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I'm interested, Can only do Sundays, and would play AM at the head of a diamond, or CF With the captaincy, how can you elect a captain before you have a team? before you know what league you're in? before you know your formation? before you know who's playing? before you know your team-mates? Who's going to volunteer to be captain for a team they might or might not want to play for depending on league, day played, standard of opposition, etc. It's skewed from the start if you hold it now, and unfair. You can vote for 'organiser' or you can vote for 'chairman' of the new team, but you can't vote for captain, a role requiring a totally different set of attributes. The captain should be voted for by the team shortly before the new season kicks off when we know each other. Not before the team is even formed. TL:DR Sailors don't choose a captain before they have a boat.

I'm interested, Can only do Sundays, and would play AM at the head of a diamond, or CF With the captaincy, how can you elect a captain before you have a team? before you know what league you're in? before you know your formation? before you know who's playing? before you know your team-mates? Who's going to volunteer to be captain for a team they might or might not want to play for depending on league, day played, standard of opposition, etc. It's skewed from the start if you hold it now, and unfair. You can vote for 'organiser' or you can vote for 'chairman' of the new team, but you can't vote for captain, a role requiring a totally different set of attributes. The captain should be voted for by the team shortly before the new season kicks off when we know each other. Not before the team is even formed. TL:DR Sailors don't choose a captain before they have a boat.

londonfootballmeetup

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I'm interested, Can only do Sundays, and would play AM at the head of a diamond, or CF With the captaincy, how can you elect a captain before you have a team? before you know what league you're in? before you know your formation? before you know who's playing? before you know your team-mates? Who's going to volunteer to be captain for a team they might or might not want to play for depending on league, day played, standard of opposition, etc. It's skewed from the start if you hold it now, and unfair. You can vote for 'organiser' or you can vote for 'chairman' of the new team, but you can't vote for captain, a role requiring a totally different set of attributes. The captain should be voted for by the team shortly before the new season kicks off when we know each other. Not before the team is even formed.

Sailors don't choose a captain before they have a boat.

nosico

Swain enthusiast here, just dropping in to point out that Karthus E does more damage than Swain's ult (even on an optimal number of targets - 3 or less) coupled with the fact that without Karthus's passive Swain can't itemise for heavy AP like Karthus can. TLDR: Pick Karthus instead

Swain enthusiast here, just dropping in to point out that Karthus E does more damage than Swain's ult (even on an optimal number of targets - 3 or less) coupled with the fact that without Karthus's passive Swain can't itemise for heavy AP like Karthus can. TLDR: Pick Karthus instead

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Swain enthusiast here, just dropping in to point out that Karthus E does more damage than Swain's ult (even on an optimal number of targets - 3 or less) coupled with the fact that without Karthus's passive Swain can't itemise for heavy AP like Karthus can.

Pick Karthus instead

fancymenofcornwood

Since I didn't know about this subreddit when I first bought ksp, back in the 0.17 days, I never got a chance to share my first Mun landing. So, if you'll bear with me I'll share with you the story of how I, half drunk, pulled off this momentous beginner feat. I had already failed three previous landings and was quickly loosing patience. My friend sat next to me playing Halo on my xbox. In all honesty I was supposed to have turned off KSP 30 minutes before and join him but I refused to leave my laptop until I was landed on the Mun. The two of us were drinking and by this point I was feeling the buzz. My dinky lander approached the surface and, due to my inexperience with throttle control, bodded up and down as I continuously panicked and gunned the throttle thinking the surface was much closer than it actually was. Eventually I decided to go all in and descended at 10 m/s. My heart raced as I watched the altimeter slowly descend until suddenly. . . it stopped! I panicked, I had no idea what was going on. Had I throttled up too much and begun to ascend? I couldn't have. It took precious seconds of nervous fumbling to realize that the altimeter stopped descending because I had stopped descending. I had landed. I quickly throttled down and breathed one of the biggest sighs of relief in my video game career. Quickly, I decided to grab a picture of the achievement in the only way I knew at the time, my cell phone. I didn't learn the F1 trick till weeks later. So there you have it. Thanks for reliving this little gem of nostalgia with me. Tl;dr I used to be very green at ksp

Since I didn't know about this subreddit when I first bought ksp, back in the 0.17 days, I never got a chance to share my first Mun landing. So, if you'll bear with me I'll share with you the story of how I, half drunk, pulled off this momentous beginner feat. I had already failed three previous landings and was quickly loosing patience. My friend sat next to me playing Halo on my xbox. In all honesty I was supposed to have turned off KSP 30 minutes before and join him but I refused to leave my laptop until I was landed on the Mun. The two of us were drinking and by this point I was feeling the buzz. My dinky lander approached the surface and, due to my inexperience with throttle control, bodded up and down as I continuously panicked and gunned the throttle thinking the surface was much closer than it actually was. Eventually I decided to go all in and descended at 10 m/s. My heart raced as I watched the altimeter slowly descend until suddenly. . . it stopped! I panicked, I had no idea what was going on. Had I throttled up too much and begun to ascend? I couldn't have. It took precious seconds of nervous fumbling to realize that the altimeter stopped descending because I had stopped descending. I had landed. I quickly throttled down and breathed one of the biggest sighs of relief in my video game career. Quickly, I decided to grab a picture of the achievement in the only way I knew at the time, my cell phone. I didn't learn the F1 trick till weeks later. So there you have it. Thanks for reliving this little gem of nostalgia with me. Tl;dr I used to be very green at ksp

KerbalSpaceProgram

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Since I didn't know about this subreddit when I first bought ksp, back in the 0.17 days, I never got a chance to share my first Mun landing. So, if you'll bear with me I'll share with you the story of how I, half drunk, pulled off this momentous beginner feat. I had already failed three previous landings and was quickly loosing patience. My friend sat next to me playing Halo on my xbox. In all honesty I was supposed to have turned off KSP 30 minutes before and join him but I refused to leave my laptop until I was landed on the Mun. The two of us were drinking and by this point I was feeling the buzz. My dinky lander approached the surface and, due to my inexperience with throttle control, bodded up and down as I continuously panicked and gunned the throttle thinking the surface was much closer than it actually was. Eventually I decided to go all in and descended at 10 m/s. My heart raced as I watched the altimeter slowly descend until suddenly. . . it stopped! I panicked, I had no idea what was going on. Had I throttled up too much and begun to ascend? I couldn't have. It took precious seconds of nervous fumbling to realize that the altimeter stopped descending because I had stopped descending. I had landed. I quickly throttled down and breathed one of the biggest sighs of relief in my video game career. Quickly, I decided to grab a picture of the achievement in the only way I knew at the time, my cell phone. I didn't learn the F1 trick till weeks later. So there you have it. Thanks for reliving this little gem of nostalgia with me.

I used to be very green at ksp

clark_ent

Time to fact check your ridiculous claim: There are 1.3 million immigrants to Sweden yearly. Your link shows an increase of 5,000 crimes which is hardly statistical noise that can be correlated. Your link doesn't even say Muslims are creating the crime, just that crime has increased. In fact, your link says most immigrants are caucasian, suggesting that most of the rape statistics are from caucasian. You have fallen for the cause/correlation fallacy. Additionally, Swedes still statistically create almost all of the crime in Sweden. For example, last year there were 1,410,000 crimes, and you are saying Muslims are responsible for 5,000 of them. Following your logic, we should outlaw Swedes and only allow immigrants into the nation? On top of all this, your argument is one big ecological fallacy. Just because one Muslim rapes doesn't mean all of them--or even most of them--do. In fact, just because there were **tl;dr** We have you down for cause/correlation fallacy, cherry picking, and ecological fallacies. That's the problem with racism, there's no common sense or even logic in it. All racism does is create fallacious thinking

Time to fact check your ridiculous claim: There are 1.3 million immigrants to Sweden yearly. Your link shows an increase of 5,000 crimes which is hardly statistical noise that can be correlated. Your link doesn't even say Muslims are creating the crime, just that crime has increased. In fact, your link says most immigrants are caucasian, suggesting that most of the rape statistics are from caucasian. You have fallen for the cause/correlation fallacy. Additionally, Swedes still statistically create almost all of the crime in Sweden. For example, last year there were 1,410,000 crimes, and you are saying Muslims are responsible for 5,000 of them. Following your logic, we should outlaw Swedes and only allow immigrants into the nation? On top of all this, your argument is one big ecological fallacy. Just because one Muslim rapes doesn't mean all of them--or even most of them--do. In fact, just because there were tl;dr We have you down for cause/correlation fallacy, cherry picking, and ecological fallacies. That's the problem with racism, there's no common sense or even logic in it. All racism does is create fallacious thinking

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Time to fact check your ridiculous claim: There are 1.3 million immigrants to Sweden yearly. Your link shows an increase of 5,000 crimes which is hardly statistical noise that can be correlated. Your link doesn't even say Muslims are creating the crime, just that crime has increased. In fact, your link says most immigrants are caucasian, suggesting that most of the rape statistics are from caucasian. You have fallen for the cause/correlation fallacy. Additionally, Swedes still statistically create almost all of the crime in Sweden. For example, last year there were 1,410,000 crimes, and you are saying Muslims are responsible for 5,000 of them. Following your logic, we should outlaw Swedes and only allow immigrants into the nation? On top of all this, your argument is one big ecological fallacy. Just because one Muslim rapes doesn't mean all of them--or even most of them--do. In fact, just because there were

We have you down for cause/correlation fallacy, cherry picking, and ecological fallacies. That's the problem with racism, there's no common sense or even logic in it. All racism does is create fallacious thinking

Vehk

This list looks different if you're from Baltimore. I'm not sure on the order, but, off the top of my head, in chronological order. - '95: Aaron Bailey "not catching the ball" in the endzone against Pittsburgh as time expired in the AFC Championship - '05: Mike Vanderjagt shanking it against Pittsburgh in the Divisional Round (loss as one seed) - '09: Tracy Porter returning the interception in the Super Bowl (after quitting on a perfect season, count that one if you want as well) - '11: Every time they showed Peyton on the sidelines - '11-'12: Peyton saying goodbye Let me also go off topic and say that while evaluating this list I've realized something, and that is that winning a championship makes all the difference in the world. Let me explain: I look at this list, and it's painful, but it's not nearly as painful as these events (and others) were prior to winning the Super Bowl in '06. Will I ever forgive the refs of the '95 AFC Championship Game? (more egregious was the Kordell Stewart "touchdown" but that's neither here nor there.) No, I won't, but it doesn't hurt like it did before '06. Same with Vanderjagt. In some ways, Peyton's career and time here were a multitude of frustrations, but that championship erases the pain. I can also compare that to the feelings of still not knowing a championship currently, as a Purdue University Alumnus. If anyone here follows basketball, in 2010, Robbie Hummel, an all-time great at Purdue, tore his ACL when we were ranked 3rd in the country. That pain is immense and heavy still. Yes, it is more recent, but the fact that Purdue is still yet to win an NCAA Tournament magnifies it. It reminds me of the pain of losing to New England or Pittsburgh in the playoffs before the Super Bowl in '06. So, to you Browns/Seahawks/Vikings/Lions/etc. fans out there: Have hope, because if and when you **DO** win a championship, all that pain is softened somewhat. In the meantime, I'll keep praying for my Boilermakers. **TL;DR:** Winning a championship takes the pain of missed opportunities away.

This list looks different if you're from Baltimore. I'm not sure on the order, but, off the top of my head, in chronological order. '95: Aaron Bailey "not catching the ball" in the endzone against Pittsburgh as time expired in the AFC Championship '05: Mike Vanderjagt shanking it against Pittsburgh in the Divisional Round (loss as one seed) '09: Tracy Porter returning the interception in the Super Bowl (after quitting on a perfect season, count that one if you want as well) '11: Every time they showed Peyton on the sidelines '11-'12: Peyton saying goodbye Let me also go off topic and say that while evaluating this list I've realized something, and that is that winning a championship makes all the difference in the world. Let me explain: I look at this list, and it's painful, but it's not nearly as painful as these events (and others) were prior to winning the Super Bowl in '06. Will I ever forgive the refs of the '95 AFC Championship Game? (more egregious was the Kordell Stewart "touchdown" but that's neither here nor there.) No, I won't, but it doesn't hurt like it did before '06. Same with Vanderjagt. In some ways, Peyton's career and time here were a multitude of frustrations, but that championship erases the pain. I can also compare that to the feelings of still not knowing a championship currently, as a Purdue University Alumnus. If anyone here follows basketball, in 2010, Robbie Hummel, an all-time great at Purdue, tore his ACL when we were ranked 3rd in the country. That pain is immense and heavy still. Yes, it is more recent, but the fact that Purdue is still yet to win an NCAA Tournament magnifies it. It reminds me of the pain of losing to New England or Pittsburgh in the playoffs before the Super Bowl in '06. So, to you Browns/Seahawks/Vikings/Lions/etc. fans out there: Have hope, because if and when you DO win a championship, all that pain is softened somewhat. In the meantime, I'll keep praying for my Boilermakers. TL;DR: Winning a championship takes the pain of missed opportunities away.

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This list looks different if you're from Baltimore. I'm not sure on the order, but, off the top of my head, in chronological order. '95: Aaron Bailey "not catching the ball" in the endzone against Pittsburgh as time expired in the AFC Championship '05: Mike Vanderjagt shanking it against Pittsburgh in the Divisional Round (loss as one seed) '09: Tracy Porter returning the interception in the Super Bowl (after quitting on a perfect season, count that one if you want as well) '11: Every time they showed Peyton on the sidelines '11-'12: Peyton saying goodbye Let me also go off topic and say that while evaluating this list I've realized something, and that is that winning a championship makes all the difference in the world. Let me explain: I look at this list, and it's painful, but it's not nearly as painful as these events (and others) were prior to winning the Super Bowl in '06. Will I ever forgive the refs of the '95 AFC Championship Game? (more egregious was the Kordell Stewart "touchdown" but that's neither here nor there.) No, I won't, but it doesn't hurt like it did before '06. Same with Vanderjagt. In some ways, Peyton's career and time here were a multitude of frustrations, but that championship erases the pain. I can also compare that to the feelings of still not knowing a championship currently, as a Purdue University Alumnus. If anyone here follows basketball, in 2010, Robbie Hummel, an all-time great at Purdue, tore his ACL when we were ranked 3rd in the country. That pain is immense and heavy still. Yes, it is more recent, but the fact that Purdue is still yet to win an NCAA Tournament magnifies it. It reminds me of the pain of losing to New England or Pittsburgh in the playoffs before the Super Bowl in '06. So, to you Browns/Seahawks/Vikings/Lions/etc. fans out there: Have hope, because if and when you DO win a championship, all that pain is softened somewhat. In the meantime, I'll keep praying for my Boilermakers.

Winning a championship takes the pain of missed opportunities away.

CUNFLAM

I have to say - 25 minutes in and I am EXTREMELY disappointed. So far I've seen multiple pieces of proven fake footage (Jerusalem footage, the crop circle being formed "live", etc) and loads of Greer self-promotion for his overpriced lights in the sky and ET ambassador "program". His spiritual crap route is not going to win any critical thinkers. If I donated to help make this movie I would be pissed. I feel terrible for anyone that paid $10 to watch this. Steven Greer once again proving to be a hindrance rather than a helper to the UFO / ET enigma. I would be willing to bet that if he actually WAS hitting really close to home and getting close to exposing some super black ops level information that the guys they have to fix that sort of thing would have paid him a visit a long time ago. Even if a small piece of his message is true and accurate there is no way to know, based on his material, what merits consideration in this terrible amalgam of metaphysics, "spirituality", self-promotion, and cult of personality. TL;DR - Greer gonna Greer; BS footage, quackery, and self-promotion

I have to say - 25 minutes in and I am EXTREMELY disappointed. So far I've seen multiple pieces of proven fake footage (Jerusalem footage, the crop circle being formed "live", etc) and loads of Greer self-promotion for his overpriced lights in the sky and ET ambassador "program". His spiritual crap route is not going to win any critical thinkers. If I donated to help make this movie I would be pissed. I feel terrible for anyone that paid $10 to watch this. Steven Greer once again proving to be a hindrance rather than a helper to the UFO / ET enigma. I would be willing to bet that if he actually WAS hitting really close to home and getting close to exposing some super black ops level information that the guys they have to fix that sort of thing would have paid him a visit a long time ago. Even if a small piece of his message is true and accurate there is no way to know, based on his material, what merits consideration in this terrible amalgam of metaphysics, "spirituality", self-promotion, and cult of personality. TL;DR - Greer gonna Greer; BS footage, quackery, and self-promotion

UFOs

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I have to say - 25 minutes in and I am EXTREMELY disappointed. So far I've seen multiple pieces of proven fake footage (Jerusalem footage, the crop circle being formed "live", etc) and loads of Greer self-promotion for his overpriced lights in the sky and ET ambassador "program". His spiritual crap route is not going to win any critical thinkers. If I donated to help make this movie I would be pissed. I feel terrible for anyone that paid $10 to watch this. Steven Greer once again proving to be a hindrance rather than a helper to the UFO / ET enigma. I would be willing to bet that if he actually WAS hitting really close to home and getting close to exposing some super black ops level information that the guys they have to fix that sort of thing would have paid him a visit a long time ago. Even if a small piece of his message is true and accurate there is no way to know, based on his material, what merits consideration in this terrible amalgam of metaphysics, "spirituality", self-promotion, and cult of personality.

Greer gonna Greer; BS footage, quackery, and self-promotion

420BIF

Long comments take time to write by them the post is 15 minutes old and short populists opinions have been up voted already. Though out posts also take time to read. TL;DR Short to the point posts posted in the first ten minutes get more Karma

Long comments take time to write by them the post is 15 minutes old and short populists opinions have been up voted already. Though out posts also take time to read. TL;DR Short to the point posts posted in the first ten minutes get more Karma

AskReddit

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Long comments take time to write by them the post is 15 minutes old and short populists opinions have been up voted already. Though out posts also take time to read.

Short to the point posts posted in the first ten minutes get more Karma

HawtPanda

I think this question has a heck of a lot to do with how the Bible was written... Remember, this isn't God dictating to a group of men who just did copy+paste words of God... and wollaah the Bible! (ie like Quran or Book or Mormon).. The men who wrote the texts were inspired by events, visions, eye witness accounts etc etc.. They didn't have God whispering in their ear saying "oiii man, don't write that.. or rephrase this..." When we say the Bible is the word of God, we need to remember, that yes it teaches us about God, among other things, but the texts themselves weren't actually written by God. So your question is sort of null and void, as it's not God that would hiding anything about himself in the Bible, it would possibly be his messengers... However, you then find yourself in a tough position of; did the authors of the Bible lie by omission? If we can't trust that God would allow an honest portrayal of himself, then you find yourself in a place of Bible disbelief... which leads into; if you can't believe the texts of the Bible, then you can't really define yourself as a believer, perhaps more a sympathizer. TLDR - You don't trust it, then don't follow it...

I think this question has a heck of a lot to do with how the Bible was written... Remember, this isn't God dictating to a group of men who just did copy+paste words of God... and wollaah the Bible! (ie like Quran or Book or Mormon).. The men who wrote the texts were inspired by events, visions, eye witness accounts etc etc.. They didn't have God whispering in their ear saying "oiii man, don't write that.. or rephrase this..." When we say the Bible is the word of God, we need to remember, that yes it teaches us about God, among other things, but the texts themselves weren't actually written by God. So your question is sort of null and void, as it's not God that would hiding anything about himself in the Bible, it would possibly be his messengers... However, you then find yourself in a tough position of; did the authors of the Bible lie by omission? If we can't trust that God would allow an honest portrayal of himself, then you find yourself in a place of Bible disbelief... which leads into; if you can't believe the texts of the Bible, then you can't really define yourself as a believer, perhaps more a sympathizer. TLDR - You don't trust it, then don't follow it...

DebateAChristian

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I think this question has a heck of a lot to do with how the Bible was written... Remember, this isn't God dictating to a group of men who just did copy+paste words of God... and wollaah the Bible! (ie like Quran or Book or Mormon).. The men who wrote the texts were inspired by events, visions, eye witness accounts etc etc.. They didn't have God whispering in their ear saying "oiii man, don't write that.. or rephrase this..." When we say the Bible is the word of God, we need to remember, that yes it teaches us about God, among other things, but the texts themselves weren't actually written by God. So your question is sort of null and void, as it's not God that would hiding anything about himself in the Bible, it would possibly be his messengers... However, you then find yourself in a tough position of; did the authors of the Bible lie by omission? If we can't trust that God would allow an honest portrayal of himself, then you find yourself in a place of Bible disbelief... which leads into; if you can't believe the texts of the Bible, then you can't really define yourself as a believer, perhaps more a sympathizer.

You don't trust it, then don't follow it...

forlasanto

Rubber Duck antenna? Realistically, max range is 5-10 miles. A mag-mount will get you to around 20. A copper j-pole may get you to around 30. I can check into the local repeater (20 miles away) crystal clear on my copper j-pole, like talking on the telephone, using my UV-5RA TL;DR It depends on your antenna far more than the radio. The stock rubber duck is not great. But for a $50 radio, who's complaining?

Rubber Duck antenna? Realistically, max range is 5-10 miles. A mag-mount will get you to around 20. A copper j-pole may get you to around 30. I can check into the local repeater (20 miles away) crystal clear on my copper j-pole, like talking on the telephone, using my UV-5RA TL;DR It depends on your antenna far more than the radio. The stock rubber duck is not great. But for a $50 radio, who's complaining?

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Rubber Duck antenna? Realistically, max range is 5-10 miles. A mag-mount will get you to around 20. A copper j-pole may get you to around 30. I can check into the local repeater (20 miles away) crystal clear on my copper j-pole, like talking on the telephone, using my UV-5RA

It depends on your antenna far more than the radio. The stock rubber duck is not great. But for a $50 radio, who's complaining?

peanutbuttar

Don't get discouraged, be nice to your teammates, when you're dead, find your teams best player and watch what they do. And as you get better, when you see a teammate making a mistake, be nice. Just politely say, "hey man, I think you should have done this back there". Seriously, if you're playing matchmaking this will win you 90 percent of your games. The looser teams are the one where the top fragger sees a mistake and instead of being forgiving about it, he starts to rage at his teammates and undermine their self confidence. If someone fucked up they need to be encouraged to keep their game face on, not to think "i cant do it". And going along with that, confidence is everything in this game. You might get terrorist side on De_nuke and not get a single round in the first half. What are you going to do the second half? are you going to sit there thinking, "they just demolished us, they are so much better than me there's no way I can win", or are you going to say, "alright, It's a ct sided map; now it's my turn to show them how ct is really played, they aren't gonna know what hit them." One of those mindsets will carry you far, the other one will dump you off to a lifetime of gungame and surf servers. TLDR: keep your chin up, big boy!

Don't get discouraged, be nice to your teammates, when you're dead, find your teams best player and watch what they do. And as you get better, when you see a teammate making a mistake, be nice. Just politely say, "hey man, I think you should have done this back there". Seriously, if you're playing matchmaking this will win you 90 percent of your games. The looser teams are the one where the top fragger sees a mistake and instead of being forgiving about it, he starts to rage at his teammates and undermine their self confidence. If someone fucked up they need to be encouraged to keep their game face on, not to think "i cant do it". And going along with that, confidence is everything in this game. You might get terrorist side on De_nuke and not get a single round in the first half. What are you going to do the second half? are you going to sit there thinking, "they just demolished us, they are so much better than me there's no way I can win", or are you going to say, "alright, It's a ct sided map; now it's my turn to show them how ct is really played, they aren't gonna know what hit them." One of those mindsets will carry you far, the other one will dump you off to a lifetime of gungame and surf servers. TLDR: keep your chin up, big boy!

counterstrike

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Don't get discouraged, be nice to your teammates, when you're dead, find your teams best player and watch what they do. And as you get better, when you see a teammate making a mistake, be nice. Just politely say, "hey man, I think you should have done this back there". Seriously, if you're playing matchmaking this will win you 90 percent of your games. The looser teams are the one where the top fragger sees a mistake and instead of being forgiving about it, he starts to rage at his teammates and undermine their self confidence. If someone fucked up they need to be encouraged to keep their game face on, not to think "i cant do it". And going along with that, confidence is everything in this game. You might get terrorist side on De_nuke and not get a single round in the first half. What are you going to do the second half? are you going to sit there thinking, "they just demolished us, they are so much better than me there's no way I can win", or are you going to say, "alright, It's a ct sided map; now it's my turn to show them how ct is really played, they aren't gonna know what hit them." One of those mindsets will carry you far, the other one will dump you off to a lifetime of gungame and surf servers.

keep your chin up, big boy!

SmallJon

The subreddit seems to think that either the Seven aren't real or the religion in this world is simply the face applied to magic. On the latter issue, I have no idea, but I believe the Seven are real if the gods are real. We say the Seven have done nothing, and compared to R'hollr and the Trees, it looks like they haven't. But the Seven are the dominant gods, the weirwoods of the south were and are cut down. They believe the duels are the will of the Seven, while we dismiss that, what if they're right? Remember when Bender encountered "God" in Futurama? It's last words before sending him on his way were that "If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." TL;DR: The Seevn are a guy who burns down his bar for insurance money, but makes it look like an electrical fire.

The subreddit seems to think that either the Seven aren't real or the religion in this world is simply the face applied to magic. On the latter issue, I have no idea, but I believe the Seven are real if the gods are real. We say the Seven have done nothing, and compared to R'hollr and the Trees, it looks like they haven't. But the Seven are the dominant gods, the weirwoods of the south were and are cut down. They believe the duels are the will of the Seven, while we dismiss that, what if they're right? Remember when Bender encountered "God" in Futurama? It's last words before sending him on his way were that "If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." TL;DR: The Seevn are a guy who burns down his bar for insurance money, but makes it look like an electrical fire.

asoiaf

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The subreddit seems to think that either the Seven aren't real or the religion in this world is simply the face applied to magic. On the latter issue, I have no idea, but I believe the Seven are real if the gods are real. We say the Seven have done nothing, and compared to R'hollr and the Trees, it looks like they haven't. But the Seven are the dominant gods, the weirwoods of the south were and are cut down. They believe the duels are the will of the Seven, while we dismiss that, what if they're right? Remember when Bender encountered "God" in Futurama? It's last words before sending him on his way were that "If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

The Seevn are a guy who burns down his bar for insurance money, but makes it look like an electrical fire.

scootstah

> Salts don't render hash tables useless, they only render "naive" hash tables useless. Using unique salts mean that rainbow tables have to be generated for every user. Depending on the algorithms used to hash the password, this would be an unfeasible amount of time or data. > If you choose the username as a salt, it stands to reason that many other site admins probably use that scheme too. An attacker might decide to compute hash tables offline for the million most common passwords using the million most common usernames (well within the realm of possibility). Now they have a set of hash tables they can use on anyone's database that uses the username as a salt. While that sounds great and all, it would only work if every site is hashing the password in exactly the same way. If you throw in a large random static key into the hashing algorithm, you can make sure that your hashes are never the same as another site's hashes, even if they used the same salt and password. Also, even if the above scenario happened, we are still talking about a massive amount of time and data storage to generate rainbow tables for every single user. If you use something like bcrypt, generating rainbow tables for every user is just not going to happen. > Secondly, if your database is compromised, and you use the same salt scheme as someone else, the attacker can easily compare databases and see if anyone is using the same password. Once again, this relies on the fact that other sites use the exact same hashing algorithm. And, again, a static site key thwarts this as well. TL;DR: If you have properly implemented password storage, an attacker has to generate rainbow tables for every user **regardless of the salt strength**. EDIT: As long as they are unique...

> Salts don't render hash tables useless, they only render "naive" hash tables useless. Using unique salts mean that rainbow tables have to be generated for every user. Depending on the algorithms used to hash the password, this would be an unfeasible amount of time or data. > If you choose the username as a salt, it stands to reason that many other site admins probably use that scheme too. An attacker might decide to compute hash tables offline for the million most common passwords using the million most common usernames (well within the realm of possibility). Now they have a set of hash tables they can use on anyone's database that uses the username as a salt. While that sounds great and all, it would only work if every site is hashing the password in exactly the same way. If you throw in a large random static key into the hashing algorithm, you can make sure that your hashes are never the same as another site's hashes, even if they used the same salt and password. Also, even if the above scenario happened, we are still talking about a massive amount of time and data storage to generate rainbow tables for every single user. If you use something like bcrypt, generating rainbow tables for every user is just not going to happen. > Secondly, if your database is compromised, and you use the same salt scheme as someone else, the attacker can easily compare databases and see if anyone is using the same password. Once again, this relies on the fact that other sites use the exact same hashing algorithm. And, again, a static site key thwarts this as well. TL;DR: If you have properly implemented password storage, an attacker has to generate rainbow tables for every user regardless of the salt strength . EDIT: As long as they are unique...

webdev

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Salts don't render hash tables useless, they only render "naive" hash tables useless. Using unique salts mean that rainbow tables have to be generated for every user. Depending on the algorithms used to hash the password, this would be an unfeasible amount of time or data. > If you choose the username as a salt, it stands to reason that many other site admins probably use that scheme too. An attacker might decide to compute hash tables offline for the million most common passwords using the million most common usernames (well within the realm of possibility). Now they have a set of hash tables they can use on anyone's database that uses the username as a salt. While that sounds great and all, it would only work if every site is hashing the password in exactly the same way. If you throw in a large random static key into the hashing algorithm, you can make sure that your hashes are never the same as another site's hashes, even if they used the same salt and password. Also, even if the above scenario happened, we are still talking about a massive amount of time and data storage to generate rainbow tables for every single user. If you use something like bcrypt, generating rainbow tables for every user is just not going to happen. > Secondly, if your database is compromised, and you use the same salt scheme as someone else, the attacker can easily compare databases and see if anyone is using the same password. Once again, this relies on the fact that other sites use the exact same hashing algorithm. And, again, a static site key thwarts this as well.

If you have properly implemented password storage, an attacker has to generate rainbow tables for every user regardless of the salt strength . EDIT: As long as they are unique...

VA0

read all, do agree. instead of TL;DR im saying RA;DA

read all, do agree. instead of TL;DR im saying RA;DA

conspiracy

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read all, do agree. instead of

im saying RA;DA

A_Good_Soul

Technically your body gives off heat, so by standing near the oven, you emanate a tiny amount of energy that otherwise wouldn't be there, therefor the cookies eventually cook microseconds faster. Tl:dr it's true. Edit: AMA Request- someone who downvoted this. Why did you?

Technically your body gives off heat, so by standing near the oven, you emanate a tiny amount of energy that otherwise wouldn't be there, therefor the cookies eventually cook microseconds faster. Tl:dr it's true. Edit: AMA Request- someone who downvoted this. Why did you?

funny

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Technically your body gives off heat, so by standing near the oven, you emanate a tiny amount of energy that otherwise wouldn't be there, therefor the cookies eventually cook microseconds faster.

it's true. Edit: AMA Request- someone who downvoted this. Why did you?

rosatter

This is so sad! Maybe my vet office is just super awesome but i think finding the right vet is a key in making sure your dogs aren't terrified. I have 2 dogs, a lab mix and a chihuahua mix. When we first got the lab as a puppy, we brought him to the vet that the humane society recommended and he wasn't ever happy about going. That, on top of a recurring problem the vet always had the same "solution" to, made us decide to change. We brought him to the new vet and they whole staff is just so nice and personable. They have 3 vets but I usually see just one and the others as back-up. I feel like my vet genuinely loves my dogs and the vets that don't see them regularly seem to really care about them, and I think my dogs can tell this and know they are safe there. They are not just another chart/patient, they are pets/friends/family. When I bring my dogs in, the receptionists greet them, talks to them, has them weighed and then gets us in a room where a nice vet tech talks to us, gives them scratches, talks more, and takes their temp and gives them a treat. Then after a bit, the vet comes in and talks to to us, plays with them a bit of it's just a routine check up, gives them sooo many treats. If they need shots, the vet techs administer them quickly and talk and treat as they do it and if there's an exam, the vet has techs come in and talk and pet/hold/treat while he does it. Even my small dog, who is afraid of nearly everything (from brooms and lampshades to falling leaves and bicycles) and is VERY untrusting of people in general, loves the vet. They don't do anything super special like baking cookies but my dogs are always happy to go to the vet. Sometimes when I'm walking them, they try and turn towards the vet clinic (it's super close). When I'm there, I never feel rushed. My vet always takes the time to fully explain things, even if he has to draw pictures and use diagrams. He understands we are on a budget and will sometimes "forget" to add stuff to the bill, like when our lab tore his cruciate ligament and he had a $2000 dollar surgery at the same time our small dog was getting spayed. He cut off $100 for the anaesthesia and $100 for the overnight stay and the 3 follow ups. He also gave us the small one's pain meds for free and included a ton extra for Hershey because he knew they'd need it. Oh, and he cleaned their teeth for almost half off, since they were already under anaesthetic and it was dental month (normally 20% off). My only regret is he can't treat people. TL;DR: Find the right clinic and your dogs won't be scared. Maybe.

