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swearrengen | Yes, Cannibalism is the eating of your own kind.
So you have to ask yourself what is our own kind? Our family, race, specie? Specie, then. But "Homo Sapien" is the name for our *physical* definition. It's what separates us from Homo erectus and neanderthalis - not what separates us from erectus and neanderthalis *and* all *other* animals. For that, we need our *spiritual* definition - what we are spiritually, as opposed to Animal, is "Man".
And this is because the differentiating feature that separates us from all other living things is that we possess a consciousness that is rational and can reason - as opposed to animals that can not!
When we meet an Elf (cough!), we recognize that it too shares this spiritually defining commonality - it can think and choose and we can reason with it. We can trade and share values. The ability to reason equalizes us! Because we both recognize that the human and the elf is a cause of it's own actions, it's effects, and can reason to choose otherwise. It abides by the same laws of universal logic, cause and effect and morality as we do, it is responsible for it's own consequences as we are, and thus has a Natural Right to those consequences - as opposed to members of animalia who can not reason and therefore are destined to be forever beholden to their sensations and perceptions and abide ultimately only by their law that might makes right.
The eating of like specie is not cannibalism in and of itself - it's the eating of he same identity *because* it's the same identity. For example, an aeroplane that crashes and it's survivors eat the dead bodies - they eat human flesh in order to survive - not *because* the flesh is human. A person who chews and eats their fingernails, is also not a cannibal. A True Cannibal eats human flesh *because* it's human flesh - to gain the human's spiritual essence for example.
So it's not the *physical* definition of humanity that defines "your own kind", it's the spiritual one! And if we meet beings with the same spiritual identity, then they too fall under the class of being "our kind".
TLDR: Eating Legolas is bad. | Yes, Cannibalism is the eating of your own kind.
So you have to ask yourself what is our own kind? Our family, race, specie? Specie, then. But "Homo Sapien" is the name for our physical definition. It's what separates us from Homo erectus and neanderthalis - not what separates us from erectus and neanderthalis and all other animals. For that, we need our spiritual definition - what we are spiritually, as opposed to Animal, is "Man".
And this is because the differentiating feature that separates us from all other living things is that we possess a consciousness that is rational and can reason - as opposed to animals that can not!
When we meet an Elf (cough!), we recognize that it too shares this spiritually defining commonality - it can think and choose and we can reason with it. We can trade and share values. The ability to reason equalizes us! Because we both recognize that the human and the elf is a cause of it's own actions, it's effects, and can reason to choose otherwise. It abides by the same laws of universal logic, cause and effect and morality as we do, it is responsible for it's own consequences as we are, and thus has a Natural Right to those consequences - as opposed to members of animalia who can not reason and therefore are destined to be forever beholden to their sensations and perceptions and abide ultimately only by their law that might makes right.
The eating of like specie is not cannibalism in and of itself - it's the eating of he same identity because it's the same identity. For example, an aeroplane that crashes and it's survivors eat the dead bodies - they eat human flesh in order to survive - not because the flesh is human. A person who chews and eats their fingernails, is also not a cannibal. A True Cannibal eats human flesh because it's human flesh - to gain the human's spiritual essence for example.
So it's not the physical definition of humanity that defines "your own kind", it's the spiritual one! And if we meet beings with the same spiritual identity, then they too fall under the class of being "our kind".
TLDR: Eating Legolas is bad.
| changemyview | t5_2w2s8 | ccchlu9 | Yes, Cannibalism is the eating of your own kind.
So you have to ask yourself what is our own kind? Our family, race, specie? Specie, then. But "Homo Sapien" is the name for our physical definition. It's what separates us from Homo erectus and neanderthalis - not what separates us from erectus and neanderthalis and all other animals. For that, we need our spiritual definition - what we are spiritually, as opposed to Animal, is "Man".
And this is because the differentiating feature that separates us from all other living things is that we possess a consciousness that is rational and can reason - as opposed to animals that can not!
When we meet an Elf (cough!), we recognize that it too shares this spiritually defining commonality - it can think and choose and we can reason with it. We can trade and share values. The ability to reason equalizes us! Because we both recognize that the human and the elf is a cause of it's own actions, it's effects, and can reason to choose otherwise. It abides by the same laws of universal logic, cause and effect and morality as we do, it is responsible for it's own consequences as we are, and thus has a Natural Right to those consequences - as opposed to members of animalia who can not reason and therefore are destined to be forever beholden to their sensations and perceptions and abide ultimately only by their law that might makes right.
The eating of like specie is not cannibalism in and of itself - it's the eating of he same identity because it's the same identity. For example, an aeroplane that crashes and it's survivors eat the dead bodies - they eat human flesh in order to survive - not because the flesh is human. A person who chews and eats their fingernails, is also not a cannibal. A True Cannibal eats human flesh because it's human flesh - to gain the human's spiritual essence for example.
So it's not the physical definition of humanity that defines "your own kind", it's the spiritual one! And if we meet beings with the same spiritual identity, then they too fall under the class of being "our kind". | Eating Legolas is bad. |
TokyoBayRay | Ok I think the use of the word cannibalism is a bit off in that instance. Whenever you play a role play game you abstract the "basic" or "common" language into English, to make the game playable. In the game's language let's pretend they have a better word to describe it that we loosely translate as cannibalism, and it captures the same amount of disgust.
Let me preface this by saying it's my opinion and based on the kind of worlds I am familiar with. Maybe in your Aztec-inspired fantasy world, cannibalism (i.e. eating other people) is a common practice. I'm assuming a Tolkein/D&D style world, with their near-real world codes of morality.
I think what the players and the GM were trying to get at (and as a fellow GM I would try and express this too) is that the act of butchering and eating your sentient enemies is a repulsive act in the minds of the characters and society in the game (for the reasons I outlined before) and not fitting for a "good" character. I mean let's face it- eating your victims? That's chaotic evil, big bad guy level stuff right there! It probably breaks the scriptures of several in game religions and society's social mores.
That's not to say you can't do it - I personally think all PCs should be allowed to do anything so long as it doesn't involve a sack of rats and a whirlwind attack- but if you do eat the kobolds the opinion other characters (PCs and NPCs) hold of you would suffer. Is it worth eating then and risking the scorn of your party and society if they ever find out? That's a tough question and potentially an opportunity for good role playing- you arguing if we don't do this we die, and them saying it won't be living if we have to resort to such godless measures.
It's a decision that shouldn't be taken lightly. Being stranded without food, facing the very real threat of starvation, you might gravely decide you have to eat the dead or perish yourselves, only to wrestle with the decision and feel disgusted the whole time. It shouldn't be a thing you just do, without thinking and without remorse.
TL;DR When your other role players say "it's cannibalism!" what they mean is "in the minds of us and/or our characters, this is as bad as cannibalism, and we will react badly if you do this". The tension between you and them could be the source for some great role playing if you approach it right. | Ok I think the use of the word cannibalism is a bit off in that instance. Whenever you play a role play game you abstract the "basic" or "common" language into English, to make the game playable. In the game's language let's pretend they have a better word to describe it that we loosely translate as cannibalism, and it captures the same amount of disgust.
Let me preface this by saying it's my opinion and based on the kind of worlds I am familiar with. Maybe in your Aztec-inspired fantasy world, cannibalism (i.e. eating other people) is a common practice. I'm assuming a Tolkein/D&D style world, with their near-real world codes of morality.
I think what the players and the GM were trying to get at (and as a fellow GM I would try and express this too) is that the act of butchering and eating your sentient enemies is a repulsive act in the minds of the characters and society in the game (for the reasons I outlined before) and not fitting for a "good" character. I mean let's face it- eating your victims? That's chaotic evil, big bad guy level stuff right there! It probably breaks the scriptures of several in game religions and society's social mores.
