats every Sunday at my home base if they aren't on national TV and I don't want to get cleaned up and spend money at the bar. If I could get DirecTV (even though they suck generally) I would probably just opt for that over the PS3. Streaming TV from the internet is just not quite there yet because ISPs have no incentive to make internet speeds consistently fast and will throttle your speeds in order to manage the pipeline. If you have any other questions let me know. But if I were in your shoes from what it sounds like you want it for, I'd say don't pull the trigger.

I've gotten it for two straight years now having lived in a big city. I do believe the other posters are correct in that you won't be able to get it if DirectTV is available in your area (I live in a big city, so it's not possible for me to get it). But I'll answer your questions anyway. 1) HD can be hit or miss on this. The first year games skipped a TON and the quality was quite poor. I even went as far last year to call my credit card company and ask them what sort of protection I could be afforded if the quality was as bad as the year prior. That said it was a lot better last year than the year before. One thing I will say is I think a MAJOR part of it is out of your control. You need pretty good download speeds from your ISP to keep the quality good, but in all honesty, you don't really have any control over that. I switched to a realitvely good ISP because I was on the highest tier plan for DL speeds with a crappy ISP and I was getting crap quality on Sunday Ticket. And when you call any three of the companies to complain (Sony, DirectTV, the ISP) they will all give you the runaround and tell you its not their fault and to call the other guys. So unless you are sure you can get a solid internet connection all the time, it might not be worth it. You'll be looking at a lot of buddering, skipping and standard def or worse quality if that's not the case (I have a good ISP and I even encounter these issues sometimes, most likely because of network traffic). TL;DR the quality is ok, I would probably just get DirecTV satellite service over the PS3 version if I could. 2) The value of it depends on where you live and what games are on TV I would think. You're a pack fan, and the pack have a pretty good national following, so they probably have a lot more games on TV than other teams. Unless you are a diehard that wants this to watch so that you can watch redzone/other games you want, I would say the value of it probably wouldn't be too great for you. But if that's why you're getting it, you definitely make your money back by not going out to the bar and spending $30-60 every Sunday. 3) See above. I only get the service because it's my only option to watch the Pats every Sunday at my home base if they aren't on national TV and I don't want to get cleaned up and spend money at the bar. If I could get DirecTV (even though they suck generally) I would probably just opt for that over the PS3. Streaming TV from the internet is just not quite there yet because ISPs have no incentive to make internet speeds consistently fast and will throttle your speeds in order to manage the pipeline. If you have any other questions let me know. But if I were in your shoes from what it sounds like you want it for, I'd say don't pull the trigger.

nfl

t5_2qmg3

c9fo5t9

I've gotten it for two straight years now having lived in a big city. I do believe the other posters are correct in that you won't be able to get it if DirectTV is available in your area (I live in a big city, so it's not possible for me to get it). But I'll answer your questions anyway. 1) HD can be hit or miss on this. The first year games skipped a TON and the quality was quite poor. I even went as far last year to call my credit card company and ask them what sort of protection I could be afforded if the quality was as bad as the year prior. That said it was a lot better last year than the year before. One thing I will say is I think a MAJOR part of it is out of your control. You need pretty good download speeds from your ISP to keep the quality good, but in all honesty, you don't really have any control over that. I switched to a realitvely good ISP because I was on the highest tier plan for DL speeds with a crappy ISP and I was getting crap quality on Sunday Ticket. And when you call any three of the companies to complain (Sony, DirectTV, the ISP) they will all give you the runaround and tell you its not their fault and to call the other guys. So unless you are sure you can get a solid internet connection all the time, it might not be worth it. You'll be looking at a lot of buddering, skipping and standard def or worse quality if that's not the case (I have a good ISP and I even encounter these issues sometimes, most likely because of network traffic).

the quality is ok, I would probably just get DirecTV satellite service over the PS3 version if I could. 2) The value of it depends on where you live and what games are on TV I would think. You're a pack fan, and the pack have a pretty good national following, so they probably have a lot more games on TV than other teams. Unless you are a diehard that wants this to watch so that you can watch redzone/other games you want, I would say the value of it probably wouldn't be too great for you. But if that's why you're getting it, you definitely make your money back by not going out to the bar and spending $30-60 every Sunday. 3) See above. I only get the service because it's my only option to watch the Pats every Sunday at my home base if they aren't on national TV and I don't want to get cleaned up and spend money at the bar. If I could get DirecTV (even though they suck generally) I would probably just opt for that over the PS3. Streaming TV from the internet is just not quite there yet because ISPs have no incentive to make internet speeds consistently fast and will throttle your speeds in order to manage the pipeline. If you have any other questions let me know. But if I were in your shoes from what it sounds like you want it for, I'd say don't pull the trigger.

ThisUnitHasASoul

"Adapting" is a much more objective approach than "being oneself" would be. As a person like OP, when I socialize with others I'll likely feel apathetic about everything they have to say, but I'll mimic enthusiasm/ interest/disdain/etc. to you know, fit in or whatever. Now I know everybody does this to an extent, but in my experience it has gotten to a point that I do this with everyone all the time, even my family. I'm well liked amongst many different cliques and social groups, but I don't feel close to anyone really. Every interest that I've developed over the years has been tailored to impress others, every mannerism artificial and changeable. Being a good liar really helps this too. tl;dr It's kind of like being an actor. You play along and do your part, but in the end you know it's all fake and entertainment for others. People think they "know" you because they've seen you perform, but **you** don't even know you— you just want to put on a good show and get good reviews. Edit: On the plus side I'm a pretty great gift-giver

"Adapting" is a much more objective approach than "being oneself" would be. As a person like OP, when I socialize with others I'll likely feel apathetic about everything they have to say, but I'll mimic enthusiasm/ interest/disdain/etc. to you know, fit in or whatever. Now I know everybody does this to an extent, but in my experience it has gotten to a point that I do this with everyone all the time, even my family. I'm well liked amongst many different cliques and social groups, but I don't feel close to anyone really. Every interest that I've developed over the years has been tailored to impress others, every mannerism artificial and changeable. Being a good liar really helps this too. tl;dr It's kind of like being an actor. You play along and do your part, but in the end you know it's all fake and entertainment for others. People think they "know" you because they've seen you perform, but you don't even know you— you just want to put on a good show and get good reviews. Edit: On the plus side I'm a pretty great gift-giver

AdviceAnimals

t5_2s7tt

c9fu0qr

Adapting" is a much more objective approach than "being oneself" would be. As a person like OP, when I socialize with others I'll likely feel apathetic about everything they have to say, but I'll mimic enthusiasm/ interest/disdain/etc. to you know, fit in or whatever. Now I know everybody does this to an extent, but in my experience it has gotten to a point that I do this with everyone all the time, even my family. I'm well liked amongst many different cliques and social groups, but I don't feel close to anyone really. Every interest that I've developed over the years has been tailored to impress others, every mannerism artificial and changeable. Being a good liar really helps this too.

It's kind of like being an actor. You play along and do your part, but in the end you know it's all fake and entertainment for others. People think they "know" you because they've seen you perform, but you don't even know you— you just want to put on a good show and get good reviews. Edit: On the plus side I'm a pretty great gift-giver

Skybombardier

It's extremely hard to "be yourself" in situations and social groups that don't engage you. You may notice that the people who are extremely loud and obnoxious seem to have everyone flock to them, but it's mainly because they are basically throwing their arms in the air, exposing their personality to anyone willing to listen. It gives most people the sort of ice breaker he/she needs to find someone to gravitate to: loud person (lets call this person Bill for simplicity's sake) Bill appreciates quiet person Sue (again, only for simplicity) because Sue is willing to listen and empathize with Bill; Sue appreciates Bill because Bill fills the void, makes the jokes laughs when Sue makes the occasional joke and is generally good company. While this works, if Bill stays this goofball who keeps the spotlight firmly on himself and doesn't try to engage with Sue, then Sue will develop this hollow feeling because Bill is not letting her express herself and it will seem like any remark Bill says, Sue agrees with because Sue won't be showing any form of expression aside from embarrassment. In the meantime, Sue cannot simply leave Bill to engage her because that is forcing Bill to combat a problem that is not being brought to his attention, denying this makes it worse three-fold AT MINIMUM. Wallflowers must voice their opinion as well, for complaining that no one engages them simply begs the question why they haven't engaged others: the answers will be strikingly similar. This example happens in many different aspects, even family. A way to combat this tense nature: Sue invites Bill to things roughly as often as Bill invites Sue. By making Bill the guest and Sue the host, it gives Sue this established presence that she is the host, which welcomes Bill into her life, it gives Bill a chance to meet on Sue's terms instead of vice versa. Tl;Dr: by trying to get your friends to understand you more, you will learn about yourself more. Some friends will come, some will go, the process takes time and dedication, but don't down yourself I'm doubt and self-criticism

It's extremely hard to "be yourself" in situations and social groups that don't engage you. You may notice that the people who are extremely loud and obnoxious seem to have everyone flock to them, but it's mainly because they are basically throwing their arms in the air, exposing their personality to anyone willing to listen. It gives most people the sort of ice breaker he/she needs to find someone to gravitate to: loud person (lets call this person Bill for simplicity's sake) Bill appreciates quiet person Sue (again, only for simplicity) because Sue is willing to listen and empathize with Bill; Sue appreciates Bill because Bill fills the void, makes the jokes laughs when Sue makes the occasional joke and is generally good company. While this works, if Bill stays this goofball who keeps the spotlight firmly on himself and doesn't try to engage with Sue, then Sue will develop this hollow feeling because Bill is not letting her express herself and it will seem like any remark Bill says, Sue agrees with because Sue won't be showing any form of expression aside from embarrassment. In the meantime, Sue cannot simply leave Bill to engage her because that is forcing Bill to combat a problem that is not being brought to his attention, denying this makes it worse three-fold AT MINIMUM. Wallflowers must voice their opinion as well, for complaining that no one engages them simply begs the question why they haven't engaged others: the answers will be strikingly similar. This example happens in many different aspects, even family. A way to combat this tense nature: Sue invites Bill to things roughly as often as Bill invites Sue. By making Bill the guest and Sue the host, it gives Sue this established presence that she is the host, which welcomes Bill into her life, it gives Bill a chance to meet on Sue's terms instead of vice versa. Tl;Dr: by trying to get your friends to understand you more, you will learn about yourself more. Some friends will come, some will go, the process takes time and dedication, but don't down yourself I'm doubt and self-criticism

AdviceAnimals

t5_2s7tt

c9fuu99

It's extremely hard to "be yourself" in situations and social groups that don't engage you. You may notice that the people who are extremely loud and obnoxious seem to have everyone flock to them, but it's mainly because they are basically throwing their arms in the air, exposing their personality to anyone willing to listen. It gives most people the sort of ice breaker he/she needs to find someone to gravitate to: loud person (lets call this person Bill for simplicity's sake) Bill appreciates quiet person Sue (again, only for simplicity) because Sue is willing to listen and empathize with Bill; Sue appreciates Bill because Bill fills the void, makes the jokes laughs when Sue makes the occasional joke and is generally good company. While this works, if Bill stays this goofball who keeps the spotlight firmly on himself and doesn't try to engage with Sue, then Sue will develop this hollow feeling because Bill is not letting her express herself and it will seem like any remark Bill says, Sue agrees with because Sue won't be showing any form of expression aside from embarrassment. In the meantime, Sue cannot simply leave Bill to engage her because that is forcing Bill to combat a problem that is not being brought to his attention, denying this makes it worse three-fold AT MINIMUM. Wallflowers must voice their opinion as well, for complaining that no one engages them simply begs the question why they haven't engaged others: the answers will be strikingly similar. This example happens in many different aspects, even family. A way to combat this tense nature: Sue invites Bill to things roughly as often as Bill invites Sue. By making Bill the guest and Sue the host, it gives Sue this established presence that she is the host, which welcomes Bill into her life, it gives Bill a chance to meet on Sue's terms instead of vice versa.

by trying to get your friends to understand you more, you will learn about yourself more. Some friends will come, some will go, the process takes time and dedication, but don't down yourself I'm doubt and self-criticism

scamperly

Amazing. I had that epiphany in High School. Now, I put myself first. I have to like myself, and don't compromise on that. It means I lose a lot of friends, but the ones who stay are great. I like "nerdy" things and embrace it. I'm a pseudo-intellectual. I enjoy mental math. I like cars, a lot. There are things I don't know, and that's okay. It can be a problem though when I do things to entertain myself in public (like dancing when I'm bored) and my girlfriend is mortified because to her, social acceptance is *everything*, but to me, I don't care. If moving like a goof makes me happy, I'll do it. And that's why I don't get dragged out shopping anymore. TLDR: If you dance in the clothing store your gf won't take you shopping anymore.

Amazing. I had that epiphany in High School. Now, I put myself first. I have to like myself, and don't compromise on that. It means I lose a lot of friends, but the ones who stay are great. I like "nerdy" things and embrace it. I'm a pseudo-intellectual. I enjoy mental math. I like cars, a lot. There are things I don't know, and that's okay. It can be a problem though when I do things to entertain myself in public (like dancing when I'm bored) and my girlfriend is mortified because to her, social acceptance is everything , but to me, I don't care. If moving like a goof makes me happy, I'll do it. And that's why I don't get dragged out shopping anymore. TLDR: If you dance in the clothing store your gf won't take you shopping anymore.

AdviceAnimals

t5_2s7tt

c9fxfdr

Amazing. I had that epiphany in High School. Now, I put myself first. I have to like myself, and don't compromise on that. It means I lose a lot of friends, but the ones who stay are great. I like "nerdy" things and embrace it. I'm a pseudo-intellectual. I enjoy mental math. I like cars, a lot. There are things I don't know, and that's okay. It can be a problem though when I do things to entertain myself in public (like dancing when I'm bored) and my girlfriend is mortified because to her, social acceptance is everything , but to me, I don't care. If moving like a goof makes me happy, I'll do it. And that's why I don't get dragged out shopping anymore.

If you dance in the clothing store your gf won't take you shopping anymore.

sombrereptile

I'd definitely suggest going for an SSD. After finally getting one, my 15-20 second boot up times are just so damn nice. Put a few commonly used programs on there like Word, etc and you'll be a happy camper. Even a 64GB SSD will be well worth it, since you only really need room for your OS. Get a 500GB/1TB HDD and you should be set. Plus, it's one of the easiest things in the world to add a hard drive at a later point in time. tl:dr: Get an SSD.

I'd definitely suggest going for an SSD. After finally getting one, my 15-20 second boot up times are just so damn nice. Put a few commonly used programs on there like Word, etc and you'll be a happy camper. Even a 64GB SSD will be well worth it, since you only really need room for your OS. Get a 500GB/1TB HDD and you should be set. Plus, it's one of the easiest things in the world to add a hard drive at a later point in time. tl:dr: Get an SSD.

buildapc

t5_2rnve

c9fxpgt

I'd definitely suggest going for an SSD. After finally getting one, my 15-20 second boot up times are just so damn nice. Put a few commonly used programs on there like Word, etc and you'll be a happy camper. Even a 64GB SSD will be well worth it, since you only really need room for your OS. Get a 500GB/1TB HDD and you should be set. Plus, it's one of the easiest things in the world to add a hard drive at a later point in time.

Get an SSD.

Positively_Cynical

I've been playing since day one and have done some coding for the server as well. When you're not in a round that has some greifing players you are in a round that has griefing / bad admins; healing self during traitor rounds so they can grief despite failed ability to actually play, spawning as Space Ninja's to kill all the station crew, "story rounds" consisting of adminspawn explosions. Medium RP = Metagame via VoIP, I understand it happens and is unavoidable, but I've had two or three characters in-game actually roleplay with me for something longer than "Medical i need halp." Every Traitor must be *ROBUST*, no room for creativity, Wizards must have disintegrate and Traitors must have e-sword, or you get the whack from the admin because the round is taking longer than 25 minutes. Host has near no knowledge of how the game works, how NTSL functions or even half of what /TG/station comes with. &gt;How do you know I've been a Game Master Rank admin on the server since I did coding on day one to fix the game so it would work with low player numbers and to fix the LAG. **tl;dr** If you're up for Admin Cuban Pete every round, then this is the station for you, otherwise, its best to look elsewhere. I'd rather play on /vg/ with BurnZEZ running the show than on this station.

I've been playing since day one and have done some coding for the server as well. When you're not in a round that has some greifing players you are in a round that has griefing / bad admins; healing self during traitor rounds so they can grief despite failed ability to actually play, spawning as Space Ninja's to kill all the station crew, "story rounds" consisting of adminspawn explosions. Medium RP = Metagame via VoIP, I understand it happens and is unavoidable, but I've had two or three characters in-game actually roleplay with me for something longer than "Medical i need halp." Every Traitor must be ROBUST , no room for creativity, Wizards must have disintegrate and Traitors must have e-sword, or you get the whack from the admin because the round is taking longer than 25 minutes. Host has near no knowledge of how the game works, how NTSL functions or even half of what /TG/station comes with. >How do you know I've been a Game Master Rank admin on the server since I did coding on day one to fix the game so it would work with low player numbers and to fix the LAG. tl;dr If you're up for Admin Cuban Pete every round, then this is the station for you, otherwise, its best to look elsewhere. I'd rather play on /vg/ with BurnZEZ running the show than on this station.

SS13

t5_2s9yk

c9irrh5

I've been playing since day one and have done some coding for the server as well. When you're not in a round that has some greifing players you are in a round that has griefing / bad admins; healing self during traitor rounds so they can grief despite failed ability to actually play, spawning as Space Ninja's to kill all the station crew, "story rounds" consisting of adminspawn explosions. Medium RP = Metagame via VoIP, I understand it happens and is unavoidable, but I've had two or three characters in-game actually roleplay with me for something longer than "Medical i need halp." Every Traitor must be ROBUST , no room for creativity, Wizards must have disintegrate and Traitors must have e-sword, or you get the whack from the admin because the round is taking longer than 25 minutes. Host has near no knowledge of how the game works, how NTSL functions or even half of what /TG/station comes with. >How do you know I've been a Game Master Rank admin on the server since I did coding on day one to fix the game so it would work with low player numbers and to fix the LAG.