This is so sad! Maybe my vet office is just super awesome but i think finding the right vet is a key in making sure your dogs aren't terrified. I have 2 dogs, a lab mix and a chihuahua mix. When we first got the lab as a puppy, we brought him to the vet that the humane society recommended and he wasn't ever happy about going. That, on top of a recurring problem the vet always had the same "solution" to, made us decide to change. We brought him to the new vet and they whole staff is just so nice and personable. They have 3 vets but I usually see just one and the others as back-up. I feel like my vet genuinely loves my dogs and the vets that don't see them regularly seem to really care about them, and I think my dogs can tell this and know they are safe there. They are not just another chart/patient, they are pets/friends/family. When I bring my dogs in, the receptionists greet them, talks to them, has them weighed and then gets us in a room where a nice vet tech talks to us, gives them scratches, talks more, and takes their temp and gives them a treat. Then after a bit, the vet comes in and talks to to us, plays with them a bit of it's just a routine check up, gives them sooo many treats. If they need shots, the vet techs administer them quickly and talk and treat as they do it and if there's an exam, the vet has techs come in and talk and pet/hold/treat while he does it. Even my small dog, who is afraid of nearly everything (from brooms and lampshades to falling leaves and bicycles) and is VERY untrusting of people in general, loves the vet. They don't do anything super special like baking cookies but my dogs are always happy to go to the vet. Sometimes when I'm walking them, they try and turn towards the vet clinic (it's super close). When I'm there, I never feel rushed. My vet always takes the time to fully explain things, even if he has to draw pictures and use diagrams. He understands we are on a budget and will sometimes "forget" to add stuff to the bill, like when our lab tore his cruciate ligament and he had a $2000 dollar surgery at the same time our small dog was getting spayed. He cut off $100 for the anaesthesia and $100 for the overnight stay and the 3 follow ups. He also gave us the small one's pain meds for free and included a ton extra for Hershey because he knew they'd need it. Oh, and he cleaned their teeth for almost half off, since they were already under anaesthetic and it was dental month (normally 20% off). My only regret is he can't treat people. TL;DR: Find the right clinic and your dogs won't be scared. Maybe.

funny

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c9mkc7m

This is so sad! Maybe my vet office is just super awesome but i think finding the right vet is a key in making sure your dogs aren't terrified. I have 2 dogs, a lab mix and a chihuahua mix. When we first got the lab as a puppy, we brought him to the vet that the humane society recommended and he wasn't ever happy about going. That, on top of a recurring problem the vet always had the same "solution" to, made us decide to change. We brought him to the new vet and they whole staff is just so nice and personable. They have 3 vets but I usually see just one and the others as back-up. I feel like my vet genuinely loves my dogs and the vets that don't see them regularly seem to really care about them, and I think my dogs can tell this and know they are safe there. They are not just another chart/patient, they are pets/friends/family. When I bring my dogs in, the receptionists greet them, talks to them, has them weighed and then gets us in a room where a nice vet tech talks to us, gives them scratches, talks more, and takes their temp and gives them a treat. Then after a bit, the vet comes in and talks to to us, plays with them a bit of it's just a routine check up, gives them sooo many treats. If they need shots, the vet techs administer them quickly and talk and treat as they do it and if there's an exam, the vet has techs come in and talk and pet/hold/treat while he does it. Even my small dog, who is afraid of nearly everything (from brooms and lampshades to falling leaves and bicycles) and is VERY untrusting of people in general, loves the vet. They don't do anything super special like baking cookies but my dogs are always happy to go to the vet. Sometimes when I'm walking them, they try and turn towards the vet clinic (it's super close). When I'm there, I never feel rushed. My vet always takes the time to fully explain things, even if he has to draw pictures and use diagrams. He understands we are on a budget and will sometimes "forget" to add stuff to the bill, like when our lab tore his cruciate ligament and he had a $2000 dollar surgery at the same time our small dog was getting spayed. He cut off $100 for the anaesthesia and $100 for the overnight stay and the 3 follow ups. He also gave us the small one's pain meds for free and included a ton extra for Hershey because he knew they'd need it. Oh, and he cleaned their teeth for almost half off, since they were already under anaesthetic and it was dental month (normally 20% off). My only regret is he can't treat people.

Find the right clinic and your dogs won't be scared. Maybe.

Lieutenant_Lumpy

This is EXACTLY what I have been struggling with for the past 8 months. It started all of a sudden when I was at a Dr appt 2 hours away from home (which I had already done 3 times before). I just had a sudden feeling that I didn't want to be near anyone. I felt like everyone was watching and judging everything I did. I had to go to my car and proceeded to have a massive Anxiety attack. This was the first time I had ever experienced anything like it and I just wanted to be at home. Since then I have had a hard time going anywhere alone for any extended period of time. I went to the grocery store and had a hard time being comfortable. I kept my head to the ground and spent about 10 total minutes in the store before I finally had to leave. Then when I was checking out it got much worse and when the cashier said anything (maybe a total of 1 or 2 sentences) I practically buckled and fell over. Luckily I only had about 4 things and was able to make it out to my car. Then I really broke down, but still could not shake the feeling. So I went home immediately (only about 1/2 mile), and barely made it inside the door where I promptly sat down and just started heacing my chest and feeling like the world was crumbling. That was about 6-7 months ago and I have slowly been getting better. I have been on depression meds for several years already and was able to get the dose increased. That has helped overall but I still have trouble on my own in public when out for more than an hour or two. When I am with my wife and or 3 yr old daughter I handle it much better. I still get a little overwhelmed at times but it usually only happens in very crowded areas or after being out for a long time. I have also been seeing a psychiatrist and therapist, as well as increased the lexapro to 40mg and added lorazepam 0.5mg for immediate relief of symptoms. I'm not sure if you have tried any professional help or medications, but it is definitely worth trying. It has greatly inproved my quality of life and helped me lower stress to (from not worrying so much). Like I mentioned before I am still working on it and have a long way to go before I am back to the way I was before, but I am always making progress. Sometimes it helps to have someone or something with/nearby as a distraction. Whether it's someone to lean on for support; or in my case when I'm out with my daughter it forces my mind to think of her safety and keep an eye on her instead of thinking of anything else. My concern for her trumps my anxiety every time. It doesn't take it away, but it lets be out for awhile without it affecting me as strongly. TL; DR: you're not alone. Many others have the same problem. You just need to accept it and learn to work with it. Start small, take a walk or go to a drive thru. Have someone you are close too and understands what your going through help. Have them make the phone call and hand it to you. Brong them with on your walk or drive so they can engae you in conversation and distract you from everything else. It takes time, but it can be done. Just trust in yourself and ohers close to you and you will be just fine. :)

This is EXACTLY what I have been struggling with for the past 8 months. It started all of a sudden when I was at a Dr appt 2 hours away from home (which I had already done 3 times before). I just had a sudden feeling that I didn't want to be near anyone. I felt like everyone was watching and judging everything I did. I had to go to my car and proceeded to have a massive Anxiety attack. This was the first time I had ever experienced anything like it and I just wanted to be at home. Since then I have had a hard time going anywhere alone for any extended period of time. I went to the grocery store and had a hard time being comfortable. I kept my head to the ground and spent about 10 total minutes in the store before I finally had to leave. Then when I was checking out it got much worse and when the cashier said anything (maybe a total of 1 or 2 sentences) I practically buckled and fell over. Luckily I only had about 4 things and was able to make it out to my car. Then I really broke down, but still could not shake the feeling. So I went home immediately (only about 1/2 mile), and barely made it inside the door where I promptly sat down and just started heacing my chest and feeling like the world was crumbling. That was about 6-7 months ago and I have slowly been getting better. I have been on depression meds for several years already and was able to get the dose increased. That has helped overall but I still have trouble on my own in public when out for more than an hour or two. When I am with my wife and or 3 yr old daughter I handle it much better. I still get a little overwhelmed at times but it usually only happens in very crowded areas or after being out for a long time. I have also been seeing a psychiatrist and therapist, as well as increased the lexapro to 40mg and added lorazepam 0.5mg for immediate relief of symptoms. I'm not sure if you have tried any professional help or medications, but it is definitely worth trying. It has greatly inproved my quality of life and helped me lower stress to (from not worrying so much). Like I mentioned before I am still working on it and have a long way to go before I am back to the way I was before, but I am always making progress. Sometimes it helps to have someone or something with/nearby as a distraction. Whether it's someone to lean on for support; or in my case when I'm out with my daughter it forces my mind to think of her safety and keep an eye on her instead of thinking of anything else. My concern for her trumps my anxiety every time. It doesn't take it away, but it lets be out for awhile without it affecting me as strongly. TL; DR: you're not alone. Many others have the same problem. You just need to accept it and learn to work with it. Start small, take a walk or go to a drive thru. Have someone you are close too and understands what your going through help. Have them make the phone call and hand it to you. Brong them with on your walk or drive so they can engae you in conversation and distract you from everything else. It takes time, but it can be done. Just trust in yourself and ohers close to you and you will be just fine. :)

Anxiety

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c9m1doj

This is EXACTLY what I have been struggling with for the past 8 months. It started all of a sudden when I was at a Dr appt 2 hours away from home (which I had already done 3 times before). I just had a sudden feeling that I didn't want to be near anyone. I felt like everyone was watching and judging everything I did. I had to go to my car and proceeded to have a massive Anxiety attack. This was the first time I had ever experienced anything like it and I just wanted to be at home. Since then I have had a hard time going anywhere alone for any extended period of time. I went to the grocery store and had a hard time being comfortable. I kept my head to the ground and spent about 10 total minutes in the store before I finally had to leave. Then when I was checking out it got much worse and when the cashier said anything (maybe a total of 1 or 2 sentences) I practically buckled and fell over. Luckily I only had about 4 things and was able to make it out to my car. Then I really broke down, but still could not shake the feeling. So I went home immediately (only about 1/2 mile), and barely made it inside the door where I promptly sat down and just started heacing my chest and feeling like the world was crumbling. That was about 6-7 months ago and I have slowly been getting better. I have been on depression meds for several years already and was able to get the dose increased. That has helped overall but I still have trouble on my own in public when out for more than an hour or two. When I am with my wife and or 3 yr old daughter I handle it much better. I still get a little overwhelmed at times but it usually only happens in very crowded areas or after being out for a long time. I have also been seeing a psychiatrist and therapist, as well as increased the lexapro to 40mg and added lorazepam 0.5mg for immediate relief of symptoms. I'm not sure if you have tried any professional help or medications, but it is definitely worth trying. It has greatly inproved my quality of life and helped me lower stress to (from not worrying so much). Like I mentioned before I am still working on it and have a long way to go before I am back to the way I was before, but I am always making progress. Sometimes it helps to have someone or something with/nearby as a distraction. Whether it's someone to lean on for support; or in my case when I'm out with my daughter it forces my mind to think of her safety and keep an eye on her instead of thinking of anything else. My concern for her trumps my anxiety every time. It doesn't take it away, but it lets be out for awhile without it affecting me as strongly.

you're not alone. Many others have the same problem. You just need to accept it and learn to work with it. Start small, take a walk or go to a drive thru. Have someone you are close too and understands what your going through help. Have them make the phone call and hand it to you. Brong them with on your walk or drive so they can engae you in conversation and distract you from everything else. It takes time, but it can be done. Just trust in yourself and ohers close to you and you will be just fine. :)

codayus

Define austerity. The debate in the Eurozone has been, broadly speaking, "holy crap, people are refuse to lend us money". It hasn't been driven by *any* papers, nor has anyone seriously suggested that what's happening in Greece and Cyprus is a good policy. It's been driven by the fact that nobody has any better ideas, and so we get to careen down the road, never *quite* spinning off into the ditch, while people desperately try figure out an answer to, as the saying goes, running out of other people's money. Conversely if you're talking about the US, the debate hasn't been about austerity so much as "how big should the stimulus be". Nor are arguments about entitlement reform actually arguments about austerity in disguise, and it would be a mistake to conflate them. TL;DR: Nobody supports the austerity approach. Unless you think what's happening in the US is austerity, in which case I guess the answer is "everyone, up to and including Lord Keynes." :)

Define austerity. The debate in the Eurozone has been, broadly speaking, "holy crap, people are refuse to lend us money". It hasn't been driven by any papers, nor has anyone seriously suggested that what's happening in Greece and Cyprus is a good policy. It's been driven by the fact that nobody has any better ideas, and so we get to careen down the road, never quite spinning off into the ditch, while people desperately try figure out an answer to, as the saying goes, running out of other people's money. Conversely if you're talking about the US, the debate hasn't been about austerity so much as "how big should the stimulus be". Nor are arguments about entitlement reform actually arguments about austerity in disguise, and it would be a mistake to conflate them. TL;DR: Nobody supports the austerity approach. Unless you think what's happening in the US is austerity, in which case I guess the answer is "everyone, up to and including Lord Keynes." :)

Economics

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Define austerity. The debate in the Eurozone has been, broadly speaking, "holy crap, people are refuse to lend us money". It hasn't been driven by any papers, nor has anyone seriously suggested that what's happening in Greece and Cyprus is a good policy. It's been driven by the fact that nobody has any better ideas, and so we get to careen down the road, never quite spinning off into the ditch, while people desperately try figure out an answer to, as the saying goes, running out of other people's money. Conversely if you're talking about the US, the debate hasn't been about austerity so much as "how big should the stimulus be". Nor are arguments about entitlement reform actually arguments about austerity in disguise, and it would be a mistake to conflate them.

Nobody supports the austerity approach. Unless you think what's happening in the US is austerity, in which case I guess the answer is "everyone, up to and including Lord Keynes." :)

zeusa1mighty

The problem as I see it is that we DO need to spend, but we already spent all of our reserves and need to borrow to do it. That wasn't Keyne's original hypothesis. Spending during recession should be financed by saving during booms. We didn't do that and we fucked ourselves. Now keynesians are yelling "WE NEED TO SPEND". But they never yelled "WE NEED TO SAVE" when times were good, so they didn't save, and now we don't have shit and need to spend. Then they try to blame Austerity like THAT'S the bad guy. TL;DR Screw the pooch and blame someone else.

The problem as I see it is that we DO need to spend, but we already spent all of our reserves and need to borrow to do it. That wasn't Keyne's original hypothesis. Spending during recession should be financed by saving during booms. We didn't do that and we fucked ourselves. Now keynesians are yelling "WE NEED TO SPEND". But they never yelled "WE NEED TO SAVE" when times were good, so they didn't save, and now we don't have shit and need to spend. Then they try to blame Austerity like THAT'S the bad guy. TL;DR Screw the pooch and blame someone else.

Economics

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c9n0xw2

The problem as I see it is that we DO need to spend, but we already spent all of our reserves and need to borrow to do it. That wasn't Keyne's original hypothesis. Spending during recession should be financed by saving during booms. We didn't do that and we fucked ourselves. Now keynesians are yelling "WE NEED TO SPEND". But they never yelled "WE NEED TO SAVE" when times were good, so they didn't save, and now we don't have shit and need to spend. Then they try to blame Austerity like THAT'S the bad guy.

Screw the pooch and blame someone else.

itshope

Actually, I have something to contribute about the treat thing. I used to do this with my dog too (although he is very fearful and I think is much more of an extreme case). What actually happens is that when the dog starts barking, you have crossed the "threshold" of what the dog can calmly tolerate. After this point, you can no longer teach the dog anything because they are basically too stressed. It's *before* the threshold that you are going to see change. With the strangers-dispense-treats method, you need to still keep your dog under threshold (so for now, far away). You can also let the dog look at the trigger (faraway person), treat him for remaining calm, and then walk away. This hopefully will help him learn that his good behavior doesn't force him closer to the scary thing--he gets what he wants, which is distance. Start with doing what micebrains said, and eventually the "threshold" will get closer and closer to the trigger. You can look at BAT training also (don't have a link at the moment), which has similar concepts. If you let strangers offer treats while your dog is afraid, there's an element of bribery present where you are coercing the dog into coming closer than it's comfortable with to the scary person. Once the treat is gone (eaten), the dog is then WAY too close to the trigger and could feel like it needs to defend itself (worse case scenario, a bite). With a chihuahua pug, I doubt it will come to this--the reason I have dealt with it is fear aggression in a 90 lb GSD. Regardless, it's better to keep your dog in scenarios where it can see the trigger but is NOT over threshold and afraid and reward calm behavior. It's a slow process. TL;DR: Start far away and treat for good behavior, don't let you dog get over threshold (too close to the scary person).

Actually, I have something to contribute about the treat thing. I used to do this with my dog too (although he is very fearful and I think is much more of an extreme case). What actually happens is that when the dog starts barking, you have crossed the "threshold" of what the dog can calmly tolerate. After this point, you can no longer teach the dog anything because they are basically too stressed. It's before the threshold that you are going to see change. With the strangers-dispense-treats method, you need to still keep your dog under threshold (so for now, far away). You can also let the dog look at the trigger (faraway person), treat him for remaining calm, and then walk away. This hopefully will help him learn that his good behavior doesn't force him closer to the scary thing--he gets what he wants, which is distance. Start with doing what micebrains said, and eventually the "threshold" will get closer and closer to the trigger. You can look at BAT training also (don't have a link at the moment), which has similar concepts. If you let strangers offer treats while your dog is afraid, there's an element of bribery present where you are coercing the dog into coming closer than it's comfortable with to the scary person. Once the treat is gone (eaten), the dog is then WAY too close to the trigger and could feel like it needs to defend itself (worse case scenario, a bite). With a chihuahua pug, I doubt it will come to this--the reason I have dealt with it is fear aggression in a 90 lb GSD. Regardless, it's better to keep your dog in scenarios where it can see the trigger but is NOT over threshold and afraid and reward calm behavior. It's a slow process. TL;DR: Start far away and treat for good behavior, don't let you dog get over threshold (too close to the scary person).

Dogtraining

t5_2r067

c9mlc2r

Actually, I have something to contribute about the treat thing. I used to do this with my dog too (although he is very fearful and I think is much more of an extreme case). What actually happens is that when the dog starts barking, you have crossed the "threshold" of what the dog can calmly tolerate. After this point, you can no longer teach the dog anything because they are basically too stressed. It's before the threshold that you are going to see change. With the strangers-dispense-treats method, you need to still keep your dog under threshold (so for now, far away). You can also let the dog look at the trigger (faraway person), treat him for remaining calm, and then walk away. This hopefully will help him learn that his good behavior doesn't force him closer to the scary thing--he gets what he wants, which is distance. Start with doing what micebrains said, and eventually the "threshold" will get closer and closer to the trigger. You can look at BAT training also (don't have a link at the moment), which has similar concepts. If you let strangers offer treats while your dog is afraid, there's an element of bribery present where you are coercing the dog into coming closer than it's comfortable with to the scary person. Once the treat is gone (eaten), the dog is then WAY too close to the trigger and could feel like it needs to defend itself (worse case scenario, a bite). With a chihuahua pug, I doubt it will come to this--the reason I have dealt with it is fear aggression in a 90 lb GSD. Regardless, it's better to keep your dog in scenarios where it can see the trigger but is NOT over threshold and afraid and reward calm behavior. It's a slow process.

Start far away and treat for good behavior, don't let you dog get over threshold (too close to the scary person).

sophomoricthought

My parents were only out for the night. My friend drank way too much and threw up EVERYWHERE. We thought we'd cleaned everything up, but the next day my dad embarked on a business trip. When he arrived in Dusseldorf, Germany he found copious amount of vomit inside his briefcase. TL;DR international puke

My parents were only out for the night. My friend drank way too much and threw up EVERYWHERE. We thought we'd cleaned everything up, but the next day my dad embarked on a business trip. When he arrived in Dusseldorf, Germany he found copious amount of vomit inside his briefcase. TL;DR international puke

AskReddit

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c9md8t1

My parents were only out for the night. My friend drank way too much and threw up EVERYWHERE. We thought we'd cleaned everything up, but the next day my dad embarked on a business trip. When he arrived in Dusseldorf, Germany he found copious amount of vomit inside his briefcase.

international puke

cleverpseudoname

In pictures, its the same view that a person looking at you sees. In mirror, it is actually your image reversed. A cool example of how that looks is to look at pictures of mirror twins, twins who are identical except reverse of eachother. If one has a birthmark on one side of the face, the other twin will have it on the opposite side, etc. It only looks "bad" to us because it is not the face we're used to seeing. In reality, most who look at us will not notice anything because to them, the face in the photo is the real face they know, not the mirror one. TL;DR Don't psych yourself out!

In pictures, its the same view that a person looking at you sees. In mirror, it is actually your image reversed. A cool example of how that looks is to look at pictures of mirror twins, twins who are identical except reverse of eachother. If one has a birthmark on one side of the face, the other twin will have it on the opposite side, etc. It only looks "bad" to us because it is not the face we're used to seeing. In reality, most who look at us will not notice anything because to them, the face in the photo is the real face they know, not the mirror one. TL;DR Don't psych yourself out!

RandomActsofMakeup

t5_2vigj

c9mg8ki

In pictures, its the same view that a person looking at you sees. In mirror, it is actually your image reversed. A cool example of how that looks is to look at pictures of mirror twins, twins who are identical except reverse of eachother. If one has a birthmark on one side of the face, the other twin will have it on the opposite side, etc. It only looks "bad" to us because it is not the face we're used to seeing. In reality, most who look at us will not notice anything because to them, the face in the photo is the real face they know, not the mirror one.

Don't psych yourself out!

zarigia

My first term I did 18 CU. It was an OK amount but I could have done more but I was holding myself back. I'm in my second term now. It'll be two months at the end of this week and I've completed 19 CU already. So what changed? Like I said I was holding myself back. I was obsessed the first term with being the perfect student. I studied for ONE objective assessment for weeks. I passed it with a 95% . . . the cut was 56%. DON'T DO THIS. While it's great I did so well it was a general ed class that has nothing to do with my degree. I effectively wasted an entire month on a 3 CU class that didn't actually apply knowledge to my degree. OP's advice about objective assessments is spot on. That's how I started doing them and was able to blow through so many this term. Study what the reports says to. You can click the links in the report and it'll take you right to those sections in the course as well. If a class as quizzes take the hell out of those quizzes. They generally do very well to prep you for the final. As far as performance assessments go here is how I tend to do them. After I get into the class I immediately e-mail the class mentor and ask for advice or any outlines to follow when doing the tasks. So far I've had every single mentor give me an outline to follow for the tasks. This helps greatly in terms of formatting your paper and making sure you include everything in the rubric. Following these outlines I've never once had a task rejected. This SAVES SO MUCH TIME. Rejection can add a week or more to the course, passing the first time can add up over the long term. I also always have multiple tasks in task stream. So if a class as five tasks I will submit one and start working on the next one right away. Often I'm done with task 2 before task 1 is even graded. This way you aren't sitting around waiting for the paper to come back. If you finish all the tasks MOVE on to the next course. No need to wait a week and do nothing. Again a week here a week there sure adds up in the long term. When doing performance assessments I tend to use google and the school library a lot. I often will finish a task without even going through the course. Or I only look at the pertinent information in the course for each task at a time. Focus on one task and do it before reading up on the next one. I find this helps me to focus. Also if you do get stuck on a task skip it and go to the next one. Tasksteam doesn't care in what order you submit stuff. Sometimes working backwards can help you solve writers block for one task. Last piece of advice: Objective Assessments are super easy for me. I could literally just got down the list and do all the ones I have left in one term. However that would leave me with all performance assessments left and those take a bit of time. I like to switch off every other course. So I do an objective and then a performance assessment. This helps for me to keep things different. I hate having to do two performance assessments in a row. Remember that your mentor is there to assist you. You can set your own AVV. I simply tell my mentor what class I'm going to do and he adds it next. I skip around in my degree plan all the time. I don't go in order. I like to do similar class one after the other so that the information from the previous one is still fresh and sometimes my degree plan isn't laid out like that. Don't be afraid to tell your mentor how YOU want to work. Do what's best for YOU as your mentor can only tell you whats worked with other people. Everyone is different and finding out how I work best has let me do as many CU in two months as I did for the first six and I don't feel like I'm working as hard either. tl;dr: Don't complicate things. Work in a manner best suited for you.

My first term I did 18 CU. It was an OK amount but I could have done more but I was holding myself back. I'm in my second term now. It'll be two months at the end of this week and I've completed 19 CU already. So what changed? Like I said I was holding myself back. I was obsessed the first term with being the perfect student. I studied for ONE objective assessment for weeks. I passed it with a 95% . . . the cut was 56%. DON'T DO THIS. While it's great I did so well it was a general ed class that has nothing to do with my degree. I effectively wasted an entire month on a 3 CU class that didn't actually apply knowledge to my degree. OP's advice about objective assessments is spot on. That's how I started doing them and was able to blow through so many this term. Study what the reports says to. You can click the links in the report and it'll take you right to those sections in the course as well. If a class as quizzes take the hell out of those quizzes. They generally do very well to prep you for the final. As far as performance assessments go here is how I tend to do them. After I get into the class I immediately e-mail the class mentor and ask for advice or any outlines to follow when doing the tasks. So far I've had every single mentor give me an outline to follow for the tasks. This helps greatly in terms of formatting your paper and making sure you include everything in the rubric. Following these outlines I've never once had a task rejected. This SAVES SO MUCH TIME. Rejection can add a week or more to the course, passing the first time can add up over the long term. I also always have multiple tasks in task stream. So if a class as five tasks I will submit one and start working on the next one right away. Often I'm done with task 2 before task 1 is even graded. This way you aren't sitting around waiting for the paper to come back. If you finish all the tasks MOVE on to the next course. No need to wait a week and do nothing. Again a week here a week there sure adds up in the long term. When doing performance assessments I tend to use google and the school library a lot. I often will finish a task without even going through the course. Or I only look at the pertinent information in the course for each task at a time. Focus on one task and do it before reading up on the next one. I find this helps me to focus. Also if you do get stuck on a task skip it and go to the next one. Tasksteam doesn't care in what order you submit stuff. Sometimes working backwards can help you solve writers block for one task. Last piece of advice: Objective Assessments are super easy for me. I could literally just got down the list and do all the ones I have left in one term. However that would leave me with all performance assessments left and those take a bit of time. I like to switch off every other course. So I do an objective and then a performance assessment. This helps for me to keep things different. I hate having to do two performance assessments in a row. Remember that your mentor is there to assist you. You can set your own AVV. I simply tell my mentor what class I'm going to do and he adds it next. I skip around in my degree plan all the time. I don't go in order. I like to do similar class one after the other so that the information from the previous one is still fresh and sometimes my degree plan isn't laid out like that. Don't be afraid to tell your mentor how YOU want to work. Do what's best for YOU as your mentor can only tell you whats worked with other people. Everyone is different and finding out how I work best has let me do as many CU in two months as I did for the first six and I don't feel like I'm working as hard either. tl;dr: Don't complicate things. Work in a manner best suited for you.

WGU

t5_2se63

c9n4mz3

My first term I did 18 CU. It was an OK amount but I could have done more but I was holding myself back. I'm in my second term now. It'll be two months at the end of this week and I've completed 19 CU already. So what changed? Like I said I was holding myself back. I was obsessed the first term with being the perfect student. I studied for ONE objective assessment for weeks. I passed it with a 95% . . . the cut was 56%. DON'T DO THIS. While it's great I did so well it was a general ed class that has nothing to do with my degree. I effectively wasted an entire month on a 3 CU class that didn't actually apply knowledge to my degree. OP's advice about objective assessments is spot on. That's how I started doing them and was able to blow through so many this term. Study what the reports says to. You can click the links in the report and it'll take you right to those sections in the course as well. If a class as quizzes take the hell out of those quizzes. They generally do very well to prep you for the final. As far as performance assessments go here is how I tend to do them. After I get into the class I immediately e-mail the class mentor and ask for advice or any outlines to follow when doing the tasks. So far I've had every single mentor give me an outline to follow for the tasks. This helps greatly in terms of formatting your paper and making sure you include everything in the rubric. Following these outlines I've never once had a task rejected. This SAVES SO MUCH TIME. Rejection can add a week or more to the course, passing the first time can add up over the long term. I also always have multiple tasks in task stream. So if a class as five tasks I will submit one and start working on the next one right away. Often I'm done with task 2 before task 1 is even graded. This way you aren't sitting around waiting for the paper to come back. If you finish all the tasks MOVE on to the next course. No need to wait a week and do nothing. Again a week here a week there sure adds up in the long term. When doing performance assessments I tend to use google and the school library a lot. I often will finish a task without even going through the course. Or I only look at the pertinent information in the course for each task at a time. Focus on one task and do it before reading up on the next one. I find this helps me to focus. Also if you do get stuck on a task skip it and go to the next one. Tasksteam doesn't care in what order you submit stuff. Sometimes working backwards can help you solve writers block for one task. Last piece of advice: Objective Assessments are super easy for me. I could literally just got down the list and do all the ones I have left in one term. However that would leave me with all performance assessments left and those take a bit of time. I like to switch off every other course. So I do an objective and then a performance assessment. This helps for me to keep things different. I hate having to do two performance assessments in a row. Remember that your mentor is there to assist you. You can set your own AVV. I simply tell my mentor what class I'm going to do and he adds it next. I skip around in my degree plan all the time. I don't go in order. I like to do similar class one after the other so that the information from the previous one is still fresh and sometimes my degree plan isn't laid out like that. Don't be afraid to tell your mentor how YOU want to work. Do what's best for YOU as your mentor can only tell you whats worked with other people. Everyone is different and finding out how I work best has let me do as many CU in two months as I did for the first six and I don't feel like I'm working as hard either.

Don't complicate things. Work in a manner best suited for you.

tdadourian

As as an avid thresh player I approve this idea. Tl:dr: YES PlZ

As as an avid thresh player I approve this idea. Tl:dr: YES PlZ

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

c9migof

As as an avid thresh player I approve this idea.