That's not to say you can't do it - I personally think all PCs should be allowed to do anything so long as it doesn't involve a sack of rats and a whirlwind attack- but if you do eat the kobolds the opinion other characters (PCs and NPCs) hold of you would suffer. Is it worth eating then and risking the scorn of your party and society if they ever find out? That's a tough question and potentially an opportunity for good role playing- you arguing if we don't do this we die, and them saying it won't be living if we have to resort to such godless measures.
It's a decision that shouldn't be taken lightly. Being stranded without food, facing the very real threat of starvation, you might gravely decide you have to eat the dead or perish yourselves, only to wrestle with the decision and feel disgusted the whole time. It shouldn't be a thing you just do, without thinking and without remorse.
TL;DR When your other role players say "it's cannibalism!" what they mean is "in the minds of us and/or our characters, this is as bad as cannibalism, and we will react badly if you do this". The tension between you and them could be the source for some great role playing if you approach it right.
| changemyview | t5_2w2s8 | ccckldf | Ok I think the use of the word cannibalism is a bit off in that instance. Whenever you play a role play game you abstract the "basic" or "common" language into English, to make the game playable. In the game's language let's pretend they have a better word to describe it that we loosely translate as cannibalism, and it captures the same amount of disgust.
Let me preface this by saying it's my opinion and based on the kind of worlds I am familiar with. Maybe in your Aztec-inspired fantasy world, cannibalism (i.e. eating other people) is a common practice. I'm assuming a Tolkein/D&D style world, with their near-real world codes of morality.
I think what the players and the GM were trying to get at (and as a fellow GM I would try and express this too) is that the act of butchering and eating your sentient enemies is a repulsive act in the minds of the characters and society in the game (for the reasons I outlined before) and not fitting for a "good" character. I mean let's face it- eating your victims? That's chaotic evil, big bad guy level stuff right there! It probably breaks the scriptures of several in game religions and society's social mores.
That's not to say you can't do it - I personally think all PCs should be allowed to do anything so long as it doesn't involve a sack of rats and a whirlwind attack- but if you do eat the kobolds the opinion other characters (PCs and NPCs) hold of you would suffer. Is it worth eating then and risking the scorn of your party and society if they ever find out? That's a tough question and potentially an opportunity for good role playing- you arguing if we don't do this we die, and them saying it won't be living if we have to resort to such godless measures.
It's a decision that shouldn't be taken lightly. Being stranded without food, facing the very real threat of starvation, you might gravely decide you have to eat the dead or perish yourselves, only to wrestle with the decision and feel disgusted the whole time. It shouldn't be a thing you just do, without thinking and without remorse. | When your other role players say "it's cannibalism!" what they mean is "in the minds of us and/or our characters, this is as bad as cannibalism, and we will react badly if you do this". The tension between you and them could be the source for some great role playing if you approach it right. |
Assupoika | Movement is deliberately clumsy. Hawken and MWO are two totally different games. MWO is mech sim whereas Hawken is arena shooter (Like Quake, Unreal Tournament) dressed up as a mech game.
Both are good games in their own way. They just share nothing else in common except for mechs and heat treshold system.
Oh, and yes you can buy mechs with ingame currency, you dont have to spend a dime for this game if you dont want to. You are just limited to having 4 mechs in your bay if you never want to spend a dollar. With 7 dollar investment you can get 4 more bays.
Getting money for new mechs is pretty slow after you've got your new player bonus a.k.a cadet bonus.
If you want a bit more tactical gamemode you should give conquest a try. There's rarely matches in conquest wich involves no fighting at all. Or if you prefer assault you can try to convince your team to stay and defend the base.
About the movement, I'm not sure what you mean with clumsy but if you mean that mechs cant strafe, or aint as responsive as they are in hawken, it's meant to be like that. These are huge mechs, it takes a bit time to accelerate, decelerate and turn. Also, these mechs aint designed to strafe, think their movement to be more like modern tank.
Dont get fooled by the slower mechs though, there are few mechs with jumpjets that are really nimble and can do pretty nice manouvers, you just got to learn how to pilot these things instead of just hopping in with general FPS movement mentality.
TL;DR: Hawken is shooter, MWO is simulation. These two games are not really comparable. | Movement is deliberately clumsy. Hawken and MWO are two totally different games. MWO is mech sim whereas Hawken is arena shooter (Like Quake, Unreal Tournament) dressed up as a mech game.
Both are good games in their own way. They just share nothing else in common except for mechs and heat treshold system.
Oh, and yes you can buy mechs with ingame currency, you dont have to spend a dime for this game if you dont want to. You are just limited to having 4 mechs in your bay if you never want to spend a dollar. With 7 dollar investment you can get 4 more bays.
Getting money for new mechs is pretty slow after you've got your new player bonus a.k.a cadet bonus.
If you want a bit more tactical gamemode you should give conquest a try. There's rarely matches in conquest wich involves no fighting at all. Or if you prefer assault you can try to convince your team to stay and defend the base.
About the movement, I'm not sure what you mean with clumsy but if you mean that mechs cant strafe, or aint as responsive as they are in hawken, it's meant to be like that. These are huge mechs, it takes a bit time to accelerate, decelerate and turn. Also, these mechs aint designed to strafe, think their movement to be more like modern tank.
Dont get fooled by the slower mechs though, there are few mechs with jumpjets that are really nimble and can do pretty nice manouvers, you just got to learn how to pilot these things instead of just hopping in with general FPS movement mentality.
TL;DR: Hawken is shooter, MWO is simulation. These two games are not really comparable.
| mwo | t5_2t1w0 | ccclaip | Movement is deliberately clumsy. Hawken and MWO are two totally different games. MWO is mech sim whereas Hawken is arena shooter (Like Quake, Unreal Tournament) dressed up as a mech game.
Both are good games in their own way. They just share nothing else in common except for mechs and heat treshold system.
Oh, and yes you can buy mechs with ingame currency, you dont have to spend a dime for this game if you dont want to. You are just limited to having 4 mechs in your bay if you never want to spend a dollar. With 7 dollar investment you can get 4 more bays.
Getting money for new mechs is pretty slow after you've got your new player bonus a.k.a cadet bonus.
If you want a bit more tactical gamemode you should give conquest a try. There's rarely matches in conquest wich involves no fighting at all. Or if you prefer assault you can try to convince your team to stay and defend the base.
About the movement, I'm not sure what you mean with clumsy but if you mean that mechs cant strafe, or aint as responsive as they are in hawken, it's meant to be like that. These are huge mechs, it takes a bit time to accelerate, decelerate and turn. Also, these mechs aint designed to strafe, think their movement to be more like modern tank.
Dont get fooled by the slower mechs though, there are few mechs with jumpjets that are really nimble and can do pretty nice manouvers, you just got to learn how to pilot these things instead of just hopping in with general FPS movement mentality. | Hawken is shooter, MWO is simulation. These two games are not really comparable. |
LordSkippy | ["I was elected to lead, not to read!"](
But you should know enough details before you go spreading false information. While you can spend money to purchase all mechs, you do not need to spend money to purchase most mechs.
Only Hero and Champion mechs require real money to buy. Hero mechs have slightly different hard point layouts than the standard variants of a chassis, while Champion mechs are a standard variant with a better initial load out. Heroes earn extra C-bills and Champions earn more XP.
As far as load outs, you can make the standard variant the Champion was based on exactly the same as the Champion without spending real money. The only difference is that the standard variant doesn't get extra XP per match. The Hero variants come with better initial load outs as well and have different hard point layouts, but several of those have proven sub-par compared to standard variants. None have been shown to be overpowered.