If you're up for Admin Cuban Pete every round, then this is the station for you, otherwise, its best to look elsewhere. I'd rather play on /vg/ with BurnZEZ running the show than on this station.

EVILGR33NRNGR

My ex had a friend over who was clicking with my brother so despite him not wanting to really party that night he said fuck it and was the DD so we could barhop.By the time we got to the last bar my ex was trashed like killing our collective buzzes cuz we had to keep taking drinks/shots away from her trashed. When it became clear we needed to just gtfo of bars, it was time to go home but she wasn't feeling that. So we're in the parking lot arguing about how she needs to sleep it off or just chill and stop drinking for awhile and the bouncer rolls up like wtf???? My brother, saint he is, runs interference with the bouncer and tries to explain the situation. Well after awhile that's not good enough and he's like fuck it I'm calling the cops if you don't get this shit under control. My bro pulls me aside and gives me the 4/11, and as I said after the last incident I was ready to dump her so with this news I'm like okay I got this. I tell the other girl what's up when she comes out looking for us and we try to get her to calm my ex down so we can dip. Mind you I was already on the edge of dumping said ex so I talk to her friend who I was also friends with and she agrees to get my ex home safe. With that I'm like broseph let's roll. So we go back to my place and bro out with some video games and the odd beers I had in the fridge. Half hour or so later there's a pounding on my apt. windows and I mean ALL of them, waking up my roommate who had to work in a couple hours and was quite pissed. I go talk to my ex against my better judgment and she calms down so like a retard I let her in. She heads directly to my room then starts screaming for me. I go see what she wants and she's basically too shit faced to find the dvd she wants to watch. I find it for her, help her back into bed and even take a bit to stroke her hair, comfort her all that before I go apologize to my brother for leaving him sitting with a pause screen. Not even 15 minutes later she comes stomping out shouting about how I've been ignoring her all night and again wakes up my roomie. Not happy with that she knocks over our beers n shit on the living room table. I get up like WTF JUST GO TO BED! to which she replies with something like YOU CAN'T FUCKIN TELL ME WHAT TO DO and just starts swinging on me. My roomie hears the commotion and comes out LIVID. Ex diverts her attention and charges after my roomie, CAT FIGHT ENSUES ....yay....so my brother and I break them up and I drag her out in a full nelson. At this point my brother is like dude I'm out call me tmw and rolls out. While I've still got my ex gripped up, I have my roomie get her shit from my room. Out of ideas I have roomie call ex's mom to pick her up. Ex mom finally shows up and I basically just push her ass out the security door to my apt and never spoke to her again. Til this day she still tries to get ahold of me despite the fact I've never taken the bait. Tl;Dr- If you stick your dick in crazy, you're gonna have a bad time.

My ex had a friend over who was clicking with my brother so despite him not wanting to really party that night he said fuck it and was the DD so we could barhop.By the time we got to the last bar my ex was trashed like killing our collective buzzes cuz we had to keep taking drinks/shots away from her trashed. When it became clear we needed to just gtfo of bars, it was time to go home but she wasn't feeling that. So we're in the parking lot arguing about how she needs to sleep it off or just chill and stop drinking for awhile and the bouncer rolls up like wtf???? My brother, saint he is, runs interference with the bouncer and tries to explain the situation. Well after awhile that's not good enough and he's like fuck it I'm calling the cops if you don't get this shit under control. My bro pulls me aside and gives me the 4/11, and as I said after the last incident I was ready to dump her so with this news I'm like okay I got this. I tell the other girl what's up when she comes out looking for us and we try to get her to calm my ex down so we can dip. Mind you I was already on the edge of dumping said ex so I talk to her friend who I was also friends with and she agrees to get my ex home safe. With that I'm like broseph let's roll. So we go back to my place and bro out with some video games and the odd beers I had in the fridge. Half hour or so later there's a pounding on my apt. windows and I mean ALL of them, waking up my roommate who had to work in a couple hours and was quite pissed. I go talk to my ex against my better judgment and she calms down so like a retard I let her in. She heads directly to my room then starts screaming for me. I go see what she wants and she's basically too shit faced to find the dvd she wants to watch. I find it for her, help her back into bed and even take a bit to stroke her hair, comfort her all that before I go apologize to my brother for leaving him sitting with a pause screen. Not even 15 minutes later she comes stomping out shouting about how I've been ignoring her all night and again wakes up my roomie. Not happy with that she knocks over our beers n shit on the living room table. I get up like WTF JUST GO TO BED! to which she replies with something like YOU CAN'T FUCKIN TELL ME WHAT TO DO and just starts swinging on me. My roomie hears the commotion and comes out LIVID. Ex diverts her attention and charges after my roomie, CAT FIGHT ENSUES ....yay....so my brother and I break them up and I drag her out in a full nelson. At this point my brother is like dude I'm out call me tmw and rolls out. While I've still got my ex gripped up, I have my roomie get her shit from my room. Out of ideas I have roomie call ex's mom to pick her up. Ex mom finally shows up and I basically just push her ass out the security door to my apt and never spoke to her again. Til this day she still tries to get ahold of me despite the fact I've never taken the bait. Tl;Dr- If you stick your dick in crazy, you're gonna have a bad time.

AskMen

t5_2s30g

c9hmj2x

My ex had a friend over who was clicking with my brother so despite him not wanting to really party that night he said fuck it and was the DD so we could barhop.By the time we got to the last bar my ex was trashed like killing our collective buzzes cuz we had to keep taking drinks/shots away from her trashed. When it became clear we needed to just gtfo of bars, it was time to go home but she wasn't feeling that. So we're in the parking lot arguing about how she needs to sleep it off or just chill and stop drinking for awhile and the bouncer rolls up like wtf???? My brother, saint he is, runs interference with the bouncer and tries to explain the situation. Well after awhile that's not good enough and he's like fuck it I'm calling the cops if you don't get this shit under control. My bro pulls me aside and gives me the 4/11, and as I said after the last incident I was ready to dump her so with this news I'm like okay I got this. I tell the other girl what's up when she comes out looking for us and we try to get her to calm my ex down so we can dip. Mind you I was already on the edge of dumping said ex so I talk to her friend who I was also friends with and she agrees to get my ex home safe. With that I'm like broseph let's roll. So we go back to my place and bro out with some video games and the odd beers I had in the fridge. Half hour or so later there's a pounding on my apt. windows and I mean ALL of them, waking up my roommate who had to work in a couple hours and was quite pissed. I go talk to my ex against my better judgment and she calms down so like a retard I let her in. She heads directly to my room then starts screaming for me. I go see what she wants and she's basically too shit faced to find the dvd she wants to watch. I find it for her, help her back into bed and even take a bit to stroke her hair, comfort her all that before I go apologize to my brother for leaving him sitting with a pause screen. Not even 15 minutes later she comes stomping out shouting about how I've been ignoring her all night and again wakes up my roomie. Not happy with that she knocks over our beers n shit on the living room table. I get up like WTF JUST GO TO BED! to which she replies with something like YOU CAN'T FUCKIN TELL ME WHAT TO DO and just starts swinging on me. My roomie hears the commotion and comes out LIVID. Ex diverts her attention and charges after my roomie, CAT FIGHT ENSUES ....yay....so my brother and I break them up and I drag her out in a full nelson. At this point my brother is like dude I'm out call me tmw and rolls out. While I've still got my ex gripped up, I have my roomie get her shit from my room. Out of ideas I have roomie call ex's mom to pick her up. Ex mom finally shows up and I basically just push her ass out the security door to my apt and never spoke to her again. Til this day she still tries to get ahold of me despite the fact I've never taken the bait.

If you stick your dick in crazy, you're gonna have a bad time.

hayhayai

I'm in a similar situation (pain and age wise). While treatment is very personal, as in case by case, I was told by a back surgeon that doing the fusion surgery on my discs would "give back surgery a bad name". I've been doing things like physical therapy and regular exercising/stretches, steroid injections near the disc and in the SI joints, and meds (one in particular to help me sleep better). Anway TLDR: go see a specialist, mean granpa's know best.

I'm in a similar situation (pain and age wise). While treatment is very personal, as in case by case, I was told by a back surgeon that doing the fusion surgery on my discs would "give back surgery a bad name". I've been doing things like physical therapy and regular exercising/stretches, steroid injections near the disc and in the SI joints, and meds (one in particular to help me sleep better). Anway TLDR: go see a specialist, mean granpa's know best.

ChronicPain

t5_2rdpj

c9gp9t8

I'm in a similar situation (pain and age wise). While treatment is very personal, as in case by case, I was told by a back surgeon that doing the fusion surgery on my discs would "give back surgery a bad name". I've been doing things like physical therapy and regular exercising/stretches, steroid injections near the disc and in the SI joints, and meds (one in particular to help me sleep better). Anway

go see a specialist, mean granpa's know best.

AIDSofSPACE

Soul burn is good for delaying their carry's critical mass. If you and a teammate or two catch an anti-mage alone in the jungle, he's food without blink. However, after he's done farming and grouped up with the rest of his backup, silencing him isn't gonna stop him from right clicking away. By that point, you'll need hex to completely shut him down. Additionally, try to take advantage of the timing before their carries farm up BKB or manta, after which soul burn will only be effective on the other casters on their team. **tl;dr** **orchid to shut down casts, scythe to shut down physical attacks.** **orchid for mid game ganks, scythe for late game team fights.**

Soul burn is good for delaying their carry's critical mass. If you and a teammate or two catch an anti-mage alone in the jungle, he's food without blink. However, after he's done farming and grouped up with the rest of his backup, silencing him isn't gonna stop him from right clicking away. By that point, you'll need hex to completely shut him down. Additionally, try to take advantage of the timing before their carries farm up BKB or manta, after which soul burn will only be effective on the other casters on their team. tl;dr orchid to shut down casts, scythe to shut down physical attacks. orchid for mid game ganks, scythe for late game team fights.

DotA2

t5_2s580

c9gfte3

Soul burn is good for delaying their carry's critical mass. If you and a teammate or two catch an anti-mage alone in the jungle, he's food without blink. However, after he's done farming and grouped up with the rest of his backup, silencing him isn't gonna stop him from right clicking away. By that point, you'll need hex to completely shut him down. Additionally, try to take advantage of the timing before their carries farm up BKB or manta, after which soul burn will only be effective on the other casters on their team.

orchid to shut down casts, scythe to shut down physical attacks. orchid for mid game ganks, scythe for late game team fights.

OdinToelust

Everything in dota depends on the situation. You need to decide for yourself which will be more effective. This will depend on a number of different factors: how long will it take to farm, what does the team need from me during the farm up time, what's the enemy composition. Because of the way bloodstone works the best time to get it is right before you are going to be involved in a lot of ganks/kills and can survive. Therefore you may need to get an orchid before Bloodstone both to secure kills and survive. The main thing to remember about Bloodstone is that it doesn't really do anything for you to help secure a kill, but will allow you to continue your killing. So if you can kill and survive w/o an orchid then get a bloodstone. If you get your orchid and are still in danger of getting killed then focus on sheepstick or bkb edit: TL;DR get a bloodstone if you can start your snowball once its complete. If you aren't confident that you can/will snowball get a sheepstick.

Everything in dota depends on the situation. You need to decide for yourself which will be more effective. This will depend on a number of different factors: how long will it take to farm, what does the team need from me during the farm up time, what's the enemy composition. Because of the way bloodstone works the best time to get it is right before you are going to be involved in a lot of ganks/kills and can survive. Therefore you may need to get an orchid before Bloodstone both to secure kills and survive. The main thing to remember about Bloodstone is that it doesn't really do anything for you to help secure a kill, but will allow you to continue your killing. So if you can kill and survive w/o an orchid then get a bloodstone. If you get your orchid and are still in danger of getting killed then focus on sheepstick or bkb edit: TL;DR get a bloodstone if you can start your snowball once its complete. If you aren't confident that you can/will snowball get a sheepstick.

DotA2

t5_2s580

c9gel1u

Everything in dota depends on the situation. You need to decide for yourself which will be more effective. This will depend on a number of different factors: how long will it take to farm, what does the team need from me during the farm up time, what's the enemy composition. Because of the way bloodstone works the best time to get it is right before you are going to be involved in a lot of ganks/kills and can survive. Therefore you may need to get an orchid before Bloodstone both to secure kills and survive. The main thing to remember about Bloodstone is that it doesn't really do anything for you to help secure a kill, but will allow you to continue your killing. So if you can kill and survive w/o an orchid then get a bloodstone. If you get your orchid and are still in danger of getting killed then focus on sheepstick or bkb edit:

get a bloodstone if you can start your snowball once its complete. If you aren't confident that you can/will snowball get a sheepstick.

cody_au

For some environments, absolutely. But working on SQL Server, .NET, and PowerShell, whenever I have tried to keep lines artificially short and to a limit it has pretty much ended in a visual and mental disaster. 1920x1080 shows roughly 240 odd characters in Notepad. You get substantially less in Visual Studio or Management Studio due to tool bars; probably about the 160 mark. In our environment nobody will ever need to look at code in a console. Does that mean every line you code is 160 characters wide? No. Does that mean you must right justify your code to 160 characters with spaces like a book? No. Does that mean you would even ever have to write 160 character lines often (excluding whitespace)? No. But if it looks right to you given the situation, then bloody well do it. Luddites in other languages want you to work at their stone-age console resolution of 80x24. Meanwhile they are the same ones responsible for dense and incomprehensible code that uses single character name variables like a, b, c, and the venerable i. Any modern code often goes a half dozen levels deep or more of pure whitespace: a namespace, a class, a function, a few comparisons and loops combined with descriptive class and field names (10+ characters each of a.b = c.d + e.f). If you follow their rules you will be splitting up the most basic of lines and for nothing. Heaven help if you felt the desire to add a line-specific comment at the end without breaking up the flow. tl;dr I think it depends on your environment but many others just want 80x24 forever no matter what. Those people are relics, and one day they'll all be dead, at which time the rest of the world can move on.

For some environments, absolutely. But working on SQL Server, .NET, and PowerShell, whenever I have tried to keep lines artificially short and to a limit it has pretty much ended in a visual and mental disaster. 1920x1080 shows roughly 240 odd characters in Notepad. You get substantially less in Visual Studio or Management Studio due to tool bars; probably about the 160 mark. In our environment nobody will ever need to look at code in a console. Does that mean every line you code is 160 characters wide? No. Does that mean you must right justify your code to 160 characters with spaces like a book? No. Does that mean you would even ever have to write 160 character lines often (excluding whitespace)? No. But if it looks right to you given the situation, then bloody well do it. Luddites in other languages want you to work at their stone-age console resolution of 80x24. Meanwhile they are the same ones responsible for dense and incomprehensible code that uses single character name variables like a, b, c, and the venerable i. Any modern code often goes a half dozen levels deep or more of pure whitespace: a namespace, a class, a function, a few comparisons and loops combined with descriptive class and field names (10+ characters each of a.b = c.d + e.f). If you follow their rules you will be splitting up the most basic of lines and for nothing. Heaven help if you felt the desire to add a line-specific comment at the end without breaking up the flow. tl;dr I think it depends on your environment but many others just want 80x24 forever no matter what. Those people are relics, and one day they'll all be dead, at which time the rest of the world can move on.

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For some environments, absolutely. But working on SQL Server, .NET, and PowerShell, whenever I have tried to keep lines artificially short and to a limit it has pretty much ended in a visual and mental disaster. 1920x1080 shows roughly 240 odd characters in Notepad. You get substantially less in Visual Studio or Management Studio due to tool bars; probably about the 160 mark. In our environment nobody will ever need to look at code in a console. Does that mean every line you code is 160 characters wide? No. Does that mean you must right justify your code to 160 characters with spaces like a book? No. Does that mean you would even ever have to write 160 character lines often (excluding whitespace)? No. But if it looks right to you given the situation, then bloody well do it. Luddites in other languages want you to work at their stone-age console resolution of 80x24. Meanwhile they are the same ones responsible for dense and incomprehensible code that uses single character name variables like a, b, c, and the venerable i. Any modern code often goes a half dozen levels deep or more of pure whitespace: a namespace, a class, a function, a few comparisons and loops combined with descriptive class and field names (10+ characters each of a.b = c.d + e.f). If you follow their rules you will be splitting up the most basic of lines and for nothing. Heaven help if you felt the desire to add a line-specific comment at the end without breaking up the flow.

I think it depends on your environment but many others just want 80x24 forever no matter what. Those people are relics, and one day they'll all be dead, at which time the rest of the world can move on.

tjgrant

Interesting example you provide, and funny, I have a similar set of vector operator overloaders like that. Here's what I'll say though-- Google coding standard covers a **lot** of things, some (like using underscores at the end of member names) I think is simply abhorrent. The 80-column thing, years ago, I'd say, sure, try to stay as minimum as possible, below 80-- but sometimes you can't help it. Heck even your function / method prototypes in C++ alone can be bigger than 80 cols. Here's a copy paste from mine, and it's just the prototype, and it's over 80 cols: // Generate common transformation matrices tVector3&lt;T&gt; project(const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;model, const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;proj, const tVector4&lt;T&gt; &amp;viewport) const; tVector3&lt;T&gt; unProject(const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;model, const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;proj, const tVector4&lt;T&gt; &amp;viewport) const; And last point, something I noticed with my own stuff-- you'll actually very rarely have a situation like you pasted, where you have tons of one-line operator overloads for a class. You'll have that for your fundamental math stuff, sure, maybe some other templated classes, but that's about it. The majority of my application (and a lot of my class library) code isn't "unreadable" or repetitive like that, but yeah, some is. It's okay though. Heck, even some of it is &gt; 80 cols, but I run at 1920x1080, Droid Sans Mono @ 12pt Mac / 10pt Win, and it's still readable and doesn't wrap. tl;dr - I'd say try to keep your code as low in columns as possible, but don't sweat it if it happens occasionally. I like Google's style guide (really), but I don't follow it all, and it's too strict in some places. Also, Google (probably) hundreds of people pulling and patching to the same code base. So just consider that.

