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Leeloopants

I've had droids in the past as well an an iPhone and my LG G2 is the best phone I've ever had by far. It has a beautiful and sharp display and it's sleek looking. I constantly get compliments on it and everyone who has toyed around with it wanted one afterwards. Battery life is great, still runs super quick after six months of use. Buttons on the back can be a challenge but I still prefer them to buttons on the side, which in my opinion are much more awkward. And they have improved the rear buttons on the G3. TLDR: LG G's are badass.

I've had droids in the past as well an an iPhone and my LG G2 is the best phone I've ever had by far. It has a beautiful and sharp display and it's sleek looking. I constantly get compliments on it and everyone who has toyed around with it wanted one afterwards. Battery life is great, still runs super quick after six months of use. Buttons on the back can be a challenge but I still prefer them to buttons on the side, which in my opinion are much more awkward. And they have improved the rear buttons on the G3. TLDR: LG G's are badass.

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I've had droids in the past as well an an iPhone and my LG G2 is the best phone I've ever had by far. It has a beautiful and sharp display and it's sleek looking. I constantly get compliments on it and everyone who has toyed around with it wanted one afterwards. Battery life is great, still runs super quick after six months of use. Buttons on the back can be a challenge but I still prefer them to buttons on the side, which in my opinion are much more awkward. And they have improved the rear buttons on the G3.

LG G's are badass.

phops

Look. There are thousands of UT's stored on RWT bots. If Kabam un-soulbounded the UT's, these RWT shops would not longer be stuck selling tiered items and pots, and would be able to sell these UT's. If Kabam sold UT's, everyone would complain about P2W, even moreso than people do now. Why can't they just let the RWT sites trade stuff? Because if I was given the choice to buy an acclaim from the nexus for ~10 dollars, or a dblade from a RWT site for ~5 dollars, I'd buy the dblade anyday. After a short period of letting the RWT bots trade, we would see a huge spike in the amount of rare UT's in circulation, like Juggs or Cronuses. I've seen a post on /r/rotmgtradingpost where someone was selling their bots with duped items. This guy had multiple accounts with 16 juggs on them (8 in inventory, 8 in chest). If UT's were tradeable, he and the loads of other people hoarding UT's from duping days could sell their UT's over paypal for high prices, because there's no market on them currently. That's a shit ton of money for a couple of virtual items they accquired with virtually no effort. **TL;DR** : Kabam makes less money, the game's balance goes to shit and the game becomes even more P2W than before if UT's were to become tradeable again. **EDIT**: If you'd like to look into the face of corruption and see why there should NEVER be another UT weekend, look here: (Pixl)

Look. There are thousands of UT's stored on RWT bots. If Kabam un-soulbounded the UT's, these RWT shops would not longer be stuck selling tiered items and pots, and would be able to sell these UT's. If Kabam sold UT's, everyone would complain about P2W, even moreso than people do now. Why can't they just let the RWT sites trade stuff? Because if I was given the choice to buy an acclaim from the nexus for ~10 dollars, or a dblade from a RWT site for ~5 dollars, I'd buy the dblade anyday. After a short period of letting the RWT bots trade, we would see a huge spike in the amount of rare UT's in circulation, like Juggs or Cronuses. I've seen a post on /r/rotmgtradingpost where someone was selling their bots with duped items. This guy had multiple accounts with 16 juggs on them (8 in inventory, 8 in chest). If UT's were tradeable, he and the loads of other people hoarding UT's from duping days could sell their UT's over paypal for high prices, because there's no market on them currently. That's a shit ton of money for a couple of virtual items they accquired with virtually no effort. TL;DR : Kabam makes less money, the game's balance goes to shit and the game becomes even more P2W than before if UT's were to become tradeable again. EDIT : If you'd like to look into the face of corruption and see why there should NEVER be another UT weekend, look here: (Pixl)

RotMG

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Look. There are thousands of UT's stored on RWT bots. If Kabam un-soulbounded the UT's, these RWT shops would not longer be stuck selling tiered items and pots, and would be able to sell these UT's. If Kabam sold UT's, everyone would complain about P2W, even moreso than people do now. Why can't they just let the RWT sites trade stuff? Because if I was given the choice to buy an acclaim from the nexus for ~10 dollars, or a dblade from a RWT site for ~5 dollars, I'd buy the dblade anyday. After a short period of letting the RWT bots trade, we would see a huge spike in the amount of rare UT's in circulation, like Juggs or Cronuses. I've seen a post on /r/rotmgtradingpost where someone was selling their bots with duped items. This guy had multiple accounts with 16 juggs on them (8 in inventory, 8 in chest). If UT's were tradeable, he and the loads of other people hoarding UT's from duping days could sell their UT's over paypal for high prices, because there's no market on them currently. That's a shit ton of money for a couple of virtual items they accquired with virtually no effort.

Kabam makes less money, the game's balance goes to shit and the game becomes even more P2W than before if UT's were to become tradeable again. EDIT : If you'd like to look into the face of corruption and see why there should NEVER be another UT weekend, look here: (Pixl)

Moist_Vanguard

Warning: Most likely at first you will have some ragrets as everything works fine but the touch pad, after about another hour of depression/perseverance with the help of YouTube videos you can then finally have a fully functional with touch pad working dualshock 4 controller with xbox one sticks. TL;DR Fudged up the touch pad but another hour later I got it working, fucking ribbon cables :)

Warning: Most likely at first you will have some ragrets as everything works fine but the touch pad, after about another hour of depression/perseverance with the help of YouTube videos you can then finally have a fully functional with touch pad working dualshock 4 controller with xbox one sticks. TL;DR Fudged up the touch pad but another hour later I got it working, fucking ribbon cables :)

PS4

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Warning: Most likely at first you will have some ragrets as everything works fine but the touch pad, after about another hour of depression/perseverance with the help of YouTube videos you can then finally have a fully functional with touch pad working dualshock 4 controller with xbox one sticks.

Fudged up the touch pad but another hour later I got it working, fucking ribbon cables :)

64_days

By the time I was twenty-three-years-old I had plowed my fair share of vaginas; some stinky, others rinky-dinky, mostly shaved and pimply. The female anus was another cavern never left unexplored by my bulbous wang; some lubed with snot, others were not, mostly hot balloon-knots. One fine Autumn morning I was banging my girlfriend upstairs. The windows were open and I'm certain our neighbors could hear her screaming with ecstasy while I shafted her shit-box. My sister was downstairs making pancakes and humming to the tune of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" which was playing on the radio. 'Twas a wonderful day to be alive, naked and getting my fuck on. My eyes crossed and I screamed like a dying elephant as I blew my load, balls deep in my girlfriend's shithole. We then, walked naked down the hall, hand in hand to the bathroom so she could shit out the gallon of white gravy I had just pumped into her ass. Watching her shit out my man-juice and hearing her wet cum-farts echo against the porcelain was enough to make my cock hard again, so she sucked me off while shitting, taking it down to the balls I might add, and swallowed my second load. Now I was hungry. She agreed that breakfast sounded good, especially after gobbling up my salty appetizer. We again strolled hand in hand downstairs, naked and sweaty, into the kitchen. My sister greeted us with a smile, still singing with Madonna. "Like a virgin! Touched for the very first time... hey, MILK_DUD_NIPPLES! I made breakfast! Hope you're hungry!", she said, embracing me with a playful hug. My still fully erect penis brushing up against her crotch. "Thanks, sis! Sorry my cock's still hard.", I apologized. "No problem!", she laughed giving my balls a playful cupping with her hand. "It's good to see the old pussy-pounder again!" My girlfriend approached and hugged her, too, thanking her for making pancakes. My sister tweaked her nipples and told her it was no problem and that she loved preparing breakfast for us while we fucked like horny, hairless gorillas. As I began to sit down, I slipped and landed on one of those old Mrs. Buttersworth glass syrup bottles[1] my sister had inadvertently left on the chair. It went straight up my asshole, my sphincter muscles wrapping around every inch of the glass bottle, swallowing it down to the base. "UUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! MIGHTY FUCK!!!", I exclaimed. My sister just winked, still bobbing her head to the music while eating and gave me a thumbs up. My girlfriend started slapping her own tits with a spatula while crossing her eyes and queefing out of control. And that's the story of how I lost my anal virginity. TL;DR: m'lady gives gentle sir euphoria

By the time I was twenty-three-years-old I had plowed my fair share of vaginas; some stinky, others rinky-dinky, mostly shaved and pimply. The female anus was another cavern never left unexplored by my bulbous wang; some lubed with snot, others were not, mostly hot balloon-knots. One fine Autumn morning I was banging my girlfriend upstairs. The windows were open and I'm certain our neighbors could hear her screaming with ecstasy while I shafted her shit-box. My sister was downstairs making pancakes and humming to the tune of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" which was playing on the radio. 'Twas a wonderful day to be alive, naked and getting my fuck on. My eyes crossed and I screamed like a dying elephant as I blew my load, balls deep in my girlfriend's shithole. We then, walked naked down the hall, hand in hand to the bathroom so she could shit out the gallon of white gravy I had just pumped into her ass. Watching her shit out my man-juice and hearing her wet cum-farts echo against the porcelain was enough to make my cock hard again, so she sucked me off while shitting, taking it down to the balls I might add, and swallowed my second load. Now I was hungry. She agreed that breakfast sounded good, especially after gobbling up my salty appetizer. We again strolled hand in hand downstairs, naked and sweaty, into the kitchen. My sister greeted us with a smile, still singing with Madonna. "Like a virgin! Touched for the very first time... hey, MILK_DUD_NIPPLES! I made breakfast! Hope you're hungry!", she said, embracing me with a playful hug. My still fully erect penis brushing up against her crotch. "Thanks, sis! Sorry my cock's still hard.", I apologized. "No problem!", she laughed giving my balls a playful cupping with her hand. "It's good to see the old pussy-pounder again!" My girlfriend approached and hugged her, too, thanking her for making pancakes. My sister tweaked her nipples and told her it was no problem and that she loved preparing breakfast for us while we fucked like horny, hairless gorillas. As I began to sit down, I slipped and landed on one of those old Mrs. Buttersworth glass syrup bottles[1] my sister had inadvertently left on the chair. It went straight up my asshole, my sphincter muscles wrapping around every inch of the glass bottle, swallowing it down to the base. "UUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! MIGHTY FUCK!!!", I exclaimed. My sister just winked, still bobbing her head to the music while eating and gave me a thumbs up. My girlfriend started slapping her own tits with a spatula while crossing her eyes and queefing out of control. And that's the story of how I lost my anal virginity. TL;DR: m'lady gives gentle sir euphoria

circlejerk

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By the time I was twenty-three-years-old I had plowed my fair share of vaginas; some stinky, others rinky-dinky, mostly shaved and pimply. The female anus was another cavern never left unexplored by my bulbous wang; some lubed with snot, others were not, mostly hot balloon-knots. One fine Autumn morning I was banging my girlfriend upstairs. The windows were open and I'm certain our neighbors could hear her screaming with ecstasy while I shafted her shit-box. My sister was downstairs making pancakes and humming to the tune of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" which was playing on the radio. 'Twas a wonderful day to be alive, naked and getting my fuck on. My eyes crossed and I screamed like a dying elephant as I blew my load, balls deep in my girlfriend's shithole. We then, walked naked down the hall, hand in hand to the bathroom so she could shit out the gallon of white gravy I had just pumped into her ass. Watching her shit out my man-juice and hearing her wet cum-farts echo against the porcelain was enough to make my cock hard again, so she sucked me off while shitting, taking it down to the balls I might add, and swallowed my second load. Now I was hungry. She agreed that breakfast sounded good, especially after gobbling up my salty appetizer. We again strolled hand in hand downstairs, naked and sweaty, into the kitchen. My sister greeted us with a smile, still singing with Madonna. "Like a virgin! Touched for the very first time... hey, MILK_DUD_NIPPLES! I made breakfast! Hope you're hungry!", she said, embracing me with a playful hug. My still fully erect penis brushing up against her crotch. "Thanks, sis! Sorry my cock's still hard.", I apologized. "No problem!", she laughed giving my balls a playful cupping with her hand. "It's good to see the old pussy-pounder again!" My girlfriend approached and hugged her, too, thanking her for making pancakes. My sister tweaked her nipples and told her it was no problem and that she loved preparing breakfast for us while we fucked like horny, hairless gorillas. As I began to sit down, I slipped and landed on one of those old Mrs. Buttersworth glass syrup bottles[1] my sister had inadvertently left on the chair. It went straight up my asshole, my sphincter muscles wrapping around every inch of the glass bottle, swallowing it down to the base. "UUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! MIGHTY FUCK!!!", I exclaimed. My sister just winked, still bobbing her head to the music while eating and gave me a thumbs up. My girlfriend started slapping her own tits with a spatula while crossing her eyes and queefing out of control. And that's the story of how I lost my anal virginity.

m'lady gives gentle sir euphoria

WheatGerm42

CMD-F "By the time I was twenty-three-years-old I had plowed my fair share of vaginas; some stinky, others rinky-dinky, mostly shaved and pimply. The female anus was another cavern never left unexplored by my bulbous wang; some lubed with snot, others were not, mostly hot balloon-knots. One fine Autumn morning I was banging my girlfriend upstairs. The windows were open and I'm certain our neighbors could hear her screaming with ecstasy while I shafted her shit-box. My sister was downstairs making pancakes and humming to the tune of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" which was playing on the radio. 'Twas a wonderful day to be alive, naked and getting my fuck on. My eyes crossed and I screamed like a dying elephant as I blew my load, balls deep in my girlfriend's shithole. We then, walked naked down the hall, hand in hand to the bathroom so she could shit out the gallon of white gravy I had just pumped into her ass. Watching her shit out my man-juice and hearing her wet cum-farts echo against the porcelain was enough to make my cock hard again, so she sucked me off while shitting, taking it down to the balls I might add, and swallowed my second load. Now I was hungry. She agreed that breakfast sounded good, especially after gobbling up my salty appetizer. We again strolled hand in hand downstairs, naked and sweaty, into the kitchen. My sister greeted us with a smile, still singing with Madonna. "Like a virgin! Touched for the very first time... hey, MILK_DUD_NIPPLES! I made breakfast! Hope you're hungry!", she said, embracing me with a playful hug. My still fully erect penis brushing up against her crotch. "Thanks, sis! Sorry my cock's still hard.", I apologized. "No problem!", she laughed giving my balls a playful cupping with her hand. "It's good to see the old pussy-pounder again!" My girlfriend approached and hugged her, too, thanking her for making pancakes. My sister tweaked her nipples and told her it was no problem and that she loved preparing breakfast for us while we fucked like horny, hairless gorillas. As I began to sit down, I slipped and landed on one of those old Mrs. Buttersworth glass syrup bottles[1] my sister had inadvertently left on the chair. It went straight up my asshole, my sphincter muscles wrapping around every inch of the glass bottle, swallowing it down to the base. "UUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! MIGHTY FUCK!!!", I exclaimed. My sister just winked, still bobbing her head to the music while eating and gave me a thumbs up. My girlfriend started slapping her own tits with a spatula while crossing her eyes and queefing out of control. And that's the story of how I lost my anal virginity. TL;DR: m'lady gives gentle sir euphoria" le did not disappoint amirite

CMD-F "By the time I was twenty-three-years-old I had plowed my fair share of vaginas; some stinky, others rinky-dinky, mostly shaved and pimply. The female anus was another cavern never left unexplored by my bulbous wang; some lubed with snot, others were not, mostly hot balloon-knots. One fine Autumn morning I was banging my girlfriend upstairs. The windows were open and I'm certain our neighbors could hear her screaming with ecstasy while I shafted her shit-box. My sister was downstairs making pancakes and humming to the tune of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" which was playing on the radio. 'Twas a wonderful day to be alive, naked and getting my fuck on. My eyes crossed and I screamed like a dying elephant as I blew my load, balls deep in my girlfriend's shithole. We then, walked naked down the hall, hand in hand to the bathroom so she could shit out the gallon of white gravy I had just pumped into her ass. Watching her shit out my man-juice and hearing her wet cum-farts echo against the porcelain was enough to make my cock hard again, so she sucked me off while shitting, taking it down to the balls I might add, and swallowed my second load. Now I was hungry. She agreed that breakfast sounded good, especially after gobbling up my salty appetizer. We again strolled hand in hand downstairs, naked and sweaty, into the kitchen. My sister greeted us with a smile, still singing with Madonna. "Like a virgin! Touched for the very first time... hey, MILK_DUD_NIPPLES! I made breakfast! Hope you're hungry!", she said, embracing me with a playful hug. My still fully erect penis brushing up against her crotch. "Thanks, sis! Sorry my cock's still hard.", I apologized. "No problem!", she laughed giving my balls a playful cupping with her hand. "It's good to see the old pussy-pounder again!" My girlfriend approached and hugged her, too, thanking her for making pancakes. My sister tweaked her nipples and told her it was no problem and that she loved preparing breakfast for us while we fucked like horny, hairless gorillas. As I began to sit down, I slipped and landed on one of those old Mrs. Buttersworth glass syrup bottles[1] my sister had inadvertently left on the chair. It went straight up my asshole, my sphincter muscles wrapping around every inch of the glass bottle, swallowing it down to the base. "UUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! MIGHTY FUCK!!!", I exclaimed. My sister just winked, still bobbing her head to the music while eating and gave me a thumbs up. My girlfriend started slapping her own tits with a spatula while crossing her eyes and queefing out of control. And that's the story of how I lost my anal virginity. TL;DR: m'lady gives gentle sir euphoria" le did not disappoint amirite

circlejerk

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CMD-F "By the time I was twenty-three-years-old I had plowed my fair share of vaginas; some stinky, others rinky-dinky, mostly shaved and pimply. The female anus was another cavern never left unexplored by my bulbous wang; some lubed with snot, others were not, mostly hot balloon-knots. One fine Autumn morning I was banging my girlfriend upstairs. The windows were open and I'm certain our neighbors could hear her screaming with ecstasy while I shafted her shit-box. My sister was downstairs making pancakes and humming to the tune of Madonna's "Like A Virgin" which was playing on the radio. 'Twas a wonderful day to be alive, naked and getting my fuck on. My eyes crossed and I screamed like a dying elephant as I blew my load, balls deep in my girlfriend's shithole. We then, walked naked down the hall, hand in hand to the bathroom so she could shit out the gallon of white gravy I had just pumped into her ass. Watching her shit out my man-juice and hearing her wet cum-farts echo against the porcelain was enough to make my cock hard again, so she sucked me off while shitting, taking it down to the balls I might add, and swallowed my second load. Now I was hungry. She agreed that breakfast sounded good, especially after gobbling up my salty appetizer. We again strolled hand in hand downstairs, naked and sweaty, into the kitchen. My sister greeted us with a smile, still singing with Madonna. "Like a virgin! Touched for the very first time... hey, MILK_DUD_NIPPLES! I made breakfast! Hope you're hungry!", she said, embracing me with a playful hug. My still fully erect penis brushing up against her crotch. "Thanks, sis! Sorry my cock's still hard.", I apologized. "No problem!", she laughed giving my balls a playful cupping with her hand. "It's good to see the old pussy-pounder again!" My girlfriend approached and hugged her, too, thanking her for making pancakes. My sister tweaked her nipples and told her it was no problem and that she loved preparing breakfast for us while we fucked like horny, hairless gorillas. As I began to sit down, I slipped and landed on one of those old Mrs. Buttersworth glass syrup bottles[1] my sister had inadvertently left on the chair. It went straight up my asshole, my sphincter muscles wrapping around every inch of the glass bottle, swallowing it down to the base. "UUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!!! MIGHTY FUCK!!!", I exclaimed. My sister just winked, still bobbing her head to the music while eating and gave me a thumbs up. My girlfriend started slapping her own tits with a spatula while crossing her eyes and queefing out of control. And that's the story of how I lost my anal virginity.

m'lady gives gentle sir euphoria" le did not disappoint amirite

Turkeytom86

Russianwarrior is absolutely correct. This false belief, which completely contradicts the hard scientific evidence to the contrary, is one of the things that makes people think nofappers are looney toons. TLDR: testosterone levels are not affected by masturbation

Russianwarrior is absolutely correct. This false belief, which completely contradicts the hard scientific evidence to the contrary, is one of the things that makes people think nofappers are looney toons. TLDR: testosterone levels are not affected by masturbation

NoFap

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cii9mzp

Russianwarrior is absolutely correct. This false belief, which completely contradicts the hard scientific evidence to the contrary, is one of the things that makes people think nofappers are looney toons.

testosterone levels are not affected by masturbation

StormTrooperQ

The strange thing that happened to the ADC role's items this patch is they nerfed the early game (and into mid game) of the role via the items. The preferred item paths right now are so expensive (doublelift went through the costs of the efficient builds for 4.10 not long ago, this is the video I'm referencing) that the power spike has been delayed significantly. (From BT + Boots, to IE + 2x Doran's Blade + boots) To further the issue if the opposing adc gets the power spike first (backs first with 1550 gold) and your adc doesn't have the gold for it, they're behind 40 damage in lane(50 damage from their BF sword and 10 damage from your vamp scepter/pickaxe). Which is HUGE. Team fights are easily lost at this point for the unlucky adc. Winning from this far back almost requires a good adc and supp with good chemistry. The funny part is these nerfs were done with the intent to strengthen the adc's late game potential. Which is pretty funny because there never was an issue with an adc's late game potential. They're adcs because of their late game potential. **TL;DR** The nerfs significantly delayed the power spike of adcs compared to 4.9 by making it more expensive and requiring 2 doran's blades. In hopes to strengthen late game. (I wouldn't know if it did, I haven't gotten to that point)

The strange thing that happened to the ADC role's items this patch is they nerfed the early game (and into mid game) of the role via the items. The preferred item paths right now are so expensive (doublelift went through the costs of the efficient builds for 4.10 not long ago, this is the video I'm referencing) that the power spike has been delayed significantly. (From BT + Boots, to IE + 2x Doran's Blade + boots) To further the issue if the opposing adc gets the power spike first (backs first with 1550 gold) and your adc doesn't have the gold for it, they're behind 40 damage in lane(50 damage from their BF sword and 10 damage from your vamp scepter/pickaxe). Which is HUGE. Team fights are easily lost at this point for the unlucky adc. Winning from this far back almost requires a good adc and supp with good chemistry. The funny part is these nerfs were done with the intent to strengthen the adc's late game potential. Which is pretty funny because there never was an issue with an adc's late game potential. They're adcs because of their late game potential. TL;DR The nerfs significantly delayed the power spike of adcs compared to 4.9 by making it more expensive and requiring 2 doran's blades. In hopes to strengthen late game. (I wouldn't know if it did, I haven't gotten to that point)

LeagueofLegendsMeta

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cii7g7z

The strange thing that happened to the ADC role's items this patch is they nerfed the early game (and into mid game) of the role via the items. The preferred item paths right now are so expensive (doublelift went through the costs of the efficient builds for 4.10 not long ago, this is the video I'm referencing) that the power spike has been delayed significantly. (From BT + Boots, to IE + 2x Doran's Blade + boots) To further the issue if the opposing adc gets the power spike first (backs first with 1550 gold) and your adc doesn't have the gold for it, they're behind 40 damage in lane(50 damage from their BF sword and 10 damage from your vamp scepter/pickaxe). Which is HUGE. Team fights are easily lost at this point for the unlucky adc. Winning from this far back almost requires a good adc and supp with good chemistry. The funny part is these nerfs were done with the intent to strengthen the adc's late game potential. Which is pretty funny because there never was an issue with an adc's late game potential. They're adcs because of their late game potential.

The nerfs significantly delayed the power spike of adcs compared to 4.9 by making it more expensive and requiring 2 doran's blades. In hopes to strengthen late game. (I wouldn't know if it did, I haven't gotten to that point)

tman140

I understand your point, but I agree with /u/SqeeSqee. Apparently Nintendo has decided Samus is no longer the hardened space pirate fighting bad-ass she used to be (see any Prime game ever), but a stereotypical fem protagonist (Overdone body proportions, skin tight clothing, constantly crying and dealing with past problems that she should have already dealt with internally). Honestly, if the series keeps going the way it is currently, it is only gonna become a tomb raider game. Sure there might be a story, but most people are playing because Laura has breasts. tl;dr: Nintendo has no idea what they are doing anymore, old Samus = best Samus

I understand your point, but I agree with /u/SqeeSqee. Apparently Nintendo has decided Samus is no longer the hardened space pirate fighting bad-ass she used to be (see any Prime game ever), but a stereotypical fem protagonist (Overdone body proportions, skin tight clothing, constantly crying and dealing with past problems that she should have already dealt with internally). Honestly, if the series keeps going the way it is currently, it is only gonna become a tomb raider game. Sure there might be a story, but most people are playing because Laura has breasts. tl;dr: Nintendo has no idea what they are doing anymore, old Samus = best Samus

Metroid

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ciiu3hw

I understand your point, but I agree with /u/SqeeSqee. Apparently Nintendo has decided Samus is no longer the hardened space pirate fighting bad-ass she used to be (see any Prime game ever), but a stereotypical fem protagonist (Overdone body proportions, skin tight clothing, constantly crying and dealing with past problems that she should have already dealt with internally). Honestly, if the series keeps going the way it is currently, it is only gonna become a tomb raider game. Sure there might be a story, but most people are playing because Laura has breasts.

Nintendo has no idea what they are doing anymore, old Samus = best Samus

troixetoiles

We aren't inviting my fiancé's parents to our wedding. We moved to Australia from the north eastern US over a year ago. We got engaged down here and started discussing where to get married and what type of wedding to have. My fiancé's parents are divorced (they have been for ~14 years at this point) and his mother pretty much refuses to be anywhere near his father. So from her attitude (she even told us to get married in Australia) we knew there was going to be big drama from her if we held a wedding in the US and expected both of his parents to attend. However, we knew that if we had a wedding in Australia neither of his parents could really afford to come so we thought that would take care of the problem. (To put this into context, his sister eloped over lunchtime so there's precedent for having a wedding with neither parent invited.) Yea...there are probably going to be some hurt feelings but my take on things (and the fiancé sides with me) is that this is much easier for us (we don't want to plan a wedding from thousands of miles away) and we would rather not have to have the extra stress of planning a wedding far from home with trying to appease his mother, who often loves to make my fiancé feel guilty about any perceived emotional slights. Also, this way we are "equally unfair" to both of his parents so they can't get bad feelings about either one having favorable treatment. So I thought that was that until after we started paying for deposits and other wedding stuff his mom was like "Oh...I probably could have dealt with being in a room with your father for a night if a lot of other people were there." Nope...you missed the boat for that one. And your behavior relating to your ex over the past decade (from what my fiancé tells me) tells me not to count on this. We are still going to have a party when we return so she will still be there to celebrate our marriage, but she missed her opportunity for a wedding that she could attend. TL,DR: There would be drama if we invited fiancé's divorced parents and drama if we didn't. Not inviting them is less stressful for us, so we didn't. International wedding makes this easier.

We aren't inviting my fiancé's parents to our wedding. We moved to Australia from the north eastern US over a year ago. We got engaged down here and started discussing where to get married and what type of wedding to have. My fiancé's parents are divorced (they have been for ~14 years at this point) and his mother pretty much refuses to be anywhere near his father. So from her attitude (she even told us to get married in Australia) we knew there was going to be big drama from her if we held a wedding in the US and expected both of his parents to attend. However, we knew that if we had a wedding in Australia neither of his parents could really afford to come so we thought that would take care of the problem. (To put this into context, his sister eloped over lunchtime so there's precedent for having a wedding with neither parent invited.) Yea...there are probably going to be some hurt feelings but my take on things (and the fiancé sides with me) is that this is much easier for us (we don't want to plan a wedding from thousands of miles away) and we would rather not have to have the extra stress of planning a wedding far from home with trying to appease his mother, who often loves to make my fiancé feel guilty about any perceived emotional slights. Also, this way we are "equally unfair" to both of his parents so they can't get bad feelings about either one having favorable treatment. So I thought that was that until after we started paying for deposits and other wedding stuff his mom was like "Oh...I probably could have dealt with being in a room with your father for a night if a lot of other people were there." Nope...you missed the boat for that one. And your behavior relating to your ex over the past decade (from what my fiancé tells me) tells me not to count on this. We are still going to have a party when we return so she will still be there to celebrate our marriage, but she missed her opportunity for a wedding that she could attend. TL,DR: There would be drama if we invited fiancé's divorced parents and drama if we didn't. Not inviting them is less stressful for us, so we didn't. International wedding makes this easier.

weddingplanning

t5_2rv3t

ciiw8n3

We aren't inviting my fiancé's parents to our wedding. We moved to Australia from the north eastern US over a year ago. We got engaged down here and started discussing where to get married and what type of wedding to have. My fiancé's parents are divorced (they have been for ~14 years at this point) and his mother pretty much refuses to be anywhere near his father. So from her attitude (she even told us to get married in Australia) we knew there was going to be big drama from her if we held a wedding in the US and expected both of his parents to attend. However, we knew that if we had a wedding in Australia neither of his parents could really afford to come so we thought that would take care of the problem. (To put this into context, his sister eloped over lunchtime so there's precedent for having a wedding with neither parent invited.) Yea...there are probably going to be some hurt feelings but my take on things (and the fiancé sides with me) is that this is much easier for us (we don't want to plan a wedding from thousands of miles away) and we would rather not have to have the extra stress of planning a wedding far from home with trying to appease his mother, who often loves to make my fiancé feel guilty about any perceived emotional slights. Also, this way we are "equally unfair" to both of his parents so they can't get bad feelings about either one having favorable treatment. So I thought that was that until after we started paying for deposits and other wedding stuff his mom was like "Oh...I probably could have dealt with being in a room with your father for a night if a lot of other people were there." Nope...you missed the boat for that one. And your behavior relating to your ex over the past decade (from what my fiancé tells me) tells me not to count on this. We are still going to have a party when we return so she will still be there to celebrate our marriage, but she missed her opportunity for a wedding that she could attend.

There would be drama if we invited fiancé's divorced parents and drama if we didn't. Not inviting them is less stressful for us, so we didn't. International wedding makes this easier.

slugsnot

Quite simple actually, the things you mention take place in very specialized environments. Electrostatically neutral places to be specific. If you try to perform those same experiments in your home, with the same equipment you would probably damage the instrument as it squeals "eek! I'm staring into the sun!" Voltages are dancing and racing all over your body everywhere you go every day. That spark you feel when you touch a doorknob is on the order of 20,000 Volts! Now you are looking for voltages on the order of millivolts coming through the dialectric that is your skin. What they usually do is hook up to your elbow to grab a local reference plane that isn't muscular but this only brings the signal to noise ratio down enough for a clean environment to detect in. looking for .005 volts in a 20,000 volt environment is the equivalent of detecting a wind so gentle it blows only 2.5 inches per hour in a hurricane! You can imagine that using an anemometer (the equivalent of the elbow reference plane) in this environment doesn't help you find the source of such gentle breezes. (not to mention the electrical equipment you need is large, heavy, expensive, and requires frequent and expensive calibration) **TL;DR It's the environment** Good Questions! Keep 'em coming!

Quite simple actually, the things you mention take place in very specialized environments. Electrostatically neutral places to be specific. If you try to perform those same experiments in your home, with the same equipment you would probably damage the instrument as it squeals "eek! I'm staring into the sun!" Voltages are dancing and racing all over your body everywhere you go every day. That spark you feel when you touch a doorknob is on the order of 20,000 Volts! Now you are looking for voltages on the order of millivolts coming through the dialectric that is your skin. What they usually do is hook up to your elbow to grab a local reference plane that isn't muscular but this only brings the signal to noise ratio down enough for a clean environment to detect in. looking for .005 volts in a 20,000 volt environment is the equivalent of detecting a wind so gentle it blows only 2.5 inches per hour in a hurricane! You can imagine that using an anemometer (the equivalent of the elbow reference plane) in this environment doesn't help you find the source of such gentle breezes. (not to mention the electrical equipment you need is large, heavy, expensive, and requires frequent and expensive calibration) TL;DR It's the environment Good Questions! Keep 'em coming!

starcitizen

t5_2v94d

ciinqul

Quite simple actually, the things you mention take place in very specialized environments. Electrostatically neutral places to be specific. If you try to perform those same experiments in your home, with the same equipment you would probably damage the instrument as it squeals "eek! I'm staring into the sun!" Voltages are dancing and racing all over your body everywhere you go every day. That spark you feel when you touch a doorknob is on the order of 20,000 Volts! Now you are looking for voltages on the order of millivolts coming through the dialectric that is your skin. What they usually do is hook up to your elbow to grab a local reference plane that isn't muscular but this only brings the signal to noise ratio down enough for a clean environment to detect in. looking for .005 volts in a 20,000 volt environment is the equivalent of detecting a wind so gentle it blows only 2.5 inches per hour in a hurricane! You can imagine that using an anemometer (the equivalent of the elbow reference plane) in this environment doesn't help you find the source of such gentle breezes. (not to mention the electrical equipment you need is large, heavy, expensive, and requires frequent and expensive calibration)

It's the environment Good Questions! Keep 'em coming!

rinakrack

This is very common in women (I don't know if you are, but 50/50 guess) and just common in general. The cue I use is to imagine there are eyeballs in the creases of your elbows, so when you're in plank or doing pushups make sure they're looking at each other and not forward. All turnout should come from the shoulders and not from the elbows. The issue with injury is if your elbows aren't in the right position, smaller tendons and muscles could be damaged of they take too much stress. Probably won't happen if you're just doing planks and pushups, but say someone were to sit on your back during a push up and you weren't using proper form you could potentially hurt yourself. It's not a life or death or massive problem thing, just a proper form, training yourself properly (getting maximum benefit). In regards to your knees, a lot of people hyperextend. The preferred aesthetic for ballet dancers is a severe hyperextension of the knee. That's only bizarre ballet preference though, and not necessarily beneficial for joint health. It's much easier to dislocate your knee if it's hyperextended and you don't have adequate musculature to hold it in. So in Pilates we check for hyperextensions so the exercises are performed properly for correct alignment with lower risk of injury. You want a slight bend in the knees so the exercise doesn't go to the quad but to the inner thighs and abdominals. Source: Am Pilates instructor. TL;DR You'll be fine, it's common. Slight bend in elbows and knees is better for your joints. Sounds like you have a good teacher, stick with it.

This is very common in women (I don't know if you are, but 50/50 guess) and just common in general. The cue I use is to imagine there are eyeballs in the creases of your elbows, so when you're in plank or doing pushups make sure they're looking at each other and not forward. All turnout should come from the shoulders and not from the elbows. The issue with injury is if your elbows aren't in the right position, smaller tendons and muscles could be damaged of they take too much stress. Probably won't happen if you're just doing planks and pushups, but say someone were to sit on your back during a push up and you weren't using proper form you could potentially hurt yourself. It's not a life or death or massive problem thing, just a proper form, training yourself properly (getting maximum benefit). In regards to your knees, a lot of people hyperextend. The preferred aesthetic for ballet dancers is a severe hyperextension of the knee. That's only bizarre ballet preference though, and not necessarily beneficial for joint health. It's much easier to dislocate your knee if it's hyperextended and you don't have adequate musculature to hold it in. So in Pilates we check for hyperextensions so the exercises are performed properly for correct alignment with lower risk of injury. You want a slight bend in the knees so the exercise doesn't go to the quad but to the inner thighs and abdominals. Source: Am Pilates instructor. TL;DR You'll be fine, it's common. Slight bend in elbows and knees is better for your joints. Sounds like you have a good teacher, stick with it.

pilates

t5_2r09n

cij4rus

This is very common in women (I don't know if you are, but 50/50 guess) and just common in general. The cue I use is to imagine there are eyeballs in the creases of your elbows, so when you're in plank or doing pushups make sure they're looking at each other and not forward. All turnout should come from the shoulders and not from the elbows. The issue with injury is if your elbows aren't in the right position, smaller tendons and muscles could be damaged of they take too much stress. Probably won't happen if you're just doing planks and pushups, but say someone were to sit on your back during a push up and you weren't using proper form you could potentially hurt yourself. It's not a life or death or massive problem thing, just a proper form, training yourself properly (getting maximum benefit). In regards to your knees, a lot of people hyperextend. The preferred aesthetic for ballet dancers is a severe hyperextension of the knee. That's only bizarre ballet preference though, and not necessarily beneficial for joint health. It's much easier to dislocate your knee if it's hyperextended and you don't have adequate musculature to hold it in. So in Pilates we check for hyperextensions so the exercises are performed properly for correct alignment with lower risk of injury. You want a slight bend in the knees so the exercise doesn't go to the quad but to the inner thighs and abdominals. Source: Am Pilates instructor.

You'll be fine, it's common. Slight bend in elbows and knees is better for your joints. Sounds like you have a good teacher, stick with it.

Iamspeedy36

Yes she's adorable! However, I waited in line for 4 hours with my kid so we could be right up front, only to discover they hire people who look good to be in the front row. What kind of message does that send? TL;DR I❤️RADIO all about looks....

Yes she's adorable! However, I waited in line for 4 hours with my kid so we could be right up front, only to discover they hire people who look good to be in the front row. What kind of message does that send? TL;DR I❤️RADIO all about looks....

ArianaGrande

t5_2sk1i

cikv6ff

Yes she's adorable! However, I waited in line for 4 hours with my kid so we could be right up front, only to discover they hire people who look good to be in the front row. What kind of message does that send?

I❤️RADIO all about looks....

raydra

at around level 15 or so your main story quest will send you via airship to the other main cities, and then you'll be able to attune with the aetherytes there to teleport back and forth at will. Also around that time the different story questlines from the 3 starting cities will merge into one chain for the rest of the story, and you guys will be able to play together without many issues (aside from a number of short solo-only duties) from then on. Also, there's a number of 4-player duties throughout the story, so if you guys are both tanks or both healers, you won't be able to do those duties together; just something to keep in mind. edit: TL;DR: just get to the point in the main story where it sends you to Aleport (level 15-16) and wait for him to catch up, then you won't have problems regardless of his class.

at around level 15 or so your main story quest will send you via airship to the other main cities, and then you'll be able to attune with the aetherytes there to teleport back and forth at will. Also around that time the different story questlines from the 3 starting cities will merge into one chain for the rest of the story, and you guys will be able to play together without many issues (aside from a number of short solo-only duties) from then on. Also, there's a number of 4-player duties throughout the story, so if you guys are both tanks or both healers, you won't be able to do those duties together; just something to keep in mind. edit: TL;DR: just get to the point in the main story where it sends you to Aleport (level 15-16) and wait for him to catch up, then you won't have problems regardless of his class.

ffxiv

t5_2rgs7

cijfah1

at around level 15 or so your main story quest will send you via airship to the other main cities, and then you'll be able to attune with the aetherytes there to teleport back and forth at will. Also around that time the different story questlines from the 3 starting cities will merge into one chain for the rest of the story, and you guys will be able to play together without many issues (aside from a number of short solo-only duties) from then on. Also, there's a number of 4-player duties throughout the story, so if you guys are both tanks or both healers, you won't be able to do those duties together; just something to keep in mind. edit:

just get to the point in the main story where it sends you to Aleport (level 15-16) and wait for him to catch up, then you won't have problems regardless of his class.

prkz

For anyone out of the loop, back in 2009 and before, Pendragon owned the website Dota-allstars.com. It was THE premier dota community website, it was basically the team liquid forums for DotA. In 2009, Pendragon announced that the website was going down for a database transfer, and it'd be a week. He then replaced the entire website with a bullshit letter and put a big ol' shoutout to league of legends telling everyone to go download it and play it. He never released the backups of the forums, so a lot of people who only knew some friends through their contacts inside the Dota-allstars community had no ability to talk to them anymore. On top of that, a massive, gargantuan amount of written knowledge and guides for the game was lost. So TL;DR, Pendragon owned the most visited dota community forum with thousands of guides on it and millions of posts, and he took it all down and replaced it with a LoL advertisement in 2009.