YES PlZ

Good_Guy_Landlord

Because the biggest conspiracy was that after Jesus the man died - they built a story about him and started charging admission after editing out all parts of the bible they didn't like and sticking in laws to control people that don't make sense. All Jesus was and represents is love - why would he be against homosexuals or anything that is positive and feels good? Want to know one of the first Gospel's edited out? It was with the Gospel of Thomas and it was about Jesus's divinity. Jesus denied ever being divine and kept trying to show people that inside themselves is God. He also believed in re-incarnation and that part was taken away too so we'd be good little scared boys and girls and pay our taxes. Now if Jesus believed in re-incarnation and that part was edited out - who wrote and chose to include what's in the book that so many people are thumping nowadays? The same ones that run the corporations, the same ones that run the police and the same ones that run the government and the same ones that control the media. Do you see - follow Leonardo D'Vinci's intuition and his incredible rebellion against the catholic church - he believed each man was divine and I believe Jesus did too. Take the number 666 - when we dream the symbols are often inverted - so 999 - now look at that in the mirror just like D'Vinci's writing - it looks like PPP Politicians Priests Police The real anti-christ and the greatest cover - up. That's why you should care that Jesus was a historical figure - because he was just a man and his own revelation enabled him to defeat death. Peter, the rock upon which the Church was founded was the original lobbyist - he pushed the Roman Empire to accept a perverted - corrupt - and edited doctrine which then spread like a cancer everywhere because it's a perversion of Jesus's earlier message. Look at Edward Snowden right now and compare what you know of Jesus and what you know of him. Compare the media, the politicians and the banks to the mighty Leviathan with many heads (5 major news agencies all owned by the same people) the illusion of choice in our society. They're coming for Snowden with everything they got but this time - people have access to the real message and won't be corrupted. What if Jesus was for homosexuality - for brotherly love - what if he was for plural marriage - what if he was for human connection in any way that was positive because he understood we were all a mixture of these things inside. Think about when you were children - the first time you masturbated and learned about your genitals was with others of the same sex. Now add to that memory the guilt that comes with Christianity - (Not the true teachings) and realize how cancerous it is. All men are bisexual to a degree, all women are too - when we are honest with our feelings and ourselves we become more like Jesus because he dropped all pretenses. This last week was life changing for me. I was an Atheist until about two days ago and now Jesus is back in my life - not as a god or some divine being - but a great example of a great man and how to treat the rest of the world. I was finally honest with my wife and admitted cheating on her early on in our relationship - she confessed to lusting after other women and men. I did too. We cried and found a happiness and closeness never before experienced. What if all the prophets were re-incarnations of Jesus. What if each culture had something to teach the world and we are too busy arguing about the right path to salvation. What if there is no hell? :) What if hell was just a made up place that they taught you so that you'd feel guilty for doing the things that were just biological and positive? What if Jesus wanted us to connect with everyone and everything? After all the revelations this week - the government really is watching you and pumping chemicals into the water to make you docile - fluoride was used in the concentration camps to keep prisoners docile. Do you ever wonder why you can't sleep? Why you feel irritable and tense? Because of this underlying guilt they have you by - the scared thought that you know you'll go to hell because you keep sinning - so you just consume consume consume to get rid of the fear and we praise our highest competitors. What if instead of praising competition, we praise cooperation and learn from each other. What if we learn the true message of Jesus - what if we can all read it for ourselves and not from some cherry-picked amalgamation of sources that the rich have always controlled. What if we just went through the apocalypse and judgement is at hand? What if there's too many souls in the world? We keep reproducing and reproducing - like a cancer that never stops because we were told that birth control is bad. Well all the souls are here - and the trumpets are blowing. (Whistle-blowers) Learn from the tree of knowledge and partake of that last awful sup. Drink shroom tea and meditate, you'll understand why they wanted you to never access plants that grow naturally and can help everyone understand their own divinity. We are at the cusp of a real change of thinking. What if we reverse the geocentric theories of our minds and realize our consciousness is not limited to ourselves? Evidence: Jesus bless all of you in the coming days - Namaste **TL:DR**: [What if I told you...](

Because the biggest conspiracy was that after Jesus the man died - they built a story about him and started charging admission after editing out all parts of the bible they didn't like and sticking in laws to control people that don't make sense. All Jesus was and represents is love - why would he be against homosexuals or anything that is positive and feels good? Want to know one of the first Gospel's edited out? It was with the Gospel of Thomas and it was about Jesus's divinity. Jesus denied ever being divine and kept trying to show people that inside themselves is God. He also believed in re-incarnation and that part was taken away too so we'd be good little scared boys and girls and pay our taxes. Now if Jesus believed in re-incarnation and that part was edited out - who wrote and chose to include what's in the book that so many people are thumping nowadays? The same ones that run the corporations, the same ones that run the police and the same ones that run the government and the same ones that control the media. Do you see - follow Leonardo D'Vinci's intuition and his incredible rebellion against the catholic church - he believed each man was divine and I believe Jesus did too. Take the number 666 - when we dream the symbols are often inverted - so 999 - now look at that in the mirror just like D'Vinci's writing - it looks like PPP Politicians Priests Police The real anti-christ and the greatest cover - up. That's why you should care that Jesus was a historical figure - because he was just a man and his own revelation enabled him to defeat death. Peter, the rock upon which the Church was founded was the original lobbyist - he pushed the Roman Empire to accept a perverted - corrupt - and edited doctrine which then spread like a cancer everywhere because it's a perversion of Jesus's earlier message. Look at Edward Snowden right now and compare what you know of Jesus and what you know of him. Compare the media, the politicians and the banks to the mighty Leviathan with many heads (5 major news agencies all owned by the same people) the illusion of choice in our society. They're coming for Snowden with everything they got but this time - people have access to the real message and won't be corrupted. What if Jesus was for homosexuality - for brotherly love - what if he was for plural marriage - what if he was for human connection in any way that was positive because he understood we were all a mixture of these things inside. Think about when you were children - the first time you masturbated and learned about your genitals was with others of the same sex. Now add to that memory the guilt that comes with Christianity - (Not the true teachings) and realize how cancerous it is. All men are bisexual to a degree, all women are too - when we are honest with our feelings and ourselves we become more like Jesus because he dropped all pretenses. This last week was life changing for me. I was an Atheist until about two days ago and now Jesus is back in my life - not as a god or some divine being - but a great example of a great man and how to treat the rest of the world. I was finally honest with my wife and admitted cheating on her early on in our relationship - she confessed to lusting after other women and men. I did too. We cried and found a happiness and closeness never before experienced. What if all the prophets were re-incarnations of Jesus. What if each culture had something to teach the world and we are too busy arguing about the right path to salvation. What if there is no hell? :) What if hell was just a made up place that they taught you so that you'd feel guilty for doing the things that were just biological and positive? What if Jesus wanted us to connect with everyone and everything? After all the revelations this week - the government really is watching you and pumping chemicals into the water to make you docile - fluoride was used in the concentration camps to keep prisoners docile. Do you ever wonder why you can't sleep? Why you feel irritable and tense? Because of this underlying guilt they have you by - the scared thought that you know you'll go to hell because you keep sinning - so you just consume consume consume to get rid of the fear and we praise our highest competitors. What if instead of praising competition, we praise cooperation and learn from each other. What if we learn the true message of Jesus - what if we can all read it for ourselves and not from some cherry-picked amalgamation of sources that the rich have always controlled. What if we just went through the apocalypse and judgement is at hand? What if there's too many souls in the world? We keep reproducing and reproducing - like a cancer that never stops because we were told that birth control is bad. Well all the souls are here - and the trumpets are blowing. (Whistle-blowers) Learn from the tree of knowledge and partake of that last awful sup. Drink shroom tea and meditate, you'll understand why they wanted you to never access plants that grow naturally and can help everyone understand their own divinity. We are at the cusp of a real change of thinking. What if we reverse the geocentric theories of our minds and realize our consciousness is not limited to ourselves? Evidence: Jesus bless all of you in the coming days - Namaste TL:DR : [What if I told you...](

DebateAChristian

t5_2ryd5

carihwe

Because the biggest conspiracy was that after Jesus the man died - they built a story about him and started charging admission after editing out all parts of the bible they didn't like and sticking in laws to control people that don't make sense. All Jesus was and represents is love - why would he be against homosexuals or anything that is positive and feels good? Want to know one of the first Gospel's edited out? It was with the Gospel of Thomas and it was about Jesus's divinity. Jesus denied ever being divine and kept trying to show people that inside themselves is God. He also believed in re-incarnation and that part was taken away too so we'd be good little scared boys and girls and pay our taxes. Now if Jesus believed in re-incarnation and that part was edited out - who wrote and chose to include what's in the book that so many people are thumping nowadays? The same ones that run the corporations, the same ones that run the police and the same ones that run the government and the same ones that control the media. Do you see - follow Leonardo D'Vinci's intuition and his incredible rebellion against the catholic church - he believed each man was divine and I believe Jesus did too. Take the number 666 - when we dream the symbols are often inverted - so 999 - now look at that in the mirror just like D'Vinci's writing - it looks like PPP Politicians Priests Police The real anti-christ and the greatest cover - up. That's why you should care that Jesus was a historical figure - because he was just a man and his own revelation enabled him to defeat death. Peter, the rock upon which the Church was founded was the original lobbyist - he pushed the Roman Empire to accept a perverted - corrupt - and edited doctrine which then spread like a cancer everywhere because it's a perversion of Jesus's earlier message. Look at Edward Snowden right now and compare what you know of Jesus and what you know of him. Compare the media, the politicians and the banks to the mighty Leviathan with many heads (5 major news agencies all owned by the same people) the illusion of choice in our society. They're coming for Snowden with everything they got but this time - people have access to the real message and won't be corrupted. What if Jesus was for homosexuality - for brotherly love - what if he was for plural marriage - what if he was for human connection in any way that was positive because he understood we were all a mixture of these things inside. Think about when you were children - the first time you masturbated and learned about your genitals was with others of the same sex. Now add to that memory the guilt that comes with Christianity - (Not the true teachings) and realize how cancerous it is. All men are bisexual to a degree, all women are too - when we are honest with our feelings and ourselves we become more like Jesus because he dropped all pretenses. This last week was life changing for me. I was an Atheist until about two days ago and now Jesus is back in my life - not as a god or some divine being - but a great example of a great man and how to treat the rest of the world. I was finally honest with my wife and admitted cheating on her early on in our relationship - she confessed to lusting after other women and men. I did too. We cried and found a happiness and closeness never before experienced. What if all the prophets were re-incarnations of Jesus. What if each culture had something to teach the world and we are too busy arguing about the right path to salvation. What if there is no hell? :) What if hell was just a made up place that they taught you so that you'd feel guilty for doing the things that were just biological and positive? What if Jesus wanted us to connect with everyone and everything? After all the revelations this week - the government really is watching you and pumping chemicals into the water to make you docile - fluoride was used in the concentration camps to keep prisoners docile. Do you ever wonder why you can't sleep? Why you feel irritable and tense? Because of this underlying guilt they have you by - the scared thought that you know you'll go to hell because you keep sinning - so you just consume consume consume to get rid of the fear and we praise our highest competitors. What if instead of praising competition, we praise cooperation and learn from each other. What if we learn the true message of Jesus - what if we can all read it for ourselves and not from some cherry-picked amalgamation of sources that the rich have always controlled. What if we just went through the apocalypse and judgement is at hand? What if there's too many souls in the world? We keep reproducing and reproducing - like a cancer that never stops because we were told that birth control is bad. Well all the souls are here - and the trumpets are blowing. (Whistle-blowers) Learn from the tree of knowledge and partake of that last awful sup. Drink shroom tea and meditate, you'll understand why they wanted you to never access plants that grow naturally and can help everyone understand their own divinity. We are at the cusp of a real change of thinking. What if we reverse the geocentric theories of our minds and realize our consciousness is not limited to ourselves? Evidence: Jesus bless all of you in the coming days - Namaste

What if I told you...](

AngusOReily

I think a large part of it is that this is a team with a hunger to win again. I read Francona's book recently, and he hints at the sense of entitlement that was building in his last years there. Guys were looking out for themselves, and weren't concerned with doing the little things that win games. Then they had an awful year, and made changes, but it still looked like a good team, albeit one full of stars. I think guys like Beckett might have served as a bad character influence and detracted from a team-centric atmosphere. Add Bobby into the mix, a completely polarizing, self-important blowhard, and you don't really have a team, you have a bunch of personalities playing baseball together. So they blew it up. Get rid of Beckett, Crawford, and A-Gon (I don't think he was a bad character influence, and a big part of me was sad to see him go). They brought in a good mix of talent, and, while Napoli and Victorino aren't no-names, they're not on the same level as a guy like Hamilton. I think it allows the club to be a bit more grounded, and after two shitty seasons, the guys that are left want to win. Sure, I'm simplifying things to a personality/emotional aspect. Numbers wise, we're winning because our starting pitching has been outstanding and the new offense has been putting things together (speed kills and all that). But I think that after two seasons of being completely disappointed, they're sick of that feeling, and have put their egos behind them to some extent. While Farrell has been good so far, I don't think hiring him was some magic solution; getting rid of Bobby was more important, whoever they hired would have been an upgrade. The thing I do think that Farrell brings to the table is a management style somewhat akin to Francona's and I always felt like his way of managing egos and game states was very good. TL;DR. They're sick of losing, and have nutted up to win some games, especially the pitchers. Farrell's good, but it's more important that that asshat Bobby is gone.

I think a large part of it is that this is a team with a hunger to win again. I read Francona's book recently, and he hints at the sense of entitlement that was building in his last years there. Guys were looking out for themselves, and weren't concerned with doing the little things that win games. Then they had an awful year, and made changes, but it still looked like a good team, albeit one full of stars. I think guys like Beckett might have served as a bad character influence and detracted from a team-centric atmosphere. Add Bobby into the mix, a completely polarizing, self-important blowhard, and you don't really have a team, you have a bunch of personalities playing baseball together. So they blew it up. Get rid of Beckett, Crawford, and A-Gon (I don't think he was a bad character influence, and a big part of me was sad to see him go). They brought in a good mix of talent, and, while Napoli and Victorino aren't no-names, they're not on the same level as a guy like Hamilton. I think it allows the club to be a bit more grounded, and after two shitty seasons, the guys that are left want to win. Sure, I'm simplifying things to a personality/emotional aspect. Numbers wise, we're winning because our starting pitching has been outstanding and the new offense has been putting things together (speed kills and all that). But I think that after two seasons of being completely disappointed, they're sick of that feeling, and have put their egos behind them to some extent. While Farrell has been good so far, I don't think hiring him was some magic solution; getting rid of Bobby was more important, whoever they hired would have been an upgrade. The thing I do think that Farrell brings to the table is a management style somewhat akin to Francona's and I always felt like his way of managing egos and game states was very good. TL;DR. They're sick of losing, and have nutted up to win some games, especially the pitchers. Farrell's good, but it's more important that that asshat Bobby is gone.

redsox

t5_2qh95

c9mwe09

I think a large part of it is that this is a team with a hunger to win again. I read Francona's book recently, and he hints at the sense of entitlement that was building in his last years there. Guys were looking out for themselves, and weren't concerned with doing the little things that win games. Then they had an awful year, and made changes, but it still looked like a good team, albeit one full of stars. I think guys like Beckett might have served as a bad character influence and detracted from a team-centric atmosphere. Add Bobby into the mix, a completely polarizing, self-important blowhard, and you don't really have a team, you have a bunch of personalities playing baseball together. So they blew it up. Get rid of Beckett, Crawford, and A-Gon (I don't think he was a bad character influence, and a big part of me was sad to see him go). They brought in a good mix of talent, and, while Napoli and Victorino aren't no-names, they're not on the same level as a guy like Hamilton. I think it allows the club to be a bit more grounded, and after two shitty seasons, the guys that are left want to win. Sure, I'm simplifying things to a personality/emotional aspect. Numbers wise, we're winning because our starting pitching has been outstanding and the new offense has been putting things together (speed kills and all that). But I think that after two seasons of being completely disappointed, they're sick of that feeling, and have put their egos behind them to some extent. While Farrell has been good so far, I don't think hiring him was some magic solution; getting rid of Bobby was more important, whoever they hired would have been an upgrade. The thing I do think that Farrell brings to the table is a management style somewhat akin to Francona's and I always felt like his way of managing egos and game states was very good.

They're sick of losing, and have nutted up to win some games, especially the pitchers. Farrell's good, but it's more important that that asshat Bobby is gone.

hippiekyle

Yes, but not very well. Planes are designed specifically for how they'll fly. The structure of the wing changes drastically from subsonic to transonic to supersonic. Engines and everything else will obviously change as well. Planes are always capable of doing more than what's safe. There's often a safety factor where structures must withstand 1.5-2 times as much force as expected during flight. Tldr: yes, but planes are designed for specific conditions and fly best at those conditions

Yes, but not very well. Planes are designed specifically for how they'll fly. The structure of the wing changes drastically from subsonic to transonic to supersonic. Engines and everything else will obviously change as well. Planes are always capable of doing more than what's safe. There's often a safety factor where structures must withstand 1.5-2 times as much force as expected during flight. Tldr: yes, but planes are designed for specific conditions and fly best at those conditions

askscience

t5_2qm4e

c9mvi8v

Yes, but not very well. Planes are designed specifically for how they'll fly. The structure of the wing changes drastically from subsonic to transonic to supersonic. Engines and everything else will obviously change as well. Planes are always capable of doing more than what's safe. There's often a safety factor where structures must withstand 1.5-2 times as much force as expected during flight.

yes, but planes are designed for specific conditions and fly best at those conditions

son-of-a-bee

Finally, I'm relevant! Although too late to be useful. As already stated, the turbine blades already exceed speeds normal for the aircraft and are tested much higher than usual. Rotating components must survive surge level which can be as high as 3X normal operating RPM. The biggest danger in super sonic speeds is something called buffet loads which is caused by the oscillation of the various surfaces in the airstream. The components and sections of airfoils are often tested at near or above mach speeds. The aircraft can likely survive mach speeds but can shake itself apart rather quickly. More important that the theoretical, in reality all the parts of an aircraft go through rigorous testing mandated by the FAA and other regulatory agencies to exceed anything the aircraft would ever experience in normal or abnormal conditions. We can't test for everything, but we make damn sure everything we think might happen is tested for. That's why air travel is the safest method of travel ever. Source: I'm an aerospace engineer that tests these things. Tl:dr: Maybe, but my budget won't allow this expansion in our test program.

Finally, I'm relevant! Although too late to be useful. As already stated, the turbine blades already exceed speeds normal for the aircraft and are tested much higher than usual. Rotating components must survive surge level which can be as high as 3X normal operating RPM. The biggest danger in super sonic speeds is something called buffet loads which is caused by the oscillation of the various surfaces in the airstream. The components and sections of airfoils are often tested at near or above mach speeds. The aircraft can likely survive mach speeds but can shake itself apart rather quickly. More important that the theoretical, in reality all the parts of an aircraft go through rigorous testing mandated by the FAA and other regulatory agencies to exceed anything the aircraft would ever experience in normal or abnormal conditions. We can't test for everything, but we make damn sure everything we think might happen is tested for. That's why air travel is the safest method of travel ever. Source: I'm an aerospace engineer that tests these things. Tl:dr: Maybe, but my budget won't allow this expansion in our test program.

askscience

t5_2qm4e

c9mxe9d

Finally, I'm relevant! Although too late to be useful. As already stated, the turbine blades already exceed speeds normal for the aircraft and are tested much higher than usual. Rotating components must survive surge level which can be as high as 3X normal operating RPM. The biggest danger in super sonic speeds is something called buffet loads which is caused by the oscillation of the various surfaces in the airstream. The components and sections of airfoils are often tested at near or above mach speeds. The aircraft can likely survive mach speeds but can shake itself apart rather quickly. More important that the theoretical, in reality all the parts of an aircraft go through rigorous testing mandated by the FAA and other regulatory agencies to exceed anything the aircraft would ever experience in normal or abnormal conditions. We can't test for everything, but we make damn sure everything we think might happen is tested for. That's why air travel is the safest method of travel ever. Source: I'm an aerospace engineer that tests these things.

Maybe, but my budget won't allow this expansion in our test program.

Venom349

I think things that make maps not as enjoyable as the original maps is the focus on Easter eggs and tasks in the newer maps being more important than survival. If there was a campaign, then tasks and missions in these maps would be fine. When they distract from the core gameplay and make large, difficult maps that are more focused on story than zombie killing, suddenly all of the maps need to be almost too large for just four players and overcomplicated. I like the smaller maps that fit 4 players to keep the mayhem going. Making the perks or power just a challenge to access discourages me in particular from wanting to play those kinda of Maps. However, I quite enjoyed Mob of the Dead, as it was really forward with the mission at hand, and far more self explanatory. The items list on screen is very useful, and there isn't way too much to handle. TL;DR Big maps are too over complicated and distract from gameplay, and smaller maps with simple elements are more enjoyable for me.

I think things that make maps not as enjoyable as the original maps is the focus on Easter eggs and tasks in the newer maps being more important than survival. If there was a campaign, then tasks and missions in these maps would be fine. When they distract from the core gameplay and make large, difficult maps that are more focused on story than zombie killing, suddenly all of the maps need to be almost too large for just four players and overcomplicated. I like the smaller maps that fit 4 players to keep the mayhem going. Making the perks or power just a challenge to access discourages me in particular from wanting to play those kinda of Maps. However, I quite enjoyed Mob of the Dead, as it was really forward with the mission at hand, and far more self explanatory. The items list on screen is very useful, and there isn't way too much to handle. TL;DR Big maps are too over complicated and distract from gameplay, and smaller maps with simple elements are more enjoyable for me.

CODZombies

t5_2sal9

c9mvr3b

I think things that make maps not as enjoyable as the original maps is the focus on Easter eggs and tasks in the newer maps being more important than survival. If there was a campaign, then tasks and missions in these maps would be fine. When they distract from the core gameplay and make large, difficult maps that are more focused on story than zombie killing, suddenly all of the maps need to be almost too large for just four players and overcomplicated. I like the smaller maps that fit 4 players to keep the mayhem going. Making the perks or power just a challenge to access discourages me in particular from wanting to play those kinda of Maps. However, I quite enjoyed Mob of the Dead, as it was really forward with the mission at hand, and far more self explanatory. The items list on screen is very useful, and there isn't way too much to handle.

Big maps are too over complicated and distract from gameplay, and smaller maps with simple elements are more enjoyable for me.

gnarvin

I've thinking about this for a long time... I want zombies to head in the direction that makes camping more viable then running circles. I find it more fun to camp by far compared to running circles. Circles are easy and super boring to run. I find my camping run to 46 was much more fun then running circles and traping to round 70. I don't think traps are needed, they just make for endless games and dont require to much skill to really use once the easy strategies start rolling out. Instead of traps I think it would be better to have a multiple PaP level system where every time you upgrade your weapon it gets stronger but also cost alot more to upgrade again. This would make it require a certain amount of skill to get the higher tier guns but also you a rewarded by being able to kill zombies in the higher rounds much more efficiently, which goes back to me liking camping maps more. I hate/love the same wall weapon around the map, I like the idea of having multiple ammo spots for a gun but hate the fact that it cuts down the amount of different guns we can buy off the wall. Also every gun thats been in Black Ops 2 Zombies (other then wonder weapons) should be in the box. I would love it if there was like 30+ guns in the box. No gameplay changing easter egg stuff, I love the idea of there being a hidden back story and you had the option to figure it out if you wanted to. But now its just turned into an achievement hunt type of thing or you get people wanted to do it for what you get at the end. This just makes playing the game take longer, and it already takes to long to get to 60+. I'm glad you dont get all perks that dont go away like moon, thats just OP. And last but not least the map its self should be 1 easy to navigate map. Mob of the Dead was the first to do this right for BO2 both Tranzit's bus system and the Die Rise elevator ruined the maps for me. I dont want have to wait for something I have absolutely no control over. The gondola is fine because you dont have to depend on it. TL;DR - For me a good map doesn't have wide open places to run circles, doesn't need traps, lots of different wall weapons and box weapons, wonder weapons that may require a bit of skill to use to its fullest, its not split up making it a pain in the ass to revive people or just get around, no gameplay changing easter eggsand multiple PaP weapon levels.

I've thinking about this for a long time... I want zombies to head in the direction that makes camping more viable then running circles. I find it more fun to camp by far compared to running circles. Circles are easy and super boring to run. I find my camping run to 46 was much more fun then running circles and traping to round 70. I don't think traps are needed, they just make for endless games and dont require to much skill to really use once the easy strategies start rolling out. Instead of traps I think it would be better to have a multiple PaP level system where every time you upgrade your weapon it gets stronger but also cost alot more to upgrade again. This would make it require a certain amount of skill to get the higher tier guns but also you a rewarded by being able to kill zombies in the higher rounds much more efficiently, which goes back to me liking camping maps more. I hate/love the same wall weapon around the map, I like the idea of having multiple ammo spots for a gun but hate the fact that it cuts down the amount of different guns we can buy off the wall. Also every gun thats been in Black Ops 2 Zombies (other then wonder weapons) should be in the box. I would love it if there was like 30+ guns in the box. No gameplay changing easter egg stuff, I love the idea of there being a hidden back story and you had the option to figure it out if you wanted to. But now its just turned into an achievement hunt type of thing or you get people wanted to do it for what you get at the end. This just makes playing the game take longer, and it already takes to long to get to 60+. I'm glad you dont get all perks that dont go away like moon, thats just OP. And last but not least the map its self should be 1 easy to navigate map. Mob of the Dead was the first to do this right for BO2 both Tranzit's bus system and the Die Rise elevator ruined the maps for me. I dont want have to wait for something I have absolutely no control over. The gondola is fine because you dont have to depend on it. TL;DR - For me a good map doesn't have wide open places to run circles, doesn't need traps, lots of different wall weapons and box weapons, wonder weapons that may require a bit of skill to use to its fullest, its not split up making it a pain in the ass to revive people or just get around, no gameplay changing easter eggsand multiple PaP weapon levels.

CODZombies

t5_2sal9

c9n9lu9

I've thinking about this for a long time... I want zombies to head in the direction that makes camping more viable then running circles. I find it more fun to camp by far compared to running circles. Circles are easy and super boring to run. I find my camping run to 46 was much more fun then running circles and traping to round 70. I don't think traps are needed, they just make for endless games and dont require to much skill to really use once the easy strategies start rolling out. Instead of traps I think it would be better to have a multiple PaP level system where every time you upgrade your weapon it gets stronger but also cost alot more to upgrade again. This would make it require a certain amount of skill to get the higher tier guns but also you a rewarded by being able to kill zombies in the higher rounds much more efficiently, which goes back to me liking camping maps more. I hate/love the same wall weapon around the map, I like the idea of having multiple ammo spots for a gun but hate the fact that it cuts down the amount of different guns we can buy off the wall. Also every gun thats been in Black Ops 2 Zombies (other then wonder weapons) should be in the box. I would love it if there was like 30+ guns in the box. No gameplay changing easter egg stuff, I love the idea of there being a hidden back story and you had the option to figure it out if you wanted to. But now its just turned into an achievement hunt type of thing or you get people wanted to do it for what you get at the end. This just makes playing the game take longer, and it already takes to long to get to 60+. I'm glad you dont get all perks that dont go away like moon, thats just OP. And last but not least the map its self should be 1 easy to navigate map. Mob of the Dead was the first to do this right for BO2 both Tranzit's bus system and the Die Rise elevator ruined the maps for me. I dont want have to wait for something I have absolutely no control over. The gondola is fine because you dont have to depend on it.

For me a good map doesn't have wide open places to run circles, doesn't need traps, lots of different wall weapons and box weapons, wonder weapons that may require a bit of skill to use to its fullest, its not split up making it a pain in the ass to revive people or just get around, no gameplay changing easter eggsand multiple PaP weapon levels.

eaturbrainz

Let me put it this way: I'm not saying we should go out and build the first AI we can. I'm saying AI probably does not work that way (which is why people have such a hard time building optimizer processes even while machine translation surges ahead), and probably would contain enough internal contradictions not to consitute an "existential risk". For instance, do "values" live in the frontal lobes or the limbic centers? Celestia seemed to aim mostly for the limbic centers while, strangely, needing to get her consent from the frontal lobes. Again with the ambiguity... Tldr: there probably won't be a Singularity driven by FAI or UFAI. Eschatology is a human brain pattern, not something that happens in the real world. In fact, it's better to "put our house in order" on the human level before worrying about artificial intelligences to whom words like "collection of paper clips" or "friendship and ponies" will inevitably be unworkably vague. Also, malicious *ex*telligences don't appear to have that vagueness problem.

Let me put it this way: I'm not saying we should go out and build the first AI we can. I'm saying AI probably does not work that way (which is why people have such a hard time building optimizer processes even while machine translation surges ahead), and probably would contain enough internal contradictions not to consitute an "existential risk". For instance, do "values" live in the frontal lobes or the limbic centers? Celestia seemed to aim mostly for the limbic centers while, strangely, needing to get her consent from the frontal lobes. Again with the ambiguity... Tldr: there probably won't be a Singularity driven by FAI or UFAI. Eschatology is a human brain pattern, not something that happens in the real world. In fact, it's better to "put our house in order" on the human level before worrying about artificial intelligences to whom words like "collection of paper clips" or "friendship and ponies" will inevitably be unworkably vague. Also, malicious ex telligences don't appear to have that vagueness problem.

HPMOR

t5_2t5xf

c9o6qzn

Let me put it this way: I'm not saying we should go out and build the first AI we can. I'm saying AI probably does not work that way (which is why people have such a hard time building optimizer processes even while machine translation surges ahead), and probably would contain enough internal contradictions not to consitute an "existential risk". For instance, do "values" live in the frontal lobes or the limbic centers? Celestia seemed to aim mostly for the limbic centers while, strangely, needing to get her consent from the frontal lobes. Again with the ambiguity...

there probably won't be a Singularity driven by FAI or UFAI. Eschatology is a human brain pattern, not something that happens in the real world. In fact, it's better to "put our house in order" on the human level before worrying about artificial intelligences to whom words like "collection of paper clips" or "friendship and ponies" will inevitably be unworkably vague. Also, malicious ex telligences don't appear to have that vagueness problem.

joeyregs

You're too focused on whether or not you are as good as other partners. Don't worry about them. Enjoy that you had sex and if she's really your friend, talk with her about it. It's healthier than posting your biz on the internet and obsessing over details and comments. Also, "the friend zone" is one of the most selfish, ignorant things in the world. You are never going to be rewarded with sex for acting like a human being to a lady-type because women are people not sex objects. It's sexist and wrong. You have dude friends and don't get all "I can't believe he didn't blow me after I helped him move all day." tl,dr; Women's bodies are not your reward for being friendly. A healthier mindset about sex and knowing that women are people too will make your life (and sex life) a lot more enjoyable.

You're too focused on whether or not you are as good as other partners. Don't worry about them. Enjoy that you had sex and if she's really your friend, talk with her about it. It's healthier than posting your biz on the internet and obsessing over details and comments. Also, "the friend zone" is one of the most selfish, ignorant things in the world. You are never going to be rewarded with sex for acting like a human being to a lady-type because women are people not sex objects. It's sexist and wrong. You have dude friends and don't get all "I can't believe he didn't blow me after I helped him move all day." tl,dr; Women's bodies are not your reward for being friendly. A healthier mindset about sex and knowing that women are people too will make your life (and sex life) a lot more enjoyable.

sex

t5_2qh3p

c9obqrz

You're too focused on whether or not you are as good as other partners. Don't worry about them. Enjoy that you had sex and if she's really your friend, talk with her about it. It's healthier than posting your biz on the internet and obsessing over details and comments. Also, "the friend zone" is one of the most selfish, ignorant things in the world. You are never going to be rewarded with sex for acting like a human being to a lady-type because women are people not sex objects. It's sexist and wrong. You have dude friends and don't get all "I can't believe he didn't blow me after I helped him move all day."

Women's bodies are not your reward for being friendly. A healthier mindset about sex and knowing that women are people too will make your life (and sex life) a lot more enjoyable.

Skreemin

I think it's a great idea. After my last major breakup, I was in a borderline depressed state for months until I got my first dog. Although I do recommend adopting one that's at least a year or two old, possibly older. That way you're past the shit all over the house phase and more likely past the destroy all your shoes/furniture phase. Dogs are definitely a responsibility and in many aspects resemble having a human child, so get any big traveling out of the way first. TL:DR Hit the pound! Get a pit! :D

I think it's a great idea. After my last major breakup, I was in a borderline depressed state for months until I got my first dog. Although I do recommend adopting one that's at least a year or two old, possibly older. That way you're past the shit all over the house phase and more likely past the destroy all your shoes/furniture phase. Dogs are definitely a responsibility and in many aspects resemble having a human child, so get any big traveling out of the way first. TL:DR Hit the pound! Get a pit! :D

AdviceAnimals

t5_2s7tt

c9nrkho

I think it's a great idea. After my last major breakup, I was in a borderline depressed state for months until I got my first dog. Although I do recommend adopting one that's at least a year or two old, possibly older. That way you're past the shit all over the house phase and more likely past the destroy all your shoes/furniture phase. Dogs are definitely a responsibility and in many aspects resemble having a human child, so get any big traveling out of the way first.

Hit the pound! Get a pit! :D

r6raff

>* Replace 'Resonator' with 'Defense Crystal' This made me laugh, I'm sorry but that is ridiculously stupid... No offense. I would not be adverse to harvesting, but hacking has a better ring to it and harvesting would just make "farming" even more apparent. Energy is so over played in every game... Why don't we just call it mana and ap xp... I like the terminology the way it is, it's different and fits the ecosystem. I have explained this have to dozens of people if not hundreds and I never have an issue with then understanding the terminology. The only confusion lies within the game play itself, which is easy to understand assuming the player isn't an idiot. Tldr; why do you want to strip the uniqueness of ingress? Why not just rename it to techno farmville? Is fine the way it is...

>* Replace 'Resonator' with 'Defense Crystal' This made me laugh, I'm sorry but that is ridiculously stupid... No offense. I would not be adverse to harvesting, but hacking has a better ring to it and harvesting would just make "farming" even more apparent. Energy is so over played in every game... Why don't we just call it mana and ap xp... I like the terminology the way it is, it's different and fits the ecosystem. I have explained this have to dozens of people if not hundreds and I never have an issue with then understanding the terminology. The only confusion lies within the game play itself, which is easy to understand assuming the player isn't an idiot. Tldr; why do you want to strip the uniqueness of ingress? Why not just rename it to techno farmville? Is fine the way it is...

Ingress

t5_2vij9

c9pei8c

Replace 'Resonator' with 'Defense Crystal' This made me laugh, I'm sorry but that is ridiculously stupid... No offense. I would not be adverse to harvesting, but hacking has a better ring to it and harvesting would just make "farming" even more apparent. Energy is so over played in every game... Why don't we just call it mana and ap xp... I like the terminology the way it is, it's different and fits the ecosystem. I have explained this have to dozens of people if not hundreds and I never have an issue with then understanding the terminology. The only confusion lies within the game play itself, which is easy to understand assuming the player isn't an idiot.

why do you want to strip the uniqueness of ingress? Why not just rename it to techno farmville? Is fine the way it is...

ZEROryan08

Ryan from THG here. We're gonna be getting a few questions, so I'm gonna answer them here on reddit, first. We'll make an official announcement on Facebook/other sites later. - The audio is different than on the album and there were some last minute issues when we went to change out some sections. Andy joined the band after the album was finished. He changed the drum parts a bit to his style, and some of the parts would not have meshed up if we used the album version. We intended to retrack every instrument just to give it a complete "new" version for the video, but Saud is out of state right now and the project files got corrupted, so we had to make due and just create new models for the guitars and retrack the bass in one day. We figured we would rather people see the video on time and then fix some of the audio's off sounds later. - This was a 100% complete DIY video. We never intended for it to be a huge budget piece. I think some people were possibly expecting something extravagant, but just think of it more as a "studio" style video than an actual "music" video, otherwise, yes, you would lead yourself on to be disappointed. **TL;DR**: No budget DIY video, some audio is different than the album, wanted to release it on time so you all can enjoy it when we promised, then go back an make it sound better later!