Interesting example you provide, and funny, I have a similar set of vector operator overloaders like that. Here's what I'll say though-- Google coding standard covers a lot of things, some (like using underscores at the end of member names) I think is simply abhorrent. The 80-column thing, years ago, I'd say, sure, try to stay as minimum as possible, below 80-- but sometimes you can't help it. Heck even your function / method prototypes in C++ alone can be bigger than 80 cols. Here's a copy paste from mine, and it's just the prototype, and it's over 80 cols: // Generate common transformation matrices tVector3&lt;T&gt; project(const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;model, const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;proj, const tVector4&lt;T&gt; &amp;viewport) const; tVector3&lt;T&gt; unProject(const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;model, const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;proj, const tVector4&lt;T&gt; &amp;viewport) const; And last point, something I noticed with my own stuff-- you'll actually very rarely have a situation like you pasted, where you have tons of one-line operator overloads for a class. You'll have that for your fundamental math stuff, sure, maybe some other templated classes, but that's about it. The majority of my application (and a lot of my class library) code isn't "unreadable" or repetitive like that, but yeah, some is. It's okay though. Heck, even some of it is > 80 cols, but I run at 1920x1080, Droid Sans Mono @ 12pt Mac / 10pt Win, and it's still readable and doesn't wrap. tl;dr - I'd say try to keep your code as low in columns as possible, but don't sweat it if it happens occasionally. I like Google's style guide (really), but I don't follow it all, and it's too strict in some places. Also, Google (probably) hundreds of people pulling and patching to the same code base. So just consider that.

readablecode

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Interesting example you provide, and funny, I have a similar set of vector operator overloaders like that. Here's what I'll say though-- Google coding standard covers a lot of things, some (like using underscores at the end of member names) I think is simply abhorrent. The 80-column thing, years ago, I'd say, sure, try to stay as minimum as possible, below 80-- but sometimes you can't help it. Heck even your function / method prototypes in C++ alone can be bigger than 80 cols. Here's a copy paste from mine, and it's just the prototype, and it's over 80 cols: // Generate common transformation matrices tVector3&lt;T&gt; project(const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;model, const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;proj, const tVector4&lt;T&gt; &amp;viewport) const; tVector3&lt;T&gt; unProject(const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;model, const tMatrix4x4&lt;T&gt; &amp;proj, const tVector4&lt;T&gt; &amp;viewport) const; And last point, something I noticed with my own stuff-- you'll actually very rarely have a situation like you pasted, where you have tons of one-line operator overloads for a class. You'll have that for your fundamental math stuff, sure, maybe some other templated classes, but that's about it. The majority of my application (and a lot of my class library) code isn't "unreadable" or repetitive like that, but yeah, some is. It's okay though. Heck, even some of it is > 80 cols, but I run at 1920x1080, Droid Sans Mono @ 12pt Mac / 10pt Win, and it's still readable and doesn't wrap.

I'd say try to keep your code as low in columns as possible, but don't sweat it if it happens occasionally. I like Google's style guide (really), but I don't follow it all, and it's too strict in some places. Also, Google (probably) hundreds of people pulling and patching to the same code base. So just consider that.

Smallville730

On r/movies last night, the new Man of Steel trailer had at least 1,000 more upvotes than Star Trek's new trailer did. When I looked this morning, MoS had been downvoted quite a bit. I wonder if those downvotes are Star Trek or Marvel fanboys. TL;DR - Go upvote the new MoS trailer on r/movies.

On r/movies last night, the new Man of Steel trailer had at least 1,000 more upvotes than Star Trek's new trailer did. When I looked this morning, MoS had been downvoted quite a bit. I wonder if those downvotes are Star Trek or Marvel fanboys. TL;DR - Go upvote the new MoS trailer on r/movies.

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On r/movies last night, the new Man of Steel trailer had at least 1,000 more upvotes than Star Trek's new trailer did. When I looked this morning, MoS had been downvoted quite a bit. I wonder if those downvotes are Star Trek or Marvel fanboys.

Go upvote the new MoS trailer on r/movies.

Teephphah

I'm a guy too, and I agree that you're being a pushy dick. She's dealing with it in her way and on her time table. That's not good enough for you. You're going to ride in on your white horse and FIX IT, by God! And you're going to do so right this very minute! I see this as being at least as much about *your* anger and *your* feeling of helplessness right now than about whatever she's feeling. At least that's how I'm reading it. As a guy, I understand the desire to help, to try to fix, to advise, to coach, to *make it all better*, but right now you need to take a few steps back from your fix-it fixation and just listen to her, be with her, be *there* for her, and let her figure her shit out. tl;dr - Shut up. Listen.

I'm a guy too, and I agree that you're being a pushy dick. She's dealing with it in her way and on her time table. That's not good enough for you. You're going to ride in on your white horse and FIX IT, by God! And you're going to do so right this very minute! I see this as being at least as much about your anger and your feeling of helplessness right now than about whatever she's feeling. At least that's how I'm reading it. As a guy, I understand the desire to help, to try to fix, to advise, to coach, to make it all better , but right now you need to take a few steps back from your fix-it fixation and just listen to her, be with her, be there for her, and let her figure her shit out. tl;dr - Shut up. Listen.

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I'm a guy too, and I agree that you're being a pushy dick. She's dealing with it in her way and on her time table. That's not good enough for you. You're going to ride in on your white horse and FIX IT, by God! And you're going to do so right this very minute! I see this as being at least as much about your anger and your feeling of helplessness right now than about whatever she's feeling. At least that's how I'm reading it. As a guy, I understand the desire to help, to try to fix, to advise, to coach, to make it all better , but right now you need to take a few steps back from your fix-it fixation and just listen to her, be with her, be there for her, and let her figure her shit out.

Shut up. Listen.

Mean_Typhoon

Unless you just prefer Nvidia and/or use CUDA and want PhysX, the [7870 XT]( is a pretty sweet card. It uses a slightly locked down 7900 series GPU, but performs at close to 7950 levels at 1080p for only $235. It also has a bigger memory bus (256-bit vs 192-bit). I have this exact card with a 3570k and it runs everything I throw at it (Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Planetside 2, Black Ops 2) at max settings with around 60FPS. TL;DR: If you're willing to go AMD, the 7870 XT is just as good for less money.

Unless you just prefer Nvidia and/or use CUDA and want PhysX, the 7870 XT . I have this exact card with a 3570k and it runs everything I throw at it (Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Planetside 2, Black Ops 2) at max settings with around 60FPS. TL;DR: If you're willing to go AMD, the 7870 XT is just as good for less money.

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Unless you just prefer Nvidia and/or use CUDA and want PhysX, the 7870 XT . I have this exact card with a 3570k and it runs everything I throw at it (Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Planetside 2, Black Ops 2) at max settings with around 60FPS.

If you're willing to go AMD, the 7870 XT is just as good for less money.

ExtraLucky13

Have two cats. The younger one, Sir Dashal Incredible IV, would be the quiet black kid who has had enough of others messing with his personal space. So one day he gets up in the middle of the cafeteria and walks over to the new jock who transferred in from outta town. The jock is the real popular type, well groomed sandy blonde hair and dig brown eyes. Sir Dash walks by and the jock says something smarmy which stops Sir Dash right in his tracks. Dash stops and without another word decides that now is the best time to strike. And the game is on. Dash lunges at his unwilling opponent. Fist start to fly. First a right hook then a straight left. Dash takes an unphasing uppercut and is unphased. Without breaking a sweat Dash lands blow after blow on his foes previous fabulous face. The crowd decides the jock has had enough. Sir Dash walks away with minor injuries. Two days later the jock must be euthanized at the local hospital **TL;DR My cat beat the shit out of a visiting dog, thus extinguishing it's flame**

Have two cats. The younger one, Sir Dashal Incredible IV, would be the quiet black kid who has had enough of others messing with his personal space. So one day he gets up in the middle of the cafeteria and walks over to the new jock who transferred in from outta town. The jock is the real popular type, well groomed sandy blonde hair and dig brown eyes. Sir Dash walks by and the jock says something smarmy which stops Sir Dash right in his tracks. Dash stops and without another word decides that now is the best time to strike. And the game is on. Dash lunges at his unwilling opponent. Fist start to fly. First a right hook then a straight left. Dash takes an unphasing uppercut and is unphased. Without breaking a sweat Dash lands blow after blow on his foes previous fabulous face. The crowd decides the jock has had enough. Sir Dash walks away with minor injuries. Two days later the jock must be euthanized at the local hospital TL;DR My cat beat the shit out of a visiting dog, thus extinguishing it's flame

AskReddit

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Have two cats. The younger one, Sir Dashal Incredible IV, would be the quiet black kid who has had enough of others messing with his personal space. So one day he gets up in the middle of the cafeteria and walks over to the new jock who transferred in from outta town. The jock is the real popular type, well groomed sandy blonde hair and dig brown eyes. Sir Dash walks by and the jock says something smarmy which stops Sir Dash right in his tracks. Dash stops and without another word decides that now is the best time to strike. And the game is on. Dash lunges at his unwilling opponent. Fist start to fly. First a right hook then a straight left. Dash takes an unphasing uppercut and is unphased. Without breaking a sweat Dash lands blow after blow on his foes previous fabulous face. The crowd decides the jock has had enough. Sir Dash walks away with minor injuries. Two days later the jock must be euthanized at the local hospital

My cat beat the shit out of a visiting dog, thus extinguishing it's flame

Noname_acc

Lets say your grandfather was a in the army. Served some number of years and suffered from PTSD. The two of you were very close. To be clear, you have an emotional investment in your grandfather and his situation. Lets say that he has been dead for a few years now and someone says that your grandfather was a coward. They say he never joined the army and that he was full of shit. That his service and pain wasn't real. Now, you may be the paragon of reason and balance and you've achieved nirvana over 9000 times and you never get upset over anything ever. But a normal person would take offense. A normal person would be upset when they are told someone they were close to was a liar and a fraud. Even if they are certain it isn't true. It is the same situation for OP's aunt. Christianity is probably a really big deal to her. I wouldn't be surprised if she would describe it as one of the supporting pillars of her life. Hell, she may even say that it is top 3 most important things in her life. And, now this is the part that may surprise you, most christians like that aren't the "approach everything in a strictly logical and rational fashion" type. In fact, quite the opposite is generally the case for people who base one of what they consider the most important facets of their life on faith. Is it really surprising that a normal person would be upset if you basically insulted them? Is it surprising at all that the type of person I described would be upset? **TL;DR:** Normal people get upset when you insult them, especially over important aspects of their life.

Lets say your grandfather was a in the army. Served some number of years and suffered from PTSD. The two of you were very close. To be clear, you have an emotional investment in your grandfather and his situation. Lets say that he has been dead for a few years now and someone says that your grandfather was a coward. They say he never joined the army and that he was full of shit. That his service and pain wasn't real. Now, you may be the paragon of reason and balance and you've achieved nirvana over 9000 times and you never get upset over anything ever. But a normal person would take offense. A normal person would be upset when they are told someone they were close to was a liar and a fraud. Even if they are certain it isn't true. It is the same situation for OP's aunt. Christianity is probably a really big deal to her. I wouldn't be surprised if she would describe it as one of the supporting pillars of her life. Hell, she may even say that it is top 3 most important things in her life. And, now this is the part that may surprise you, most christians like that aren't the "approach everything in a strictly logical and rational fashion" type. In fact, quite the opposite is generally the case for people who base one of what they consider the most important facets of their life on faith. Is it really surprising that a normal person would be upset if you basically insulted them? Is it surprising at all that the type of person I described would be upset? TL;DR: Normal people get upset when you insult them, especially over important aspects of their life.

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Lets say your grandfather was a in the army. Served some number of years and suffered from PTSD. The two of you were very close. To be clear, you have an emotional investment in your grandfather and his situation. Lets say that he has been dead for a few years now and someone says that your grandfather was a coward. They say he never joined the army and that he was full of shit. That his service and pain wasn't real. Now, you may be the paragon of reason and balance and you've achieved nirvana over 9000 times and you never get upset over anything ever. But a normal person would take offense. A normal person would be upset when they are told someone they were close to was a liar and a fraud. Even if they are certain it isn't true. It is the same situation for OP's aunt. Christianity is probably a really big deal to her. I wouldn't be surprised if she would describe it as one of the supporting pillars of her life. Hell, she may even say that it is top 3 most important things in her life. And, now this is the part that may surprise you, most christians like that aren't the "approach everything in a strictly logical and rational fashion" type. In fact, quite the opposite is generally the case for people who base one of what they consider the most important facets of their life on faith. Is it really surprising that a normal person would be upset if you basically insulted them? Is it surprising at all that the type of person I described would be upset?

Normal people get upset when you insult them, especially over important aspects of their life.

icamefrom4chan

please explain how one converts to atheism? Some loud atheists might act like assholes....but atheism is NOT a belief system. Dont ever group me in with you just because i dont believe some shit that you dont believe. There is no collective atheism...it is simply a term used to note that you are without belief. TL;DR stop using the word WE. Atheism is a LACK of belief not a set of beliefs.

please explain how one converts to atheism? Some loud atheists might act like assholes....but atheism is NOT a belief system. Dont ever group me in with you just because i dont believe some shit that you dont believe. There is no collective atheism...it is simply a term used to note that you are without belief. TL;DR stop using the word WE. Atheism is a LACK of belief not a set of beliefs.

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please explain how one converts to atheism? Some loud atheists might act like assholes....but atheism is NOT a belief system. Dont ever group me in with you just because i dont believe some shit that you dont believe. There is no collective atheism...it is simply a term used to note that you are without belief.

stop using the word WE. Atheism is a LACK of belief not a set of beliefs.

Roggvir

Well, I clearly can't highlight all paths to do stuff... but tried to explain via map. TL;DR: Red has a very safe offensive position from the keep. Green has no safe camps/routes.

Well, I clearly can't highlight all paths to do stuff... but tried to explain via map. TL;DR: Red has a very safe offensive position from the keep. Green has no safe camps/routes.

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Well, I clearly can't highlight all paths to do stuff... but tried to explain via map.

Red has a very safe offensive position from the keep. Green has no safe camps/routes.

CorvosKK

I love design stuff, especially when it comes to games, so it's very possible that it's more interesting to me than to others. Also, I just wanted to do this since a lot of people are complaining about the graphics, I was curious to see what a merge of the two would look like. I think it's interesting because both MC and ALttP2 are successors to ALttP's design, and they both try to implement that art style into a system with higher specs. Despite this, they two games went in completely opposite directions. The designers made the MC world brighter and more colorful, but they also made it a lot warmer too. I think I remember reading this week that someone was even complaining that MC was too "yellow" in a lot of places. MC also infuses a lot of WW elements, especially in the way of character design. ALttP2 takes this in the opposite direction, and while they try to make the game brighter and more colorful still, they make the overall palette cooler instead. Something else I think is interesting is the overall design approach when you look at this compared to Skyward Sword's art. I've always seen Skyward Sword as an ode to the original games, but now in full 3D. ALttP2 seems to be an ode as well, but taking that even further with the fixed 3D perspective. With that said, it makes sense that ALttP2 would also borrow elements from SS (notice the subtle texture on the grass). **TL;DR I'm lame and probably look into things more than I need to.**

I love design stuff, especially when it comes to games, so it's very possible that it's more interesting to me than to others. Also, I just wanted to do this since a lot of people are complaining about the graphics, I was curious to see what a merge of the two would look like. I think it's interesting because both MC and ALttP2 are successors to ALttP's design, and they both try to implement that art style into a system with higher specs. Despite this, they two games went in completely opposite directions. The designers made the MC world brighter and more colorful, but they also made it a lot warmer too. I think I remember reading this week that someone was even complaining that MC was too "yellow" in a lot of places. MC also infuses a lot of WW elements, especially in the way of character design. ALttP2 takes this in the opposite direction, and while they try to make the game brighter and more colorful still, they make the overall palette cooler instead. Something else I think is interesting is the overall design approach when you look at this compared to Skyward Sword's art. I've always seen Skyward Sword as an ode to the original games, but now in full 3D. ALttP2 seems to be an ode as well, but taking that even further with the fixed 3D perspective. With that said, it makes sense that ALttP2 would also borrow elements from SS (notice the subtle texture on the grass). TL;DR I'm lame and probably look into things more than I need to.

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I love design stuff, especially when it comes to games, so it's very possible that it's more interesting to me than to others. Also, I just wanted to do this since a lot of people are complaining about the graphics, I was curious to see what a merge of the two would look like. I think it's interesting because both MC and ALttP2 are successors to ALttP's design, and they both try to implement that art style into a system with higher specs. Despite this, they two games went in completely opposite directions. The designers made the MC world brighter and more colorful, but they also made it a lot warmer too. I think I remember reading this week that someone was even complaining that MC was too "yellow" in a lot of places. MC also infuses a lot of WW elements, especially in the way of character design. ALttP2 takes this in the opposite direction, and while they try to make the game brighter and more colorful still, they make the overall palette cooler instead. Something else I think is interesting is the overall design approach when you look at this compared to Skyward Sword's art. I've always seen Skyward Sword as an ode to the original games, but now in full 3D. ALttP2 seems to be an ode as well, but taking that even further with the fixed 3D perspective. With that said, it makes sense that ALttP2 would also borrow elements from SS (notice the subtle texture on the grass).

I'm lame and probably look into things more than I need to.

heavy_metal_flautist

It has nothing to do with boobs and everything to do with people being overly PC pussies. It's not just the pictures, I've seen NSFW tag on DISCUSSION threads. If you need to be told when a topic may not be appropriate for work, you will probably do some dumb-fuck move to get yourself fired anyway. The real problem is reddit catering to the politically correct, easily offended culture. I am so goddamn tired of hearing how offensive something is, or how offended a group of people are; get right the fuck over it and move on and keep your bullshit to yourself. Being offended doesn't entitle you to anything and you should be treated like a whiny child since you are acting like one. TL;DR Fuck politically correct bullshit, fuck the ~~easily~~ offended.

It has nothing to do with boobs and everything to do with people being overly PC pussies. It's not just the pictures, I've seen NSFW tag on DISCUSSION threads. If you need to be told when a topic may not be appropriate for work, you will probably do some dumb-fuck move to get yourself fired anyway. The real problem is reddit catering to the politically correct, easily offended culture. I am so goddamn tired of hearing how offensive something is, or how offended a group of people are; get right the fuck over it and move on and keep your bullshit to yourself. Being offended doesn't entitle you to anything and you should be treated like a whiny child since you are acting like one. TL;DR Fuck politically correct bullshit, fuck the easily offended.