For anyone out of the loop, back in 2009 and before, Pendragon owned the website Dota-allstars.com. It was THE premier dota community website, it was basically the team liquid forums for DotA. In 2009, Pendragon announced that the website was going down for a database transfer, and it'd be a week. He then replaced the entire website with a bullshit letter and put a big ol' shoutout to league of legends telling everyone to go download it and play it. He never released the backups of the forums, so a lot of people who only knew some friends through their contacts inside the Dota-allstars community had no ability to talk to them anymore. On top of that, a massive, gargantuan amount of written knowledge and guides for the game was lost. So TL;DR, Pendragon owned the most visited dota community forum with thousands of guides on it and millions of posts, and he took it all down and replaced it with a LoL advertisement in 2009.

DotA2

t5_2s580

cijhm1q

For anyone out of the loop, back in 2009 and before, Pendragon owned the website Dota-allstars.com. It was THE premier dota community website, it was basically the team liquid forums for DotA. In 2009, Pendragon announced that the website was going down for a database transfer, and it'd be a week. He then replaced the entire website with a bullshit letter and put a big ol' shoutout to league of legends telling everyone to go download it and play it. He never released the backups of the forums, so a lot of people who only knew some friends through their contacts inside the Dota-allstars community had no ability to talk to them anymore. On top of that, a massive, gargantuan amount of written knowledge and guides for the game was lost. So

Pendragon owned the most visited dota community forum with thousands of guides on it and millions of posts, and he took it all down and replaced it with a LoL advertisement in 2009.

adaglar98

Let me copy paste so you can read what is posted up here. This is probably the most important reason. Pendragon single-handedly destroyed a huge part of the Dota community and left an advertisement for LoL in its place. Here's his letter: DotA-Allstars.com Visitor, Some of you may know me; many of you probably won’t these days. This website was born on October 14th, 2004. It was a mere 2 months after I turned 18, and it was the first website I’d ever made. Guinsoo was the lead developer (before Icefrog), DotA had no competitive scene and maybe 5% of the players that it does today. In the years that followed, the site turned from a small forum with only 30,000 users to a massive community with over a million visitors every month, a million page views every day, and a staff of over 100 volunteers. It’s been incredible discovering the generosity of individuals who selflessly donate their time to create a positive experience for others. In the summer of 2008, I met Guinsoo in real life for the first time. He and his boss were in town and they wanted to meet up and go out for a steak, (how could I say no!?). I soon learned that they were working on a game based on DotA, free from all of the limitations of the Warcraft III engine and Battle.net. Several months after meeting them and after several trips to their offices to learn more about the project, I joined the Riot Games team working on League of Legends. When I first joined the team in September of 2008, my original intent was to work on League of Legends full time and continue to build DotA-Allstars.com into an awesome thriving DotA community after Icefrog’s departure. While I originally intended to leave this out of this letter, in light of the fact that this information is now out in the open, I think it’s important to set the record straight. Many believe that Icefrog left because I wanted to commercialize, and he did not. In reality – I had learned that Icefrog had been secretly working for S2Games after conducting a series of meetings where he was attempting to sell a full DotA game concept to a number of companies (including Riot). The differences of opinion that we had were merely that I chose to be transparent and honest about the project that I was working on, and the direction my career was going. After working on and launching LoL, I began to realize that – in addition to having no free time anymore – with LoL available to play I no longer possessed the passion for DotA which once drove me. The traffic on the website slowly began to decline, settling where it’s at now (about 50% of where it was a year ago), and I recently realized that I had a decision to make. I could either continue to say that I would rebuild the website as a strong DotA community, knowing that my heart wasn’t really in it, or I could archive the site, ending an almost 6 year chapter of my life that I’ve invested thousands of hours into. Ultimately I believe that the right decision here is to not trick myself into thinking that this site will be rebuilt into what it once was, and to shift my full focus and time to my new project, with an eye towards the future. This website and the DotA community will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s been an amazing experience working with so many wonderful people and gaining so much insight about communities, people, and ultimately myself. There are more people deserving of thanks than I could possibly remember – so rather than leaving anyone out, I’ll simply thank everyone who has volunteered or contributed to this site over the last few years, and everyone who helped make it one of the premier DotA websites in the world. The website will be offline for the next week or so while the database is moved to its new permanent home where its contents will remain archived and available to the public for the sake of historical preservation. In the meantime, I hope some of you will join me and over 3 million other players for a game of League of Legends (it’s free!) Sincerely, Pendragon On top of this, many of the hero suggestions for dota which were within those forums... would you know it, became LoL heroes. When Pendragon reopened the forums recently " in the interests of the public", he took out all the subforums that had things that were implemented into dota such as hero suggestions For anyone out of the loop, back in 2009 and before, Pendragon owned the website Dota-allstars.com. It was THE premier dota community website, it was basically the team liquid forums for DotA. In 2009, Pendragon announced that the website was going down for a database transfer, and it'd be a week. He then replaced the entire website with a bullshit letter and put a big ol' shoutout to league of legends telling everyone to go download it and play it. He never released the backups of the forums, so a lot of people who only knew some friends through their contacts inside the Dota-allstars community had no ability to talk to them anymore. On top of that, a massive, gargantuan amount of written knowledge and guides for the game was lost. So TL;DR, Pendragon owned the most visited dota community forum with thousands of guides on it and millions of posts, and he took it all down and replaced it with a LoL advertisement in 2009.

Let me copy paste so you can read what is posted up here. This is probably the most important reason. Pendragon single-handedly destroyed a huge part of the Dota community and left an advertisement for LoL in its place. Here's his letter: DotA-Allstars.com Visitor, Some of you may know me; many of you probably won’t these days. This website was born on October 14th, 2004. It was a mere 2 months after I turned 18, and it was the first website I’d ever made. Guinsoo was the lead developer (before Icefrog), DotA had no competitive scene and maybe 5% of the players that it does today. In the years that followed, the site turned from a small forum with only 30,000 users to a massive community with over a million visitors every month, a million page views every day, and a staff of over 100 volunteers. It’s been incredible discovering the generosity of individuals who selflessly donate their time to create a positive experience for others. In the summer of 2008, I met Guinsoo in real life for the first time. He and his boss were in town and they wanted to meet up and go out for a steak, (how could I say no!?). I soon learned that they were working on a game based on DotA, free from all of the limitations of the Warcraft III engine and Battle.net. Several months after meeting them and after several trips to their offices to learn more about the project, I joined the Riot Games team working on League of Legends. When I first joined the team in September of 2008, my original intent was to work on League of Legends full time and continue to build DotA-Allstars.com into an awesome thriving DotA community after Icefrog’s departure. While I originally intended to leave this out of this letter, in light of the fact that this information is now out in the open, I think it’s important to set the record straight. Many believe that Icefrog left because I wanted to commercialize, and he did not. In reality – I had learned that Icefrog had been secretly working for S2Games after conducting a series of meetings where he was attempting to sell a full DotA game concept to a number of companies (including Riot). The differences of opinion that we had were merely that I chose to be transparent and honest about the project that I was working on, and the direction my career was going. After working on and launching LoL, I began to realize that – in addition to having no free time anymore – with LoL available to play I no longer possessed the passion for DotA which once drove me. The traffic on the website slowly began to decline, settling where it’s at now (about 50% of where it was a year ago), and I recently realized that I had a decision to make. I could either continue to say that I would rebuild the website as a strong DotA community, knowing that my heart wasn’t really in it, or I could archive the site, ending an almost 6 year chapter of my life that I’ve invested thousands of hours into. Ultimately I believe that the right decision here is to not trick myself into thinking that this site will be rebuilt into what it once was, and to shift my full focus and time to my new project, with an eye towards the future. This website and the DotA community will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s been an amazing experience working with so many wonderful people and gaining so much insight about communities, people, and ultimately myself. There are more people deserving of thanks than I could possibly remember – so rather than leaving anyone out, I’ll simply thank everyone who has volunteered or contributed to this site over the last few years, and everyone who helped make it one of the premier DotA websites in the world. The website will be offline for the next week or so while the database is moved to its new permanent home where its contents will remain archived and available to the public for the sake of historical preservation. In the meantime, I hope some of you will join me and over 3 million other players for a game of League of Legends (it’s free!) Sincerely, Pendragon On top of this, many of the hero suggestions for dota which were within those forums... would you know it, became LoL heroes. When Pendragon reopened the forums recently " in the interests of the public", he took out all the subforums that had things that were implemented into dota such as hero suggestions For anyone out of the loop, back in 2009 and before, Pendragon owned the website Dota-allstars.com. It was THE premier dota community website, it was basically the team liquid forums for DotA. In 2009, Pendragon announced that the website was going down for a database transfer, and it'd be a week. He then replaced the entire website with a bullshit letter and put a big ol' shoutout to league of legends telling everyone to go download it and play it. He never released the backups of the forums, so a lot of people who only knew some friends through their contacts inside the Dota-allstars community had no ability to talk to them anymore. On top of that, a massive, gargantuan amount of written knowledge and guides for the game was lost. So TL;DR, Pendragon owned the most visited dota community forum with thousands of guides on it and millions of posts, and he took it all down and replaced it with a LoL advertisement in 2009.

DotA2

t5_2s580

cijomah

Let me copy paste so you can read what is posted up here. This is probably the most important reason. Pendragon single-handedly destroyed a huge part of the Dota community and left an advertisement for LoL in its place. Here's his letter: DotA-Allstars.com Visitor, Some of you may know me; many of you probably won’t these days. This website was born on October 14th, 2004. It was a mere 2 months after I turned 18, and it was the first website I’d ever made. Guinsoo was the lead developer (before Icefrog), DotA had no competitive scene and maybe 5% of the players that it does today. In the years that followed, the site turned from a small forum with only 30,000 users to a massive community with over a million visitors every month, a million page views every day, and a staff of over 100 volunteers. It’s been incredible discovering the generosity of individuals who selflessly donate their time to create a positive experience for others. In the summer of 2008, I met Guinsoo in real life for the first time. He and his boss were in town and they wanted to meet up and go out for a steak, (how could I say no!?). I soon learned that they were working on a game based on DotA, free from all of the limitations of the Warcraft III engine and Battle.net. Several months after meeting them and after several trips to their offices to learn more about the project, I joined the Riot Games team working on League of Legends. When I first joined the team in September of 2008, my original intent was to work on League of Legends full time and continue to build DotA-Allstars.com into an awesome thriving DotA community after Icefrog’s departure. While I originally intended to leave this out of this letter, in light of the fact that this information is now out in the open, I think it’s important to set the record straight. Many believe that Icefrog left because I wanted to commercialize, and he did not. In reality – I had learned that Icefrog had been secretly working for S2Games after conducting a series of meetings where he was attempting to sell a full DotA game concept to a number of companies (including Riot). The differences of opinion that we had were merely that I chose to be transparent and honest about the project that I was working on, and the direction my career was going. After working on and launching LoL, I began to realize that – in addition to having no free time anymore – with LoL available to play I no longer possessed the passion for DotA which once drove me. The traffic on the website slowly began to decline, settling where it’s at now (about 50% of where it was a year ago), and I recently realized that I had a decision to make. I could either continue to say that I would rebuild the website as a strong DotA community, knowing that my heart wasn’t really in it, or I could archive the site, ending an almost 6 year chapter of my life that I’ve invested thousands of hours into. Ultimately I believe that the right decision here is to not trick myself into thinking that this site will be rebuilt into what it once was, and to shift my full focus and time to my new project, with an eye towards the future. This website and the DotA community will always hold a special place in my heart. It’s been an amazing experience working with so many wonderful people and gaining so much insight about communities, people, and ultimately myself. There are more people deserving of thanks than I could possibly remember – so rather than leaving anyone out, I’ll simply thank everyone who has volunteered or contributed to this site over the last few years, and everyone who helped make it one of the premier DotA websites in the world. The website will be offline for the next week or so while the database is moved to its new permanent home where its contents will remain archived and available to the public for the sake of historical preservation. In the meantime, I hope some of you will join me and over 3 million other players for a game of League of Legends (it’s free!) Sincerely, Pendragon On top of this, many of the hero suggestions for dota which were within those forums... would you know it, became LoL heroes. When Pendragon reopened the forums recently " in the interests of the public", he took out all the subforums that had things that were implemented into dota such as hero suggestions For anyone out of the loop, back in 2009 and before, Pendragon owned the website Dota-allstars.com. It was THE premier dota community website, it was basically the team liquid forums for DotA. In 2009, Pendragon announced that the website was going down for a database transfer, and it'd be a week. He then replaced the entire website with a bullshit letter and put a big ol' shoutout to league of legends telling everyone to go download it and play it. He never released the backups of the forums, so a lot of people who only knew some friends through their contacts inside the Dota-allstars community had no ability to talk to them anymore. On top of that, a massive, gargantuan amount of written knowledge and guides for the game was lost. So

Pendragon owned the most visited dota community forum with thousands of guides on it and millions of posts, and he took it all down and replaced it with a LoL advertisement in 2009.

League_Shit

You gotta explain that a 30% DPS increase can't logically come from a 30% atspeed increase. He'd have to take his original ATS before buying either item into account. For example, To get 100% DPS increase would be to double the amount of ATS he has before buying (and actually getting twice the amount of AA's off in the same time you were previously able to do 1, this is probably the biggest thing here, it's possible PD will allow you to get off more AA's in certain situations due to PD's synergy with kiting). So to get 30% dps increase, multiply current ATS by .3, then add this number to original ATS. For example, if he has a current ATS of 1, then for a 30% dmg increase he would have to buy an item that grants him (1 * .3 = .3 ) .3 ATS in raw numbers. So , to claim, just off the ATS bonus that runaans provides a 30% increase it would have to add .3 ATS over what PD provides. Meaning if you have base 1 ATS, and buy phantom dancer which brings you to 1.3 (not actually, but for the sake of the maths), then for a 30% dmg increase over PD Runaan's would have to bring you from 1.0 to 1.6 ATS. Still this would be pretty baseless considering ATS isnt the only factor in both items. Phantom dancer was pretty much made for AA reliant champs to be able to kite better, (5% mov speed is huge on AA champs) so I think the synergy with an ADC's needs would outweigh a .3 ATS increase (assuming ATS is 1 before purchase of either item). If ATS is < 1 a .3 ATS increase would in fact be more than a 30% (potential) dmg +, if ATS > 1 a .3 ATS+ would be less than a 30% (potential) dmg+. TLDR: 30% dmg increase from ATS is attainable by increasing amount of AA's you are able to execute within a given time, specifically you would have to get off 30% more AA's. This gives the illusion that you are actually gaining %dmg over PD just because the potential to execute an AA quicker with runaan's. However, you might end up getting off less AA's (with less crit strikes) with runaan's than with PD, due to PDs synergy with kiting. If you can kite well, PD far outperforms runaan's.

You gotta explain that a 30% DPS increase can't logically come from a 30% atspeed increase. He'd have to take his original ATS before buying either item into account. For example, To get 100% DPS increase would be to double the amount of ATS he has before buying (and actually getting twice the amount of AA's off in the same time you were previously able to do 1, this is probably the biggest thing here, it's possible PD will allow you to get off more AA's in certain situations due to PD's synergy with kiting). So to get 30% dps increase, multiply current ATS by .3, then add this number to original ATS. For example, if he has a current ATS of 1, then for a 30% dmg increase he would have to buy an item that grants him (1 * .3 = .3 ) .3 ATS in raw numbers. So , to claim, just off the ATS bonus that runaans provides a 30% increase it would have to add .3 ATS over what PD provides. Meaning if you have base 1 ATS, and buy phantom dancer which brings you to 1.3 (not actually, but for the sake of the maths), then for a 30% dmg increase over PD Runaan's would have to bring you from 1.0 to 1.6 ATS. Still this would be pretty baseless considering ATS isnt the only factor in both items. Phantom dancer was pretty much made for AA reliant champs to be able to kite better, (5% mov speed is huge on AA champs) so I think the synergy with an ADC's needs would outweigh a .3 ATS increase (assuming ATS is 1 before purchase of either item). If ATS is < 1 a .3 ATS increase would in fact be more than a 30% (potential) dmg +, if ATS > 1 a .3 ATS+ would be less than a 30% (potential) dmg+. TLDR: 30% dmg increase from ATS is attainable by increasing amount of AA's you are able to execute within a given time, specifically you would have to get off 30% more AA's. This gives the illusion that you are actually gaining %dmg over PD just because the potential to execute an AA quicker with runaan's. However, you might end up getting off less AA's (with less crit strikes) with runaan's than with PD, due to PDs synergy with kiting. If you can kite well, PD far outperforms runaan's.

leagueoflegends

t5_2rfxx

cijs9va

You gotta explain that a 30% DPS increase can't logically come from a 30% atspeed increase. He'd have to take his original ATS before buying either item into account. For example, To get 100% DPS increase would be to double the amount of ATS he has before buying (and actually getting twice the amount of AA's off in the same time you were previously able to do 1, this is probably the biggest thing here, it's possible PD will allow you to get off more AA's in certain situations due to PD's synergy with kiting). So to get 30% dps increase, multiply current ATS by .3, then add this number to original ATS. For example, if he has a current ATS of 1, then for a 30% dmg increase he would have to buy an item that grants him (1 * .3 = .3 ) .3 ATS in raw numbers. So , to claim, just off the ATS bonus that runaans provides a 30% increase it would have to add .3 ATS over what PD provides. Meaning if you have base 1 ATS, and buy phantom dancer which brings you to 1.3 (not actually, but for the sake of the maths), then for a 30% dmg increase over PD Runaan's would have to bring you from 1.0 to 1.6 ATS. Still this would be pretty baseless considering ATS isnt the only factor in both items. Phantom dancer was pretty much made for AA reliant champs to be able to kite better, (5% mov speed is huge on AA champs) so I think the synergy with an ADC's needs would outweigh a .3 ATS increase (assuming ATS is 1 before purchase of either item). If ATS is < 1 a .3 ATS increase would in fact be more than a 30% (potential) dmg +, if ATS > 1 a .3 ATS+ would be less than a 30% (potential) dmg+.

30% dmg increase from ATS is attainable by increasing amount of AA's you are able to execute within a given time, specifically you would have to get off 30% more AA's. This gives the illusion that you are actually gaining %dmg over PD just because the potential to execute an AA quicker with runaan's. However, you might end up getting off less AA's (with less crit strikes) with runaan's than with PD, due to PDs synergy with kiting. If you can kite well, PD far outperforms runaan's.

just_a_dude_2

I made my first account just to say this, but I used to have the same feelings towards the cs internship that I have at the moment (my first). Just to summarize my situation, I am working with some proprietary program doing what I would call GUI programming. I don't particularly enjoy it for a number of reasons, mostly because I am not learning how the underlying systems work, and because I wanted to do some actual programming. It wasn't until I learned that one of the test environments that I am utilizing allows you to create test suites either graphically or through scripting (which I quickly jumped on) that I found myself a lot more alert and actually enjoying work. I guess I can attribute the alertness to the actual thought process that goes on when you aren't just dragging and dropping elements onto a window. I guess my point is two fold. If you find yourself in a situation like mine, try and find some redeeming qualities about your job. However, for the long term, I realized that I would never do work that I didn't enjoy (as long as it pays a livable wage). I used to think that this mindset was selfish but the thing is, there are so many jobs that will pay you a livable wage (in most countries) that there is bound to be something that you enjoy. If someone is paying you to do something for them and you happen to enjoy it, then that is not an indication that you are selfish, because that work had to get done either way. tl;dr People spend so many hours of their life working, please do not feel entitled if you have a job that you like.

I made my first account just to say this, but I used to have the same feelings towards the cs internship that I have at the moment (my first). Just to summarize my situation, I am working with some proprietary program doing what I would call GUI programming. I don't particularly enjoy it for a number of reasons, mostly because I am not learning how the underlying systems work, and because I wanted to do some actual programming. It wasn't until I learned that one of the test environments that I am utilizing allows you to create test suites either graphically or through scripting (which I quickly jumped on) that I found myself a lot more alert and actually enjoying work. I guess I can attribute the alertness to the actual thought process that goes on when you aren't just dragging and dropping elements onto a window. I guess my point is two fold. If you find yourself in a situation like mine, try and find some redeeming qualities about your job. However, for the long term, I realized that I would never do work that I didn't enjoy (as long as it pays a livable wage). I used to think that this mindset was selfish but the thing is, there are so many jobs that will pay you a livable wage (in most countries) that there is bound to be something that you enjoy. If someone is paying you to do something for them and you happen to enjoy it, then that is not an indication that you are selfish, because that work had to get done either way. tl;dr People spend so many hours of their life working, please do not feel entitled if you have a job that you like.

cscareerquestions

t5_2sdpm

cijtfif

I made my first account just to say this, but I used to have the same feelings towards the cs internship that I have at the moment (my first). Just to summarize my situation, I am working with some proprietary program doing what I would call GUI programming. I don't particularly enjoy it for a number of reasons, mostly because I am not learning how the underlying systems work, and because I wanted to do some actual programming. It wasn't until I learned that one of the test environments that I am utilizing allows you to create test suites either graphically or through scripting (which I quickly jumped on) that I found myself a lot more alert and actually enjoying work. I guess I can attribute the alertness to the actual thought process that goes on when you aren't just dragging and dropping elements onto a window. I guess my point is two fold. If you find yourself in a situation like mine, try and find some redeeming qualities about your job. However, for the long term, I realized that I would never do work that I didn't enjoy (as long as it pays a livable wage). I used to think that this mindset was selfish but the thing is, there are so many jobs that will pay you a livable wage (in most countries) that there is bound to be something that you enjoy. If someone is paying you to do something for them and you happen to enjoy it, then that is not an indication that you are selfish, because that work had to get done either way.

People spend so many hours of their life working, please do not feel entitled if you have a job that you like.

ThouMayest

Oh god, that pic reminds me of how my buddy and I started out a couple of years ago. We figured out that 5 gallon paint buckets were food grade plastic and brewed in 3 camo patterned 5 gallon buckets. Then we realized that they were food grade, not brew-grade plastic. Fine for water or flour, but they were leeching flavor and chems into our brews. **TL;DR: Buy yourself a gorram glass container of some sort and an airlock**

Oh god, that pic reminds me of how my buddy and I started out a couple of years ago. We figured out that 5 gallon paint buckets were food grade plastic and brewed in 3 camo patterned 5 gallon buckets. Then we realized that they were food grade, not brew-grade plastic. Fine for water or flour, but they were leeching flavor and chems into our brews. TL;DR: Buy yourself a gorram glass container of some sort and an airlock

mead

t5_2rcsz

cijxhh9

Oh god, that pic reminds me of how my buddy and I started out a couple of years ago. We figured out that 5 gallon paint buckets were food grade plastic and brewed in 3 camo patterned 5 gallon buckets. Then we realized that they were food grade, not brew-grade plastic. Fine for water or flour, but they were leeching flavor and chems into our brews.

Buy yourself a gorram glass container of some sort and an airlock

diegojones4

I graduated in 1989 so I don't even really know what the cost is. Honestly a career is a lot about working hard, forming good contacts, and just good luck of being in the right place at the right time. At my current place of employment my former boss (K) was hired at the same time as (C) to the same level. C is now a director and K is just a senior. K is actually smarter and in my opinion a better worker. He just didn't play the game as well. A guy I was level with is now associate director because he rode up with C. My brother-in-law makes a shit ton of money and he says it is all because he lucked out and connected with some people that controlled the money. I've contracted with him a few times and what I notice most is he has great people skills which is something I've noticed in most of the people that do well. TLDR; People skills are much more beneficial than school. Licenses and degrees open doors but people skills make you wealthy.

I graduated in 1989 so I don't even really know what the cost is. Honestly a career is a lot about working hard, forming good contacts, and just good luck of being in the right place at the right time. At my current place of employment my former boss (K) was hired at the same time as (C) to the same level. C is now a director and K is just a senior. K is actually smarter and in my opinion a better worker. He just didn't play the game as well. A guy I was level with is now associate director because he rode up with C. My brother-in-law makes a shit ton of money and he says it is all because he lucked out and connected with some people that controlled the money. I've contracted with him a few times and what I notice most is he has great people skills which is something I've noticed in most of the people that do well. TLDR; People skills are much more beneficial than school. Licenses and degrees open doors but people skills make you wealthy.

Accounting

t5_2qw2b

cik7kit

I graduated in 1989 so I don't even really know what the cost is. Honestly a career is a lot about working hard, forming good contacts, and just good luck of being in the right place at the right time. At my current place of employment my former boss (K) was hired at the same time as (C) to the same level. C is now a director and K is just a senior. K is actually smarter and in my opinion a better worker. He just didn't play the game as well. A guy I was level with is now associate director because he rode up with C. My brother-in-law makes a shit ton of money and he says it is all because he lucked out and connected with some people that controlled the money. I've contracted with him a few times and what I notice most is he has great people skills which is something I've noticed in most of the people that do well.

People skills are much more beneficial than school. Licenses and degrees open doors but people skills make you wealthy.

SeattleJeremy

Photocopiers should be treated like public Wifi networks, do not put any data through the system you don't want known. If you are using a free standing photocopier (something bigger than a desk printer) it likely has a hard drive. A copier made with security in mind does the following when you walk up to it and hit copy. * Scan the image to the hard drive in a raw format. * Processes the image for your use, then does what you ask it to do (print a copy, email, save to network location, etc). * Deletes the file/files from the hard drive. Sometimes it hangs on to the information until it goes to sleep or the user logs off. Some photocopiers have an option to save a copy of the image locally like RICOH's "Document Server". In this case, by default, the files are saved to the hard drive then deleted after 3 days. However, this feature can be set to keep the files indefinitely. However, this is not the default procedure. The files on any hard drive (copier, computer, laptop, etc) can be accessed by data recovery software even after the files have been deleted. If the information has not been over written with new data it's possible to recover the deleted data. TL;DR: If a hacker has physical access to the drive, they have access to unencrypted data on that hard drive. Keep your data secure.

Photocopiers should be treated like public Wifi networks, do not put any data through the system you don't want known. If you are using a free standing photocopier (something bigger than a desk printer) it likely has a hard drive. A copier made with security in mind does the following when you walk up to it and hit copy. Scan the image to the hard drive in a raw format. Processes the image for your use, then does what you ask it to do (print a copy, email, save to network location, etc). Deletes the file/files from the hard drive. Sometimes it hangs on to the information until it goes to sleep or the user logs off. Some photocopiers have an option to save a copy of the image locally like RICOH's "Document Server". In this case, by default, the files are saved to the hard drive then deleted after 3 days. However, this feature can be set to keep the files indefinitely. However, this is not the default procedure. The files on any hard drive (copier, computer, laptop, etc) can be accessed by data recovery software even after the files have been deleted. If the information has not been over written with new data it's possible to recover the deleted data. TL;DR: If a hacker has physical access to the drive, they have access to unencrypted data on that hard drive. Keep your data secure.

privacy

t5_2qhlc

ciki7ql

Photocopiers should be treated like public Wifi networks, do not put any data through the system you don't want known. If you are using a free standing photocopier (something bigger than a desk printer) it likely has a hard drive. A copier made with security in mind does the following when you walk up to it and hit copy. Scan the image to the hard drive in a raw format. Processes the image for your use, then does what you ask it to do (print a copy, email, save to network location, etc). Deletes the file/files from the hard drive. Sometimes it hangs on to the information until it goes to sleep or the user logs off. Some photocopiers have an option to save a copy of the image locally like RICOH's "Document Server". In this case, by default, the files are saved to the hard drive then deleted after 3 days. However, this feature can be set to keep the files indefinitely. However, this is not the default procedure. The files on any hard drive (copier, computer, laptop, etc) can be accessed by data recovery software even after the files have been deleted. If the information has not been over written with new data it's possible to recover the deleted data.

If a hacker has physical access to the drive, they have access to unencrypted data on that hard drive. Keep your data secure.

EvgenyNik

if you're convinced you can carry your team to victory then focus on playing only carry heroes, focus on a select few so youll learn to play those select few the best you can, if you cant, you belong at the mmr you're at, the only way out is to get better at the game, watch games you've played and look where you made mistakes, even the smallest mistakes like missing a last hit with that particular carry, and work on fixing them, if you're matched with complete retards, it's understandable, it happens in every mmr bracket dont let it get you down, just dont let it get you mad, you cant controll what your teammates are thinking/doing [most of the time] so dont bother getting mad/sad/frustrated about it, also remember trashtalking never helps, it just makes things worse than they are. also, just a bit about the support's role: his role is to make your team win the early-to-mid game, since your carry will be busy getting farmed, and your offlane will be busy trying to stay in exp range in his lane without dying, most of the game's result lies with the support and what he does, just buying wards/courier doesnt make you a good support, it's also one of the hardest roles to play well, basically you need to be at the right place at the right time, rotate to help your lanes to get kills, zone out the enemy offlaner, pull when you can, and alot more, so most of the time if your carry cant farm, it's either he's completely retarded, or the support isn't doing his job and probly just sitting in the lane leeching the carry's exp under the pretext of "babysitting him" or pulling into the easy camp without stacking it or without doublepulling and ending up giving the enemy offlaner free farm cause of it, there's just too many mistakes that the supports i get to play with do, and im at 4.7k mmr, there's always room for improvement. TL:DR watch replays, learn from your mistakes, get better at dota, supports are a hard and important role early-mid game.

if you're convinced you can carry your team to victory then focus on playing only carry heroes, focus on a select few so youll learn to play those select few the best you can, if you cant, you belong at the mmr you're at, the only way out is to get better at the game, watch games you've played and look where you made mistakes, even the smallest mistakes like missing a last hit with that particular carry, and work on fixing them, if you're matched with complete retards, it's understandable, it happens in every mmr bracket dont let it get you down, just dont let it get you mad, you cant controll what your teammates are thinking/doing [most of the time] so dont bother getting mad/sad/frustrated about it, also remember trashtalking never helps, it just makes things worse than they are. also, just a bit about the support's role: his role is to make your team win the early-to-mid game, since your carry will be busy getting farmed, and your offlane will be busy trying to stay in exp range in his lane without dying, most of the game's result lies with the support and what he does, just buying wards/courier doesnt make you a good support, it's also one of the hardest roles to play well, basically you need to be at the right place at the right time, rotate to help your lanes to get kills, zone out the enemy offlaner, pull when you can, and alot more, so most of the time if your carry cant farm, it's either he's completely retarded, or the support isn't doing his job and probly just sitting in the lane leeching the carry's exp under the pretext of "babysitting him" or pulling into the easy camp without stacking it or without doublepulling and ending up giving the enemy offlaner free farm cause of it, there's just too many mistakes that the supports i get to play with do, and im at 4.7k mmr, there's always room for improvement. TL:DR watch replays, learn from your mistakes, get better at dota, supports are a hard and important role early-mid game.

DotA2

t5_2s580

cikb4pq

if you're convinced you can carry your team to victory then focus on playing only carry heroes, focus on a select few so youll learn to play those select few the best you can, if you cant, you belong at the mmr you're at, the only way out is to get better at the game, watch games you've played and look where you made mistakes, even the smallest mistakes like missing a last hit with that particular carry, and work on fixing them, if you're matched with complete retards, it's understandable, it happens in every mmr bracket dont let it get you down, just dont let it get you mad, you cant controll what your teammates are thinking/doing [most of the time] so dont bother getting mad/sad/frustrated about it, also remember trashtalking never helps, it just makes things worse than they are. also, just a bit about the support's role: his role is to make your team win the early-to-mid game, since your carry will be busy getting farmed, and your offlane will be busy trying to stay in exp range in his lane without dying, most of the game's result lies with the support and what he does, just buying wards/courier doesnt make you a good support, it's also one of the hardest roles to play well, basically you need to be at the right place at the right time, rotate to help your lanes to get kills, zone out the enemy offlaner, pull when you can, and alot more, so most of the time if your carry cant farm, it's either he's completely retarded, or the support isn't doing his job and probly just sitting in the lane leeching the carry's exp under the pretext of "babysitting him" or pulling into the easy camp without stacking it or without doublepulling and ending up giving the enemy offlaner free farm cause of it, there's just too many mistakes that the supports i get to play with do, and im at 4.7k mmr, there's always room for improvement.

watch replays, learn from your mistakes, get better at dota, supports are a hard and important role early-mid game.

The_Debbish

It is TOTALLY ridiculous - believe it or not though - people still DO criticize on how you're treating cancer. Our daughter was diagnosed with cancer last November (she's fine now) and a few different people challenged our choice of going with the oncologist who SPECIALIZES in Neuroblastoma's reccomendation of chemo (rather than trying resection or alternative therapies first) really... you're thinking we're not thinking of our kid first and foremost? People just SUCK and have no concept of boundaries or respecting another person's ability to make intelligent and informed medical decisions. tldr: no, I don't care what you read on facebook, I'm going with my doctor thank you.

It is TOTALLY ridiculous - believe it or not though - people still DO criticize on how you're treating cancer. Our daughter was diagnosed with cancer last November (she's fine now) and a few different people challenged our choice of going with the oncologist who SPECIALIZES in Neuroblastoma's reccomendation of chemo (rather than trying resection or alternative therapies first) really... you're thinking we're not thinking of our kid first and foremost? People just SUCK and have no concept of boundaries or respecting another person's ability to make intelligent and informed medical decisions. tldr: no, I don't care what you read on facebook, I'm going with my doctor thank you.

BabyBumps

t5_2s7cl

cikqovs

It is TOTALLY ridiculous - believe it or not though - people still DO criticize on how you're treating cancer. Our daughter was diagnosed with cancer last November (she's fine now) and a few different people challenged our choice of going with the oncologist who SPECIALIZES in Neuroblastoma's reccomendation of chemo (rather than trying resection or alternative therapies first) really... you're thinking we're not thinking of our kid first and foremost? People just SUCK and have no concept of boundaries or respecting another person's ability to make intelligent and informed medical decisions.

no, I don't care what you read on facebook, I'm going with my doctor thank you.

doofinator

Sorry, I thought Gipsy Apocalypse was one of the normal-sized jaegers. Didn't think you meant the infinity jaeger. Alright, so I did that wrong. Let's do it again (keep in mind this will be very rough math), without misunderstanding your comment. NOTES: Avg width human = 0.3, avg depth human = 0.2. Measured in metres. density = mass/volume. Volume of the Ultimate Jaeger would be, extrapolating from /u/karmaramadramallama's comment, would be (avg width human * 41.6^32 ) * (avg depth human * 41.6^32 ) * (1.1 * 10^52 ) = **2.764x10^154 cubic metres**. Jaegers, I believe, are made of solid Iron, with a density of 7874 kg/m^3. So, 7874 = m/2.764x10^154 **m = 7874 * 2.764x10^154 = 2.176x10^158 kg** . That is the mass of the entirety of the Infinity Jaeger. Now, I think the mass would be distributed like this: 40% = body, 30% = legs, 20% = arms, 10% = head. So, one leg would have 15% of the mass, which comes out to: **3.264x10^157 kg.** Again, Ek=0.5mv^2 = 6x10^245. // v^2 = 6x10^245 / (0.5 * 3.264x10^157) = 3.676 x 10^88 v = root(ans) = 1.917 * 10^44. That is the speed, in meters per second, that the leg would have to be going to HAVE that much energy. To be able to IMPART That much energy, Goku would have to fully stop the leg when it comes into contact with him. ***TL;DR: Volume of the Infinity Jaeger comes out to around 2.764x10^154 cubic metres. Mass of the Infinity Jaeger comes out to about 2.176x10^158 kg. Mass of one leg of the Infinity Jaeger comes out to about 3.264x10^157 kg. Speed at which the leg would have to be travelling to CONTAIN 6x10^245 joules is 1.917 * 10^44 m/s.***

Sorry, I thought Gipsy Apocalypse was one of the normal-sized jaegers. Didn't think you meant the infinity jaeger. Alright, so I did that wrong. Let's do it again (keep in mind this will be very rough math), without misunderstanding your comment. NOTES: Avg width human = 0.3, avg depth human = 0.2. Measured in metres. density = mass/volume. Volume of the Ultimate Jaeger would be, extrapolating from /u/karmaramadramallama's comment, would be (avg width human 41.6^32 ) (avg depth human 41.6^32 ) (1.1 * 10^52 ) = 2.764x10^154 cubic metres . Jaegers, I believe, are made of solid Iron, with a density of 7874 kg/m^3. So, 7874 = m/2.764x10^154 m = 7874 * 2.764x10^154 = 2.176x10^158 kg . That is the mass of the entirety of the Infinity Jaeger. Now, I think the mass would be distributed like this: 40% = body, 30% = legs, 20% = arms, 10% = head. So, one leg would have 15% of the mass, which comes out to: 3.264x10^157 kg. Again, Ek=0.5mv^2 = 6x10^245. // v^2 = 6x10^245 / (0.5 * 3.264x10^157) = 3.676 x 10^88 v = root(ans) = 1.917 * 10^44. That is the speed, in meters per second, that the leg would have to be going to HAVE that much energy. To be able to IMPART That much energy, Goku would have to fully stop the leg when it comes into contact with him. TL;DR: Volume of the Infinity Jaeger comes out to around 2.764x10^154 cubic metres. Mass of the Infinity Jaeger comes out to about 2.176x10^158 kg. Mass of one leg of the Infinity Jaeger comes out to about 3.264x10^157 kg. Speed at which the leg would have to be travelling to CONTAIN 6x10^245 joules is 1.917 10^44 m/s.*

whowouldwin

t5_2s599

cil0ojc

Sorry, I thought Gipsy Apocalypse was one of the normal-sized jaegers. Didn't think you meant the infinity jaeger. Alright, so I did that wrong. Let's do it again (keep in mind this will be very rough math), without misunderstanding your comment. NOTES: Avg width human = 0.3, avg depth human = 0.2. Measured in metres. density = mass/volume. Volume of the Ultimate Jaeger would be, extrapolating from /u/karmaramadramallama's comment, would be (avg width human 41.6^32 ) (avg depth human 41.6^32 ) (1.1 * 10^52 ) = 2.764x10^154 cubic metres . Jaegers, I believe, are made of solid Iron, with a density of 7874 kg/m^3. So, 7874 = m/2.764x10^154 m = 7874 * 2.764x10^154 = 2.176x10^158 kg . That is the mass of the entirety of the Infinity Jaeger. Now, I think the mass would be distributed like this: 40% = body, 30% = legs, 20% = arms, 10% = head. So, one leg would have 15% of the mass, which comes out to: 3.264x10^157 kg. Again, Ek=0.5mv^2 = 6x10^245. // v^2 = 6x10^245 / (0.5 * 3.264x10^157) = 3.676 x 10^88 v = root(ans) = 1.917 * 10^44. That is the speed, in meters per second, that the leg would have to be going to HAVE that much energy. To be able to IMPART That much energy, Goku would have to fully stop the leg when it comes into contact with him.