Ryan from THG here. We're gonna be getting a few questions, so I'm gonna answer them here on reddit, first. We'll make an official announcement on Facebook/other sites later. The audio is different than on the album and there were some last minute issues when we went to change out some sections. Andy joined the band after the album was finished. He changed the drum parts a bit to his style, and some of the parts would not have meshed up if we used the album version. We intended to retrack every instrument just to give it a complete "new" version for the video, but Saud is out of state right now and the project files got corrupted, so we had to make due and just create new models for the guitars and retrack the bass in one day. We figured we would rather people see the video on time and then fix some of the audio's off sounds later. This was a 100% complete DIY video. We never intended for it to be a huge budget piece. I think some people were possibly expecting something extravagant, but just think of it more as a "studio" style video than an actual "music" video, otherwise, yes, you would lead yourself on to be disappointed. TL;DR : No budget DIY video, some audio is different than the album, wanted to release it on time so you all can enjoy it when we promised, then go back an make it sound better later!

metalmusicians

t5_2sb0l

c9o6j05

Ryan from THG here. We're gonna be getting a few questions, so I'm gonna answer them here on reddit, first. We'll make an official announcement on Facebook/other sites later. The audio is different than on the album and there were some last minute issues when we went to change out some sections. Andy joined the band after the album was finished. He changed the drum parts a bit to his style, and some of the parts would not have meshed up if we used the album version. We intended to retrack every instrument just to give it a complete "new" version for the video, but Saud is out of state right now and the project files got corrupted, so we had to make due and just create new models for the guitars and retrack the bass in one day. We figured we would rather people see the video on time and then fix some of the audio's off sounds later. This was a 100% complete DIY video. We never intended for it to be a huge budget piece. I think some people were possibly expecting something extravagant, but just think of it more as a "studio" style video than an actual "music" video, otherwise, yes, you would lead yourself on to be disappointed.

No budget DIY video, some audio is different than the album, wanted to release it on time so you all can enjoy it when we promised, then go back an make it sound better later!

Freakychee

**Sorry! Post was too long so I had to crop out parts! Here is the rest of it but it's just basically the cool down.** In the span of 40 minutes later Damien is in bed under doctor's orders, Alfred cleaning up every mess, Accelerator sleeping in a hospital bed within the Batcave and Bruce Wayne carrying a tray of food for his son. He knocks on the boy wonder's door, "Damien, you up?" "Yeah..." "How you feeling champ?" "Much better now. But more importantly... what was that giant dome thing you used? It was coded as JBC00001 so it's the first of a series of equipment but I have no idea what it is. Did you really have something like that laying around just for this one use?" inquires Damien. Bruce pauses for a moment and then gives a long winded explanation, "'Joker Bomb Control'... the first of many. He never sticks to an M.O. but he does have an affinity to large explosives so I developed a dome that could contain a heavy amount C4. The material is also designed to be light as possible for the Batwing to transport and to compensate for the lack of weight it has adhesive capsules underneath the rim and hardens and adheres to nearly any surface instantly. The liquid I used is a counter agent to melt away the adhesive after it hardens." "So... a bomb cover, Scarecrow gas from the evidence vault and knockout gas bombs were all it took to stop that monster who took on a whole army?" "Well it was a really expensive bomb cover." Bruce responds with a smirk. **The End** Now I ask the people of this sub-reddit. What parts do you agree with and what parts you do not? Where are instances of overplayed and old Deus Ex Machina and where are the parts Batman should have lost but not due to impenetrable plot armor? Ps. It was also recommended that once per month we would have a single Batman vs. ??? post where everyone would post something like this only shorter. What do you guys think about it? **Batman Edit:** *tl;dr Batman uses confiscated Scarecrow gas to make Accelerator misjudge his surroundings and later traps him in a bomb containment shell with sleep gas.*

Sorry! Post was too long so I had to crop out parts! Here is the rest of it but it's just basically the cool down. In the span of 40 minutes later Damien is in bed under doctor's orders, Alfred cleaning up every mess, Accelerator sleeping in a hospital bed within the Batcave and Bruce Wayne carrying a tray of food for his son. He knocks on the boy wonder's door, "Damien, you up?" "Yeah..." "How you feeling champ?" "Much better now. But more importantly... what was that giant dome thing you used? It was coded as JBC00001 so it's the first of a series of equipment but I have no idea what it is. Did you really have something like that laying around just for this one use?" inquires Damien. Bruce pauses for a moment and then gives a long winded explanation, "'Joker Bomb Control'... the first of many. He never sticks to an M.O. but he does have an affinity to large explosives so I developed a dome that could contain a heavy amount C4. The material is also designed to be light as possible for the Batwing to transport and to compensate for the lack of weight it has adhesive capsules underneath the rim and hardens and adheres to nearly any surface instantly. The liquid I used is a counter agent to melt away the adhesive after it hardens." "So... a bomb cover, Scarecrow gas from the evidence vault and knockout gas bombs were all it took to stop that monster who took on a whole army?" "Well it was a really expensive bomb cover." Bruce responds with a smirk. The End Now I ask the people of this sub-reddit. What parts do you agree with and what parts you do not? Where are instances of overplayed and old Deus Ex Machina and where are the parts Batman should have lost but not due to impenetrable plot armor? Ps. It was also recommended that once per month we would have a single Batman vs. ??? post where everyone would post something like this only shorter. What do you guys think about it? Batman Edit: tl;dr Batman uses confiscated Scarecrow gas to make Accelerator misjudge his surroundings and later traps him in a bomb containment shell with sleep gas.

whowouldwin

t5_2s599

c9okcdi

Sorry! Post was too long so I had to crop out parts! Here is the rest of it but it's just basically the cool down. In the span of 40 minutes later Damien is in bed under doctor's orders, Alfred cleaning up every mess, Accelerator sleeping in a hospital bed within the Batcave and Bruce Wayne carrying a tray of food for his son. He knocks on the boy wonder's door, "Damien, you up?" "Yeah..." "How you feeling champ?" "Much better now. But more importantly... what was that giant dome thing you used? It was coded as JBC00001 so it's the first of a series of equipment but I have no idea what it is. Did you really have something like that laying around just for this one use?" inquires Damien. Bruce pauses for a moment and then gives a long winded explanation, "'Joker Bomb Control'... the first of many. He never sticks to an M.O. but he does have an affinity to large explosives so I developed a dome that could contain a heavy amount C4. The material is also designed to be light as possible for the Batwing to transport and to compensate for the lack of weight it has adhesive capsules underneath the rim and hardens and adheres to nearly any surface instantly. The liquid I used is a counter agent to melt away the adhesive after it hardens." "So... a bomb cover, Scarecrow gas from the evidence vault and knockout gas bombs were all it took to stop that monster who took on a whole army?" "Well it was a really expensive bomb cover." Bruce responds with a smirk. The End Now I ask the people of this sub-reddit. What parts do you agree with and what parts you do not? Where are instances of overplayed and old Deus Ex Machina and where are the parts Batman should have lost but not due to impenetrable plot armor? Ps. It was also recommended that once per month we would have a single Batman vs. ??? post where everyone would post something like this only shorter. What do you guys think about it? Batman Edit:

Batman uses confiscated Scarecrow gas to make Accelerator misjudge his surroundings and later traps him in a bomb containment shell with sleep gas.

nimrad

Sunnis do stoning and cutting head and hand too, I'm a born muslim so you better go and read a book. alqaeda and taliban are sunnis they cut womans nose and lip if they don't obey them and stone them if they cheat on their husband and they able of doing any kind of fucked up shit like terrorism all of the terror actions around the world is from sunnis not even one shiite. and if any sunni kill a shiite he will go to heaven as sunnis religion leaders say. tl;dr islam can be very fucked up from both side sunni and shiite but don't say lies and be bias

Sunnis do stoning and cutting head and hand too, I'm a born muslim so you better go and read a book. alqaeda and taliban are sunnis they cut womans nose and lip if they don't obey them and stone them if they cheat on their husband and they able of doing any kind of fucked up shit like terrorism all of the terror actions around the world is from sunnis not even one shiite. and if any sunni kill a shiite he will go to heaven as sunnis religion leaders say. tl;dr islam can be very fucked up from both side sunni and shiite but don't say lies and be bias

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Sunnis do stoning and cutting head and hand too, I'm a born muslim so you better go and read a book. alqaeda and taliban are sunnis they cut womans nose and lip if they don't obey them and stone them if they cheat on their husband and they able of doing any kind of fucked up shit like terrorism all of the terror actions around the world is from sunnis not even one shiite. and if any sunni kill a shiite he will go to heaven as sunnis religion leaders say.

islam can be very fucked up from both side sunni and shiite but don't say lies and be bias

PrankieJuin

I think saying that all religions hurt people is pretty inaccurate. Most religions today arnt violent at all, save for a few radicals (who are too messed up in the head to even understand what religion is). Though I suppose when you consider the whole Christian vs Gay Rights thing its a different perspective, but even non religious people hurt others out side their community. It's just how people are, if anything it gives people a way to stick together and teaches them a way to cope with the world. The largest religions are all pretty tolerant(besides most Islam), it brings people together, no matter how ridiculous the religion seems to others. Also saying that it hasn't progressed isn't exactly true. With each generation the religion modifies and adapts. Sure, we follow the basic guidelines that were set thousands of years ago but todays Christianity is very different than back when it started. Then it was ok to stone and hang people for adultery and pre-marital sex, but now thar just seems ridiculous and completely over the top. I can't really speak for other religions, but I myself am a Christian and I support gay rights and pro choice(with a few exceptions). And I don't have anything against other religions or atheists as long as they arnt whack job radicals. My long term boyfriend is Atheist and I don't mind at all, I love him to bits for him, not his spirituality. I'm really bad at deep conversation, sorry. Words are hard. TL;DR Saying all religions hurt people isn't exactly true, its the radical individuals. Most people don't consider them part of the religion anyways.

I think saying that all religions hurt people is pretty inaccurate. Most religions today arnt violent at all, save for a few radicals (who are too messed up in the head to even understand what religion is). Though I suppose when you consider the whole Christian vs Gay Rights thing its a different perspective, but even non religious people hurt others out side their community. It's just how people are, if anything it gives people a way to stick together and teaches them a way to cope with the world. The largest religions are all pretty tolerant(besides most Islam), it brings people together, no matter how ridiculous the religion seems to others. Also saying that it hasn't progressed isn't exactly true. With each generation the religion modifies and adapts. Sure, we follow the basic guidelines that were set thousands of years ago but todays Christianity is very different than back when it started. Then it was ok to stone and hang people for adultery and pre-marital sex, but now thar just seems ridiculous and completely over the top. I can't really speak for other religions, but I myself am a Christian and I support gay rights and pro choice(with a few exceptions). And I don't have anything against other religions or atheists as long as they arnt whack job radicals. My long term boyfriend is Atheist and I don't mind at all, I love him to bits for him, not his spirituality. I'm really bad at deep conversation, sorry. Words are hard. TL;DR Saying all religions hurt people isn't exactly true, its the radical individuals. Most people don't consider them part of the religion anyways.

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I think saying that all religions hurt people is pretty inaccurate. Most religions today arnt violent at all, save for a few radicals (who are too messed up in the head to even understand what religion is). Though I suppose when you consider the whole Christian vs Gay Rights thing its a different perspective, but even non religious people hurt others out side their community. It's just how people are, if anything it gives people a way to stick together and teaches them a way to cope with the world. The largest religions are all pretty tolerant(besides most Islam), it brings people together, no matter how ridiculous the religion seems to others. Also saying that it hasn't progressed isn't exactly true. With each generation the religion modifies and adapts. Sure, we follow the basic guidelines that were set thousands of years ago but todays Christianity is very different than back when it started. Then it was ok to stone and hang people for adultery and pre-marital sex, but now thar just seems ridiculous and completely over the top. I can't really speak for other religions, but I myself am a Christian and I support gay rights and pro choice(with a few exceptions). And I don't have anything against other religions or atheists as long as they arnt whack job radicals. My long term boyfriend is Atheist and I don't mind at all, I love him to bits for him, not his spirituality. I'm really bad at deep conversation, sorry. Words are hard.

Saying all religions hurt people isn't exactly true, its the radical individuals. Most people don't consider them part of the religion anyways.

Blarfles

I'd seriously recommend against the all-matching thing -- ever. I know two guys in high school, both of them are into the streetwear aesthetic. One of them has some awesome looks; Parkas, crazy patterned button-ups, and of course, snapbacks. He throws them together in these effortless ways with some color-complimenting and it always looks awesome. The other guy, every day, matches the color of his shoes, shirt, and hat. Sometimes, he even matches his powerband, stripe on his gymshorts, and swoosh on his socks. Its such a contrived, affected, poorly thought-ought look that doesn't work on anyone. tl;dr if you're going to wear loud snapbacks don't match everything you're wearing

I'd seriously recommend against the all-matching thing -- ever. I know two guys in high school, both of them are into the streetwear aesthetic. One of them has some awesome looks; Parkas, crazy patterned button-ups, and of course, snapbacks. He throws them together in these effortless ways with some color-complimenting and it always looks awesome. The other guy, every day, matches the color of his shoes, shirt, and hat. Sometimes, he even matches his powerband, stripe on his gymshorts, and swoosh on his socks. Its such a contrived, affected, poorly thought-ought look that doesn't work on anyone. tl;dr if you're going to wear loud snapbacks don't match everything you're wearing

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I'd seriously recommend against the all-matching thing -- ever. I know two guys in high school, both of them are into the streetwear aesthetic. One of them has some awesome looks; Parkas, crazy patterned button-ups, and of course, snapbacks. He throws them together in these effortless ways with some color-complimenting and it always looks awesome. The other guy, every day, matches the color of his shoes, shirt, and hat. Sometimes, he even matches his powerband, stripe on his gymshorts, and swoosh on his socks. Its such a contrived, affected, poorly thought-ought look that doesn't work on anyone.

if you're going to wear loud snapbacks don't match everything you're wearing

soundwave145

Mormon Here. You are all just jealous of my pirate booty. And on a side note, I recall Catholics having a crazy moment as well, Killing people and knights or something? Most religions have a fucking strange portion of history, Mormonism is just realities new so we have not the mystery of the good religions like Scientology and Christianity. Tl;DR: Just be a good person.

Mormon Here. You are all just jealous of my pirate booty. And on a side note, I recall Catholics having a crazy moment as well, Killing people and knights or something? Most religions have a fucking strange portion of history, Mormonism is just realities new so we have not the mystery of the good religions like Scientology and Christianity. Tl;DR: Just be a good person.

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Mormon Here. You are all just jealous of my pirate booty. And on a side note, I recall Catholics having a crazy moment as well, Killing people and knights or something? Most religions have a fucking strange portion of history, Mormonism is just realities new so we have not the mystery of the good religions like Scientology and Christianity.

Just be a good person.

mocthezuma

I have a love/hate relationship with the gameplay. Sometimes it's just too annoying to live with, but sometimes you can do some neat plays. The way the ref plays advantage is just horrible, and some of the assisted choices for passing and crossing are just as annoying. I also hate it when a player decides to jump over the ball at the least appropriate time, like when you're on the way through and it ruins the whole pace of the attack. And for some reason the defenders sometimes decide to run sideways when you're only holding the sprint button and running towards the ball/opposition attacker. But the worst gameplay feature by far is the tackling machanics in the game. Why EA Sports have elected to use the same button for tackling and shooting/clearing is beyond me. Of course you can customize the controller setup and change that, but the mechanics are still useless. There should be a far better indicator of when a player is in "defending mode" and when you are in possession of the ball/"attacking mode". And then there's all the crap that isn't gameplay related. Like the servers. I sometimes spend 30 minutes getting connected to players in UT that I can't play against for some reason. Often I get connected to the same player many times in a row and I have to go out to the main menu in order to connect to another player. This also happens in online season a lot. Sometimes the whole connection screen glitches and there are two big bright green squares where the club logos are supposed to be. All the skills are replaced by the words "define"(incomplete) and all other information on the screen is invisible. This is annoying because I frequently play with a guest, and there is no way of knowing if he has successfully joined or not as the game doesn't always register the first time you press the button. You can proceed and play the game but your shirts will be this checker pattern of green and blue and if you're playing with a guest you just have to hope he joined successfully. Also I tried exiting the game before starting the match. Quit FIFA. Started it up again and the same thing happened. I tried this several times and there was no way of bypassing this glitch other than playing the match. Usually it works fine after playing the glitched match. Another incredibly annoying thing is how long it takes to make substitutions unless you make them at half time. There's an animation of the player being substituted that lasts for a good 30 seconds every single time. Just leads to people never making substitutions. And why on earth EA have decided that you can't exit a completed game before both you and the person you are playing against hit the proceed button is just mind boggling. What the hell is that about? Then there's the league systems. Almost no stats what so ever. In FUT you get more coins from winning the second division than by winning the first division. And the structure is just incredibly uninteresting. I guess it's difficult to come up with a better systems when playing online seasons, but I'm sure they could at least have added some more stats and made it more interesting. Oh and the replay gallery is a joke. And not a funny one. Replays in a small window? You are forced to upload your replays in order to watch them in fullscreen and you can't even change camera angles or anything? That's just lazy. I own both FIFA 13 and PES 13 and although FIFA has the licences and sometimes the gameplay is smoother, PES 13 is a much more enjoyable gaming experience overall. And it's made by Konami as opposed to EA Sports. In online mode there is not even a contest. PES wins that by default. TL:DR Fifa 13 sucks, but it can be fun if you learn how it thinks and adapt to avoid all the annoying crap. Edit: Spelling

I have a love/hate relationship with the gameplay. Sometimes it's just too annoying to live with, but sometimes you can do some neat plays. The way the ref plays advantage is just horrible, and some of the assisted choices for passing and crossing are just as annoying. I also hate it when a player decides to jump over the ball at the least appropriate time, like when you're on the way through and it ruins the whole pace of the attack. And for some reason the defenders sometimes decide to run sideways when you're only holding the sprint button and running towards the ball/opposition attacker. But the worst gameplay feature by far is the tackling machanics in the game. Why EA Sports have elected to use the same button for tackling and shooting/clearing is beyond me. Of course you can customize the controller setup and change that, but the mechanics are still useless. There should be a far better indicator of when a player is in "defending mode" and when you are in possession of the ball/"attacking mode". And then there's all the crap that isn't gameplay related. Like the servers. I sometimes spend 30 minutes getting connected to players in UT that I can't play against for some reason. Often I get connected to the same player many times in a row and I have to go out to the main menu in order to connect to another player. This also happens in online season a lot. Sometimes the whole connection screen glitches and there are two big bright green squares where the club logos are supposed to be. All the skills are replaced by the words "define"(incomplete) and all other information on the screen is invisible. This is annoying because I frequently play with a guest, and there is no way of knowing if he has successfully joined or not as the game doesn't always register the first time you press the button. You can proceed and play the game but your shirts will be this checker pattern of green and blue and if you're playing with a guest you just have to hope he joined successfully. Also I tried exiting the game before starting the match. Quit FIFA. Started it up again and the same thing happened. I tried this several times and there was no way of bypassing this glitch other than playing the match. Usually it works fine after playing the glitched match. Another incredibly annoying thing is how long it takes to make substitutions unless you make them at half time. There's an animation of the player being substituted that lasts for a good 30 seconds every single time. Just leads to people never making substitutions. And why on earth EA have decided that you can't exit a completed game before both you and the person you are playing against hit the proceed button is just mind boggling. What the hell is that about? Then there's the league systems. Almost no stats what so ever. In FUT you get more coins from winning the second division than by winning the first division. And the structure is just incredibly uninteresting. I guess it's difficult to come up with a better systems when playing online seasons, but I'm sure they could at least have added some more stats and made it more interesting. Oh and the replay gallery is a joke. And not a funny one. Replays in a small window? You are forced to upload your replays in order to watch them in fullscreen and you can't even change camera angles or anything? That's just lazy. I own both FIFA 13 and PES 13 and although FIFA has the licences and sometimes the gameplay is smoother, PES 13 is a much more enjoyable gaming experience overall. And it's made by Konami as opposed to EA Sports. In online mode there is not even a contest. PES wins that by default. TL:DR Fifa 13 sucks, but it can be fun if you learn how it thinks and adapt to avoid all the annoying crap. Edit: Spelling

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I have a love/hate relationship with the gameplay. Sometimes it's just too annoying to live with, but sometimes you can do some neat plays. The way the ref plays advantage is just horrible, and some of the assisted choices for passing and crossing are just as annoying. I also hate it when a player decides to jump over the ball at the least appropriate time, like when you're on the way through and it ruins the whole pace of the attack. And for some reason the defenders sometimes decide to run sideways when you're only holding the sprint button and running towards the ball/opposition attacker. But the worst gameplay feature by far is the tackling machanics in the game. Why EA Sports have elected to use the same button for tackling and shooting/clearing is beyond me. Of course you can customize the controller setup and change that, but the mechanics are still useless. There should be a far better indicator of when a player is in "defending mode" and when you are in possession of the ball/"attacking mode". And then there's all the crap that isn't gameplay related. Like the servers. I sometimes spend 30 minutes getting connected to players in UT that I can't play against for some reason. Often I get connected to the same player many times in a row and I have to go out to the main menu in order to connect to another player. This also happens in online season a lot. Sometimes the whole connection screen glitches and there are two big bright green squares where the club logos are supposed to be. All the skills are replaced by the words "define"(incomplete) and all other information on the screen is invisible. This is annoying because I frequently play with a guest, and there is no way of knowing if he has successfully joined or not as the game doesn't always register the first time you press the button. You can proceed and play the game but your shirts will be this checker pattern of green and blue and if you're playing with a guest you just have to hope he joined successfully. Also I tried exiting the game before starting the match. Quit FIFA. Started it up again and the same thing happened. I tried this several times and there was no way of bypassing this glitch other than playing the match. Usually it works fine after playing the glitched match. Another incredibly annoying thing is how long it takes to make substitutions unless you make them at half time. There's an animation of the player being substituted that lasts for a good 30 seconds every single time. Just leads to people never making substitutions. And why on earth EA have decided that you can't exit a completed game before both you and the person you are playing against hit the proceed button is just mind boggling. What the hell is that about? Then there's the league systems. Almost no stats what so ever. In FUT you get more coins from winning the second division than by winning the first division. And the structure is just incredibly uninteresting. I guess it's difficult to come up with a better systems when playing online seasons, but I'm sure they could at least have added some more stats and made it more interesting. Oh and the replay gallery is a joke. And not a funny one. Replays in a small window? You are forced to upload your replays in order to watch them in fullscreen and you can't even change camera angles or anything? That's just lazy. I own both FIFA 13 and PES 13 and although FIFA has the licences and sometimes the gameplay is smoother, PES 13 is a much more enjoyable gaming experience overall. And it's made by Konami as opposed to EA Sports. In online mode there is not even a contest. PES wins that by default.

Fifa 13 sucks, but it can be fun if you learn how it thinks and adapt to avoid all the annoying crap. Edit: Spelling

Dinoz

Deus Ex Machina... it is a fake story based off of this plot device. a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved, with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object. Depending on how it's done, it can be intended to move the story forward when the writer has "painted himself into a corner" and sees no other way out, to surprise the audience, to bring a happy ending into the tale, or as a comedic device. TLDR; it is obviously fake, but a great fake story none the less. I am the machine, Deus Ex Machina

Deus Ex Machina... it is a fake story based off of this plot device. a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved, with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object. Depending on how it's done, it can be intended to move the story forward when the writer has "painted himself into a corner" and sees no other way out, to surprise the audience, to bring a happy ending into the tale, or as a comedic device. TLDR; it is obviously fake, but a great fake story none the less. I am the machine, Deus Ex Machina

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Deus Ex Machina... it is a fake story based off of this plot device. a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly resolved, with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object. Depending on how it's done, it can be intended to move the story forward when the writer has "painted himself into a corner" and sees no other way out, to surprise the audience, to bring a happy ending into the tale, or as a comedic device.

it is obviously fake, but a great fake story none the less. I am the machine, Deus Ex Machina

Aspel

Okay, you're right, she isn't desensitized to the just *constant* portrayals of females as sex objects and the *constant* notion that they have worth by *being* as opposed to men, who have worth by doing. That would be silly, and is totally ridiculous and not psychologically sound, and something that's depressingly common. She doesn't care because those characters aren't her, and she's apathetic to anything that doesn't directly concern her. tl;dr: I'm being sarcastic, yes, I do know how she should feel.

Okay, you're right, she isn't desensitized to the just constant portrayals of females as sex objects and the constant notion that they have worth by being as opposed to men, who have worth by doing. That would be silly, and is totally ridiculous and not psychologically sound, and something that's depressingly common. She doesn't care because those characters aren't her, and she's apathetic to anything that doesn't directly concern her. tl;dr: I'm being sarcastic, yes, I do know how she should feel.

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Okay, you're right, she isn't desensitized to the just constant portrayals of females as sex objects and the constant notion that they have worth by being as opposed to men, who have worth by doing. That would be silly, and is totally ridiculous and not psychologically sound, and something that's depressingly common. She doesn't care because those characters aren't her, and she's apathetic to anything that doesn't directly concern her.

I'm being sarcastic, yes, I do know how she should feel.

MenWithAVen

I still don't understand. Where did you get the original idea from? I assumed from this that you got it from LPT. >TL:DR - tested and applied knowledge learned from LPT.

I still don't understand. Where did you get the original idea from? I assumed from this that you got it from LPT. >TL:DR - tested and applied knowledge learned from LPT.

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I still don't understand. Where did you get the original idea from? I assumed from this that you got it from LPT. >

tested and applied knowledge learned from LPT.

Htom_Sirvoux

That's cool, you've clearly got a handle on your own motivations and feelings. I don't think that monogamy is a societal construct though - well maybe life long monogamy is. But the "one partner at a time" instinct is a biological imperative, although like any instinct there are going to be those who feel the pull of it strongly and others who don't. For human men, it means that they are less likely to be raising a child which they have no genetic investment in (the extreme of this instinct is infantide in Lion prides etc,) and for women it means that they are more likely to have a reliable partner who will support them in childraising and sharing resources until the child is self sufficient. Obviously in the real world you get step-children and adopted children, that's where environment perhaps overrides instinct as clearly for many men this is fine. If we have any anthropologists here, please bitchslap me if Ive got the wrong end of the stick. TLDR: Your own preference is totally fine, but I reckon that most people are wired to want one partner at a time and be exclusive. But that doesn't mean I think any other desires are wrong or invalid - it just wouldn't work for me.Jyst my observation ;).

That's cool, you've clearly got a handle on your own motivations and feelings. I don't think that monogamy is a societal construct though - well maybe life long monogamy is. But the "one partner at a time" instinct is a biological imperative, although like any instinct there are going to be those who feel the pull of it strongly and others who don't. For human men, it means that they are less likely to be raising a child which they have no genetic investment in (the extreme of this instinct is infantide in Lion prides etc,) and for women it means that they are more likely to have a reliable partner who will support them in childraising and sharing resources until the child is self sufficient. Obviously in the real world you get step-children and adopted children, that's where environment perhaps overrides instinct as clearly for many men this is fine. If we have any anthropologists here, please bitchslap me if Ive got the wrong end of the stick. TLDR: Your own preference is totally fine, but I reckon that most people are wired to want one partner at a time and be exclusive. But that doesn't mean I think any other desires are wrong or invalid - it just wouldn't work for me.Jyst my observation ;).

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That's cool, you've clearly got a handle on your own motivations and feelings. I don't think that monogamy is a societal construct though - well maybe life long monogamy is. But the "one partner at a time" instinct is a biological imperative, although like any instinct there are going to be those who feel the pull of it strongly and others who don't. For human men, it means that they are less likely to be raising a child which they have no genetic investment in (the extreme of this instinct is infantide in Lion prides etc,) and for women it means that they are more likely to have a reliable partner who will support them in childraising and sharing resources until the child is self sufficient. Obviously in the real world you get step-children and adopted children, that's where environment perhaps overrides instinct as clearly for many men this is fine. If we have any anthropologists here, please bitchslap me if Ive got the wrong end of the stick.

Your own preference is totally fine, but I reckon that most people are wired to want one partner at a time and be exclusive. But that doesn't mean I think any other desires are wrong or invalid - it just wouldn't work for me.Jyst my observation ;).

iheartheart

> two milks > strawberries > water melon Yeah... you are NOT on keto for 3 weeks, actually you are not on keto at all, you need to reduce your sugar and increase your fat intake. Cut the milk and fruits, eat chicken wings or thighs (with skin!) instead of chicken breast and you'll probably see some progress. TL;DR: Cut the milk and fruits, eat more fat!

> two milks > strawberries > water melon Yeah... you are NOT on keto for 3 weeks, actually you are not on keto at all, you need to reduce your sugar and increase your fat intake. Cut the milk and fruits, eat chicken wings or thighs (with skin!) instead of chicken breast and you'll probably see some progress. TL;DR: Cut the milk and fruits, eat more fat!

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two milks > strawberries > water melon Yeah... you are NOT on keto for 3 weeks, actually you are not on keto at all, you need to reduce your sugar and increase your fat intake. Cut the milk and fruits, eat chicken wings or thighs (with skin!) instead of chicken breast and you'll probably see some progress.

Cut the milk and fruits, eat more fat!

Veggie023

Studying for law school final exams. In law school we have one, three to four-hour curved exam that determines our grade for the entire semester. I've spent most of today trying to summaries 900 pages of casebook reading. Now all I have to do is memorize my 60 page outline. Easy! Actually - no - kill me. Or just pay off my student loan debt so I can drop out and move to Thailand where I will live in a hut on the beach and teach English to get by. Either way. TL;DR: Don't go to law school.

Studying for law school final exams. In law school we have one, three to four-hour curved exam that determines our grade for the entire semester. I've spent most of today trying to summaries 900 pages of casebook reading. Now all I have to do is memorize my 60 page outline. Easy! Actually - no - kill me. Or just pay off my student loan debt so I can drop out and move to Thailand where I will live in a hut on the beach and teach English to get by. Either way. TL;DR: Don't go to law school.

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Studying for law school final exams. In law school we have one, three to four-hour curved exam that determines our grade for the entire semester. I've spent most of today trying to summaries 900 pages of casebook reading. Now all I have to do is memorize my 60 page outline. Easy! Actually - no - kill me. Or just pay off my student loan debt so I can drop out and move to Thailand where I will live in a hut on the beach and teach English to get by. Either way.

Don't go to law school.

FriarTuck1234

See, im sure i will get a load of shit for this, but i am circumcised and i do not hate it. (though this could have to do with the cut?) My parents were under the impretion that it was healthier for me (some shit a crazy doctor told them when i was an infant). I do not blame them for doing what they thought was right. However, now i know it is not right. The reasoni dont mind (myself) being i have never known anything different. However, i will NOT be getting my son circumcised, because i find the entire act to be taking his body away.He should not be forced to have part of his body removed before he can even talk/sit up straight. TL:DR I dont blame anyone, and i dont hate my penis. I will NOT have my future son(s) circumcised

See, im sure i will get a load of shit for this, but i am circumcised and i do not hate it. (though this could have to do with the cut?) My parents were under the impretion that it was healthier for me (some shit a crazy doctor told them when i was an infant). I do not blame them for doing what they thought was right. However, now i know it is not right. The reasoni dont mind (myself) being i have never known anything different. However, i will NOT be getting my son circumcised, because i find the entire act to be taking his body away.He should not be forced to have part of his body removed before he can even talk/sit up straight. TL:DR I dont blame anyone, and i dont hate my penis. I will NOT have my future son(s) circumcised

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See, im sure i will get a load of shit for this, but i am circumcised and i do not hate it. (though this could have to do with the cut?) My parents were under the impretion that it was healthier for me (some shit a crazy doctor told them when i was an infant). I do not blame them for doing what they thought was right. However, now i know it is not right. The reasoni dont mind (myself) being i have never known anything different. However, i will NOT be getting my son circumcised, because i find the entire act to be taking his body away.He should not be forced to have part of his body removed before he can even talk/sit up straight.

I dont blame anyone, and i dont hate my penis. I will NOT have my future son(s) circumcised

Beiufin

Interestingly, I was having a discussion about this topic with someone I met the other day. This guy had stated very early on in our conversation that he didn't like PC gaming nearly as much as consoles. I asked him why that was and his main reason was because most PC games are only available for digital download. Upon further questioning he detailed his reasons. Essentially, he saw a greater value in actually owning a physical copy. A physical collection of video games can be displayed in his house. He could loan games to his friends by just handing them the game. There is actually a greater monetary value in buying physical copies as they can be collected and resold. Additionally, he felt more secure in actually having the games onsite. Personally, I prefer digital copies. Unlike the person mentioned above, I find more security in having my collection managed by digital retailers. If any disaster were to occur on my end, I could easily recover everything. Additionally, I can take my entire collection anywhere I go. As for the apocalypse case where the dealer goes offline and you lose all your games, I'm confident that insurance measures for consumers will be in place, and that the service will only shut down if most of interest has died out. I think it really comes down to the system you play games on. I play on the computer so I have services that provide fast downloads, easy management and lots of options. I can cheaply increase my hard drive capacity and back up all my games on an external hard drive. Most indie devs only offer digital copies and now most AAA pc releases have a physical copy that contains a download code. Digital copies are the most prevalent option and I do not mind that. Consoles on the other hand have a much different case. They do not have the broad options a PC user does: Their HD space is very limited and extremely hard to back up, More HD space cost a lot of money, and Digital downloads take years. In many cases for a console gamer, ordering a physical copy online is actually quicker than attempting to download a full AAA title. The digital stores on consoles are often poorly organized and lacking when compared to PC stores. Many AAA titles aren't even offered digitally for consoles. TL;DR Consoles currently have terrible options as far as digital copies go. As a PC gamer I entirely prefer digital downloads due to security and convenience but consoles do not share the same luxuries as PCs.