AdviceAnimals

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It has nothing to do with boobs and everything to do with people being overly PC pussies. It's not just the pictures, I've seen NSFW tag on DISCUSSION threads. If you need to be told when a topic may not be appropriate for work, you will probably do some dumb-fuck move to get yourself fired anyway. The real problem is reddit catering to the politically correct, easily offended culture. I am so goddamn tired of hearing how offensive something is, or how offended a group of people are; get right the fuck over it and move on and keep your bullshit to yourself. Being offended doesn't entitle you to anything and you should be treated like a whiny child since you are acting like one.

Fuck politically correct bullshit, fuck the easily offended.

Imateacher3

When I was younger it was my knife. Everyone wanted to know why I needed a knife. Who am I going to stab? Until they needed to cut open a box or take out a splinter. One day when I was in college my friends and I went out in Philly for New Year's Eve. Our friends left us at a bar about 20 blocks from the apartment we were staying at. We walked through some nice areas and some not-so-nice areas. When we got to the apartment it was locked. It was probably 3 or 4 am. We banged on the door but no one answered. I took out my knife and somehow managed to work the lock open. I'm not really sure how (I was drunk) but it is Philly so it's probably not the first time that apt. was broken into ; ) needless to say, my friends never question why I carry a knife again. I'm 30 and I've been carry a knife almost every day for the last 15 years. My father owns a construction company and I started working with him at a young age so carry a knife was normal for us. Not only have I never stabbed a person but I've never pulled my knife on anyone and honestly I don't think I ever would. The last thing I want is to be in a knife fight! When I created a B.O.B. years ago everyone thought I was crazy. It started as a comfort bag. I got sick of being away from home and not having the things I need, like a sweatshirt and bug spray. So I put a bag in my car with all the things I thought I might need if away from the house for the whole day. Over the past few years the prepper mvmt has boomed and now I have many different bags for different things. Anyway, when my friends started complaining because they didn't have a sweatshirt or a hat or whatever and I just went out to the car and grabbed whatever I needed, they started to understand why I carry my BOB with me. Now the majority of my friends and family have bags too. I don't worry too much about what people think of me and my survival gear but it is nice to know that now my friends and family are prepared too. I think the more people that are prepared the less I have to worry about someone who didn't prepare trying to steal my shit. I know if something ever happens I my town I'm going to be looking for other people who seem prepared and try to stick together. TL:DR People questioned why I carried a knife until they needed it. Then people questioned why I have a BOB until they needed it. Now everyone understands and has one if their own!

When I was younger it was my knife. Everyone wanted to know why I needed a knife. Who am I going to stab? Until they needed to cut open a box or take out a splinter. One day when I was in college my friends and I went out in Philly for New Year's Eve. Our friends left us at a bar about 20 blocks from the apartment we were staying at. We walked through some nice areas and some not-so-nice areas. When we got to the apartment it was locked. It was probably 3 or 4 am. We banged on the door but no one answered. I took out my knife and somehow managed to work the lock open. I'm not really sure how (I was drunk) but it is Philly so it's probably not the first time that apt. was broken into ; ) needless to say, my friends never question why I carry a knife again. I'm 30 and I've been carry a knife almost every day for the last 15 years. My father owns a construction company and I started working with him at a young age so carry a knife was normal for us. Not only have I never stabbed a person but I've never pulled my knife on anyone and honestly I don't think I ever would. The last thing I want is to be in a knife fight! When I created a B.O.B. years ago everyone thought I was crazy. It started as a comfort bag. I got sick of being away from home and not having the things I need, like a sweatshirt and bug spray. So I put a bag in my car with all the things I thought I might need if away from the house for the whole day. Over the past few years the prepper mvmt has boomed and now I have many different bags for different things. Anyway, when my friends started complaining because they didn't have a sweatshirt or a hat or whatever and I just went out to the car and grabbed whatever I needed, they started to understand why I carry my BOB with me. Now the majority of my friends and family have bags too. I don't worry too much about what people think of me and my survival gear but it is nice to know that now my friends and family are prepared too. I think the more people that are prepared the less I have to worry about someone who didn't prepare trying to steal my shit. I know if something ever happens I my town I'm going to be looking for other people who seem prepared and try to stick together. TL:DR People questioned why I carried a knife until they needed it. Then people questioned why I have a BOB until they needed it. Now everyone understands and has one if their own!

bugout

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c9hs45b

When I was younger it was my knife. Everyone wanted to know why I needed a knife. Who am I going to stab? Until they needed to cut open a box or take out a splinter. One day when I was in college my friends and I went out in Philly for New Year's Eve. Our friends left us at a bar about 20 blocks from the apartment we were staying at. We walked through some nice areas and some not-so-nice areas. When we got to the apartment it was locked. It was probably 3 or 4 am. We banged on the door but no one answered. I took out my knife and somehow managed to work the lock open. I'm not really sure how (I was drunk) but it is Philly so it's probably not the first time that apt. was broken into ; ) needless to say, my friends never question why I carry a knife again. I'm 30 and I've been carry a knife almost every day for the last 15 years. My father owns a construction company and I started working with him at a young age so carry a knife was normal for us. Not only have I never stabbed a person but I've never pulled my knife on anyone and honestly I don't think I ever would. The last thing I want is to be in a knife fight! When I created a B.O.B. years ago everyone thought I was crazy. It started as a comfort bag. I got sick of being away from home and not having the things I need, like a sweatshirt and bug spray. So I put a bag in my car with all the things I thought I might need if away from the house for the whole day. Over the past few years the prepper mvmt has boomed and now I have many different bags for different things. Anyway, when my friends started complaining because they didn't have a sweatshirt or a hat or whatever and I just went out to the car and grabbed whatever I needed, they started to understand why I carry my BOB with me. Now the majority of my friends and family have bags too. I don't worry too much about what people think of me and my survival gear but it is nice to know that now my friends and family are prepared too. I think the more people that are prepared the less I have to worry about someone who didn't prepare trying to steal my shit. I know if something ever happens I my town I'm going to be looking for other people who seem prepared and try to stick together.

People questioned why I carried a knife until they needed it. Then people questioned why I have a BOB until they needed it. Now everyone understands and has one if their own!

zants

Hm, this whole time I thought it had something to do with Google+ (like jpx_ pointed out, because of the "X shared this"). So toggling the globe in the top right simply makes it as if I wasn't logged in? It's basically an un-bubble button I guess. I wonder what impact G+ does have on it, though - like, does a shared link take precedence over everything else, or can you see shared links dispersed throughout the results? EDIT: Did a search and found that they're dispersed (though they do appear to hold really high precedence). EDIT: beautiful_people and drusepth pointed out it *is* due to Google+ (which that link doesn't deny, but didn't really mention either), that makes sense since I search the same thing and get reuters.com as the top result (but don't have the icon). Basically, if someone shares a link it gains precedence in your results (and gets that icon). **tl;dr**: The icon is due to Google+ (OP follows someone that shared that specific link, in this case Reuters themselves) thus giving it the icon and pushing it up in the results (when you have personalized results on, Google+ shares impact precedence of results).

Hm, this whole time I thought it had something to do with Google+ (like jpx_ pointed out, because of the "X shared this"). So toggling the globe in the top right simply makes it as if I wasn't logged in? It's basically an un-bubble button I guess. I wonder what impact G+ does have on it, though - like, does a shared link take precedence over everything else, or can you see shared links dispersed throughout the results? EDIT: Did a search and found that they're dispersed (though they do appear to hold really high precedence). EDIT: beautiful_people and drusepth pointed out it is due to Google+ (which that link doesn't deny, but didn't really mention either), that makes sense since I search the same thing and get reuters.com as the top result (but don't have the icon). Basically, if someone shares a link it gains precedence in your results (and gets that icon). tl;dr : The icon is due to Google+ (OP follows someone that shared that specific link, in this case Reuters themselves) thus giving it the icon and pushing it up in the results (when you have personalized results on, Google+ shares impact precedence of results).

google

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Hm, this whole time I thought it had something to do with Google+ (like jpx_ pointed out, because of the "X shared this"). So toggling the globe in the top right simply makes it as if I wasn't logged in? It's basically an un-bubble button I guess. I wonder what impact G+ does have on it, though - like, does a shared link take precedence over everything else, or can you see shared links dispersed throughout the results? EDIT: Did a search and found that they're dispersed (though they do appear to hold really high precedence). EDIT: beautiful_people and drusepth pointed out it is due to Google+ (which that link doesn't deny, but didn't really mention either), that makes sense since I search the same thing and get reuters.com as the top result (but don't have the icon). Basically, if someone shares a link it gains precedence in your results (and gets that icon).

The icon is due to Google+ (OP follows someone that shared that specific link, in this case Reuters themselves) thus giving it the icon and pushing it up in the results (when you have personalized results on, Google+ shares impact precedence of results).

thepignose

i wish you success, too. NoFap is not for everyone. it's a choice, made by people who think it will make them happier. if you're happier without NoFap, that's awesome -- do the thing that makes you happy. that said, i don't agree with your take on the nature of the board. i don't think anyone here is saying that sexual release is unnatural or inhuman. nor do i think anyone is saying that fapping, porn, etc... is for losers. i think what people are saying is that, for reasons that we really only guess at -- neurochemistry, upbringing, deeply ingrained habits of mind -- PMO makes up feel/think/act and we don't want to feel/think/act. it's a philosophy born of experience. it doesn't work for us. you're right to be unhappy when someone claims that all pro-fappers are in denial or that all porn stars are victims of abuse or when someone tries to impose their opinion rather than share it. that said, i find the tone of the board to be overwhelmingly positive. look at a thread for someone who relapsed: the comments are almost invariably positive. "you'll do it," "keep trying," "don't give up," "it happens to everyone."no one is being put down or demonized. everyone is trying to support each other. if there's negativity, it's people being hard on themselves. TL;DR -- if you're happier solo, go for it; but if you want to come back, we're here

i wish you success, too. NoFap is not for everyone. it's a choice, made by people who think it will make them happier. if you're happier without NoFap, that's awesome -- do the thing that makes you happy. that said, i don't agree with your take on the nature of the board. i don't think anyone here is saying that sexual release is unnatural or inhuman. nor do i think anyone is saying that fapping, porn, etc... is for losers. i think what people are saying is that, for reasons that we really only guess at -- neurochemistry, upbringing, deeply ingrained habits of mind -- PMO makes up feel/think/act and we don't want to feel/think/act. it's a philosophy born of experience. it doesn't work for us. you're right to be unhappy when someone claims that all pro-fappers are in denial or that all porn stars are victims of abuse or when someone tries to impose their opinion rather than share it. that said, i find the tone of the board to be overwhelmingly positive. look at a thread for someone who relapsed: the comments are almost invariably positive. "you'll do it," "keep trying," "don't give up," "it happens to everyone."no one is being put down or demonized. everyone is trying to support each other. if there's negativity, it's people being hard on themselves. TL;DR -- if you're happier solo, go for it; but if you want to come back, we're here

NoFap

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i wish you success, too. NoFap is not for everyone. it's a choice, made by people who think it will make them happier. if you're happier without NoFap, that's awesome -- do the thing that makes you happy. that said, i don't agree with your take on the nature of the board. i don't think anyone here is saying that sexual release is unnatural or inhuman. nor do i think anyone is saying that fapping, porn, etc... is for losers. i think what people are saying is that, for reasons that we really only guess at -- neurochemistry, upbringing, deeply ingrained habits of mind -- PMO makes up feel/think/act and we don't want to feel/think/act. it's a philosophy born of experience. it doesn't work for us. you're right to be unhappy when someone claims that all pro-fappers are in denial or that all porn stars are victims of abuse or when someone tries to impose their opinion rather than share it. that said, i find the tone of the board to be overwhelmingly positive. look at a thread for someone who relapsed: the comments are almost invariably positive. "you'll do it," "keep trying," "don't give up," "it happens to everyone."no one is being put down or demonized. everyone is trying to support each other. if there's negativity, it's people being hard on themselves.

if you're happier solo, go for it; but if you want to come back, we're here

ManiacalCircusClown

i am a respiratory therapist. respiratory therapists have to pass two licensing exams. the first one (CRT) is a standard (for the most part) multiple choice exam. the second one (RRT) is broken down into two parts. the first part is just like the CRT in that it is a standard (for the most part) multiple choice exam. the second part of the RRT is known as clinical simulations. it's not anything like a normal test. you are given 11 or 12 scenarios (I can't remember). the scenarios consist of information gathering (where you assess the patient and order lab tests to get more information) and decision making (deciding what needs to be done to help the patient). part of the challenge is choosing enough right answers (duh). you get positive points for right answers and you lose points for negative answers. so i could choose a right answer on one question and get two points but choose a wrong answer on the same question and lose 3 points, so i'd be at -1 for that question. you have to pass the information gathering and decision making each. they total the points from all information gathering and you have to pass whatever the point total is to pass information gathering. and then they total the points from decision making and you have to pass whatever the point total is to pass decision making. you can pass one part but not the other. part of the challenge also is that when you choose an answer... you could choose the wrong answer and it goes along as though you are right. or you could choose a right answer and it will tell you that it's wrong and you have to choose another answer. all to see if you crack under the pressure of being told that you're wrong. tl;dr i'm a respiratory therapist that has to pass the last piece of his final licensing exam and i'm extremely nervous.

i am a respiratory therapist. respiratory therapists have to pass two licensing exams. the first one (CRT) is a standard (for the most part) multiple choice exam. the second one (RRT) is broken down into two parts. the first part is just like the CRT in that it is a standard (for the most part) multiple choice exam. the second part of the RRT is known as clinical simulations. it's not anything like a normal test. you are given 11 or 12 scenarios (I can't remember). the scenarios consist of information gathering (where you assess the patient and order lab tests to get more information) and decision making (deciding what needs to be done to help the patient). part of the challenge is choosing enough right answers (duh). you get positive points for right answers and you lose points for negative answers. so i could choose a right answer on one question and get two points but choose a wrong answer on the same question and lose 3 points, so i'd be at -1 for that question. you have to pass the information gathering and decision making each. they total the points from all information gathering and you have to pass whatever the point total is to pass information gathering. and then they total the points from decision making and you have to pass whatever the point total is to pass decision making. you can pass one part but not the other. part of the challenge also is that when you choose an answer... you could choose the wrong answer and it goes along as though you are right. or you could choose a right answer and it will tell you that it's wrong and you have to choose another answer. all to see if you crack under the pressure of being told that you're wrong. tl;dr i'm a respiratory therapist that has to pass the last piece of his final licensing exam and i'm extremely nervous.

Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

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i am a respiratory therapist. respiratory therapists have to pass two licensing exams. the first one (CRT) is a standard (for the most part) multiple choice exam. the second one (RRT) is broken down into two parts. the first part is just like the CRT in that it is a standard (for the most part) multiple choice exam. the second part of the RRT is known as clinical simulations. it's not anything like a normal test. you are given 11 or 12 scenarios (I can't remember). the scenarios consist of information gathering (where you assess the patient and order lab tests to get more information) and decision making (deciding what needs to be done to help the patient). part of the challenge is choosing enough right answers (duh). you get positive points for right answers and you lose points for negative answers. so i could choose a right answer on one question and get two points but choose a wrong answer on the same question and lose 3 points, so i'd be at -1 for that question. you have to pass the information gathering and decision making each. they total the points from all information gathering and you have to pass whatever the point total is to pass information gathering. and then they total the points from decision making and you have to pass whatever the point total is to pass decision making. you can pass one part but not the other. part of the challenge also is that when you choose an answer... you could choose the wrong answer and it goes along as though you are right. or you could choose a right answer and it will tell you that it's wrong and you have to choose another answer. all to see if you crack under the pressure of being told that you're wrong.

i'm a respiratory therapist that has to pass the last piece of his final licensing exam and i'm extremely nervous.

pixelrebel

This happened to me recently, maybe it's the same issue. I had 23.98 source transcoded into 24, but when I brought it into FCP, I was using the ProRes Proxy 720p24 setting. Well, my friend, turns out that the rate in the settings is actually set to 23.98. So I created a new preset that matched the 24 fps workflow. But now when I bring the audio, I have the same problem...Huh? Drifting in both a 23.98 and a 24 timeline? But then I had a eureka moment. Bringing in the audio the first time somehow corrupted the metadata in the audio files. I went back to the original untouched deliverable, dropped them into my new 24p timeline and it worked. No more drift. TL;DR: FCP, not ready for prime time.

This happened to me recently, maybe it's the same issue. I had 23.98 source transcoded into 24, but when I brought it into FCP, I was using the ProRes Proxy 720p24 setting. Well, my friend, turns out that the rate in the settings is actually set to 23.98. So I created a new preset that matched the 24 fps workflow. But now when I bring the audio, I have the same problem...Huh? Drifting in both a 23.98 and a 24 timeline? But then I had a eureka moment. Bringing in the audio the first time somehow corrupted the metadata in the audio files. I went back to the original untouched deliverable, dropped them into my new 24p timeline and it worked. No more drift. TL;DR: FCP, not ready for prime time.

editors

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This happened to me recently, maybe it's the same issue. I had 23.98 source transcoded into 24, but when I brought it into FCP, I was using the ProRes Proxy 720p24 setting. Well, my friend, turns out that the rate in the settings is actually set to 23.98. So I created a new preset that matched the 24 fps workflow. But now when I bring the audio, I have the same problem...Huh? Drifting in both a 23.98 and a 24 timeline? But then I had a eureka moment. Bringing in the audio the first time somehow corrupted the metadata in the audio files. I went back to the original untouched deliverable, dropped them into my new 24p timeline and it worked. No more drift.