All standard variants of a mech, and all equipment you can add to a mech, are available with C-bills. You earn C-bills by playing the game, and earn extra C-bills for the first 25 matches. You can easily earn enough C-bills in that time to purchase a mech of your own, and upgrade the load out. In the meantime, you have four trial mechs to use to try out which weight class is a better fit for you.
tl;dr - You can buy mechs without spending real money. Hope you have fun playing Hawken, it seems to be the better fit for you. | ["I was elected to lead, not to read!"](
But you should know enough details before you go spreading false information. While you can spend money to purchase all mechs, you do not need to spend money to purchase most mechs.
Only Hero and Champion mechs require real money to buy. Hero mechs have slightly different hard point layouts than the standard variants of a chassis, while Champion mechs are a standard variant with a better initial load out. Heroes earn extra C-bills and Champions earn more XP.
As far as load outs, you can make the standard variant the Champion was based on exactly the same as the Champion without spending real money. The only difference is that the standard variant doesn't get extra XP per match. The Hero variants come with better initial load outs as well and have different hard point layouts, but several of those have proven sub-par compared to standard variants. None have been shown to be overpowered.
All standard variants of a mech, and all equipment you can add to a mech, are available with C-bills. You earn C-bills by playing the game, and earn extra C-bills for the first 25 matches. You can easily earn enough C-bills in that time to purchase a mech of your own, and upgrade the load out. In the meantime, you have four trial mechs to use to try out which weight class is a better fit for you.
tl;dr - You can buy mechs without spending real money. Hope you have fun playing Hawken, it seems to be the better fit for you.
| mwo | t5_2t1w0 | cccljy2 | I was elected to lead, not to read!"](
But you should know enough details before you go spreading false information. While you can spend money to purchase all mechs, you do not need to spend money to purchase most mechs.
Only Hero and Champion mechs require real money to buy. Hero mechs have slightly different hard point layouts than the standard variants of a chassis, while Champion mechs are a standard variant with a better initial load out. Heroes earn extra C-bills and Champions earn more XP.
As far as load outs, you can make the standard variant the Champion was based on exactly the same as the Champion without spending real money. The only difference is that the standard variant doesn't get extra XP per match. The Hero variants come with better initial load outs as well and have different hard point layouts, but several of those have proven sub-par compared to standard variants. None have been shown to be overpowered.
All standard variants of a mech, and all equipment you can add to a mech, are available with C-bills. You earn C-bills by playing the game, and earn extra C-bills for the first 25 matches. You can easily earn enough C-bills in that time to purchase a mech of your own, and upgrade the load out. In the meantime, you have four trial mechs to use to try out which weight class is a better fit for you. | You can buy mechs without spending real money. Hope you have fun playing Hawken, it seems to be the better fit for you. |
NameAlreadyTaken2 | "Sci-" is the Greek root for "know", and "-ence" is the Romulan ending for "-ing". The Greeks were ancient and the Romulans are aliens, so this means that science is about ancient aliens. It's also about knowing stuff, which is why everything I say is right and everyone else is wrong.
**tl;dr** Ancient aliens exist and if you think otherwise you're just stupid and wrong. | "Sci-" is the Greek root for "know", and "-ence" is the Romulan ending for "-ing". The Greeks were ancient and the Romulans are aliens, so this means that science is about ancient aliens. It's also about knowing stuff, which is why everything I say is right and everyone else is wrong.
tl;dr Ancient aliens exist and if you think otherwise you're just stupid and wrong.
| shittyaskscience | t5_2sw51 | ccco0gr | Sci-" is the Greek root for "know", and "-ence" is the Romulan ending for "-ing". The Greeks were ancient and the Romulans are aliens, so this means that science is about ancient aliens. It's also about knowing stuff, which is why everything I say is right and everyone else is wrong. | Ancient aliens exist and if you think otherwise you're just stupid and wrong. |
wufnu | Do something else. Do something interesting. I had the same issues. Learned Chinese, lived in China for a few years, and used my knowledge of WWI aircraft to get a job with Fokker. You could teach math/physics/chemistry in China! You could make around $35000 a year, possibly tax free, and have almost zero bills while also having an adventure. Get a master's degree. Get a job abroad. Etc.
tl;dr - do something different | Do something else. Do something interesting. I had the same issues. Learned Chinese, lived in China for a few years, and used my knowledge of WWI aircraft to get a job with Fokker. You could teach math/physics/chemistry in China! You could make around $35000 a year, possibly tax free, and have almost zero bills while also having an adventure. Get a master's degree. Get a job abroad. Etc.
tl;dr - do something different
| AskEngineers | t5_2sebk | cccv6h8 | Do something else. Do something interesting. I had the same issues. Learned Chinese, lived in China for a few years, and used my knowledge of WWI aircraft to get a job with Fokker. You could teach math/physics/chemistry in China! You could make around $35000 a year, possibly tax free, and have almost zero bills while also having an adventure. Get a master's degree. Get a job abroad. Etc. | do something different |
Hirosakamoto | I choose Red and I opened up in my packs Polukranos, Xenagos, Black promo, Agent of the Fates, Anax and Cymede, and Stormbreath Dragon in my packs.
I went R.G.w (red/green for monsters and enchant exiles, white for removal) at first and one the first round vs a bad w/b deck, got to 2nd round and got just absolutely wrecked by a w/r deck.
I spent the extra 30 minutes before my next round to completely cut out all of my green and just go all white and red.
Went from a late game power house to a mid game with lots of white drakes and some heroics.
I beat my next opponent in about 6 minutes for both games. He wanted to play a speed round I guess, he was G/U. He did not have his mana set right or just got straight out screwed.
Last game was versus a U/R combat trick/aura deck. Took game 1 with the heroic white drake but it was only saved towards the end due to the 1 enchant removal in the deck, and then lost game 2 due to the red 2 drop enchant (the same one I was going to have issues with last game). The final round had me hitting my mana curve perfectly, pumping up the WW 1/1 heroic for 2-3 turns, using divine verdict as a good removal/combat trick. Turn 5 had me with a 4/4 heroic and a stormbreath dragon out, he scooped as he just kept a bad hand and couldn't hit anything right.
Got 3 packs for prizes, got me a Whip and Shrine to Nyx :3
TL;DR Went R/G/w due to money cards, didnt curve at all. Went R/W and swept the rest of my games | I choose Red and I opened up in my packs Polukranos, Xenagos, Black promo, Agent of the Fates, Anax and Cymede, and Stormbreath Dragon in my packs.
I went R.G.w (red/green for monsters and enchant exiles, white for removal) at first and one the first round vs a bad w/b deck, got to 2nd round and got just absolutely wrecked by a w/r deck.
I spent the extra 30 minutes before my next round to completely cut out all of my green and just go all white and red.
Went from a late game power house to a mid game with lots of white drakes and some heroics.
I beat my next opponent in about 6 minutes for both games. He wanted to play a speed round I guess, he was G/U. He did not have his mana set right or just got straight out screwed.
Last game was versus a U/R combat trick/aura deck. Took game 1 with the heroic white drake but it was only saved towards the end due to the 1 enchant removal in the deck, and then lost game 2 due to the red 2 drop enchant (the same one I was going to have issues with last game). The final round had me hitting my mana curve perfectly, pumping up the WW 1/1 heroic for 2-3 turns, using divine verdict as a good removal/combat trick. Turn 5 had me with a 4/4 heroic and a stormbreath dragon out, he scooped as he just kept a bad hand and couldn't hit anything right.