Volume of the Infinity Jaeger comes out to around 2.764x10^154 cubic metres. Mass of the Infinity Jaeger comes out to about 2.176x10^158 kg. Mass of one leg of the Infinity Jaeger comes out to about 3.264x10^157 kg. Speed at which the leg would have to be travelling to CONTAIN 6x10^245 joules is 1.917 10^44 m/s.*

doofinator

That was pretty fun. Now, let's find out how much shit it would ACTUALLY do to goku: Momentum is conserved; therefore the momentum of the leg + momentum of goku BEFORE would equal the amount of momentum of the leg + mometum of goku AFTER. Let's say goku isn't moving, and assume that the leg has 6x10^245 joules. mv + mv = Mv'. 3.264x10^157 * 1.917x10^44 + 0 = (3.264x10^157 + 62) * v'. |||| v' = (3.264x10^157 * 1.917x10^44) / (3.264x10^157 + 62) = 1.917x10^44 m/s. (Obviously.) So now we know that the final velocity of the system would be 1.917x10^44 m/s. Now, have you ever hit a fly in mid-air? It kinda just sticks to your hand and keeps moving with it, right? Same would apply here. Let's pretend it takes 0.1 seconds for Goku to speed up to that level (in actuality it would probably take SO MUCH less time, but I've no idea how to calculate that, so we'll just go with 0.1 seconds. It'll be funny anyways.) F = ma = m(Δv/Δt). Now, since we're measuring how much force would be applied to GOKU, so for the purposes of this question, we're using goku's mass (quick google search gives me 62 kg). F = 62 * (1.917*10^44-0)/(0.1-0) = 1.188x10^46 Newtons. To give an idea of what in god's name that would be like, if Venus were brought right next to Earth, and you were the only thing between the two, you would feel 2.5x10^25 N. Work shown: Fg = Gmm/r^2 = ((6.67x10^-11 )(5.972x10^24 )(4.867x10^24 )) / (6378100+6052000)^2 = 1.25x10^25 N. That's the attractive force of one planet on the other. Since you're between them, you would experience BOTH the gravitational forces, which is 2.5x10^25 N. ***TL;DR: The force exerted on Goku by that super-leg would be 1.188x10^46 newtons. For comparison, if Venus was next to Earth and you were in between them, you would only feel 2.5x10^25 newtons.***

That was pretty fun. Now, let's find out how much shit it would ACTUALLY do to goku: Momentum is conserved; therefore the momentum of the leg + momentum of goku BEFORE would equal the amount of momentum of the leg + mometum of goku AFTER. Let's say goku isn't moving, and assume that the leg has 6x10^245 joules. mv + mv = Mv'. 3.264x10^157 1.917x10^44 + 0 = (3.264x10^157 + 62) v'. |||| v' = (3.264x10^157 * 1.917x10^44) / (3.264x10^157 + 62) = 1.917x10^44 m/s. (Obviously.) So now we know that the final velocity of the system would be 1.917x10^44 m/s. Now, have you ever hit a fly in mid-air? It kinda just sticks to your hand and keeps moving with it, right? Same would apply here. Let's pretend it takes 0.1 seconds for Goku to speed up to that level (in actuality it would probably take SO MUCH less time, but I've no idea how to calculate that, so we'll just go with 0.1 seconds. It'll be funny anyways.) F = ma = m(Δv/Δt). Now, since we're measuring how much force would be applied to GOKU, so for the purposes of this question, we're using goku's mass (quick google search gives me 62 kg). F = 62 (1.917 10^44-0)/(0.1-0) = 1.188x10^46 Newtons. To give an idea of what in god's name that would be like, if Venus were brought right next to Earth, and you were the only thing between the two, you would feel 2.5x10^25 N. Work shown: Fg = Gmm/r^2 = ((6.67x10^-11 )(5.972x10^24 )(4.867x10^24 )) / (6378100+6052000)^2 = 1.25x10^25 N. That's the attractive force of one planet on the other. Since you're between them, you would experience BOTH the gravitational forces, which is 2.5x10^25 N. TL;DR: The force exerted on Goku by that super-leg would be 1.188x10^46 newtons. For comparison, if Venus was next to Earth and you were in between them, you would only feel 2.5x10^25 newtons.

whowouldwin

t5_2s599

cil2ak1

That was pretty fun. Now, let's find out how much shit it would ACTUALLY do to goku: Momentum is conserved; therefore the momentum of the leg + momentum of goku BEFORE would equal the amount of momentum of the leg + mometum of goku AFTER. Let's say goku isn't moving, and assume that the leg has 6x10^245 joules. mv + mv = Mv'. 3.264x10^157 1.917x10^44 + 0 = (3.264x10^157 + 62) v'. |||| v' = (3.264x10^157 * 1.917x10^44) / (3.264x10^157 + 62) = 1.917x10^44 m/s. (Obviously.) So now we know that the final velocity of the system would be 1.917x10^44 m/s. Now, have you ever hit a fly in mid-air? It kinda just sticks to your hand and keeps moving with it, right? Same would apply here. Let's pretend it takes 0.1 seconds for Goku to speed up to that level (in actuality it would probably take SO MUCH less time, but I've no idea how to calculate that, so we'll just go with 0.1 seconds. It'll be funny anyways.) F = ma = m(Δv/Δt). Now, since we're measuring how much force would be applied to GOKU, so for the purposes of this question, we're using goku's mass (quick google search gives me 62 kg). F = 62 (1.917 10^44-0)/(0.1-0) = 1.188x10^46 Newtons. To give an idea of what in god's name that would be like, if Venus were brought right next to Earth, and you were the only thing between the two, you would feel 2.5x10^25 N. Work shown: Fg = Gmm/r^2 = ((6.67x10^-11 )(5.972x10^24 )(4.867x10^24 )) / (6378100+6052000)^2 = 1.25x10^25 N. That's the attractive force of one planet on the other. Since you're between them, you would experience BOTH the gravitational forces, which is 2.5x10^25 N.

The force exerted on Goku by that super-leg would be 1.188x10^46 newtons. For comparison, if Venus was next to Earth and you were in between them, you would only feel 2.5x10^25 newtons.

Neversoft

This work explores the relationship between consumerist fetishism and counter-terrorism. With influences as diverse as Camus and Francis Bacon, new variations are synthesised from both opaque and transparent textures. tl;dr I'm in awe

This work explores the relationship between consumerist fetishism and counter-terrorism. With influences as diverse as Camus and Francis Bacon, new variations are synthesised from both opaque and transparent textures. tl;dr I'm in awe

wiiu

t5_2sjnz

cikx9f8

This work explores the relationship between consumerist fetishism and counter-terrorism. With influences as diverse as Camus and Francis Bacon, new variations are synthesised from both opaque and transparent textures.

I'm in awe

wingzfan99

I don't let anyone mess with screen resolutions. It is a major pet peeve of mine when someone has a 1080p display running in 800x600 "because they're old", when they're really like 35. If you have that much trouble, either switch to large fonts or use the Windows magnifier, but don't make our computers (which are sometimes visible to the public) look like shit. TL;DR: I'm an asshole that doesn't care about old people.

I don't let anyone mess with screen resolutions. It is a major pet peeve of mine when someone has a 1080p display running in 800x600 "because they're old", when they're really like 35. If you have that much trouble, either switch to large fonts or use the Windows magnifier, but don't make our computers (which are sometimes visible to the public) look like shit. TL;DR: I'm an asshole that doesn't care about old people.

sysadmin

t5_2qnp7

cil14k5

I don't let anyone mess with screen resolutions. It is a major pet peeve of mine when someone has a 1080p display running in 800x600 "because they're old", when they're really like 35. If you have that much trouble, either switch to large fonts or use the Windows magnifier, but don't make our computers (which are sometimes visible to the public) look like shit.

I'm an asshole that doesn't care about old people.

iamanopinion

For anyone who cares I just kind of ranted and gave some unsolicited advice. Here's my story: I just spent most of a decade working legal/medical debt collections and am currently waiting for my Chap 7 to discharge. I didn't have cancer or some other serious disease, I had chronic sinus infections and had a surgery in 2008. I've developed allergies or resistance to many of the "cheap" antibiotics and at one point was paying nearly $200 for an antibiotic because no generic was available, that went on a credit card - which eventually I couldn't pay after having my agency close. Making $11/hr back then and single - the prescriptions alone took a chunk of my paycheck. Then I had a reaction to the spendy (albeit effective) antibiotic, resulting in more bills - which went to collections. All this lead to the surgery - which did not cure my issues though did allow me to at least sort of blow my nose like a normal person. Looking back I wish I had turned down multiple tests, sleep studies, MRIs, and had not put my blind faith in my doctors (though most doctors are awesome people who fully understand the flaws in our system). I spent so many years working in collections and stressing over whether or not I would file for bankruptcy and how that would effect me as I climbed up the ladder to a Disputes &amp; Compliance Manager position ($15.50/hr - when I left the industry). I kept hoping to get to a point where I could start working on paying it down. That day never came. When I finally filed I was most surprised by the fact that no one seemed to care how much stress I had been under trying to find a way to pay these bills. I had a lot better insurance than most - hell I had a better job than most 18-30 year olds. I didn't party too much, I didn't drive extravagant (or even new-ish cars) or live in beautiful apartments, or spend money on clothes. I was holding it together and doing well. A few pre-existing issues, out-of-network bills, and high co-insurance balances and the next thing I know I'm living back at Mom's because I couldn't do it. Now the things people should know about medical debt. It's just like any other contractually obligated debt. It goes on your credit and does not come off for 7 years. There are no special rules about medical debt. Once in collections, some states allow collection "costs" of up to 50% of the bill to be added, this is in addition to any statutory interest of typically around 10%. If you can't pay and have any assets worth attaching they'll sue you and add court costs and service fees (avg: $200 - on the cheap end) and possibly attorney fees (another $200-$400). By the time you get a judgment against you your balance has doubled or tripled. Then THAT balance gets more interest usually another 8-12% per annum. Once you're in that cycle there are not many ways out - your credit is shot and 25% of your paycheck is gone. Oh and a fun fact - most states allow what is called a bank execution meaning that if they have judgment the collection agency can take the money straight out of your bank account. While SSI, and welfare cash etc are exempt, judgments are usually good for 10 years and in some states are renewable. Here's my advice: Pay your medical bills ASAP. If you can't - talk to a lawyer and know your state laws. TAKE advantage of ALL financial aid options. Even if you think you make too much - apply any way - you will be surprised - this is a bit I wish desperately I would have known. Physicians and hospitals bill separately (and will have separate charity programs) REMEMBER!!!!! PROVIDERS BILL AS A COURTESY NOT AS A REQUIREMENT. So if they screwed up your insurance don't expect them to fix it - it's on you. Too often I've seen billing mistakes turn into 2 year nightmares for people. Argue all you want with the providers - they don't care you are just another dollar sign. As for those providers that do not offer/recognize financial aid/charity take a loan to pay it if you must. DO NOT FALL INTO THE TRAP OF OH IT CAN WAIT A MONTH. Prescriptions on credit cards also are a no go. You never get sick on a payday. One trip to the ER equals a drained savings account. One out-of-network MRI is your next months rent. A few follow-ups and a out-patient surgery could be your car. I spent so many years struggling to get to a point where I could maintain a barely running car, and stressing about losing my job if a bill would end up placed with my employer, trying so hard to pay for the services I was provided. For me the decision to file finally came down to one question. When am I going to start putting the dollar signs in my column? The hardest realization when I filed for bankruptcy was that no one cared how hard I worked to avoid it. No one cared that I wasn't going to pay. The bankruptcy court took their payment, the online classes took their payment, the trustee had his fee, and the lawyer took his. When its done I'll have $33k in student loans left (another story for a different day). And I'm so thankful to be done. Now I spend my time &amp; money on researching herbal medicines and supplementing my healthcare with dietary changes that help my overall health. While I still see a regular doctor (please remember it rarely is the doctors fault) but I don't jump for every test suggested. I question before I pop a pill. I feel better, sometimes I wonder if its only due to the ridiculous amount of stress that I no longer feel. I've since quit working in debt collections and jumped into insurance (non-medical). If I can help it I won't go back. I hope this long rant helps someone out there struggling. If you have questions please feel free to ask me bearing in mind that I am not an attorney and I cannot give legal advice. I'm happy to help anyone within my abilities, something good ought to come out of this past 10 years of financial hell. :) Thanks for reading. TL;DR: got in debt in early 20s and filed banko while employed in medical collections EDIT: wording clean up. tired don't judge :p

For anyone who cares I just kind of ranted and gave some unsolicited advice. Here's my story: I just spent most of a decade working legal/medical debt collections and am currently waiting for my Chap 7 to discharge. I didn't have cancer or some other serious disease, I had chronic sinus infections and had a surgery in 2008. I've developed allergies or resistance to many of the "cheap" antibiotics and at one point was paying nearly $200 for an antibiotic because no generic was available, that went on a credit card - which eventually I couldn't pay after having my agency close. Making $11/hr back then and single - the prescriptions alone took a chunk of my paycheck. Then I had a reaction to the spendy (albeit effective) antibiotic, resulting in more bills - which went to collections. All this lead to the surgery - which did not cure my issues though did allow me to at least sort of blow my nose like a normal person. Looking back I wish I had turned down multiple tests, sleep studies, MRIs, and had not put my blind faith in my doctors (though most doctors are awesome people who fully understand the flaws in our system). I spent so many years working in collections and stressing over whether or not I would file for bankruptcy and how that would effect me as I climbed up the ladder to a Disputes & Compliance Manager position ($15.50/hr - when I left the industry). I kept hoping to get to a point where I could start working on paying it down. That day never came. When I finally filed I was most surprised by the fact that no one seemed to care how much stress I had been under trying to find a way to pay these bills. I had a lot better insurance than most - hell I had a better job than most 18-30 year olds. I didn't party too much, I didn't drive extravagant (or even new-ish cars) or live in beautiful apartments, or spend money on clothes. I was holding it together and doing well. A few pre-existing issues, out-of-network bills, and high co-insurance balances and the next thing I know I'm living back at Mom's because I couldn't do it. Now the things people should know about medical debt. It's just like any other contractually obligated debt. It goes on your credit and does not come off for 7 years. There are no special rules about medical debt. Once in collections, some states allow collection "costs" of up to 50% of the bill to be added, this is in addition to any statutory interest of typically around 10%. If you can't pay and have any assets worth attaching they'll sue you and add court costs and service fees (avg: $200 - on the cheap end) and possibly attorney fees (another $200-$400). By the time you get a judgment against you your balance has doubled or tripled. Then THAT balance gets more interest usually another 8-12% per annum. Once you're in that cycle there are not many ways out - your credit is shot and 25% of your paycheck is gone. Oh and a fun fact - most states allow what is called a bank execution meaning that if they have judgment the collection agency can take the money straight out of your bank account. While SSI, and welfare cash etc are exempt, judgments are usually good for 10 years and in some states are renewable. Here's my advice: Pay your medical bills ASAP. If you can't - talk to a lawyer and know your state laws. TAKE advantage of ALL financial aid options. Even if you think you make too much - apply any way - you will be surprised - this is a bit I wish desperately I would have known. Physicians and hospitals bill separately (and will have separate charity programs) REMEMBER!!!!! PROVIDERS BILL AS A COURTESY NOT AS A REQUIREMENT. So if they screwed up your insurance don't expect them to fix it - it's on you. Too often I've seen billing mistakes turn into 2 year nightmares for people. Argue all you want with the providers - they don't care you are just another dollar sign. As for those providers that do not offer/recognize financial aid/charity take a loan to pay it if you must. DO NOT FALL INTO THE TRAP OF OH IT CAN WAIT A MONTH. Prescriptions on credit cards also are a no go. You never get sick on a payday. One trip to the ER equals a drained savings account. One out-of-network MRI is your next months rent. A few follow-ups and a out-patient surgery could be your car. I spent so many years struggling to get to a point where I could maintain a barely running car, and stressing about losing my job if a bill would end up placed with my employer, trying so hard to pay for the services I was provided. For me the decision to file finally came down to one question. When am I going to start putting the dollar signs in my column? The hardest realization when I filed for bankruptcy was that no one cared how hard I worked to avoid it. No one cared that I wasn't going to pay. The bankruptcy court took their payment, the online classes took their payment, the trustee had his fee, and the lawyer took his. When its done I'll have $33k in student loans left (another story for a different day). And I'm so thankful to be done. Now I spend my time & money on researching herbal medicines and supplementing my healthcare with dietary changes that help my overall health. While I still see a regular doctor (please remember it rarely is the doctors fault) but I don't jump for every test suggested. I question before I pop a pill. I feel better, sometimes I wonder if its only due to the ridiculous amount of stress that I no longer feel. I've since quit working in debt collections and jumped into insurance (non-medical). If I can help it I won't go back. I hope this long rant helps someone out there struggling. If you have questions please feel free to ask me bearing in mind that I am not an attorney and I cannot give legal advice. I'm happy to help anyone within my abilities, something good ought to come out of this past 10 years of financial hell. :) Thanks for reading. TL;DR: got in debt in early 20s and filed banko while employed in medical collections EDIT: wording clean up. tired don't judge :p

conspiracy

t5_2qh4r

cilgen6

For anyone who cares I just kind of ranted and gave some unsolicited advice. Here's my story: I just spent most of a decade working legal/medical debt collections and am currently waiting for my Chap 7 to discharge. I didn't have cancer or some other serious disease, I had chronic sinus infections and had a surgery in 2008. I've developed allergies or resistance to many of the "cheap" antibiotics and at one point was paying nearly $200 for an antibiotic because no generic was available, that went on a credit card - which eventually I couldn't pay after having my agency close. Making $11/hr back then and single - the prescriptions alone took a chunk of my paycheck. Then I had a reaction to the spendy (albeit effective) antibiotic, resulting in more bills - which went to collections. All this lead to the surgery - which did not cure my issues though did allow me to at least sort of blow my nose like a normal person. Looking back I wish I had turned down multiple tests, sleep studies, MRIs, and had not put my blind faith in my doctors (though most doctors are awesome people who fully understand the flaws in our system). I spent so many years working in collections and stressing over whether or not I would file for bankruptcy and how that would effect me as I climbed up the ladder to a Disputes & Compliance Manager position ($15.50/hr - when I left the industry). I kept hoping to get to a point where I could start working on paying it down. That day never came. When I finally filed I was most surprised by the fact that no one seemed to care how much stress I had been under trying to find a way to pay these bills. I had a lot better insurance than most - hell I had a better job than most 18-30 year olds. I didn't party too much, I didn't drive extravagant (or even new-ish cars) or live in beautiful apartments, or spend money on clothes. I was holding it together and doing well. A few pre-existing issues, out-of-network bills, and high co-insurance balances and the next thing I know I'm living back at Mom's because I couldn't do it. Now the things people should know about medical debt. It's just like any other contractually obligated debt. It goes on your credit and does not come off for 7 years. There are no special rules about medical debt. Once in collections, some states allow collection "costs" of up to 50% of the bill to be added, this is in addition to any statutory interest of typically around 10%. If you can't pay and have any assets worth attaching they'll sue you and add court costs and service fees (avg: $200 - on the cheap end) and possibly attorney fees (another $200-$400). By the time you get a judgment against you your balance has doubled or tripled. Then THAT balance gets more interest usually another 8-12% per annum. Once you're in that cycle there are not many ways out - your credit is shot and 25% of your paycheck is gone. Oh and a fun fact - most states allow what is called a bank execution meaning that if they have judgment the collection agency can take the money straight out of your bank account. While SSI, and welfare cash etc are exempt, judgments are usually good for 10 years and in some states are renewable. Here's my advice: Pay your medical bills ASAP. If you can't - talk to a lawyer and know your state laws. TAKE advantage of ALL financial aid options. Even if you think you make too much - apply any way - you will be surprised - this is a bit I wish desperately I would have known. Physicians and hospitals bill separately (and will have separate charity programs) REMEMBER!!!!! PROVIDERS BILL AS A COURTESY NOT AS A REQUIREMENT. So if they screwed up your insurance don't expect them to fix it - it's on you. Too often I've seen billing mistakes turn into 2 year nightmares for people. Argue all you want with the providers - they don't care you are just another dollar sign. As for those providers that do not offer/recognize financial aid/charity take a loan to pay it if you must. DO NOT FALL INTO THE TRAP OF OH IT CAN WAIT A MONTH. Prescriptions on credit cards also are a no go. You never get sick on a payday. One trip to the ER equals a drained savings account. One out-of-network MRI is your next months rent. A few follow-ups and a out-patient surgery could be your car. I spent so many years struggling to get to a point where I could maintain a barely running car, and stressing about losing my job if a bill would end up placed with my employer, trying so hard to pay for the services I was provided. For me the decision to file finally came down to one question. When am I going to start putting the dollar signs in my column? The hardest realization when I filed for bankruptcy was that no one cared how hard I worked to avoid it. No one cared that I wasn't going to pay. The bankruptcy court took their payment, the online classes took their payment, the trustee had his fee, and the lawyer took his. When its done I'll have $33k in student loans left (another story for a different day). And I'm so thankful to be done. Now I spend my time & money on researching herbal medicines and supplementing my healthcare with dietary changes that help my overall health. While I still see a regular doctor (please remember it rarely is the doctors fault) but I don't jump for every test suggested. I question before I pop a pill. I feel better, sometimes I wonder if its only due to the ridiculous amount of stress that I no longer feel. I've since quit working in debt collections and jumped into insurance (non-medical). If I can help it I won't go back. I hope this long rant helps someone out there struggling. If you have questions please feel free to ask me bearing in mind that I am not an attorney and I cannot give legal advice. I'm happy to help anyone within my abilities, something good ought to come out of this past 10 years of financial hell. :) Thanks for reading.

got in debt in early 20s and filed banko while employed in medical collections EDIT: wording clean up. tired don't judge :p

4StarCustoms

That wasn't the case for me. I had about a $7K running bill for my wife's prenatal and delivery costs. A joke since it was a normal healthy pregnancy with a natural birth that lasts all of 20 minutes. All I could really afford was $200-$300 a month and that's what I was sending them. I even made a $500 payment a month or two. After the delivery, I disputed some of the charges - like a $2K nursery charge because we never utilized the nursery. While it was in dispute I was told I didn't need to make any payments, so I didn't. Shortly after I get a notice from the collection agency for $3,000+. I called the hospital and asked why I went to collections and was told that I had stopped paying. I reminding them about the open dispute. They told me that it was resolved and that charges were correct and they were sorry they forgot to notify me. The amount that went to collections was for the portion of the bill that wasn't in dispute (even though everything is always lumped on one bill and it's not clear how to itemize payments). I told them that I had been making large monthly payments but they told me that since I never FORMALLY set up a payment plan, they were in their right to send it to collections. I told them that since I needed to pay the collection agency $3K+ immediately, I would most definitely need a payment plan from the hospital. They said they could set me up for as little as $125/mo. I had to laugh a bit that my $200-$500 informal payment plan wasn't suitable but now they'll accept as little as $125. Luckily, everyone is all paid off now but those were a miserable few months. tldr: hospitals and insurance companies suck

That wasn't the case for me. I had about a $7K running bill for my wife's prenatal and delivery costs. A joke since it was a normal healthy pregnancy with a natural birth that lasts all of 20 minutes. All I could really afford was $200-$300 a month and that's what I was sending them. I even made a $500 payment a month or two. After the delivery, I disputed some of the charges - like a $2K nursery charge because we never utilized the nursery. While it was in dispute I was told I didn't need to make any payments, so I didn't. Shortly after I get a notice from the collection agency for $3,000+. I called the hospital and asked why I went to collections and was told that I had stopped paying. I reminding them about the open dispute. They told me that it was resolved and that charges were correct and they were sorry they forgot to notify me. The amount that went to collections was for the portion of the bill that wasn't in dispute (even though everything is always lumped on one bill and it's not clear how to itemize payments). I told them that I had been making large monthly payments but they told me that since I never FORMALLY set up a payment plan, they were in their right to send it to collections. I told them that since I needed to pay the collection agency $3K+ immediately, I would most definitely need a payment plan from the hospital. They said they could set me up for as little as $125/mo. I had to laugh a bit that my $200-$500 informal payment plan wasn't suitable but now they'll accept as little as $125. Luckily, everyone is all paid off now but those were a miserable few months. tldr: hospitals and insurance companies suck

conspiracy

t5_2qh4r

cil4to5

That wasn't the case for me. I had about a $7K running bill for my wife's prenatal and delivery costs. A joke since it was a normal healthy pregnancy with a natural birth that lasts all of 20 minutes. All I could really afford was $200-$300 a month and that's what I was sending them. I even made a $500 payment a month or two. After the delivery, I disputed some of the charges - like a $2K nursery charge because we never utilized the nursery. While it was in dispute I was told I didn't need to make any payments, so I didn't. Shortly after I get a notice from the collection agency for $3,000+. I called the hospital and asked why I went to collections and was told that I had stopped paying. I reminding them about the open dispute. They told me that it was resolved and that charges were correct and they were sorry they forgot to notify me. The amount that went to collections was for the portion of the bill that wasn't in dispute (even though everything is always lumped on one bill and it's not clear how to itemize payments). I told them that I had been making large monthly payments but they told me that since I never FORMALLY set up a payment plan, they were in their right to send it to collections. I told them that since I needed to pay the collection agency $3K+ immediately, I would most definitely need a payment plan from the hospital. They said they could set me up for as little as $125/mo. I had to laugh a bit that my $200-$500 informal payment plan wasn't suitable but now they'll accept as little as $125. Luckily, everyone is all paid off now but those were a miserable few months.

hospitals and insurance companies suck

PvP_Noob

&gt;Seriously, who wins a division and them says to themselves "woo, I was the best driver in the 4th best segment of iRacers in my series!" depends on how your irating stacks up to the rest of the division. I think I'd be pretty happy if I could win the 7th division I'm in because that would mean I got seriously better over the course of the season. Then again, with 25 races in 2009, 1 race in 2011, and 3 races in the past week I was happy with a 10th place showing one lap down with only 4 incident points. As much as I want to compare myself to the race leaders averaging 9 seconds faster than me I have to remind myself they have A class licenses with 4.99 SR's and iratings of 4-6k. TL/DR divisions allow you to measure your own progress and some of us like knowing we are getting better even if we are not the best.

>Seriously, who wins a division and them says to themselves "woo, I was the best driver in the 4th best segment of iRacers in my series!" depends on how your irating stacks up to the rest of the division. I think I'd be pretty happy if I could win the 7th division I'm in because that would mean I got seriously better over the course of the season. Then again, with 25 races in 2009, 1 race in 2011, and 3 races in the past week I was happy with a 10th place showing one lap down with only 4 incident points. As much as I want to compare myself to the race leaders averaging 9 seconds faster than me I have to remind myself they have A class licenses with 4.99 SR's and iratings of 4-6k. TL/DR divisions allow you to measure your own progress and some of us like knowing we are getting better even if we are not the best.

iRacing

t5_2s3h8

cile466

Seriously, who wins a division and them says to themselves "woo, I was the best driver in the 4th best segment of iRacers in my series!" depends on how your irating stacks up to the rest of the division. I think I'd be pretty happy if I could win the 7th division I'm in because that would mean I got seriously better over the course of the season. Then again, with 25 races in 2009, 1 race in 2011, and 3 races in the past week I was happy with a 10th place showing one lap down with only 4 incident points. As much as I want to compare myself to the race leaders averaging 9 seconds faster than me I have to remind myself they have A class licenses with 4.99 SR's and iratings of 4-6k.

divisions allow you to measure your own progress and some of us like knowing we are getting better even if we are not the best.

Reditraptor

I will attemt to point you in the right direction. I work at a hub airport however we are not an international and I am not security. If you were flying domesticly it would be my understanding that you would be fine. Because you are coming into the US the only agency that would have an issue with this is Customs and Boarder Protection, which is not the TSA. Again, however, I am unfamiliar with the Mexican airport securty and their regulations. TL; DR - Check with CBP and the TSA counterpart in Mexico.

I will attemt to point you in the right direction. I work at a hub airport however we are not an international and I am not security. If you were flying domesticly it would be my understanding that you would be fine. Because you are coming into the US the only agency that would have an issue with this is Customs and Boarder Protection, which is not the TSA. Again, however, I am unfamiliar with the Mexican airport securty and their regulations. TL; DR - Check with CBP and the TSA counterpart in Mexico.

airport

t5_2r4ak

cilyl70

I will attemt to point you in the right direction. I work at a hub airport however we are not an international and I am not security. If you were flying domesticly it would be my understanding that you would be fine. Because you are coming into the US the only agency that would have an issue with this is Customs and Boarder Protection, which is not the TSA. Again, however, I am unfamiliar with the Mexican airport securty and their regulations.

Check with CBP and the TSA counterpart in Mexico.

narcoleptic_insomnia

Is this rhetorical or are you asking me personally? **EDIT:** Here is my response assuming that you asked me personally. &gt; So you know if you are in harmony or not? Yes, I feel more harmonious at times when I feel my thoughts and actions are resonating closer to the Dao; other times I feel unbalanced when I find myself fighting the flow of things. &gt; You have personal knowledge of the ultimate balance of the Dao? No, and I never claimed to have such knowledge. In my previous post when I said, "On the one hand, as I think you're implying, everything follows the Dao," I meant something along the lines of Chapter 51 in the Dao: *"All things are produced by the Dao, and nourished by its outflowing operation. They receive their forms according to the nature of each, and are completed according to the circumstances of their condition. Therefore all things without exception honour the Dao, and exalt its outflowing operation. This honouring of the Dao and exalting of its operation is not the result of any ordination, but always a spontaneous tribute..."* When I said, "On the other hand, not everything is in harmony with the Dao," I gave an example of what I meant. However, the Dao De Jing is filled with other examples; for instance, Chapter 24 reads: *"He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk (easily). (So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self- conceited has no superiority allowed to him. Such conditions, viewed from the standpoint of the Dao, are like remnants of food, or a tumour on the body, which all dislike. Hence those who pursue (the course) of the Dao do not adopt and allow them."* **TL;DR:** Just because the Dao encompasses everything does not mean everything is in harmony with the Dao.

Is this rhetorical or are you asking me personally? EDIT: Here is my response assuming that you asked me personally. > So you know if you are in harmony or not? Yes, I feel more harmonious at times when I feel my thoughts and actions are resonating closer to the Dao; other times I feel unbalanced when I find myself fighting the flow of things. > You have personal knowledge of the ultimate balance of the Dao? No, and I never claimed to have such knowledge. In my previous post when I said, "On the one hand, as I think you're implying, everything follows the Dao," I meant something along the lines of Chapter 51 in the Dao: "All things are produced by the Dao, and nourished by its outflowing operation. They receive their forms according to the nature of each, and are completed according to the circumstances of their condition. Therefore all things without exception honour the Dao, and exalt its outflowing operation. This honouring of the Dao and exalting of its operation is not the result of any ordination, but always a spontaneous tribute..." When I said, "On the other hand, not everything is in harmony with the Dao," I gave an example of what I meant. However, the Dao De Jing is filled with other examples; for instance, Chapter 24 reads: "He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk (easily). (So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self- conceited has no superiority allowed to him. Such conditions, viewed from the standpoint of the Dao, are like remnants of food, or a tumour on the body, which all dislike. Hence those who pursue (the course) of the Dao do not adopt and allow them." TL;DR: Just because the Dao encompasses everything does not mean everything is in harmony with the Dao.

taoism

t5_2qhmd

cilxju9

Is this rhetorical or are you asking me personally? EDIT: Here is my response assuming that you asked me personally. > So you know if you are in harmony or not? Yes, I feel more harmonious at times when I feel my thoughts and actions are resonating closer to the Dao; other times I feel unbalanced when I find myself fighting the flow of things. > You have personal knowledge of the ultimate balance of the Dao? No, and I never claimed to have such knowledge. In my previous post when I said, "On the one hand, as I think you're implying, everything follows the Dao," I meant something along the lines of Chapter 51 in the Dao: "All things are produced by the Dao, and nourished by its outflowing operation. They receive their forms according to the nature of each, and are completed according to the circumstances of their condition. Therefore all things without exception honour the Dao, and exalt its outflowing operation. This honouring of the Dao and exalting of its operation is not the result of any ordination, but always a spontaneous tribute..." When I said, "On the other hand, not everything is in harmony with the Dao," I gave an example of what I meant. However, the Dao De Jing is filled with other examples; for instance, Chapter 24 reads: "He who stands on his tiptoes does not stand firm; he who stretches his legs does not walk (easily). (So), he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged; he who is self- conceited has no superiority allowed to him. Such conditions, viewed from the standpoint of the Dao, are like remnants of food, or a tumour on the body, which all dislike. Hence those who pursue (the course) of the Dao do not adopt and allow them."

Just because the Dao encompasses everything does not mean everything is in harmony with the Dao.

DrinkVictoryGin

Even though she isn't in love, that doesn't mean she wouldn't help him, a close friend. As long as OP knows that she would be helping him out of obligation, and they are NOT getting back together, I think that avoiding homelessness is better than worrying about pity help. Tldr; If I had cancer and was facing homelessness, I'd accept any help, pity help or not.

Even though she isn't in love, that doesn't mean she wouldn't help him, a close friend. As long as OP knows that she would be helping him out of obligation, and they are NOT getting back together, I think that avoiding homelessness is better than worrying about pity help. Tldr; If I had cancer and was facing homelessness, I'd accept any help, pity help or not.

relationship_advice

t5_2r0cn

cilrnvs

Even though she isn't in love, that doesn't mean she wouldn't help him, a close friend. As long as OP knows that she would be helping him out of obligation, and they are NOT getting back together, I think that avoiding homelessness is better than worrying about pity help.

If I had cancer and was facing homelessness, I'd accept any help, pity help or not.

TimeTravellerGuy

I had the experience of learning Thaumcraft while a friend did Ars Magicka 2 in its current state. I don't know much about AM2, but I know that he had some neat altars and some neat spells (one of which just sends people to the Nether), but he ran out of content fairly quickly while I was still setting um my TC4 alchemy lab. From his perspective, Thaumcraft didn't really have a lot to offer him. I was taking it a bit slow. But as soon as I built an infusion altar, he realized how cool TC is. TL;DR, I love Thaumcraft. I love it sooooo much. Ars Magicka 2 has a lot of potential with it and I'm really excited to see where it goes, but from what I've seen, it's really easy to get a lot of cool stuff early on, but then it kinda stops (or maybe he stopped. I can't really tell. Sorry.)

I had the experience of learning Thaumcraft while a friend did Ars Magicka 2 in its current state. I don't know much about AM2, but I know that he had some neat altars and some neat spells (one of which just sends people to the Nether), but he ran out of content fairly quickly while I was still setting um my TC4 alchemy lab. From his perspective, Thaumcraft didn't really have a lot to offer him. I was taking it a bit slow. But as soon as I built an infusion altar, he realized how cool TC is. TL;DR, I love Thaumcraft. I love it sooooo much. Ars Magicka 2 has a lot of potential with it and I'm really excited to see where it goes, but from what I've seen, it's really easy to get a lot of cool stuff early on, but then it kinda stops (or maybe he stopped. I can't really tell. Sorry.)

feedthebeast

t5_2v620

cilpbho

I had the experience of learning Thaumcraft while a friend did Ars Magicka 2 in its current state. I don't know much about AM2, but I know that he had some neat altars and some neat spells (one of which just sends people to the Nether), but he ran out of content fairly quickly while I was still setting um my TC4 alchemy lab. From his perspective, Thaumcraft didn't really have a lot to offer him. I was taking it a bit slow. But as soon as I built an infusion altar, he realized how cool TC is.

I love Thaumcraft. I love it sooooo much. Ars Magicka 2 has a lot of potential with it and I'm really excited to see where it goes, but from what I've seen, it's really easy to get a lot of cool stuff early on, but then it kinda stops (or maybe he stopped. I can't really tell. Sorry.)

Sourcefour

I have a similar story about having my bike stolen in chicago as well. However, the CPD was far less useful. The bike was stolen from Dearborn and Oak roughly. I was working until 5am at the Ruth Page Center for Arts on a children's play (I do lighting work for theatre). At 5 am, I'm in the lobby, exausted and getting ready to leave when I hear a grinder outside. There was road work being done on the street at the time but I thought 5 am was a bit early to get started. I go outside to investigate, and this [piece of shit]( was grinding off my bike lock. At the time it was just me and my boss who were in the building (who was a 5'0, 40ish woman) and we had both been working 18+ hours by that point. He had a friend waiting in a car across (you can see in the pic) the street and a dark black bag next to my bike. We yelled and screamed at him and told him we were calling the cops. His response, "Go ahead!" The balls on that fucker. It was too risky to charge out at him and neither of us had anything to use as a weapon at the time. The cops took 20 minutes to show up, and by that point, he had cut out a chunk of my lock, road the bike through the nearby alley and was picked up by his friend on the other side. My boss got in her car and tried to chase him but he was long gone by that point. The cops that show up don't do much to help, they don't even get out of their car. Here's the result of my bike lock: It took him at least 10 minutes to get through my lock. He had only been grinding for about a minute when I called the cops. Next day, I go to the police station to fill out a police report. I have to go to two of them because the first one told me I had to go to the station of the precinct where the crime occurred to fill out a report. I give the serial number, proof of purchase (still had the receipt), a description of what happened and a description of the bike. When the officer writing my report realized I had witnessed the crime she started to be a lot more helpful. She gave me names of bike shops to check and told me to check a flea market on the south side. But I was working on three shows at the time and I didn't have time to drive around and check all of these places. A week later, I get a call from a detective who's been assigned to my case, mainly following up. He's not very helpful. I posted the bike on stolenbike.org. Here's the original posting: The admins of this site were great and super helpful. I unfortunately didn't have a picture of my bike to post, but this looks pretty similar. The only main thing missing were the silver fenders. This website is also the reason I got it back (coupled with a very honorable person). Fast forward roughly 3-4 months later. I'm sitting in the audience for a technical rehearsal for another show surfing craigslist for a new bike to buy. I see a posting for a white masi commuter. I click on it and there is a picture of my fucking bike, dented fenders, chipped paint and all. Holy. Shit. I contact the police detective. He's out for the weekend, but the officer on duty promises to forward me to another detective on duty. No one picks up and their voicemail box is full. I write an email, the email gets bounced back to me saying the email system is down. FFS. 24 hours later I get in touch with the seller after giving up with the police to see if he still had the bike, but he had sold it :( However, i got an email from the person who purchased it. It said that he found the serial number on the bike and matched it with my posting on stolenbike.org and that he wanted to return it to me. He had paid $400 for it but would give it back to me at no charge. Wow, I cried. I had planned on spending up to $200 for a new bike and gave him that money instead. He was out $200 but I hope he gets lots of positive Karma thrown his way. **TLDR** Bike got stolen. I watched the [asshole]( cut my [lock]( off. Police took 20 minutes to show up. Did not help me get it back. Saw it on Craigslist 3 months later, but didn't buy in time. Kind soul who did buy it returned it to me for no charge, but I insisted I pay him what I had on me ($200). He bought it for $400. I'm glad you got that piece of shit arrested. I could not get anyone arrested.