FCP, not ready for prime time.

dungeonsandderp

This was me too. My parents had fancy cable television, I grew up on animated shows of all kinds (except, for some weird reason, my parents didn't let me watch The Simpsons though Far worse things were accessible). If I had to put my finger on it, I think Digimon was one of the first shows I went out of my way to watch (and I had the electronic pet toys as well). I didn't really know that I had watched "anime" until I met a really creepy, rabid otaku in middle school. He turned me off to anime for a while (by distasteful association a.k.a. he threatened to slit my wrists in history class if I fell asleep), but I eventually got back into it after a few pleasant chance encounters (Digimon, Ruroni Kenshin, Outlaw Star). In college I actually lived in the "Japanese Culture" (read: Nerd and Otaku) dorm and that cemented things. My friend used to give me anime homework to watch over breaks to discuss after our return. **tl;dr** Cable television. So many channels, something animated was always on! Also Digimon was a thing.

This was me too. My parents had fancy cable television, I grew up on animated shows of all kinds (except, for some weird reason, my parents didn't let me watch The Simpsons though Far worse things were accessible). If I had to put my finger on it, I think Digimon was one of the first shows I went out of my way to watch (and I had the electronic pet toys as well). I didn't really know that I had watched "anime" until I met a really creepy, rabid otaku in middle school. He turned me off to anime for a while (by distasteful association a.k.a. he threatened to slit my wrists in history class if I fell asleep), but I eventually got back into it after a few pleasant chance encounters (Digimon, Ruroni Kenshin, Outlaw Star). In college I actually lived in the "Japanese Culture" (read: Nerd and Otaku) dorm and that cemented things. My friend used to give me anime homework to watch over breaks to discuss after our return. tl;dr Cable television. So many channels, something animated was always on! Also Digimon was a thing.

anime

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c9itoc1

This was me too. My parents had fancy cable television, I grew up on animated shows of all kinds (except, for some weird reason, my parents didn't let me watch The Simpsons though Far worse things were accessible). If I had to put my finger on it, I think Digimon was one of the first shows I went out of my way to watch (and I had the electronic pet toys as well). I didn't really know that I had watched "anime" until I met a really creepy, rabid otaku in middle school. He turned me off to anime for a while (by distasteful association a.k.a. he threatened to slit my wrists in history class if I fell asleep), but I eventually got back into it after a few pleasant chance encounters (Digimon, Ruroni Kenshin, Outlaw Star). In college I actually lived in the "Japanese Culture" (read: Nerd and Otaku) dorm and that cemented things. My friend used to give me anime homework to watch over breaks to discuss after our return.

Cable television. So many channels, something animated was always on! Also Digimon was a thing.

Birdy58033

Think of the TF2 best practice list as guidelines and not a rules. For instance, sudden teleportation changes like when a screen goes to all black and then you appear somewhere else. When games do this, like skyrim when walking thru a door, it's not actually disorienting at all. It's really a little bit neat. It's fun to come up with ways to have perfect transitions, like walking thru a painting to get into a different world, but it's not required. When a game such as yours is meant to be disorienting, then let it be. HUDS will be the most difficult thing to create if you don't have a rift. TF2s HUD is bad because of it's position, not because it's floating or attached. And most of those complaints are because of font size. We might be able to come up with some tips for HUDS, but you'll really need to see them for yourself in 3D to truly understand. tl;dr don't change anything major in your game til you get a chance to view it from a rift yourself, or have a reliable person do it for you. There are no rules for how a non-liner game should be created.

Think of the TF2 best practice list as guidelines and not a rules. For instance, sudden teleportation changes like when a screen goes to all black and then you appear somewhere else. When games do this, like skyrim when walking thru a door, it's not actually disorienting at all. It's really a little bit neat. It's fun to come up with ways to have perfect transitions, like walking thru a painting to get into a different world, but it's not required. When a game such as yours is meant to be disorienting, then let it be. HUDS will be the most difficult thing to create if you don't have a rift. TF2s HUD is bad because of it's position, not because it's floating or attached. And most of those complaints are because of font size. We might be able to come up with some tips for HUDS, but you'll really need to see them for yourself in 3D to truly understand. tl;dr don't change anything major in your game til you get a chance to view it from a rift yourself, or have a reliable person do it for you. There are no rules for how a non-liner game should be created.

oculus

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Think of the TF2 best practice list as guidelines and not a rules. For instance, sudden teleportation changes like when a screen goes to all black and then you appear somewhere else. When games do this, like skyrim when walking thru a door, it's not actually disorienting at all. It's really a little bit neat. It's fun to come up with ways to have perfect transitions, like walking thru a painting to get into a different world, but it's not required. When a game such as yours is meant to be disorienting, then let it be. HUDS will be the most difficult thing to create if you don't have a rift. TF2s HUD is bad because of it's position, not because it's floating or attached. And most of those complaints are because of font size. We might be able to come up with some tips for HUDS, but you'll really need to see them for yourself in 3D to truly understand.

don't change anything major in your game til you get a chance to view it from a rift yourself, or have a reliable person do it for you. There are no rules for how a non-liner game should be created.

sishgupta

I don't think I could respect the opinion of someone who says 260lbs isn't "that" big. If they told me they couldn't see the difference between 260lb and 160lb I'd know they were lying or legally blind. tl;dr Don't talk to her about this any more; You look great! Don't stop!

I don't think I could respect the opinion of someone who says 260lbs isn't "that" big. If they told me they couldn't see the difference between 260lb and 160lb I'd know they were lying or legally blind. tl;dr Don't talk to her about this any more; You look great! Don't stop!

loseit

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I don't think I could respect the opinion of someone who says 260lbs isn't "that" big. If they told me they couldn't see the difference between 260lb and 160lb I'd know they were lying or legally blind.

Don't talk to her about this any more; You look great! Don't stop!

idiosyncrassy

Well, I'm sure I've done more regrettable things, but this is what comes to mind: I was making a pan of homemade tiramisu, which is a delicious, faux-Italian dessert made of layers of espresso- and booze-soaked ladyfinger cookies, and sweetened, booze/espresso-flavored mascarpone, topped with powdered chocolate. First of all, the entire recipe is a messy nightmare of wet, sticky cookies and glop everywhere. Do not make tiramisu at home, that's all I can say about that. So I was already on a losing streak by the time I came up with this bright idea. I'd finally gotten my tiramisu layered and assembled after much mess and frustration. The last step was to dust the top of the entire dessert with a thin coat of cocoa. Only problem: no sifter. Well, I'll just try and sprinkle it on by hand, I thought. No dice: instead of an even layer, I had one dense, thick area of cocoa powder and the rest of the tiramisu was still uncoated. Well, I thought, (and here's the point when the magic happened) there's one way to remedy this situation: I'LL JUST BLOW ON IT. I blew. I was successful beyond my wildest dreams. Cocoa powder was evenly distributed perfectly over my entire tiramisu. And my entire face, so I looked like I was in blackface. And my entire counter, and the walls, and the appliances, and even the ceiling. I had to Magic Eraser my entire kitchen after that to get it all off. **tl;dr: I hate tiramisu. Fucking shit didn't even set after I refrigerated it.**

Well, I'm sure I've done more regrettable things, but this is what comes to mind: I was making a pan of homemade tiramisu, which is a delicious, faux-Italian dessert made of layers of espresso- and booze-soaked ladyfinger cookies, and sweetened, booze/espresso-flavored mascarpone, topped with powdered chocolate. First of all, the entire recipe is a messy nightmare of wet, sticky cookies and glop everywhere. Do not make tiramisu at home, that's all I can say about that. So I was already on a losing streak by the time I came up with this bright idea. I'd finally gotten my tiramisu layered and assembled after much mess and frustration. The last step was to dust the top of the entire dessert with a thin coat of cocoa. Only problem: no sifter. Well, I'll just try and sprinkle it on by hand, I thought. No dice: instead of an even layer, I had one dense, thick area of cocoa powder and the rest of the tiramisu was still uncoated. Well, I thought, (and here's the point when the magic happened) there's one way to remedy this situation: I'LL JUST BLOW ON IT. I blew. I was successful beyond my wildest dreams. Cocoa powder was evenly distributed perfectly over my entire tiramisu. And my entire face, so I looked like I was in blackface. And my entire counter, and the walls, and the appliances, and even the ceiling. I had to Magic Eraser my entire kitchen after that to get it all off. tl;dr: I hate tiramisu. Fucking shit didn't even set after I refrigerated it.

AskReddit

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Well, I'm sure I've done more regrettable things, but this is what comes to mind: I was making a pan of homemade tiramisu, which is a delicious, faux-Italian dessert made of layers of espresso- and booze-soaked ladyfinger cookies, and sweetened, booze/espresso-flavored mascarpone, topped with powdered chocolate. First of all, the entire recipe is a messy nightmare of wet, sticky cookies and glop everywhere. Do not make tiramisu at home, that's all I can say about that. So I was already on a losing streak by the time I came up with this bright idea. I'd finally gotten my tiramisu layered and assembled after much mess and frustration. The last step was to dust the top of the entire dessert with a thin coat of cocoa. Only problem: no sifter. Well, I'll just try and sprinkle it on by hand, I thought. No dice: instead of an even layer, I had one dense, thick area of cocoa powder and the rest of the tiramisu was still uncoated. Well, I thought, (and here's the point when the magic happened) there's one way to remedy this situation: I'LL JUST BLOW ON IT. I blew. I was successful beyond my wildest dreams. Cocoa powder was evenly distributed perfectly over my entire tiramisu. And my entire face, so I looked like I was in blackface. And my entire counter, and the walls, and the appliances, and even the ceiling. I had to Magic Eraser my entire kitchen after that to get it all off.

I hate tiramisu. Fucking shit didn't even set after I refrigerated it.

arcticanomaly

It really is simple dude. But first let me start by saying that I am in no way speaking condescendingly towards you in way. Just hear me out and make your own decision. Lets look first at the Colbert.Stewert couple as compared to the O'Reilly.Limbaugh. What stations do they represent? Comedy central is owned by Viacom, a company with no real political agenda, like many corporations they are mostly concerned with their bottom line. They want to make a profit any way they can. Now who do the other two represent? FOX. Who owns FOX? A single billionaire who has very clear, quite overt political views and for decades has contributed and worked for one party. It is by no means a source of journalistic integrety since the entire entity is basically working for the right. AND they actively act as if they are a beacon of Journalistic integrity, this in and of it self is in direct conflict with what it means to have journalistic integrity. Comedy central shows like Stewert and colbert are preceded by a cartoon called southpark. Bill Maher is for the left, this is true. He is also one who always chastises the democrats for being pussies. Anyways, I would never presume to tell you that you or any other conservative that they are wrong in their beliefs, they are your beliefs, just know that you are more than likely, more often than not, incorrectly informed if you stick to only one side. ( I actually do watch fox news from time to time to be fair) If you really want to get your news without an american bias, try reading al jazeera or the guardian Uk. Uh; Disclaimer- Ive been drinking, please excuse grammar and spelling. TL;DR it doesnt matter

It really is simple dude. But first let me start by saying that I am in no way speaking condescendingly towards you in way. Just hear me out and make your own decision. Lets look first at the Colbert.Stewert couple as compared to the O'Reilly.Limbaugh. What stations do they represent? Comedy central is owned by Viacom, a company with no real political agenda, like many corporations they are mostly concerned with their bottom line. They want to make a profit any way they can. Now who do the other two represent? FOX. Who owns FOX? A single billionaire who has very clear, quite overt political views and for decades has contributed and worked for one party. It is by no means a source of journalistic integrety since the entire entity is basically working for the right. AND they actively act as if they are a beacon of Journalistic integrity, this in and of it self is in direct conflict with what it means to have journalistic integrity. Comedy central shows like Stewert and colbert are preceded by a cartoon called southpark. Bill Maher is for the left, this is true. He is also one who always chastises the democrats for being pussies. Anyways, I would never presume to tell you that you or any other conservative that they are wrong in their beliefs, they are your beliefs, just know that you are more than likely, more often than not, incorrectly informed if you stick to only one side. ( I actually do watch fox news from time to time to be fair) If you really want to get your news without an american bias, try reading al jazeera or the guardian Uk. Uh; Disclaimer- Ive been drinking, please excuse grammar and spelling. TL;DR it doesnt matter

AskReddit

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It really is simple dude. But first let me start by saying that I am in no way speaking condescendingly towards you in way. Just hear me out and make your own decision. Lets look first at the Colbert.Stewert couple as compared to the O'Reilly.Limbaugh. What stations do they represent? Comedy central is owned by Viacom, a company with no real political agenda, like many corporations they are mostly concerned with their bottom line. They want to make a profit any way they can. Now who do the other two represent? FOX. Who owns FOX? A single billionaire who has very clear, quite overt political views and for decades has contributed and worked for one party. It is by no means a source of journalistic integrety since the entire entity is basically working for the right. AND they actively act as if they are a beacon of Journalistic integrity, this in and of it self is in direct conflict with what it means to have journalistic integrity. Comedy central shows like Stewert and colbert are preceded by a cartoon called southpark. Bill Maher is for the left, this is true. He is also one who always chastises the democrats for being pussies. Anyways, I would never presume to tell you that you or any other conservative that they are wrong in their beliefs, they are your beliefs, just know that you are more than likely, more often than not, incorrectly informed if you stick to only one side. ( I actually do watch fox news from time to time to be fair) If you really want to get your news without an american bias, try reading al jazeera or the guardian Uk. Uh; Disclaimer- Ive been drinking, please excuse grammar and spelling.

it doesnt matter

bachrock37

&gt; most ppl would be looking to secure some real estate for their future Indeed, that's how the successful middle class model has worked in the United States for many years. But with cost of living, lots of people in debt from student loans, and wage freezes across the country, the norm is shifting away from that. People are renting longer, getting married older, holding off on kids, etc., just because everything is unstable. Personally, I would find a more fulfilling job before trying to find a house. If you want to buy a house just to invest in real estate, that's not the smartest move. A house you buy should be a place you want to live for a long-haul in order to build equity and make a home. Can you see yourself working at your current job for the next 5-10 years in order to live in a home you bought? You say you're in the LA area. Are you tied to living in Cali? Could you look for work somewhere with a cheaper cost of living like Atlanta or Minneapolis? Your current salary would go a long way in suburban Chicago or Milwaukee. With regard to the car, it all depends on how it's running. My volvo is also hitting 10 years +110,000 miles. Had a spendy brake fix a last year, but it runs well and is reliable. We expect it to go another 3-5 years easily. How much do you spend on gas and maintenance? If you got a car with better safety features, could you save on car insurance? There are a lot of ways to compute justification of buying a newer car. You could even save more money by moving close to your job and getting rid of the car. Lots of options. Essentially, in order for you to make a decision, you have to figure out what you value. Do you value a stable job over a fulfilling career? Would you rather save for a house or buy a more reliable vehicle? Is the amount of money you save living with your family worth losing in order to start the homebuying process? All things you need to consider. Sorry that got long, but I hope it gave you some food for thought. TL;DR do some soul-searching

> most ppl would be looking to secure some real estate for their future Indeed, that's how the successful middle class model has worked in the United States for many years. But with cost of living, lots of people in debt from student loans, and wage freezes across the country, the norm is shifting away from that. People are renting longer, getting married older, holding off on kids, etc., just because everything is unstable. Personally, I would find a more fulfilling job before trying to find a house. If you want to buy a house just to invest in real estate, that's not the smartest move. A house you buy should be a place you want to live for a long-haul in order to build equity and make a home. Can you see yourself working at your current job for the next 5-10 years in order to live in a home you bought? You say you're in the LA area. Are you tied to living in Cali? Could you look for work somewhere with a cheaper cost of living like Atlanta or Minneapolis? Your current salary would go a long way in suburban Chicago or Milwaukee. With regard to the car, it all depends on how it's running. My volvo is also hitting 10 years +110,000 miles. Had a spendy brake fix a last year, but it runs well and is reliable. We expect it to go another 3-5 years easily. How much do you spend on gas and maintenance? If you got a car with better safety features, could you save on car insurance? There are a lot of ways to compute justification of buying a newer car. You could even save more money by moving close to your job and getting rid of the car. Lots of options. Essentially, in order for you to make a decision, you have to figure out what you value. Do you value a stable job over a fulfilling career? Would you rather save for a house or buy a more reliable vehicle? Is the amount of money you save living with your family worth losing in order to start the homebuying process? All things you need to consider. Sorry that got long, but I hope it gave you some food for thought. TL;DR do some soul-searching

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most ppl would be looking to secure some real estate for their future Indeed, that's how the successful middle class model has worked in the United States for many years. But with cost of living, lots of people in debt from student loans, and wage freezes across the country, the norm is shifting away from that. People are renting longer, getting married older, holding off on kids, etc., just because everything is unstable. Personally, I would find a more fulfilling job before trying to find a house. If you want to buy a house just to invest in real estate, that's not the smartest move. A house you buy should be a place you want to live for a long-haul in order to build equity and make a home. Can you see yourself working at your current job for the next 5-10 years in order to live in a home you bought? You say you're in the LA area. Are you tied to living in Cali? Could you look for work somewhere with a cheaper cost of living like Atlanta or Minneapolis? Your current salary would go a long way in suburban Chicago or Milwaukee. With regard to the car, it all depends on how it's running. My volvo is also hitting 10 years +110,000 miles. Had a spendy brake fix a last year, but it runs well and is reliable. We expect it to go another 3-5 years easily. How much do you spend on gas and maintenance? If you got a car with better safety features, could you save on car insurance? There are a lot of ways to compute justification of buying a newer car. You could even save more money by moving close to your job and getting rid of the car. Lots of options. Essentially, in order for you to make a decision, you have to figure out what you value. Do you value a stable job over a fulfilling career? Would you rather save for a house or buy a more reliable vehicle? Is the amount of money you save living with your family worth losing in order to start the homebuying process? All things you need to consider. Sorry that got long, but I hope it gave you some food for thought.

do some soul-searching

gruesky

This isn't entirely accurate. Old Norse (ON) and Old English (OE) married and there is some contention that OE is a creole of ON now and that the only reason we don't treat it as such is that OE and ON were so remarkably similar already the process didn't happen in the same way. To my knowledge, no non-creole language has ever adopted so many core vocabulary items from a language. Pronouns, for example. Also, the reason Modern English has so few declensions is directly due to the influence of Old Norse. TLDR: Old Norse is still very much with us.