Got 3 packs for prizes, got me a Whip and Shrine to Nyx :3
TL;DR Went R/G/w due to money cards, didnt curve at all. Went R/W and swept the rest of my games
| magicTCG | t5_2qn5f | cccypgb | I choose Red and I opened up in my packs Polukranos, Xenagos, Black promo, Agent of the Fates, Anax and Cymede, and Stormbreath Dragon in my packs.
I went R.G.w (red/green for monsters and enchant exiles, white for removal) at first and one the first round vs a bad w/b deck, got to 2nd round and got just absolutely wrecked by a w/r deck.
I spent the extra 30 minutes before my next round to completely cut out all of my green and just go all white and red.
Went from a late game power house to a mid game with lots of white drakes and some heroics.
I beat my next opponent in about 6 minutes for both games. He wanted to play a speed round I guess, he was G/U. He did not have his mana set right or just got straight out screwed.
Last game was versus a U/R combat trick/aura deck. Took game 1 with the heroic white drake but it was only saved towards the end due to the 1 enchant removal in the deck, and then lost game 2 due to the red 2 drop enchant (the same one I was going to have issues with last game). The final round had me hitting my mana curve perfectly, pumping up the WW 1/1 heroic for 2-3 turns, using divine verdict as a good removal/combat trick. Turn 5 had me with a 4/4 heroic and a stormbreath dragon out, he scooped as he just kept a bad hand and couldn't hit anything right.
Got 3 packs for prizes, got me a Whip and Shrine to Nyx :3 | Went R/G/w due to money cards, didnt curve at all. Went R/W and swept the rest of my games |
emt37 | ANT is just easy. You just have to learn how does it work, that's the only thing you have to do. You do not have to study interactions (like in Death and Taxes), you don't have to understand what's a threat and what's not (like in any RUG Delver deck), you just have to understand how does your deck work and what can you do.
Also I haven't said High Tide is hard, I said that Solidarity is hard (and only cause it lacks of consistency).
tl;dr: if you're an experienced player ANT decks will be easy as fuck, fair decks (with a few exceptions) will be difficult to play. | ANT is just easy. You just have to learn how does it work, that's the only thing you have to do. You do not have to study interactions (like in Death and Taxes), you don't have to understand what's a threat and what's not (like in any RUG Delver deck), you just have to understand how does your deck work and what can you do.
Also I haven't said High Tide is hard, I said that Solidarity is hard (and only cause it lacks of consistency).
tl;dr: if you're an experienced player ANT decks will be easy as fuck, fair decks (with a few exceptions) will be difficult to play.
| MTGLegacy | t5_2x2p0 | ccdk5zd | ANT is just easy. You just have to learn how does it work, that's the only thing you have to do. You do not have to study interactions (like in Death and Taxes), you don't have to understand what's a threat and what's not (like in any RUG Delver deck), you just have to understand how does your deck work and what can you do.
Also I haven't said High Tide is hard, I said that Solidarity is hard (and only cause it lacks of consistency). | if you're an experienced player ANT decks will be easy as fuck, fair decks (with a few exceptions) will be difficult to play. |
Bmonkey5 | To elaborate on the science^tm :
When you start hrt your taste buds will become desensitized to everything that does not have the label "salad" on the packaging. After a continuous diet of Real Women^tm food, your digesting tracks will start composting itself and release nutriments for the chest area feminization.
tldr: Tits are the shit. | To elaborate on the science^tm :
When you start hrt your taste buds will become desensitized to everything that does not have the label "salad" on the packaging. After a continuous diet of Real Women^tm food, your digesting tracks will start composting itself and release nutriments for the chest area feminization.
tldr: Tits are the shit.
| transgendercirclejerk | t5_2u5r2 | ccd504t | To elaborate on the science^tm :
When you start hrt your taste buds will become desensitized to everything that does not have the label "salad" on the packaging. After a continuous diet of Real Women^tm food, your digesting tracks will start composting itself and release nutriments for the chest area feminization. | Tits are the shit. |
Rebel-Yellow | Just because my first character was kind of a mess in terms of stat placement on level ups; I'd reccomend looking at a very basic guide about the stats and how they effect weapons and what goes well with what etc; for instance if you really like the idea of using a katana, don't pump str mindlessly, dex will be a lot better. My first character I knew not to raise resistence (EVER) but I didn't really know what the difference between str/dex was. So I just kept them even. On my second character I got to the burg and was doing just about as much damage.. as my first char with a +10 weapon.
Granted, all the stuff you really need to know about stats (other that what's needed to use X weapon you aquire later) can be figured out by studying the menus long enough, but it's quicker and easier to digest by reading about.
I had a complete blast on my first character though despite not knowing squat of what I was doing or where I was going, or why those skeletons kept coming back to life- wondering how many times I would have to kill them for them to stay down...
TL;DR- Give yourself a small candle, but have fun being in the *dark.*
*Vee hee hee~* | Just because my first character was kind of a mess in terms of stat placement on level ups; I'd reccomend looking at a very basic guide about the stats and how they effect weapons and what goes well with what etc; for instance if you really like the idea of using a katana, don't pump str mindlessly, dex will be a lot better. My first character I knew not to raise resistence (EVER) but I didn't really know what the difference between str/dex was. So I just kept them even. On my second character I got to the burg and was doing just about as much damage.. as my first char with a +10 weapon.
Granted, all the stuff you really need to know about stats (other that what's needed to use X weapon you aquire later) can be figured out by studying the menus long enough, but it's quicker and easier to digest by reading about.
I had a complete blast on my first character though despite not knowing squat of what I was doing or where I was going, or why those skeletons kept coming back to life- wondering how many times I would have to kill them for them to stay down...
TL;DR- Give yourself a small candle, but have fun being in the dark.
Vee hee hee~
| darksouls | t5_2sazo | ccdg9us | Just because my first character was kind of a mess in terms of stat placement on level ups; I'd reccomend looking at a very basic guide about the stats and how they effect weapons and what goes well with what etc; for instance if you really like the idea of using a katana, don't pump str mindlessly, dex will be a lot better. My first character I knew not to raise resistence (EVER) but I didn't really know what the difference between str/dex was. So I just kept them even. On my second character I got to the burg and was doing just about as much damage.. as my first char with a +10 weapon.
Granted, all the stuff you really need to know about stats (other that what's needed to use X weapon you aquire later) can be figured out by studying the menus long enough, but it's quicker and easier to digest by reading about.
I had a complete blast on my first character though despite not knowing squat of what I was doing or where I was going, or why those skeletons kept coming back to life- wondering how many times I would have to kill them for them to stay down... | Give yourself a small candle, but have fun being in the dark.
Vee hee hee~ |
gingerkid1234 | There's one from my area of study. A die called *tekhelet* was commonly used in Jewish ritual items, made from a sea creature of some sort. At some point due to the destruction of the Temple (and, by extension, the Jewish ritual apparatus) and the progressively smaller share of Jews who lived in the area where this die existed, the process was lost.
Recently the process may have been rediscovered, partially by a Rabbi who learned a whole lot about fish and figured out which ones matched the descriptions. This was confirmed by the finding of a whole bunch of the snails it's made of at a Phoenician site, and it's generally thought that the Jewish dye was shared with other Canaanite groups, since the descriptions match.
tl;dr a method of making blue dye from an undersea snail used by the Jews and Phoenicians was lost, but we may have figured it out again | There's one from my area of study. A die called tekhelet was commonly used in Jewish ritual items, made from a sea creature of some sort. At some point due to the destruction of the Temple (and, by extension, the Jewish ritual apparatus) and the progressively smaller share of Jews who lived in the area where this die existed, the process was lost.