I have a similar story about having my bike stolen in chicago as well. However, the CPD was far less useful. The bike was stolen from Dearborn and Oak roughly. I was working until 5am at the Ruth Page Center for Arts on a children's play (I do lighting work for theatre). At 5 am, I'm in the lobby, exausted and getting ready to leave when I hear a grinder outside. There was road work being done on the street at the time but I thought 5 am was a bit early to get started. I go outside to investigate, and this piece of shit and we had both been working 18+ hours by that point. He had a friend waiting in a car across (you can see in the pic) the street and a dark black bag next to my bike. We yelled and screamed at him and told him we were calling the cops. His response, "Go ahead!" The balls on that fucker. It was too risky to charge out at him and neither of us had anything to use as a weapon at the time. The cops took 20 minutes to show up, and by that point, he had cut out a chunk of my lock, road the bike through the nearby alley and was picked up by his friend on the other side. My boss got in her car and tried to chase him but he was long gone by that point. The cops that show up don't do much to help, they don't even get out of their car. Here's the result of my bike lock: It took him at least 10 minutes to get through my lock. He had only been grinding for about a minute when I called the cops. Next day, I go to the police station to fill out a police report. I have to go to two of them because the first one told me I had to go to the station of the precinct where the crime occurred to fill out a report. I give the serial number, proof of purchase (still had the receipt), a description of what happened and a description of the bike. When the officer writing my report realized I had witnessed the crime she started to be a lot more helpful. She gave me names of bike shops to check and told me to check a flea market on the south side. But I was working on three shows at the time and I didn't have time to drive around and check all of these places. A week later, I get a call from a detective who's been assigned to my case, mainly following up. He's not very helpful. I posted the bike on stolenbike.org. Here's the original posting: The admins of this site were great and super helpful. I unfortunately didn't have a picture of my bike to post, but this looks pretty similar. The only main thing missing were the silver fenders. This website is also the reason I got it back (coupled with a very honorable person). Fast forward roughly 3-4 months later. I'm sitting in the audience for a technical rehearsal for another show surfing craigslist for a new bike to buy. I see a posting for a white masi commuter. I click on it and there is a picture of my fucking bike, dented fenders, chipped paint and all. Holy. Shit. I contact the police detective. He's out for the weekend, but the officer on duty promises to forward me to another detective on duty. No one picks up and their voicemail box is full. I write an email, the email gets bounced back to me saying the email system is down. FFS. 24 hours later I get in touch with the seller after giving up with the police to see if he still had the bike, but he had sold it :( However, i got an email from the person who purchased it. It said that he found the serial number on the bike and matched it with my posting on stolenbike.org and that he wanted to return it to me. He had paid $400 for it but would give it back to me at no charge. Wow, I cried. I had planned on spending up to $200 for a new bike and gave him that money instead. He was out $200 but I hope he gets lots of positive Karma thrown his way. TLDR Bike got stolen. I watched the asshole . He bought it for $400. I'm glad you got that piece of shit arrested. I could not get anyone arrested.

bicycling

t5_2qi0s

cim6z3d

I have a similar story about having my bike stolen in chicago as well. However, the CPD was far less useful. The bike was stolen from Dearborn and Oak roughly. I was working until 5am at the Ruth Page Center for Arts on a children's play (I do lighting work for theatre). At 5 am, I'm in the lobby, exausted and getting ready to leave when I hear a grinder outside. There was road work being done on the street at the time but I thought 5 am was a bit early to get started. I go outside to investigate, and this piece of shit and we had both been working 18+ hours by that point. He had a friend waiting in a car across (you can see in the pic) the street and a dark black bag next to my bike. We yelled and screamed at him and told him we were calling the cops. His response, "Go ahead!" The balls on that fucker. It was too risky to charge out at him and neither of us had anything to use as a weapon at the time. The cops took 20 minutes to show up, and by that point, he had cut out a chunk of my lock, road the bike through the nearby alley and was picked up by his friend on the other side. My boss got in her car and tried to chase him but he was long gone by that point. The cops that show up don't do much to help, they don't even get out of their car. Here's the result of my bike lock: It took him at least 10 minutes to get through my lock. He had only been grinding for about a minute when I called the cops. Next day, I go to the police station to fill out a police report. I have to go to two of them because the first one told me I had to go to the station of the precinct where the crime occurred to fill out a report. I give the serial number, proof of purchase (still had the receipt), a description of what happened and a description of the bike. When the officer writing my report realized I had witnessed the crime she started to be a lot more helpful. She gave me names of bike shops to check and told me to check a flea market on the south side. But I was working on three shows at the time and I didn't have time to drive around and check all of these places. A week later, I get a call from a detective who's been assigned to my case, mainly following up. He's not very helpful. I posted the bike on stolenbike.org. Here's the original posting: The admins of this site were great and super helpful. I unfortunately didn't have a picture of my bike to post, but this looks pretty similar. The only main thing missing were the silver fenders. This website is also the reason I got it back (coupled with a very honorable person). Fast forward roughly 3-4 months later. I'm sitting in the audience for a technical rehearsal for another show surfing craigslist for a new bike to buy. I see a posting for a white masi commuter. I click on it and there is a picture of my fucking bike, dented fenders, chipped paint and all. Holy. Shit. I contact the police detective. He's out for the weekend, but the officer on duty promises to forward me to another detective on duty. No one picks up and their voicemail box is full. I write an email, the email gets bounced back to me saying the email system is down. FFS. 24 hours later I get in touch with the seller after giving up with the police to see if he still had the bike, but he had sold it :( However, i got an email from the person who purchased it. It said that he found the serial number on the bike and matched it with my posting on stolenbike.org and that he wanted to return it to me. He had paid $400 for it but would give it back to me at no charge. Wow, I cried. I had planned on spending up to $200 for a new bike and gave him that money instead. He was out $200 but I hope he gets lots of positive Karma thrown his way.

Bike got stolen. I watched the asshole . He bought it for $400. I'm glad you got that piece of shit arrested. I could not get anyone arrested.

sofanny

Before osu, I used to play a game where the people running it never really cared about the community. Forums and all the chats were flooded with asshole and spammers and the game had loads of bots and garbage but they never stepped in to do anything. Maybe for that reason, I am pretty content with the way osu staff runs their game (because they actually do stuff). Some people say that osu! staff does not do a good job in banning hackers, but tbh I think they do a fine job. There are times where you will see some hacker get a full mod FC on freedom dive, sure, but I never see these obviously hacked scores last for long. In fact just a few hours ago (I think) there was some israel player at rank 1 getting a bunch of crazy scores. Any time you see rrtyui or whatever pro losing rank one on things like big black and freedom dive only to see they are still rank 1 on the map's page, it's because a hacker came and got banned. So in terms of obvious hacks, they're doing a pretty good job in my opinion. Then there is a lot of speculation of other top players hacking, but that is nothing more than speculation really. No top player score which is still standing given the player's reputation really seems impossible, and if it isn't obviously a hack assisted score then I'm not really sure what more people expect the osu!staff to do. For things like chat moderation, like this post or that other post about a guy mentioning a hack websites name, well in those two cases I actually can't hate the staff. In this post, you are not providing any context for the chat nor the screenshot which got you silenced so I can't really say anything about this because I have no idea what went down. In the earlier post where some staff member was banned and trashed on by some guy because he mentioned a hack website, well, it was an over the top reaction for sure but it was still pretty dumb of him. In his actual reddit post he he mentioned that it was an absurd reaction or something because everybody had heard of the website he mentioned by now, but that is completely untrue. I'm certain that because of what he said and additionally because of the reddit post, at least one person went on that website and maybe even tried to hack just for fun. For all we know, he may have just created several new hackers in the community for no reason. Sure the punishment was definitely too severe if that wasn't his intention, but that 0 tolerance for any sort of hack encouragement is kind of nice in my opinion. Maybe the staff member in question did what he did because he is some power abusing asshole, or maybe he is just really passionate about keeping the game as clean as possible. This happens with people's user pages getting locked, and other punishments seeming to not really match the crime, but I still have yet to see where they have really punished somebody without any sort of logical reason. When people do claim that this is what is happening, it seems like they just never provide the full details of what actually went down. tl;dr: (From what i've seen) osu staff overall is certainly neither the most professional nor perfect thing in the world, but they care about the game and about making it as nice as they can and if you don't do stupid shit, nothing is going to happen to you.

Before osu, I used to play a game where the people running it never really cared about the community. Forums and all the chats were flooded with asshole and spammers and the game had loads of bots and garbage but they never stepped in to do anything. Maybe for that reason, I am pretty content with the way osu staff runs their game (because they actually do stuff). Some people say that osu! staff does not do a good job in banning hackers, but tbh I think they do a fine job. There are times where you will see some hacker get a full mod FC on freedom dive, sure, but I never see these obviously hacked scores last for long. In fact just a few hours ago (I think) there was some israel player at rank 1 getting a bunch of crazy scores. Any time you see rrtyui or whatever pro losing rank one on things like big black and freedom dive only to see they are still rank 1 on the map's page, it's because a hacker came and got banned. So in terms of obvious hacks, they're doing a pretty good job in my opinion. Then there is a lot of speculation of other top players hacking, but that is nothing more than speculation really. No top player score which is still standing given the player's reputation really seems impossible, and if it isn't obviously a hack assisted score then I'm not really sure what more people expect the osu!staff to do. For things like chat moderation, like this post or that other post about a guy mentioning a hack websites name, well in those two cases I actually can't hate the staff. In this post, you are not providing any context for the chat nor the screenshot which got you silenced so I can't really say anything about this because I have no idea what went down. In the earlier post where some staff member was banned and trashed on by some guy because he mentioned a hack website, well, it was an over the top reaction for sure but it was still pretty dumb of him. In his actual reddit post he he mentioned that it was an absurd reaction or something because everybody had heard of the website he mentioned by now, but that is completely untrue. I'm certain that because of what he said and additionally because of the reddit post, at least one person went on that website and maybe even tried to hack just for fun. For all we know, he may have just created several new hackers in the community for no reason. Sure the punishment was definitely too severe if that wasn't his intention, but that 0 tolerance for any sort of hack encouragement is kind of nice in my opinion. Maybe the staff member in question did what he did because he is some power abusing asshole, or maybe he is just really passionate about keeping the game as clean as possible. This happens with people's user pages getting locked, and other punishments seeming to not really match the crime, but I still have yet to see where they have really punished somebody without any sort of logical reason. When people do claim that this is what is happening, it seems like they just never provide the full details of what actually went down. tl;dr: (From what i've seen) osu staff overall is certainly neither the most professional nor perfect thing in the world, but they care about the game and about making it as nice as they can and if you don't do stupid shit, nothing is going to happen to you.

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Before osu, I used to play a game where the people running it never really cared about the community. Forums and all the chats were flooded with asshole and spammers and the game had loads of bots and garbage but they never stepped in to do anything. Maybe for that reason, I am pretty content with the way osu staff runs their game (because they actually do stuff). Some people say that osu! staff does not do a good job in banning hackers, but tbh I think they do a fine job. There are times where you will see some hacker get a full mod FC on freedom dive, sure, but I never see these obviously hacked scores last for long. In fact just a few hours ago (I think) there was some israel player at rank 1 getting a bunch of crazy scores. Any time you see rrtyui or whatever pro losing rank one on things like big black and freedom dive only to see they are still rank 1 on the map's page, it's because a hacker came and got banned. So in terms of obvious hacks, they're doing a pretty good job in my opinion. Then there is a lot of speculation of other top players hacking, but that is nothing more than speculation really. No top player score which is still standing given the player's reputation really seems impossible, and if it isn't obviously a hack assisted score then I'm not really sure what more people expect the osu!staff to do. For things like chat moderation, like this post or that other post about a guy mentioning a hack websites name, well in those two cases I actually can't hate the staff. In this post, you are not providing any context for the chat nor the screenshot which got you silenced so I can't really say anything about this because I have no idea what went down. In the earlier post where some staff member was banned and trashed on by some guy because he mentioned a hack website, well, it was an over the top reaction for sure but it was still pretty dumb of him. In his actual reddit post he he mentioned that it was an absurd reaction or something because everybody had heard of the website he mentioned by now, but that is completely untrue. I'm certain that because of what he said and additionally because of the reddit post, at least one person went on that website and maybe even tried to hack just for fun. For all we know, he may have just created several new hackers in the community for no reason. Sure the punishment was definitely too severe if that wasn't his intention, but that 0 tolerance for any sort of hack encouragement is kind of nice in my opinion. Maybe the staff member in question did what he did because he is some power abusing asshole, or maybe he is just really passionate about keeping the game as clean as possible. This happens with people's user pages getting locked, and other punishments seeming to not really match the crime, but I still have yet to see where they have really punished somebody without any sort of logical reason. When people do claim that this is what is happening, it seems like they just never provide the full details of what actually went down.

From what i've seen) osu staff overall is certainly neither the most professional nor perfect thing in the world, but they care about the game and about making it as nice as they can and if you don't do stupid shit, nothing is going to happen to you.

DeLoRtEd1

I can PM you my Sundance review, but here's an overview of why *Boyhood* is important: * Industry. In 2014, this film will be one of the only releases to have been shot on film, using the same camera and technology for the entire shoot. * Content. This is a moving, genuine documentation of the post-9/11 decade. It's a time-capsule of the 2000s, hitting key touchstones as they happened. * Emotional impact. Art is powerful; this is unstoppably so. *Boyhood* does what other films can't by showing these characters age; that, in itself, is subconsciously far more effective at creating characters we admire and love. * The miracle of even completing it. I don't want to call it a miracle because as the *Before* series shows, Linklater is a genius with chronology. This was a leap of faith for so many people involved (not the least being the financiers). * It's brilliant. The acting, the direction, the cinematography. It would have been a seriously strong film just covering a year in the life of this family. TL;DR: it's important because it will be studied and canonized and written about in textbooks down the line for doing what had never been done before, and very, very well to boot.

I can PM you my Sundance review, but here's an overview of why Boyhood is important: Industry. In 2014, this film will be one of the only releases to have been shot on film, using the same camera and technology for the entire shoot. Content. This is a moving, genuine documentation of the post-9/11 decade. It's a time-capsule of the 2000s, hitting key touchstones as they happened. Emotional impact. Art is powerful; this is unstoppably so. Boyhood does what other films can't by showing these characters age; that, in itself, is subconsciously far more effective at creating characters we admire and love. The miracle of even completing it. I don't want to call it a miracle because as the Before series shows, Linklater is a genius with chronology. This was a leap of faith for so many people involved (not the least being the financiers). It's brilliant. The acting, the direction, the cinematography. It would have been a seriously strong film just covering a year in the life of this family. TL;DR: it's important because it will be studied and canonized and written about in textbooks down the line for doing what had never been done before, and very, very well to boot.

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I can PM you my Sundance review, but here's an overview of why Boyhood is important: Industry. In 2014, this film will be one of the only releases to have been shot on film, using the same camera and technology for the entire shoot. Content. This is a moving, genuine documentation of the post-9/11 decade. It's a time-capsule of the 2000s, hitting key touchstones as they happened. Emotional impact. Art is powerful; this is unstoppably so. Boyhood does what other films can't by showing these characters age; that, in itself, is subconsciously far more effective at creating characters we admire and love. The miracle of even completing it. I don't want to call it a miracle because as the Before series shows, Linklater is a genius with chronology. This was a leap of faith for so many people involved (not the least being the financiers). It's brilliant. The acting, the direction, the cinematography. It would have been a seriously strong film just covering a year in the life of this family.

it's important because it will be studied and canonized and written about in textbooks down the line for doing what had never been done before, and very, very well to boot.

Ridiculisk1

Unfortunately, with RNG, you can't accurately math out how many shards it'll take to get something, because it's RNG. I got a mask of jeram on my WD within 100 shards. Took me about 9k to get my akkhan gloves. The problem with random number generators is that you can't tell if they're random or not. Also, you have to account for another layer of RNG that is Smart Loot. 15% of the time, Smart Loot doesn't kick in. This makes it even harder to calculate drop chances, because even if smart loot doesn't kick in, you could still get a class-specific item (say, akkhan gloves on your crusader). And seeing as there's no way to tell if a drop is smart or not (except if you get another class's set item, in which case it definitely isn't a smart drop), this makes calculating accurate shard costs or drop rates pretty much impossible. TL;DR - RNG is RNG. Numbers are weird and without knowing if a drop complies with smart loot or not, we can't accurately predict true drop rates or shard costs.

Unfortunately, with RNG, you can't accurately math out how many shards it'll take to get something, because it's RNG. I got a mask of jeram on my WD within 100 shards. Took me about 9k to get my akkhan gloves. The problem with random number generators is that you can't tell if they're random or not. Also, you have to account for another layer of RNG that is Smart Loot. 15% of the time, Smart Loot doesn't kick in. This makes it even harder to calculate drop chances, because even if smart loot doesn't kick in, you could still get a class-specific item (say, akkhan gloves on your crusader). And seeing as there's no way to tell if a drop is smart or not (except if you get another class's set item, in which case it definitely isn't a smart drop), this makes calculating accurate shard costs or drop rates pretty much impossible. TL;DR - RNG is RNG. Numbers are weird and without knowing if a drop complies with smart loot or not, we can't accurately predict true drop rates or shard costs.

Diablo3Crusaders

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Unfortunately, with RNG, you can't accurately math out how many shards it'll take to get something, because it's RNG. I got a mask of jeram on my WD within 100 shards. Took me about 9k to get my akkhan gloves. The problem with random number generators is that you can't tell if they're random or not. Also, you have to account for another layer of RNG that is Smart Loot. 15% of the time, Smart Loot doesn't kick in. This makes it even harder to calculate drop chances, because even if smart loot doesn't kick in, you could still get a class-specific item (say, akkhan gloves on your crusader). And seeing as there's no way to tell if a drop is smart or not (except if you get another class's set item, in which case it definitely isn't a smart drop), this makes calculating accurate shard costs or drop rates pretty much impossible.

RNG is RNG. Numbers are weird and without knowing if a drop complies with smart loot or not, we can't accurately predict true drop rates or shard costs.

cybelechild

I hope I'm not late for the party... The problem with the feminist view of gender and gender roles, or at least the one that gets thrown around a lot is that it is simply wrong. It does not add up with data from other disciplines - i.e. psychology, neurology, biology, evolutionary psychology. Furthermore there simply is no empirical data to support any of its tenets. There are very, very few empirical feminist studies - most of them are of qualitative sort, and qualitative data while good for generatic hypotheses is not the best for making broader conclusions. Furthermore it is political - by this I mean that it does not try to objectively study gender, sex and so on, but does so with the intent to achieve certain goals. Next, the idea that something is socially constructed is a bit more complicated than it is usually presented. Socially constructed does not mean: a) bad b) that it does not reflect reality For many things social construction is just putting a layer of language over actual phenomena. This does not necessarily distort them or limit them. Gender and gender roles seem to reflect innate differences between men and women (please not that these are quite small, and relate to things like emotion, boobs and ability to carry a child vs. ability to carry a big stone and does not reflect say mental capacity), although these differences are reflected differently among cultures you will find many similarities. Next, Patriarchy, the big boogeyman of feminism is mostly bullshit. The idea that men created a worldwide system targeted at subjugating women is laughable. And it does not stand to historical scrutiny. While it is true that men have traditionally had some advantages over women, there is considerable difference between "men have the power" and "the people who have the power are men". Furthermore it ignores the presence of plenty female figures in power. Next it ignores the non-formal power, and finally it completely ignores just how humans interact. It's predictive and explanatory power is nil, especially compared to social class and traditionalism vs. innovatism and so on. But I'll rant against patriarchy some other day. Next. &gt;On the one hand, it seems to be partaking in the movement to question binaries. For the most part being transgender is not about questioning the binary, but how to move on the other side. There is a narrow gradient between the two, but that's another topic. &gt;If we call someone who is transgender and not transsexual a woman because she feels that the gender of female is more in line with her identity, are we not saying that the gender signifiers associated with womanhood by a patriarchal binary are indeed correct? To be a woman is to enact that gender, thus reaffirming the binary? No. It would be reinforcing the traditional binary if we make her wear only dresses, listen to her husband, bake, crochet, embroider and do other similar lady-like stuff. Of course she should also practice fainting, blushing, crying, gossiping and so on. God forbid she has her own ideas, wants to pursue a career or does something manly. But if you see a tall tattooed woman mechanic, would you question that she is a woman? Maybe there is more to gender than simply the social part and what we learn from parents. Maybe it is innate and relates to how your mind reads your body and your place in the world. To put it in perspective - I fight with swords, I program, I play computer games, I love Warhammer 40k (I also cook, sew,write and clean). Do these make me a guy? Hell no. My gender identity has never been connected with what I like or what I do, but who I am, whats my configuration, what is the feedback that my body is sending my brain and so on . &gt;In this sense, transgenderism seems to implicitly support traditional constructs of gender, which doesn't seem to jive with most progressive No. Transgenderism reflects the reality that biology is messy, and that sometimes the wrong mind ends in the wrong body. This has very little to do with traditional constructs of gender. What the constructs of gender reflect is how this transgenderism would manifest. You might go crazy like Elagabalus, you might go to the local temple of Cybele and become a priest, you might just sleep around with men and dress as a woman, or sleep around with women and dress as a man (because until fairly recently, and even now sexuality is still connected with gender and many people didn't make much of a difference) **tl;dr** A large part of feminist theory is stuck in the 70s. GID does not care about "traditional constructs of gender".

I hope I'm not late for the party... The problem with the feminist view of gender and gender roles, or at least the one that gets thrown around a lot is that it is simply wrong. It does not add up with data from other disciplines - i.e. psychology, neurology, biology, evolutionary psychology. Furthermore there simply is no empirical data to support any of its tenets. There are very, very few empirical feminist studies - most of them are of qualitative sort, and qualitative data while good for generatic hypotheses is not the best for making broader conclusions. Furthermore it is political - by this I mean that it does not try to objectively study gender, sex and so on, but does so with the intent to achieve certain goals. Next, the idea that something is socially constructed is a bit more complicated than it is usually presented. Socially constructed does not mean: a) bad b) that it does not reflect reality For many things social construction is just putting a layer of language over actual phenomena. This does not necessarily distort them or limit them. Gender and gender roles seem to reflect innate differences between men and women (please not that these are quite small, and relate to things like emotion, boobs and ability to carry a child vs. ability to carry a big stone and does not reflect say mental capacity), although these differences are reflected differently among cultures you will find many similarities. Next, Patriarchy, the big boogeyman of feminism is mostly bullshit. The idea that men created a worldwide system targeted at subjugating women is laughable. And it does not stand to historical scrutiny. While it is true that men have traditionally had some advantages over women, there is considerable difference between "men have the power" and "the people who have the power are men". Furthermore it ignores the presence of plenty female figures in power. Next it ignores the non-formal power, and finally it completely ignores just how humans interact. It's predictive and explanatory power is nil, especially compared to social class and traditionalism vs. innovatism and so on. But I'll rant against patriarchy some other day. Next. >On the one hand, it seems to be partaking in the movement to question binaries. For the most part being transgender is not about questioning the binary, but how to move on the other side. There is a narrow gradient between the two, but that's another topic. >If we call someone who is transgender and not transsexual a woman because she feels that the gender of female is more in line with her identity, are we not saying that the gender signifiers associated with womanhood by a patriarchal binary are indeed correct? To be a woman is to enact that gender, thus reaffirming the binary? No. It would be reinforcing the traditional binary if we make her wear only dresses, listen to her husband, bake, crochet, embroider and do other similar lady-like stuff. Of course she should also practice fainting, blushing, crying, gossiping and so on. God forbid she has her own ideas, wants to pursue a career or does something manly. But if you see a tall tattooed woman mechanic, would you question that she is a woman? Maybe there is more to gender than simply the social part and what we learn from parents. Maybe it is innate and relates to how your mind reads your body and your place in the world. To put it in perspective - I fight with swords, I program, I play computer games, I love Warhammer 40k (I also cook, sew,write and clean). Do these make me a guy? Hell no. My gender identity has never been connected with what I like or what I do, but who I am, whats my configuration, what is the feedback that my body is sending my brain and so on . >In this sense, transgenderism seems to implicitly support traditional constructs of gender, which doesn't seem to jive with most progressive No. Transgenderism reflects the reality that biology is messy, and that sometimes the wrong mind ends in the wrong body. This has very little to do with traditional constructs of gender. What the constructs of gender reflect is how this transgenderism would manifest. You might go crazy like Elagabalus, you might go to the local temple of Cybele and become a priest, you might just sleep around with men and dress as a woman, or sleep around with women and dress as a man (because until fairly recently, and even now sexuality is still connected with gender and many people didn't make much of a difference) tl;dr A large part of feminist theory is stuck in the 70s. GID does not care about "traditional constructs of gender".

asktransgender

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I hope I'm not late for the party... The problem with the feminist view of gender and gender roles, or at least the one that gets thrown around a lot is that it is simply wrong. It does not add up with data from other disciplines - i.e. psychology, neurology, biology, evolutionary psychology. Furthermore there simply is no empirical data to support any of its tenets. There are very, very few empirical feminist studies - most of them are of qualitative sort, and qualitative data while good for generatic hypotheses is not the best for making broader conclusions. Furthermore it is political - by this I mean that it does not try to objectively study gender, sex and so on, but does so with the intent to achieve certain goals. Next, the idea that something is socially constructed is a bit more complicated than it is usually presented. Socially constructed does not mean: a) bad b) that it does not reflect reality For many things social construction is just putting a layer of language over actual phenomena. This does not necessarily distort them or limit them. Gender and gender roles seem to reflect innate differences between men and women (please not that these are quite small, and relate to things like emotion, boobs and ability to carry a child vs. ability to carry a big stone and does not reflect say mental capacity), although these differences are reflected differently among cultures you will find many similarities. Next, Patriarchy, the big boogeyman of feminism is mostly bullshit. The idea that men created a worldwide system targeted at subjugating women is laughable. And it does not stand to historical scrutiny. While it is true that men have traditionally had some advantages over women, there is considerable difference between "men have the power" and "the people who have the power are men". Furthermore it ignores the presence of plenty female figures in power. Next it ignores the non-formal power, and finally it completely ignores just how humans interact. It's predictive and explanatory power is nil, especially compared to social class and traditionalism vs. innovatism and so on. But I'll rant against patriarchy some other day. Next. >On the one hand, it seems to be partaking in the movement to question binaries. For the most part being transgender is not about questioning the binary, but how to move on the other side. There is a narrow gradient between the two, but that's another topic. >If we call someone who is transgender and not transsexual a woman because she feels that the gender of female is more in line with her identity, are we not saying that the gender signifiers associated with womanhood by a patriarchal binary are indeed correct? To be a woman is to enact that gender, thus reaffirming the binary? No. It would be reinforcing the traditional binary if we make her wear only dresses, listen to her husband, bake, crochet, embroider and do other similar lady-like stuff. Of course she should also practice fainting, blushing, crying, gossiping and so on. God forbid she has her own ideas, wants to pursue a career or does something manly. But if you see a tall tattooed woman mechanic, would you question that she is a woman? Maybe there is more to gender than simply the social part and what we learn from parents. Maybe it is innate and relates to how your mind reads your body and your place in the world. To put it in perspective - I fight with swords, I program, I play computer games, I love Warhammer 40k (I also cook, sew,write and clean). Do these make me a guy? Hell no. My gender identity has never been connected with what I like or what I do, but who I am, whats my configuration, what is the feedback that my body is sending my brain and so on . >In this sense, transgenderism seems to implicitly support traditional constructs of gender, which doesn't seem to jive with most progressive No. Transgenderism reflects the reality that biology is messy, and that sometimes the wrong mind ends in the wrong body. This has very little to do with traditional constructs of gender. What the constructs of gender reflect is how this transgenderism would manifest. You might go crazy like Elagabalus, you might go to the local temple of Cybele and become a priest, you might just sleep around with men and dress as a woman, or sleep around with women and dress as a man (because until fairly recently, and even now sexuality is still connected with gender and many people didn't make much of a difference)

A large part of feminist theory is stuck in the 70s. GID does not care about "traditional constructs of gender".

ZenThundr

This is a good thread with a lot of thoughtful and excellent replies that I certainly agree with. However, let me try a different explanation/example. There are many people in the world who live unconsciously. By this I mean they vote the way their parents voted, they go to the church they were raised in. They learn to cook or join the military because, hey, that's what women / men do, right? They don't spend time thinking deliberately or consciously making choices about identity or behavior, because there is nothing in their experience that challenges them to do so. And if they are happy and they're not hurting anyone, that's fine by me. There is a small minority of people who live consciously. They think about who they really are, they value their own input more than other people's. They decide whether or not to have faith in a higher being, who to vote for, in essence how to live. They decide what they think it means to be a man, or a woman. Trans people are much more likely to think about these things because our very nature challenges us to do so. I had very bad dysphoria before transition. I knew something was wrong, and I thought long and hard about it before figuring out what was going on. While I was coming to understand I was trans, I also thought long and hard about what it means to be a man. I thought about who I wanted to be as a person; what kind of man I wanted to be. What were MY values, what was relevant to MY experience, how could I be the very best me? And now I live my life accordingly. I do not care whether I "reinforce the binary" because I don't live by those rules. I do what makes me happy -- I express ME. Feminism is supposed to be about empowering women. But empowerment cannot be gained at the expense of others. ~~Feminists~~ Anyone passing judgement on me, condemning me, or trying to diminish me for their own benefit are actually just hurting themselves. **TL;DR:** Live deliberately. To thine own self be true. These "feminists" can suck it.

This is a good thread with a lot of thoughtful and excellent replies that I certainly agree with. However, let me try a different explanation/example. There are many people in the world who live unconsciously. By this I mean they vote the way their parents voted, they go to the church they were raised in. They learn to cook or join the military because, hey, that's what women / men do, right? They don't spend time thinking deliberately or consciously making choices about identity or behavior, because there is nothing in their experience that challenges them to do so. And if they are happy and they're not hurting anyone, that's fine by me. There is a small minority of people who live consciously. They think about who they really are, they value their own input more than other people's. They decide whether or not to have faith in a higher being, who to vote for, in essence how to live. They decide what they think it means to be a man, or a woman. Trans people are much more likely to think about these things because our very nature challenges us to do so. I had very bad dysphoria before transition. I knew something was wrong, and I thought long and hard about it before figuring out what was going on. While I was coming to understand I was trans, I also thought long and hard about what it means to be a man. I thought about who I wanted to be as a person; what kind of man I wanted to be. What were MY values, what was relevant to MY experience, how could I be the very best me? And now I live my life accordingly. I do not care whether I "reinforce the binary" because I don't live by those rules. I do what makes me happy -- I express ME. Feminism is supposed to be about empowering women. But empowerment cannot be gained at the expense of others. Feminists Anyone passing judgement on me, condemning me, or trying to diminish me for their own benefit are actually just hurting themselves. TL;DR: Live deliberately. To thine own self be true. These "feminists" can suck it.

asktransgender

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cimmj0x

This is a good thread with a lot of thoughtful and excellent replies that I certainly agree with. However, let me try a different explanation/example. There are many people in the world who live unconsciously. By this I mean they vote the way their parents voted, they go to the church they were raised in. They learn to cook or join the military because, hey, that's what women / men do, right? They don't spend time thinking deliberately or consciously making choices about identity or behavior, because there is nothing in their experience that challenges them to do so. And if they are happy and they're not hurting anyone, that's fine by me. There is a small minority of people who live consciously. They think about who they really are, they value their own input more than other people's. They decide whether or not to have faith in a higher being, who to vote for, in essence how to live. They decide what they think it means to be a man, or a woman. Trans people are much more likely to think about these things because our very nature challenges us to do so. I had very bad dysphoria before transition. I knew something was wrong, and I thought long and hard about it before figuring out what was going on. While I was coming to understand I was trans, I also thought long and hard about what it means to be a man. I thought about who I wanted to be as a person; what kind of man I wanted to be. What were MY values, what was relevant to MY experience, how could I be the very best me? And now I live my life accordingly. I do not care whether I "reinforce the binary" because I don't live by those rules. I do what makes me happy -- I express ME. Feminism is supposed to be about empowering women. But empowerment cannot be gained at the expense of others. Feminists Anyone passing judgement on me, condemning me, or trying to diminish me for their own benefit are actually just hurting themselves.

Live deliberately. To thine own self be true. These "feminists" can suck it.

EvilToaster0ven

But to be fair, what was the value of your Doge earnings prior to the ASIC influx? I respect that you held your coins (unless I misunderstood and you dumped them), but bemoaning the loss of value when the potential was there to cash out at a higher price somewhat negates (IMO) the complaint. If part of being a good investor is recognizing when to buy or sell, a similar expectation exists for miners with regards to their hardware. If Scrypt coins were your sole target, it was important to recognize the changing trends and sell off or exchange hardware early, before secondhand markets were flooded. I returned most of my GPUs 28 days after purchase (still in RMA period) and would then purchase new ones and repeat. If they performed without issue, I accepted the restocking fees as a "fee-for-use." If the crashed with sny regularity I noted it and returns were free. I kept 2 of my final batch of GPUs for personal use and then moved onto Gridseeds. Taking advantage of promos and price fluctuations, I nabbed 8 Gridseeds for ~$55 per device. I resold them at $65 per device in week 3 of the Gen 2 releases. And similarly thoughtful purchasing strategies with patient use of promos has resulted in 6 Furies at ~$82 each when averaged across the total price (1x wk 1, 1x wk 3, 2x wk 4 and 2x wk 5). Combined value for all I've bought and used for mining at one point or another is easily in the thousands, but the actual out of pocket (once resale or returns are subtracted from investment) has me under $500 (not counting the 2 GPUs since those are for personal use and not mining anymore). My earnings may be worth little at the moment, but if I had been of a mindset to immediately convertto BTC or fiat each month, I'd already have ROI. As it is, I'm happy to hold with confidence the value with rebound somewhat (if not a lot) and I can always sell my hardware off to recover some investment if needed (always someone willing to buy something somewhere). Tl;Dr - There is no money tree. Whether investing directly into the currency, or via hardware, the prospect will not pay out its potential without a similar investment of time and work/research.

But to be fair, what was the value of your Doge earnings prior to the ASIC influx? I respect that you held your coins (unless I misunderstood and you dumped them), but bemoaning the loss of value when the potential was there to cash out at a higher price somewhat negates (IMO) the complaint. If part of being a good investor is recognizing when to buy or sell, a similar expectation exists for miners with regards to their hardware. If Scrypt coins were your sole target, it was important to recognize the changing trends and sell off or exchange hardware early, before secondhand markets were flooded. I returned most of my GPUs 28 days after purchase (still in RMA period) and would then purchase new ones and repeat. If they performed without issue, I accepted the restocking fees as a "fee-for-use." If the crashed with sny regularity I noted it and returns were free. I kept 2 of my final batch of GPUs for personal use and then moved onto Gridseeds. Taking advantage of promos and price fluctuations, I nabbed 8 Gridseeds for ~$55 per device. I resold them at $65 per device in week 3 of the Gen 2 releases. And similarly thoughtful purchasing strategies with patient use of promos has resulted in 6 Furies at ~$82 each when averaged across the total price (1x wk 1, 1x wk 3, 2x wk 4 and 2x wk 5). Combined value for all I've bought and used for mining at one point or another is easily in the thousands, but the actual out of pocket (once resale or returns are subtracted from investment) has me under $500 (not counting the 2 GPUs since those are for personal use and not mining anymore). My earnings may be worth little at the moment, but if I had been of a mindset to immediately convertto BTC or fiat each month, I'd already have ROI. As it is, I'm happy to hold with confidence the value with rebound somewhat (if not a lot) and I can always sell my hardware off to recover some investment if needed (always someone willing to buy something somewhere). Tl;Dr - There is no money tree. Whether investing directly into the currency, or via hardware, the prospect will not pay out its potential without a similar investment of time and work/research.

dogecoin

t5_2zcp2

cingcj3

But to be fair, what was the value of your Doge earnings prior to the ASIC influx? I respect that you held your coins (unless I misunderstood and you dumped them), but bemoaning the loss of value when the potential was there to cash out at a higher price somewhat negates (IMO) the complaint. If part of being a good investor is recognizing when to buy or sell, a similar expectation exists for miners with regards to their hardware. If Scrypt coins were your sole target, it was important to recognize the changing trends and sell off or exchange hardware early, before secondhand markets were flooded. I returned most of my GPUs 28 days after purchase (still in RMA period) and would then purchase new ones and repeat. If they performed without issue, I accepted the restocking fees as a "fee-for-use." If the crashed with sny regularity I noted it and returns were free. I kept 2 of my final batch of GPUs for personal use and then moved onto Gridseeds. Taking advantage of promos and price fluctuations, I nabbed 8 Gridseeds for ~$55 per device. I resold them at $65 per device in week 3 of the Gen 2 releases. And similarly thoughtful purchasing strategies with patient use of promos has resulted in 6 Furies at ~$82 each when averaged across the total price (1x wk 1, 1x wk 3, 2x wk 4 and 2x wk 5). Combined value for all I've bought and used for mining at one point or another is easily in the thousands, but the actual out of pocket (once resale or returns are subtracted from investment) has me under $500 (not counting the 2 GPUs since those are for personal use and not mining anymore). My earnings may be worth little at the moment, but if I had been of a mindset to immediately convertto BTC or fiat each month, I'd already have ROI. As it is, I'm happy to hold with confidence the value with rebound somewhat (if not a lot) and I can always sell my hardware off to recover some investment if needed (always someone willing to buy something somewhere).

There is no money tree. Whether investing directly into the currency, or via hardware, the prospect will not pay out its potential without a similar investment of time and work/research.

Meistermalkav

Well, let me be precise. You knew what you were going into. If you are into the stockmarket, you know that you have stocks that do well, and stocks that do not so well. 2000 in dogecoin bought you the dogecoin. It did not guarantee what the people are willing to pay per dogecoin. That much is an ironclad economic principle, and if you think just because a person complains, now people will feel obligated to throw money into dogecoin just so you can say, look, ma, smart investment, nope, not happening. If you are an early adopter of the dogecoin, you knew that there would be risks, and that most likely, you would see an up and a down for a looong time, before it gained any value. You would also see a LOT of turbulences, and 2000 $ in fun throwaway money means, no matter how wealthy you are ( 2000 $ is no longer rich. 2000 $ that you invest just for fun in something that is likely to tank is wealthy. ), you had a lot of trust in this. And heck, those doges that are now worthless? Then, let me repeat my offer I made to the other person in chat. If you really think that this is a problem, I stand by my word, and would buy 25 € worth in dogecoin from you, for the current market price, so you at least get some money out of this. I can offer you a paysafe card number for 25 €, steam games worth 25 € from the german steam, or any mix in between. But you are not going to take it, are you? You just like to publically state that you did not mean it this way, that you hold on to your doge, because you believe in "to the moon!", you can easily swallow 2000 $ because you have a wellpaying job, and so forth. Meanwhile, you will buy up all the panicsells from shibies who actually believed what you preach, because you know, in fall this year, doge will hit it bigger, and then it will pay off that you did not move away. But before, you plan to fleece and cause enough panic to get all the shibies to get rid of their doge, just so the doge tanks further. I stand by my word. If it is really a concern, I have 25 € waiting for you, in steam games or in paysafe card, and heck, I am even willing to buy doge at a slightly higher rate then usual, because doge like to help other doge out. But yea, lets make this public. I bet 50 dogecoin that when bitcoin hits it big this august, and after dogecoin tanked some more, all the new people who will be exposed to cryptocurrency due to media coverage ( because everyone wants to be the guy who first broke the story about the next bitcoin) will flood to doge, because the bitcoin atmosphere is hostile and toxic as hell because of investment banker assholes, and then dogecoin will rise. So, yea.... Still willing to complain that you will have to wait till september, and still wanting to sell but not at a loss? TL;DR: "i didnt get into doge to make money but certainly didnt to lose money" is contradictory in itself. You only make or loose money once you sell the dogecoin. You still have all of your doges? My offer still stands. I am willing to buy doge worth 25 € from you, if you really are afraid of loosing the money. I can stand to miss 5 packs of cigarettes, and I am not bothered in the least to wait till september. My offer stands, and I bet the community is smart enough to decide if you are an honest to god shibe who is a little bit spooked , or if you are one of the bitcoin people who just wants to get into the community before it takes off, and wants to buy all doge cheap.