This isn't entirely accurate. Old Norse (ON) and Old English (OE) married and there is some contention that OE is a creole of ON now and that the only reason we don't treat it as such is that OE and ON were so remarkably similar already the process didn't happen in the same way. To my knowledge, no non-creole language has ever adopted so many core vocabulary items from a language. Pronouns, for example. Also, the reason Modern English has so few declensions is directly due to the influence of Old Norse. TLDR: Old Norse is still very much with us.

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This isn't entirely accurate. Old Norse (ON) and Old English (OE) married and there is some contention that OE is a creole of ON now and that the only reason we don't treat it as such is that OE and ON were so remarkably similar already the process didn't happen in the same way. To my knowledge, no non-creole language has ever adopted so many core vocabulary items from a language. Pronouns, for example. Also, the reason Modern English has so few declensions is directly due to the influence of Old Norse.

Old Norse is still very much with us.

invisible_monkey

Orange County native here. I never heard anyone, ever, say "the OC" until that show came out. It's only recently gained the regional identity that it has now, due to both The OC and AD, and the eponymous Jack Black movie. Growing up there you never said you were "from Orange County" but rather what city you lived in. tl;dr: Don't call it that.

Orange County native here. I never heard anyone, ever, say "the OC" until that show came out. It's only recently gained the regional identity that it has now, due to both The OC and AD, and the eponymous Jack Black movie. Growing up there you never said you were "from Orange County" but rather what city you lived in. tl;dr: Don't call it that.

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Orange County native here. I never heard anyone, ever, say "the OC" until that show came out. It's only recently gained the regional identity that it has now, due to both The OC and AD, and the eponymous Jack Black movie. Growing up there you never said you were "from Orange County" but rather what city you lived in.

Don't call it that.

CmndrSalamander

This is a joke. There are a lot of jokes about Hitler. Just because you feel it's "too serious of a topic to make fun of" doesn't mean there won't be people who do. Some people deal with tragedy through comedy, and that's their decision and I think it's a better way of dealing with it than making it socially forbidden to bring up. Better to recognize and then downplay it than have it fester and closed off. ie: I know Hitler was a monster and me saying "Hitler did nothing wrong" is ironic as we all know he tried to wipe an entire race of people off the earth. tl;dr: grow up, people make jokes about horrific things, it doesn't make them horrific people.

This is a joke. There are a lot of jokes about Hitler. Just because you feel it's "too serious of a topic to make fun of" doesn't mean there won't be people who do. Some people deal with tragedy through comedy, and that's their decision and I think it's a better way of dealing with it than making it socially forbidden to bring up. Better to recognize and then downplay it than have it fester and closed off. ie: I know Hitler was a monster and me saying "Hitler did nothing wrong" is ironic as we all know he tried to wipe an entire race of people off the earth. tl;dr: grow up, people make jokes about horrific things, it doesn't make them horrific people.

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This is a joke. There are a lot of jokes about Hitler. Just because you feel it's "too serious of a topic to make fun of" doesn't mean there won't be people who do. Some people deal with tragedy through comedy, and that's their decision and I think it's a better way of dealing with it than making it socially forbidden to bring up. Better to recognize and then downplay it than have it fester and closed off. ie: I know Hitler was a monster and me saying "Hitler did nothing wrong" is ironic as we all know he tried to wipe an entire race of people off the earth.

grow up, people make jokes about horrific things, it doesn't make them horrific people.

Red5point1

According to the the old testament and the new testament there are certain rituals believers need to do in order to appease the biblical god, or to show that they indeed are faithful followers of that god. Simply accepting its existence does not make one a "true" christian, although according to christians there is not one way to be a true christian there are various that is why they have so many denominations. Overall god will not accept you into heaving until you accept him as your savior and worship him. So in christians eyes unless you do the rituals that they believe is needed(which rituals depends on which denominations) then you will be deemed as a non-christian. tl;dr - acknowledging the biblical gods existence is not enough, you have to do "more" than that to a true christian (what is the "more"? that depends from christian to christian.)

According to the the old testament and the new testament there are certain rituals believers need to do in order to appease the biblical god, or to show that they indeed are faithful followers of that god. Simply accepting its existence does not make one a "true" christian, although according to christians there is not one way to be a true christian there are various that is why they have so many denominations. Overall god will not accept you into heaving until you accept him as your savior and worship him. So in christians eyes unless you do the rituals that they believe is needed(which rituals depends on which denominations) then you will be deemed as a non-christian. tl;dr - acknowledging the biblical gods existence is not enough, you have to do "more" than that to a true christian (what is the "more"? that depends from christian to christian.)

TrueAtheism

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According to the the old testament and the new testament there are certain rituals believers need to do in order to appease the biblical god, or to show that they indeed are faithful followers of that god. Simply accepting its existence does not make one a "true" christian, although according to christians there is not one way to be a true christian there are various that is why they have so many denominations. Overall god will not accept you into heaving until you accept him as your savior and worship him. So in christians eyes unless you do the rituals that they believe is needed(which rituals depends on which denominations) then you will be deemed as a non-christian.

acknowledging the biblical gods existence is not enough, you have to do "more" than that to a true christian (what is the "more"? that depends from christian to christian.)

vandyperson

Being Christian would mean accepting whatever the Christian god says, no questions asked. Think of religion as a cult, just one devoid of its ringleader. At this juncture, other people can step in and say that's what God meant to say, this is what God wants you to do. But once the leader is actually present there, you are obligated to follow everything the leader says or else risk being evicted from the cult. Take Objectivism as an example. What started out with Ayn Rand elucidating some of her philosophies turned into a cult when she rejected all opposition and started firing people from the "official" movement if they disagreed. The Christian God admits himself to be a jealous one, one that wants your prayer and complete devotion. He would definitely take the same stand as Ayn Rand, and reject differing opinions as heresy and not Christian. So yeah, lying about "believing in God" (which I don't get anyway, since we've established God exists in this hypothetical situation; unless you mean believing his teachings) will not make you a Christian. When you see people who literally interpret and believe the Bible, they are suffering from a less extreme condition of the above. They behave as if the ringleader is active, instead of normal Christians who believe that he is present but not directly and actively enforcing everything in the Bible. So my answer is: no, in that situation, you cannot support abortion and still be a Christian IF God opposes abortion and says so explicitly. What others around you think doesn't matter shit at that point. TLDR: W.B.C would be in a better position than normal "good" churches at that point.

Being Christian would mean accepting whatever the Christian god says, no questions asked. Think of religion as a cult, just one devoid of its ringleader. At this juncture, other people can step in and say that's what God meant to say, this is what God wants you to do. But once the leader is actually present there, you are obligated to follow everything the leader says or else risk being evicted from the cult. Take Objectivism as an example. What started out with Ayn Rand elucidating some of her philosophies turned into a cult when she rejected all opposition and started firing people from the "official" movement if they disagreed. The Christian God admits himself to be a jealous one, one that wants your prayer and complete devotion. He would definitely take the same stand as Ayn Rand, and reject differing opinions as heresy and not Christian. So yeah, lying about "believing in God" (which I don't get anyway, since we've established God exists in this hypothetical situation; unless you mean believing his teachings) will not make you a Christian. When you see people who literally interpret and believe the Bible, they are suffering from a less extreme condition of the above. They behave as if the ringleader is active, instead of normal Christians who believe that he is present but not directly and actively enforcing everything in the Bible. So my answer is: no, in that situation, you cannot support abortion and still be a Christian IF God opposes abortion and says so explicitly. What others around you think doesn't matter shit at that point. TLDR: W.B.C would be in a better position than normal "good" churches at that point.

TrueAtheism

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Being Christian would mean accepting whatever the Christian god says, no questions asked. Think of religion as a cult, just one devoid of its ringleader. At this juncture, other people can step in and say that's what God meant to say, this is what God wants you to do. But once the leader is actually present there, you are obligated to follow everything the leader says or else risk being evicted from the cult. Take Objectivism as an example. What started out with Ayn Rand elucidating some of her philosophies turned into a cult when she rejected all opposition and started firing people from the "official" movement if they disagreed. The Christian God admits himself to be a jealous one, one that wants your prayer and complete devotion. He would definitely take the same stand as Ayn Rand, and reject differing opinions as heresy and not Christian. So yeah, lying about "believing in God" (which I don't get anyway, since we've established God exists in this hypothetical situation; unless you mean believing his teachings) will not make you a Christian. When you see people who literally interpret and believe the Bible, they are suffering from a less extreme condition of the above. They behave as if the ringleader is active, instead of normal Christians who believe that he is present but not directly and actively enforcing everything in the Bible. So my answer is: no, in that situation, you cannot support abortion and still be a Christian IF God opposes abortion and says so explicitly. What others around you think doesn't matter shit at that point.

W.B.C would be in a better position than normal "good" churches at that point.

SPIDERBOB

&gt;Which engineering field and what do you mostly study about in that major BE in EE, 2 graduate certificates in Networked Information Systems, and Secure Networked System Design. &gt; Your age 22 &gt; Number of years in school end of 4th year out of 5. co-op program, still 8 semesters of classes. &gt; How much debt you have/will graduate with about 25-30K, less than half of what last years graduating class average EE salary was. With ~95% having jobs within 6 months: Low 55k, high 88k, avg 68.6k. And i look at dept less that first years salary as not that bad &gt; Do you have any internships? If so, how hard were they to get? I will have a total of about 22 months at the same company over 4 different times. first 4 month in one position, rest in another. Not hard to get after the first one as they were all 'returns; &gt; Any job offers? Availability of jobs in your search? Currently not really applying, will start once senior year starts. Current co-op company kinda has job offer so need to see where that leads (my bosses have put in the paper work to create a position for me but TLDR politics suck so its a slow process, and will push harder when it gets closer to my graduation) &gt; How much time do you spend on studying? How much free time do you have? If you don't mind, you could tell me what your typical schedule is like. class starts 9/10 am and go till 12/2. and i do work till about 5-6 every day for the most part (got into this schedule as its the same as a full time job, from coop). a few hours each week at night and a few hours here and there for studying / projects on weekend. I got in to a good grove with a group of people and we get work done pretty quick. &gt; Things you wish you known before taking up the major * Study habits that i have now * Probably get more into clubs, even if they look like crap i really should have taken it on and actually made it into something good. *

>Which engineering field and what do you mostly study about in that major BE in EE, 2 graduate certificates in Networked Information Systems, and Secure Networked System Design. > Your age 22 > Number of years in school end of 4th year out of 5. co-op program, still 8 semesters of classes. > How much debt you have/will graduate with about 25-30K, less than half of what last years graduating class average EE salary was. With ~95% having jobs within 6 months: Low 55k, high 88k, avg 68.6k. And i look at dept less that first years salary as not that bad > Do you have any internships? If so, how hard were they to get? I will have a total of about 22 months at the same company over 4 different times. first 4 month in one position, rest in another. Not hard to get after the first one as they were all 'returns; > Any job offers? Availability of jobs in your search? Currently not really applying, will start once senior year starts. Current co-op company kinda has job offer so need to see where that leads (my bosses have put in the paper work to create a position for me but TLDR politics suck so its a slow process, and will push harder when it gets closer to my graduation) > How much time do you spend on studying? How much free time do you have? If you don't mind, you could tell me what your typical schedule is like. class starts 9/10 am and go till 12/2. and i do work till about 5-6 every day for the most part (got into this schedule as its the same as a full time job, from coop). a few hours each week at night and a few hours here and there for studying / projects on weekend. I got in to a good grove with a group of people and we get work done pretty quick. > Things you wish you known before taking up the major Study habits that i have now Probably get more into clubs, even if they look like crap i really should have taken it on and actually made it into something good.

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Which engineering field and what do you mostly study about in that major BE in EE, 2 graduate certificates in Networked Information Systems, and Secure Networked System Design. > Your age 22 > Number of years in school end of 4th year out of 5. co-op program, still 8 semesters of classes. > How much debt you have/will graduate with about 25-30K, less than half of what last years graduating class average EE salary was. With ~95% having jobs within 6 months: Low 55k, high 88k, avg 68.6k. And i look at dept less that first years salary as not that bad > Do you have any internships? If so, how hard were they to get? I will have a total of about 22 months at the same company over 4 different times. first 4 month in one position, rest in another. Not hard to get after the first one as they were all 'returns; > Any job offers? Availability of jobs in your search? Currently not really applying, will start once senior year starts. Current co-op company kinda has job offer so need to see where that leads (my bosses have put in the paper work to create a position for me but

politics suck so its a slow process, and will push harder when it gets closer to my graduation) > How much time do you spend on studying? How much free time do you have? If you don't mind, you could tell me what your typical schedule is like. class starts 9/10 am and go till 12/2. and i do work till about 5-6 every day for the most part (got into this schedule as its the same as a full time job, from coop). a few hours each week at night and a few hours here and there for studying / projects on weekend. I got in to a good grove with a group of people and we get work done pretty quick. > Things you wish you known before taking up the major Study habits that i have now Probably get more into clubs, even if they look like crap i really should have taken it on and actually made it into something good.

PostSincerity

I'm a complete amateur so take this opinion with a grain of salt. I would say 5-10 years ago Hannibal would be cancelled with little fanfare, possibly mid-season. Aside from PBS, which does not produce original dramas, American TV (unlike British or Canadian TV) is a privately run business meaning a network's survival is based almost completely on luring advertising dollars. Combine that with NBC being an over-the-air network which means their potential audience is every American household that owns a TV (2011 estimate is 114.7 million homes) means ideally they are looking for each new show to be a big hit. HOWEVER, NBC is in less than ideal conditions right now. They are really hurting in the network wars... it's a tough time for everyone in the brodcast network TV arena but NBC is pretty much in last place. The changing tech of media distribution has left many networks feeling the crunch as people move to other delivery channels that the networks can't necessarily monetize. For example, whether a network gets a piece of DVD sales would depend on if the network is co-producing with the production studio, sharing some or even most of the financial burden. According to Wikipedia Hannibal is produced by the Dino de Laurentiis Company, Living Dead Guy Productions, AXN Original Productions, and Gaumont International Television. (Living Dead Guy is almost certainly providing creative capital rather than financial as it's Bryan Fuller's production house... I can't guess at the agreement between the other three, other than to say de Laurentiis holds the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character, but none of them are NBC entities.) So, if NBC don't participate in production they're really looking at the live viewers to produce ad revenue. They simply can't afford to cancel a show that has pulled over 4 million viewers for 2 of its 3 outings. They kept the sitcom Community on air for a fourth season even after Season 3 had 13 episodes out of 22 perform under Hannibal's lowest of 3.5 million viewers (albeit with serious changes to the creative staff going into the new season). Granted, that's a show where they may end up having somewhat of an interest in DVD sales as they share a parent company with one of the producers, Universal Television. Also it's a half hour program so it is cheaper to air an individual episode when compared to Hannibal, although Hannibal's episode order is roughly half the usual for a broadcast network so I don't know if that discrepancy holds across the season. These are quibbles that I would guess do little to mitigate the comparison. I think you have to see Hannibal consistently perform well under three million viewers per episode for NBC to even think about cancelling it. Again, I have no idea what I'm talking about and all this has been me totally guessing. **TL;DR:** Hannibal would definitely be canceled in the 90s or early 2000s but right now NBC just cannot afford to let it go. EDIT: Some grammar and put in paragraph breaks.

I'm a complete amateur so take this opinion with a grain of salt. I would say 5-10 years ago Hannibal would be cancelled with little fanfare, possibly mid-season. Aside from PBS, which does not produce original dramas, American TV (unlike British or Canadian TV) is a privately run business meaning a network's survival is based almost completely on luring advertising dollars. Combine that with NBC being an over-the-air network which means their potential audience is every American household that owns a TV (2011 estimate is 114.7 million homes) means ideally they are looking for each new show to be a big hit. HOWEVER, NBC is in less than ideal conditions right now. They are really hurting in the network wars... it's a tough time for everyone in the brodcast network TV arena but NBC is pretty much in last place. The changing tech of media distribution has left many networks feeling the crunch as people move to other delivery channels that the networks can't necessarily monetize. For example, whether a network gets a piece of DVD sales would depend on if the network is co-producing with the production studio, sharing some or even most of the financial burden. According to Wikipedia Hannibal is produced by the Dino de Laurentiis Company, Living Dead Guy Productions, AXN Original Productions, and Gaumont International Television. (Living Dead Guy is almost certainly providing creative capital rather than financial as it's Bryan Fuller's production house... I can't guess at the agreement between the other three, other than to say de Laurentiis holds the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character, but none of them are NBC entities.) So, if NBC don't participate in production they're really looking at the live viewers to produce ad revenue. They simply can't afford to cancel a show that has pulled over 4 million viewers for 2 of its 3 outings. They kept the sitcom Community on air for a fourth season even after Season 3 had 13 episodes out of 22 perform under Hannibal's lowest of 3.5 million viewers (albeit with serious changes to the creative staff going into the new season). Granted, that's a show where they may end up having somewhat of an interest in DVD sales as they share a parent company with one of the producers, Universal Television. Also it's a half hour program so it is cheaper to air an individual episode when compared to Hannibal, although Hannibal's episode order is roughly half the usual for a broadcast network so I don't know if that discrepancy holds across the season. These are quibbles that I would guess do little to mitigate the comparison. I think you have to see Hannibal consistently perform well under three million viewers per episode for NBC to even think about cancelling it. Again, I have no idea what I'm talking about and all this has been me totally guessing. TL;DR: Hannibal would definitely be canceled in the 90s or early 2000s but right now NBC just cannot afford to let it go. EDIT: Some grammar and put in paragraph breaks.