Interestingly, I was having a discussion about this topic with someone I met the other day. This guy had stated very early on in our conversation that he didn't like PC gaming nearly as much as consoles. I asked him why that was and his main reason was because most PC games are only available for digital download. Upon further questioning he detailed his reasons. Essentially, he saw a greater value in actually owning a physical copy. A physical collection of video games can be displayed in his house. He could loan games to his friends by just handing them the game. There is actually a greater monetary value in buying physical copies as they can be collected and resold. Additionally, he felt more secure in actually having the games onsite. Personally, I prefer digital copies. Unlike the person mentioned above, I find more security in having my collection managed by digital retailers. If any disaster were to occur on my end, I could easily recover everything. Additionally, I can take my entire collection anywhere I go. As for the apocalypse case where the dealer goes offline and you lose all your games, I'm confident that insurance measures for consumers will be in place, and that the service will only shut down if most of interest has died out. I think it really comes down to the system you play games on. I play on the computer so I have services that provide fast downloads, easy management and lots of options. I can cheaply increase my hard drive capacity and back up all my games on an external hard drive. Most indie devs only offer digital copies and now most AAA pc releases have a physical copy that contains a download code. Digital copies are the most prevalent option and I do not mind that. Consoles on the other hand have a much different case. They do not have the broad options a PC user does: Their HD space is very limited and extremely hard to back up, More HD space cost a lot of money, and Digital downloads take years. In many cases for a console gamer, ordering a physical copy online is actually quicker than attempting to download a full AAA title. The digital stores on consoles are often poorly organized and lacking when compared to PC stores. Many AAA titles aren't even offered digitally for consoles. TL;DR Consoles currently have terrible options as far as digital copies go. As a PC gamer I entirely prefer digital downloads due to security and convenience but consoles do not share the same luxuries as PCs.

truegaming

t5_2sgq6

c9pnmy6

Interestingly, I was having a discussion about this topic with someone I met the other day. This guy had stated very early on in our conversation that he didn't like PC gaming nearly as much as consoles. I asked him why that was and his main reason was because most PC games are only available for digital download. Upon further questioning he detailed his reasons. Essentially, he saw a greater value in actually owning a physical copy. A physical collection of video games can be displayed in his house. He could loan games to his friends by just handing them the game. There is actually a greater monetary value in buying physical copies as they can be collected and resold. Additionally, he felt more secure in actually having the games onsite. Personally, I prefer digital copies. Unlike the person mentioned above, I find more security in having my collection managed by digital retailers. If any disaster were to occur on my end, I could easily recover everything. Additionally, I can take my entire collection anywhere I go. As for the apocalypse case where the dealer goes offline and you lose all your games, I'm confident that insurance measures for consumers will be in place, and that the service will only shut down if most of interest has died out. I think it really comes down to the system you play games on. I play on the computer so I have services that provide fast downloads, easy management and lots of options. I can cheaply increase my hard drive capacity and back up all my games on an external hard drive. Most indie devs only offer digital copies and now most AAA pc releases have a physical copy that contains a download code. Digital copies are the most prevalent option and I do not mind that. Consoles on the other hand have a much different case. They do not have the broad options a PC user does: Their HD space is very limited and extremely hard to back up, More HD space cost a lot of money, and Digital downloads take years. In many cases for a console gamer, ordering a physical copy online is actually quicker than attempting to download a full AAA title. The digital stores on consoles are often poorly organized and lacking when compared to PC stores. Many AAA titles aren't even offered digitally for consoles.

Consoles currently have terrible options as far as digital copies go. As a PC gamer I entirely prefer digital downloads due to security and convenience but consoles do not share the same luxuries as PCs.

tommythek

To be fair, there are legitimate Naturopathic doctors out there. I actually know a girl who wants to become one. In the states where it's recognized, becoming a doctor of naturopathic medicine requires the same 4 years of medical school required by those who wish to become doctors of allopathic medicine. One of the main differences is that they do not need to complete a residency. Legitimate naturopathic doctors do have a good amount of medical knowledge at their disposal, but instead try alternative treatments for ailments that often can avoid side effects. With that being said, they also know there are many conditions that cannot be cured by these alternate treatments and will refer a patient to a doctor that practices allopathic or osteopathic medicine if a medical treatment is required. tl;dr: There are legitimate Naturopaths who do hold MDs. Just as it is important not to see something as good just because it's marked "natural," it's also important not to immediately discredit something because of the label. Critical thinking is key.

To be fair, there are legitimate Naturopathic doctors out there. I actually know a girl who wants to become one. In the states where it's recognized, becoming a doctor of naturopathic medicine requires the same 4 years of medical school required by those who wish to become doctors of allopathic medicine. One of the main differences is that they do not need to complete a residency. Legitimate naturopathic doctors do have a good amount of medical knowledge at their disposal, but instead try alternative treatments for ailments that often can avoid side effects. With that being said, they also know there are many conditions that cannot be cured by these alternate treatments and will refer a patient to a doctor that practices allopathic or osteopathic medicine if a medical treatment is required. tl;dr: There are legitimate Naturopaths who do hold MDs. Just as it is important not to see something as good just because it's marked "natural," it's also important not to immediately discredit something because of the label. Critical thinking is key.

atheism

t5_2qh2p

c9pv4z6

To be fair, there are legitimate Naturopathic doctors out there. I actually know a girl who wants to become one. In the states where it's recognized, becoming a doctor of naturopathic medicine requires the same 4 years of medical school required by those who wish to become doctors of allopathic medicine. One of the main differences is that they do not need to complete a residency. Legitimate naturopathic doctors do have a good amount of medical knowledge at their disposal, but instead try alternative treatments for ailments that often can avoid side effects. With that being said, they also know there are many conditions that cannot be cured by these alternate treatments and will refer a patient to a doctor that practices allopathic or osteopathic medicine if a medical treatment is required.

There are legitimate Naturopaths who do hold MDs. Just as it is important not to see something as good just because it's marked "natural," it's also important not to immediately discredit something because of the label. Critical thinking is key.

eaktheperson

I'll admit, I've been spoiled. We bought a beach house a few years ago. It's in the middle of no where, perched on the bluffs, over looking wine vineyards to one side, a private beach on the other side, pool to the side. Now between the location, the elements, the house takes a pounding, and the landscaping is a bitch. The previous owners left us a small manilla folder in which was a list of her vendors. Essentially a cheat sheet. The best plumbing guy, the best contractor, house keeper, seamstress, handyman, with crib notes. "Use this guy for XXX, This guy has been working in the area since XXX, If you call this company ask for XXX, Call XXX and ask for his wife, he's forgetful). So right now I tell my wife I've got the dream team going on, and only if I could get these guys to that garage. One guy is super busy, so I need to see things 3-4 months out, let him know, and tell him to get to it when he does. However his work is top shelf, detail oriented, etc. Another guy does all the day to day stuff with a bit less finesse, but it will be done in less than a week. We also have two landscapers. One is a real hortacologist, you can't talk to him without opening a bottle of wine. The other, you tell him I need a guy to weed 8 hours over two days. It all really comes together and I take on small projects but really,that place is on autopilot. However when an emergency happes...Example we had a busted pipe that had been going on for days. Hot water, nasty business. within half an hour the plumber had the problem fixed, the contractor was there that day to pull out all the wet insulation and spray down moldicide. The other guy set up dehumidifers. The next day the plumber was back to install a system where if unregulated water starts flowing (Say 5pgm of hot water, i'm not exactly sure) the valve closes unless you hit an override. Finally the same day, security company shows up with water detectors for the basement /garage and crawl space so next time, someone can be out much quicker. Someone came back every 3-5 days to spray the molicide to inspect, and then new insulation and sheet rock. Good, competent, and honest contractors are worth their weight in gold. **TL;DR** Yeah, good help is hard to find, and typically, no one is going to do as good of a job as you are. However good contractors with the same sort of dedication are worth their weight in gold.

I'll admit, I've been spoiled. We bought a beach house a few years ago. It's in the middle of no where, perched on the bluffs, over looking wine vineyards to one side, a private beach on the other side, pool to the side. Now between the location, the elements, the house takes a pounding, and the landscaping is a bitch. The previous owners left us a small manilla folder in which was a list of her vendors. Essentially a cheat sheet. The best plumbing guy, the best contractor, house keeper, seamstress, handyman, with crib notes. "Use this guy for XXX, This guy has been working in the area since XXX, If you call this company ask for XXX, Call XXX and ask for his wife, he's forgetful). So right now I tell my wife I've got the dream team going on, and only if I could get these guys to that garage. One guy is super busy, so I need to see things 3-4 months out, let him know, and tell him to get to it when he does. However his work is top shelf, detail oriented, etc. Another guy does all the day to day stuff with a bit less finesse, but it will be done in less than a week. We also have two landscapers. One is a real hortacologist, you can't talk to him without opening a bottle of wine. The other, you tell him I need a guy to weed 8 hours over two days. It all really comes together and I take on small projects but really,that place is on autopilot. However when an emergency happes...Example we had a busted pipe that had been going on for days. Hot water, nasty business. within half an hour the plumber had the problem fixed, the contractor was there that day to pull out all the wet insulation and spray down moldicide. The other guy set up dehumidifers. The next day the plumber was back to install a system where if unregulated water starts flowing (Say 5pgm of hot water, i'm not exactly sure) the valve closes unless you hit an override. Finally the same day, security company shows up with water detectors for the basement /garage and crawl space so next time, someone can be out much quicker. Someone came back every 3-5 days to spray the molicide to inspect, and then new insulation and sheet rock. Good, competent, and honest contractors are worth their weight in gold. TL;DR Yeah, good help is hard to find, and typically, no one is going to do as good of a job as you are. However good contractors with the same sort of dedication are worth their weight in gold.

DIY

t5_2qh7d

c9qdgvb

I'll admit, I've been spoiled. We bought a beach house a few years ago. It's in the middle of no where, perched on the bluffs, over looking wine vineyards to one side, a private beach on the other side, pool to the side. Now between the location, the elements, the house takes a pounding, and the landscaping is a bitch. The previous owners left us a small manilla folder in which was a list of her vendors. Essentially a cheat sheet. The best plumbing guy, the best contractor, house keeper, seamstress, handyman, with crib notes. "Use this guy for XXX, This guy has been working in the area since XXX, If you call this company ask for XXX, Call XXX and ask for his wife, he's forgetful). So right now I tell my wife I've got the dream team going on, and only if I could get these guys to that garage. One guy is super busy, so I need to see things 3-4 months out, let him know, and tell him to get to it when he does. However his work is top shelf, detail oriented, etc. Another guy does all the day to day stuff with a bit less finesse, but it will be done in less than a week. We also have two landscapers. One is a real hortacologist, you can't talk to him without opening a bottle of wine. The other, you tell him I need a guy to weed 8 hours over two days. It all really comes together and I take on small projects but really,that place is on autopilot. However when an emergency happes...Example we had a busted pipe that had been going on for days. Hot water, nasty business. within half an hour the plumber had the problem fixed, the contractor was there that day to pull out all the wet insulation and spray down moldicide. The other guy set up dehumidifers. The next day the plumber was back to install a system where if unregulated water starts flowing (Say 5pgm of hot water, i'm not exactly sure) the valve closes unless you hit an override. Finally the same day, security company shows up with water detectors for the basement /garage and crawl space so next time, someone can be out much quicker. Someone came back every 3-5 days to spray the molicide to inspect, and then new insulation and sheet rock. Good, competent, and honest contractors are worth their weight in gold.

Yeah, good help is hard to find, and typically, no one is going to do as good of a job as you are. However good contractors with the same sort of dedication are worth their weight in gold.

eaktheperson

Once upon a time, yeah I was the same way when I was much younger. However now, I just don't have the time. The last time I painted was my daughters room when she was born. I did it late at night, it was a job I didn't want anyone to do. It was flawless, the entire room was, but it came at a price. Way too much time spent. Fast forward a few years, we got a new place, pretty big, and I thought I'd surprise my wife with a surprise party there. It was a week off and...no way I could have done all the work myself (essentially, moving in (3 sets of movers), someone to help hang the art/organise things, party, and getting the place liveable. "Meetings all week", slipping out of the house from 1am to 5am). I had the floors refinished and hired professional painters for the first time, and they got the place painted in 3 days, working 16-20 hours a day. The level of detail was fantastic. Primed and at least 2-3 colours per room, at least 2 coats, 3 in some small places, picture frames, special treatments, the works. No drips, no runs, the paint was seamless, really, a fantastic job. Part of me really wishes I could do it as you do, however I just haven't the time. **TL;DR** [This about sums it up] ( however I'd like to operate the way you do.

Once upon a time, yeah I was the same way when I was much younger. However now, I just don't have the time. The last time I painted was my daughters room when she was born. I did it late at night, it was a job I didn't want anyone to do. It was flawless, the entire room was, but it came at a price. Way too much time spent. Fast forward a few years, we got a new place, pretty big, and I thought I'd surprise my wife with a surprise party there. It was a week off and...no way I could have done all the work myself (essentially, moving in (3 sets of movers), someone to help hang the art/organise things, party, and getting the place liveable. "Meetings all week", slipping out of the house from 1am to 5am). I had the floors refinished and hired professional painters for the first time, and they got the place painted in 3 days, working 16-20 hours a day. The level of detail was fantastic. Primed and at least 2-3 colours per room, at least 2 coats, 3 in some small places, picture frames, special treatments, the works. No drips, no runs, the paint was seamless, really, a fantastic job. Part of me really wishes I could do it as you do, however I just haven't the time. TL;DR [This about sums it up] ( however I'd like to operate the way you do.

DIY

t5_2qh7d

c9qnv3m

Once upon a time, yeah I was the same way when I was much younger. However now, I just don't have the time. The last time I painted was my daughters room when she was born. I did it late at night, it was a job I didn't want anyone to do. It was flawless, the entire room was, but it came at a price. Way too much time spent. Fast forward a few years, we got a new place, pretty big, and I thought I'd surprise my wife with a surprise party there. It was a week off and...no way I could have done all the work myself (essentially, moving in (3 sets of movers), someone to help hang the art/organise things, party, and getting the place liveable. "Meetings all week", slipping out of the house from 1am to 5am). I had the floors refinished and hired professional painters for the first time, and they got the place painted in 3 days, working 16-20 hours a day. The level of detail was fantastic. Primed and at least 2-3 colours per room, at least 2 coats, 3 in some small places, picture frames, special treatments, the works. No drips, no runs, the paint was seamless, really, a fantastic job. Part of me really wishes I could do it as you do, however I just haven't the time.

This about sums it up] ( however I'd like to operate the way you do.

eaktheperson

I considered doing that. In addition to the springs, I gave thought to the rails. They really need to be balanced and aligned properly. My father is a DIY champ of sorts. He fixes thing using other broken things. A few years back he broke down their rotting garage door, and fabricated new panels that matched perfectly. It was an amazing job. Till it came time to open/close the doors. They have these super fast automated garage door openers which "throw" the door open. The lack of a proper alignment practically ripped the rails off. **TL;DR** Pro install for garage door, check.

I considered doing that. In addition to the springs, I gave thought to the rails. They really need to be balanced and aligned properly. My father is a DIY champ of sorts. He fixes thing using other broken things. A few years back he broke down their rotting garage door, and fabricated new panels that matched perfectly. It was an amazing job. Till it came time to open/close the doors. They have these super fast automated garage door openers which "throw" the door open. The lack of a proper alignment practically ripped the rails off. TL;DR Pro install for garage door, check.

DIY

t5_2qh7d

c9ppoyb

I considered doing that. In addition to the springs, I gave thought to the rails. They really need to be balanced and aligned properly. My father is a DIY champ of sorts. He fixes thing using other broken things. A few years back he broke down their rotting garage door, and fabricated new panels that matched perfectly. It was an amazing job. Till it came time to open/close the doors. They have these super fast automated garage door openers which "throw" the door open. The lack of a proper alignment practically ripped the rails off.

Pro install for garage door, check.

Darkreaper48

I flip-flop on troop choices depending on mood/list. For 1k+, my most reliable is duke sliscus. He has all of the advantages of the badass archon build (drugs, good weapon, shadowfield) AND he gives good army-wide buffs. rolling 2d6 and choosing on drugs helps ensure my reaver/wych squads start off with fnp more often, and if you get the fnp drugs, duke has combat drugs, so your warrior squad he's in will benefit from the token. He's pretty badass in cc, and really, I prefer his venom blade to a regular power weapon. Wounds on 2+, ignores armor on 5+, means that low rolls still do something, and the "average range" for a regular power weapon (str3 on t4) doesn't change. If you have a power weap, wounds on 5+ usually. He also has a blast pistol, which is sometimes useful, and let's all your raiders deep stike - sometimes also useful. Oh, and he buffs a squad's poison up to 3+, so with splinter racks you can have 18 rerolling to hit, 3+ to hit, 3+ to wound poison. Baron isn't bad either for a cheapie, but I never have good luck with him. Ideally having him with hellions, taking advantage of his stealth and massive str6, sometimes 7 charge should be good, but maybe mymeta sucks for it. Oh, and the +1 to go first is nice. If I'm playing hbelow 1k, I'll often save points and just stick a liquifier haemy somewhere. 60 points is a good deal for what you get there. Blaster archon is used sometimes, since it's a bs5 blaster, but I never really care for it. Sticking him with some trueborn or warriors is fine, but I see it as less valuable than the cheap haemy. Tl;dr, I prefer duke or a haemy, but other choices are fine.

I flip-flop on troop choices depending on mood/list. For 1k+, my most reliable is duke sliscus. He has all of the advantages of the badass archon build (drugs, good weapon, shadowfield) AND he gives good army-wide buffs. rolling 2d6 and choosing on drugs helps ensure my reaver/wych squads start off with fnp more often, and if you get the fnp drugs, duke has combat drugs, so your warrior squad he's in will benefit from the token. He's pretty badass in cc, and really, I prefer his venom blade to a regular power weapon. Wounds on 2+, ignores armor on 5+, means that low rolls still do something, and the "average range" for a regular power weapon (str3 on t4) doesn't change. If you have a power weap, wounds on 5+ usually. He also has a blast pistol, which is sometimes useful, and let's all your raiders deep stike - sometimes also useful. Oh, and he buffs a squad's poison up to 3+, so with splinter racks you can have 18 rerolling to hit, 3+ to hit, 3+ to wound poison. Baron isn't bad either for a cheapie, but I never have good luck with him. Ideally having him with hellions, taking advantage of his stealth and massive str6, sometimes 7 charge should be good, but maybe mymeta sucks for it. Oh, and the +1 to go first is nice. If I'm playing hbelow 1k, I'll often save points and just stick a liquifier haemy somewhere. 60 points is a good deal for what you get there. Blaster archon is used sometimes, since it's a bs5 blaster, but I never really care for it. Sticking him with some trueborn or warriors is fine, but I see it as less valuable than the cheap haemy. Tl;dr, I prefer duke or a haemy, but other choices are fine.

Warhammer

t5_2qqd4

c9rxgtu

I flip-flop on troop choices depending on mood/list. For 1k+, my most reliable is duke sliscus. He has all of the advantages of the badass archon build (drugs, good weapon, shadowfield) AND he gives good army-wide buffs. rolling 2d6 and choosing on drugs helps ensure my reaver/wych squads start off with fnp more often, and if you get the fnp drugs, duke has combat drugs, so your warrior squad he's in will benefit from the token. He's pretty badass in cc, and really, I prefer his venom blade to a regular power weapon. Wounds on 2+, ignores armor on 5+, means that low rolls still do something, and the "average range" for a regular power weapon (str3 on t4) doesn't change. If you have a power weap, wounds on 5+ usually. He also has a blast pistol, which is sometimes useful, and let's all your raiders deep stike - sometimes also useful. Oh, and he buffs a squad's poison up to 3+, so with splinter racks you can have 18 rerolling to hit, 3+ to hit, 3+ to wound poison. Baron isn't bad either for a cheapie, but I never have good luck with him. Ideally having him with hellions, taking advantage of his stealth and massive str6, sometimes 7 charge should be good, but maybe mymeta sucks for it. Oh, and the +1 to go first is nice. If I'm playing hbelow 1k, I'll often save points and just stick a liquifier haemy somewhere. 60 points is a good deal for what you get there. Blaster archon is used sometimes, since it's a bs5 blaster, but I never really care for it. Sticking him with some trueborn or warriors is fine, but I see it as less valuable than the cheap haemy.

I prefer duke or a haemy, but other choices are fine.

baultista

I peaked in 2009 during 3rd year of college at a solid 195lb, from 240lb in highschool. If I wasn't in class I was at the hockey rink, the yoga studio, the gym, or the swimming pool. That level of activity was just not sustainable. As the end of college ensued, I gained about 10 pounds due to assignments, late night study sessions, and all those group member study dinners that involved junk food. I also had to scale back on my physical acitivty to keep up with the workload. When I started work I was about 220lb and cut to about 210lb before suffering a concussion. This sidelined me for 6mos. A knee injury 3 weeks after being cleared to return to activity set me back another three months. At that point I had really lost hope and topped out at around 240lb. My appetite never really scaled and because I felt so hopeless after the knee injury I stopped caring and start gorging. I'm back down to about 225lb now. I'm finding it hard to lose weight and keep it off while working 40hrs a week. I swim at lunch twice a week, do yoga twice a week, and do some light lifting + rowing machine 2x a week. My knee is not strong enough for me to be playing hockey or running. I've really developed an affinity for pizza, burgers, ice cream, and grilled cheese sandwiches. **tl;dr**: Decline in activity due to responsibilities and injures.

I peaked in 2009 during 3rd year of college at a solid 195lb, from 240lb in highschool. If I wasn't in class I was at the hockey rink, the yoga studio, the gym, or the swimming pool. That level of activity was just not sustainable. As the end of college ensued, I gained about 10 pounds due to assignments, late night study sessions, and all those group member study dinners that involved junk food. I also had to scale back on my physical acitivty to keep up with the workload. When I started work I was about 220lb and cut to about 210lb before suffering a concussion. This sidelined me for 6mos. A knee injury 3 weeks after being cleared to return to activity set me back another three months. At that point I had really lost hope and topped out at around 240lb. My appetite never really scaled and because I felt so hopeless after the knee injury I stopped caring and start gorging. I'm back down to about 225lb now. I'm finding it hard to lose weight and keep it off while working 40hrs a week. I swim at lunch twice a week, do yoga twice a week, and do some light lifting + rowing machine 2x a week. My knee is not strong enough for me to be playing hockey or running. I've really developed an affinity for pizza, burgers, ice cream, and grilled cheese sandwiches. tl;dr : Decline in activity due to responsibilities and injures.

loseit

t5_2rz8w

c9q2izl

I peaked in 2009 during 3rd year of college at a solid 195lb, from 240lb in highschool. If I wasn't in class I was at the hockey rink, the yoga studio, the gym, or the swimming pool. That level of activity was just not sustainable. As the end of college ensued, I gained about 10 pounds due to assignments, late night study sessions, and all those group member study dinners that involved junk food. I also had to scale back on my physical acitivty to keep up with the workload. When I started work I was about 220lb and cut to about 210lb before suffering a concussion. This sidelined me for 6mos. A knee injury 3 weeks after being cleared to return to activity set me back another three months. At that point I had really lost hope and topped out at around 240lb. My appetite never really scaled and because I felt so hopeless after the knee injury I stopped caring and start gorging. I'm back down to about 225lb now. I'm finding it hard to lose weight and keep it off while working 40hrs a week. I swim at lunch twice a week, do yoga twice a week, and do some light lifting + rowing machine 2x a week. My knee is not strong enough for me to be playing hockey or running. I've really developed an affinity for pizza, burgers, ice cream, and grilled cheese sandwiches.

Decline in activity due to responsibilities and injures.

icantbebotheredd

I lost about 60 lbs from may 2010 to may 2011. I started at 198 (5'3, f and 20 at the time) and got down to 140. I kept it off pretty well for about 7 months-- i worked out more days than i didnt and tried to eat enough to maintain. Then last semester of my senior year hit (so spring 2012). I went from taking 18 units and working 35 hrs a week to taking 12 and working 15. I had a lot of free time, and i started to smoke a lot of weed-- going from 2x a month to almost daily. I would eat unhealthy food, like pad thai, bread, pasta, homemade red lobster biscuits. I still worked out but i was eating a lot more so i gained weight. During this past summer, i worked 40 hrs a week and was high the rest of the time and i binged hard. Id make 1 lbs of pasta with butter and heavy cream and eat-puke-eat-puke etc... I ate pasta and ice cream because those were the easiest to throw up and i basically lived alone so had no one to be accountable to. I had/have a lot of anixety problems and being high was one of the few things that made me not worry so much. But for me, being high makes me crave salty, buttery carby food. In the fall i moved back home to start a real job, and in between my commute and work (that alone ate out almost 13 hours a day), i felt like i had no time. I started eating healthier, slightly, (only binging 2x a week instead of 6x or 7x) but never worked out. 2 months ago i got on the scale again and i saw 177 lbs. The number completely shocked me (but after thinking about it, not really, i mean my lifestyle was terrible). Since then, ive been eating totally clean (except 2 cheat meals a week) and working out 6 days a week. Ive lost about 12 pounds since then! I still smoke weed but only 1x or 2x a week and align it with my cheat meals because my willpower to eat healthy when im high is 0. I also only throw up 1x time a week if that when i used to do it multiple times daily. One day i hope to 100% eliminate that but i am glad with the progress ive made. Working out daily makes me feel so much better mentally and ive found that (once again) eating healthy is a habit and once youre used to it, it really isnt so bad. I dont crave bread, pasta etc the way i used to. Wow this turned out so much longer than i thought but if anyone stuck in a rut is reading this, it's hard at first but the payoffs after the first 2 weeks are huuuuge. Tldr: lost 60 lbs, gained about half back by smoking weed and eating shit.

I lost about 60 lbs from may 2010 to may 2011. I started at 198 (5'3, f and 20 at the time) and got down to 140. I kept it off pretty well for about 7 months-- i worked out more days than i didnt and tried to eat enough to maintain. Then last semester of my senior year hit (so spring 2012). I went from taking 18 units and working 35 hrs a week to taking 12 and working 15. I had a lot of free time, and i started to smoke a lot of weed-- going from 2x a month to almost daily. I would eat unhealthy food, like pad thai, bread, pasta, homemade red lobster biscuits. I still worked out but i was eating a lot more so i gained weight. During this past summer, i worked 40 hrs a week and was high the rest of the time and i binged hard. Id make 1 lbs of pasta with butter and heavy cream and eat-puke-eat-puke etc... I ate pasta and ice cream because those were the easiest to throw up and i basically lived alone so had no one to be accountable to. I had/have a lot of anixety problems and being high was one of the few things that made me not worry so much. But for me, being high makes me crave salty, buttery carby food. In the fall i moved back home to start a real job, and in between my commute and work (that alone ate out almost 13 hours a day), i felt like i had no time. I started eating healthier, slightly, (only binging 2x a week instead of 6x or 7x) but never worked out. 2 months ago i got on the scale again and i saw 177 lbs. The number completely shocked me (but after thinking about it, not really, i mean my lifestyle was terrible). Since then, ive been eating totally clean (except 2 cheat meals a week) and working out 6 days a week. Ive lost about 12 pounds since then! I still smoke weed but only 1x or 2x a week and align it with my cheat meals because my willpower to eat healthy when im high is 0. I also only throw up 1x time a week if that when i used to do it multiple times daily. One day i hope to 100% eliminate that but i am glad with the progress ive made. Working out daily makes me feel so much better mentally and ive found that (once again) eating healthy is a habit and once youre used to it, it really isnt so bad. I dont crave bread, pasta etc the way i used to. Wow this turned out so much longer than i thought but if anyone stuck in a rut is reading this, it's hard at first but the payoffs after the first 2 weeks are huuuuge. Tldr: lost 60 lbs, gained about half back by smoking weed and eating shit.

loseit

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c9q8ggm

I lost about 60 lbs from may 2010 to may 2011. I started at 198 (5'3, f and 20 at the time) and got down to 140. I kept it off pretty well for about 7 months-- i worked out more days than i didnt and tried to eat enough to maintain. Then last semester of my senior year hit (so spring 2012). I went from taking 18 units and working 35 hrs a week to taking 12 and working 15. I had a lot of free time, and i started to smoke a lot of weed-- going from 2x a month to almost daily. I would eat unhealthy food, like pad thai, bread, pasta, homemade red lobster biscuits. I still worked out but i was eating a lot more so i gained weight. During this past summer, i worked 40 hrs a week and was high the rest of the time and i binged hard. Id make 1 lbs of pasta with butter and heavy cream and eat-puke-eat-puke etc... I ate pasta and ice cream because those were the easiest to throw up and i basically lived alone so had no one to be accountable to. I had/have a lot of anixety problems and being high was one of the few things that made me not worry so much. But for me, being high makes me crave salty, buttery carby food. In the fall i moved back home to start a real job, and in between my commute and work (that alone ate out almost 13 hours a day), i felt like i had no time. I started eating healthier, slightly, (only binging 2x a week instead of 6x or 7x) but never worked out. 2 months ago i got on the scale again and i saw 177 lbs. The number completely shocked me (but after thinking about it, not really, i mean my lifestyle was terrible). Since then, ive been eating totally clean (except 2 cheat meals a week) and working out 6 days a week. Ive lost about 12 pounds since then! I still smoke weed but only 1x or 2x a week and align it with my cheat meals because my willpower to eat healthy when im high is 0. I also only throw up 1x time a week if that when i used to do it multiple times daily. One day i hope to 100% eliminate that but i am glad with the progress ive made. Working out daily makes me feel so much better mentally and ive found that (once again) eating healthy is a habit and once youre used to it, it really isnt so bad. I dont crave bread, pasta etc the way i used to. Wow this turned out so much longer than i thought but if anyone stuck in a rut is reading this, it's hard at first but the payoffs after the first 2 weeks are huuuuge.

lost 60 lbs, gained about half back by smoking weed and eating shit.

HeyZuesHChrist

You might not get that SV, but there is plenty of other motivation. I've pretty much been at the same weight for about 6 months now. I've dropped another 5lbs in the past few weeks, but that's because I've changed my exercise regiment to Insanity. Motivation is just different for me now. Before, I wanted to lose the weight so that I could feel confident about how I looked. I didn't know what that felt like, so I was chasing that. Now that I've found it, I never want to lose it. Sure, there are times when I would rather just go home, plop myself down on the couch, veg out, order pizza, and just stuff my face. But, I know that it won't help me feel great on the weekends when I socialize. Weekdays are weekend prep for me. I'm prepping my body so that I feel the best when I'm out. I'm a single guy, so socializing is an important part of my life. A matter of fact, it's pretty much front and center in my life. If I want to have the confidence that comes with feeling great about my body, I need to do what needs to be done. That might sound incredibly vain, and it is, but that's reality. tl;dr - The end justify the means.

You might not get that SV, but there is plenty of other motivation. I've pretty much been at the same weight for about 6 months now. I've dropped another 5lbs in the past few weeks, but that's because I've changed my exercise regiment to Insanity. Motivation is just different for me now. Before, I wanted to lose the weight so that I could feel confident about how I looked. I didn't know what that felt like, so I was chasing that. Now that I've found it, I never want to lose it. Sure, there are times when I would rather just go home, plop myself down on the couch, veg out, order pizza, and just stuff my face. But, I know that it won't help me feel great on the weekends when I socialize. Weekdays are weekend prep for me. I'm prepping my body so that I feel the best when I'm out. I'm a single guy, so socializing is an important part of my life. A matter of fact, it's pretty much front and center in my life. If I want to have the confidence that comes with feeling great about my body, I need to do what needs to be done. That might sound incredibly vain, and it is, but that's reality. tl;dr - The end justify the means.

loseit

t5_2rz8w

c9qbzh2

You might not get that SV, but there is plenty of other motivation. I've pretty much been at the same weight for about 6 months now. I've dropped another 5lbs in the past few weeks, but that's because I've changed my exercise regiment to Insanity. Motivation is just different for me now. Before, I wanted to lose the weight so that I could feel confident about how I looked. I didn't know what that felt like, so I was chasing that. Now that I've found it, I never want to lose it. Sure, there are times when I would rather just go home, plop myself down on the couch, veg out, order pizza, and just stuff my face. But, I know that it won't help me feel great on the weekends when I socialize. Weekdays are weekend prep for me. I'm prepping my body so that I feel the best when I'm out. I'm a single guy, so socializing is an important part of my life. A matter of fact, it's pretty much front and center in my life. If I want to have the confidence that comes with feeling great about my body, I need to do what needs to be done. That might sound incredibly vain, and it is, but that's reality.