Recently the process may have been rediscovered, partially by a Rabbi who learned a whole lot about fish and figured out which ones matched the descriptions. This was confirmed by the finding of a whole bunch of the snails it's made of at a Phoenician site, and it's generally thought that the Jewish dye was shared with other Canaanite groups, since the descriptions match.
tl;dr a method of making blue dye from an undersea snail used by the Jews and Phoenicians was lost, but we may have figured it out again
| AskHistorians | t5_2ssp3 | ccdf4qs | There's one from my area of study. A die called tekhelet was commonly used in Jewish ritual items, made from a sea creature of some sort. At some point due to the destruction of the Temple (and, by extension, the Jewish ritual apparatus) and the progressively smaller share of Jews who lived in the area where this die existed, the process was lost.
Recently the process may have been rediscovered, partially by a Rabbi who learned a whole lot about fish and figured out which ones matched the descriptions. This was confirmed by the finding of a whole bunch of the snails it's made of at a Phoenician site, and it's generally thought that the Jewish dye was shared with other Canaanite groups, since the descriptions match. | a method of making blue dye from an undersea snail used by the Jews and Phoenicians was lost, but we may have figured it out again |
ahardt09 | You will likely build a tolerance of some degree. Your dosage will have to increase to meet the same level of focus. However, it will reach a point where the same dose works for a long time. You won't have to go up in dosage forever (as long as you use it as directed and don't abuse it).
I personally had to build up to 15mg IR (30mg XR). I stayed at that dosage for a long time. During summer, I stopped taking my medication as much and my tolerance went way down. 5mg IR was enough for a week then I went back to 10mg. Currently at 10mg.
After a while, you may become accustomed to the feeling and it may still be difficult to get your work done. But it will still be easier than without it. Please note that this doesn't happen to everybody. In fact, if you have the underlying desire to finish the work, you will get it done.
TL;DR Tolerance will build. Will eventually become steady. As long as you desire to finish work, you will get it done. | You will likely build a tolerance of some degree. Your dosage will have to increase to meet the same level of focus. However, it will reach a point where the same dose works for a long time. You won't have to go up in dosage forever (as long as you use it as directed and don't abuse it).
I personally had to build up to 15mg IR (30mg XR). I stayed at that dosage for a long time. During summer, I stopped taking my medication as much and my tolerance went way down. 5mg IR was enough for a week then I went back to 10mg. Currently at 10mg.
After a while, you may become accustomed to the feeling and it may still be difficult to get your work done. But it will still be easier than without it. Please note that this doesn't happen to everybody. In fact, if you have the underlying desire to finish the work, you will get it done.
TL;DR Tolerance will build. Will eventually become steady. As long as you desire to finish work, you will get it done.
| ADHD | t5_2qnwb | ccdcyoy | You will likely build a tolerance of some degree. Your dosage will have to increase to meet the same level of focus. However, it will reach a point where the same dose works for a long time. You won't have to go up in dosage forever (as long as you use it as directed and don't abuse it).
I personally had to build up to 15mg IR (30mg XR). I stayed at that dosage for a long time. During summer, I stopped taking my medication as much and my tolerance went way down. 5mg IR was enough for a week then I went back to 10mg. Currently at 10mg.
After a while, you may become accustomed to the feeling and it may still be difficult to get your work done. But it will still be easier than without it. Please note that this doesn't happen to everybody. In fact, if you have the underlying desire to finish the work, you will get it done. | Tolerance will build. Will eventually become steady. As long as you desire to finish work, you will get it done. |
turbodan1 | It certainly hints at future releases, but from a marketing perspective, it's a win-win situation for Toriyama and company. Fueling the possibility of more to come increases the value of the franchise regardless of whether or not anything gets released in the future. Dragon Ball makes tons of money either way.
Don't forget DBZ ended leading into a new adventure, but Toriyama stopped writing.
TLDR: I wouldn't get excited just because more content is hinted at, but those hints certainly don't reduce the chance. | It certainly hints at future releases, but from a marketing perspective, it's a win-win situation for Toriyama and company. Fueling the possibility of more to come increases the value of the franchise regardless of whether or not anything gets released in the future. Dragon Ball makes tons of money either way.
Don't forget DBZ ended leading into a new adventure, but Toriyama stopped writing.
TLDR: I wouldn't get excited just because more content is hinted at, but those hints certainly don't reduce the chance.
| dbz | t5_2sdu8 | cce3tpa | It certainly hints at future releases, but from a marketing perspective, it's a win-win situation for Toriyama and company. Fueling the possibility of more to come increases the value of the franchise regardless of whether or not anything gets released in the future. Dragon Ball makes tons of money either way.
Don't forget DBZ ended leading into a new adventure, but Toriyama stopped writing. | I wouldn't get excited just because more content is hinted at, but those hints certainly don't reduce the chance. |
pig_and_pepper | About 4 or 5 years ago, my now husband and I went to visit his friend Nick in Phoenix, AZ. At this point in time I kinda had anxiety about pooping in public places, or places that weren't the safety of my own bathroom. Times have changed since then, and it doesn't bother me so much anymore. But anyway, we were staying there for a couple nights, and the first night we got there, I realized that I really needed to poop. My husband and his buddy had started drinking, so I made my way quietly to the bathroom to do my bathroom bidding.
I finish up, go to flush...and the toilet backs up. I try to let the water recede and flush it again, and the water just keeps getting higher and higher - to the point that it's a flush away from being at the brim about to overflow. There's no plunger in sight, so I wash my hands and go pull my husband aside and let him know what's going on.
My husband can tell I'm embarrassed, but tells Nick nonetheless. Nick - who is drunk at this point - sort of just slaps me on the back and is like "Oh it's okay pig_and_pepper, it happens all the time! I'll try to fix it." This kind of horrifies me...because it's my fault it happened, but he seemed adamant.
So there we all are, standing in the bathroom over the toilet, with my husbands drunk friend going at it with the plunger. He's plunging away, poo-water splashing about, and nothing seems to be happening. So, he decides to try and flush it again. Bad idea. The toilet starts overflowing, so drunk friend runs to the kitchen and grabs a large Quik-Mart cup, and starts scooping out the poo-water and running it outside, back and forth.
After a little more trying, and me becoming increasingly mortified, we give up on the endeavor. My husband's friend tapes a sign on the toilet telling his roommate not to use it, and we go watch a movie.
Well, roommate gets home a little later, notices the sign and is like "Oh hey, I'll try to unclog the toilet, too!" So Nick and his roommate go back into the bathroom for a half hour to try and unclog the choked beast. Still clogged.
Nick ended up having to go buy an augur the next morning - which is a contraption that looks a lot like a Doc.Oc tentacle with a claw on one end and a handle on the other, so you can break apart blockages. This solution FINALLY works. And after Nick flushes the toilet, and washes off his augur with a hose, he comes back inside, looks at me and asks "Geez, pig_and_pepper, what's the deal, do you eat a lot of cheese or something?"
tl;dr I need to eat less cheese. | About 4 or 5 years ago, my now husband and I went to visit his friend Nick in Phoenix, AZ. At this point in time I kinda had anxiety about pooping in public places, or places that weren't the safety of my own bathroom. Times have changed since then, and it doesn't bother me so much anymore. But anyway, we were staying there for a couple nights, and the first night we got there, I realized that I really needed to poop. My husband and his buddy had started drinking, so I made my way quietly to the bathroom to do my bathroom bidding.
I finish up, go to flush...and the toilet backs up. I try to let the water recede and flush it again, and the water just keeps getting higher and higher - to the point that it's a flush away from being at the brim about to overflow. There's no plunger in sight, so I wash my hands and go pull my husband aside and let him know what's going on.
My husband can tell I'm embarrassed, but tells Nick nonetheless. Nick - who is drunk at this point - sort of just slaps me on the back and is like "Oh it's okay pig_and_pepper, it happens all the time! I'll try to fix it." This kind of horrifies me...because it's my fault it happened, but he seemed adamant.