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I'm a complete amateur so take this opinion with a grain of salt. I would say 5-10 years ago Hannibal would be cancelled with little fanfare, possibly mid-season. Aside from PBS, which does not produce original dramas, American TV (unlike British or Canadian TV) is a privately run business meaning a network's survival is based almost completely on luring advertising dollars. Combine that with NBC being an over-the-air network which means their potential audience is every American household that owns a TV (2011 estimate is 114.7 million homes) means ideally they are looking for each new show to be a big hit. HOWEVER, NBC is in less than ideal conditions right now. They are really hurting in the network wars... it's a tough time for everyone in the brodcast network TV arena but NBC is pretty much in last place. The changing tech of media distribution has left many networks feeling the crunch as people move to other delivery channels that the networks can't necessarily monetize. For example, whether a network gets a piece of DVD sales would depend on if the network is co-producing with the production studio, sharing some or even most of the financial burden. According to Wikipedia Hannibal is produced by the Dino de Laurentiis Company, Living Dead Guy Productions, AXN Original Productions, and Gaumont International Television. (Living Dead Guy is almost certainly providing creative capital rather than financial as it's Bryan Fuller's production house... I can't guess at the agreement between the other three, other than to say de Laurentiis holds the rights to the Hannibal Lecter character, but none of them are NBC entities.) So, if NBC don't participate in production they're really looking at the live viewers to produce ad revenue. They simply can't afford to cancel a show that has pulled over 4 million viewers for 2 of its 3 outings. They kept the sitcom Community on air for a fourth season even after Season 3 had 13 episodes out of 22 perform under Hannibal's lowest of 3.5 million viewers (albeit with serious changes to the creative staff going into the new season). Granted, that's a show where they may end up having somewhat of an interest in DVD sales as they share a parent company with one of the producers, Universal Television. Also it's a half hour program so it is cheaper to air an individual episode when compared to Hannibal, although Hannibal's episode order is roughly half the usual for a broadcast network so I don't know if that discrepancy holds across the season. These are quibbles that I would guess do little to mitigate the comparison. I think you have to see Hannibal consistently perform well under three million viewers per episode for NBC to even think about cancelling it. Again, I have no idea what I'm talking about and all this has been me totally guessing.

Hannibal would definitely be canceled in the 90s or early 2000s but right now NBC just cannot afford to let it go. EDIT: Some grammar and put in paragraph breaks.

Wrestlingisgood

ok I shall answer your question. &gt;All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” (Galatians 3:10) If we rely on following the Law (the Torah, the first five books of the Bible) we are under a curse. The passage above, Galatians 3:10, contains a quote from the Law itself, Deuteronomy 27:26. According to Paul’s statement below, things have changed. &gt;Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. (Galatians 3:13) It was Jesus’ death on the cross that rescued us from the curse of the Law. If we insist on following the Law and imposing the Law on others, we negate the cross of Christ, and repudiate Christ’s death on the cross. &gt;It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) this is precisely what is meant by &gt; “a dog returning to its own vomit” (Proverbs 26:11; II Peter 2:22). And if we put other Christians under the Law, we are subjecting them to the very yoke of slavery Paul warned them about. We force them to return to their own vomit as well. &gt;For whoever keeps the whole Law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. (James 2:10) TL;DR You cannot quote Leviticus to prove God hates homosexuality. The Apostle Paul said so in Galatians. [Source]( Thank you for your time.

ok I shall answer your question. >All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” (Galatians 3:10) If we rely on following the Law (the Torah, the first five books of the Bible) we are under a curse. The passage above, Galatians 3:10, contains a quote from the Law itself, Deuteronomy 27:26. According to Paul’s statement below, things have changed. >Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. (Galatians 3:13) It was Jesus’ death on the cross that rescued us from the curse of the Law. If we insist on following the Law and imposing the Law on others, we negate the cross of Christ, and repudiate Christ’s death on the cross. >It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) this is precisely what is meant by > “a dog returning to its own vomit” (Proverbs 26:11; II Peter 2:22). And if we put other Christians under the Law, we are subjecting them to the very yoke of slavery Paul warned them about. We force them to return to their own vomit as well. >For whoever keeps the whole Law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. (James 2:10) TL;DR You cannot quote Leviticus to prove God hates homosexuality. The Apostle Paul said so in Galatians. [Source]( Thank you for your time.

WestboroBaptistChurch

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ok I shall answer your question. >All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.” (Galatians 3:10) If we rely on following the Law (the Torah, the first five books of the Bible) we are under a curse. The passage above, Galatians 3:10, contains a quote from the Law itself, Deuteronomy 27:26. According to Paul’s statement below, things have changed. >Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us. (Galatians 3:13) It was Jesus’ death on the cross that rescued us from the curse of the Law. If we insist on following the Law and imposing the Law on others, we negate the cross of Christ, and repudiate Christ’s death on the cross. >It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1) this is precisely what is meant by > “a dog returning to its own vomit” (Proverbs 26:11; II Peter 2:22). And if we put other Christians under the Law, we are subjecting them to the very yoke of slavery Paul warned them about. We force them to return to their own vomit as well. >For whoever keeps the whole Law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it. (James 2:10)

You cannot quote Leviticus to prove God hates homosexuality. The Apostle Paul said so in Galatians. [Source]( Thank you for your time.

WithkeyThipper

Hey OP what do you think about these bible verses? Matthew 22:36-40 New International Version (NIV) 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Mark 12:31 ESV The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Acts 10:34-35 ESV So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. **TLDR** How does this not tell you that God loves fags?

Hey OP what do you think about these bible verses? Matthew 22:36-40 New International Version (NIV) 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Mark 12:31 ESV The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Acts 10:34-35 ESV So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him. TLDR How does this not tell you that God loves fags?

WestboroBaptistChurch

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Hey OP what do you think about these bible verses? Matthew 22:36-40 New International Version (NIV) 36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” 37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” Mark 12:31 ESV The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” Acts 10:34-35 ESV So Peter opened his mouth and said: “Truly I understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears him and does what is right is acceptable to him.

How does this not tell you that God loves fags?

MURICA_FUKYEA

They are really good. I keep the fans running on quiet mode (using Corsair Link software). But the one complaint I have is that when I boot the PC the fans crank up to max RPM and sounds like an aircraft engine until the log on screen shows up (probably due to the fact that it has to load the cooling profile) but other than that it is quiet and runs cool. TL:DR; I never hear them, except when I turn on the PC.

They are really good. I keep the fans running on quiet mode (using Corsair Link software). But the one complaint I have is that when I boot the PC the fans crank up to max RPM and sounds like an aircraft engine until the log on screen shows up (probably due to the fact that it has to load the cooling profile) but other than that it is quiet and runs cool. TL:DR; I never hear them, except when I turn on the PC.

buildapc

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They are really good. I keep the fans running on quiet mode (using Corsair Link software). But the one complaint I have is that when I boot the PC the fans crank up to max RPM and sounds like an aircraft engine until the log on screen shows up (probably due to the fact that it has to load the cooling profile) but other than that it is quiet and runs cool.

I never hear them, except when I turn on the PC.

SWgeek10056

All I can say is fly SMART It flies like a whale and hits like a howitzer. IF you can line up your shot your target should be dead in one hit. Use smarts to get behind them without them noticing. you can't turn for shit, and you can't run away. TL;DR FLY SMART.

All I can say is fly SMART It flies like a whale and hits like a howitzer. IF you can line up your shot your target should be dead in one hit. Use smarts to get behind them without them noticing. you can't turn for shit, and you can't run away. TL;DR FLY SMART.

Warthunder

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All I can say is fly SMART It flies like a whale and hits like a howitzer. IF you can line up your shot your target should be dead in one hit. Use smarts to get behind them without them noticing. you can't turn for shit, and you can't run away.

FLY SMART.

Molgrimmarr

I fly the first U2 and I have to say the Me410 is a mixed bag for me. Firstly, I LOVE heavy fighters - you can destroy people in one pass (something which rarely happens with a 109, although those hit by it disagree...) but you are ABSOLUTELY dependant on teammates. It's basically just BnZ on crack - you cannot outurn ANYONE and diving into two enemies will get you killed without support and/or speed, but you can really boom. As to the 410 specifically, eh....I don't think I've got the hang of it yet. I still get more kills in my Bf110! I find it's handling acceptable at higher speeds, and its got decent speed. Again, like most heavy fighters, your speed only shows up if you are climbing/turning rather gently. The thing I can't stand about the 410 is how small the window of "acceptable" manueverability is. If you get going under ~300kph you have to flee, which is hard to do when you're a big, slow, not-very-climby target. I can't really recall when it locks up due to speed, but at not-ridiculous dive speeds I find myself unable even to correct for tracers, and have to break off the run. As to the armanent: do any fighters have more? I know people's hands will be slamming to the '3' and '7' keys but honestly I find 4x20mms to rather do the trick against anything that can make it into the air. I haven't tried the 50mm cannon but I assume it would be worse (for me at least) in air combat, but I guess you can pop medium tanks? EDIT: Forgot to mention that it can also carry a nice bombload for some hits on target. I wish you could dive-bomb with them but you have to take a pretty shallow dive, making you rather vulnerable on run. Tl, dr: The Me410 is decent but I find its speed advantage on the Bf110 is lost in many cases by my missing the small 'window of manueverability'. The nose-guns are incredible, and you've got two (side-mounted, odd but effective) tail gunners. I'd rather fly that dog of a 110 any day, but I'm trying to improve with the 410 so any tips appreciated!

I fly the first U2 and I have to say the Me410 is a mixed bag for me. Firstly, I LOVE heavy fighters - you can destroy people in one pass (something which rarely happens with a 109, although those hit by it disagree...) but you are ABSOLUTELY dependant on teammates. It's basically just BnZ on crack - you cannot outurn ANYONE and diving into two enemies will get you killed without support and/or speed, but you can really boom. As to the 410 specifically, eh....I don't think I've got the hang of it yet. I still get more kills in my Bf110! I find it's handling acceptable at higher speeds, and its got decent speed. Again, like most heavy fighters, your speed only shows up if you are climbing/turning rather gently. The thing I can't stand about the 410 is how small the window of "acceptable" manueverability is. If you get going under ~300kph you have to flee, which is hard to do when you're a big, slow, not-very-climby target. I can't really recall when it locks up due to speed, but at not-ridiculous dive speeds I find myself unable even to correct for tracers, and have to break off the run. As to the armanent: do any fighters have more? I know people's hands will be slamming to the '3' and '7' keys but honestly I find 4x20mms to rather do the trick against anything that can make it into the air. I haven't tried the 50mm cannon but I assume it would be worse (for me at least) in air combat, but I guess you can pop medium tanks? EDIT: Forgot to mention that it can also carry a nice bombload for some hits on target. I wish you could dive-bomb with them but you have to take a pretty shallow dive, making you rather vulnerable on run. Tl, dr: The Me410 is decent but I find its speed advantage on the Bf110 is lost in many cases by my missing the small 'window of manueverability'. The nose-guns are incredible, and you've got two (side-mounted, odd but effective) tail gunners. I'd rather fly that dog of a 110 any day, but I'm trying to improve with the 410 so any tips appreciated!

Warthunder

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I fly the first U2 and I have to say the Me410 is a mixed bag for me. Firstly, I LOVE heavy fighters - you can destroy people in one pass (something which rarely happens with a 109, although those hit by it disagree...) but you are ABSOLUTELY dependant on teammates. It's basically just BnZ on crack - you cannot outurn ANYONE and diving into two enemies will get you killed without support and/or speed, but you can really boom. As to the 410 specifically, eh....I don't think I've got the hang of it yet. I still get more kills in my Bf110! I find it's handling acceptable at higher speeds, and its got decent speed. Again, like most heavy fighters, your speed only shows up if you are climbing/turning rather gently. The thing I can't stand about the 410 is how small the window of "acceptable" manueverability is. If you get going under ~300kph you have to flee, which is hard to do when you're a big, slow, not-very-climby target. I can't really recall when it locks up due to speed, but at not-ridiculous dive speeds I find myself unable even to correct for tracers, and have to break off the run. As to the armanent: do any fighters have more? I know people's hands will be slamming to the '3' and '7' keys but honestly I find 4x20mms to rather do the trick against anything that can make it into the air. I haven't tried the 50mm cannon but I assume it would be worse (for me at least) in air combat, but I guess you can pop medium tanks? EDIT: Forgot to mention that it can also carry a nice bombload for some hits on target. I wish you could dive-bomb with them but you have to take a pretty shallow dive, making you rather vulnerable on run.

The Me410 is decent but I find its speed advantage on the Bf110 is lost in many cases by my missing the small 'window of manueverability'. The nose-guns are incredible, and you've got two (side-mounted, odd but effective) tail gunners. I'd rather fly that dog of a 110 any day, but I'm trying to improve with the 410 so any tips appreciated!

notnotnoveltyaccount

Tuesday my wife and I played **[Haggis]( It was our first time playing, though I've played on my phone many times. Haggis is a trick-taking game that supports 2 players, which a lot of trick-taking games don't. I'm not a connoisseur of trick-taking games, so I'm not sure how Haggis stacks up with other trick-taking games, but we enjoyed it. Really good production values in the game too. I won our game, but it was hardly fair since I've played before. Wednesday we played **[Ilium]( which is a Reiner Knizia abstract-with-a-pasted-on-theme game, a specialty of his. It was our first time playing. You play an archeologist excavating artifacts from dig sites. You do so by placing your meeples on a section of a path that connects 2 dig sites. Once the path is full, the player with the most meeples on the path takes the artifact tile with the lowest number of artifacts from one of the connected dig sites. The player with the second most meeples, as long as it's at least half the amount of the player with the most meeples, takes the artifact tile with the lowest number of artifacts from the other connected dig site. Play continues in this way until all 5-artifact tiles are taken. You then get an endgame bonus if you have the most tiles for a specific artifact and a bonus for each set of 5 different artifacts you have. This game really felt similar to other Knizia games, so if you like his games you'll like this one too. My wife smoked me in this game 95-55. Thursday my lunchtime gaming group played a 6-player game of **[Food Fight]( While I enjoy playing this game, it really hit me that there is too much downtime with a 6-player game. It's also a little too random since you can't set the order of your army unless you have the Grilled Cheesus card. We decided the next time we play we're going to remove Grilled Cheesus from the game and we're going to order our army as we want. That should make the game a little more strategic. I ended up winning in a "battle-off" because we were running out of time. Saturday my wife and I played **[Wasabi!]( which was the first time we played. In Wasabi! you are a sushi chef trying to make sushi rolls through placing tiles on the sushi mat, which is the main game board. Recipes are 2, 3, 4, or 5 in length and you have 10 tokens that allow you to complete 1 recipe of a length specified on the token. The game ends when the board is completely filled or when a player has completed all 10 recipes. In our 2-player game, we didn't have a lot of interaction, but I think a 3 or 4 player game would have more. It's a cute game, and the component quality is fantastic. I won by completing my recipes first. Sunday I did not go to my normal gaming group. Instead, my wife and I had our own marathon gaming session. We started with **[The Lost Dutchman]( which was our first time playing. This was a game I backed on Kickstarter and I've been looking forward to getting it to the table. You play a prospector who has to overcome challenges on trails as you search for the lost gold mine of untold riches. You do some skill building, you find and bury some treasure, and you have a little bit of a push your luck element by moving to tiles that you have to discover what's on the tile, which could be something good or could be something bad. The game ends when the lost mine is found or when the water supply runs out. The Lost Dutchman is a nice light exploration game. It also includes a mini game where you are gathering gold with a push your luck dice mechanism, but we couldn't figure out the rules so we didn't play that. I ended up winning by being the first to get to the lost mine. Next up was **[Luna]( and it was the first time we played. Luna is a Stefan Feld (The Castles of Burgundy, Trajan, etc.) game, so we went into it expecting complexity of choices. And holy balls Batman, we were not disappointed. Luna is essentially a worker placement game, but there are so many layers upon layers upon layers in the game that the best choices you can make usually are not obvious. I'd put the complexity up with **Troyes**, simply because there are so many choices you can make each round. The rulebook even states that players may feel inundated with choices at first, but the choices will become clear after playing for a few rounds. I agree with that; it took me about 2 rounds before I started to see what was going on. Beautiful components and fascinating gameplay make this another Feld winner. I won 88-83, which was much closer than my wife thought. She thought she was getting blown out during the game, which goes to show just how well the game can mask success or failure. For our next game I picked **[Salmon Run]( which was the first time we played. Salmon Run is another Kickstarter and I've been wanting to play this for a couple weeks now. In Salmon Run you play--wait for it--a salmon who is swimming up stream to get to the breeding pool for sexy times. On your journey you'll have to avoid bears, jump waterfalls, and try to outrace your opponents while trying to not get too fatigued. Each turn you can play 3 cards from your hand of 4 and if you play 3 swim cards, you have to add a fatigue card to your deck. Fatigue cards do nothing, so they act as a method to slow you down. Swimming over certain spaces on the board also allows you to add new cards to your deck in order to grant you some new mechanics, such as playing an eagle card to force your opponent to discard a card of your choice from their hand. The best thing about Salmon Run is the modular board, which allows you to tailor the game to be as easy or as hard as you like. Salmon Run is a lot of fun and it really did feel like a race, with the fatigue cards fitting in well with the theme. I ended up winning by getting to the breeding pool at the same time as my wife but I had fewer fatigue cards in my deck, which was the tiebreaker. My wife picked **[Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa map]( to play next. We had not played the Africa map before. The twist in this game is there are terrain cards that you can draw and play with a matching segment color to double the points you get for that segment. I didn't really enjoy this map. It felt like colors were not well-balanced on the map. One section of the map had several white segments while the rest of the map didn't have many white segments at all. And there aren't a lot of gray routes to compensate for it. So if you don't have any tickets to complete in the section of the map that has a lot of white segments and you keep drawing white cards, you probably won't have anything to do with them. I felt the same way for blue and green, too. I think this is my least favorite map that I've played. My wife ended up crushing me 220-something to 170-something. I thought I had done really well until she started counting up her points for all her completed tickets. Keeping with my Kickstarter theme for games to play, next I picked **[Race to Adventure: The Spirit of the Century Exploration Game]( It was our first time playing. In Race to Adventure, you play a, well, adventurer who is traveling around the world to complete quests and stamp your passport complete before anyone else. The map is modular, so the game boils down to trying to achieve each mission in the least amount of steps while using an item available to you that no one else picked that round. Like a lightening gun, or a jetpack. Honestly, I was a little let down by the game. It's not a bad game by any means, but the way the game was pitched and the way the writing is so exuberant, I was expecting a game with a much more epic scope instead of a quick 15 minute filler. It just doesn't feel like there's much to the game. The destination tiles do have an alternate side that you can play to make the game a little harder, which is what we'll try next time. But right now I'm a little underwhelmed. I managed to win the game by getting back to the Century Club with a completed passport one turn ahead of my wife. Finally, the last game of the night was **[Dynasties]( Dynasties is a 2-player game where you are battling over Chinese provinces for 9 turns. Each turn you lay down a card that will resolve for a specific province and that card determines how many armies you will gain or lose in that province for that turn. The twist is some cards can only be used once, so you have to be very judicious when you use a card. That 10 card will allow you to put a ton of armies on the map, but if you opponent played the +1 card against you, then they have 11 armies against your 10 for the turn. And now you can't use the 10 card again. Dynasties is a really clever little game. It reminds me of **Aton**, which I mentioned last week. I ended up winning in the 9th turn. Question time! - Do I back Kickstarter projects? Does a bear get sad because someone ate his porridge? - My favorite 3 games... I can never answer a favorite question because my favorites keep changing all the damn time. - No, you can't take any of my children! **TL;DR** - **Haggis** - **Ilium** - **Food Fight** - **Wasabi!** - **The Lost Dutchman** - **Luna** - **Salmon Run** - **Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa** - **Race to Adventure: The Spirit of the Century Exploration Game** - **Dynasties**