Well, let me be precise. You knew what you were going into. If you are into the stockmarket, you know that you have stocks that do well, and stocks that do not so well. 2000 in dogecoin bought you the dogecoin. It did not guarantee what the people are willing to pay per dogecoin. That much is an ironclad economic principle, and if you think just because a person complains, now people will feel obligated to throw money into dogecoin just so you can say, look, ma, smart investment, nope, not happening. If you are an early adopter of the dogecoin, you knew that there would be risks, and that most likely, you would see an up and a down for a looong time, before it gained any value. You would also see a LOT of turbulences, and 2000 $ in fun throwaway money means, no matter how wealthy you are ( 2000 $ is no longer rich. 2000 $ that you invest just for fun in something that is likely to tank is wealthy. ), you had a lot of trust in this. And heck, those doges that are now worthless? Then, let me repeat my offer I made to the other person in chat. If you really think that this is a problem, I stand by my word, and would buy 25 € worth in dogecoin from you, for the current market price, so you at least get some money out of this. I can offer you a paysafe card number for 25 €, steam games worth 25 € from the german steam, or any mix in between. But you are not going to take it, are you? You just like to publically state that you did not mean it this way, that you hold on to your doge, because you believe in "to the moon!", you can easily swallow 2000 $ because you have a wellpaying job, and so forth. Meanwhile, you will buy up all the panicsells from shibies who actually believed what you preach, because you know, in fall this year, doge will hit it bigger, and then it will pay off that you did not move away. But before, you plan to fleece and cause enough panic to get all the shibies to get rid of their doge, just so the doge tanks further. I stand by my word. If it is really a concern, I have 25 € waiting for you, in steam games or in paysafe card, and heck, I am even willing to buy doge at a slightly higher rate then usual, because doge like to help other doge out. But yea, lets make this public. I bet 50 dogecoin that when bitcoin hits it big this august, and after dogecoin tanked some more, all the new people who will be exposed to cryptocurrency due to media coverage ( because everyone wants to be the guy who first broke the story about the next bitcoin) will flood to doge, because the bitcoin atmosphere is hostile and toxic as hell because of investment banker assholes, and then dogecoin will rise. So, yea.... Still willing to complain that you will have to wait till september, and still wanting to sell but not at a loss? TL;DR: "i didnt get into doge to make money but certainly didnt to lose money" is contradictory in itself. You only make or loose money once you sell the dogecoin. You still have all of your doges? My offer still stands. I am willing to buy doge worth 25 € from you, if you really are afraid of loosing the money. I can stand to miss 5 packs of cigarettes, and I am not bothered in the least to wait till september. My offer stands, and I bet the community is smart enough to decide if you are an honest to god shibe who is a little bit spooked , or if you are one of the bitcoin people who just wants to get into the community before it takes off, and wants to buy all doge cheap.

dogecoin

t5_2zcp2

ciof0c4

Well, let me be precise. You knew what you were going into. If you are into the stockmarket, you know that you have stocks that do well, and stocks that do not so well. 2000 in dogecoin bought you the dogecoin. It did not guarantee what the people are willing to pay per dogecoin. That much is an ironclad economic principle, and if you think just because a person complains, now people will feel obligated to throw money into dogecoin just so you can say, look, ma, smart investment, nope, not happening. If you are an early adopter of the dogecoin, you knew that there would be risks, and that most likely, you would see an up and a down for a looong time, before it gained any value. You would also see a LOT of turbulences, and 2000 $ in fun throwaway money means, no matter how wealthy you are ( 2000 $ is no longer rich. 2000 $ that you invest just for fun in something that is likely to tank is wealthy. ), you had a lot of trust in this. And heck, those doges that are now worthless? Then, let me repeat my offer I made to the other person in chat. If you really think that this is a problem, I stand by my word, and would buy 25 € worth in dogecoin from you, for the current market price, so you at least get some money out of this. I can offer you a paysafe card number for 25 €, steam games worth 25 € from the german steam, or any mix in between. But you are not going to take it, are you? You just like to publically state that you did not mean it this way, that you hold on to your doge, because you believe in "to the moon!", you can easily swallow 2000 $ because you have a wellpaying job, and so forth. Meanwhile, you will buy up all the panicsells from shibies who actually believed what you preach, because you know, in fall this year, doge will hit it bigger, and then it will pay off that you did not move away. But before, you plan to fleece and cause enough panic to get all the shibies to get rid of their doge, just so the doge tanks further. I stand by my word. If it is really a concern, I have 25 € waiting for you, in steam games or in paysafe card, and heck, I am even willing to buy doge at a slightly higher rate then usual, because doge like to help other doge out. But yea, lets make this public. I bet 50 dogecoin that when bitcoin hits it big this august, and after dogecoin tanked some more, all the new people who will be exposed to cryptocurrency due to media coverage ( because everyone wants to be the guy who first broke the story about the next bitcoin) will flood to doge, because the bitcoin atmosphere is hostile and toxic as hell because of investment banker assholes, and then dogecoin will rise. So, yea.... Still willing to complain that you will have to wait till september, and still wanting to sell but not at a loss?

i didnt get into doge to make money but certainly didnt to lose money" is contradictory in itself. You only make or loose money once you sell the dogecoin. You still have all of your doges? My offer still stands. I am willing to buy doge worth 25 € from you, if you really are afraid of loosing the money. I can stand to miss 5 packs of cigarettes, and I am not bothered in the least to wait till september. My offer stands, and I bet the community is smart enough to decide if you are an honest to god shibe who is a little bit spooked , or if you are one of the bitcoin people who just wants to get into the community before it takes off, and wants to buy all doge cheap.

smartozshibe

i didnt buy $10k, i almost did but i bought in smaller $2000, hoping not to make a profit-i have a good job home etc but to actually use/spend.... an now that $2000 is worth about $200 so now things i could of got with my doge= tshirts stickers etc is much less no one i repeat no one no matter if your worth millions or just some normal average person wants that to happen they will simply move away,to bitcoins an darkcoin etc you can already see it happenin, your previous comment annoys me more than losing the money(which doesnt worry me i bought what i could easily afford) for now ill just hold an hope it atleast goes back to where i got in an hopefully more places are setup to spend doge by then, again your previous comment is why i stopped coming on this sub which isnt a good thing turning people away TLDR i didnt get into doge to make money but certainly didnt to lose money your sort of comments turn ppl away which is not a good thing for doge=ppl moving to bitcoin an darkcoin etc peace shibe friend

i didnt buy $10k, i almost did but i bought in smaller $2000, hoping not to make a profit-i have a good job home etc but to actually use/spend.... an now that $2000 is worth about $200 so now things i could of got with my doge= tshirts stickers etc is much less no one i repeat no one no matter if your worth millions or just some normal average person wants that to happen they will simply move away,to bitcoins an darkcoin etc you can already see it happenin, your previous comment annoys me more than losing the money(which doesnt worry me i bought what i could easily afford) for now ill just hold an hope it atleast goes back to where i got in an hopefully more places are setup to spend doge by then, again your previous comment is why i stopped coming on this sub which isnt a good thing turning people away TLDR i didnt get into doge to make money but certainly didnt to lose money your sort of comments turn ppl away which is not a good thing for doge=ppl moving to bitcoin an darkcoin etc peace shibe friend

dogecoin

t5_2zcp2

ciobk6y

i didnt buy $10k, i almost did but i bought in smaller $2000, hoping not to make a profit-i have a good job home etc but to actually use/spend.... an now that $2000 is worth about $200 so now things i could of got with my doge= tshirts stickers etc is much less no one i repeat no one no matter if your worth millions or just some normal average person wants that to happen they will simply move away,to bitcoins an darkcoin etc you can already see it happenin, your previous comment annoys me more than losing the money(which doesnt worry me i bought what i could easily afford) for now ill just hold an hope it atleast goes back to where i got in an hopefully more places are setup to spend doge by then, again your previous comment is why i stopped coming on this sub which isnt a good thing turning people away

i didnt get into doge to make money but certainly didnt to lose money your sort of comments turn ppl away which is not a good thing for doge=ppl moving to bitcoin an darkcoin etc peace shibe friend

lostatsea93

First off, as another female in a sales (commission only) position, I'm sorry someone said this to you and that you feel humiliated. That really sucks. But. Take it from "one of you". I am also a young twenty-something female, in a high pressure, sales position. In fact, my paycheck is NOT hourly at all. It's commission only. My appearance is judged daily. I sell real estate in Orange County. Every single time I meet with a client, I consider it an interview. Every day. I am a 25 year old female. Not only do I NEED to look clean cut and professional, but I need to look older than 25, considering the clientele I am handling. I need to give them a damn good reason WHY they are hiring me. Good god, I WISH I had the ammunition you now have....to adjust what I am doing now, and to alter what my clients - the ones who will ultimately be writing my paycheck - are saying about me behind my back. I don't get a boss who can say shitty comments to me...when my performance isn't up to where it should be, I simply don't get a paycheck. Clients WILL NOT hire me. FYI: I love wearing yoga pants. I love painting my nails bright colors. I like shopping budget and spending my money on things like traveling. I've always wanted to try that hair style, the "ombre" or whatever its called. I like trendy clothes on pinterest. I think nail art is neat. My cosmetics of CHOICE are chapstick, bare nails and maybe a swipe of mascara. My hair us usually up in a messy bun when I am not at work. But I can't dress like that in what I do, and expect to be considered great at my job. My cosmetics for work include lipstick, liquid liner, mascara, blush, and my nails are almost always manicured now (not by choice). My personal preference for style has little to do with what is expected of me as a working, sales professional. I own designer bags that i didn't even choose, and wear high ticket clothing items that i managed to get on a super-duper sale, because i would never spend 98 dollars on a pair of trousers regularly. feelings are feelings. And personal relationships are personal relationships. But business is business....and Sales is one cut-throat, competitive edge of business. I don't know what industry you are in, but people would stab you in the back in an instant for one real estate transaction in orange county. The least I can do is dress nice, look professional and take care of myself. At the end of the day, when I am commission only, its one less strike against me in an industry stacked against me. My clients are almost ALWAYS interviewing more than one agent. You better believe my ass is dressing to the nines for that check. And more seriously, once the sting of his asshole-ish ness wears away, consider there may be some truth to it. And that if he's saying it to you, there is at least 2-3 other people who have thought it in their heads. Then, clean up those edges...and PM me if you are interested knowing how to get started in a job that will reward you substantially for your sales skills. :) You can't teach people skills and the "it" factor, which it sounds like you have....But you can teach all the other little bullshit in between. EDIT: If you want to be good at sales, keep doing what you are doing. If you want to be GREAT at sales, and make a lot of money (6 plus figures) you're going to need to learn to adapt, and you're going to need to learn how to adapt fast...which includes letting little insults like this roll off your back. Because, truthfully, at the end of the day, whatever he told you (regardless of how it made you "feel") is solely intended to help you improve performance and...make more money. TL:DR: From female to female, and fellow "sales" woman...he's probably a little bit right. Clean up your act and then come sell real estate with me ...and work for no one but yourself every again :)

First off, as another female in a sales (commission only) position, I'm sorry someone said this to you and that you feel humiliated. That really sucks. But. Take it from "one of you". I am also a young twenty-something female, in a high pressure, sales position. In fact, my paycheck is NOT hourly at all. It's commission only. My appearance is judged daily. I sell real estate in Orange County. Every single time I meet with a client, I consider it an interview. Every day. I am a 25 year old female. Not only do I NEED to look clean cut and professional, but I need to look older than 25, considering the clientele I am handling. I need to give them a damn good reason WHY they are hiring me. Good god, I WISH I had the ammunition you now have....to adjust what I am doing now, and to alter what my clients - the ones who will ultimately be writing my paycheck - are saying about me behind my back. I don't get a boss who can say shitty comments to me...when my performance isn't up to where it should be, I simply don't get a paycheck. Clients WILL NOT hire me. FYI: I love wearing yoga pants. I love painting my nails bright colors. I like shopping budget and spending my money on things like traveling. I've always wanted to try that hair style, the "ombre" or whatever its called. I like trendy clothes on pinterest. I think nail art is neat. My cosmetics of CHOICE are chapstick, bare nails and maybe a swipe of mascara. My hair us usually up in a messy bun when I am not at work. But I can't dress like that in what I do, and expect to be considered great at my job. My cosmetics for work include lipstick, liquid liner, mascara, blush, and my nails are almost always manicured now (not by choice). My personal preference for style has little to do with what is expected of me as a working, sales professional. I own designer bags that i didn't even choose, and wear high ticket clothing items that i managed to get on a super-duper sale, because i would never spend 98 dollars on a pair of trousers regularly. feelings are feelings. And personal relationships are personal relationships. But business is business....and Sales is one cut-throat, competitive edge of business. I don't know what industry you are in, but people would stab you in the back in an instant for one real estate transaction in orange county. The least I can do is dress nice, look professional and take care of myself. At the end of the day, when I am commission only, its one less strike against me in an industry stacked against me. My clients are almost ALWAYS interviewing more than one agent. You better believe my ass is dressing to the nines for that check. And more seriously, once the sting of his asshole-ish ness wears away, consider there may be some truth to it. And that if he's saying it to you, there is at least 2-3 other people who have thought it in their heads. Then, clean up those edges...and PM me if you are interested knowing how to get started in a job that will reward you substantially for your sales skills. :) You can't teach people skills and the "it" factor, which it sounds like you have....But you can teach all the other little bullshit in between. EDIT: If you want to be good at sales, keep doing what you are doing. If you want to be GREAT at sales, and make a lot of money (6 plus figures) you're going to need to learn to adapt, and you're going to need to learn how to adapt fast...which includes letting little insults like this roll off your back. Because, truthfully, at the end of the day, whatever he told you (regardless of how it made you "feel") is solely intended to help you improve performance and...make more money. TL:DR: From female to female, and fellow "sales" woman...he's probably a little bit right. Clean up your act and then come sell real estate with me ...and work for no one but yourself every again :)

relationships

t5_2qjvn

cinbhdf

First off, as another female in a sales (commission only) position, I'm sorry someone said this to you and that you feel humiliated. That really sucks. But. Take it from "one of you". I am also a young twenty-something female, in a high pressure, sales position. In fact, my paycheck is NOT hourly at all. It's commission only. My appearance is judged daily. I sell real estate in Orange County. Every single time I meet with a client, I consider it an interview. Every day. I am a 25 year old female. Not only do I NEED to look clean cut and professional, but I need to look older than 25, considering the clientele I am handling. I need to give them a damn good reason WHY they are hiring me. Good god, I WISH I had the ammunition you now have....to adjust what I am doing now, and to alter what my clients - the ones who will ultimately be writing my paycheck - are saying about me behind my back. I don't get a boss who can say shitty comments to me...when my performance isn't up to where it should be, I simply don't get a paycheck. Clients WILL NOT hire me. FYI: I love wearing yoga pants. I love painting my nails bright colors. I like shopping budget and spending my money on things like traveling. I've always wanted to try that hair style, the "ombre" or whatever its called. I like trendy clothes on pinterest. I think nail art is neat. My cosmetics of CHOICE are chapstick, bare nails and maybe a swipe of mascara. My hair us usually up in a messy bun when I am not at work. But I can't dress like that in what I do, and expect to be considered great at my job. My cosmetics for work include lipstick, liquid liner, mascara, blush, and my nails are almost always manicured now (not by choice). My personal preference for style has little to do with what is expected of me as a working, sales professional. I own designer bags that i didn't even choose, and wear high ticket clothing items that i managed to get on a super-duper sale, because i would never spend 98 dollars on a pair of trousers regularly. feelings are feelings. And personal relationships are personal relationships. But business is business....and Sales is one cut-throat, competitive edge of business. I don't know what industry you are in, but people would stab you in the back in an instant for one real estate transaction in orange county. The least I can do is dress nice, look professional and take care of myself. At the end of the day, when I am commission only, its one less strike against me in an industry stacked against me. My clients are almost ALWAYS interviewing more than one agent. You better believe my ass is dressing to the nines for that check. And more seriously, once the sting of his asshole-ish ness wears away, consider there may be some truth to it. And that if he's saying it to you, there is at least 2-3 other people who have thought it in their heads. Then, clean up those edges...and PM me if you are interested knowing how to get started in a job that will reward you substantially for your sales skills. :) You can't teach people skills and the "it" factor, which it sounds like you have....But you can teach all the other little bullshit in between. EDIT: If you want to be good at sales, keep doing what you are doing. If you want to be GREAT at sales, and make a lot of money (6 plus figures) you're going to need to learn to adapt, and you're going to need to learn how to adapt fast...which includes letting little insults like this roll off your back. Because, truthfully, at the end of the day, whatever he told you (regardless of how it made you "feel") is solely intended to help you improve performance and...make more money.

From female to female, and fellow "sales" woman...he's probably a little bit right. Clean up your act and then come sell real estate with me ...and work for no one but yourself every again :)

Arty6060

Before I go on this rant, I want to say that I am a **massive** fan of Warframe. I've got 425 hours clocked into this game. I've gotten so much from this game and every penny I've spent has never felt wasted because this game brought me more joy than I can care to mention. If PW are as bad as I've heard they are, then there's no doubt that I'm quitting Warframe instantly. I am sick and tired of MMO's and F2P's forcing payment onto their players to experience the game that is apparently "free". There is one game that comes to mind when I think F2P done wrong, and that's Spiral Knights. This game used to be **fucking horrifying** because of how pay to win it was. You had about 100 energy daily to use and the only way to play the game was to go down elevators, which cost 10 energy. If you died during a mission, you had to pay 2 energy to revive yourself, then 4 the next time, then 8, then 16, etc etc. To craft gear like armor and weapons, you had to find materials during missions and then you had to pay energy to craft them, and that's IF you had enough money to buy the blueprint. So what did you do when you had no more of that precious 100 energy? You bought more, called 'Crystal Energy', because it must be special if you payed for it with real money right? Not only that, but energy prices were **not** good, whatever country you lived in. Spiral Knights wasn't even monitored by PW, but it taught me just how fucking despicable F2P's could be with their handling of real money purchases and their necessity to actually play the fucking game. Warframe does things differently. Yes, you can pay for items to get them quicker, but unlike Spiral Knights, Warframe allows an easier and quicker way to get items without spending a dime. There's blueprints that you find in the marketplace that you can buy with the non real world money currency (platinum in this game) that you can craft easily through gathering materials. How do you gather materials? Play the game. Does the game charge admission for you to do a mission? Hell no. These blueprints allow easy access to weapons, and while the blueprints take time to complete, your still not paying anything. The game doesn't punish you for not paying in a game that's advertised as free, unlike Spiral Knights. And that's why if /u/MysteryNotes is right in saying PW introduces P2W in anything they get their shit-stained fingers on, then Warframe will lose the one thing that brought people back to it, its accessibility. The day PW acquires DE is the day I die a little inside and uninstall Warframe immediately. TL;DR: Fuck P2W, Fuck false advertisements of F2P's, but most importantly, fuck the scumbags at PW that turn good games to shit with their fucking atrocious business models. Don't, and I mean don't fucking dare touch Warframe.

Before I go on this rant, I want to say that I am a massive fan of Warframe. I've got 425 hours clocked into this game. I've gotten so much from this game and every penny I've spent has never felt wasted because this game brought me more joy than I can care to mention. If PW are as bad as I've heard they are, then there's no doubt that I'm quitting Warframe instantly. I am sick and tired of MMO's and F2P's forcing payment onto their players to experience the game that is apparently "free". There is one game that comes to mind when I think F2P done wrong, and that's Spiral Knights. This game used to be fucking horrifying because of how pay to win it was. You had about 100 energy daily to use and the only way to play the game was to go down elevators, which cost 10 energy. If you died during a mission, you had to pay 2 energy to revive yourself, then 4 the next time, then 8, then 16, etc etc. To craft gear like armor and weapons, you had to find materials during missions and then you had to pay energy to craft them, and that's IF you had enough money to buy the blueprint. So what did you do when you had no more of that precious 100 energy? You bought more, called 'Crystal Energy', because it must be special if you payed for it with real money right? Not only that, but energy prices were not good, whatever country you lived in. Spiral Knights wasn't even monitored by PW, but it taught me just how fucking despicable F2P's could be with their handling of real money purchases and their necessity to actually play the fucking game. Warframe does things differently. Yes, you can pay for items to get them quicker, but unlike Spiral Knights, Warframe allows an easier and quicker way to get items without spending a dime. There's blueprints that you find in the marketplace that you can buy with the non real world money currency (platinum in this game) that you can craft easily through gathering materials. How do you gather materials? Play the game. Does the game charge admission for you to do a mission? Hell no. These blueprints allow easy access to weapons, and while the blueprints take time to complete, your still not paying anything. The game doesn't punish you for not paying in a game that's advertised as free, unlike Spiral Knights. And that's why if /u/MysteryNotes is right in saying PW introduces P2W in anything they get their shit-stained fingers on, then Warframe will lose the one thing that brought people back to it, its accessibility. The day PW acquires DE is the day I die a little inside and uninstall Warframe immediately. TL;DR: Fuck P2W, Fuck false advertisements of F2P's, but most importantly, fuck the scumbags at PW that turn good games to shit with their fucking atrocious business models. Don't, and I mean don't fucking dare touch Warframe.

Games

t5_2qhwp

cimxfao

Before I go on this rant, I want to say that I am a massive fan of Warframe. I've got 425 hours clocked into this game. I've gotten so much from this game and every penny I've spent has never felt wasted because this game brought me more joy than I can care to mention. If PW are as bad as I've heard they are, then there's no doubt that I'm quitting Warframe instantly. I am sick and tired of MMO's and F2P's forcing payment onto their players to experience the game that is apparently "free". There is one game that comes to mind when I think F2P done wrong, and that's Spiral Knights. This game used to be fucking horrifying because of how pay to win it was. You had about 100 energy daily to use and the only way to play the game was to go down elevators, which cost 10 energy. If you died during a mission, you had to pay 2 energy to revive yourself, then 4 the next time, then 8, then 16, etc etc. To craft gear like armor and weapons, you had to find materials during missions and then you had to pay energy to craft them, and that's IF you had enough money to buy the blueprint. So what did you do when you had no more of that precious 100 energy? You bought more, called 'Crystal Energy', because it must be special if you payed for it with real money right? Not only that, but energy prices were not good, whatever country you lived in. Spiral Knights wasn't even monitored by PW, but it taught me just how fucking despicable F2P's could be with their handling of real money purchases and their necessity to actually play the fucking game. Warframe does things differently. Yes, you can pay for items to get them quicker, but unlike Spiral Knights, Warframe allows an easier and quicker way to get items without spending a dime. There's blueprints that you find in the marketplace that you can buy with the non real world money currency (platinum in this game) that you can craft easily through gathering materials. How do you gather materials? Play the game. Does the game charge admission for you to do a mission? Hell no. These blueprints allow easy access to weapons, and while the blueprints take time to complete, your still not paying anything. The game doesn't punish you for not paying in a game that's advertised as free, unlike Spiral Knights. And that's why if /u/MysteryNotes is right in saying PW introduces P2W in anything they get their shit-stained fingers on, then Warframe will lose the one thing that brought people back to it, its accessibility. The day PW acquires DE is the day I die a little inside and uninstall Warframe immediately.

Fuck P2W, Fuck false advertisements of F2P's, but most importantly, fuck the scumbags at PW that turn good games to shit with their fucking atrocious business models. Don't, and I mean don't fucking dare touch Warframe.

Toplandfamilymiracle

I'm worried (and this might be a little alarmist) but since Rob, Bro Team, Khail, John (earlier in the year) are or have all left, I'm scared all this tumultuous turn over will affect IG. I know Adam owns part of Machinima so he is safe and he probably gets a lot of say in who he works with but it still makes me worried other people might move on. I know nothing is permanent but the IG community is barely starting to burgeon into something beautiful and I would hate it to lose steam. I wouldn't have been so freaked out except that It's fricking Khail! I'm gonna miss him a ton, I miss the bench episodes, they always made me feel like you were talking to a friend (cheesy I know). I wish the ETC team the best in continuing on without him. tl;dr Khail you're awesome, and Someone lock the Machinima office doors so no one else can leave.

I'm worried (and this might be a little alarmist) but since Rob, Bro Team, Khail, John (earlier in the year) are or have all left, I'm scared all this tumultuous turn over will affect IG. I know Adam owns part of Machinima so he is safe and he probably gets a lot of say in who he works with but it still makes me worried other people might move on. I know nothing is permanent but the IG community is barely starting to burgeon into something beautiful and I would hate it to lose steam. I wouldn't have been so freaked out except that It's fricking Khail! I'm gonna miss him a ton, I miss the bench episodes, they always made me feel like you were talking to a friend (cheesy I know). I wish the ETC team the best in continuing on without him. tl;dr Khail you're awesome, and Someone lock the Machinima office doors so no one else can leave.

InsideGaming

t5_2xyqu

cimylct

I'm worried (and this might be a little alarmist) but since Rob, Bro Team, Khail, John (earlier in the year) are or have all left, I'm scared all this tumultuous turn over will affect IG. I know Adam owns part of Machinima so he is safe and he probably gets a lot of say in who he works with but it still makes me worried other people might move on. I know nothing is permanent but the IG community is barely starting to burgeon into something beautiful and I would hate it to lose steam. I wouldn't have been so freaked out except that It's fricking Khail! I'm gonna miss him a ton, I miss the bench episodes, they always made me feel like you were talking to a friend (cheesy I know). I wish the ETC team the best in continuing on without him.

Khail you're awesome, and Someone lock the Machinima office doors so no one else can leave.

Dalroc

You share 100% of your genes with yourself. You share 50% with your parents, and therefore your siblings as well. So how much do you share with your first cousin? Well, let's start by looking at your aunt/uncle. They share 50% of their genes with your parent, and you share 50% with your parent. 50% * 50% = 25% Now, your first cousin will share 50% with his/her parent. 50% * 25% = 12.5% So everything with 12.75% or less of your genes will be cool. How many generations do we need, to make sure there will always be a supply of sub-12.75% relatives, that can be connected and propagated without future clashes? Theoretically, it's not much.. A first cousin is 3 "steps" in a family tree, where which each "step" a multiplier of .5 is factored in. A step is only allowed between parents/children and siblings. You -[1]-&gt; Parent -[2]-&gt; Aunt/Uncle -[3]-&gt; First cousin We simply have to trace backwards in the family tree three steps. You -[1]-&gt; Parent -[2]-&gt; Grandparent -[3]-&gt; Great stuff Now every single offspring from your great-uncle/-aunt will be 4 or more steps away, and there for have less than 12.75% of your genes. How many people does this equate? Well, you have two parents, four grandparents and eight great-grandparents. So assuming everyone keeps having at least 2 babies each, of each gender, we can repopulate the Earth with only 8 people at a 12.75% gene equalization point. ____ This can be generalized. The shared genes decrease with the formula: 100/2^n ^(Where n is the amount of steps taken in the family tree) And the amount of people needed scales with 2^n . From this we can conclude, that theoretically, you need... dispersity of genes for steps or population: Q = 100/2^n = 100/P steps for genes shared: Q = 100/2^n =&gt; Q*2^n = 100 =&gt; 2^n = 100/Q =&gt; log(2^n) = log(100/Q) =&gt; n*log(2) = log(100) - log(Q) =&gt; n = [log(100)-log(Q)] / log(2) people for genes shared: P = 100/Q ____ So if there was a mass extinction, and only 1000 people live. What is the most efficient dispersity we can have when it starts equaling out? Q = 100/P = 100/1000 = 1/10 = 0.1 0.1% genes shared within the population, and this would be achieved after n = [log(100)-log(Q)] / log(2) =&gt; n = [log(100)-log(0.1)] / log(2) = 9.97 10 generations, or about 280 years. This is ofcourse assuming perfect mixing of the couples. _____ Considering there's 3.2 billion base pairs in our DNA, how many people do we need to get only one single pair shared on average between people, and how long would it take to equal out? Well, we know how to calculate percent. So let's convert. 100% = 3.2 billion =&gt; 1% = 32 million =&gt; 0.1% = 3.2 million =&gt; 0.0001% = 3.2 thousand =&gt; 0.0000001% = 3.2 =&gt; 0.00000003125% = 1 P = 100/Q =&gt; P = 100/0.00000003125 = 3.2 billion Well... Look at that! Not so surprising if you know maths! So how long would it take? n = [log(100)-log(0.00000003125)] / log(2) = 31.57 32 generations, or 900 years. ____ TL;DR: We might all have the same heritage, but the genes are so diluted, that calling us all closely related is like homepathy.

You share 100% of your genes with yourself. You share 50% with your parents, and therefore your siblings as well. So how much do you share with your first cousin? Well, let's start by looking at your aunt/uncle. They share 50% of their genes with your parent, and you share 50% with your parent. 50% * 50% = 25% Now, your first cousin will share 50% with his/her parent. 50% * 25% = 12.5% So everything with 12.75% or less of your genes will be cool. How many generations do we need, to make sure there will always be a supply of sub-12.75% relatives, that can be connected and propagated without future clashes? Theoretically, it's not much.. A first cousin is 3 "steps" in a family tree, where which each "step" a multiplier of .5 is factored in. A step is only allowed between parents/children and siblings. You -[1]-&gt; Parent -[2]-&gt; Aunt/Uncle -[3]-&gt; First cousin We simply have to trace backwards in the family tree three steps. You -[1]-&gt; Parent -[2]-&gt; Grandparent -[3]-&gt; Great stuff Now every single offspring from your great-uncle/-aunt will be 4 or more steps away, and there for have less than 12.75% of your genes. How many people does this equate? Well, you have two parents, four grandparents and eight great-grandparents. So assuming everyone keeps having at least 2 babies each, of each gender, we can repopulate the Earth with only 8 people at a 12.75% gene equalization point. This can be generalized. The shared genes decrease with the formula: 100/2^n ^(Where n is the amount of steps taken in the family tree) And the amount of people needed scales with 2^n . From this we can conclude, that theoretically, you need... dispersity of genes for steps or population: Q = 100/2^n = 100/P steps for genes shared: Q = 100/2^n =&gt; Q*2^n = 100 =&gt; 2^n = 100/Q =&gt; log(2^n) = log(100/Q) =&gt; n*log(2) = log(100) - log(Q) =&gt; n = [log(100)-log(Q)] / log(2) people for genes shared: P = 100/Q So if there was a mass extinction, and only 1000 people live. What is the most efficient dispersity we can have when it starts equaling out? Q = 100/P = 100/1000 = 1/10 = 0.1 0.1% genes shared within the population, and this would be achieved after n = [log(100)-log(Q)] / log(2) =&gt; n = [log(100)-log(0.1)] / log(2) = 9.97 10 generations, or about 280 years. This is ofcourse assuming perfect mixing of the couples. Considering there's 3.2 billion base pairs in our DNA, how many people do we need to get only one single pair shared on average between people, and how long would it take to equal out? Well, we know how to calculate percent. So let's convert. 100% = 3.2 billion =&gt; 1% = 32 million =&gt; 0.1% = 3.2 million =&gt; 0.0001% = 3.2 thousand =&gt; 0.0000001% = 3.2 =&gt; 0.00000003125% = 1 P = 100/Q =&gt; P = 100/0.00000003125 = 3.2 billion Well... Look at that! Not so surprising if you know maths! So how long would it take? n = [log(100)-log(0.00000003125)] / log(2) = 31.57 32 generations, or 900 years. TL;DR: We might all have the same heritage, but the genes are so diluted, that calling us all closely related is like homepathy.

theydidthemath

t5_2x23b

cin4j7b

You share 100% of your genes with yourself. You share 50% with your parents, and therefore your siblings as well. So how much do you share with your first cousin? Well, let's start by looking at your aunt/uncle. They share 50% of their genes with your parent, and you share 50% with your parent. 50% * 50% = 25% Now, your first cousin will share 50% with his/her parent. 50% * 25% = 12.5% So everything with 12.75% or less of your genes will be cool. How many generations do we need, to make sure there will always be a supply of sub-12.75% relatives, that can be connected and propagated without future clashes? Theoretically, it's not much.. A first cousin is 3 "steps" in a family tree, where which each "step" a multiplier of .5 is factored in. A step is only allowed between parents/children and siblings. You -[1]-&gt; Parent -[2]-&gt; Aunt/Uncle -[3]-&gt; First cousin We simply have to trace backwards in the family tree three steps. You -[1]-&gt; Parent -[2]-&gt; Grandparent -[3]-&gt; Great stuff Now every single offspring from your great-uncle/-aunt will be 4 or more steps away, and there for have less than 12.75% of your genes. How many people does this equate? Well, you have two parents, four grandparents and eight great-grandparents. So assuming everyone keeps having at least 2 babies each, of each gender, we can repopulate the Earth with only 8 people at a 12.75% gene equalization point. This can be generalized. The shared genes decrease with the formula: 100/2^n ^(Where n is the amount of steps taken in the family tree) And the amount of people needed scales with 2^n . From this we can conclude, that theoretically, you need... dispersity of genes for steps or population: Q = 100/2^n = 100/P steps for genes shared: Q = 100/2^n =&gt; Q*2^n = 100 =&gt; 2^n = 100/Q =&gt; log(2^n) = log(100/Q) =&gt; n*log(2) = log(100) - log(Q) =&gt; n = [log(100)-log(Q)] / log(2) people for genes shared: P = 100/Q So if there was a mass extinction, and only 1000 people live. What is the most efficient dispersity we can have when it starts equaling out? Q = 100/P = 100/1000 = 1/10 = 0.1 0.1% genes shared within the population, and this would be achieved after n = [log(100)-log(Q)] / log(2) =&gt; n = [log(100)-log(0.1)] / log(2) = 9.97 10 generations, or about 280 years. This is ofcourse assuming perfect mixing of the couples. Considering there's 3.2 billion base pairs in our DNA, how many people do we need to get only one single pair shared on average between people, and how long would it take to equal out? Well, we know how to calculate percent. So let's convert. 100% = 3.2 billion =&gt; 1% = 32 million =&gt; 0.1% = 3.2 million =&gt; 0.0001% = 3.2 thousand =&gt; 0.0000001% = 3.2 =&gt; 0.00000003125% = 1 P = 100/Q =&gt; P = 100/0.00000003125 = 3.2 billion Well... Look at that! Not so surprising if you know maths! So how long would it take? n = [log(100)-log(0.00000003125)] / log(2) = 31.57 32 generations, or 900 years.

We might all have the same heritage, but the genes are so diluted, that calling us all closely related is like homepathy.

xEcuted

I've been playing quite a few games online since i was like 12 years old. MMORPGs, FPS, MOBAs and DayZ. The rush of adrenaline and the shaking hands rarely happen. It occured frequently in a mmorpg called Tibia, where the death penalty is huge. When our guild went for extreme leveling or boss hunting my pulse was rising fast as one fail would possibly mean that the gains of the previous 6h or even 3 days were gone. I never had this feeling in any FPS as getting killed and killing is happening all the time and i have never played any FPS on a pro level. I had this adrenaline rush in my very first ranked games in league of legends but after hundreds of ranked games with a 55% win ratio its hard to get amazed. So I guess what makes dayZ that fascinating and tense is the fact that one has to gear up for an hour if not more. Furthermore we have this post apocaliptic atmosphere (a bit at least) and beeing on a server with 20 people on such a huge map makes the probability of meeting another player quite slim but yet you always have to be aware of the fact that you are not alone. Beeing not alone adds the feeling of constantly being watched. Hearing someone but not seeing him freaks you out. When he suddenly jumps in front of you you either spray'n'prey or run coz u cant stand the pressure. TL;DR : DayZ is awesome because its DayZ

I've been playing quite a few games online since i was like 12 years old. MMORPGs, FPS, MOBAs and DayZ. The rush of adrenaline and the shaking hands rarely happen. It occured frequently in a mmorpg called Tibia, where the death penalty is huge. When our guild went for extreme leveling or boss hunting my pulse was rising fast as one fail would possibly mean that the gains of the previous 6h or even 3 days were gone. I never had this feeling in any FPS as getting killed and killing is happening all the time and i have never played any FPS on a pro level. I had this adrenaline rush in my very first ranked games in league of legends but after hundreds of ranked games with a 55% win ratio its hard to get amazed. So I guess what makes dayZ that fascinating and tense is the fact that one has to gear up for an hour if not more. Furthermore we have this post apocaliptic atmosphere (a bit at least) and beeing on a server with 20 people on such a huge map makes the probability of meeting another player quite slim but yet you always have to be aware of the fact that you are not alone. Beeing not alone adds the feeling of constantly being watched. Hearing someone but not seeing him freaks you out. When he suddenly jumps in front of you you either spray'n'prey or run coz u cant stand the pressure. TL;DR : DayZ is awesome because its DayZ

dayz

t5_2ty3s

cin26ka

I've been playing quite a few games online since i was like 12 years old. MMORPGs, FPS, MOBAs and DayZ. The rush of adrenaline and the shaking hands rarely happen. It occured frequently in a mmorpg called Tibia, where the death penalty is huge. When our guild went for extreme leveling or boss hunting my pulse was rising fast as one fail would possibly mean that the gains of the previous 6h or even 3 days were gone. I never had this feeling in any FPS as getting killed and killing is happening all the time and i have never played any FPS on a pro level. I had this adrenaline rush in my very first ranked games in league of legends but after hundreds of ranked games with a 55% win ratio its hard to get amazed. So I guess what makes dayZ that fascinating and tense is the fact that one has to gear up for an hour if not more. Furthermore we have this post apocaliptic atmosphere (a bit at least) and beeing on a server with 20 people on such a huge map makes the probability of meeting another player quite slim but yet you always have to be aware of the fact that you are not alone. Beeing not alone adds the feeling of constantly being watched. Hearing someone but not seeing him freaks you out. When he suddenly jumps in front of you you either spray'n'prey or run coz u cant stand the pressure.

DayZ is awesome because its DayZ

Lothar_Ecklord

&gt; the point I was trying to disprove There's your problem. This is a tongue in cheek comment on a tongue in cheek sub-reddit. &gt; So I could see how you'd think You're writing in a very condescending way which takes away from the playful and upbeat tone of this sub. TL;DR - Stop trying to nitpick things you read on the internet, and celebrate the 4th like a true American would - enjoy it and accept that America now owns the NHL. You damn commie.

> the point I was trying to disprove There's your problem. This is a tongue in cheek comment on a tongue in cheek sub-reddit. > So I could see how you'd think You're writing in a very condescending way which takes away from the playful and upbeat tone of this sub. TL;DR - Stop trying to nitpick things you read on the internet, and celebrate the 4th like a true American would - enjoy it and accept that America now owns the NHL. You damn commie.

MURICA

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cinl7zk

the point I was trying to disprove There's your problem. This is a tongue in cheek comment on a tongue in cheek sub-reddit. > So I could see how you'd think You're writing in a very condescending way which takes away from the playful and upbeat tone of this sub.

Stop trying to nitpick things you read on the internet, and celebrate the 4th like a true American would - enjoy it and accept that America now owns the NHL. You damn commie.

Thurokiir

Pardo was the man who worked PvP in WoW, which as an element of gameplay in an MMO stood as aberrant from the rest of the World of Warcraft environment. He was the one who pushed forward Arena, Resilience and "balance" essentially gutting the fun of WoW's pve while never achieving anything in PvP gameplay. Diablo 3 is a shade of what it could have been. As it stands, D3 is WoW in isometric view nothing new, but also not standing for anything in the video game genre. Wow was a fantastic game that due to Pardos constant pressure to the PvP aspect, was ruined. Diablo 3 literally had a blueprint to success, instead the wheel was remade and it is a mealymouthed shade of what it could have been. TLDR: Pardo is the king of Homogenization and it ruined some of the best titles in video gaming. Thank god he is gone.

Pardo was the man who worked PvP in WoW, which as an element of gameplay in an MMO stood as aberrant from the rest of the World of Warcraft environment. He was the one who pushed forward Arena, Resilience and "balance" essentially gutting the fun of WoW's pve while never achieving anything in PvP gameplay. Diablo 3 is a shade of what it could have been. As it stands, D3 is WoW in isometric view nothing new, but also not standing for anything in the video game genre. Wow was a fantastic game that due to Pardos constant pressure to the PvP aspect, was ruined. Diablo 3 literally had a blueprint to success, instead the wheel was remade and it is a mealymouthed shade of what it could have been. TLDR: Pardo is the king of Homogenization and it ruined some of the best titles in video gaming. Thank god he is gone.

Diablo

t5_2qore

cinw4jd

Pardo was the man who worked PvP in WoW, which as an element of gameplay in an MMO stood as aberrant from the rest of the World of Warcraft environment. He was the one who pushed forward Arena, Resilience and "balance" essentially gutting the fun of WoW's pve while never achieving anything in PvP gameplay. Diablo 3 is a shade of what it could have been. As it stands, D3 is WoW in isometric view nothing new, but also not standing for anything in the video game genre. Wow was a fantastic game that due to Pardos constant pressure to the PvP aspect, was ruined. Diablo 3 literally had a blueprint to success, instead the wheel was remade and it is a mealymouthed shade of what it could have been.