So there we all are, standing in the bathroom over the toilet, with my husbands drunk friend going at it with the plunger. He's plunging away, poo-water splashing about, and nothing seems to be happening. So, he decides to try and flush it again. Bad idea. The toilet starts overflowing, so drunk friend runs to the kitchen and grabs a large Quik-Mart cup, and starts scooping out the poo-water and running it outside, back and forth.
After a little more trying, and me becoming increasingly mortified, we give up on the endeavor. My husband's friend tapes a sign on the toilet telling his roommate not to use it, and we go watch a movie.
Well, roommate gets home a little later, notices the sign and is like "Oh hey, I'll try to unclog the toilet, too!" So Nick and his roommate go back into the bathroom for a half hour to try and unclog the choked beast. Still clogged.
Nick ended up having to go buy an augur the next morning - which is a contraption that looks a lot like a Doc.Oc tentacle with a claw on one end and a handle on the other, so you can break apart blockages. This solution FINALLY works. And after Nick flushes the toilet, and washes off his augur with a hose, he comes back inside, looks at me and asks "Geez, pig_and_pepper, what's the deal, do you eat a lot of cheese or something?"
tl;dr I need to eat less cheese.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ccdligg | About 4 or 5 years ago, my now husband and I went to visit his friend Nick in Phoenix, AZ. At this point in time I kinda had anxiety about pooping in public places, or places that weren't the safety of my own bathroom. Times have changed since then, and it doesn't bother me so much anymore. But anyway, we were staying there for a couple nights, and the first night we got there, I realized that I really needed to poop. My husband and his buddy had started drinking, so I made my way quietly to the bathroom to do my bathroom bidding.
I finish up, go to flush...and the toilet backs up. I try to let the water recede and flush it again, and the water just keeps getting higher and higher - to the point that it's a flush away from being at the brim about to overflow. There's no plunger in sight, so I wash my hands and go pull my husband aside and let him know what's going on.
My husband can tell I'm embarrassed, but tells Nick nonetheless. Nick - who is drunk at this point - sort of just slaps me on the back and is like "Oh it's okay pig_and_pepper, it happens all the time! I'll try to fix it." This kind of horrifies me...because it's my fault it happened, but he seemed adamant.
So there we all are, standing in the bathroom over the toilet, with my husbands drunk friend going at it with the plunger. He's plunging away, poo-water splashing about, and nothing seems to be happening. So, he decides to try and flush it again. Bad idea. The toilet starts overflowing, so drunk friend runs to the kitchen and grabs a large Quik-Mart cup, and starts scooping out the poo-water and running it outside, back and forth.
After a little more trying, and me becoming increasingly mortified, we give up on the endeavor. My husband's friend tapes a sign on the toilet telling his roommate not to use it, and we go watch a movie.
Well, roommate gets home a little later, notices the sign and is like "Oh hey, I'll try to unclog the toilet, too!" So Nick and his roommate go back into the bathroom for a half hour to try and unclog the choked beast. Still clogged.
Nick ended up having to go buy an augur the next morning - which is a contraption that looks a lot like a Doc.Oc tentacle with a claw on one end and a handle on the other, so you can break apart blockages. This solution FINALLY works. And after Nick flushes the toilet, and washes off his augur with a hose, he comes back inside, looks at me and asks "Geez, pig_and_pepper, what's the deal, do you eat a lot of cheese or something?" | I need to eat less cheese. |
tastim | And to think... If he had not refused a field sobriety test like a douche he may have not been harassed at all and received just a nap, a meal and a court date.
Sorry man, but this has much less to do with ecigs than it does have to do with self entitled pricks breaking the law and not willing to accept the consequences.
TLDR: Your friend sounds like an asshole. | And to think... If he had not refused a field sobriety test like a douche he may have not been harassed at all and received just a nap, a meal and a court date.
Sorry man, but this has much less to do with ecigs than it does have to do with self entitled pricks breaking the law and not willing to accept the consequences.
TLDR: Your friend sounds like an asshole.
| electronic_cigarette | t5_2qmlu | ccdpusg | And to think... If he had not refused a field sobriety test like a douche he may have not been harassed at all and received just a nap, a meal and a court date.
Sorry man, but this has much less to do with ecigs than it does have to do with self entitled pricks breaking the law and not willing to accept the consequences. | Your friend sounds like an asshole. |
theepicgamer17 | del, i know you know this already but it wasnt your obligation to pay for a server for us, you basicly provided for us with the money out of your pocket and with the donations made, if you continue to host dont sweat about not pleasing us because all in all what we already get out of the community is great, UHCS is even better IMO, you get to play with some of the guys a part of it and have a bunch of fun times, that may have sounded like i dont care, but dont be sorry about anything, us being in the UHCS is a privlege i dont want to lose, and i think i speak for everyone here, I like Option B, but we cant force you to do anything, I personally feel you should do what you want del
TL;DR: Its not your obligation to host but thank you for taking the UHCS back up again, do what you want to do del, we cant hold you accountable for anything you do here because you do alot already | del, i know you know this already but it wasnt your obligation to pay for a server for us, you basicly provided for us with the money out of your pocket and with the donations made, if you continue to host dont sweat about not pleasing us because all in all what we already get out of the community is great, UHCS is even better IMO, you get to play with some of the guys a part of it and have a bunch of fun times, that may have sounded like i dont care, but dont be sorry about anything, us being in the UHCS is a privlege i dont want to lose, and i think i speak for everyone here, I like Option B, but we cant force you to do anything, I personally feel you should do what you want del
TL;DR: Its not your obligation to host but thank you for taking the UHCS back up again, do what you want to do del, we cant hold you accountable for anything you do here because you do alot already
| UltraHardcoreServer | t5_2ubge | cch14kd | del, i know you know this already but it wasnt your obligation to pay for a server for us, you basicly provided for us with the money out of your pocket and with the donations made, if you continue to host dont sweat about not pleasing us because all in all what we already get out of the community is great, UHCS is even better IMO, you get to play with some of the guys a part of it and have a bunch of fun times, that may have sounded like i dont care, but dont be sorry about anything, us being in the UHCS is a privlege i dont want to lose, and i think i speak for everyone here, I like Option B, but we cant force you to do anything, I personally feel you should do what you want del | Its not your obligation to host but thank you for taking the UHCS back up again, do what you want to do del, we cant hold you accountable for anything you do here because you do alot already |
MmmmapleSyrup | I didn't see many hateful comments after skimming through the first dozen responses or so.
tl;dr- lol, high school amirite? | I didn't see many hateful comments after skimming through the first dozen responses or so.
tl;dr- lol, high school amirite?
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | cceu17s | I didn't see many hateful comments after skimming through the first dozen responses or so. | lol, high school amirite? |
WheatGerm42 | In my eyes, there are two types of RDW. Classic and Burn. I play classic (here's my new decklist: Young Pyromancer RDW is also supposed to be pretty awesome, but I'm just not a fan of burn.
TL;DR: Yeah. | In my eyes, there are two types of RDW. Classic and Burn. I play classic (here's my new decklist: Young Pyromancer RDW is also supposed to be pretty awesome, but I'm just not a fan of burn.
TL;DR: Yeah.
| magicTCG | t5_2qn5f | ccesmeg | In my eyes, there are two types of RDW. Classic and Burn. I play classic (here's my new decklist: Young Pyromancer RDW is also supposed to be pretty awesome, but I'm just not a fan of burn. | Yeah. |
rpcrazy | >I feel that I lean towards being polyamorous
"being" polyamorous is kind of a hot topic. See here: here: here:
Personally, I think some people are wired for nonmonogamy(like me), some aren't but choose to be in nonmonogamous models.