The end justify the means.

julian88888888

It's because dinosaurs are special, it was actually their blood. Animals in the present time aren't strong enough, and their blood pressure isn't high enough, to compact the oil-globules into oil as we know it. The problem is the current ban on GMO animals, because if we could genetically engineer cows to withstand the high heat and blood pressure, with drugs and such, we would have at least a somewhat renewable source of oil. I'm actually working on my doctorate now on how to do this growing algae in test-tubes to attack the right enzyme and use it to process oil. Few more weeks and It'll be done and hopefully published in Nature! —Doctorate Candidate in Phd Primoilal Oilogist TL;DR **Dinosaur Blood = Oil**

It's because dinosaurs are special, it was actually their blood. Animals in the present time aren't strong enough, and their blood pressure isn't high enough, to compact the oil-globules into oil as we know it. The problem is the current ban on GMO animals, because if we could genetically engineer cows to withstand the high heat and blood pressure, with drugs and such, we would have at least a somewhat renewable source of oil. I'm actually working on my doctorate now on how to do this growing algae in test-tubes to attack the right enzyme and use it to process oil. Few more weeks and It'll be done and hopefully published in Nature! —Doctorate Candidate in Phd Primoilal Oilogist TL;DR Dinosaur Blood = Oil

shittyaskscience

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c9qfjsx

It's because dinosaurs are special, it was actually their blood. Animals in the present time aren't strong enough, and their blood pressure isn't high enough, to compact the oil-globules into oil as we know it. The problem is the current ban on GMO animals, because if we could genetically engineer cows to withstand the high heat and blood pressure, with drugs and such, we would have at least a somewhat renewable source of oil. I'm actually working on my doctorate now on how to do this growing algae in test-tubes to attack the right enzyme and use it to process oil. Few more weeks and It'll be done and hopefully published in Nature! —Doctorate Candidate in Phd Primoilal Oilogist

Dinosaur Blood = Oil

djfacemachine

I have one that will probably depress a lot of ladies. My belly got pretty large, but I was pleased that I didn't have any stretchmarks! After my daughter was born and I was sitting around waiting to move to my overnight room, I noticed a few on my belly. They had instantly appeared as soon as my belly deflated after birth. TLDR - I didn't get stretchmarks until after I gave birth.

I have one that will probably depress a lot of ladies. My belly got pretty large, but I was pleased that I didn't have any stretchmarks! After my daughter was born and I was sitting around waiting to move to my overnight room, I noticed a few on my belly. They had instantly appeared as soon as my belly deflated after birth. TLDR - I didn't get stretchmarks until after I gave birth.

BabyBumps

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I have one that will probably depress a lot of ladies. My belly got pretty large, but I was pleased that I didn't have any stretchmarks! After my daughter was born and I was sitting around waiting to move to my overnight room, I noticed a few on my belly. They had instantly appeared as soon as my belly deflated after birth.

I didn't get stretchmarks until after I gave birth.

Maginotbluestars

Probably. Sure they prefer trade now and NK is turning into a liability/embarrassment ... however if NK went off the deep end and kicked off the war with the south again ... and then the north started to *lose* ... things could get dicey. China does not want war, but China also does not want a US ally on thier border. TL/DR : maybe so, but nobody is going to take even a small risk over one guy.

Probably. Sure they prefer trade now and NK is turning into a liability/embarrassment ... however if NK went off the deep end and kicked off the war with the south again ... and then the north started to lose ... things could get dicey. China does not want war, but China also does not want a US ally on thier border. TL/DR : maybe so, but nobody is going to take even a small risk over one guy.

worldnews

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c9quz09

Probably. Sure they prefer trade now and NK is turning into a liability/embarrassment ... however if NK went off the deep end and kicked off the war with the south again ... and then the north started to lose ... things could get dicey. China does not want war, but China also does not want a US ally on thier border.

maybe so, but nobody is going to take even a small risk over one guy.

blurgtheamoeba

Hey, I was just going with your analogy. ;) But the homeless are in most parts of the world. How/why is it different? I fucking bet my left testicle that life in DPKR is very unlike what we think it is, simply because we are so cut off from it. That's why what he was doing was important. Though I wish he hadn't chosen controversy, I can't begrudge him the choice with such scanty information as to what he actually encountered.. tl;dr we don't know enough about what happened, because it was in DPKR

Hey, I was just going with your analogy. ;) But the homeless are in most parts of the world. How/why is it different? I fucking bet my left testicle that life in DPKR is very unlike what we think it is, simply because we are so cut off from it. That's why what he was doing was important. Though I wish he hadn't chosen controversy, I can't begrudge him the choice with such scanty information as to what he actually encountered.. tl;dr we don't know enough about what happened, because it was in DPKR

worldnews

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c9qwten

Hey, I was just going with your analogy. ;) But the homeless are in most parts of the world. How/why is it different? I fucking bet my left testicle that life in DPKR is very unlike what we think it is, simply because we are so cut off from it. That's why what he was doing was important. Though I wish he hadn't chosen controversy, I can't begrudge him the choice with such scanty information as to what he actually encountered..

we don't know enough about what happened, because it was in DPKR

zjaws88

This Map is inaccurate---And also, considering some of the comments here, Dubai is actually much nicer today than it was a few years ago (Alot of the construction projects that were halted have now been completed), the city is MUCH cleaner and the traffic is nowhere NEAR as miserable as it was just 3-4 years ago.- -some of the palm islands are still pretty desolate--but they are essentially just gated communities (there is an Atlantis at the end of one of them and a few other hotels) otherwise its pretty residential. Abu Dhabi, on the other hand (Where I live) is much more spread out, and they put a lot more emphasis on GREENERY which is nice- They are growing, but gradually so you don't have those same issues with traffic and the feeling that you are living in a GIANT construction site- they are growing outward (Yas Island, Sadiyyat) as oppose to clustering up the existing city. TLDR; inaccurate photo of Dubai---Dubai is much better today than it was just a few years ago--Abu Dhabi is better IMO.

This Map is inaccurate---And also, considering some of the comments here, Dubai is actually much nicer today than it was a few years ago (Alot of the construction projects that were halted have now been completed), the city is MUCH cleaner and the traffic is nowhere NEAR as miserable as it was just 3-4 years ago.- -some of the palm islands are still pretty desolate--but they are essentially just gated communities (there is an Atlantis at the end of one of them and a few other hotels) otherwise its pretty residential. Abu Dhabi, on the other hand (Where I live) is much more spread out, and they put a lot more emphasis on GREENERY which is nice- They are growing, but gradually so you don't have those same issues with traffic and the feeling that you are living in a GIANT construction site- they are growing outward (Yas Island, Sadiyyat) as oppose to clustering up the existing city. TLDR; inaccurate photo of Dubai---Dubai is much better today than it was just a few years ago--Abu Dhabi is better IMO.

woahdude

t5_2r8tu

c9r1bs9

This Map is inaccurate---And also, considering some of the comments here, Dubai is actually much nicer today than it was a few years ago (Alot of the construction projects that were halted have now been completed), the city is MUCH cleaner and the traffic is nowhere NEAR as miserable as it was just 3-4 years ago.- -some of the palm islands are still pretty desolate--but they are essentially just gated communities (there is an Atlantis at the end of one of them and a few other hotels) otherwise its pretty residential. Abu Dhabi, on the other hand (Where I live) is much more spread out, and they put a lot more emphasis on GREENERY which is nice- They are growing, but gradually so you don't have those same issues with traffic and the feeling that you are living in a GIANT construction site- they are growing outward (Yas Island, Sadiyyat) as oppose to clustering up the existing city.

inaccurate photo of Dubai---Dubai is much better today than it was just a few years ago--Abu Dhabi is better IMO.

DaedalusMinion

Let's see. There are Arabs there who are unimaginably rich so I take them as top-tier(?). After that, the pay makes Westerners=Working Arabs>South Asians . White people tend to get paid more, the pay scale is kinda racist. Some positions are reserved for Arabs which are not necessarily high paying jobs. So, no. The rich and poor are not that divided. Begging on the streets is banned in Dubai so you almost never see anyone asking if you have an extra dollar. There are some poor people and those who have fallen into misfortune but most are taken care of by the government through charitable work, etc. **TL;DR** Not really.

Let's see. There are Arabs there who are unimaginably rich so I take them as top-tier(?). After that, the pay makes Westerners=Working Arabs>South Asians . White people tend to get paid more, the pay scale is kinda racist. Some positions are reserved for Arabs which are not necessarily high paying jobs. So, no. The rich and poor are not that divided. Begging on the streets is banned in Dubai so you almost never see anyone asking if you have an extra dollar. There are some poor people and those who have fallen into misfortune but most are taken care of by the government through charitable work, etc. TL;DR Not really.

woahdude

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c9r3qml

Let's see. There are Arabs there who are unimaginably rich so I take them as top-tier(?). After that, the pay makes Westerners=Working Arabs>South Asians . White people tend to get paid more, the pay scale is kinda racist. Some positions are reserved for Arabs which are not necessarily high paying jobs. So, no. The rich and poor are not that divided. Begging on the streets is banned in Dubai so you almost never see anyone asking if you have an extra dollar. There are some poor people and those who have fallen into misfortune but most are taken care of by the government through charitable work, etc.

Not really.

StillLifeWithDog

This will end up totally lost at the bottom of the bottom, but when I was visitying NYC in 1977 I was coming up the back stairway in a museum with my 1 year old in a stroller and a guy was coming down -- he stopped me and said "Hey! .. where'd you get that stroller! I like how simple and no-frills it is!" I told him I was just out from Portland Oregon for a month and that's where I got it. He asked what I was doing there and I told him I was checking out the acting scene first hand, that I'd co-founded a little theater in Portland and had been acting regularly for 6 or 7 years. He said he was an actor too(!) and had only been in NY a very short while. "It's a tough scene .. very tough!" he said. We chatted for a bit then said our goodbye's ... a couple of years later I was shocked to see him in a fairly prominent role opposite Al Pacino in And Justice for All ! And the rest, as they say, is Tamborian history. **tl;dr -- I met him when the stage lights were just a distant gleam in his eye.**

This will end up totally lost at the bottom of the bottom, but when I was visitying NYC in 1977 I was coming up the back stairway in a museum with my 1 year old in a stroller and a guy was coming down -- he stopped me and said "Hey! .. where'd you get that stroller! I like how simple and no-frills it is!" I told him I was just out from Portland Oregon for a month and that's where I got it. He asked what I was doing there and I told him I was checking out the acting scene first hand, that I'd co-founded a little theater in Portland and had been acting regularly for 6 or 7 years. He said he was an actor too(!) and had only been in NY a very short while. "It's a tough scene .. very tough!" he said. We chatted for a bit then said our goodbye's ... a couple of years later I was shocked to see him in a fairly prominent role opposite Al Pacino in And Justice for All ! And the rest, as they say, is Tamborian history. tl;dr -- I met him when the stage lights were just a distant gleam in his eye.

IAmA

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c9r9qfz

This will end up totally lost at the bottom of the bottom, but when I was visitying NYC in 1977 I was coming up the back stairway in a museum with my 1 year old in a stroller and a guy was coming down -- he stopped me and said "Hey! .. where'd you get that stroller! I like how simple and no-frills it is!" I told him I was just out from Portland Oregon for a month and that's where I got it. He asked what I was doing there and I told him I was checking out the acting scene first hand, that I'd co-founded a little theater in Portland and had been acting regularly for 6 or 7 years. He said he was an actor too(!) and had only been in NY a very short while. "It's a tough scene .. very tough!" he said. We chatted for a bit then said our goodbye's ... a couple of years later I was shocked to see him in a fairly prominent role opposite Al Pacino in And Justice for All ! And the rest, as they say, is Tamborian history.

I met him when the stage lights were just a distant gleam in his eye.

HollowJohn

The MEANINGS are in the word. Plural. That's part of the problem here. It means a bundle of sticks. It means a cigarette. It means an insult to a gay man. It means a substitute for "douchebag", etc. It means a British meatball commonly made of pork offal. What makes a definition the "right" one? I'm all for influencing people to stop being jerks, trust me. But we have to be smart about this, we can't tell them they're choosing to bring along the other meanings of the word, because if it so happens that they didn't, we're going to look presumptuous, and if they're jerks....you'll know how far that will go. Jerks will just see us as the ones bringing the baggage around. There's no "winning" this debate for any one side. It's well into the gray area between good and bad. What I'm really sad about is how often I see this argument and so few people involved try to see what makes this issue so difficult, to see the whole picture of it. TL;DR - We should downvote people for being jerks, but not tell them how to use a word.

The MEANINGS are in the word. Plural. That's part of the problem here. It means a bundle of sticks. It means a cigarette. It means an insult to a gay man. It means a substitute for "douchebag", etc. It means a British meatball commonly made of pork offal. What makes a definition the "right" one? I'm all for influencing people to stop being jerks, trust me. But we have to be smart about this, we can't tell them they're choosing to bring along the other meanings of the word, because if it so happens that they didn't, we're going to look presumptuous, and if they're jerks....you'll know how far that will go. Jerks will just see us as the ones bringing the baggage around. There's no "winning" this debate for any one side. It's well into the gray area between good and bad. What I'm really sad about is how often I see this argument and so few people involved try to see what makes this issue so difficult, to see the whole picture of it. TL;DR - We should downvote people for being jerks, but not tell them how to use a word.

zelda

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c9rfum2

The MEANINGS are in the word. Plural. That's part of the problem here. It means a bundle of sticks. It means a cigarette. It means an insult to a gay man. It means a substitute for "douchebag", etc. It means a British meatball commonly made of pork offal. What makes a definition the "right" one? I'm all for influencing people to stop being jerks, trust me. But we have to be smart about this, we can't tell them they're choosing to bring along the other meanings of the word, because if it so happens that they didn't, we're going to look presumptuous, and if they're jerks....you'll know how far that will go. Jerks will just see us as the ones bringing the baggage around. There's no "winning" this debate for any one side. It's well into the gray area between good and bad. What I'm really sad about is how often I see this argument and so few people involved try to see what makes this issue so difficult, to see the whole picture of it.

We should downvote people for being jerks, but not tell them how to use a word.

Muffin4ever

This is actually a constant battle us MLS fans have with other soccer fans in the country. We call them "eurosnobs" because they will only watch/like/appreciate european football because its the best and refuse to support their local team. Slowly MLS, NASL, and USL have been winning over some of these fans. The US actually has a very diverse and complicated soccer(football) fan culture. Mexican teams in a lot of places here are more popular than american ones. There's plenty of displaced europeans here as well who love the beautiful game. If anyone can figure out the fan culture in the US and successfully exploit it, soccer can probably become the second major sport behind (american)football. TL;DR: This is a mentality we have been dealing with forever. Soccer is really popular here even beyond the niche culture MLS has dug-out for itself.

This is actually a constant battle us MLS fans have with other soccer fans in the country. We call them "eurosnobs" because they will only watch/like/appreciate european football because its the best and refuse to support their local team. Slowly MLS, NASL, and USL have been winning over some of these fans. The US actually has a very diverse and complicated soccer(football) fan culture. Mexican teams in a lot of places here are more popular than american ones. There's plenty of displaced europeans here as well who love the beautiful game. If anyone can figure out the fan culture in the US and successfully exploit it, soccer can probably become the second major sport behind (american)football. TL;DR: This is a mentality we have been dealing with forever. Soccer is really popular here even beyond the niche culture MLS has dug-out for itself.

MLS

t5_2rbnb

c9r7j56

This is actually a constant battle us MLS fans have with other soccer fans in the country. We call them "eurosnobs" because they will only watch/like/appreciate european football because its the best and refuse to support their local team. Slowly MLS, NASL, and USL have been winning over some of these fans. The US actually has a very diverse and complicated soccer(football) fan culture. Mexican teams in a lot of places here are more popular than american ones. There's plenty of displaced europeans here as well who love the beautiful game. If anyone can figure out the fan culture in the US and successfully exploit it, soccer can probably become the second major sport behind (american)football.

This is a mentality we have been dealing with forever. Soccer is really popular here even beyond the niche culture MLS has dug-out for itself.

chaosmass2

I use dexcom, and it's been very reliable for 2 weeks at a time. My problem is I can't get the sticky stuff to stay on for more than 1 week without skintac. With Skintac it'll last 2 before falling off. I really think the day limits are just for the company to absolutely safe legally. I think realistically they can last for 2 weeks. I hate the medtronic one with a passion. Never have a seen such a horrible execution of product. Let me enumerate... * Sync range is about one foot. I mean seriously, one fucking foot. It gets disconnected constantly, pretty much every time you sleep, it'll wander more than a foot away and you'll be woken up by the alarm. If it's too far away in your pocket, alarm. Set it on your desk after a bolus, alarm. Considering the dexcom can sync ACROSS ROOMS, through walls, and floors, there is absolutely no excuse for a 1 foot sync range. And your graphs will have constant breaks in them from all the disconnecting. It forces you to have the infusion site and cgm site on the same side of your torso. It will not connect at all if they are on differing sides, and the pump is in your pocket. * 3 day lifespan - Not too much to say here, means a lot of changing when combined with changing a pump tube as well. * Inaccurate as hell - Seriously, it's been off more than 150 points before. That's an outlier, but it is regularly very far away from the mark. That leads to the next one... * Must sync while blood sugar is "stable". This one alone is enough to completely fuck the product. It doesn't *sound* like that bad of a requirement, but when you actually think about the consequences, it's horrible. So you have to sync twice a day minimum. So if your blood sugar must be stable, that means.. cant sync after eating anything, snack, meal, whatever (even longer if you ate complex carbs), cant sync after exercising, can't sync when you have a random liver spike, or random hypoglycemic attack. You are basically forced to sync before eating a meal, which is a typical time your sugar will be stable. However, if you have an irregular schedule, go out a lot, are on the road, lead a somewhat active varying lifestyle, there is NO GOOD TIME TO SYNC IT. This leads it to be even farther off the mark than it is even with stable syncing. It's such a crap product. Big surprise, the dexcom doesn't have this insane requirement. TL;DR Get a dexcom.

I use dexcom, and it's been very reliable for 2 weeks at a time. My problem is I can't get the sticky stuff to stay on for more than 1 week without skintac. With Skintac it'll last 2 before falling off. I really think the day limits are just for the company to absolutely safe legally. I think realistically they can last for 2 weeks. I hate the medtronic one with a passion. Never have a seen such a horrible execution of product. Let me enumerate... Sync range is about one foot. I mean seriously, one fucking foot. It gets disconnected constantly, pretty much every time you sleep, it'll wander more than a foot away and you'll be woken up by the alarm. If it's too far away in your pocket, alarm. Set it on your desk after a bolus, alarm. Considering the dexcom can sync ACROSS ROOMS, through walls, and floors, there is absolutely no excuse for a 1 foot sync range. And your graphs will have constant breaks in them from all the disconnecting. It forces you to have the infusion site and cgm site on the same side of your torso. It will not connect at all if they are on differing sides, and the pump is in your pocket. 3 day lifespan - Not too much to say here, means a lot of changing when combined with changing a pump tube as well. Inaccurate as hell - Seriously, it's been off more than 150 points before. That's an outlier, but it is regularly very far away from the mark. That leads to the next one... Must sync while blood sugar is "stable". This one alone is enough to completely fuck the product. It doesn't sound like that bad of a requirement, but when you actually think about the consequences, it's horrible. So you have to sync twice a day minimum. So if your blood sugar must be stable, that means.. cant sync after eating anything, snack, meal, whatever (even longer if you ate complex carbs), cant sync after exercising, can't sync when you have a random liver spike, or random hypoglycemic attack. You are basically forced to sync before eating a meal, which is a typical time your sugar will be stable. However, if you have an irregular schedule, go out a lot, are on the road, lead a somewhat active varying lifestyle, there is NO GOOD TIME TO SYNC IT. This leads it to be even farther off the mark than it is even with stable syncing. It's such a crap product. Big surprise, the dexcom doesn't have this insane requirement. TL;DR Get a dexcom.

diabetes

t5_2qhsj

c9ue3nj

I use dexcom, and it's been very reliable for 2 weeks at a time. My problem is I can't get the sticky stuff to stay on for more than 1 week without skintac. With Skintac it'll last 2 before falling off. I really think the day limits are just for the company to absolutely safe legally. I think realistically they can last for 2 weeks. I hate the medtronic one with a passion. Never have a seen such a horrible execution of product. Let me enumerate... Sync range is about one foot. I mean seriously, one fucking foot. It gets disconnected constantly, pretty much every time you sleep, it'll wander more than a foot away and you'll be woken up by the alarm. If it's too far away in your pocket, alarm. Set it on your desk after a bolus, alarm. Considering the dexcom can sync ACROSS ROOMS, through walls, and floors, there is absolutely no excuse for a 1 foot sync range. And your graphs will have constant breaks in them from all the disconnecting. It forces you to have the infusion site and cgm site on the same side of your torso. It will not connect at all if they are on differing sides, and the pump is in your pocket. 3 day lifespan - Not too much to say here, means a lot of changing when combined with changing a pump tube as well. Inaccurate as hell - Seriously, it's been off more than 150 points before. That's an outlier, but it is regularly very far away from the mark. That leads to the next one... Must sync while blood sugar is "stable". This one alone is enough to completely fuck the product. It doesn't sound like that bad of a requirement, but when you actually think about the consequences, it's horrible. So you have to sync twice a day minimum. So if your blood sugar must be stable, that means.. cant sync after eating anything, snack, meal, whatever (even longer if you ate complex carbs), cant sync after exercising, can't sync when you have a random liver spike, or random hypoglycemic attack. You are basically forced to sync before eating a meal, which is a typical time your sugar will be stable. However, if you have an irregular schedule, go out a lot, are on the road, lead a somewhat active varying lifestyle, there is NO GOOD TIME TO SYNC IT. This leads it to be even farther off the mark than it is even with stable syncing. It's such a crap product. Big surprise, the dexcom doesn't have this insane requirement.

Get a dexcom.

tdegorter

I'll probably get downvoted for this but I feel this is good advice. My friend and I were in the same situation. We both liked the same girl, but it was pretty obvious that she liked him back. What I decided was that I would be happy if they both were happy, so I decided to let him pursue her. Fast forward a few months and I helped him ask her to prom, where he said he said that he wants to ask her out. tl;dr If he is a good enough friend and you like her enough, them being happy won't bother you. Good luck!

I'll probably get downvoted for this but I feel this is good advice. My friend and I were in the same situation. We both liked the same girl, but it was pretty obvious that she liked him back. What I decided was that I would be happy if they both were happy, so I decided to let him pursue her. Fast forward a few months and I helped him ask her to prom, where he said he said that he wants to ask her out. tl;dr If he is a good enough friend and you like her enough, them being happy won't bother you. Good luck!

teenagers

t5_2rjli

c9rbo5s

I'll probably get downvoted for this but I feel this is good advice. My friend and I were in the same situation. We both liked the same girl, but it was pretty obvious that she liked him back. What I decided was that I would be happy if they both were happy, so I decided to let him pursue her. Fast forward a few months and I helped him ask her to prom, where he said he said that he wants to ask her out.

If he is a good enough friend and you like her enough, them being happy won't bother you. Good luck!

sassychupacabra

This sounds scarily familiar, shit. I watched all this girl's friends abandon her while she played the victim, acted like it was their fault she couldn't keep any friends, that she was the unfortunate soul in all of this. We were friends for years, even dated for a while, broke up on good terms, stayed close friends. I didn't realize just how badly she treated me. One summer, she started talking about how much she hated her current boyfriend, how she was annoyed how much he was trying to contact her (they were home from college over the summer and couldn't see each other). She was ignoring his calls and bitching to me the whole time. This guy was the closest friend she'd had since me, he was a total doormat. When school started back up again she was suddenly buddy-buddy with him again because he was the only person who would tolerate her shit. I started to realize all her closest friends had the personality type that rolls over and takes shit without fighting back, and realized that included me. A few months later she was bitching to me about all her new college friends not agreeing with her on the tiniest things and talking about how they'd started to abandon her. Ending that was the most liberating thing. I'd tried really hard to avoid it, to get her to understand, but **an emotional manipulator will always be one.** There's a fucking reason no one else would stay friends with her. **TL;DR: You don't have to stay friends with people who hurt you. If you see other people running from the situation, there's a reason.**

This sounds scarily familiar, shit. I watched all this girl's friends abandon her while she played the victim, acted like it was their fault she couldn't keep any friends, that she was the unfortunate soul in all of this. We were friends for years, even dated for a while, broke up on good terms, stayed close friends. I didn't realize just how badly she treated me. One summer, she started talking about how much she hated her current boyfriend, how she was annoyed how much he was trying to contact her (they were home from college over the summer and couldn't see each other). She was ignoring his calls and bitching to me the whole time. This guy was the closest friend she'd had since me, he was a total doormat. When school started back up again she was suddenly buddy-buddy with him again because he was the only person who would tolerate her shit. I started to realize all her closest friends had the personality type that rolls over and takes shit without fighting back, and realized that included me. A few months later she was bitching to me about all her new college friends not agreeing with her on the tiniest things and talking about how they'd started to abandon her. Ending that was the most liberating thing. I'd tried really hard to avoid it, to get her to understand, but an emotional manipulator will always be one. There's a fucking reason no one else would stay friends with her. TL;DR: You don't have to stay friends with people who hurt you. If you see other people running from the situation, there's a reason.

AdviceAnimals

t5_2s7tt

c9rtaaj

This sounds scarily familiar, shit. I watched all this girl's friends abandon her while she played the victim, acted like it was their fault she couldn't keep any friends, that she was the unfortunate soul in all of this. We were friends for years, even dated for a while, broke up on good terms, stayed close friends. I didn't realize just how badly she treated me. One summer, she started talking about how much she hated her current boyfriend, how she was annoyed how much he was trying to contact her (they were home from college over the summer and couldn't see each other). She was ignoring his calls and bitching to me the whole time. This guy was the closest friend she'd had since me, he was a total doormat. When school started back up again she was suddenly buddy-buddy with him again because he was the only person who would tolerate her shit. I started to realize all her closest friends had the personality type that rolls over and takes shit without fighting back, and realized that included me. A few months later she was bitching to me about all her new college friends not agreeing with her on the tiniest things and talking about how they'd started to abandon her. Ending that was the most liberating thing. I'd tried really hard to avoid it, to get her to understand, but an emotional manipulator will always be one. There's a fucking reason no one else would stay friends with her.

You don't have to stay friends with people who hurt you. If you see other people running from the situation, there's a reason.

Petalsper

Congratulations! I did this quite a while ago to a very close friend who I was living with at the time in a dorm room. She was very controlling toward me and the rest of our mutual friends. We fought often because I wouldn't take her unsolicited advice and wouldn't tell her all the details of my past or present. She actually said to me that "we could no longer be friends if I wouldn't tell her everything." This was in regards to me hanging out with a guy from class and not being back in the room right away. Finally there was just some ridiculous fight and I snapped. It was like someone turned off a light switch on caring about her at all. I just didn't care anymore. I did not give a fuck about her anymore and just stopped interacting. I didn't fight with her anymore, and I didn't go along with her ways of apologizing. I would simply say something like "No thank you" or "I'm busy." Best decision I ever made. I was so much happier after I cut her out of my life. TLDR: If someone makes you less happy than stressed or sad don't deal with them anymore. They are not worth it.

Congratulations! I did this quite a while ago to a very close friend who I was living with at the time in a dorm room. She was very controlling toward me and the rest of our mutual friends. We fought often because I wouldn't take her unsolicited advice and wouldn't tell her all the details of my past or present. She actually said to me that "we could no longer be friends if I wouldn't tell her everything." This was in regards to me hanging out with a guy from class and not being back in the room right away. Finally there was just some ridiculous fight and I snapped. It was like someone turned off a light switch on caring about her at all. I just didn't care anymore. I did not give a fuck about her anymore and just stopped interacting. I didn't fight with her anymore, and I didn't go along with her ways of apologizing. I would simply say something like "No thank you" or "I'm busy." Best decision I ever made. I was so much happier after I cut her out of my life. TLDR: If someone makes you less happy than stressed or sad don't deal with them anymore. They are not worth it.

AdviceAnimals

t5_2s7tt

c9s1ltf

Congratulations! I did this quite a while ago to a very close friend who I was living with at the time in a dorm room. She was very controlling toward me and the rest of our mutual friends. We fought often because I wouldn't take her unsolicited advice and wouldn't tell her all the details of my past or present. She actually said to me that "we could no longer be friends if I wouldn't tell her everything." This was in regards to me hanging out with a guy from class and not being back in the room right away. Finally there was just some ridiculous fight and I snapped. It was like someone turned off a light switch on caring about her at all. I just didn't care anymore. I did not give a fuck about her anymore and just stopped interacting. I didn't fight with her anymore, and I didn't go along with her ways of apologizing. I would simply say something like "No thank you" or "I'm busy." Best decision I ever made. I was so much happier after I cut her out of my life.

If someone makes you less happy than stressed or sad don't deal with them anymore. They are not worth it.

Arterius_N7

Yeah well I think if you enjoy the game and play it a lot you will get better on it. That might also interest you to read guides and learns some good tactics etc. I agree with that you can be casual and still improve and I think most do, but what I'm saying is that not everyone strive to be the best and are just happy to have some fun playing the game. Getting better is more an effect of playing the game. (also that guy you first mentioned that said that to you might also have said that to spite you). TL:DR, People can still play the game even if they don't do it competitively.

Yeah well I think if you enjoy the game and play it a lot you will get better on it. That might also interest you to read guides and learns some good tactics etc. I agree with that you can be casual and still improve and I think most do, but what I'm saying is that not everyone strive to be the best and are just happy to have some fun playing the game. Getting better is more an effect of playing the game. (also that guy you first mentioned that said that to you might also have said that to spite you). TL:DR, People can still play the game even if they don't do it competitively.

Smite

t5_2stl8

c9s7q1h

Yeah well I think if you enjoy the game and play it a lot you will get better on it. That might also interest you to read guides and learns some good tactics etc. I agree with that you can be casual and still improve and I think most do, but what I'm saying is that not everyone strive to be the best and are just happy to have some fun playing the game. Getting better is more an effect of playing the game. (also that guy you first mentioned that said that to you might also have said that to spite you).

People can still play the game even if they don't do it competitively.

MrRazzle

The best way would be to change the boot animation. There is an in depth guide at the below link. . tl;dr Put a bootanimation.zip in /data/local/

The best way would be to change the boot animation. There is an in depth guide at the below link. . tl;dr Put a bootanimation.zip in /data/local/

AndroidQuestions

t5_2rtri

c9rwduh

The best way would be to change the boot animation. There is an in depth guide at the below link. .

Put a bootanimation.zip in /data/local/

shellythelast

Least favourite leader for me would be Firestar. He was an idiot letting his pride in his own past get in the way of his common sense, and he focused more on the well-being of other Clans rather than his own. Almost every move he made as leader was a detriment to his Clan. Bluestar's a close second. She had a small stint as a capable leader before losing her mind, but in the end Bluestar's Prophecy ruined her for me. On the word of the cat that thought a piece of prey with weird fur was reason enough to launch an assault on another Clan and destroy its medicine supply she discriminated against her sister's mate (who, might I add, never in his life did anything against the code and was only aggressive in his pride for his Clan, whereas Bluestar knowingly and actively broke the code), took her three newborn kits into a snowstorm (ending in the death of one), and led her Clan to near-ruin. And apparently she was the one to chase Thistleclaw out of StarClan and into the Dark Forest, so the uprising of the DF was partially her fault. And in life she was just such an angsty brat for so long that I couldn't take it anymore. As for my favourite leader, it's a bit of a tie between a lot of leaders. I like Onestar a lot because he realized that he needed to cut off his ties to other Clans if he was ever going to regain respect for his Clan, which had under Tallstar lost a lot of that respect by depending too heavily on ThunderClan. And when Firestar just wouldn't let it be, Onestar responded appropriately. It wasn't "rude," it was smart and necessary. I like Blackstar because he's an effective and cunning leader. He came out of a dark past and turned ShadowClan into a strong, functioning group once more, even accepting Tawnypelt into his Clan and never forcing her to battle ThudnerClan (if you pay attention, she's never present at any battles between Thunder and ShadowClan). Blackstar's actually friendly and accommodating when he needs to be, but he realizes more than most that for his Clan to be respected, he must be respected, and he almost always puts up his strongest front and is always present on the front line of his battles. I loved Leopardstar. Even with the mistake of aligning her Clan with TigerClan, she always treated her Clan with thoughtfulness. She was, in my opinion, an ideal leader. She always treated dealings with other Clans as a business deal, always expecting payment for favors and thinking of only the well-being of her Clan as a whole. But my personal favourite has to be Leafstar. She a leader of a Clan still taking baby-steps, and she realized quickly that, with the absence of other Clans, her Clan *cannot* be normal. They can't follow the traditional Warrior Code, and even though she makes mistakes, Leafstar has always pulled her Clan together in the end. The inclusion of Daylight Warriors means her Clan can have healthy fighters and hunters even in a drought or famine, and her naming technique is quirky. Billystorm is an amazing name, kk. tl;dr: Firestar and Bluestar suck, Blackstar, Leopardstar, Onestar, and Leafstar rule.