Pardo is the king of Homogenization and it ruined some of the best titles in video gaming. Thank god he is gone.

awesome2000-

Owner of both here: 1. The m6 sound much more sibilant than the monos. However, it does get better over time. The monos sound more balanced. 2. The monos have awful awful fit *compared* to the m6. Both benefit from wrapping the cable over the ear. 3. The m6 come with more accessories including a shirt clip. 4. The m6 have less micro phonics. Tl;dr: M6 *P,S: From the m6, I upgraded to the Xiaomi Pistons 2. Those, however, are not as good for biking and manual travel* Good luck! :D

Owner of both here: The m6 sound much more sibilant than the monos. However, it does get better over time. The monos sound more balanced. The monos have awful awful fit compared to the m6. Both benefit from wrapping the cable over the ear. The m6 come with more accessories including a shirt clip. The m6 have less micro phonics. Tl;dr: M6 P,S: From the m6, I upgraded to the Xiaomi Pistons 2. Those, however, are not as good for biking and manual travel Good luck! :D

headphones

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cio2jyb

Owner of both here: The m6 sound much more sibilant than the monos. However, it does get better over time. The monos sound more balanced. The monos have awful awful fit compared to the m6. Both benefit from wrapping the cable over the ear. The m6 come with more accessories including a shirt clip. The m6 have less micro phonics.

M6 P,S: From the m6, I upgraded to the Xiaomi Pistons 2. Those, however, are not as good for biking and manual travel Good luck! :D

Zynchronize

I worked at a recycling plant last summer; there is a sorting line at which a team of people place each item in the right container as a conveyor belt pulls items in. Any non-reusable items fall of the end of the conveyor into a general waste container. EDIT: However, if it is a load of something from a business e.g. plastic wrap then it just goes straight into the shredder followed by the compressor and they are charged extra for any 'difficulties'. We empty out cans/bottles that still had stuff in them. If we came across a stone in a can we would cut the can in half to remove it. But why go to the hassle? you may ask. Well, before the cans are sent off to be melted down they go through an industrial shredder which -while good at shredding metal, paper and plastic- can be damaged by stones as they can chip or blunt the blades. It goes through a shredder so that more cans (or other material) can be melted down at once, a more efficient load. usually no stones will make it to the furnace as when material is loaded the smaller and heavier stones just fall to the bottom of the pile, when a lorry/truck drops it off they end up on the floor and are swept away. Hopefully that explains it well enough for you; I felt some of these responses were fairly outdated. tl;dr: People sort the messy stuff, manually remove any remaining substances (inc. stones), items that come from businesses are treated as presorted and instantly shredded, charge extra if not sorted, Shredded items take up less space so more efficient when placed in furnace.

I worked at a recycling plant last summer; there is a sorting line at which a team of people place each item in the right container as a conveyor belt pulls items in. Any non-reusable items fall of the end of the conveyor into a general waste container. EDIT: However, if it is a load of something from a business e.g. plastic wrap then it just goes straight into the shredder followed by the compressor and they are charged extra for any 'difficulties'. We empty out cans/bottles that still had stuff in them. If we came across a stone in a can we would cut the can in half to remove it. But why go to the hassle? you may ask. Well, before the cans are sent off to be melted down they go through an industrial shredder which -while good at shredding metal, paper and plastic- can be damaged by stones as they can chip or blunt the blades. It goes through a shredder so that more cans (or other material) can be melted down at once, a more efficient load. usually no stones will make it to the furnace as when material is loaded the smaller and heavier stones just fall to the bottom of the pile, when a lorry/truck drops it off they end up on the floor and are swept away. Hopefully that explains it well enough for you; I felt some of these responses were fairly outdated. tl;dr: People sort the messy stuff, manually remove any remaining substances (inc. stones), items that come from businesses are treated as presorted and instantly shredded, charge extra if not sorted, Shredded items take up less space so more efficient when placed in furnace.

explainlikeimfive

t5_2sokd

ciob0f3

I worked at a recycling plant last summer; there is a sorting line at which a team of people place each item in the right container as a conveyor belt pulls items in. Any non-reusable items fall of the end of the conveyor into a general waste container. EDIT: However, if it is a load of something from a business e.g. plastic wrap then it just goes straight into the shredder followed by the compressor and they are charged extra for any 'difficulties'. We empty out cans/bottles that still had stuff in them. If we came across a stone in a can we would cut the can in half to remove it. But why go to the hassle? you may ask. Well, before the cans are sent off to be melted down they go through an industrial shredder which -while good at shredding metal, paper and plastic- can be damaged by stones as they can chip or blunt the blades. It goes through a shredder so that more cans (or other material) can be melted down at once, a more efficient load. usually no stones will make it to the furnace as when material is loaded the smaller and heavier stones just fall to the bottom of the pile, when a lorry/truck drops it off they end up on the floor and are swept away. Hopefully that explains it well enough for you; I felt some of these responses were fairly outdated.

People sort the messy stuff, manually remove any remaining substances (inc. stones), items that come from businesses are treated as presorted and instantly shredded, charge extra if not sorted, Shredded items take up less space so more efficient when placed in furnace.

smile_longboards

I've been lurking for some time with my other username ( eddygordouk ) but thought it best to post this under the shop I help run with my friend in the southern part of the UK. I havn't seen anyone with a similar setup per say, so I thought I'd share my setup with you all and see what you think! Deck is from a small time manufacture called Da Silva from Israel which make some lovely creations, similar to Rayne construction in terms of lightweight yet stiff but brick in shape. Really allows you to do almost anything, as you can see in the pictures ( next time I will have DH / Freeride to post! ). I also wanted to just say a friendly hello to everybody in this great subreddit and especially to all the UK folks who stick through the tumultuous weather and keep longboarding alive. I import and distribute a variety of manufactures ( Jati , LBL , Clutch/Soda Factory , Buddywood , Bastl ) that aren't that prolifically seen so if anyone has questions, I have answers! I hope I don't come across as pushing anything, just wanted to say hello and mention that I would like to be more involved within this subreddit now that I've introduced myself. Cheers! **TL;DR Hi everybody!**

I've been lurking for some time with my other username ( eddygordouk ) but thought it best to post this under the shop I help run with my friend in the southern part of the UK. I havn't seen anyone with a similar setup per say, so I thought I'd share my setup with you all and see what you think! Deck is from a small time manufacture called Da Silva from Israel which make some lovely creations, similar to Rayne construction in terms of lightweight yet stiff but brick in shape. Really allows you to do almost anything, as you can see in the pictures ( next time I will have DH / Freeride to post! ). I also wanted to just say a friendly hello to everybody in this great subreddit and especially to all the UK folks who stick through the tumultuous weather and keep longboarding alive. I import and distribute a variety of manufactures ( Jati , LBL , Clutch/Soda Factory , Buddywood , Bastl ) that aren't that prolifically seen so if anyone has questions, I have answers! I hope I don't come across as pushing anything, just wanted to say hello and mention that I would like to be more involved within this subreddit now that I've introduced myself. Cheers! TL;DR Hi everybody!

longboarding

t5_2qvgw

ciod2ry

I've been lurking for some time with my other username ( eddygordouk ) but thought it best to post this under the shop I help run with my friend in the southern part of the UK. I havn't seen anyone with a similar setup per say, so I thought I'd share my setup with you all and see what you think! Deck is from a small time manufacture called Da Silva from Israel which make some lovely creations, similar to Rayne construction in terms of lightweight yet stiff but brick in shape. Really allows you to do almost anything, as you can see in the pictures ( next time I will have DH / Freeride to post! ). I also wanted to just say a friendly hello to everybody in this great subreddit and especially to all the UK folks who stick through the tumultuous weather and keep longboarding alive. I import and distribute a variety of manufactures ( Jati , LBL , Clutch/Soda Factory , Buddywood , Bastl ) that aren't that prolifically seen so if anyone has questions, I have answers! I hope I don't come across as pushing anything, just wanted to say hello and mention that I would like to be more involved within this subreddit now that I've introduced myself. Cheers!

Hi everybody!

martulina13

I posted it in the rant thread yestreday because I honestly am getting too tired of those things: Smite is a TEAM game. No matter what role I play, but especially if it's just arena and i am the tank people should follow...and they don't! They don't understand team play. Someone is in trouble? "Why do I care, I am ____ with 5000-0-594853, i cant carry this game if they keep feeding". Too many people think this is a game about ONE person getting all the glory. I dont mind leaving a match with 0-10 as long as I know I contributed. But that has happened to me MAYBE 3 times. And I played quite a bit now. I don't know what is there to blame, is it elo, is it bad luck with matchmaking, and I don't know if i care anymore. TL;DR: If i don't have a team that works, then there won't be any saving the 5-25 or 10k difference in gold (even if its smaller). Because you can try your hardest, you can be amazing in K/D but it still won;t matter because you are being left by your team; everyone is going 1 vs everybody else and you can't do anything about it. Talking doesn't help either because then they think you're being salty.

I posted it in the rant thread yestreday because I honestly am getting too tired of those things: Smite is a TEAM game. No matter what role I play, but especially if it's just arena and i am the tank people should follow...and they don't! They don't understand team play. Someone is in trouble? "Why do I care, I am __ with 5000-0-594853, i cant carry this game if they keep feeding". Too many people think this is a game about ONE person getting all the glory. I dont mind leaving a match with 0-10 as long as I know I contributed. But that has happened to me MAYBE 3 times. And I played quite a bit now. I don't know what is there to blame, is it elo, is it bad luck with matchmaking, and I don't know if i care anymore. TL;DR: If i don't have a team that works, then there won't be any saving the 5-25 or 10k difference in gold (even if its smaller). Because you can try your hardest, you can be amazing in K/D but it still won;t matter because you are being left by your team; everyone is going 1 vs everybody else and you can't do anything about it. Talking doesn't help either because then they think you're being salty.

Smite

t5_2stl8

ciokgtr

I posted it in the rant thread yestreday because I honestly am getting too tired of those things: Smite is a TEAM game. No matter what role I play, but especially if it's just arena and i am the tank people should follow...and they don't! They don't understand team play. Someone is in trouble? "Why do I care, I am __ with 5000-0-594853, i cant carry this game if they keep feeding". Too many people think this is a game about ONE person getting all the glory. I dont mind leaving a match with 0-10 as long as I know I contributed. But that has happened to me MAYBE 3 times. And I played quite a bit now. I don't know what is there to blame, is it elo, is it bad luck with matchmaking, and I don't know if i care anymore.

If i don't have a team that works, then there won't be any saving the 5-25 or 10k difference in gold (even if its smaller). Because you can try your hardest, you can be amazing in K/D but it still won;t matter because you are being left by your team; everyone is going 1 vs everybody else and you can't do anything about it. Talking doesn't help either because then they think you're being salty.

Pperson25

Alright, you listen here you god damn **FASCIST** in denial. This is America go damn it, and in America, we love this thing called freedom. Do you want to know why we have freedom? Do you want to know why freedom is amazing? I'll tell you. You see, I am merely a man, but I am a man god damn it; the same applies to you. My beliefs and opinions are just as valid as yours (how they are justified might not be, but that is for the free market to decide). So if that is the case, then why should a government say that one opinion is intrinsically superior to another? So we made this thing called freedom, which lets all opinions, beliefs, and ideologies prosper to the best of their abilities. The free market then decides whether or not people subscribe to them. Saying that your opinion **ON A SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON** conflicting with another person's opinion makes that person less American **IS WHAT GOD DAMN FASCISTS DO** TL;DR ###Love and Tolerance is god damn patriotic

Alright, you listen here you god damn FASCIST in denial. This is America go damn it, and in America, we love this thing called freedom. Do you want to know why we have freedom? Do you want to know why freedom is amazing? I'll tell you. You see, I am merely a man, but I am a man god damn it; the same applies to you. My beliefs and opinions are just as valid as yours (how they are justified might not be, but that is for the free market to decide). So if that is the case, then why should a government say that one opinion is intrinsically superior to another? So we made this thing called freedom, which lets all opinions, beliefs, and ideologies prosper to the best of their abilities. The free market then decides whether or not people subscribe to them. Saying that your opinion ON A SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON conflicting with another person's opinion makes that person less American IS WHAT GOD DAMN FASCISTS DO TL;DR Love and Tolerance is god damn patriotic

MURICA

t5_2u28p

ciopv3c

Alright, you listen here you god damn FASCIST in denial. This is America go damn it, and in America, we love this thing called freedom. Do you want to know why we have freedom? Do you want to know why freedom is amazing? I'll tell you. You see, I am merely a man, but I am a man god damn it; the same applies to you. My beliefs and opinions are just as valid as yours (how they are justified might not be, but that is for the free market to decide). So if that is the case, then why should a government say that one opinion is intrinsically superior to another? So we made this thing called freedom, which lets all opinions, beliefs, and ideologies prosper to the best of their abilities. The free market then decides whether or not people subscribe to them. Saying that your opinion ON A SATURDAY MORNING CARTOON conflicting with another person's opinion makes that person less American IS WHAT GOD DAMN FASCISTS DO

Love and Tolerance is god damn patriotic

uidsea

Halfway through writing this I realized I have a lot to say so sorry for any wall of text. One thing that kind of hits home with me is everyone always says "Be louder, be more active, be funny, be interesting, etc." I'm sorry but my personality is calm and reserved and I hate shouting and making an idiot of myself for random people online. When my friends first found out about my LPs they were like "Why are you so quiet? If you aren't loud like Pewds you'll never get big." (That also isn't taking a crack at Pewds, Im a bro and love him but he is really the only thing a lot of people know about Let's Play channels.) The thing is that if I'm a reserved person off camera, why would I be a boisterous person on camera? Another thing that bothers me is when people won't try and progress when they complain about it. I've seen channels of all sizes kind of keep themselves locked into a certain thing be it game series, genre, format of videos, etc when they complain about being stuck in one type of video for their entire youtube "career." Hell, I originally only did horror games but now I'm posting fast rap covers and indie titles. If you want to change, do it or quit complaining. Something that really bothers me is trash talking one channel over another. I get fandoms and everything, especially with the bigger channels, a lot of fans are disillusioned into thinking the youtubers aren't normal people like you and I, but for the love of the Great Goat in the Sky if you don't like channel X because they're a scumlord, don't tell me and don't spam the person's channel. Do you really think that someone who puts their life into these videos wants to hear about how they missed this specific instance where you could have saved 0.004623 seconds on the level/life/game/whatever and you aren't the god of video games? Something that happens far less often but is still seen is when larger channels (Over 500k subs or something similar) isn't grateful to their subs. They essentially pay you and you complain and make fun of them? Isn't that like signing a youtube death warrant for your channel? Can someone proofread any of this? Its really late and I'm tired as hell and I don't know if any of this is coherent or I contradicted myself or something. Thanks for taking the time to read it. tl:dr I spent the time to type it, you spend the time to read it. Please.

Halfway through writing this I realized I have a lot to say so sorry for any wall of text. One thing that kind of hits home with me is everyone always says "Be louder, be more active, be funny, be interesting, etc." I'm sorry but my personality is calm and reserved and I hate shouting and making an idiot of myself for random people online. When my friends first found out about my LPs they were like "Why are you so quiet? If you aren't loud like Pewds you'll never get big." (That also isn't taking a crack at Pewds, Im a bro and love him but he is really the only thing a lot of people know about Let's Play channels.) The thing is that if I'm a reserved person off camera, why would I be a boisterous person on camera? Another thing that bothers me is when people won't try and progress when they complain about it. I've seen channels of all sizes kind of keep themselves locked into a certain thing be it game series, genre, format of videos, etc when they complain about being stuck in one type of video for their entire youtube "career." Hell, I originally only did horror games but now I'm posting fast rap covers and indie titles. If you want to change, do it or quit complaining. Something that really bothers me is trash talking one channel over another. I get fandoms and everything, especially with the bigger channels, a lot of fans are disillusioned into thinking the youtubers aren't normal people like you and I, but for the love of the Great Goat in the Sky if you don't like channel X because they're a scumlord, don't tell me and don't spam the person's channel. Do you really think that someone who puts their life into these videos wants to hear about how they missed this specific instance where you could have saved 0.004623 seconds on the level/life/game/whatever and you aren't the god of video games? Something that happens far less often but is still seen is when larger channels (Over 500k subs or something similar) isn't grateful to their subs. They essentially pay you and you complain and make fun of them? Isn't that like signing a youtube death warrant for your channel? Can someone proofread any of this? Its really late and I'm tired as hell and I don't know if any of this is coherent or I contradicted myself or something. Thanks for taking the time to read it. tl:dr I spent the time to type it, you spend the time to read it. Please.

letsplay

t5_2qss1

ciowowm

Halfway through writing this I realized I have a lot to say so sorry for any wall of text. One thing that kind of hits home with me is everyone always says "Be louder, be more active, be funny, be interesting, etc." I'm sorry but my personality is calm and reserved and I hate shouting and making an idiot of myself for random people online. When my friends first found out about my LPs they were like "Why are you so quiet? If you aren't loud like Pewds you'll never get big." (That also isn't taking a crack at Pewds, Im a bro and love him but he is really the only thing a lot of people know about Let's Play channels.) The thing is that if I'm a reserved person off camera, why would I be a boisterous person on camera? Another thing that bothers me is when people won't try and progress when they complain about it. I've seen channels of all sizes kind of keep themselves locked into a certain thing be it game series, genre, format of videos, etc when they complain about being stuck in one type of video for their entire youtube "career." Hell, I originally only did horror games but now I'm posting fast rap covers and indie titles. If you want to change, do it or quit complaining. Something that really bothers me is trash talking one channel over another. I get fandoms and everything, especially with the bigger channels, a lot of fans are disillusioned into thinking the youtubers aren't normal people like you and I, but for the love of the Great Goat in the Sky if you don't like channel X because they're a scumlord, don't tell me and don't spam the person's channel. Do you really think that someone who puts their life into these videos wants to hear about how they missed this specific instance where you could have saved 0.004623 seconds on the level/life/game/whatever and you aren't the god of video games? Something that happens far less often but is still seen is when larger channels (Over 500k subs or something similar) isn't grateful to their subs. They essentially pay you and you complain and make fun of them? Isn't that like signing a youtube death warrant for your channel? Can someone proofread any of this? Its really late and I'm tired as hell and I don't know if any of this is coherent or I contradicted myself or something. Thanks for taking the time to read it.

I spent the time to type it, you spend the time to read it. Please.

CjJcPro

To be completely honest with you, the only thing I know about lyme disease is that you get it from tics. And I'm very sorry to hear that. I don't know how it affects your day to day life, but know that it'll only make you stronger. Unless it kills you. Then you're free. Either way win win. tl;dr get lyme disease.

To be completely honest with you, the only thing I know about lyme disease is that you get it from tics. And I'm very sorry to hear that. I don't know how it affects your day to day life, but know that it'll only make you stronger. Unless it kills you. Then you're free. Either way win win. tl;dr get lyme disease.

trees

t5_2r9vp

ciox8og

To be completely honest with you, the only thing I know about lyme disease is that you get it from tics. And I'm very sorry to hear that. I don't know how it affects your day to day life, but know that it'll only make you stronger. Unless it kills you. Then you're free. Either way win win.

get lyme disease.

TOUCHER_OF_SHEEP

There are...well, a lot of them. Black metal tends to have fairly simplistic riffs that are generally slower more and "evil sounding" and dissonant. If they're not slow, they're simple tremolo picked lines that don't have a ton going on. Vocals are high-pitched shrieks, and there tend to be no guitar solos. Black metal also tends to get away from chorus-verse song structure a bit and have long repetitions of riffs instead. Guitars are rarely downtuned past Eb. Palm muting is more rare. Death metal tends to be constructed of faster, more technical riffs and makes heavy use of palm-muting. It tends to have more interesting instrumentation and makes use of time-signature changes fairly commonly. Tremolo picking is common but is used differently than in black metal. Downtuning is much more common, and the most popular death metal tunings tend to be massively deeper than Eb, with D Standard and Db being popular only for more technical metal that needs to be clear with distortion (though there are many exceptions). Otherwise, tunings from B Standard and lower are extremely common. Drumming is lots of fast double-bass and vocals tend to be deep growls. [Black metal example 1]( [Black metal example 2]( [Death metal example 1]( [Death metal example 2]( TL;DR: A lot of things. They're completely different sounding.

There are...well, a lot of them. Black metal tends to have fairly simplistic riffs that are generally slower more and "evil sounding" and dissonant. If they're not slow, they're simple tremolo picked lines that don't have a ton going on. Vocals are high-pitched shrieks, and there tend to be no guitar solos. Black metal also tends to get away from chorus-verse song structure a bit and have long repetitions of riffs instead. Guitars are rarely downtuned past Eb. Palm muting is more rare. Death metal tends to be constructed of faster, more technical riffs and makes heavy use of palm-muting. It tends to have more interesting instrumentation and makes use of time-signature changes fairly commonly. Tremolo picking is common but is used differently than in black metal. Downtuning is much more common, and the most popular death metal tunings tend to be massively deeper than Eb, with D Standard and Db being popular only for more technical metal that needs to be clear with distortion (though there are many exceptions). Otherwise, tunings from B Standard and lower are extremely common. Drumming is lots of fast double-bass and vocals tend to be deep growls. [Black metal example 1]( [Black metal example 2]( [Death metal example 1]( [Death metal example 2]( TL;DR: A lot of things. They're completely different sounding.

Metal

t5_2qhud

cioxnoc

There are...well, a lot of them. Black metal tends to have fairly simplistic riffs that are generally slower more and "evil sounding" and dissonant. If they're not slow, they're simple tremolo picked lines that don't have a ton going on. Vocals are high-pitched shrieks, and there tend to be no guitar solos. Black metal also tends to get away from chorus-verse song structure a bit and have long repetitions of riffs instead. Guitars are rarely downtuned past Eb. Palm muting is more rare. Death metal tends to be constructed of faster, more technical riffs and makes heavy use of palm-muting. It tends to have more interesting instrumentation and makes use of time-signature changes fairly commonly. Tremolo picking is common but is used differently than in black metal. Downtuning is much more common, and the most popular death metal tunings tend to be massively deeper than Eb, with D Standard and Db being popular only for more technical metal that needs to be clear with distortion (though there are many exceptions). Otherwise, tunings from B Standard and lower are extremely common. Drumming is lots of fast double-bass and vocals tend to be deep growls. [Black metal example 1]( [Black metal example 2]( [Death metal example 1]( [Death metal example 2](

A lot of things. They're completely different sounding.

Isaacthegamer

I live in a very rural area, so the internet is shit here. The customer service has two levels: the first level is layman's customer service (basically the I.T. Crowd; "did you try turning it off and on again?") and the second level is actual tech guys. But, you have to go through the first level before getting to the second. I've found that even when getting to the second level of phone customer service, they also give me the run around ("I'm not seeing any problems from this end", etc.). So, it's just better to call and ask for a technician to come out to the house. Sure, you have to wait a week, but then you get real answers. I've talked to dozens of customer service representatives on the phone, and only one of them actually said the fluctuating speeds and bad service I receive, in the evening when everyone in the neighborhood is online, is due to the area being over-sold (not enough bandwidth). I mention that to most customer service guys and they are like "umm, I don't know who told you that, but we see no evidence of that from this end" or even "umm, whoever said that wasn't supposed to say that". Had a tech guy come out and he was here for a few minutes before saying, "yeah, the big box for the neighorhood is overcrowded, and also the main office for the town is overcrowded." TL;DR: ISPs don't give a shit about their customers when there is no competition.

I live in a very rural area, so the internet is shit here. The customer service has two levels: the first level is layman's customer service (basically the I.T. Crowd; "did you try turning it off and on again?") and the second level is actual tech guys. But, you have to go through the first level before getting to the second. I've found that even when getting to the second level of phone customer service, they also give me the run around ("I'm not seeing any problems from this end", etc.). So, it's just better to call and ask for a technician to come out to the house. Sure, you have to wait a week, but then you get real answers. I've talked to dozens of customer service representatives on the phone, and only one of them actually said the fluctuating speeds and bad service I receive, in the evening when everyone in the neighborhood is online, is due to the area being over-sold (not enough bandwidth). I mention that to most customer service guys and they are like "umm, I don't know who told you that, but we see no evidence of that from this end" or even "umm, whoever said that wasn't supposed to say that". Had a tech guy come out and he was here for a few minutes before saying, "yeah, the big box for the neighorhood is overcrowded, and also the main office for the town is overcrowded." TL;DR: ISPs don't give a shit about their customers when there is no competition.

fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

t5_2qqlo

cip2pfy

I live in a very rural area, so the internet is shit here. The customer service has two levels: the first level is layman's customer service (basically the I.T. Crowd; "did you try turning it off and on again?") and the second level is actual tech guys. But, you have to go through the first level before getting to the second. I've found that even when getting to the second level of phone customer service, they also give me the run around ("I'm not seeing any problems from this end", etc.). So, it's just better to call and ask for a technician to come out to the house. Sure, you have to wait a week, but then you get real answers. I've talked to dozens of customer service representatives on the phone, and only one of them actually said the fluctuating speeds and bad service I receive, in the evening when everyone in the neighborhood is online, is due to the area being over-sold (not enough bandwidth). I mention that to most customer service guys and they are like "umm, I don't know who told you that, but we see no evidence of that from this end" or even "umm, whoever said that wasn't supposed to say that". Had a tech guy come out and he was here for a few minutes before saying, "yeah, the big box for the neighorhood is overcrowded, and also the main office for the town is overcrowded."

ISPs don't give a shit about their customers when there is no competition.

HeroOfCanton

And what happens when people choose not to be insured, but get in a car accident and undergo tens of thousands of dollars of emergency medical? Who is going to pay that bill? Look Im not a fan of the government mandating I buy anything either, and I think the affordable health care act is full of problems. But, this is a tough problem to solve. Frankly, if someone opts out, they're opting out of automatic care, in my opinion. That's fine if you don't want to insure yourself in case of catastrophic accidents so long as you understand that you will be denied care if you can't pay for it. But then we have a system where severely injured people will be denied care, which isn't ideal either. **tl;dr** obamacare isn't a very good solution, but you can't view a systemic problem on a purely person by person basis.

And what happens when people choose not to be insured, but get in a car accident and undergo tens of thousands of dollars of emergency medical? Who is going to pay that bill? Look Im not a fan of the government mandating I buy anything either, and I think the affordable health care act is full of problems. But, this is a tough problem to solve. Frankly, if someone opts out, they're opting out of automatic care, in my opinion. That's fine if you don't want to insure yourself in case of catastrophic accidents so long as you understand that you will be denied care if you can't pay for it. But then we have a system where severely injured people will be denied care, which isn't ideal either. tl;dr obamacare isn't a very good solution, but you can't view a systemic problem on a purely person by person basis.

Libertarian

t5_2qh63

ciph1zm

And what happens when people choose not to be insured, but get in a car accident and undergo tens of thousands of dollars of emergency medical? Who is going to pay that bill? Look Im not a fan of the government mandating I buy anything either, and I think the affordable health care act is full of problems. But, this is a tough problem to solve. Frankly, if someone opts out, they're opting out of automatic care, in my opinion. That's fine if you don't want to insure yourself in case of catastrophic accidents so long as you understand that you will be denied care if you can't pay for it. But then we have a system where severely injured people will be denied care, which isn't ideal either.

obamacare isn't a very good solution, but you can't view a systemic problem on a purely person by person basis.

BadLuckBrian13

Uhhh... maybe I'll stick with a tl;dr Anyone?

Uhhh... maybe I'll stick with a tl;dr Anyone?

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

ciq6npn

Uhhh... maybe I'll stick with a

Anyone?

Gemotrical

I'm not making this up and I hope someone can actually find an answer to this. Something like 6 years ago there was a post on the /x/ section of 4chan. It was a youtube video by an account called "TheDirector" link that played circus music. It was a black screen with writing saying, " I've been watching, you. oh you're going to become a star now! I'll be seeing you soon." Beeing intrigued as fuck I subscribed to it. There was 2 videos that followed, one was of a dark room of a girl crying asking to go home. it ended with the black screen and text saying "AREN'T YOU GOING TO HELP HER?" (something along those lines the details are fuzzy it's been a while) The last video uploaded looked like a mummy, on fire. the description said something along the lines of "you guys got boring games over." The account was deleted after. I don't know why but that account ALWAYS bothered me. Even now my spine shivers electric when I talk about it. There was 300 or so other subscribers... I wish to understand what the fuck that was about. tl;dr Youtube account called "thedirector"

I'm not making this up and I hope someone can actually find an answer to this. Something like 6 years ago there was a post on the /x/ section of 4chan. It was a youtube video by an account called "TheDirector" link that played circus music. It was a black screen with writing saying, " I've been watching, you. oh you're going to become a star now! I'll be seeing you soon." Beeing intrigued as fuck I subscribed to it. There was 2 videos that followed, one was of a dark room of a girl crying asking to go home. it ended with the black screen and text saying "AREN'T YOU GOING TO HELP HER?" (something along those lines the details are fuzzy it's been a while) The last video uploaded looked like a mummy, on fire. the description said something along the lines of "you guys got boring games over." The account was deleted after. I don't know why but that account ALWAYS bothered me. Even now my spine shivers electric when I talk about it. There was 300 or so other subscribers... I wish to understand what the fuck that was about. tl;dr Youtube account called "thedirector"

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I'm not making this up and I hope someone can actually find an answer to this. Something like 6 years ago there was a post on the /x/ section of 4chan. It was a youtube video by an account called "TheDirector" link that played circus music. It was a black screen with writing saying, " I've been watching, you. oh you're going to become a star now! I'll be seeing you soon." Beeing intrigued as fuck I subscribed to it. There was 2 videos that followed, one was of a dark room of a girl crying asking to go home. it ended with the black screen and text saying "AREN'T YOU GOING TO HELP HER?" (something along those lines the details are fuzzy it's been a while) The last video uploaded looked like a mummy, on fire. the description said something along the lines of "you guys got boring games over." The account was deleted after. I don't know why but that account ALWAYS bothered me. Even now my spine shivers electric when I talk about it. There was 300 or so other subscribers... I wish to understand what the fuck that was about.

Youtube account called "thedirector"

shiftymojo

Goatman just wants friends but is social awkward and is to shy to actually ask them so decides to sneak in Without anyone noticing him. They find he ate some of their food so he panics and leaves and then tries to find a way to get back in. Turns out some bitch also said goatman grabbed her leg but he was just swatting a mosquito before it bit her. Later He chills out by the fire and everyone acts really weird about it and just stayed inside then some guy showed up and noticed how weird goatman is so ran inside and screamed for them to Let him in. Later goatman meets a new friend but being social awkward doesn't know how to introduce himself so he follows him but freaks out when his new friend tried to touch him so left. Later he build up the confidence to ask them if he can stay the night but they just ignore him even tho he uses the same secret password the other guy used to get in. Later some guy shoots at him and this really depressed goatman he just wanted to be friends and his new friends shoot at him so he sits in the forest and cries to himself for a while. Goatman eventually cheers himself up and thinks that they would like goatman more if they got to know him. He decides the only way to be with them is to sneak in so he opens a back window and spends the night with them. He's overcome with happiness that he's finally with them again and can't control it his laughing with happiness but trying not to be loud. In the morning everyone leaves so he follows them and the one friend who knew he was there last night turns and looks at him. Goatman freaks out because he's terrible and goodbyes and just decides to walk home instead of getting a lift with everyone else. Tldr: goatman is just lonely and socially awkward and his new friends are being dicks about how he acts a bit weird.

Goatman just wants friends but is social awkward and is to shy to actually ask them so decides to sneak in Without anyone noticing him. They find he ate some of their food so he panics and leaves and then tries to find a way to get back in. Turns out some bitch also said goatman grabbed her leg but he was just swatting a mosquito before it bit her. Later He chills out by the fire and everyone acts really weird about it and just stayed inside then some guy showed up and noticed how weird goatman is so ran inside and screamed for them to Let him in. Later goatman meets a new friend but being social awkward doesn't know how to introduce himself so he follows him but freaks out when his new friend tried to touch him so left. Later he build up the confidence to ask them if he can stay the night but they just ignore him even tho he uses the same secret password the other guy used to get in. Later some guy shoots at him and this really depressed goatman he just wanted to be friends and his new friends shoot at him so he sits in the forest and cries to himself for a while. Goatman eventually cheers himself up and thinks that they would like goatman more if they got to know him. He decides the only way to be with them is to sneak in so he opens a back window and spends the night with them. He's overcome with happiness that he's finally with them again and can't control it his laughing with happiness but trying not to be loud. In the morning everyone leaves so he follows them and the one friend who knew he was there last night turns and looks at him. Goatman freaks out because he's terrible and goodbyes and just decides to walk home instead of getting a lift with everyone else. Tldr: goatman is just lonely and socially awkward and his new friends are being dicks about how he acts a bit weird.

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Goatman just wants friends but is social awkward and is to shy to actually ask them so decides to sneak in Without anyone noticing him. They find he ate some of their food so he panics and leaves and then tries to find a way to get back in. Turns out some bitch also said goatman grabbed her leg but he was just swatting a mosquito before it bit her. Later He chills out by the fire and everyone acts really weird about it and just stayed inside then some guy showed up and noticed how weird goatman is so ran inside and screamed for them to Let him in. Later goatman meets a new friend but being social awkward doesn't know how to introduce himself so he follows him but freaks out when his new friend tried to touch him so left. Later he build up the confidence to ask them if he can stay the night but they just ignore him even tho he uses the same secret password the other guy used to get in. Later some guy shoots at him and this really depressed goatman he just wanted to be friends and his new friends shoot at him so he sits in the forest and cries to himself for a while. Goatman eventually cheers himself up and thinks that they would like goatman more if they got to know him. He decides the only way to be with them is to sneak in so he opens a back window and spends the night with them. He's overcome with happiness that he's finally with them again and can't control it his laughing with happiness but trying not to be loud. In the morning everyone leaves so he follows them and the one friend who knew he was there last night turns and looks at him. Goatman freaks out because he's terrible and goodbyes and just decides to walk home instead of getting a lift with everyone else.

goatman is just lonely and socially awkward and his new friends are being dicks about how he acts a bit weird.

JohhnyTheKid

It's a long story and I'm on my phone but Tl;dR Cannibals and torture

It's a long story and I'm on my phone but Tl;dR Cannibals and torture

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It's a long story and I'm on my phone but

Cannibals and torture

RAZZORWIRE

Can you give a paragraph long tldr about it please

Can you give a paragraph long tldr about it please

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Could someone do a detailed tl;dr thanks

Could someone do a detailed tl;dr thanks

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forlackofabetterword

I understand that we can blame the victim here but I always think of it like this: if I'm walking through a shady part of town, I'm not going down a dark alley. If I do and I get mugged, its not my fault, the criminals should obviously be charged with assault; but I'm going to try to do what I can (within reason) to avoid being a victim. My general stance on things like self defense (including gun ownership) for women and practicing risk avoidance/ watching for red flags is that while we it isn't a women's responsibility (i.e. it isn't her fault if she doesn't do this), anything we can do to reduce rape is probably a good thing. Tl;dr: We don't want to victim blame here, but any strategies we can teach women to reduce rape are probably a good idea

I understand that we can blame the victim here but I always think of it like this: if I'm walking through a shady part of town, I'm not going down a dark alley. If I do and I get mugged, its not my fault, the criminals should obviously be charged with assault; but I'm going to try to do what I can (within reason) to avoid being a victim. My general stance on things like self defense (including gun ownership) for women and practicing risk avoidance/ watching for red flags is that while we it isn't a women's responsibility (i.e. it isn't her fault if she doesn't do this), anything we can do to reduce rape is probably a good thing. Tl;dr: We don't want to victim blame here, but any strategies we can teach women to reduce rape are probably a good idea

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I understand that we can blame the victim here but I always think of it like this: if I'm walking through a shady part of town, I'm not going down a dark alley. If I do and I get mugged, its not my fault, the criminals should obviously be charged with assault; but I'm going to try to do what I can (within reason) to avoid being a victim. My general stance on things like self defense (including gun ownership) for women and practicing risk avoidance/ watching for red flags is that while we it isn't a women's responsibility (i.e. it isn't her fault if she doesn't do this), anything we can do to reduce rape is probably a good thing.

We don't want to victim blame here, but any strategies we can teach women to reduce rape are probably a good idea

forlackofabetterword

First off, I'm sorry if my last post misrepresented the problem; i know women have it way worse when it comes to stuff like this. The way I see it, though, there aren't many good solutions to the "rape crisis". The radfems want to tell men not to rape, which is inherently sexist and makes assumptions about men. The other side of that is just as bad, if not worse: telling women that the way they dress or behave causes them to be raped is inexcusable victim-shaming. Feminists also bring up " rape culture", which i have never been given a clear example of, so it seems as real as the patriarchy. Risk management strategies, from what you've explained, seem like they're either ineffective or borderline paranoid, and can get back to victim shaming. That still leaves self defense, which is viable in the sense that it is still widely untested. When I used to do karate, my instructor said that every woman should have a black belt just because of what they have to deal with out there. I've never understood why feminists have tended to stay away from this approach (other than that it could slide into victim shaming). I think that if there is anything (within reason) that we can be teaching women *or* men that will reduce rape, we should go for it. I'm just not sure if there is anything. Tl;dr: I don't see any good solutions being offered up to deal with rape.

First off, I'm sorry if my last post misrepresented the problem; i know women have it way worse when it comes to stuff like this. The way I see it, though, there aren't many good solutions to the "rape crisis". The radfems want to tell men not to rape, which is inherently sexist and makes assumptions about men. The other side of that is just as bad, if not worse: telling women that the way they dress or behave causes them to be raped is inexcusable victim-shaming. Feminists also bring up " rape culture", which i have never been given a clear example of, so it seems as real as the patriarchy. Risk management strategies, from what you've explained, seem like they're either ineffective or borderline paranoid, and can get back to victim shaming. That still leaves self defense, which is viable in the sense that it is still widely untested. When I used to do karate, my instructor said that every woman should have a black belt just because of what they have to deal with out there. I've never understood why feminists have tended to stay away from this approach (other than that it could slide into victim shaming). I think that if there is anything (within reason) that we can be teaching women or men that will reduce rape, we should go for it. I'm just not sure if there is anything. Tl;dr: I don't see any good solutions being offered up to deal with rape.

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First off, I'm sorry if my last post misrepresented the problem; i know women have it way worse when it comes to stuff like this. The way I see it, though, there aren't many good solutions to the "rape crisis". The radfems want to tell men not to rape, which is inherently sexist and makes assumptions about men. The other side of that is just as bad, if not worse: telling women that the way they dress or behave causes them to be raped is inexcusable victim-shaming. Feminists also bring up " rape culture", which i have never been given a clear example of, so it seems as real as the patriarchy. Risk management strategies, from what you've explained, seem like they're either ineffective or borderline paranoid, and can get back to victim shaming. That still leaves self defense, which is viable in the sense that it is still widely untested. When I used to do karate, my instructor said that every woman should have a black belt just because of what they have to deal with out there. I've never understood why feminists have tended to stay away from this approach (other than that it could slide into victim shaming). I think that if there is anything (within reason) that we can be teaching women or men that will reduce rape, we should go for it. I'm just not sure if there is anything.

I don't see any good solutions being offered up to deal with rape.

moses1424

I got in a wreck about 10 years ago that was pretty bad and remember thinking "what of I had left work just 2 minutes earlier or later it would have never happened". Conversely you could have left the house today a minute later than required to be t-boned by a semi. TLDR: I don't know and it's terrifying.