>even though I can understand how loving someone else would not take away my love for him, I feel a sharp twinge of jealousy if I imagine him with someone else.
Ethical is subjective in the sense that if the party agrees upon something and is ok with it, a seemingly unethical stances becomes ethical. In my eyes this viewpoint of "i'm poly but jealous" is hypocritical and will mostly ALWAYS cause subtle cracks and issues unless both parties are absolutely 100% internally OK(not just saying they're ok) with the agreed upon relationship dynamic, hypocritical or not.
That being said, being "ok" is also a process over time. You will be talking about this with your hubby ad nauseum and know that it's all necessary. Most of these discussions won't be in a "ethics" framework but more about what you both feel in an unconditional space, why you feel those things, and what actions you can take to resolve any feelings that need resolving.
>I do not desire to connect with any other person in the same way or as strongly/intimately as I connect with him...
This seems contradictory to the OP and other statements, but it also lacks detail. Do you just want light girlfriends/boyfriends on the side to occupy your time? Do you want to the thrill of going out on dates but without the commitment of a future relationship? Figuring out what you want and WHY you want it is going to be a big part of this journey for you.
TL;DR: yes if one involved becomes hurt/is not ok with it, no if everyone is happy and everyone agrees with the situation.
| >I feel that I lean towards being polyamorous
"being" polyamorous is kind of a hot topic. See here: here: here:
Personally, I think some people are wired for nonmonogamy(like me), some aren't but choose to be in nonmonogamous models.
>even though I can understand how loving someone else would not take away my love for him, I feel a sharp twinge of jealousy if I imagine him with someone else.
Ethical is subjective in the sense that if the party agrees upon something and is ok with it, a seemingly unethical stances becomes ethical. In my eyes this viewpoint of "i'm poly but jealous" is hypocritical and will mostly ALWAYS cause subtle cracks and issues unless both parties are absolutely 100% internally OK(not just saying they're ok) with the agreed upon relationship dynamic, hypocritical or not.
That being said, being "ok" is also a process over time. You will be talking about this with your hubby ad nauseum and know that it's all necessary. Most of these discussions won't be in a "ethics" framework but more about what you both feel in an unconditional space, why you feel those things, and what actions you can take to resolve any feelings that need resolving.
>I do not desire to connect with any other person in the same way or as strongly/intimately as I connect with him...
This seems contradictory to the OP and other statements, but it also lacks detail. Do you just want light girlfriends/boyfriends on the side to occupy your time? Do you want to the thrill of going out on dates but without the commitment of a future relationship? Figuring out what you want and WHY you want it is going to be a big part of this journey for you.
TL;DR: yes if one involved becomes hurt/is not ok with it, no if everyone is happy and everyone agrees with the situation.
| nonmonogamy | t5_2rc24 | ccf3hd5 | I feel that I lean towards being polyamorous
"being" polyamorous is kind of a hot topic. See here: here: here:
Personally, I think some people are wired for nonmonogamy(like me), some aren't but choose to be in nonmonogamous models.
>even though I can understand how loving someone else would not take away my love for him, I feel a sharp twinge of jealousy if I imagine him with someone else.
Ethical is subjective in the sense that if the party agrees upon something and is ok with it, a seemingly unethical stances becomes ethical. In my eyes this viewpoint of "i'm poly but jealous" is hypocritical and will mostly ALWAYS cause subtle cracks and issues unless both parties are absolutely 100% internally OK(not just saying they're ok) with the agreed upon relationship dynamic, hypocritical or not.
That being said, being "ok" is also a process over time. You will be talking about this with your hubby ad nauseum and know that it's all necessary. Most of these discussions won't be in a "ethics" framework but more about what you both feel in an unconditional space, why you feel those things, and what actions you can take to resolve any feelings that need resolving.
>I do not desire to connect with any other person in the same way or as strongly/intimately as I connect with him...
This seems contradictory to the OP and other statements, but it also lacks detail. Do you just want light girlfriends/boyfriends on the side to occupy your time? Do you want to the thrill of going out on dates but without the commitment of a future relationship? Figuring out what you want and WHY you want it is going to be a big part of this journey for you. | yes if one involved becomes hurt/is not ok with it, no if everyone is happy and everyone agrees with the situation. |
freetheducks | I don't know if this really counts, but i'll share anyway..
In my first year at uni, I sat behind an extremely beautiful girl in a chem lecture. She had her stuff spread out beside her and her name was written on one of her books. So for some silly reason (perhaps boredom and curiosity) I looked her up on facebook and on my phone at the time (LG Optimus 7) the persons name was **directly** on top of the words *add friend* and my finger missed her name..
I felt my heart drop out of my ass and I sunk into my seat and hid behind books as her phone went off. She did the "wtf" thing and put her phone back down.. I thought, *oh well i'm in the shit now might as well try for something*. So later that day I sent her a message explaining what had happened and how embarrassed I was and she found it very funny and let me take her on a date.
tl;dr : Accidentally added a girl while facebook stalking her while sitting right fucking behind her. Actually turned out ok. | I don't know if this really counts, but i'll share anyway..
In my first year at uni, I sat behind an extremely beautiful girl in a chem lecture. She had her stuff spread out beside her and her name was written on one of her books. So for some silly reason (perhaps boredom and curiosity) I looked her up on facebook and on my phone at the time (LG Optimus 7) the persons name was directly on top of the words add friend and my finger missed her name..
I felt my heart drop out of my ass and I sunk into my seat and hid behind books as her phone went off. She did the "wtf" thing and put her phone back down.. I thought, oh well i'm in the shit now might as well try for something . So later that day I sent her a message explaining what had happened and how embarrassed I was and she found it very funny and let me take her on a date.
tl;dr : Accidentally added a girl while facebook stalking her while sitting right fucking behind her. Actually turned out ok.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ccf1gvy | I don't know if this really counts, but i'll share anyway..
In my first year at uni, I sat behind an extremely beautiful girl in a chem lecture. She had her stuff spread out beside her and her name was written on one of her books. So for some silly reason (perhaps boredom and curiosity) I looked her up on facebook and on my phone at the time (LG Optimus 7) the persons name was directly on top of the words add friend and my finger missed her name..
I felt my heart drop out of my ass and I sunk into my seat and hid behind books as her phone went off. She did the "wtf" thing and put her phone back down.. I thought, oh well i'm in the shit now might as well try for something . So later that day I sent her a message explaining what had happened and how embarrassed I was and she found it very funny and let me take her on a date. | Accidentally added a girl while facebook stalking her while sitting right fucking behind her. Actually turned out ok. |
HayShay | Peoria area checking in.
Met him at the event he hosts at the Civic Center every year and always heard that he was such a nice guy to the point where I almost didn't believe it.
Then I met him and chatted with him for a bit. If you didn't know that he was a professional baseball player and a multi millionaire you would have no idea.
One of the all time nicest and most down to earth people I have ever met.
Met him again when he was doing an appearance at a baseball instructional facility and when it came up that I had attended and helped out with his event at the civic center he apologized for not remembering my name. He also stuck around to help pick stuff up after the demonstration after watching high school hacks take batting practice in the cages.
Just an overall incredible human being. It will be an absolute travesty if he doesn't end up in the Hall and I wish him all the best in everything he ever does.
TL; DR: Met him twice, he apologized for not remembering me. Nicest guy, pro ballet or not, I've ever met. Better be in the Hall. | Peoria area checking in.
Met him at the event he hosts at the Civic Center every year and always heard that he was such a nice guy to the point where I almost didn't believe it.