Tuesday my wife and I played **[Haggis]( It was our first time playing, though I've played on my phone many times. Haggis is a trick-taking game that supports 2 players, which a lot of trick-taking games don't. I'm not a connoisseur of trick-taking games, so I'm not sure how Haggis stacks up with other trick-taking games, but we enjoyed it. Really good production values in the game too. I won our game, but it was hardly fair since I've played before. Wednesday we played **[Ilium]( which is a Reiner Knizia abstract-with-a-pasted-on-theme game, a specialty of his. It was our first time playing. You play an archeologist excavating artifacts from dig sites. You do so by placing your meeples on a section of a path that connects 2 dig sites. Once the path is full, the player with the most meeples on the path takes the artifact tile with the lowest number of artifacts from one of the connected dig sites. The player with the second most meeples, as long as it's at least half the amount of the player with the most meeples, takes the artifact tile with the lowest number of artifacts from the other connected dig site. Play continues in this way until all 5-artifact tiles are taken. You then get an endgame bonus if you have the most tiles for a specific artifact and a bonus for each set of 5 different artifacts you have. This game really felt similar to other Knizia games, so if you like his games you'll like this one too. My wife smoked me in this game 95-55. Thursday my lunchtime gaming group played a 6-player game of **[Food Fight]( While I enjoy playing this game, it really hit me that there is too much downtime with a 6-player game. It's also a little too random since you can't set the order of your army unless you have the Grilled Cheesus card. We decided the next time we play we're going to remove Grilled Cheesus from the game and we're going to order our army as we want. That should make the game a little more strategic. I ended up winning in a "battle-off" because we were running out of time. Saturday my wife and I played **[Wasabi!]( which was the first time we played. In Wasabi! you are a sushi chef trying to make sushi rolls through placing tiles on the sushi mat, which is the main game board. Recipes are 2, 3, 4, or 5 in length and you have 10 tokens that allow you to complete 1 recipe of a length specified on the token. The game ends when the board is completely filled or when a player has completed all 10 recipes. In our 2-player game, we didn't have a lot of interaction, but I think a 3 or 4 player game would have more. It's a cute game, and the component quality is fantastic. I won by completing my recipes first. Sunday I did not go to my normal gaming group. Instead, my wife and I had our own marathon gaming session. We started with **[The Lost Dutchman]( which was our first time playing. This was a game I backed on Kickstarter and I've been looking forward to getting it to the table. You play a prospector who has to overcome challenges on trails as you search for the lost gold mine of untold riches. You do some skill building, you find and bury some treasure, and you have a little bit of a push your luck element by moving to tiles that you have to discover what's on the tile, which could be something good or could be something bad. The game ends when the lost mine is found or when the water supply runs out. The Lost Dutchman is a nice light exploration game. It also includes a mini game where you are gathering gold with a push your luck dice mechanism, but we couldn't figure out the rules so we didn't play that. I ended up winning by being the first to get to the lost mine. Next up was Luna game, so we went into it expecting complexity of choices. And holy balls Batman, we were not disappointed. Luna is essentially a worker placement game, but there are so many layers upon layers upon layers in the game that the best choices you can make usually are not obvious. I'd put the complexity up with Troyes**, simply because there are so many choices you can make each round. The rulebook even states that players may feel inundated with choices at first, but the choices will become clear after playing for a few rounds. I agree with that; it took me about 2 rounds before I started to see what was going on. Beautiful components and fascinating gameplay make this another Feld winner. I won 88-83, which was much closer than my wife thought. She thought she was getting blown out during the game, which goes to show just how well the game can mask success or failure. For our next game I picked **[Salmon Run]( which was the first time we played. Salmon Run is another Kickstarter and I've been wanting to play this for a couple weeks now. In Salmon Run you play--wait for it--a salmon who is swimming up stream to get to the breeding pool for sexy times. On your journey you'll have to avoid bears, jump waterfalls, and try to outrace your opponents while trying to not get too fatigued. Each turn you can play 3 cards from your hand of 4 and if you play 3 swim cards, you have to add a fatigue card to your deck. Fatigue cards do nothing, so they act as a method to slow you down. Swimming over certain spaces on the board also allows you to add new cards to your deck in order to grant you some new mechanics, such as playing an eagle card to force your opponent to discard a card of your choice from their hand. The best thing about Salmon Run is the modular board, which allows you to tailor the game to be as easy or as hard as you like. Salmon Run is a lot of fun and it really did feel like a race, with the fatigue cards fitting in well with the theme. I ended up winning by getting to the breeding pool at the same time as my wife but I had fewer fatigue cards in my deck, which was the tiebreaker. My wife picked **[Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa map]( to play next. We had not played the Africa map before. The twist in this game is there are terrain cards that you can draw and play with a matching segment color to double the points you get for that segment. I didn't really enjoy this map. It felt like colors were not well-balanced on the map. One section of the map had several white segments while the rest of the map didn't have many white segments at all. And there aren't a lot of gray routes to compensate for it. So if you don't have any tickets to complete in the section of the map that has a lot of white segments and you keep drawing white cards, you probably won't have anything to do with them. I felt the same way for blue and green, too. I think this is my least favorite map that I've played. My wife ended up crushing me 220-something to 170-something. I thought I had done really well until she started counting up her points for all her completed tickets. Keeping with my Kickstarter theme for games to play, next I picked **[Race to Adventure: The Spirit of the Century Exploration Game]( It was our first time playing. In Race to Adventure, you play a, well, adventurer who is traveling around the world to complete quests and stamp your passport complete before anyone else. The map is modular, so the game boils down to trying to achieve each mission in the least amount of steps while using an item available to you that no one else picked that round. Like a lightening gun, or a jetpack. Honestly, I was a little let down by the game. It's not a bad game by any means, but the way the game was pitched and the way the writing is so exuberant, I was expecting a game with a much more epic scope instead of a quick 15 minute filler. It just doesn't feel like there's much to the game. The destination tiles do have an alternate side that you can play to make the game a little harder, which is what we'll try next time. But right now I'm a little underwhelmed. I managed to win the game by getting back to the Century Club with a completed passport one turn ahead of my wife. Finally, the last game of the night was [Dynasties]( Dynasties is a 2-player game where you are battling over Chinese provinces for 9 turns. Each turn you lay down a card that will resolve for a specific province and that card determines how many armies you will gain or lose in that province for that turn. The twist is some cards can only be used once, so you have to be very judicious when you use a card. That 10 card will allow you to put a ton of armies on the map, but if you opponent played the +1 card against you, then they have 11 armies against your 10 for the turn. And now you can't use the 10 card again. Dynasties is a really clever little game. It reminds me of Aton**, which I mentioned last week. I ended up winning in the 9th turn. Question time! Do I back Kickstarter projects? Does a bear get sad because someone ate his porridge? My favorite 3 games... I can never answer a favorite question because my favorites keep changing all the damn time. No, you can't take any of my children! TL;DR Haggis Ilium Food Fight Wasabi! The Lost Dutchman Luna Salmon Run Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa Race to Adventure: The Spirit of the Century Exploration Game Dynasties

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Tuesday my wife and I played **[Haggis]( It was our first time playing, though I've played on my phone many times. Haggis is a trick-taking game that supports 2 players, which a lot of trick-taking games don't. I'm not a connoisseur of trick-taking games, so I'm not sure how Haggis stacks up with other trick-taking games, but we enjoyed it. Really good production values in the game too. I won our game, but it was hardly fair since I've played before. Wednesday we played **[Ilium]( which is a Reiner Knizia abstract-with-a-pasted-on-theme game, a specialty of his. It was our first time playing. You play an archeologist excavating artifacts from dig sites. You do so by placing your meeples on a section of a path that connects 2 dig sites. Once the path is full, the player with the most meeples on the path takes the artifact tile with the lowest number of artifacts from one of the connected dig sites. The player with the second most meeples, as long as it's at least half the amount of the player with the most meeples, takes the artifact tile with the lowest number of artifacts from the other connected dig site. Play continues in this way until all 5-artifact tiles are taken. You then get an endgame bonus if you have the most tiles for a specific artifact and a bonus for each set of 5 different artifacts you have. This game really felt similar to other Knizia games, so if you like his games you'll like this one too. My wife smoked me in this game 95-55. Thursday my lunchtime gaming group played a 6-player game of **[Food Fight]( While I enjoy playing this game, it really hit me that there is too much downtime with a 6-player game. It's also a little too random since you can't set the order of your army unless you have the Grilled Cheesus card. We decided the next time we play we're going to remove Grilled Cheesus from the game and we're going to order our army as we want. That should make the game a little more strategic. I ended up winning in a "battle-off" because we were running out of time. Saturday my wife and I played **[Wasabi!]( which was the first time we played. In Wasabi! you are a sushi chef trying to make sushi rolls through placing tiles on the sushi mat, which is the main game board. Recipes are 2, 3, 4, or 5 in length and you have 10 tokens that allow you to complete 1 recipe of a length specified on the token. The game ends when the board is completely filled or when a player has completed all 10 recipes. In our 2-player game, we didn't have a lot of interaction, but I think a 3 or 4 player game would have more. It's a cute game, and the component quality is fantastic. I won by completing my recipes first. Sunday I did not go to my normal gaming group. Instead, my wife and I had our own marathon gaming session. We started with **[The Lost Dutchman]( which was our first time playing. This was a game I backed on Kickstarter and I've been looking forward to getting it to the table. You play a prospector who has to overcome challenges on trails as you search for the lost gold mine of untold riches. You do some skill building, you find and bury some treasure, and you have a little bit of a push your luck element by moving to tiles that you have to discover what's on the tile, which could be something good or could be something bad. The game ends when the lost mine is found or when the water supply runs out. The Lost Dutchman is a nice light exploration game. It also includes a mini game where you are gathering gold with a push your luck dice mechanism, but we couldn't figure out the rules so we didn't play that. I ended up winning by being the first to get to the lost mine. Next up was Luna game, so we went into it expecting complexity of choices. And holy balls Batman, we were not disappointed. Luna is essentially a worker placement game, but there are so many layers upon layers upon layers in the game that the best choices you can make usually are not obvious. I'd put the complexity up with Troyes**, simply because there are so many choices you can make each round. The rulebook even states that players may feel inundated with choices at first, but the choices will become clear after playing for a few rounds. I agree with that; it took me about 2 rounds before I started to see what was going on. Beautiful components and fascinating gameplay make this another Feld winner. I won 88-83, which was much closer than my wife thought. She thought she was getting blown out during the game, which goes to show just how well the game can mask success or failure. For our next game I picked **[Salmon Run]( which was the first time we played. Salmon Run is another Kickstarter and I've been wanting to play this for a couple weeks now. In Salmon Run you play--wait for it--a salmon who is swimming up stream to get to the breeding pool for sexy times. On your journey you'll have to avoid bears, jump waterfalls, and try to outrace your opponents while trying to not get too fatigued. Each turn you can play 3 cards from your hand of 4 and if you play 3 swim cards, you have to add a fatigue card to your deck. Fatigue cards do nothing, so they act as a method to slow you down. Swimming over certain spaces on the board also allows you to add new cards to your deck in order to grant you some new mechanics, such as playing an eagle card to force your opponent to discard a card of your choice from their hand. The best thing about Salmon Run is the modular board, which allows you to tailor the game to be as easy or as hard as you like. Salmon Run is a lot of fun and it really did feel like a race, with the fatigue cards fitting in well with the theme. I ended up winning by getting to the breeding pool at the same time as my wife but I had fewer fatigue cards in my deck, which was the tiebreaker. My wife picked **[Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa map]( to play next. We had not played the Africa map before. The twist in this game is there are terrain cards that you can draw and play with a matching segment color to double the points you get for that segment. I didn't really enjoy this map. It felt like colors were not well-balanced on the map. One section of the map had several white segments while the rest of the map didn't have many white segments at all. And there aren't a lot of gray routes to compensate for it. So if you don't have any tickets to complete in the section of the map that has a lot of white segments and you keep drawing white cards, you probably won't have anything to do with them. I felt the same way for blue and green, too. I think this is my least favorite map that I've played. My wife ended up crushing me 220-something to 170-something. I thought I had done really well until she started counting up her points for all her completed tickets. Keeping with my Kickstarter theme for games to play, next I picked **[Race to Adventure: The Spirit of the Century Exploration Game]( It was our first time playing. In Race to Adventure, you play a, well, adventurer who is traveling around the world to complete quests and stamp your passport complete before anyone else. The map is modular, so the game boils down to trying to achieve each mission in the least amount of steps while using an item available to you that no one else picked that round. Like a lightening gun, or a jetpack. Honestly, I was a little let down by the game. It's not a bad game by any means, but the way the game was pitched and the way the writing is so exuberant, I was expecting a game with a much more epic scope instead of a quick 15 minute filler. It just doesn't feel like there's much to the game. The destination tiles do have an alternate side that you can play to make the game a little harder, which is what we'll try next time. But right now I'm a little underwhelmed. I managed to win the game by getting back to the Century Club with a completed passport one turn ahead of my wife. Finally, the last game of the night was [Dynasties]( Dynasties is a 2-player game where you are battling over Chinese provinces for 9 turns. Each turn you lay down a card that will resolve for a specific province and that card determines how many armies you will gain or lose in that province for that turn. The twist is some cards can only be used once, so you have to be very judicious when you use a card. That 10 card will allow you to put a ton of armies on the map, but if you opponent played the +1 card against you, then they have 11 armies against your 10 for the turn. And now you can't use the 10 card again. Dynasties is a really clever little game. It reminds me of Aton**, which I mentioned last week. I ended up winning in the 9th turn. Question time! Do I back Kickstarter projects? Does a bear get sad because someone ate his porridge? My favorite 3 games... I can never answer a favorite question because my favorites keep changing all the damn time. No, you can't take any of my children!

Haggis Ilium Food Fight Wasabi! The Lost Dutchman Luna Salmon Run Ticket to Ride: The Heart of Africa Race to Adventure: The Spirit of the Century Exploration Game Dynasties

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This is why it pisses me off when anti-gay people say "THINK OF THE CHILDREN ZOMG" Bigotry is learned. Kids' default setting Is "i dont care" they only care about what you do since they Monkey see monkey do so hard. Tldr; You're parenting right.

This is why it pisses me off when anti-gay people say "THINK OF THE CHILDREN ZOMG" Bigotry is learned. Kids' default setting Is "i dont care" they only care about what you do since they Monkey see monkey do so hard. Tldr; You're parenting right.

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This is why it pisses me off when anti-gay people say "THINK OF THE CHILDREN ZOMG" Bigotry is learned. Kids' default setting Is "i dont care" they only care about what you do since they Monkey see monkey do so hard.

You're parenting right.

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Megatron &amp; Jones are just no brainers. Both easily top-5 WRs (although too bad this isn't PPR). Given that it's 6pt passing TDs, QB makes a little more difference than a standard 4PT passing TD league. I'd def keep RG3. With 12 teams each keeping 5 players, a lot of RBs are going to be gone. And WR is super deep this year. I'd keep Ridley over CJ. One spot left, hard to go wrong picking between Bryant &amp; Thomas. I'd lean Bryant, because Welker should eat a little bit into Thomas' numbers this year. Alternatively, you could throw Bryant back (again, since it's not PPR), and keep Kaep. In a 12-team league w/ 6 pt Passing TDs you might be able to trade him to another team for a good RB. Draft a RB w/ your first pick! **TL;DR: RG3, Ridley, Megatron, Julio, Dez**

Megatron & Jones are just no brainers. Both easily top-5 WRs (although too bad this isn't PPR). Given that it's 6pt passing TDs, QB makes a little more difference than a standard 4PT passing TD league. I'd def keep RG3. With 12 teams each keeping 5 players, a lot of RBs are going to be gone. And WR is super deep this year. I'd keep Ridley over CJ. One spot left, hard to go wrong picking between Bryant & Thomas. I'd lean Bryant, because Welker should eat a little bit into Thomas' numbers this year. Alternatively, you could throw Bryant back (again, since it's not PPR), and keep Kaep. In a 12-team league w/ 6 pt Passing TDs you might be able to trade him to another team for a good RB. Draft a RB w/ your first pick! TL;DR: RG3, Ridley, Megatron, Julio, Dez

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Megatron & Jones are just no brainers. Both easily top-5 WRs (although too bad this isn't PPR). Given that it's 6pt passing TDs, QB makes a little more difference than a standard 4PT passing TD league. I'd def keep RG3. With 12 teams each keeping 5 players, a lot of RBs are going to be gone. And WR is super deep this year. I'd keep Ridley over CJ. One spot left, hard to go wrong picking between Bryant & Thomas. I'd lean Bryant, because Welker should eat a little bit into Thomas' numbers this year. Alternatively, you could throw Bryant back (again, since it's not PPR), and keep Kaep. In a 12-team league w/ 6 pt Passing TDs you might be able to trade him to another team for a good RB. Draft a RB w/ your first pick!

RG3, Ridley, Megatron, Julio, Dez