I got in a wreck about 10 years ago that was pretty bad and remember thinking "what of I had left work just 2 minutes earlier or later it would have never happened". Conversely you could have left the house today a minute later than required to be t-boned by a semi. TLDR: I don't know and it's terrifying.

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I got in a wreck about 10 years ago that was pretty bad and remember thinking "what of I had left work just 2 minutes earlier or later it would have never happened". Conversely you could have left the house today a minute later than required to be t-boned by a semi.

I don't know and it's terrifying.

Zombrah

Many years ago, we used to live in africa. I was still a baby back then so I dont remember it, but i got malaria and was in a coma for 4 days and my father saved my life, it was really close (since I was only a few months old, I cant remember anything). When I was 4 years old, I remember being pushed into a swimming pool on a vacation. I couldnt swim so I sank to the bottom of the pool and I couldnt do anything. I got saved when I was already blacked out and I remember waking up with a lot of faces around me. **TLDR:** Malaria and drowning

Many years ago, we used to live in africa. I was still a baby back then so I dont remember it, but i got malaria and was in a coma for 4 days and my father saved my life, it was really close (since I was only a few months old, I cant remember anything). When I was 4 years old, I remember being pushed into a swimming pool on a vacation. I couldnt swim so I sank to the bottom of the pool and I couldnt do anything. I got saved when I was already blacked out and I remember waking up with a lot of faces around me. TLDR: Malaria and drowning

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Many years ago, we used to live in africa. I was still a baby back then so I dont remember it, but i got malaria and was in a coma for 4 days and my father saved my life, it was really close (since I was only a few months old, I cant remember anything). When I was 4 years old, I remember being pushed into a swimming pool on a vacation. I couldnt swim so I sank to the bottom of the pool and I couldnt do anything. I got saved when I was already blacked out and I remember waking up with a lot of faces around me.

Malaria and drowning

Pottski

Went to Schoolies in Lorne (end of high school celebrations in Australia) and was fairly hungover one morning and went for a swim by myself. Went for a swim outside the flags near the apartment block end of the beach, well away from the lifeguards, and nearly drowned in a riptide. No idea on the actual amount of time I was in the ocean for, but I reckon it was an hour or hour and a half. Just remember every time I would kick in on a wave the backwash would take me back twice as far. I kept looking for the edge of the rip, swimming back and across it as I'd heard somewhere before. I swam off what I thought was the back of the rip twice, but it followed me along the beach for a decent way too. I didn't think at the time I was about to die, just that I could feel myself getting tired. The sad thing was earlier that year I swam in the Pier to Pub open water swim (about 1.25km around the beach) on that same beach and thought I could deal with the water no matter what. I guess in some respects I did as a lesser swimmer probably would have drowned. By the end I was exhausted and was copping a fair bit of salt water in my mouth every time a wave rolled by, but managed out of sheer luck to catch a decently sized wave tilting away from the rip once I was near the back of the rip. Then caught the next one after that to a point where I could swim in and touch land. That was the moment I knew I was safe. I was dragged somewhere in the vicinity of a couple of kilometres down the beach and at my furthest out was probably a few hundred metres as well. All I remember after that was getting about 50 metres up the beach and collapsing to sleep. Woke up a few hours after that and went and dried off and went back to the apartment. It clarified for me just how irrelevant I was to my friends as none of them were particularly worried that I was gone for four hours. Don't really talk to any of those people any more so I guess that's a mixed bag. TL:DR - Hungover 18 year old me nearly drowned over the course of an hour in a riptide.

Went to Schoolies in Lorne (end of high school celebrations in Australia) and was fairly hungover one morning and went for a swim by myself. Went for a swim outside the flags near the apartment block end of the beach, well away from the lifeguards, and nearly drowned in a riptide. No idea on the actual amount of time I was in the ocean for, but I reckon it was an hour or hour and a half. Just remember every time I would kick in on a wave the backwash would take me back twice as far. I kept looking for the edge of the rip, swimming back and across it as I'd heard somewhere before. I swam off what I thought was the back of the rip twice, but it followed me along the beach for a decent way too. I didn't think at the time I was about to die, just that I could feel myself getting tired. The sad thing was earlier that year I swam in the Pier to Pub open water swim (about 1.25km around the beach) on that same beach and thought I could deal with the water no matter what. I guess in some respects I did as a lesser swimmer probably would have drowned. By the end I was exhausted and was copping a fair bit of salt water in my mouth every time a wave rolled by, but managed out of sheer luck to catch a decently sized wave tilting away from the rip once I was near the back of the rip. Then caught the next one after that to a point where I could swim in and touch land. That was the moment I knew I was safe. I was dragged somewhere in the vicinity of a couple of kilometres down the beach and at my furthest out was probably a few hundred metres as well. All I remember after that was getting about 50 metres up the beach and collapsing to sleep. Woke up a few hours after that and went and dried off and went back to the apartment. It clarified for me just how irrelevant I was to my friends as none of them were particularly worried that I was gone for four hours. Don't really talk to any of those people any more so I guess that's a mixed bag. TL:DR - Hungover 18 year old me nearly drowned over the course of an hour in a riptide.

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Went to Schoolies in Lorne (end of high school celebrations in Australia) and was fairly hungover one morning and went for a swim by myself. Went for a swim outside the flags near the apartment block end of the beach, well away from the lifeguards, and nearly drowned in a riptide. No idea on the actual amount of time I was in the ocean for, but I reckon it was an hour or hour and a half. Just remember every time I would kick in on a wave the backwash would take me back twice as far. I kept looking for the edge of the rip, swimming back and across it as I'd heard somewhere before. I swam off what I thought was the back of the rip twice, but it followed me along the beach for a decent way too. I didn't think at the time I was about to die, just that I could feel myself getting tired. The sad thing was earlier that year I swam in the Pier to Pub open water swim (about 1.25km around the beach) on that same beach and thought I could deal with the water no matter what. I guess in some respects I did as a lesser swimmer probably would have drowned. By the end I was exhausted and was copping a fair bit of salt water in my mouth every time a wave rolled by, but managed out of sheer luck to catch a decently sized wave tilting away from the rip once I was near the back of the rip. Then caught the next one after that to a point where I could swim in and touch land. That was the moment I knew I was safe. I was dragged somewhere in the vicinity of a couple of kilometres down the beach and at my furthest out was probably a few hundred metres as well. All I remember after that was getting about 50 metres up the beach and collapsing to sleep. Woke up a few hours after that and went and dried off and went back to the apartment. It clarified for me just how irrelevant I was to my friends as none of them were particularly worried that I was gone for four hours. Don't really talk to any of those people any more so I guess that's a mixed bag.

Hungover 18 year old me nearly drowned over the course of an hour in a riptide.

DeanMoriarty07

Go for it. Visit the gym, and ask the trainer if they train boxers for amateur competition. Also, let me tell you the biggest obstacle a beginner faces: frustration. You'll be frustrated that you can't pop your jab the right way, that your lead right has no power - you'll feel like giving up, and you'll think you can never learn this stuff. Well, the way to conquer this problem is to always listen to your trainer - observe him carefully, make mental notes in your head while he's teaching you how to box, and try to slowly put all the pieces together. If later on you're screwing up at the heavy bag, remember how he did it - he probably knows a shitload about the sport, so you should listen to him always. And don't try to rewrite the rules the first week - accept that there are people who know more than you, and that you should always be learning in order to master the sport completely. Also, if you're screwing up, don't stop trying - this is the most important thing about the learning process. No matter how you feel like you'll never learn anything, how you feel like it's just not coming together, keep moving forward, and practicing. There'll be a moment when you pop that jab just the right way - then again, and again, and these moments become so frequent that learning the jab, or anything, becomes a part of you. **TL;DR: Go for it.**

Go for it. Visit the gym, and ask the trainer if they train boxers for amateur competition. Also, let me tell you the biggest obstacle a beginner faces: frustration. You'll be frustrated that you can't pop your jab the right way, that your lead right has no power - you'll feel like giving up, and you'll think you can never learn this stuff. Well, the way to conquer this problem is to always listen to your trainer - observe him carefully, make mental notes in your head while he's teaching you how to box, and try to slowly put all the pieces together. If later on you're screwing up at the heavy bag, remember how he did it - he probably knows a shitload about the sport, so you should listen to him always. And don't try to rewrite the rules the first week - accept that there are people who know more than you, and that you should always be learning in order to master the sport completely. Also, if you're screwing up, don't stop trying - this is the most important thing about the learning process. No matter how you feel like you'll never learn anything, how you feel like it's just not coming together, keep moving forward, and practicing. There'll be a moment when you pop that jab just the right way - then again, and again, and these moments become so frequent that learning the jab, or anything, becomes a part of you. TL;DR: Go for it.

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Go for it. Visit the gym, and ask the trainer if they train boxers for amateur competition. Also, let me tell you the biggest obstacle a beginner faces: frustration. You'll be frustrated that you can't pop your jab the right way, that your lead right has no power - you'll feel like giving up, and you'll think you can never learn this stuff. Well, the way to conquer this problem is to always listen to your trainer - observe him carefully, make mental notes in your head while he's teaching you how to box, and try to slowly put all the pieces together. If later on you're screwing up at the heavy bag, remember how he did it - he probably knows a shitload about the sport, so you should listen to him always. And don't try to rewrite the rules the first week - accept that there are people who know more than you, and that you should always be learning in order to master the sport completely. Also, if you're screwing up, don't stop trying - this is the most important thing about the learning process. No matter how you feel like you'll never learn anything, how you feel like it's just not coming together, keep moving forward, and practicing. There'll be a moment when you pop that jab just the right way - then again, and again, and these moments become so frequent that learning the jab, or anything, becomes a part of you.

Go for it.

Tchrspest

I'm no teacher, but I'll do my best to break it down for you. The very first point of reading binary is that, when decoding what it says, you need to start from the very rightmost digit. In the case of the number in the picture, that's the 0 on the far right end.Binary is a base2 numerical system, since that's the amount of different states that a digital circuit can exist in. Either 0 for "OFF" or 1 for "ON". The way most people normally think of numbers is base10, which is the numbers 0-9. Farthest right is 2^0 or 1, next is 2^1 or 2, 2^2 which is 4, and so on. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, Etc... The number in the picture, 1010011010, has 10 digits. So it goes up to 2^9 . That's 512. Basically, a binary string is a long string of addition. Every digit that's a 1 is added together to create the final sum. This next bit is going to look a bit ugly, just a warning. This is how I like to break it down in my head when I add up a binary number. First is the digit from the string, second is the decimal equivalent, third is either a Y or N for whether we're adding them up. It starts at the right digit, 0, and works its way left. Binary Digit (Base2) | Decimal Equal (Base10) | Y/N ---|---|---- 0 | 1 | N 1 | 2 | Y 0 | 4 | N 1 | 8 | Y 1 | 16 | Y 0 | 32 | N 0 | 64 | N 1 | 128 | Y 0 | 256 | N 1 | 512 | Y So, now we take every number that has a Y next to it and add it together. That's 2+8+16+128+512. Those five numbers add up to 666. I apologize if that wasn't very well worded. The concept makes sense in my head, but gets sort of garbled when I type it out. **TL;DR: HAIL SATAN**

I'm no teacher, but I'll do my best to break it down for you. The very first point of reading binary is that, when decoding what it says, you need to start from the very rightmost digit. In the case of the number in the picture, that's the 0 on the far right end.Binary is a base2 numerical system, since that's the amount of different states that a digital circuit can exist in. Either 0 for "OFF" or 1 for "ON". The way most people normally think of numbers is base10, which is the numbers 0-9. Farthest right is 2^0 or 1, next is 2^1 or 2, 2^2 which is 4, and so on. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, Etc... The number in the picture, 1010011010, has 10 digits. So it goes up to 2^9 . That's 512. Basically, a binary string is a long string of addition. Every digit that's a 1 is added together to create the final sum. This next bit is going to look a bit ugly, just a warning. This is how I like to break it down in my head when I add up a binary number. First is the digit from the string, second is the decimal equivalent, third is either a Y or N for whether we're adding them up. It starts at the right digit, 0, and works its way left. Binary Digit (Base2) Decimal Equal (Base10) Y/N 0 1 N 1 2 Y 0 4 N 1 8 Y 1 16 Y 0 32 N 0 64 N 1 128 Y 0 256 N 1 512 Y So, now we take every number that has a Y next to it and add it together. That's 2+8+16+128+512. Those five numbers add up to 666. I apologize if that wasn't very well worded. The concept makes sense in my head, but gets sort of garbled when I type it out. TL;DR: HAIL SATAN

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I'm no teacher, but I'll do my best to break it down for you. The very first point of reading binary is that, when decoding what it says, you need to start from the very rightmost digit. In the case of the number in the picture, that's the 0 on the far right end.Binary is a base2 numerical system, since that's the amount of different states that a digital circuit can exist in. Either 0 for "OFF" or 1 for "ON". The way most people normally think of numbers is base10, which is the numbers 0-9. Farthest right is 2^0 or 1, next is 2^1 or 2, 2^2 which is 4, and so on. 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, Etc... The number in the picture, 1010011010, has 10 digits. So it goes up to 2^9 . That's 512. Basically, a binary string is a long string of addition. Every digit that's a 1 is added together to create the final sum. This next bit is going to look a bit ugly, just a warning. This is how I like to break it down in my head when I add up a binary number. First is the digit from the string, second is the decimal equivalent, third is either a Y or N for whether we're adding them up. It starts at the right digit, 0, and works its way left. Binary Digit (Base2) Decimal Equal (Base10) Y/N 0 1 N 1 2 Y 0 4 N 1 8 Y 1 16 Y 0 32 N 0 64 N 1 128 Y 0 256 N 1 512 Y So, now we take every number that has a Y next to it and add it together. That's 2+8+16+128+512. Those five numbers add up to 666. I apologize if that wasn't very well worded. The concept makes sense in my head, but gets sort of garbled when I type it out.

HAIL SATAN

caquilino

*Don't get me wrong*, comedians can be good communicators, witty popularizers, accessible, of course funny, and occasionally original observers of the world. There's value in what they do. They're important in their own way. And there's something good to be said about mixing "serious" topics like politics, with comedy for instance. But there's a point where society overly values their opinions: How much should I trust Kevin Hart and Steve Harvey on relationship advice? How much should I respect Bill Maher's political opinions? Seriously. I'm not a big fan of comedy, I have to admit. As a genre, standup, sitcoms and just comedians in general, just fall flat with me. For a bunch of reasons—just like some people don't like romantic movies. And I don't think they're great cultural, political, scientific or social commentators as a class. And I don't expect them to be. But that's in comparison to people of *actual* expertise. They're expert in comedy, mainly—making me laugh. Now that's seems so obvious to say. But I get the sense that people *don't* see that line. Yes, there *are* people **devastating** better studied on all these topics. Most people seem to treat comedian somewhat as "authority" figures—they're opinions serious matter. And being viewed that way, is not entirely their fault. Though they play a role in it. But I am worried that people, and comedians themselves, think too highly of their opinions. And they don't think enough about placing themselves within the right bounds, intellectually. John Stewart, and John Oliver stand out as better on this issue. But they're far outweighed. It's expected, but still frustrating to hear people seriously suggest to me, "Go listen to Katt Williams' opinion on the Iraq War. He's saying some shit you've never heard before". Or "Go check out Louie C.K.'s original take on rape". Are you kidding me? No thanks, I'll listen to actually experts on that, man... **TL;DR**: Bill Maher, for instance, isn't in the same category intellectually, as–and I'm exaggerating the examples–Stephen Hawking. That's a different class of intellect, commentator of society. People draw that distinction, but not well.

Don't get me wrong , comedians can be good communicators, witty popularizers, accessible, of course funny, and occasionally original observers of the world. There's value in what they do. They're important in their own way. And there's something good to be said about mixing "serious" topics like politics, with comedy for instance. But there's a point where society overly values their opinions: How much should I trust Kevin Hart and Steve Harvey on relationship advice? How much should I respect Bill Maher's political opinions? Seriously. I'm not a big fan of comedy, I have to admit. As a genre, standup, sitcoms and just comedians in general, just fall flat with me. For a bunch of reasons—just like some people don't like romantic movies. And I don't think they're great cultural, political, scientific or social commentators as a class. And I don't expect them to be. But that's in comparison to people of actual expertise. They're expert in comedy, mainly—making me laugh. Now that's seems so obvious to say. But I get the sense that people don't see that line. Yes, there are people devastating better studied on all these topics. Most people seem to treat comedian somewhat as "authority" figures—they're opinions serious matter. And being viewed that way, is not entirely their fault. Though they play a role in it. But I am worried that people, and comedians themselves, think too highly of their opinions. And they don't think enough about placing themselves within the right bounds, intellectually. John Stewart, and John Oliver stand out as better on this issue. But they're far outweighed. It's expected, but still frustrating to hear people seriously suggest to me, "Go listen to Katt Williams' opinion on the Iraq War. He's saying some shit you've never heard before". Or "Go check out Louie C.K.'s original take on rape". Are you kidding me? No thanks, I'll listen to actually experts on that, man... TL;DR : Bill Maher, for instance, isn't in the same category intellectually, as–and I'm exaggerating the examples–Stephen Hawking. That's a different class of intellect, commentator of society. People draw that distinction, but not well.

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Don't get me wrong , comedians can be good communicators, witty popularizers, accessible, of course funny, and occasionally original observers of the world. There's value in what they do. They're important in their own way. And there's something good to be said about mixing "serious" topics like politics, with comedy for instance. But there's a point where society overly values their opinions: How much should I trust Kevin Hart and Steve Harvey on relationship advice? How much should I respect Bill Maher's political opinions? Seriously. I'm not a big fan of comedy, I have to admit. As a genre, standup, sitcoms and just comedians in general, just fall flat with me. For a bunch of reasons—just like some people don't like romantic movies. And I don't think they're great cultural, political, scientific or social commentators as a class. And I don't expect them to be. But that's in comparison to people of actual expertise. They're expert in comedy, mainly—making me laugh. Now that's seems so obvious to say. But I get the sense that people don't see that line. Yes, there are people devastating better studied on all these topics. Most people seem to treat comedian somewhat as "authority" figures—they're opinions serious matter. And being viewed that way, is not entirely their fault. Though they play a role in it. But I am worried that people, and comedians themselves, think too highly of their opinions. And they don't think enough about placing themselves within the right bounds, intellectually. John Stewart, and John Oliver stand out as better on this issue. But they're far outweighed. It's expected, but still frustrating to hear people seriously suggest to me, "Go listen to Katt Williams' opinion on the Iraq War. He's saying some shit you've never heard before". Or "Go check out Louie C.K.'s original take on rape". Are you kidding me? No thanks, I'll listen to actually experts on that, man...

Bill Maher, for instance, isn't in the same category intellectually, as–and I'm exaggerating the examples–Stephen Hawking. That's a different class of intellect, commentator of society. People draw that distinction, but not well.

TrazLander

ya and they'll usually protect the company by coming down on the manager if they caused a potentially lawyery/bad PR situation. Which is exactly what ended up happening: &gt; TL;DR Went to HR/District Manager - Manager was let go.

ya and they'll usually protect the company by coming down on the manager if they caused a potentially lawyery/bad PR situation. Which is exactly what ended up happening: > TL;DR Went to HR/District Manager - Manager was let go.

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ya and they'll usually protect the company by coming down on the manager if they caused a potentially lawyery/bad PR situation. Which is exactly what ended up happening: >

Went to HR/District Manager - Manager was let go.

kinare

&gt; Is your BMI in a healthy range? I am at 27.9, which the NIH says is in the middle of the overweight category. I'm working hard to include exercise and a healthy diet this past two months and a half and I've lost a few pounds. I was 207 at my heaviest (height = 5-foot-11) and am now at around 200. TLDR Not extreme loss or gain. As soon as I can see the doctor I will bring this up. I just wish I didn't have to wait two months for an appointment.

> Is your BMI in a healthy range? I am at 27.9, which the NIH says is in the middle of the overweight category. I'm working hard to include exercise and a healthy diet this past two months and a half and I've lost a few pounds. I was 207 at my heaviest (height = 5-foot-11) and am now at around 200. TLDR Not extreme loss or gain. As soon as I can see the doctor I will bring this up. I just wish I didn't have to wait two months for an appointment.

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Is your BMI in a healthy range? I am at 27.9, which the NIH says is in the middle of the overweight category. I'm working hard to include exercise and a healthy diet this past two months and a half and I've lost a few pounds. I was 207 at my heaviest (height = 5-foot-11) and am now at around 200.

Not extreme loss or gain. As soon as I can see the doctor I will bring this up. I just wish I didn't have to wait two months for an appointment.

Cornflip

On July 4th people on Tumblr decided to raid 4chan, mostly /b/ and /pol/ iirc, to like educate them about what Tumblr thought were there misogynistic ways or something like that. 4chan responded by spamming popular Tumblr tags with stuff like gore, animal abuse, rape porn, etc. Since then there's been numerous claims of both sides "winning" the "war", vows of reprisal raids, etc. I don't know the exact details of what happened (I don't think anyone does tbh), and honestly I don't visit either site that much to be affected; I saw this posted in /r/4chan, went "Are you fucking kidding me?", and posted this. tl;dr Tumblr provoked 4chan, and the result is a shitstorm.

On July 4th people on Tumblr decided to raid 4chan, mostly /b/ and /pol/ iirc, to like educate them about what Tumblr thought were there misogynistic ways or something like that. 4chan responded by spamming popular Tumblr tags with stuff like gore, animal abuse, rape porn, etc. Since then there's been numerous claims of both sides "winning" the "war", vows of reprisal raids, etc. I don't know the exact details of what happened (I don't think anyone does tbh), and honestly I don't visit either site that much to be affected; I saw this posted in /r/4chan, went "Are you fucking kidding me?", and posted this. tl;dr Tumblr provoked 4chan, and the result is a shitstorm.

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On July 4th people on Tumblr decided to raid 4chan, mostly /b/ and /pol/ iirc, to like educate them about what Tumblr thought were there misogynistic ways or something like that. 4chan responded by spamming popular Tumblr tags with stuff like gore, animal abuse, rape porn, etc. Since then there's been numerous claims of both sides "winning" the "war", vows of reprisal raids, etc. I don't know the exact details of what happened (I don't think anyone does tbh), and honestly I don't visit either site that much to be affected; I saw this posted in /r/4chan, went "Are you fucking kidding me?", and posted this.

Tumblr provoked 4chan, and the result is a shitstorm.

ReddMeatit

Good lord, get that cat neutered asap. How long has she owned him? If you take a black light to the house, you may not like what you see... There is no age limit to neutering, as long as the animal is healthy. It's a VERY minor procedure and a average vet does them non-stop every single day. Your cat will be all drugged up the first day, then back to normal. For males, the surgery and stitching is tiny. Recovery is much easier compared to spaying females. So yea, TL;DR holy shit spay and neuter your pets!

Good lord, get that cat neutered asap. How long has she owned him? If you take a black light to the house, you may not like what you see... There is no age limit to neutering, as long as the animal is healthy. It's a VERY minor procedure and a average vet does them non-stop every single day. Your cat will be all drugged up the first day, then back to normal. For males, the surgery and stitching is tiny. Recovery is much easier compared to spaying females. So yea, TL;DR holy shit spay and neuter your pets!

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Good lord, get that cat neutered asap. How long has she owned him? If you take a black light to the house, you may not like what you see... There is no age limit to neutering, as long as the animal is healthy. It's a VERY minor procedure and a average vet does them non-stop every single day. Your cat will be all drugged up the first day, then back to normal. For males, the surgery and stitching is tiny. Recovery is much easier compared to spaying females. So yea,

holy shit spay and neuter your pets!

Incite_TheAmorphous

I was playing a tech-priest in our Dark Heresy game. So we end up in underground laboratory, undead abominations start crawling out from a well. I walk up to the well and decide to drop a grenade down the well to stop the undead from attacking us. I approach the well and drop the grenade ( I did not throw it, I simply released it from my hand above the well) I managed to fumble the roll by several degrees of failure and the grenades bounces off the side of the well and rolls into the direct path of our already wounded psyker. The grenades completely blows his body apart. He burns a fate point to return to life. We continue our exploration, we hear footsteps coming from a stairwell on the other side of the room, I pull out a grenade and aim it at the door, ready to throw it as soon as the door opens. Everyone backs away from me a safe distance, not wanting to be accidentally damaged. We roll initiative mine is low. Our psyker, the same that I had killed earlier had been poisoned recently and was currently on the ground trying to recover The door opens and it is an enemy psyker she sees the grenade in my hand and precedes to mind control me. Everyone is trying to take her down before anything can happen. She forces me to throw the grenade in an area that would damage all of our party members. I fumble the attack roll and the grenade lands adjacent to our psykers head while he is prone on the ground. The grenade then blows our psykers head off. Tldr, dropped a grenade and it strangely rolled across the room and killed our psyker. Was later mind controlled and accidentally killed our psyker again with a grenade.

I was playing a tech-priest in our Dark Heresy game. So we end up in underground laboratory, undead abominations start crawling out from a well. I walk up to the well and decide to drop a grenade down the well to stop the undead from attacking us. I approach the well and drop the grenade ( I did not throw it, I simply released it from my hand above the well) I managed to fumble the roll by several degrees of failure and the grenades bounces off the side of the well and rolls into the direct path of our already wounded psyker. The grenades completely blows his body apart. He burns a fate point to return to life. We continue our exploration, we hear footsteps coming from a stairwell on the other side of the room, I pull out a grenade and aim it at the door, ready to throw it as soon as the door opens. Everyone backs away from me a safe distance, not wanting to be accidentally damaged. We roll initiative mine is low. Our psyker, the same that I had killed earlier had been poisoned recently and was currently on the ground trying to recover The door opens and it is an enemy psyker she sees the grenade in my hand and precedes to mind control me. Everyone is trying to take her down before anything can happen. She forces me to throw the grenade in an area that would damage all of our party members. I fumble the attack roll and the grenade lands adjacent to our psykers head while he is prone on the ground. The grenade then blows our psykers head off. Tldr, dropped a grenade and it strangely rolled across the room and killed our psyker. Was later mind controlled and accidentally killed our psyker again with a grenade.

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I was playing a tech-priest in our Dark Heresy game. So we end up in underground laboratory, undead abominations start crawling out from a well. I walk up to the well and decide to drop a grenade down the well to stop the undead from attacking us. I approach the well and drop the grenade ( I did not throw it, I simply released it from my hand above the well) I managed to fumble the roll by several degrees of failure and the grenades bounces off the side of the well and rolls into the direct path of our already wounded psyker. The grenades completely blows his body apart. He burns a fate point to return to life. We continue our exploration, we hear footsteps coming from a stairwell on the other side of the room, I pull out a grenade and aim it at the door, ready to throw it as soon as the door opens. Everyone backs away from me a safe distance, not wanting to be accidentally damaged. We roll initiative mine is low. Our psyker, the same that I had killed earlier had been poisoned recently and was currently on the ground trying to recover The door opens and it is an enemy psyker she sees the grenade in my hand and precedes to mind control me. Everyone is trying to take her down before anything can happen. She forces me to throw the grenade in an area that would damage all of our party members. I fumble the attack roll and the grenade lands adjacent to our psykers head while he is prone on the ground. The grenade then blows our psykers head off.

dropped a grenade and it strangely rolled across the room and killed our psyker. Was later mind controlled and accidentally killed our psyker again with a grenade.

Highfire

Surprised so many people are being so whiny about a picture of Sgt. Stubby. Saying it's either less appropriate to /r/pics than say /r/aww or that there's no sense in having an image like this or a dog with medals. So pardon my possibly extensive lack of knowledge, but from what I've heard, there have been cases of soldiers developing emotional attachments to machinery during times of active service, no? Because those pieces of metal and electricity could've saved their or their friend's life. Or because it did some thing that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to do; it helped them. A dog is certainly no different. Every one knows [should know] how versatile dogs are; saying that they could be undeserving is one of the most blatant admissions to ignorance as you could get. **TL;DR** Stop bitching about where this is or what it's about. It's a good picture, and your whine isn't a benefactor.

Surprised so many people are being so whiny about a picture of Sgt. Stubby. Saying it's either less appropriate to /r/pics than say /r/aww or that there's no sense in having an image like this or a dog with medals. So pardon my possibly extensive lack of knowledge, but from what I've heard, there have been cases of soldiers developing emotional attachments to machinery during times of active service, no? Because those pieces of metal and electricity could've saved their or their friend's life. Or because it did some thing that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to do; it helped them. A dog is certainly no different. Every one knows [should know] how versatile dogs are; saying that they could be undeserving is one of the most blatant admissions to ignorance as you could get. TL;DR Stop bitching about where this is or what it's about. It's a good picture, and your whine isn't a benefactor.

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Surprised so many people are being so whiny about a picture of Sgt. Stubby. Saying it's either less appropriate to /r/pics than say /r/aww or that there's no sense in having an image like this or a dog with medals. So pardon my possibly extensive lack of knowledge, but from what I've heard, there have been cases of soldiers developing emotional attachments to machinery during times of active service, no? Because those pieces of metal and electricity could've saved their or their friend's life. Or because it did some thing that they wouldn't have otherwise been able to do; it helped them. A dog is certainly no different. Every one knows [should know] how versatile dogs are; saying that they could be undeserving is one of the most blatant admissions to ignorance as you could get.

Stop bitching about where this is or what it's about. It's a good picture, and your whine isn't a benefactor.

dswartze

Because people don't think. I'm not talking about the random people on your team during the weekends, I'm talking about the people complaining. Some things to think about: * Who is more likely to look at resources outside of the game to learn more about how to play well, good players or bad players? * As a result of that, who is more likely to know about 5x weekends? * Now I don't know about you guys, but I play a lot more during special events than normally. In fact this past weekend was the first time in weeks that I bothered to do anything other than log in for clan wars and then log out when it's done. * If the skill level of the average player truly went down during these weekends, then you + 14 random players vs 15 random players means your win rate should go up. * However if the average skill level of the random players went up, then it would make sense for your win rate to go down. * Then there's confirmation bias, something that if feels like nearly everyone who plays this game suffers from. People want to believe that weekends bring worse play, so when they lose they notice, and when they win they don't. **TL;DR** People who complain aren't as good as they think they are.

Because people don't think. I'm not talking about the random people on your team during the weekends, I'm talking about the people complaining. Some things to think about: Who is more likely to look at resources outside of the game to learn more about how to play well, good players or bad players? As a result of that, who is more likely to know about 5x weekends? Now I don't know about you guys, but I play a lot more during special events than normally. In fact this past weekend was the first time in weeks that I bothered to do anything other than log in for clan wars and then log out when it's done. If the skill level of the average player truly went down during these weekends, then you + 14 random players vs 15 random players means your win rate should go up. However if the average skill level of the random players went up, then it would make sense for your win rate to go down. Then there's confirmation bias, something that if feels like nearly everyone who plays this game suffers from. People want to believe that weekends bring worse play, so when they lose they notice, and when they win they don't. TL;DR People who complain aren't as good as they think they are.

WorldofTanks

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cirdv6n

Because people don't think. I'm not talking about the random people on your team during the weekends, I'm talking about the people complaining. Some things to think about: Who is more likely to look at resources outside of the game to learn more about how to play well, good players or bad players? As a result of that, who is more likely to know about 5x weekends? Now I don't know about you guys, but I play a lot more during special events than normally. In fact this past weekend was the first time in weeks that I bothered to do anything other than log in for clan wars and then log out when it's done. If the skill level of the average player truly went down during these weekends, then you + 14 random players vs 15 random players means your win rate should go up. However if the average skill level of the random players went up, then it would make sense for your win rate to go down. Then there's confirmation bias, something that if feels like nearly everyone who plays this game suffers from. People want to believe that weekends bring worse play, so when they lose they notice, and when they win they don't.

People who complain aren't as good as they think they are.

EulersPhi

Just because the screen doesn't scratch/break doesn't mean the internals won't get busted. I dropped my iPhone 4s a while back and it landed vertically (with a shitty case on). Screen didn't break, but I broke the LCD on the inside. Had to replace it myself (pain in the fucking ass) I now use a Spigen case on my 5s. It's the best case I've ever owned. It's partly rubber on the top and bottom (and lining the inside), so unless it falls perfectly horizontal, it will bounce and absorb the fall. It's pretty sleek, not bulky at all. I highly recommend it, and can only hope they will be making cases for the iPhone 6 (although I hope it won't be necessary). tl;dr: Cases are always a good idea, even with unbreakable/unscratchable glass. Think of the internals.

Just because the screen doesn't scratch/break doesn't mean the internals won't get busted. I dropped my iPhone 4s a while back and it landed vertically (with a shitty case on). Screen didn't break, but I broke the LCD on the inside. Had to replace it myself (pain in the fucking ass) I now use a Spigen case on my 5s. It's the best case I've ever owned. It's partly rubber on the top and bottom (and lining the inside), so unless it falls perfectly horizontal, it will bounce and absorb the fall. It's pretty sleek, not bulky at all. I highly recommend it, and can only hope they will be making cases for the iPhone 6 (although I hope it won't be necessary). tl;dr: Cases are always a good idea, even with unbreakable/unscratchable glass. Think of the internals.

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Just because the screen doesn't scratch/break doesn't mean the internals won't get busted. I dropped my iPhone 4s a while back and it landed vertically (with a shitty case on). Screen didn't break, but I broke the LCD on the inside. Had to replace it myself (pain in the fucking ass) I now use a Spigen case on my 5s. It's the best case I've ever owned. It's partly rubber on the top and bottom (and lining the inside), so unless it falls perfectly horizontal, it will bounce and absorb the fall. It's pretty sleek, not bulky at all. I highly recommend it, and can only hope they will be making cases for the iPhone 6 (although I hope it won't be necessary).

Cases are always a good idea, even with unbreakable/unscratchable glass. Think of the internals.

sniggle_prick

&gt;Climate contrarians and deniers have been claiming record Antarctica Sea Ice levels show AGW isn't real, or has stopped, which is complete BS. Anyone that says this data point alone somehow disproves AGW isn't worth paying attention to, but it is incongruous with Antarctic ice models and also the notion that sea ice should be in decline on a warming planet. That doesn't mean however that this absolutely can't be some consequence of a positive energy imbalance. &gt;Considering the increase in Antarctica Sea Ice isn't caused by colder temperatures, then it certainly isn't evidence against AGW. Honest question: Are you sure about that? In poking around it looks like some parts of the continent have warmed, and some have cooled. Record cold temperatures were recorded in Antarctica in 2010 and 2013. And I know the south pole isn't representative of the entire continent (and not in the sea, lol), but here's a UAH temperature dataset of the south pole you can download and plot in Excel: TL;DR? You'll see a downward trend in temperature since the record started in 1979. And here's a plot of the Southern Hemisphere sea surface temperature anomaly. It's showing a cooling trend since ~2001: So I'm wondering how you concluded that the increase in sea ice absolutely can't be a result of colder temperatures?

>Climate contrarians and deniers have been claiming record Antarctica Sea Ice levels show AGW isn't real, or has stopped, which is complete BS. Anyone that says this data point alone somehow disproves AGW isn't worth paying attention to, but it is incongruous with Antarctic ice models and also the notion that sea ice should be in decline on a warming planet. That doesn't mean however that this absolutely can't be some consequence of a positive energy imbalance. >Considering the increase in Antarctica Sea Ice isn't caused by colder temperatures, then it certainly isn't evidence against AGW. Honest question: Are you sure about that? In poking around it looks like some parts of the continent have warmed, and some have cooled. Record cold temperatures were recorded in Antarctica in 2010 and 2013. And I know the south pole isn't representative of the entire continent (and not in the sea, lol), but here's a UAH temperature dataset of the south pole you can download and plot in Excel: TL;DR? You'll see a downward trend in temperature since the record started in 1979. And here's a plot of the Southern Hemisphere sea surface temperature anomaly. It's showing a cooling trend since ~2001: So I'm wondering how you concluded that the increase in sea ice absolutely can't be a result of colder temperatures?

skeptic

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Climate contrarians and deniers have been claiming record Antarctica Sea Ice levels show AGW isn't real, or has stopped, which is complete BS. Anyone that says this data point alone somehow disproves AGW isn't worth paying attention to, but it is incongruous with Antarctic ice models and also the notion that sea ice should be in decline on a warming planet. That doesn't mean however that this absolutely can't be some consequence of a positive energy imbalance. >Considering the increase in Antarctica Sea Ice isn't caused by colder temperatures, then it certainly isn't evidence against AGW. Honest question: Are you sure about that? In poking around it looks like some parts of the continent have warmed, and some have cooled. Record cold temperatures were recorded in Antarctica in 2010 and 2013. And I know the south pole isn't representative of the entire continent (and not in the sea, lol), but here's a UAH temperature dataset of the south pole you can download and plot in Excel:

You'll see a downward trend in temperature since the record started in 1979. And here's a plot of the Southern Hemisphere sea surface temperature anomaly. It's showing a cooling trend since ~2001: So I'm wondering how you concluded that the increase in sea ice absolutely can't be a result of colder temperatures?

KawaiiKirin

When I was 8, I watched my dog give birth to puppies for the first time. The first one out was still-born and my heart sunk. What if all of them were like that? I stayed silent and just watched as my parents tried to do CPR and clear the mucus out of its passageways to see if there was anyway to bring it back, but it was futile. It was dead. As my dog heaved and heaved, a second one came to her opening and as my mother peeled back the sack and my dog licked her pup, I could see it squirm and make faint crying noises. It was so small and beautiful, it was wet, dark, sightless, deaf, and helpless, but I'd never seen something so wonderful in my life, and so I cried. I cried, thankful that it was alive. **TL;DR - Witnessed live puppy birth from dog. First one still born, second one alive, and I cried**

When I was 8, I watched my dog give birth to puppies for the first time. The first one out was still-born and my heart sunk. What if all of them were like that? I stayed silent and just watched as my parents tried to do CPR and clear the mucus out of its passageways to see if there was anyway to bring it back, but it was futile. It was dead. As my dog heaved and heaved, a second one came to her opening and as my mother peeled back the sack and my dog licked her pup, I could see it squirm and make faint crying noises. It was so small and beautiful, it was wet, dark, sightless, deaf, and helpless, but I'd never seen something so wonderful in my life, and so I cried. I cried, thankful that it was alive. TL;DR - Witnessed live puppy birth from dog. First one still born, second one alive, and I cried

AskReddit

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cirfuqb

When I was 8, I watched my dog give birth to puppies for the first time. The first one out was still-born and my heart sunk. What if all of them were like that? I stayed silent and just watched as my parents tried to do CPR and clear the mucus out of its passageways to see if there was anyway to bring it back, but it was futile. It was dead. As my dog heaved and heaved, a second one came to her opening and as my mother peeled back the sack and my dog licked her pup, I could see it squirm and make faint crying noises. It was so small and beautiful, it was wet, dark, sightless, deaf, and helpless, but I'd never seen something so wonderful in my life, and so I cried. I cried, thankful that it was alive.

Witnessed live puppy birth from dog. First one still born, second one alive, and I cried

AOTKorby

Diplomacy checks should generally be reserved for "bonus" in terms of social interaction with NPCs. You can also have a fair bit of fun if you create scenarios where party members have to not only break out of their molds, but try haphazardly to fit into others' (this naturally works best in low-magic so the wizard can't solve everything). Imagine a low-level barbarian, alchemist, and druid trying to break the rogue out of jail by means other than ransacking the joint. Also, low int/cha characters always have the last laugh, because their sincere efforts to help can screw up everything. It's quite amusing when Lunk the Barbarian screws over the bard's diplomacy check with awful non sequitur rambling. Puzzles are another one, since an actual puzzle is solved by the players, not the dice. Tl;dr Don't make players roll to talk unless doing so adds in some way. Making certain members of the party feel useless outside combat does not add. Add more challenges that no one character can solve, and make them not always presented to those who could best perform them.