Least favourite leader for me would be Firestar. He was an idiot letting his pride in his own past get in the way of his common sense, and he focused more on the well-being of other Clans rather than his own. Almost every move he made as leader was a detriment to his Clan. Bluestar's a close second. She had a small stint as a capable leader before losing her mind, but in the end Bluestar's Prophecy ruined her for me. On the word of the cat that thought a piece of prey with weird fur was reason enough to launch an assault on another Clan and destroy its medicine supply she discriminated against her sister's mate (who, might I add, never in his life did anything against the code and was only aggressive in his pride for his Clan, whereas Bluestar knowingly and actively broke the code), took her three newborn kits into a snowstorm (ending in the death of one), and led her Clan to near-ruin. And apparently she was the one to chase Thistleclaw out of StarClan and into the Dark Forest, so the uprising of the DF was partially her fault. And in life she was just such an angsty brat for so long that I couldn't take it anymore. As for my favourite leader, it's a bit of a tie between a lot of leaders. I like Onestar a lot because he realized that he needed to cut off his ties to other Clans if he was ever going to regain respect for his Clan, which had under Tallstar lost a lot of that respect by depending too heavily on ThunderClan. And when Firestar just wouldn't let it be, Onestar responded appropriately. It wasn't "rude," it was smart and necessary. I like Blackstar because he's an effective and cunning leader. He came out of a dark past and turned ShadowClan into a strong, functioning group once more, even accepting Tawnypelt into his Clan and never forcing her to battle ThudnerClan (if you pay attention, she's never present at any battles between Thunder and ShadowClan). Blackstar's actually friendly and accommodating when he needs to be, but he realizes more than most that for his Clan to be respected, he must be respected, and he almost always puts up his strongest front and is always present on the front line of his battles. I loved Leopardstar. Even with the mistake of aligning her Clan with TigerClan, she always treated her Clan with thoughtfulness. She was, in my opinion, an ideal leader. She always treated dealings with other Clans as a business deal, always expecting payment for favors and thinking of only the well-being of her Clan as a whole. But my personal favourite has to be Leafstar. She a leader of a Clan still taking baby-steps, and she realized quickly that, with the absence of other Clans, her Clan cannot be normal. They can't follow the traditional Warrior Code, and even though she makes mistakes, Leafstar has always pulled her Clan together in the end. The inclusion of Daylight Warriors means her Clan can have healthy fighters and hunters even in a drought or famine, and her naming technique is quirky. Billystorm is an amazing name, kk. tl;dr: Firestar and Bluestar suck, Blackstar, Leopardstar, Onestar, and Leafstar rule.

WarriorCats

t5_2tn9g

ca1bp04

Least favourite leader for me would be Firestar. He was an idiot letting his pride in his own past get in the way of his common sense, and he focused more on the well-being of other Clans rather than his own. Almost every move he made as leader was a detriment to his Clan. Bluestar's a close second. She had a small stint as a capable leader before losing her mind, but in the end Bluestar's Prophecy ruined her for me. On the word of the cat that thought a piece of prey with weird fur was reason enough to launch an assault on another Clan and destroy its medicine supply she discriminated against her sister's mate (who, might I add, never in his life did anything against the code and was only aggressive in his pride for his Clan, whereas Bluestar knowingly and actively broke the code), took her three newborn kits into a snowstorm (ending in the death of one), and led her Clan to near-ruin. And apparently she was the one to chase Thistleclaw out of StarClan and into the Dark Forest, so the uprising of the DF was partially her fault. And in life she was just such an angsty brat for so long that I couldn't take it anymore. As for my favourite leader, it's a bit of a tie between a lot of leaders. I like Onestar a lot because he realized that he needed to cut off his ties to other Clans if he was ever going to regain respect for his Clan, which had under Tallstar lost a lot of that respect by depending too heavily on ThunderClan. And when Firestar just wouldn't let it be, Onestar responded appropriately. It wasn't "rude," it was smart and necessary. I like Blackstar because he's an effective and cunning leader. He came out of a dark past and turned ShadowClan into a strong, functioning group once more, even accepting Tawnypelt into his Clan and never forcing her to battle ThudnerClan (if you pay attention, she's never present at any battles between Thunder and ShadowClan). Blackstar's actually friendly and accommodating when he needs to be, but he realizes more than most that for his Clan to be respected, he must be respected, and he almost always puts up his strongest front and is always present on the front line of his battles. I loved Leopardstar. Even with the mistake of aligning her Clan with TigerClan, she always treated her Clan with thoughtfulness. She was, in my opinion, an ideal leader. She always treated dealings with other Clans as a business deal, always expecting payment for favors and thinking of only the well-being of her Clan as a whole. But my personal favourite has to be Leafstar. She a leader of a Clan still taking baby-steps, and she realized quickly that, with the absence of other Clans, her Clan cannot be normal. They can't follow the traditional Warrior Code, and even though she makes mistakes, Leafstar has always pulled her Clan together in the end. The inclusion of Daylight Warriors means her Clan can have healthy fighters and hunters even in a drought or famine, and her naming technique is quirky. Billystorm is an amazing name, kk.

Firestar and Bluestar suck, Blackstar, Leopardstar, Onestar, and Leafstar rule.

Church_of_Reason

I, for one, welcome our... tl;dr snoo snoo

I, for one, welcome our... tl;dr snoo snoo

atheism

t5_2qh2p

c9sbtpy

I, for one, welcome our...

snoo snoo

subbob999

It says it starts at 280 ppm. That's pre-industrial levels. I didn't look up the exact historical intercept. 310 ppm was around 1950, so sometime before that. It's not really critical anyhow, since the CO2 ppm growth rate is just approximate anyhow. What was funny, by the way? edit: also- you did respond, so err...? To answer your original question in a more TL:DR manner: It's already happening.

It says it starts at 280 ppm. That's pre-industrial levels. I didn't look up the exact historical intercept. 310 ppm was around 1950, so sometime before that. It's not really critical anyhow, since the CO2 ppm growth rate is just approximate anyhow. What was funny, by the way? edit: also- you did respond, so err...? To answer your original question in a more TL:DR manner: It's already happening.

environment

t5_2qh1n

c9smnhy

It says it starts at 280 ppm. That's pre-industrial levels. I didn't look up the exact historical intercept. 310 ppm was around 1950, so sometime before that. It's not really critical anyhow, since the CO2 ppm growth rate is just approximate anyhow. What was funny, by the way? edit: also- you did respond, so err...? To answer your original question in a more

manner: It's already happening.

lavidaesbella

I also started playing OoS a few days ago, I had a blast. There's no "inferior" Zelda titles, you totally get the feeling and the experience of the rest of the titles. The only flaw I saw was the lack of more buttons, and the abuse of the START to select other items, maybe twice or more times in the same fucking screen (it's obvious that game is not meant for B and A alone) but the rest of it is pure genious. I haven't played OoA yet, but OoS seems HUGE!. tl;dr awesome games. Pure Zelda formula at its finest.

I also started playing OoS a few days ago, I had a blast. There's no "inferior" Zelda titles, you totally get the feeling and the experience of the rest of the titles. The only flaw I saw was the lack of more buttons, and the abuse of the START to select other items, maybe twice or more times in the same fucking screen (it's obvious that game is not meant for B and A alone) but the rest of it is pure genious. I haven't played OoA yet, but OoS seems HUGE!. tl;dr awesome games. Pure Zelda formula at its finest.

Games

t5_2qhwp

c9sqxa3

I also started playing OoS a few days ago, I had a blast. There's no "inferior" Zelda titles, you totally get the feeling and the experience of the rest of the titles. The only flaw I saw was the lack of more buttons, and the abuse of the START to select other items, maybe twice or more times in the same fucking screen (it's obvious that game is not meant for B and A alone) but the rest of it is pure genious. I haven't played OoA yet, but OoS seems HUGE!.

awesome games. Pure Zelda formula at its finest.

skyline385

The thing is, if you just started, you are in the lower Matchmaking ratings, hence you get teammates who are new to the game and therefore generally bad with carries. I would say if you are good with carries get some wins so you can rise up in the system. I used to love playing carries from my days in wc3 dota but after a 1000 games in Dota 2, i get matched with people really good at carrying so i mostly just stick to support or gankers/nukers. TL;DR - Play what you are good at and climb the MM ratings quickly, you will get infinitely better teammates later on.

The thing is, if you just started, you are in the lower Matchmaking ratings, hence you get teammates who are new to the game and therefore generally bad with carries. I would say if you are good with carries get some wins so you can rise up in the system. I used to love playing carries from my days in wc3 dota but after a 1000 games in Dota 2, i get matched with people really good at carrying so i mostly just stick to support or gankers/nukers. TL;DR - Play what you are good at and climb the MM ratings quickly, you will get infinitely better teammates later on.

Games

t5_2qhwp

c9st6u8

The thing is, if you just started, you are in the lower Matchmaking ratings, hence you get teammates who are new to the game and therefore generally bad with carries. I would say if you are good with carries get some wins so you can rise up in the system. I used to love playing carries from my days in wc3 dota but after a 1000 games in Dota 2, i get matched with people really good at carrying so i mostly just stick to support or gankers/nukers.

Play what you are good at and climb the MM ratings quickly, you will get infinitely better teammates later on.

goalkeepr

Happens in Hover Free as well. Same code base, but Hover Free is supposedly better because the original HoverZoom dev sells your activity to advertisers or something. There was [discussion]( around here a while back. TL;DR Switch to [Hover Free](

Happens in Hover Free as well. Same code base, but Hover Free is supposedly better because the original HoverZoom dev sells your activity to advertisers or something. There was [discussion]( around here a while back. TL;DR Switch to [Hover Free](

funny

t5_2qh33

c9sgt6k

Happens in Hover Free as well. Same code base, but Hover Free is supposedly better because the original HoverZoom dev sells your activity to advertisers or something. There was [discussion]( around here a while back.

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chinagreenelvis

I do this kind of stuff in my video/art projects all the time. I honestly feel like I might at some point, in the future, travel back to the past and get the job of whoever wrote this and wind up being the guy who writes it myself, since it's exactly the kind of thing I would do. On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life. I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin? *TL;DR: The second paragraph is a translation of Lorem Ipsum. The third is the opening monologue from Trainspotting.*

I do this kind of stuff in my video/art projects all the time. I honestly feel like I might at some point, in the future, travel back to the past and get the job of whoever wrote this and wind up being the guy who writes it myself, since it's exactly the kind of thing I would do. On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life. I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin? TL;DR: The second paragraph is a translation of Lorem Ipsum. The third is the opening monologue from Trainspotting.

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I do this kind of stuff in my video/art projects all the time. I honestly feel like I might at some point, in the future, travel back to the past and get the job of whoever wrote this and wind up being the guy who writes it myself, since it's exactly the kind of thing I would do. On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment, so blinded by desire, that they cannot foresee the pain and trouble that are bound to ensue; and equal blame belongs to those who fail in their duty through weakness of will, which is the same as saying through shrinking from toil and pain. These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or the obligations of business it will frequently occur that pleasures have to be repudiated and annoyances accepted. The wise man therefore always holds in these matters to this principle of selection: he rejects pleasures to secure other greater pleasures, or else he endures pains to avoid worse pains. Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, choose a fucking big television, choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed-interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit-crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life. I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin?

The second paragraph is a translation of Lorem Ipsum. The third is the opening monologue from Trainspotting.

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So, what you're saying (roughly) is Royce Gracie would beat Lee or Ali. I agree that Royce would win under MMA rules. And in this case, the no rules(ish) version of MMA rules. If it's boxing rules, Ali wins\*. If it's K1 (say) - Lee wins. If it's 'no holds', I would probably give it to Lee since Lee is probably more amenable to unconventional strategies outside of his wheelhouse. Boxing is actually really codified and Ali would suffer due to his habituation even with his superior strength/punching. \* To all people who think Lee could \*out box\* Ali, since master martial arts-woo-fu? You guys are all drinking the woo flavoured punch. tl;dr: Lee would win since Lee would leg kick the fuck out of Ali.

So, what you're saying (roughly) is Royce Gracie would beat Lee or Ali. I agree that Royce would win under MMA rules. And in this case, the no rules(ish) version of MMA rules. If it's boxing rules, Ali wins*. If it's K1 (say) - Lee wins. If it's 'no holds', I would probably give it to Lee since Lee is probably more amenable to unconventional strategies outside of his wheelhouse. Boxing is actually really codified and Ali would suffer due to his habituation even with his superior strength/punching. * To all people who think Lee could *out box* Ali, since master martial arts-woo-fu? You guys are all drinking the woo flavoured punch. tl;dr: Lee would win since Lee would leg kick the fuck out of Ali.

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So, what you're saying (roughly) is Royce Gracie would beat Lee or Ali. I agree that Royce would win under MMA rules. And in this case, the no rules(ish) version of MMA rules. If it's boxing rules, Ali wins*. If it's K1 (say) - Lee wins. If it's 'no holds', I would probably give it to Lee since Lee is probably more amenable to unconventional strategies outside of his wheelhouse. Boxing is actually really codified and Ali would suffer due to his habituation even with his superior strength/punching. * To all people who think Lee could *out box* Ali, since master martial arts-woo-fu? You guys are all drinking the woo flavoured punch.

Lee would win since Lee would leg kick the fuck out of Ali.

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A good place to start is actually talking to your GP. He or she likely sees a lot of patients who also suffer from depression and may be aware of colleagues or other local mental health specialists (mhs) that have good reputations. Also, not sure about anxiety, but depression can be a sign of more strictly physical issues as well (poor sleep cycles, for example) so it's important for your GP to know. As far as the actual finding of a good therapist, there are a few things to do. One thing to keep in mind as you carry out your search is that finding a mhs is a process. You have to find someone that is a good fit for you, which can take some experimenting. First, find out what mhs your insurance covers in a vicinity that you won't mind traveling. Then, start looking at reviews online (zocdoc can be a good resource for this). For me, I look for mhs that are described as being easy to get a hold of, punctual, have 45min-1hr long appointments, and specializes in both depression and couples counseling (I have a lot of anxiety about relationships so having someone that regularly deals with relationship issues is comforting for me). Remember that this is matching process, so a mhs may be a good fit for you even if they weren't a good fit for someone else. Also, think about whether you're more comfortable with a psychiatrist (can prescribe medication) or a therapist (can't provide medication), as this can be a factor in the dynamic of your relationship. An antidepressant and talk therapy can be a dynamic duo of depression ass-kicking, but if you don't want medication, or would prefer for your gp to handle that, a therapist may be better suited to your needs. Finally, schedule yourself an appointment with someone (depending on the dr you may be able to do this online). Before your appointment, there are a few things that you can do to make the process a bit easier. If you're not already familiar with it, find out about your family's history of mental health problems. You may be asked to fill out a family history form. Think about whether you have specific goals for therapy and make a list. Finally, let someone you trust know that you're starting therapy, and you might need their support in the future. Therapy can be hard work, and future you will have an easier time if you have someone that you know in advance is ready to play some video games or work out or eat chicken wings no questions asked if you've had a rough session and need a buddy. This is extra important if you might be starting any medications. Let someone that you talk to frequently that you're starting a new medicine, and to let you know if you're acting strangely over the next few weeks. Most antidepressants will take a few weeks to begin to kick in, and any sudden personality change (even exuberance) means that you need to talk to the dr who prescribed it to you immediately. Finally, on the day of, do everything you can to get yourself stoked for becoming a depression and anxiety slaying warrior. You're looking for your dojo. The first mhs that you see may not be your sansei, and that's totally fine. Use your first appointment to discuss your goals and find out what their style is. If you two are a match, great! If not, there is someone that will be better for you and you never have to talk to this person again. You're looking for someone that you feel able to trust, and that is ready to make a commitment to you. Take the mindset from the start that you will probably see several mhs on your quest for the right one and that's normal and fine. Hopefully this is helpful. Sorry there isn't really a tldr. If you ever want to talk, feel free to pm me! Best of luck! EDIT: Thanks whomever gave me gold! You are a gentleman and a scholar!

A good place to start is actually talking to your GP. He or she likely sees a lot of patients who also suffer from depression and may be aware of colleagues or other local mental health specialists (mhs) that have good reputations. Also, not sure about anxiety, but depression can be a sign of more strictly physical issues as well (poor sleep cycles, for example) so it's important for your GP to know. As far as the actual finding of a good therapist, there are a few things to do. One thing to keep in mind as you carry out your search is that finding a mhs is a process. You have to find someone that is a good fit for you, which can take some experimenting. First, find out what mhs your insurance covers in a vicinity that you won't mind traveling. Then, start looking at reviews online (zocdoc can be a good resource for this). For me, I look for mhs that are described as being easy to get a hold of, punctual, have 45min-1hr long appointments, and specializes in both depression and couples counseling (I have a lot of anxiety about relationships so having someone that regularly deals with relationship issues is comforting for me). Remember that this is matching process, so a mhs may be a good fit for you even if they weren't a good fit for someone else. Also, think about whether you're more comfortable with a psychiatrist (can prescribe medication) or a therapist (can't provide medication), as this can be a factor in the dynamic of your relationship. An antidepressant and talk therapy can be a dynamic duo of depression ass-kicking, but if you don't want medication, or would prefer for your gp to handle that, a therapist may be better suited to your needs. Finally, schedule yourself an appointment with someone (depending on the dr you may be able to do this online). Before your appointment, there are a few things that you can do to make the process a bit easier. If you're not already familiar with it, find out about your family's history of mental health problems. You may be asked to fill out a family history form. Think about whether you have specific goals for therapy and make a list. Finally, let someone you trust know that you're starting therapy, and you might need their support in the future. Therapy can be hard work, and future you will have an easier time if you have someone that you know in advance is ready to play some video games or work out or eat chicken wings no questions asked if you've had a rough session and need a buddy. This is extra important if you might be starting any medications. Let someone that you talk to frequently that you're starting a new medicine, and to let you know if you're acting strangely over the next few weeks. Most antidepressants will take a few weeks to begin to kick in, and any sudden personality change (even exuberance) means that you need to talk to the dr who prescribed it to you immediately. Finally, on the day of, do everything you can to get yourself stoked for becoming a depression and anxiety slaying warrior. You're looking for your dojo. The first mhs that you see may not be your sansei, and that's totally fine. Use your first appointment to discuss your goals and find out what their style is. If you two are a match, great! If not, there is someone that will be better for you and you never have to talk to this person again. You're looking for someone that you feel able to trust, and that is ready to make a commitment to you. Take the mindset from the start that you will probably see several mhs on your quest for the right one and that's normal and fine. Hopefully this is helpful. Sorry there isn't really a tldr. If you ever want to talk, feel free to pm me! Best of luck! EDIT: Thanks whomever gave me gold! You are a gentleman and a scholar!

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A good place to start is actually talking to your GP. He or she likely sees a lot of patients who also suffer from depression and may be aware of colleagues or other local mental health specialists (mhs) that have good reputations. Also, not sure about anxiety, but depression can be a sign of more strictly physical issues as well (poor sleep cycles, for example) so it's important for your GP to know. As far as the actual finding of a good therapist, there are a few things to do. One thing to keep in mind as you carry out your search is that finding a mhs is a process. You have to find someone that is a good fit for you, which can take some experimenting. First, find out what mhs your insurance covers in a vicinity that you won't mind traveling. Then, start looking at reviews online (zocdoc can be a good resource for this). For me, I look for mhs that are described as being easy to get a hold of, punctual, have 45min-1hr long appointments, and specializes in both depression and couples counseling (I have a lot of anxiety about relationships so having someone that regularly deals with relationship issues is comforting for me). Remember that this is matching process, so a mhs may be a good fit for you even if they weren't a good fit for someone else. Also, think about whether you're more comfortable with a psychiatrist (can prescribe medication) or a therapist (can't provide medication), as this can be a factor in the dynamic of your relationship. An antidepressant and talk therapy can be a dynamic duo of depression ass-kicking, but if you don't want medication, or would prefer for your gp to handle that, a therapist may be better suited to your needs. Finally, schedule yourself an appointment with someone (depending on the dr you may be able to do this online). Before your appointment, there are a few things that you can do to make the process a bit easier. If you're not already familiar with it, find out about your family's history of mental health problems. You may be asked to fill out a family history form. Think about whether you have specific goals for therapy and make a list. Finally, let someone you trust know that you're starting therapy, and you might need their support in the future. Therapy can be hard work, and future you will have an easier time if you have someone that you know in advance is ready to play some video games or work out or eat chicken wings no questions asked if you've had a rough session and need a buddy. This is extra important if you might be starting any medications. Let someone that you talk to frequently that you're starting a new medicine, and to let you know if you're acting strangely over the next few weeks. Most antidepressants will take a few weeks to begin to kick in, and any sudden personality change (even exuberance) means that you need to talk to the dr who prescribed it to you immediately. Finally, on the day of, do everything you can to get yourself stoked for becoming a depression and anxiety slaying warrior. You're looking for your dojo. The first mhs that you see may not be your sansei, and that's totally fine. Use your first appointment to discuss your goals and find out what their style is. If you two are a match, great! If not, there is someone that will be better for you and you never have to talk to this person again. You're looking for someone that you feel able to trust, and that is ready to make a commitment to you. Take the mindset from the start that you will probably see several mhs on your quest for the right one and that's normal and fine. Hopefully this is helpful. Sorry there isn't really a

If you ever want to talk, feel free to pm me! Best of luck! EDIT: Thanks whomever gave me gold! You are a gentleman and a scholar!

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Only a second year med student here but they always harp on "thunder clap headaches" a very *sudden* intense pain (sometimes behind the eye). Could be an aneurysm (deadly if not treated quickly) or something called temporal arteritis that can lead to irreversible blindness. TL:DR - bad headache can = death/blindness

Only a second year med student here but they always harp on "thunder clap headaches" a very sudden intense pain (sometimes behind the eye). Could be an aneurysm (deadly if not treated quickly) or something called temporal arteritis that can lead to irreversible blindness. TL:DR - bad headache can = death/blindness

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Only a second year med student here but they always harp on "thunder clap headaches" a very sudden intense pain (sometimes behind the eye). Could be an aneurysm (deadly if not treated quickly) or something called temporal arteritis that can lead to irreversible blindness.

bad headache can = death/blindness

honeydee

Dude, I seriously just learned this lesson last week. Except, my poop wasn't the only thing that turned black. On the day of a job interview, I woke up with a black tongue and blood coated teeth (The previous night I was throwing up blood.). I freaked out so bad, I nearly missed my interview. Screw Pepto. That stuff will mess with your head and make you think you're dying. **TL;DR DON'T TAKE PEPTO IF YOU'RE A HYPOCHONDRIAC, YOU'LL PROBABLY PASS OUT FROM THE OVERREACTION OF BLACK EVERYTHING COMING OUT OF EACH ORFICE.**

Dude, I seriously just learned this lesson last week. Except, my poop wasn't the only thing that turned black. On the day of a job interview, I woke up with a black tongue and blood coated teeth (The previous night I was throwing up blood.). I freaked out so bad, I nearly missed my interview. Screw Pepto. That stuff will mess with your head and make you think you're dying. TL;DR DON'T TAKE PEPTO IF YOU'RE A HYPOCHONDRIAC, YOU'LL PROBABLY PASS OUT FROM THE OVERREACTION OF BLACK EVERYTHING COMING OUT OF EACH ORFICE.

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Dude, I seriously just learned this lesson last week. Except, my poop wasn't the only thing that turned black. On the day of a job interview, I woke up with a black tongue and blood coated teeth (The previous night I was throwing up blood.). I freaked out so bad, I nearly missed my interview. Screw Pepto. That stuff will mess with your head and make you think you're dying.

DON'T TAKE PEPTO IF YOU'RE A HYPOCHONDRIAC, YOU'LL PROBABLY PASS OUT FROM THE OVERREACTION OF BLACK EVERYTHING COMING OUT OF EACH ORFICE.

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Infections on your feet. Last summer I thought what I had was simple athlete's foot between my toes so I put neosporin on it and that was it. A day later I noticed lower leg pain and swelling in my foot and calf which eventually got to the point where I could not walk. I thought I had just twisted my ankle or something. Later that day I looked at my leg and it was turning red and you could see the veins getting red. I went to the hospital and it Turns out I had an infection in my toe that went to my bloodstream. Stayed 24 hours in the hospital in quarantine on IV antibiotics and the next day swelling and pain was almost completely gone. I swear IV antibiotics are magic. TL;DR neosporin can't solve everything

Infections on your feet. Last summer I thought what I had was simple athlete's foot between my toes so I put neosporin on it and that was it. A day later I noticed lower leg pain and swelling in my foot and calf which eventually got to the point where I could not walk. I thought I had just twisted my ankle or something. Later that day I looked at my leg and it was turning red and you could see the veins getting red. I went to the hospital and it Turns out I had an infection in my toe that went to my bloodstream. Stayed 24 hours in the hospital in quarantine on IV antibiotics and the next day swelling and pain was almost completely gone. I swear IV antibiotics are magic. TL;DR neosporin can't solve everything

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Infections on your feet. Last summer I thought what I had was simple athlete's foot between my toes so I put neosporin on it and that was it. A day later I noticed lower leg pain and swelling in my foot and calf which eventually got to the point where I could not walk. I thought I had just twisted my ankle or something. Later that day I looked at my leg and it was turning red and you could see the veins getting red. I went to the hospital and it Turns out I had an infection in my toe that went to my bloodstream. Stayed 24 hours in the hospital in quarantine on IV antibiotics and the next day swelling and pain was almost completely gone. I swear IV antibiotics are magic.

neosporin can't solve everything

Moorit

I run a week-long summer day camp for kids. A girl last year showed up to camp and said she wanted to take it easy at first. She'd hit her head pretty hard on Saturday (this was Monday) and had been having headaches and dizziness since. I could hardly believe what I was hearing and asked why she hadn't been to a doctor. She said they were too busy. So I tell her to take it easy but she gets caught up in the fun and starts running around with the other kids. 15 minutes later, she tells me she feels like she's gonna throw up, so I send her off to the bathroom. She returns and says "I just threw up, if you need to see it I didn't flush." At first I was like, why the hell would I need you to prove to me that you puked? But I guess the same kind of parents who would drop their kid off for summer camp with an obvious concussion would also want proof of vomit... Her mom finally showed up and took her to the doctor. "We'll be back tomorrow!" Yeah right... doc said no more summer camp or physical activity for two weeks. Pretty sure the girl was fine. TL;DR: What's the opposite of a hypochondriac?

I run a week-long summer day camp for kids. A girl last year showed up to camp and said she wanted to take it easy at first. She'd hit her head pretty hard on Saturday (this was Monday) and had been having headaches and dizziness since. I could hardly believe what I was hearing and asked why she hadn't been to a doctor. She said they were too busy. So I tell her to take it easy but she gets caught up in the fun and starts running around with the other kids. 15 minutes later, she tells me she feels like she's gonna throw up, so I send her off to the bathroom. She returns and says "I just threw up, if you need to see it I didn't flush." At first I was like, why the hell would I need you to prove to me that you puked? But I guess the same kind of parents who would drop their kid off for summer camp with an obvious concussion would also want proof of vomit... Her mom finally showed up and took her to the doctor. "We'll be back tomorrow!" Yeah right... doc said no more summer camp or physical activity for two weeks. Pretty sure the girl was fine. TL;DR: What's the opposite of a hypochondriac?

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I run a week-long summer day camp for kids. A girl last year showed up to camp and said she wanted to take it easy at first. She'd hit her head pretty hard on Saturday (this was Monday) and had been having headaches and dizziness since. I could hardly believe what I was hearing and asked why she hadn't been to a doctor. She said they were too busy. So I tell her to take it easy but she gets caught up in the fun and starts running around with the other kids. 15 minutes later, she tells me she feels like she's gonna throw up, so I send her off to the bathroom. She returns and says "I just threw up, if you need to see it I didn't flush." At first I was like, why the hell would I need you to prove to me that you puked? But I guess the same kind of parents who would drop their kid off for summer camp with an obvious concussion would also want proof of vomit... Her mom finally showed up and took her to the doctor. "We'll be back tomorrow!" Yeah right... doc said no more summer camp or physical activity for two weeks. Pretty sure the girl was fine.

What's the opposite of a hypochondriac?

reformedamishama

This sounds a lot like my first kidney infection, which developed from my first UTI. I went to the doctor who said that I could probably clear the infection on my own and, being stupid and 17 I didn't insist on antibiotics. I had no symptoms for about a week aside from a little cramping which I thought was my period and a low grade fever which my mom insisted I go back to the doctor to get checked out. The Nurse Practitioner was amazed that I'd been up and walking around for a week with a full blown kidney infection. Still being stupid and 17, I assured her that I didn't feel like going to the hospital, so she gave me a shot of lidocaine and antibiotics directly into the buttcheek and a prescription for Tramadol and a 10-day antibiotic course. From there I had to drive downtown in the middle of rush hour traffic, kind of amazed that I felt fine, when all of the sudden it hit me. My fever spiked so I turned up the heat in 95 degree weather. By the time I got to my mom's office 20 minutes away from the clinic I was shivering, dizzy, vomiting and had passed a blood clot before I could reach the toilet. I spent the next fur days wrapped in blankets at home, peeing blood every 30 minutes. **TL;DR**: It you are a woman there is a fair chance that back pain and bloody urine mean a kidney infection. Save yourself the shame of passing a blood clot on the highway and puking in your car. Just get that shit on lock. Really.

This sounds a lot like my first kidney infection, which developed from my first UTI. I went to the doctor who said that I could probably clear the infection on my own and, being stupid and 17 I didn't insist on antibiotics. I had no symptoms for about a week aside from a little cramping which I thought was my period and a low grade fever which my mom insisted I go back to the doctor to get checked out. The Nurse Practitioner was amazed that I'd been up and walking around for a week with a full blown kidney infection. Still being stupid and 17, I assured her that I didn't feel like going to the hospital, so she gave me a shot of lidocaine and antibiotics directly into the buttcheek and a prescription for Tramadol and a 10-day antibiotic course. From there I had to drive downtown in the middle of rush hour traffic, kind of amazed that I felt fine, when all of the sudden it hit me. My fever spiked so I turned up the heat in 95 degree weather. By the time I got to my mom's office 20 minutes away from the clinic I was shivering, dizzy, vomiting and had passed a blood clot before I could reach the toilet. I spent the next fur days wrapped in blankets at home, peeing blood every 30 minutes. TL;DR : It you are a woman there is a fair chance that back pain and bloody urine mean a kidney infection. Save yourself the shame of passing a blood clot on the highway and puking in your car. Just get that shit on lock. Really.

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This sounds a lot like my first kidney infection, which developed from my first UTI. I went to the doctor who said that I could probably clear the infection on my own and, being stupid and 17 I didn't insist on antibiotics. I had no symptoms for about a week aside from a little cramping which I thought was my period and a low grade fever which my mom insisted I go back to the doctor to get checked out. The Nurse Practitioner was amazed that I'd been up and walking around for a week with a full blown kidney infection. Still being stupid and 17, I assured her that I didn't feel like going to the hospital, so she gave me a shot of lidocaine and antibiotics directly into the buttcheek and a prescription for Tramadol and a 10-day antibiotic course. From there I had to drive downtown in the middle of rush hour traffic, kind of amazed that I felt fine, when all of the sudden it hit me. My fever spiked so I turned up the heat in 95 degree weather. By the time I got to my mom's office 20 minutes away from the clinic I was shivering, dizzy, vomiting and had passed a blood clot before I could reach the toilet. I spent the next fur days wrapped in blankets at home, peeing blood every 30 minutes.

It you are a woman there is a fair chance that back pain and bloody urine mean a kidney infection. Save yourself the shame of passing a blood clot on the highway and puking in your car. Just get that shit on lock. Really.

Herpmancer

I heard of a guy in college who worked out every day and drank crazy amounts of Muscle Milk and protein supplements and stuff. One day, his pee turned "iced-tea" brown. He didn't realize that all the extra creatine in his system caused rhabdomyolysis. He was in the hospital for days. TLDR: Brown urine could mean that your muscles are breaking down

I heard of a guy in college who worked out every day and drank crazy amounts of Muscle Milk and protein supplements and stuff. One day, his pee turned "iced-tea" brown. He didn't realize that all the extra creatine in his system caused rhabdomyolysis. He was in the hospital for days. TLDR: Brown urine could mean that your muscles are breaking down

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I heard of a guy in college who worked out every day and drank crazy amounts of Muscle Milk and protein supplements and stuff. One day, his pee turned "iced-tea" brown. He didn't realize that all the extra creatine in his system caused rhabdomyolysis. He was in the hospital for days.