Diplomacy checks should generally be reserved for "bonus" in terms of social interaction with NPCs. You can also have a fair bit of fun if you create scenarios where party members have to not only break out of their molds, but try haphazardly to fit into others' (this naturally works best in low-magic so the wizard can't solve everything). Imagine a low-level barbarian, alchemist, and druid trying to break the rogue out of jail by means other than ransacking the joint. Also, low int/cha characters always have the last laugh, because their sincere efforts to help can screw up everything. It's quite amusing when Lunk the Barbarian screws over the bard's diplomacy check with awful non sequitur rambling. Puzzles are another one, since an actual puzzle is solved by the players, not the dice. Tl;dr Don't make players roll to talk unless doing so adds in some way. Making certain members of the party feel useless outside combat does not add. Add more challenges that no one character can solve, and make them not always presented to those who could best perform them.

Pathfinder_RPG

t5_2trms

ciris1t

Diplomacy checks should generally be reserved for "bonus" in terms of social interaction with NPCs. You can also have a fair bit of fun if you create scenarios where party members have to not only break out of their molds, but try haphazardly to fit into others' (this naturally works best in low-magic so the wizard can't solve everything). Imagine a low-level barbarian, alchemist, and druid trying to break the rogue out of jail by means other than ransacking the joint. Also, low int/cha characters always have the last laugh, because their sincere efforts to help can screw up everything. It's quite amusing when Lunk the Barbarian screws over the bard's diplomacy check with awful non sequitur rambling. Puzzles are another one, since an actual puzzle is solved by the players, not the dice.

Don't make players roll to talk unless doing so adds in some way. Making certain members of the party feel useless outside combat does not add. Add more challenges that no one character can solve, and make them not always presented to those who could best perform them.

Rihx

Besides post-run stretching I have to say that the Foam roller is awesome. I've been struggling with knee pain for a couple of months due to my IT band -- no IT band stretches I tried worked at all -- the foam roller fixed it like magic. In a week I went from horrible knee pain between the 5-7k mark forcing me to stop running, and right back to running 22k. I don't know why it took me so long to hear about these things, but I'm sure glad I found out about them! TLDR; I love my new foam roller!

Besides post-run stretching I have to say that the Foam roller is awesome. I've been struggling with knee pain for a couple of months due to my IT band -- no IT band stretches I tried worked at all -- the foam roller fixed it like magic. In a week I went from horrible knee pain between the 5-7k mark forcing me to stop running, and right back to running 22k. I don't know why it took me so long to hear about these things, but I'm sure glad I found out about them! TLDR; I love my new foam roller!

running

t5_2qlit

cirk8m2

Besides post-run stretching I have to say that the Foam roller is awesome. I've been struggling with knee pain for a couple of months due to my IT band -- no IT band stretches I tried worked at all -- the foam roller fixed it like magic. In a week I went from horrible knee pain between the 5-7k mark forcing me to stop running, and right back to running 22k. I don't know why it took me so long to hear about these things, but I'm sure glad I found out about them!

I love my new foam roller!

SpectreRaptor

I could write a book about why planetside drives people away: * No context, training, or any way to learn about what killed you and why. * It is a very very "high context" game; you have to know tons of stuff about the game in order to be successful. * There is a bunch of stuff going on at any given moment, waaaaay more than any other FPS * New players start out with pitifully crappy vehicles. * If you crash your ESF or get killed by a BR100 gank squad, have fun waiting 15 minutes to try again. * No effective anti air at start. * There is a crazy skill gap; the absolute best players in the world are ~~up against~~ farming BR1s every day. * There is no "paced encounter system" that most campaigns have where you gradually fight harder and harder enemies/players. The list goes on. Most of these are fundamental problems with the nature of the game, that cannot be solved without taking away the scale of the game and turning it into just another shooter. For me, the only reason I kept up with this game when I wanted to quit early on was I had a BR100 friend who I played with who taught me the game. And that is the only real way to mitigate the problem of player retention without destroying the game. A "mentorship" system, getting people into GOOD outfits designed to help new players is really the only solution. Either that or some form of campaign system for new players. Sure we could throw a couple certs their way, or unlock everything, but that will help people making alts way more than brand new players. TLDR This game is hard; we need to have some way to teach new players the game.

I could write a book about why planetside drives people away: No context, training, or any way to learn about what killed you and why. It is a very very "high context" game; you have to know tons of stuff about the game in order to be successful. There is a bunch of stuff going on at any given moment, waaaaay more than any other FPS New players start out with pitifully crappy vehicles. If you crash your ESF or get killed by a BR100 gank squad, have fun waiting 15 minutes to try again. No effective anti air at start. There is a crazy skill gap; the absolute best players in the world are up against farming BR1s every day. There is no "paced encounter system" that most campaigns have where you gradually fight harder and harder enemies/players. The list goes on. Most of these are fundamental problems with the nature of the game, that cannot be solved without taking away the scale of the game and turning it into just another shooter. For me, the only reason I kept up with this game when I wanted to quit early on was I had a BR100 friend who I played with who taught me the game. And that is the only real way to mitigate the problem of player retention without destroying the game. A "mentorship" system, getting people into GOOD outfits designed to help new players is really the only solution. Either that or some form of campaign system for new players. Sure we could throw a couple certs their way, or unlock everything, but that will help people making alts way more than brand new players. TLDR This game is hard; we need to have some way to teach new players the game.

Planetside

t5_2s48x

cirrvz7

I could write a book about why planetside drives people away: No context, training, or any way to learn about what killed you and why. It is a very very "high context" game; you have to know tons of stuff about the game in order to be successful. There is a bunch of stuff going on at any given moment, waaaaay more than any other FPS New players start out with pitifully crappy vehicles. If you crash your ESF or get killed by a BR100 gank squad, have fun waiting 15 minutes to try again. No effective anti air at start. There is a crazy skill gap; the absolute best players in the world are up against farming BR1s every day. There is no "paced encounter system" that most campaigns have where you gradually fight harder and harder enemies/players. The list goes on. Most of these are fundamental problems with the nature of the game, that cannot be solved without taking away the scale of the game and turning it into just another shooter. For me, the only reason I kept up with this game when I wanted to quit early on was I had a BR100 friend who I played with who taught me the game. And that is the only real way to mitigate the problem of player retention without destroying the game. A "mentorship" system, getting people into GOOD outfits designed to help new players is really the only solution. Either that or some form of campaign system for new players. Sure we could throw a couple certs their way, or unlock everything, but that will help people making alts way more than brand new players.

This game is hard; we need to have some way to teach new players the game.

dmitchel0820

Many players' first experience with PS2 is immediately getting killed by a high level player, with what looks to them like an OP P2W gun or vehicle. This is followed by an overwhelming and confusing map screen popping up, with lots of unlabelled symbols, numerous graphs, blinking lights, unknown abbreviations, and countdown timers. The player has no idea what their goal is nor how to accomplish it, so they spawn wherever the game puts them. Hopefully they don't get spawn camped. Regardless of what they do or where they go, however, they *will* die repeatedly without knowing why nor how to prevent it, all the while being given no motivation to continue playing. If they keep playing anyway, they will then begin to realize that the only goal the game seems to have, getting certs, is so atrociously slow for them that it feels pointless to even try. If they manage to get past all of this without quitting, only then might they stick around. The solution to these problems is to give new players a *completely* controlled and guided first experience. A few ideas on how it could work: At first the map screen is greyed out, and the game chooses their spawn points, making sure to always drop them into large fights where they have a pop advantage. Give them a 500% XP boost which lasts until they are BR10 and at some point make sure to point out that the game is not P2W and the weapons are sidegrades. After an hour or so, unlock the map screen, and clearly explain how to find a good fight. A short time after that, explain the cert screen and give them a few free upgrades of their choice, and then finally put them in a public platoon to experience some teamplay. Also, the mission system could be a huge asset for player retention if its properly utilized. One of the biggest problems for new players is that they don't know what they should be doing or why. Creating some sort of tiered mission system that lets players "advance" through more and more difficult missions might create the sense of progression which is vital in keeping players engaged. Also reward kills based not only on threat level, but BR difference as well. TLDR: The game needs to *completely* control their first experience, making sure to put them in even fights and slowly introducing things such as the map, cert screen, ect.

Many players' first experience with PS2 is immediately getting killed by a high level player, with what looks to them like an OP P2W gun or vehicle. This is followed by an overwhelming and confusing map screen popping up, with lots of unlabelled symbols, numerous graphs, blinking lights, unknown abbreviations, and countdown timers. The player has no idea what their goal is nor how to accomplish it, so they spawn wherever the game puts them. Hopefully they don't get spawn camped. Regardless of what they do or where they go, however, they will die repeatedly without knowing why nor how to prevent it, all the while being given no motivation to continue playing. If they keep playing anyway, they will then begin to realize that the only goal the game seems to have, getting certs, is so atrociously slow for them that it feels pointless to even try. If they manage to get past all of this without quitting, only then might they stick around. The solution to these problems is to give new players a completely controlled and guided first experience. A few ideas on how it could work: At first the map screen is greyed out, and the game chooses their spawn points, making sure to always drop them into large fights where they have a pop advantage. Give them a 500% XP boost which lasts until they are BR10 and at some point make sure to point out that the game is not P2W and the weapons are sidegrades. After an hour or so, unlock the map screen, and clearly explain how to find a good fight. A short time after that, explain the cert screen and give them a few free upgrades of their choice, and then finally put them in a public platoon to experience some teamplay. Also, the mission system could be a huge asset for player retention if its properly utilized. One of the biggest problems for new players is that they don't know what they should be doing or why. Creating some sort of tiered mission system that lets players "advance" through more and more difficult missions might create the sense of progression which is vital in keeping players engaged. Also reward kills based not only on threat level, but BR difference as well. TLDR: The game needs to completely control their first experience, making sure to put them in even fights and slowly introducing things such as the map, cert screen, ect.

Planetside

t5_2s48x

ciryb5w

Many players' first experience with PS2 is immediately getting killed by a high level player, with what looks to them like an OP P2W gun or vehicle. This is followed by an overwhelming and confusing map screen popping up, with lots of unlabelled symbols, numerous graphs, blinking lights, unknown abbreviations, and countdown timers. The player has no idea what their goal is nor how to accomplish it, so they spawn wherever the game puts them. Hopefully they don't get spawn camped. Regardless of what they do or where they go, however, they will die repeatedly without knowing why nor how to prevent it, all the while being given no motivation to continue playing. If they keep playing anyway, they will then begin to realize that the only goal the game seems to have, getting certs, is so atrociously slow for them that it feels pointless to even try. If they manage to get past all of this without quitting, only then might they stick around. The solution to these problems is to give new players a completely controlled and guided first experience. A few ideas on how it could work: At first the map screen is greyed out, and the game chooses their spawn points, making sure to always drop them into large fights where they have a pop advantage. Give them a 500% XP boost which lasts until they are BR10 and at some point make sure to point out that the game is not P2W and the weapons are sidegrades. After an hour or so, unlock the map screen, and clearly explain how to find a good fight. A short time after that, explain the cert screen and give them a few free upgrades of their choice, and then finally put them in a public platoon to experience some teamplay. Also, the mission system could be a huge asset for player retention if its properly utilized. One of the biggest problems for new players is that they don't know what they should be doing or why. Creating some sort of tiered mission system that lets players "advance" through more and more difficult missions might create the sense of progression which is vital in keeping players engaged. Also reward kills based not only on threat level, but BR difference as well.

The game needs to completely control their first experience, making sure to put them in even fights and slowly introducing things such as the map, cert screen, ect.

xvyion

Probably because there are more genes involved in the human genome than there are possible facial features, so there's bound to be some overlap. Also, I imagine you could share a lot of the same genes (i.e. possibly have at least some common ancestors) with someone and yet share no other genes. In fact, we all share a common ancestor at some point. Especially people that are from the same regions (i.e. I have German ancestry and share a lot of genetic information with other people with German ancestry). tldr; We're plenty complex and the facial structure genes are only a small percentage of our overall genome.

Probably because there are more genes involved in the human genome than there are possible facial features, so there's bound to be some overlap. Also, I imagine you could share a lot of the same genes (i.e. possibly have at least some common ancestors) with someone and yet share no other genes. In fact, we all share a common ancestor at some point. Especially people that are from the same regions (i.e. I have German ancestry and share a lot of genetic information with other people with German ancestry). tldr; We're plenty complex and the facial structure genes are only a small percentage of our overall genome.

explainlikeimfive

t5_2sokd

cis0h8y

Probably because there are more genes involved in the human genome than there are possible facial features, so there's bound to be some overlap. Also, I imagine you could share a lot of the same genes (i.e. possibly have at least some common ancestors) with someone and yet share no other genes. In fact, we all share a common ancestor at some point. Especially people that are from the same regions (i.e. I have German ancestry and share a lot of genetic information with other people with German ancestry).

We're plenty complex and the facial structure genes are only a small percentage of our overall genome.

Bigbigpops

I shot myself in the eye with a spitting cartomizer one time. Not only was there pain from hot liquid shooting in my eye, but the nicotine irritated the hell out of them. TLDR: Got it in the eye wear safety glasses now.

I shot myself in the eye with a spitting cartomizer one time. Not only was there pain from hot liquid shooting in my eye, but the nicotine irritated the hell out of them. TLDR: Got it in the eye wear safety glasses now.

electronic_cigarette

t5_2qmlu

ciscqm2

I shot myself in the eye with a spitting cartomizer one time. Not only was there pain from hot liquid shooting in my eye, but the nicotine irritated the hell out of them.

Got it in the eye wear safety glasses now.

HipHoboHarold

Webster's website had this &gt; Main Entry: crime  &gt;Pronunciation: \ˈkrīm\ &gt;Function: noun &gt;Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latincrimen accusation, reproach, crime; probably akin to Latincernere to sift, determine &gt;Date: 14th century &gt;1 :  an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law ; especially :  a gross violation of law 2 :  a grave offense especially against morality 3 :  criminal activity&lt;efforts to fight crime&gt; 4 :  something reprehensible, foolish, or disgraceful &lt;it's acrime to waste good food&gt; &gt;synonyms See Synonym Discussion at offense tl;dr It doesnt

Webster's website had this > Main Entry: crime >Pronunciation: \ˈkrīm\ >Function: noun >Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latincrimen accusation, reproach, crime; probably akin to Latincernere to sift, determine >Date: 14th century >1 : an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law ; especially : a gross violation of law 2 : a grave offense especially against morality 3 : criminal activity<efforts to fight crime> 4 : something reprehensible, foolish, or disgraceful <it's acrime to waste good food> >synonyms See Synonym Discussion at offense tl;dr It doesnt

iamverysmart

t5_2yuej

cismjbs

Webster's website had this > Main Entry: crime >Pronunciation: \ˈkrīm\ >Function: noun >Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latincrimen accusation, reproach, crime; probably akin to Latincernere to sift, determine >Date: 14th century >1 : an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law ; especially : a gross violation of law 2 : a grave offense especially against morality 3 : criminal activity<efforts to fight crime> 4 : something reprehensible, foolish, or disgraceful <it's acrime to waste good food> >synonyms See Synonym Discussion at offense

It doesnt

nekon

i would like to ask if there is a quest for the FTL drive fix, or if i have to use /spawnitem for this atm.

i would like to ask if there is a quest for the FTL drive fix, or if i have to use /spawnitem for this atm.

starbound

t5_2tkp6

cisihyd

i would like to ask if there is a quest for the F

ive fix, or if i have to use /spawnitem for this atm.

grapcerman

Agree with this. If possible, play with a team where your objective is to avoid relegation. I had the same problem as you, I started a World class career with Man City, got fired in January for being 12th. Started a career with Dortmund, fired in January again. Then I started a career with Aston Villa, I improved gradually because there was no pressure on me. I was 13th in January, improved my team in the transfer window and finished 11th. I made it to 5th next season and was 4th in season 3. TLDR - Play world class with a lesser team where your objective is to avoid relegation or finish mid table.

Agree with this. If possible, play with a team where your objective is to avoid relegation. I had the same problem as you, I started a World class career with Man City, got fired in January for being 12th. Started a career with Dortmund, fired in January again. Then I started a career with Aston Villa, I improved gradually because there was no pressure on me. I was 13th in January, improved my team in the transfer window and finished 11th. I made it to 5th next season and was 4th in season 3. TLDR - Play world class with a lesser team where your objective is to avoid relegation or finish mid table.

FifaCareers

t5_2tzz3

cism5z0

Agree with this. If possible, play with a team where your objective is to avoid relegation. I had the same problem as you, I started a World class career with Man City, got fired in January for being 12th. Started a career with Dortmund, fired in January again. Then I started a career with Aston Villa, I improved gradually because there was no pressure on me. I was 13th in January, improved my team in the transfer window and finished 11th. I made it to 5th next season and was 4th in season 3.

Play world class with a lesser team where your objective is to avoid relegation or finish mid table.

djgump35

I got dragged to a party I didn't want to go to. The host was drunk, his pregnant wife was not drinking. I didn't usually drink but I had a good buzz. Friends that brought me disappear. Hosts wife needs something for the kitchen. Host is telling hilarious stories. I notice that the pregnant wife is going to walk about a half mile in the rain to ask for something, because the host insisted. I look around to see if any of her friends are going to go with her, or if the husband would, of course not. I go with her. She tells me all about everyone's gossip. Every good bit of dirt she has, she spills. Her husband included. On the way back, she asks me the hypothetical what if I left my husband. I tell her it's inappropriate, but hey if I met her first, I would probably be head over heels. We managed to get to the staircase without anything too awkward when this couple I knew came bursting outside. She whispers "ask him!" Then it's just he and I, and he asks the question. He asked me if I could have sex with his girlfriend, because she wants it so bad. I asked why would anyone ask someone to do that, and told him that I thought they were engaged. He told me they broke off the engagement when she confessed to being in love with me. Context - - - Now they took a timeout for a couple days, and the night in between she spent the night. That night we made out. They were together 6 years. He went on to explain that her cousin was visiting, and if he breaks up with her, he thinks he could get with the cousin. I said Hell No! With that my buzz was ruined, he told her my answer. I thought I could just go in and forget about this, but I was wrong. My friends returned. The cousin and boyfriend left, the girl cried, when the friends came out from the bathroom they told me we had to leave, I was relieved. The wife gave me a hug and a cheek kiss, and wouldn't let go. The girl who was crying had come out to say bye, saw this and went back into the bathroom. I am told the husband broke the dishes after I left. The friends I came with were a couple, and the husband of that couple asked me what I did,because they were only gone for twenty minutes. It was an hour, one terrible hour. TL;DR: I got buzzed guy wanted me to have sex with his girlfriend, lost buzz.

I got dragged to a party I didn't want to go to. The host was drunk, his pregnant wife was not drinking. I didn't usually drink but I had a good buzz. Friends that brought me disappear. Hosts wife needs something for the kitchen. Host is telling hilarious stories. I notice that the pregnant wife is going to walk about a half mile in the rain to ask for something, because the host insisted. I look around to see if any of her friends are going to go with her, or if the husband would, of course not. I go with her. She tells me all about everyone's gossip. Every good bit of dirt she has, she spills. Her husband included. On the way back, she asks me the hypothetical what if I left my husband. I tell her it's inappropriate, but hey if I met her first, I would probably be head over heels. We managed to get to the staircase without anything too awkward when this couple I knew came bursting outside. She whispers "ask him!" Then it's just he and I, and he asks the question. He asked me if I could have sex with his girlfriend, because she wants it so bad. I asked why would anyone ask someone to do that, and told him that I thought they were engaged. He told me they broke off the engagement when she confessed to being in love with me. Context - - - Now they took a timeout for a couple days, and the night in between she spent the night. That night we made out. They were together 6 years. He went on to explain that her cousin was visiting, and if he breaks up with her, he thinks he could get with the cousin. I said Hell No! With that my buzz was ruined, he told her my answer. I thought I could just go in and forget about this, but I was wrong. My friends returned. The cousin and boyfriend left, the girl cried, when the friends came out from the bathroom they told me we had to leave, I was relieved. The wife gave me a hug and a cheek kiss, and wouldn't let go. The girl who was crying had come out to say bye, saw this and went back into the bathroom. I am told the husband broke the dishes after I left. The friends I came with were a couple, and the husband of that couple asked me what I did,because they were only gone for twenty minutes. It was an hour, one terrible hour. TL;DR: I got buzzed guy wanted me to have sex with his girlfriend, lost buzz.

AskReddit

t5_2qh1i

cisevwq

I got dragged to a party I didn't want to go to. The host was drunk, his pregnant wife was not drinking. I didn't usually drink but I had a good buzz. Friends that brought me disappear. Hosts wife needs something for the kitchen. Host is telling hilarious stories. I notice that the pregnant wife is going to walk about a half mile in the rain to ask for something, because the host insisted. I look around to see if any of her friends are going to go with her, or if the husband would, of course not. I go with her. She tells me all about everyone's gossip. Every good bit of dirt she has, she spills. Her husband included. On the way back, she asks me the hypothetical what if I left my husband. I tell her it's inappropriate, but hey if I met her first, I would probably be head over heels. We managed to get to the staircase without anything too awkward when this couple I knew came bursting outside. She whispers "ask him!" Then it's just he and I, and he asks the question. He asked me if I could have sex with his girlfriend, because she wants it so bad. I asked why would anyone ask someone to do that, and told him that I thought they were engaged. He told me they broke off the engagement when she confessed to being in love with me. Context - - - Now they took a timeout for a couple days, and the night in between she spent the night. That night we made out. They were together 6 years. He went on to explain that her cousin was visiting, and if he breaks up with her, he thinks he could get with the cousin. I said Hell No! With that my buzz was ruined, he told her my answer. I thought I could just go in and forget about this, but I was wrong. My friends returned. The cousin and boyfriend left, the girl cried, when the friends came out from the bathroom they told me we had to leave, I was relieved. The wife gave me a hug and a cheek kiss, and wouldn't let go. The girl who was crying had come out to say bye, saw this and went back into the bathroom. I am told the husband broke the dishes after I left. The friends I came with were a couple, and the husband of that couple asked me what I did,because they were only gone for twenty minutes. It was an hour, one terrible hour.

I got buzzed guy wanted me to have sex with his girlfriend, lost buzz.

xenthum

By recreated current content, it acts the same as new content. In MOBAs, you can't just spam new content. It just wouldn't get used. In Dota2 and League, there is really only one map that the majority of players care about. They will **always** play that map, regardless of any other maps you create. So a new champion shakes things up and is new content. But if you recreate a champion, fundamentally change a handful of champions, or recreate/remove/add items in the game, then you change the process of consuming that map's content. It's not "new content" by the traditional definition, but it serves the same purpose as a new dungeon or raid in an MMO and changes the entire way you play the game. TL,DR: A major rebalance *is* content in a moba.

By recreated current content, it acts the same as new content. In MOBAs, you can't just spam new content. It just wouldn't get used. In Dota2 and League, there is really only one map that the majority of players care about. They will always play that map, regardless of any other maps you create. So a new champion shakes things up and is new content. But if you recreate a champion, fundamentally change a handful of champions, or recreate/remove/add items in the game, then you change the process of consuming that map's content. It's not "new content" by the traditional definition, but it serves the same purpose as a new dungeon or raid in an MMO and changes the entire way you play the game. TL,DR: A major rebalance is content in a moba.

Games

t5_2qhwp

cisllbe

By recreated current content, it acts the same as new content. In MOBAs, you can't just spam new content. It just wouldn't get used. In Dota2 and League, there is really only one map that the majority of players care about. They will always play that map, regardless of any other maps you create. So a new champion shakes things up and is new content. But if you recreate a champion, fundamentally change a handful of champions, or recreate/remove/add items in the game, then you change the process of consuming that map's content. It's not "new content" by the traditional definition, but it serves the same purpose as a new dungeon or raid in an MMO and changes the entire way you play the game.

A major rebalance is content in a moba.

Brokndremes

I guess this point has been iterated before, but I'll do it again with math. In DotA, there are currently 107 heroes, where two teams of 5 will play against each other. That alone allows for roughly 3.51*10^13 different combinations of heroes playing in a game. There are 59 basic items, including consumables, which can be built into 45 more powerful items, and each hero can hold 6 items. Giving roughly 15x10^178 different possible item combinations for each hero, though many of these will be very, very impractical. Basically, in DotA, variation comes from the skill of the players, the items the players build, and the heroes the players choose. I'll use Counterstrike my FPS example, since I'm familiar with it, but I believe many of these same principals can be applied to other FPS. In Counterstrike, the variation comes from what weapons you can buy, the skill of the players, the game-mode, and the map. In CS:GO, there are ~9 pistols, 23 primary weapons, and 6 different grenades (including both CT and T weapons) which gives roughly 6.75*10^30 item combinations per player. (2.16*10^32 in a 32 player server) While each game plays differently, playing the same map over and over on an FPS tends to fall into the same ruts, which is why having multiple game modes / maps for FPS and similar games is good. Why doesn't this happen in DotA? In a sense, it does, however within those ruts the variation is much greater. For example, on dust2, there's generally a sniper of some sort on mid. This could be a good or bad sniper, using a scout, AWP, or auto-sniper, with or without armor, with or without grenades. In DotA, there's generally a hero playing midlane generally one of about ~15 different heroes, which could be playing the role of carry, semi-carry, pusher/support, or ganker, as well as getting and building towards thousands of different item combinations. Another aspect of only having one map, is it's a pretty good map. It's been fairly well balanced, though each side has it's quirks, and there is a great deal to learn about it. . . Welp, that was longer than I thought. TL;DR: DotA has much more variation on a map than FPS do with numbers.

I guess this point has been iterated before, but I'll do it again with math. In DotA, there are currently 107 heroes, where two teams of 5 will play against each other. That alone allows for roughly 3.51*10^13 different combinations of heroes playing in a game. There are 59 basic items, including consumables, which can be built into 45 more powerful items, and each hero can hold 6 items. Giving roughly 15x10^178 different possible item combinations for each hero, though many of these will be very, very impractical. Basically, in DotA, variation comes from the skill of the players, the items the players build, and the heroes the players choose. I'll use Counterstrike my FPS example, since I'm familiar with it, but I believe many of these same principals can be applied to other FPS. In Counterstrike, the variation comes from what weapons you can buy, the skill of the players, the game-mode, and the map. In CS:GO, there are ~9 pistols, 23 primary weapons, and 6 different grenades (including both CT and T weapons) which gives roughly 6.75 10^30 item combinations per player. (2.16 10^32 in a 32 player server) While each game plays differently, playing the same map over and over on an FPS tends to fall into the same ruts, which is why having multiple game modes / maps for FPS and similar games is good. Why doesn't this happen in DotA? In a sense, it does, however within those ruts the variation is much greater. For example, on dust2, there's generally a sniper of some sort on mid. This could be a good or bad sniper, using a scout, AWP, or auto-sniper, with or without armor, with or without grenades. In DotA, there's generally a hero playing midlane generally one of about ~15 different heroes, which could be playing the role of carry, semi-carry, pusher/support, or ganker, as well as getting and building towards thousands of different item combinations. Another aspect of only having one map, is it's a pretty good map. It's been fairly well balanced, though each side has it's quirks, and there is a great deal to learn about it. . . Welp, that was longer than I thought. TL;DR: DotA has much more variation on a map than FPS do with numbers.

Games

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cit60ir

I guess this point has been iterated before, but I'll do it again with math. In DotA, there are currently 107 heroes, where two teams of 5 will play against each other. That alone allows for roughly 3.51*10^13 different combinations of heroes playing in a game. There are 59 basic items, including consumables, which can be built into 45 more powerful items, and each hero can hold 6 items. Giving roughly 15x10^178 different possible item combinations for each hero, though many of these will be very, very impractical. Basically, in DotA, variation comes from the skill of the players, the items the players build, and the heroes the players choose. I'll use Counterstrike my FPS example, since I'm familiar with it, but I believe many of these same principals can be applied to other FPS. In Counterstrike, the variation comes from what weapons you can buy, the skill of the players, the game-mode, and the map. In CS:GO, there are ~9 pistols, 23 primary weapons, and 6 different grenades (including both CT and T weapons) which gives roughly 6.75 10^30 item combinations per player. (2.16 10^32 in a 32 player server) While each game plays differently, playing the same map over and over on an FPS tends to fall into the same ruts, which is why having multiple game modes / maps for FPS and similar games is good. Why doesn't this happen in DotA? In a sense, it does, however within those ruts the variation is much greater. For example, on dust2, there's generally a sniper of some sort on mid. This could be a good or bad sniper, using a scout, AWP, or auto-sniper, with or without armor, with or without grenades. In DotA, there's generally a hero playing midlane generally one of about ~15 different heroes, which could be playing the role of carry, semi-carry, pusher/support, or ganker, as well as getting and building towards thousands of different item combinations. Another aspect of only having one map, is it's a pretty good map. It's been fairly well balanced, though each side has it's quirks, and there is a great deal to learn about it. . . Welp, that was longer than I thought.

DotA has much more variation on a map than FPS do with numbers.

newgirl3

I think this all has to be taken with a pince of salt. Everything that we have learnt after the end of the books has, in my opinion, widened the world (I am ignoring J.K's debates over what she wrote as I don't think that links with the world). Saying this, after all, I would imagine the majority of this community would also agree that more is always better, however, that is why we are here, to indulge and further our understanding of HP, WE WON'T MORE. But, this can all go wrong, yes, J.K hasn't done anything that bad yet, but she hasn't touched the main three really, and she definately hasn't written anything from Harry's POV. So, I think it was wise for her to do this, if she was to do something from Harry's POV I believe, like with Indiana Jones, she could get it wrong, and we would all be devastated. So, please keep writing about the world, but avoid talking too much about the main three, there story is complete and perfect. TL;DR I want more, but I don't want her to write from Harry's POV I think that would ruin it

I think this all has to be taken with a pince of salt. Everything that we have learnt after the end of the books has, in my opinion, widened the world (I am ignoring J.K's debates over what she wrote as I don't think that links with the world). Saying this, after all, I would imagine the majority of this community would also agree that more is always better, however, that is why we are here, to indulge and further our understanding of HP, WE WON'T MORE. But, this can all go wrong, yes, J.K hasn't done anything that bad yet, but she hasn't touched the main three really, and she definately hasn't written anything from Harry's POV. So, I think it was wise for her to do this, if she was to do something from Harry's POV I believe, like with Indiana Jones, she could get it wrong, and we would all be devastated. So, please keep writing about the world, but avoid talking too much about the main three, there story is complete and perfect. TL;DR I want more, but I don't want her to write from Harry's POV I think that would ruin it

harrypotter

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cisrqlf

I think this all has to be taken with a pince of salt. Everything that we have learnt after the end of the books has, in my opinion, widened the world (I am ignoring J.K's debates over what she wrote as I don't think that links with the world). Saying this, after all, I would imagine the majority of this community would also agree that more is always better, however, that is why we are here, to indulge and further our understanding of HP, WE WON'T MORE. But, this can all go wrong, yes, J.K hasn't done anything that bad yet, but she hasn't touched the main three really, and she definately hasn't written anything from Harry's POV. So, I think it was wise for her to do this, if she was to do something from Harry's POV I believe, like with Indiana Jones, she could get it wrong, and we would all be devastated. So, please keep writing about the world, but avoid talking too much about the main three, there story is complete and perfect.

I want more, but I don't want her to write from Harry's POV I think that would ruin it

TripleBrass

Eh, alright, so there's a bit more to it. The current FSN anime is a poor adaptation. It gets the point across, but it is decidedly average at best. The visual novel form of FSN is far more highly regarded, but that is a significant time investment (60+ hours to read through all 3 routes if you have a decent reading speed). The reason you would enjoy Prisma Ilya more with knowledge of FSN is that you'll understand crossovers like FSN's version of Archer appearing in Prisma Ilya (in a way, trying to be as spoiler free as possible). But, I wouldn't read or watch FSN *just* to better enjoy Prisma Ilya - if that makes sense to you? There's the upcoming new adaptation of FSN this Fall, which should be good (please, Ufotable). tl;dr - I don't recommend watching the FSN anime since the VN is far superior. If you have absolutely no interest in reading the novel, go ahead and watch the anime if you like - I simply don't recommend it is all. Prisma Ilya stands on its own. You'll just squeal like a schoolgirl when certain crossovers happen that only make sense if you have knowledge of FSN.

Eh, alright, so there's a bit more to it. The current FSN anime is a poor adaptation. It gets the point across, but it is decidedly average at best. The visual novel form of FSN is far more highly regarded, but that is a significant time investment (60+ hours to read through all 3 routes if you have a decent reading speed). The reason you would enjoy Prisma Ilya more with knowledge of FSN is that you'll understand crossovers like FSN's version of Archer appearing in Prisma Ilya (in a way, trying to be as spoiler free as possible). But, I wouldn't read or watch FSN just to better enjoy Prisma Ilya - if that makes sense to you? There's the upcoming new adaptation of FSN this Fall, which should be good (please, Ufotable). tl;dr - I don't recommend watching the FSN anime since the VN is far superior. If you have absolutely no interest in reading the novel, go ahead and watch the anime if you like - I simply don't recommend it is all. Prisma Ilya stands on its own. You'll just squeal like a schoolgirl when certain crossovers happen that only make sense if you have knowledge of FSN.

anime

t5_2qh22

cisx5vz

Eh, alright, so there's a bit more to it. The current FSN anime is a poor adaptation. It gets the point across, but it is decidedly average at best. The visual novel form of FSN is far more highly regarded, but that is a significant time investment (60+ hours to read through all 3 routes if you have a decent reading speed). The reason you would enjoy Prisma Ilya more with knowledge of FSN is that you'll understand crossovers like FSN's version of Archer appearing in Prisma Ilya (in a way, trying to be as spoiler free as possible). But, I wouldn't read or watch FSN just to better enjoy Prisma Ilya - if that makes sense to you? There's the upcoming new adaptation of FSN this Fall, which should be good (please, Ufotable).

I don't recommend watching the FSN anime since the VN is far superior. If you have absolutely no interest in reading the novel, go ahead and watch the anime if you like - I simply don't recommend it is all. Prisma Ilya stands on its own. You'll just squeal like a schoolgirl when certain crossovers happen that only make sense if you have knowledge of FSN.

Scumshots

Alright well this isn't nearly as big of a TIFU for me as it is for my friend. I should mention this friend and I were pretty close but were always kind of dicks to eachother. We didn't spend much time at school or eat lunch together, but outside of school we hung out constantly. Strange relationship. So after I made this extra sex toy for my friend he was too afraid to keep it at his house, so he just told me to keep it hidden with mine (oh god i just realized they weren't labeled at all. I hope there were no mixups..) He would occasionally come over and hang out and then say he needed some time to himself in the bathroom. He'd do his thing, and we'd keep hanging out. Once when we were hanging out at my house my mom asked me to run to the store really quick for a clove of garlic or something. I rushed to the store and back and when I got back upstairs I noticed the bathroom light was on and the door was closed. I knew what was going on so I jokingly knocked on the door and said "have fun in there." I hadn't done anything myself in a few days so I decided why not, I'll tug one out really quick. So i grabbed my toy, and walked into the other room with the computer only to find my friend, butt ass naked frantically fucking his toilet paper vagina while I awkwardly stand there with an erection (from beforehand, not because of him I swear). I guess my dad was the one in the bathroom upstairs and when my friend had tried to lock the door he didnt turn the lock all the way. TL;DR Caught friend frantically fucking toilet paper roll in my room.

Alright well this isn't nearly as big of a TIFU for me as it is for my friend. I should mention this friend and I were pretty close but were always kind of dicks to eachother. We didn't spend much time at school or eat lunch together, but outside of school we hung out constantly. Strange relationship. So after I made this extra sex toy for my friend he was too afraid to keep it at his house, so he just told me to keep it hidden with mine (oh god i just realized they weren't labeled at all. I hope there were no mixups..) He would occasionally come over and hang out and then say he needed some time to himself in the bathroom. He'd do his thing, and we'd keep hanging out. Once when we were hanging out at my house my mom asked me to run to the store really quick for a clove of garlic or something. I rushed to the store and back and when I got back upstairs I noticed the bathroom light was on and the door was closed. I knew what was going on so I jokingly knocked on the door and said "have fun in there." I hadn't done anything myself in a few days so I decided why not, I'll tug one out really quick. So i grabbed my toy, and walked into the other room with the computer only to find my friend, butt ass naked frantically fucking his toilet paper vagina while I awkwardly stand there with an erection (from beforehand, not because of him I swear). I guess my dad was the one in the bathroom upstairs and when my friend had tried to lock the door he didnt turn the lock all the way. TL;DR Caught friend frantically fucking toilet paper roll in my room.

tifu

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cisy43y

Alright well this isn't nearly as big of a TIFU for me as it is for my friend. I should mention this friend and I were pretty close but were always kind of dicks to eachother. We didn't spend much time at school or eat lunch together, but outside of school we hung out constantly. Strange relationship. So after I made this extra sex toy for my friend he was too afraid to keep it at his house, so he just told me to keep it hidden with mine (oh god i just realized they weren't labeled at all. I hope there were no mixups..) He would occasionally come over and hang out and then say he needed some time to himself in the bathroom. He'd do his thing, and we'd keep hanging out. Once when we were hanging out at my house my mom asked me to run to the store really quick for a clove of garlic or something. I rushed to the store and back and when I got back upstairs I noticed the bathroom light was on and the door was closed. I knew what was going on so I jokingly knocked on the door and said "have fun in there." I hadn't done anything myself in a few days so I decided why not, I'll tug one out really quick. So i grabbed my toy, and walked into the other room with the computer only to find my friend, butt ass naked frantically fucking his toilet paper vagina while I awkwardly stand there with an erection (from beforehand, not because of him I swear). I guess my dad was the one in the bathroom upstairs and when my friend had tried to lock the door he didnt turn the lock all the way.

Caught friend frantically fucking toilet paper roll in my room.

TheGrandHustle

Coming down, going to need a TL;DR. [3]

Coming down, going to need a TL;DR. [3]

trees

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cistvuz

Coming down, going to need a

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therandompoopsman

Well originally it was just the dialects that were switched but language has such a huge role in lyricism that I figured the music, and consequently the dance as well, would also have to be switched. Ultimately the movie is about elitist attitudes towards minority cultures in the U.S. and whether they are founded or not. Like is twerking a legitimately lesser form of dance than tap? Is rap a lesser genre than classical? I've had people try to tell me that they objectively are and so we're keeping those attitudes but switching the cultures. So Zero Copula takes place in a world where "ghetto" culture is the norm and you know you're in the hood when you hear Mumford and Sons playing. Tl; dr I'm just tired of hearing that I'm articulate/not like other Blacks.

Well originally it was just the dialects that were switched but language has such a huge role in lyricism that I figured the music, and consequently the dance as well, would also have to be switched. Ultimately the movie is about elitist attitudes towards minority cultures in the U.S. and whether they are founded or not. Like is twerking a legitimately lesser form of dance than tap? Is rap a lesser genre than classical? I've had people try to tell me that they objectively are and so we're keeping those attitudes but switching the cultures. So Zero Copula takes place in a world where "ghetto" culture is the norm and you know you're in the hood when you hear Mumford and Sons playing. Tl; dr I'm just tired of hearing that I'm articulate/not like other Blacks.

blackladies

t5_2vk9t

cit241h

Well originally it was just the dialects that were switched but language has such a huge role in lyricism that I figured the music, and consequently the dance as well, would also have to be switched. Ultimately the movie is about elitist attitudes towards minority cultures in the U.S. and whether they are founded or not. Like is twerking a legitimately lesser form of dance than tap? Is rap a lesser genre than classical? I've had people try to tell me that they objectively are and so we're keeping those attitudes but switching the cultures. So Zero Copula takes place in a world where "ghetto" culture is the norm and you know you're in the hood when you hear Mumford and Sons playing.

I'm just tired of hearing that I'm articulate/not like other Blacks.