Brown urine could mean that your muscles are breaking down

antisocialmedic

The funny (or perhaps not so funny) thing is that we ended up having to take her back to the same ER when she started having bad reactions to my breast-milk. She was quite dehydrated. Her gums were dried out, she was pooping blood, her fontanelles were sunken, she didn't produce tears when she cried. Every time I breastfed her, she screamed in pain and vomited and had bloody diarrhea for about an hour afterward. Then she would sleep for about 15 or 20 minutes and wake up hungry because she didn't keep any milk in her stomach and the cycle repeated itself. So we brought her back to the pediatric ER. They put her in the itty bitty, pitiful looking baby IV and were bottle feeding her pedialyte. In the meantime, they were really pushing me into continuing with breastfeeding her even though it was obvious that *something* about my milk was making her ill. This time I was met with accusations of being lazy and not caring for my child and making excuses not to breastfeed (she was, at this point, being exclusively breastfed). It was shitty. After several hours of being rehydrated and undergoing an xray to rule out any major internal problems, she was released without any real advice on how to help her. We brought her home that night, and after another painful feeding wrought with vomiting and diarrhea, we decided to head to the store and get her some hypoallergenic formula. Over the next 5 weeks or so (she was about 3 weeks old at this point) I eliminated everything I could think of from my diet that could be a potential allergen. I ate steamed rice, steamed green beans and carrots, and steamed chicken or beef and a lot of water. Dairy seemed to be a major contributing factor to her problems, but we never managed to determine what all the allergens were. Toward the end, she wouldn't breastfeed, so I had to pump and feed it to her with a bottle and it still made her ill. She has been doing extremely well on soy formula since she was about 2 months old. She is almost a year old now, doing very well, but still extremely allergic to dairy. If I had "just pushed through" like the ER staff recommended instead of switching to formula, she would have likely been a failure to thrive or worse. She said her first words at around 6 months old. She took her first steps at 9 months. It isn't like formula has stunted her in any way at all. TLDR: Fuck that ER.

The funny (or perhaps not so funny) thing is that we ended up having to take her back to the same ER when she started having bad reactions to my breast-milk. She was quite dehydrated. Her gums were dried out, she was pooping blood, her fontanelles were sunken, she didn't produce tears when she cried. Every time I breastfed her, she screamed in pain and vomited and had bloody diarrhea for about an hour afterward. Then she would sleep for about 15 or 20 minutes and wake up hungry because she didn't keep any milk in her stomach and the cycle repeated itself. So we brought her back to the pediatric ER. They put her in the itty bitty, pitiful looking baby IV and were bottle feeding her pedialyte. In the meantime, they were really pushing me into continuing with breastfeeding her even though it was obvious that something about my milk was making her ill. This time I was met with accusations of being lazy and not caring for my child and making excuses not to breastfeed (she was, at this point, being exclusively breastfed). It was shitty. After several hours of being rehydrated and undergoing an xray to rule out any major internal problems, she was released without any real advice on how to help her. We brought her home that night, and after another painful feeding wrought with vomiting and diarrhea, we decided to head to the store and get her some hypoallergenic formula. Over the next 5 weeks or so (she was about 3 weeks old at this point) I eliminated everything I could think of from my diet that could be a potential allergen. I ate steamed rice, steamed green beans and carrots, and steamed chicken or beef and a lot of water. Dairy seemed to be a major contributing factor to her problems, but we never managed to determine what all the allergens were. Toward the end, she wouldn't breastfeed, so I had to pump and feed it to her with a bottle and it still made her ill. She has been doing extremely well on soy formula since she was about 2 months old. She is almost a year old now, doing very well, but still extremely allergic to dairy. If I had "just pushed through" like the ER staff recommended instead of switching to formula, she would have likely been a failure to thrive or worse. She said her first words at around 6 months old. She took her first steps at 9 months. It isn't like formula has stunted her in any way at all. TLDR: Fuck that ER.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

c9t43cp

The funny (or perhaps not so funny) thing is that we ended up having to take her back to the same ER when she started having bad reactions to my breast-milk. She was quite dehydrated. Her gums were dried out, she was pooping blood, her fontanelles were sunken, she didn't produce tears when she cried. Every time I breastfed her, she screamed in pain and vomited and had bloody diarrhea for about an hour afterward. Then she would sleep for about 15 or 20 minutes and wake up hungry because she didn't keep any milk in her stomach and the cycle repeated itself. So we brought her back to the pediatric ER. They put her in the itty bitty, pitiful looking baby IV and were bottle feeding her pedialyte. In the meantime, they were really pushing me into continuing with breastfeeding her even though it was obvious that something about my milk was making her ill. This time I was met with accusations of being lazy and not caring for my child and making excuses not to breastfeed (she was, at this point, being exclusively breastfed). It was shitty. After several hours of being rehydrated and undergoing an xray to rule out any major internal problems, she was released without any real advice on how to help her. We brought her home that night, and after another painful feeding wrought with vomiting and diarrhea, we decided to head to the store and get her some hypoallergenic formula. Over the next 5 weeks or so (she was about 3 weeks old at this point) I eliminated everything I could think of from my diet that could be a potential allergen. I ate steamed rice, steamed green beans and carrots, and steamed chicken or beef and a lot of water. Dairy seemed to be a major contributing factor to her problems, but we never managed to determine what all the allergens were. Toward the end, she wouldn't breastfeed, so I had to pump and feed it to her with a bottle and it still made her ill. She has been doing extremely well on soy formula since she was about 2 months old. She is almost a year old now, doing very well, but still extremely allergic to dairy. If I had "just pushed through" like the ER staff recommended instead of switching to formula, she would have likely been a failure to thrive or worse. She said her first words at around 6 months old. She took her first steps at 9 months. It isn't like formula has stunted her in any way at all.

Fuck that ER.

hanathan

Ever noticed how hard it is to get a warm vape when you wrap an extremely thick mesh wick? Besides mitigating the perceived effect of voltage drop on mechanical mods, the point of sub-ohm coils is to compensate for the fact that stainless steel mesh is a heat-sink. TL,DR: There's no need to go sub-ohm on silica.

Ever noticed how hard it is to get a warm vape when you wrap an extremely thick mesh wick? Besides mitigating the perceived effect of voltage drop on mechanical mods, the point of sub-ohm coils is to compensate for the fact that stainless steel mesh is a heat-sink. TL,DR: There's no need to go sub-ohm on silica.

RBA

t5_2v8ns

c9w8b48

Ever noticed how hard it is to get a warm vape when you wrap an extremely thick mesh wick? Besides mitigating the perceived effect of voltage drop on mechanical mods, the point of sub-ohm coils is to compensate for the fact that stainless steel mesh is a heat-sink.

There's no need to go sub-ohm on silica.

praxis330

Except GDP per capita statistics are an extremely bad measure of individual wealth, for which you really should be using GDP per capita at PPP. Looking that up at Wikipedia and you see that that blog you linked to is very, very wrong. Switzerland, which you put at the same level as Georgia with a GDP per capita of around 32'000 dollars all of a sudden has a much higher GDP per capita at PPP of 51'000 dollars, and therefore immediately overtakes the US at 49'000 dollars. Shocker! Of course, even GDP per capita at PPP has been criticised for not actually taking into account differences in development and standards of living. If you want to play that game, we should use inequality-adjusted HDI. That puts the US in 16th place, after Norway, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, Slovenia, Finland, Austria, Canada, Belgium and the Czech Republic. Notice how all of these countries, barring Canada and Australia, are European. Source: TL;DR: I call bullshit on your claim that Europe is very poor compared to America. Also, what the fuck kind of sweeping statement is "Progressives support collectivism"?!

Except GDP per capita statistics are an extremely bad measure of individual wealth, for which you really should be using GDP per capita at PPP. Looking that up at Wikipedia and you see that that blog you linked to is very, very wrong. Switzerland, which you put at the same level as Georgia with a GDP per capita of around 32'000 dollars all of a sudden has a much higher GDP per capita at PPP of 51'000 dollars, and therefore immediately overtakes the US at 49'000 dollars. Shocker! Of course, even GDP per capita at PPP has been criticised for not actually taking into account differences in development and standards of living. If you want to play that game, we should use inequality-adjusted HDI. That puts the US in 16th place, after Norway, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, Slovenia, Finland, Austria, Canada, Belgium and the Czech Republic. Notice how all of these countries, barring Canada and Australia, are European. Source: TL;DR: I call bullshit on your claim that Europe is very poor compared to America. Also, what the fuck kind of sweeping statement is "Progressives support collectivism"?!

PoliticalDiscussion

t5_2sfmf

c9t21g7

Except GDP per capita statistics are an extremely bad measure of individual wealth, for which you really should be using GDP per capita at PPP. Looking that up at Wikipedia and you see that that blog you linked to is very, very wrong. Switzerland, which you put at the same level as Georgia with a GDP per capita of around 32'000 dollars all of a sudden has a much higher GDP per capita at PPP of 51'000 dollars, and therefore immediately overtakes the US at 49'000 dollars. Shocker! Of course, even GDP per capita at PPP has been criticised for not actually taking into account differences in development and standards of living. If you want to play that game, we should use inequality-adjusted HDI. That puts the US in 16th place, after Norway, Australia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, Iceland, Denmark, Slovenia, Finland, Austria, Canada, Belgium and the Czech Republic. Notice how all of these countries, barring Canada and Australia, are European. Source:

I call bullshit on your claim that Europe is very poor compared to America. Also, what the fuck kind of sweeping statement is "Progressives support collectivism"?!

TrevorCory13

Since this is turning into an OP is a fagget post, I'll provide some better details. 1. I didn't take the picture, his brother did but he's never heard of reddit (it's amazing he even has a cell phone). 2. He's not a tourist, he's actually an avid hunter and fisherman who travels extensively in the U.S. and Canada on hunting trips and has even been featured hunting on the outdoor channel. (I agree, this makes it worse) 3. His camp is in literally in the middle of nowhere in a large wilderness region made up almost exclusively of hunting camps and state game lands. TLDR: I didn't take the pic, this is not some tourist from the city, still retarded.

Since this is turning into an OP is a fagget post, I'll provide some better details. I didn't take the picture, his brother did but he's never heard of reddit (it's amazing he even has a cell phone). He's not a tourist, he's actually an avid hunter and fisherman who travels extensively in the U.S. and Canada on hunting trips and has even been featured hunting on the outdoor channel. (I agree, this makes it worse) His camp is in literally in the middle of nowhere in a large wilderness region made up almost exclusively of hunting camps and state game lands. TLDR: I didn't take the pic, this is not some tourist from the city, still retarded.

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c9tholx

Since this is turning into an OP is a fagget post, I'll provide some better details. I didn't take the picture, his brother did but he's never heard of reddit (it's amazing he even has a cell phone). He's not a tourist, he's actually an avid hunter and fisherman who travels extensively in the U.S. and Canada on hunting trips and has even been featured hunting on the outdoor channel. (I agree, this makes it worse) His camp is in literally in the middle of nowhere in a large wilderness region made up almost exclusively of hunting camps and state game lands.

I didn't take the pic, this is not some tourist from the city, still retarded.

Kimberlylynn2003

Exactly! Things like this piss me off. As someone who lives in the the great smokey this is very disturbing to me. We had a dumbass tourist last year who did sort of the same thing with one of our black bears. He gave it food, and Even tried to take a picture with it! Well the bear eventually got tired of him an swipped at him on the foot causing him to have a gash. Well one trip to the hospital later, ( he received 1 stupid stitch) he had to report it to the authorities. Bc the bear attacked a human- they had to find the bear and put it down. :-( So bc of this touron ( tourist + moron) the locals got upset bc of his ignorance and having to kill a bear- they filed complaints etc... And the dude ended up havin to pay 1000s of dollars back to the city. TL;DR: man takes pic with bear/ bear scratches him/ bear killed/ stupid ass man fined. Rawr!

Exactly! Things like this piss me off. As someone who lives in the the great smokey this is very disturbing to me. We had a dumbass tourist last year who did sort of the same thing with one of our black bears. He gave it food, and Even tried to take a picture with it! Well the bear eventually got tired of him an swipped at him on the foot causing him to have a gash. Well one trip to the hospital later, ( he received 1 stupid stitch) he had to report it to the authorities. Bc the bear attacked a human- they had to find the bear and put it down. :-( So bc of this touron ( tourist + moron) the locals got upset bc of his ignorance and having to kill a bear- they filed complaints etc... And the dude ended up havin to pay 1000s of dollars back to the city. TL;DR: man takes pic with bear/ bear scratches him/ bear killed/ stupid ass man fined. Rawr!

pics

t5_2qh0u

c9ta430

Exactly! Things like this piss me off. As someone who lives in the the great smokey this is very disturbing to me. We had a dumbass tourist last year who did sort of the same thing with one of our black bears. He gave it food, and Even tried to take a picture with it! Well the bear eventually got tired of him an swipped at him on the foot causing him to have a gash. Well one trip to the hospital later, ( he received 1 stupid stitch) he had to report it to the authorities. Bc the bear attacked a human- they had to find the bear and put it down. :-( So bc of this touron ( tourist + moron) the locals got upset bc of his ignorance and having to kill a bear- they filed complaints etc... And the dude ended up havin to pay 1000s of dollars back to the city.

man takes pic with bear/ bear scratches him/ bear killed/ stupid ass man fined. Rawr!

singasongofsixpins

YOU ASKED FOR IT So basically there was this sort of Christmas party at the adult playhouse that I am a member of. We do kink and BDSM kinda stuff, but the main members are sort of close. It is like a sharing circle but naked. Anyway, one guy stands up and starts going on about how he had this fantasy for some time where he shoves a pen into his cock. We just kinda looked at him and one lady said she thought somebody getting off on that was bullshit. So he leaves and comes back with a USB plug and just shoves it right in his pee-hole without prep or anything. He screams and ejaculates at the same time and just says "told ya". Then everybody just kinda backed off and we all got drunk. TL:DR: Saw a guy increase the storage space on his hard drive.

YOU ASKED FOR IT So basically there was this sort of Christmas party at the adult playhouse that I am a member of. We do kink and BDSM kinda stuff, but the main members are sort of close. It is like a sharing circle but naked. Anyway, one guy stands up and starts going on about how he had this fantasy for some time where he shoves a pen into his cock. We just kinda looked at him and one lady said she thought somebody getting off on that was bullshit. So he leaves and comes back with a USB plug and just shoves it right in his pee-hole without prep or anything. He screams and ejaculates at the same time and just says "told ya". Then everybody just kinda backed off and we all got drunk. TL:DR: Saw a guy increase the storage space on his hard drive.

SubredditDrama

t5_2ss5b

c9tcqid

YOU ASKED FOR IT So basically there was this sort of Christmas party at the adult playhouse that I am a member of. We do kink and BDSM kinda stuff, but the main members are sort of close. It is like a sharing circle but naked. Anyway, one guy stands up and starts going on about how he had this fantasy for some time where he shoves a pen into his cock. We just kinda looked at him and one lady said she thought somebody getting off on that was bullshit. So he leaves and comes back with a USB plug and just shoves it right in his pee-hole without prep or anything. He screams and ejaculates at the same time and just says "told ya". Then everybody just kinda backed off and we all got drunk.

Saw a guy increase the storage space on his hard drive.

Candroth

From work? Hell no. We pay for it ourselves -- and yes, we're *required* to have it. It varies by company and location but the only compensation I get from my job is $1.03 per delivery. tl;dr: Tip your driver.

From work? Hell no. We pay for it ourselves -- and yes, we're required to have it. It varies by company and location but the only compensation I get from my job is $1.03 per delivery. tl;dr: Tip your driver.

Random_Acts_Of_Amazon

t5_2tx47

c9tzfs6

From work? Hell no. We pay for it ourselves -- and yes, we're required to have it. It varies by company and location but the only compensation I get from my job is $1.03 per delivery.

Tip your driver.

kernelhappy

That's because there's no variety in it and the site is only looking at a limited aspect of password security (which I assume is your point). It seems like the first check the site does is for common dictionary words, then common passwords. If your submission doesn't hit one of those and get you an "Instantly" response, it tries to calculate the time it would take to brute force it. For pure brute force attacks, the time required is a function of the length of the password by the set of possible characters. All lowercase letters limits the set of characters to 26, add a capital and it goes to 52, add a number 62, adding symbols off the number keys brings it to 72 possible combinations (but it looks like the site is counting more than 10 symbols, so maybe it includes ones not on number keys). I'm not quite sure how many typable special characters there are, but I'll guess it's less than 62 (the set for "password01") since "∃≡•⊃∨⇔⊨† ‡" is the same length. Just to illustrate: notsecure - 22 minutes Notsecure - 8 days n0tsecure - 7 hours notsecur⇔ - 9 hours notsecur# - 22 hours N0tsecure - 39 days N0tsecur# - 275 days The site does warn you if your password follows the most common simple patterns like <dictionaryword><numerics> but it doesn't reduce the time because of it. I don't know, but I would guess that better password cracking tools try some patterns before they go all out on a true brute force attempt. If I was writing a brute force tool, I would try each common dictionary word followed by up to 4 digits, then try with the digits first, after that I would replace letters in dictionary words with visually similar letters (o-0, a-4, i-1, etc). I'm sure someone has done the math, but at some point this pattern attack will begin to yield diminishing returns compared to brute force. At the end of the day though, your password is highly likely to last longer because not many people use secondary symbols exclusively for their password and most attackers would start with alphanumerics then add common symbols. I'm ignoring rainbow tables because if I understand them correctly they create tables of all possible hashes and I could be wrong (I'm not a crypto guy), but I think it's possible for multiple phrases to create the same hash (in other words I think in theory password01 and ap#!!sxv902 may both work for a particular hash). TLDR; common sense says your password is stronger, but from a pure brute force sense - in theory at least it's not. Edit: I think your secondary symbols are confusing the site or, # and ⇔ both cause the site to assume the same extended symbol set. N0tsecu#⇔ works out to 275 days, same as N0tsecur#.

That's because there's no variety in it and the site is only looking at a limited aspect of password security (which I assume is your point). It seems like the first check the site does is for common dictionary words, then common passwords. If your submission doesn't hit one of those and get you an "Instantly" response, it tries to calculate the time it would take to brute force it. For pure brute force attacks, the time required is a function of the length of the password by the set of possible characters. All lowercase letters limits the set of characters to 26, add a capital and it goes to 52, add a number 62, adding symbols off the number keys brings it to 72 possible combinations (but it looks like the site is counting more than 10 symbols, so maybe it includes ones not on number keys). I'm not quite sure how many typable special characters there are, but I'll guess it's less than 62 (the set for "password01") since "∃≡•⊃∨⇔⊨† ‡" is the same length. Just to illustrate: notsecure - 22 minutes Notsecure - 8 days n0tsecure - 7 hours notsecur⇔ - 9 hours notsecur# - 22 hours N0tsecure - 39 days N0tsecur# - 275 days The site does warn you if your password follows the most common simple patterns like <dictionaryword><numerics> but it doesn't reduce the time because of it. I don't know, but I would guess that better password cracking tools try some patterns before they go all out on a true brute force attempt. If I was writing a brute force tool, I would try each common dictionary word followed by up to 4 digits, then try with the digits first, after that I would replace letters in dictionary words with visually similar letters (o-0, a-4, i-1, etc). I'm sure someone has done the math, but at some point this pattern attack will begin to yield diminishing returns compared to brute force. At the end of the day though, your password is highly likely to last longer because not many people use secondary symbols exclusively for their password and most attackers would start with alphanumerics then add common symbols. I'm ignoring rainbow tables because if I understand them correctly they create tables of all possible hashes and I could be wrong (I'm not a crypto guy), but I think it's possible for multiple phrases to create the same hash (in other words I think in theory password01 and ap#!!sxv902 may both work for a particular hash). TLDR; common sense says your password is stronger, but from a pure brute force sense - in theory at least it's not. Edit: I think your secondary symbols are confusing the site or, # and ⇔ both cause the site to assume the same extended symbol set. N0tsecu#⇔ works out to 275 days, same as N0tsecur#.

funny

t5_2qh33

c9tqfl0

That's because there's no variety in it and the site is only looking at a limited aspect of password security (which I assume is your point). It seems like the first check the site does is for common dictionary words, then common passwords. If your submission doesn't hit one of those and get you an "Instantly" response, it tries to calculate the time it would take to brute force it. For pure brute force attacks, the time required is a function of the length of the password by the set of possible characters. All lowercase letters limits the set of characters to 26, add a capital and it goes to 52, add a number 62, adding symbols off the number keys brings it to 72 possible combinations (but it looks like the site is counting more than 10 symbols, so maybe it includes ones not on number keys). I'm not quite sure how many typable special characters there are, but I'll guess it's less than 62 (the set for "password01") since "∃≡•⊃∨⇔⊨† ‡" is the same length. Just to illustrate: notsecure - 22 minutes Notsecure - 8 days n0tsecure - 7 hours notsecur⇔ - 9 hours notsecur# - 22 hours N0tsecure - 39 days N0tsecur# - 275 days The site does warn you if your password follows the most common simple patterns like <dictionaryword><numerics> but it doesn't reduce the time because of it. I don't know, but I would guess that better password cracking tools try some patterns before they go all out on a true brute force attempt. If I was writing a brute force tool, I would try each common dictionary word followed by up to 4 digits, then try with the digits first, after that I would replace letters in dictionary words with visually similar letters (o-0, a-4, i-1, etc). I'm sure someone has done the math, but at some point this pattern attack will begin to yield diminishing returns compared to brute force. At the end of the day though, your password is highly likely to last longer because not many people use secondary symbols exclusively for their password and most attackers would start with alphanumerics then add common symbols. I'm ignoring rainbow tables because if I understand them correctly they create tables of all possible hashes and I could be wrong (I'm not a crypto guy), but I think it's possible for multiple phrases to create the same hash (in other words I think in theory password01 and ap#!!sxv902 may both work for a particular hash).

common sense says your password is stronger, but from a pure brute force sense - in theory at least it's not. Edit: I think your secondary symbols are confusing the site or, # and ⇔ both cause the site to assume the same extended symbol set. N0tsecu#⇔ works out to 275 days, same as N0tsecur#.

ashsimmonds

Those accu-check things are only to see if you're PISSING ketones, not whether you're ketogenic. The correlation is good for newbies, but poor for "veterans". After a few weeks/months you should be keto-adapted, which effectively means your body uses basically all the ketone bodies it produces. Early on your body produces *excess* ketones, this is what newbies call ketosis whereas it's actually ketonuria - ie your body discarding ketones because it hasn't established the required mechanisms to use them appropriately yet. If you want to know for sure, get a blood monitor - but FWIW after a while you *just know* whether you're ketogenic by the general feeling you have. **TL;DR - not being "in ketosis" is actually a *good* thing for a long term low-carber**

Those accu-check things are only to see if you're PISSING ketones, not whether you're ketogenic. The correlation is good for newbies, but poor for "veterans". After a few weeks/months you should be keto-adapted, which effectively means your body uses basically all the ketone bodies it produces. Early on your body produces excess ketones, this is what newbies call ketosis whereas it's actually ketonuria - ie your body discarding ketones because it hasn't established the required mechanisms to use them appropriately yet. If you want to know for sure, get a blood monitor - but FWIW after a while you just know whether you're ketogenic by the general feeling you have. TL;DR - not being "in ketosis" is actually a good thing for a long term low-carber

keto

t5_2rske

c9td59k

Those accu-check things are only to see if you're PISSING ketones, not whether you're ketogenic. The correlation is good for newbies, but poor for "veterans". After a few weeks/months you should be keto-adapted, which effectively means your body uses basically all the ketone bodies it produces. Early on your body produces excess ketones, this is what newbies call ketosis whereas it's actually ketonuria - ie your body discarding ketones because it hasn't established the required mechanisms to use them appropriately yet. If you want to know for sure, get a blood monitor - but FWIW after a while you just know whether you're ketogenic by the general feeling you have.

not being "in ketosis" is actually a good thing for a long term low-carber

antarctic_throwaway

&gt;Costco gas will always be inferior to actual gas companies. Costco barely makes amy money off of gas to be bothered to improve its quality...especially considered the rate at which it is bought. Corporate Costco employee here and that's completely wrong. Costco gas is sourced straight from major refiners. The price is low because Costco caps its markup on *all* products that are sold. The same principle is followed on everything from hot dogs, jeans, appliances, gas, etc... But your comment about barely making any money off gas is partially true for two reasons: the capped markup and the fact that Costco gas exists almost solely as an added benefit to its members and to attract potential members. tl;dr Costco makes money buy selling tons of things in bulk with a low, capped markup. Quality does not suffer from this method.

>Costco gas will always be inferior to actual gas companies. Costco barely makes amy money off of gas to be bothered to improve its quality...especially considered the rate at which it is bought. Corporate Costco employee here and that's completely wrong. Costco gas is sourced straight from major refiners. The price is low because Costco caps its markup on all products that are sold. The same principle is followed on everything from hot dogs, jeans, appliances, gas, etc... But your comment about barely making any money off gas is partially true for two reasons: the capped markup and the fact that Costco gas exists almost solely as an added benefit to its members and to attract potential members. tl;dr Costco makes money buy selling tons of things in bulk with a low, capped markup. Quality does not suffer from this method.

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t5_2qhl2

c9u9zk8

Costco gas will always be inferior to actual gas companies. Costco barely makes amy money off of gas to be bothered to improve its quality...especially considered the rate at which it is bought. Corporate Costco employee here and that's completely wrong. Costco gas is sourced straight from major refiners. The price is low because Costco caps its markup on all products that are sold. The same principle is followed on everything from hot dogs, jeans, appliances, gas, etc... But your comment about barely making any money off gas is partially true for two reasons: the capped markup and the fact that Costco gas exists almost solely as an added benefit to its members and to attract potential members.

Costco makes money buy selling tons of things in bulk with a low, capped markup. Quality does not suffer from this method.

muttyd

I'm actually pretty interested in the chemical aspect. Whats the "tl;dr" explanation?

I'm actually pretty interested in the chemical aspect. Whats the "tl;dr" explanation?

cars

t5_2qhl2

c9u3p3b

I'm actually pretty interested in the chemical aspect. Whats the "

explanation?

freedomweasel

Safety equipment only works if you use the whole system together. If you grab a climbing harness and tie into the wrong kind of rope, you're going to have a bad time. By the same token, a harness is supposed to be used with a racing seat designed for harnesses, and a cage. You can't make it too far back or it won't actually do anything in a rollover. You can, and should, pad the bar but that doesn't really do much good against your bare head. The bar you install will need a harness bar, or your harness is going to be mounted incorrectly and will either be useless, or break your back. If there aren't points on the seat to thread the shoulder straps through, they're just going to slip off in the event of a crash, and a 4 point harness allows your body to submarine under the lap belt which is pretty bad for your life expectancy. There are a lot of track organizations that don't allow them. As a side note, the bar will be bad for your rear visibility in your day to day driving. And again, driving to the event is much more dangerous than driving *at* the event. You're at low speed, on a closed course, surrounded by people with flags and radios and fire extinguishers. You have to try pretty hard to do anything that would require a roll bar at an autox event. A CG lock will keep you stuck in your seat for better control, and is cheaper, safer, and easier to use. The tldr is that no, you probably won't die and explode your head against the bar, but you're adding that risk, gaining nothing, and losing money. If you don't feel unsafe driving to work in your del sol, you shouldn't worry about autox. If you *do* feel unsafe driving in your del sol, you should buy a different car, not a harness and roll bar.

Safety equipment only works if you use the whole system together. If you grab a climbing harness and tie into the wrong kind of rope, you're going to have a bad time. By the same token, a harness is supposed to be used with a racing seat designed for harnesses, and a cage. You can't make it too far back or it won't actually do anything in a rollover. You can, and should, pad the bar but that doesn't really do much good against your bare head. The bar you install will need a harness bar, or your harness is going to be mounted incorrectly and will either be useless, or break your back. If there aren't points on the seat to thread the shoulder straps through, they're just going to slip off in the event of a crash, and a 4 point harness allows your body to submarine under the lap belt which is pretty bad for your life expectancy. There are a lot of track organizations that don't allow them. As a side note, the bar will be bad for your rear visibility in your day to day driving. And again, driving to the event is much more dangerous than driving at the event. You're at low speed, on a closed course, surrounded by people with flags and radios and fire extinguishers. You have to try pretty hard to do anything that would require a roll bar at an autox event. A CG lock will keep you stuck in your seat for better control, and is cheaper, safer, and easier to use. The tldr is that no, you probably won't die and explode your head against the bar, but you're adding that risk, gaining nothing, and losing money. If you don't feel unsafe driving to work in your del sol, you shouldn't worry about autox. If you do feel unsafe driving in your del sol, you should buy a different car, not a harness and roll bar.

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Safety equipment only works if you use the whole system together. If you grab a climbing harness and tie into the wrong kind of rope, you're going to have a bad time. By the same token, a harness is supposed to be used with a racing seat designed for harnesses, and a cage. You can't make it too far back or it won't actually do anything in a rollover. You can, and should, pad the bar but that doesn't really do much good against your bare head. The bar you install will need a harness bar, or your harness is going to be mounted incorrectly and will either be useless, or break your back. If there aren't points on the seat to thread the shoulder straps through, they're just going to slip off in the event of a crash, and a 4 point harness allows your body to submarine under the lap belt which is pretty bad for your life expectancy. There are a lot of track organizations that don't allow them. As a side note, the bar will be bad for your rear visibility in your day to day driving. And again, driving to the event is much more dangerous than driving at the event. You're at low speed, on a closed course, surrounded by people with flags and radios and fire extinguishers. You have to try pretty hard to do anything that would require a roll bar at an autox event. A CG lock will keep you stuck in your seat for better control, and is cheaper, safer, and easier to use. The

is that no, you probably won't die and explode your head against the bar, but you're adding that risk, gaining nothing, and losing money. If you don't feel unsafe driving to work in your del sol, you shouldn't worry about autox. If you do feel unsafe driving in your del sol, you should buy a different car, not a harness and roll bar.

GoldenRoad

&gt; it's a monarchy not a democracy Yeah, sometimes I forget to leave my political beliefs out of this. As soon as I hit save I articulated what I was originally trying to say, in my head. Renly and Stannis, if they worked together, would have made a pretty good team. I kind of agree that the realm needs a strong king, but even a strong king needs to know when to punish and when to forgive, something that both Baratheon brothers struggle with in opposite ways. tl;dr Renly=Yin, Stannis=Yan. Working together and in balance they could've run the realm well. Either way the point is null. (And no, I unfortunately don't know anything about Eastern philosophy, thanks for asking)

> it's a monarchy not a democracy Yeah, sometimes I forget to leave my political beliefs out of this. As soon as I hit save I articulated what I was originally trying to say, in my head. Renly and Stannis, if they worked together, would have made a pretty good team. I kind of agree that the realm needs a strong king, but even a strong king needs to know when to punish and when to forgive, something that both Baratheon brothers struggle with in opposite ways. tl;dr Renly=Yin, Stannis=Yan. Working together and in balance they could've run the realm well. Either way the point is null. (And no, I unfortunately don't know anything about Eastern philosophy, thanks for asking)

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it's a monarchy not a democracy Yeah, sometimes I forget to leave my political beliefs out of this. As soon as I hit save I articulated what I was originally trying to say, in my head. Renly and Stannis, if they worked together, would have made a pretty good team. I kind of agree that the realm needs a strong king, but even a strong king needs to know when to punish and when to forgive, something that both Baratheon brothers struggle with in opposite ways.

Renly=Yin, Stannis=Yan. Working together and in balance they could've run the realm well. Either way the point is null. (And no, I unfortunately don't know anything about Eastern philosophy, thanks for asking)

GCanuck

Wait until after high school. High school boys tend to have hormone problems that are difficult to control. And take this away from this: This dude isn't necessarily a bad guy. If you can't be around him because he can't control his desires (not in a rapey way, just in an annoying way... Although, definitely get outta Dodge if he gives off a rapey vibe), then just remember... He's just dealing with a surging of hormones. I'm sure objectively and rationally he'd understand that unrequited ~~love~~ lust isn't the end of a friendship. But he's neither objective or rational at this stage in his life. tl;dr - Don't hold this against him.

Wait until after high school. High school boys tend to have hormone problems that are difficult to control. And take this away from this: This dude isn't necessarily a bad guy. If you can't be around him because he can't control his desires (not in a rapey way, just in an annoying way... Although, definitely get outta Dodge if he gives off a rapey vibe), then just remember... He's just dealing with a surging of hormones. I'm sure objectively and rationally he'd understand that unrequited love lust isn't the end of a friendship. But he's neither objective or rational at this stage in his life. tl;dr - Don't hold this against him.

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Wait until after high school. High school boys tend to have hormone problems that are difficult to control. And take this away from this: This dude isn't necessarily a bad guy. If you can't be around him because he can't control his desires (not in a rapey way, just in an annoying way... Although, definitely get outta Dodge if he gives off a rapey vibe), then just remember... He's just dealing with a surging of hormones. I'm sure objectively and rationally he'd understand that unrequited love lust isn't the end of a friendship. But he's neither objective or rational at this stage in his life.

Don't hold this against him.