Then I met him and chatted with him for a bit. If you didn't know that he was a professional baseball player and a multi millionaire you would have no idea.
One of the all time nicest and most down to earth people I have ever met.
Met him again when he was doing an appearance at a baseball instructional facility and when it came up that I had attended and helped out with his event at the civic center he apologized for not remembering my name. He also stuck around to help pick stuff up after the demonstration after watching high school hacks take batting practice in the cages.
Just an overall incredible human being. It will be an absolute travesty if he doesn't end up in the Hall and I wish him all the best in everything he ever does.
TL; DR: Met him twice, he apologized for not remembering me. Nicest guy, pro ballet or not, I've ever met. Better be in the Hall.
| baseball | t5_2qm7u | ccfodg8 | Peoria area checking in.
Met him at the event he hosts at the Civic Center every year and always heard that he was such a nice guy to the point where I almost didn't believe it.
Then I met him and chatted with him for a bit. If you didn't know that he was a professional baseball player and a multi millionaire you would have no idea.
One of the all time nicest and most down to earth people I have ever met.
Met him again when he was doing an appearance at a baseball instructional facility and when it came up that I had attended and helped out with his event at the civic center he apologized for not remembering my name. He also stuck around to help pick stuff up after the demonstration after watching high school hacks take batting practice in the cages.
Just an overall incredible human being. It will be an absolute travesty if he doesn't end up in the Hall and I wish him all the best in everything he ever does. | Met him twice, he apologized for not remembering me. Nicest guy, pro ballet or not, I've ever met. Better be in the Hall. |
jconnell | *He did everything he needed to do to get the ring. The NFL just gave it to Jerome Bettis instead.*
Converting 5 out of 17 third downs is not enough to get a ring. He threw an interception in the red zone at the worst possible time. We gave up 181 rushing yards. We dropped pass after pass after pass. We let a wide receiver throw a touchdown pass on us to put the game away. We didn't lose by 3 or 7 or even 10. We lost by 11. Bad calls aside, we would have had a **chance** to win, and a slim chance based on how we played all game.
*tl;dr:* Hass didn't do enough to win. The NFL didn't give Bettis a ring. Let's sack up and stop pretending we won the game. | He did everything he needed to do to get the ring. The NFL just gave it to Jerome Bettis instead.
Converting 5 out of 17 third downs is not enough to get a ring. He threw an interception in the red zone at the worst possible time. We gave up 181 rushing yards. We dropped pass after pass after pass. We let a wide receiver throw a touchdown pass on us to put the game away. We didn't lose by 3 or 7 or even 10. We lost by 11. Bad calls aside, we would have had a chance to win, and a slim chance based on how we played all game.
tl;dr: Hass didn't do enough to win. The NFL didn't give Bettis a ring. Let's sack up and stop pretending we won the game.
| Seahawks | t5_2ryle | ccf9uzf | He did everything he needed to do to get the ring. The NFL just gave it to Jerome Bettis instead.
Converting 5 out of 17 third downs is not enough to get a ring. He threw an interception in the red zone at the worst possible time. We gave up 181 rushing yards. We dropped pass after pass after pass. We let a wide receiver throw a touchdown pass on us to put the game away. We didn't lose by 3 or 7 or even 10. We lost by 11. Bad calls aside, we would have had a chance to win, and a slim chance based on how we played all game. | Hass didn't do enough to win. The NFL didn't give Bettis a ring. Let's sack up and stop pretending we won the game. |
JayGryph | Man, if I ever feel the devilish desire to abuse someone it'll be this guy because he never reports any of the shit that people do to him, to the point of theft and physical harm.
Good lord man, you can still be an upstanding guy when you take people to task for fucking you over and sometimes literally running you over.
How did I know this would somehow involve Arcata.
TLDR: Mistakes were made. Then more mistakes were made. | Man, if I ever feel the devilish desire to abuse someone it'll be this guy because he never reports any of the shit that people do to him, to the point of theft and physical harm.
Good lord man, you can still be an upstanding guy when you take people to task for fucking you over and sometimes literally running you over.
How did I know this would somehow involve Arcata.
TLDR: Mistakes were made. Then more mistakes were made.
| BurningMan | t5_2qj68 | ccf9ovl | Man, if I ever feel the devilish desire to abuse someone it'll be this guy because he never reports any of the shit that people do to him, to the point of theft and physical harm.
Good lord man, you can still be an upstanding guy when you take people to task for fucking you over and sometimes literally running you over.
How did I know this would somehow involve Arcata. | Mistakes were made. Then more mistakes were made. |
Avxxsiecle | Weed, like any substance, has the potential to be abused. Keep that in mind. It's kind of the same thing as not every person who drinks is an alcoholic.
I've been smoking nearly every day for the past few years. I attend my classes, do my coursework, have a very healthy social life, and altogether know how to balance weed with my every day life.
You have to have a certain mindset for it to fuck up your life. To some people, yes, it can be a major problem, but so can alcohol (to a worse extent in my opinion).
People say that weed is a gateway drug, but again, it doesn't have to be. It just varies from person to person. For me, it lead to nothing harder unless you're counting some poor eating habits.
Really though, the whole stigma against it is heavily biased, and most (sane) people will tell you that it's nothing to be feared.
As for the whole lack of motivation, sure, whilst stoned you most likely will do nothing productive. However, much like that well deserved drink at the end of the day, a well deserved joint is just as pleasing, and something more to look forward to.
I'm not going to go into all the gang stuff, but those gangs are probably already dealing in harder things.
Tl;dr: Weed is no threat to a person who can balance their life and smoking. It is only dangerous because it is illegal. Legalizing would remove the penalties for enjoying a near harmless plant. | Weed, like any substance, has the potential to be abused. Keep that in mind. It's kind of the same thing as not every person who drinks is an alcoholic.
I've been smoking nearly every day for the past few years. I attend my classes, do my coursework, have a very healthy social life, and altogether know how to balance weed with my every day life.
You have to have a certain mindset for it to fuck up your life. To some people, yes, it can be a major problem, but so can alcohol (to a worse extent in my opinion).
People say that weed is a gateway drug, but again, it doesn't have to be. It just varies from person to person. For me, it lead to nothing harder unless you're counting some poor eating habits.
Really though, the whole stigma against it is heavily biased, and most (sane) people will tell you that it's nothing to be feared.
As for the whole lack of motivation, sure, whilst stoned you most likely will do nothing productive. However, much like that well deserved drink at the end of the day, a well deserved joint is just as pleasing, and something more to look forward to.
I'm not going to go into all the gang stuff, but those gangs are probably already dealing in harder things.
Tl;dr: Weed is no threat to a person who can balance their life and smoking. It is only dangerous because it is illegal. Legalizing would remove the penalties for enjoying a near harmless plant.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ccf73p0 | Weed, like any substance, has the potential to be abused. Keep that in mind. It's kind of the same thing as not every person who drinks is an alcoholic.
I've been smoking nearly every day for the past few years. I attend my classes, do my coursework, have a very healthy social life, and altogether know how to balance weed with my every day life.
You have to have a certain mindset for it to fuck up your life. To some people, yes, it can be a major problem, but so can alcohol (to a worse extent in my opinion).
People say that weed is a gateway drug, but again, it doesn't have to be. It just varies from person to person. For me, it lead to nothing harder unless you're counting some poor eating habits.
Really though, the whole stigma against it is heavily biased, and most (sane) people will tell you that it's nothing to be feared.
As for the whole lack of motivation, sure, whilst stoned you most likely will do nothing productive. However, much like that well deserved drink at the end of the day, a well deserved joint is just as pleasing, and something more to look forward to.
I'm not going to go into all the gang stuff, but those gangs are probably already dealing in harder things. | Weed is no threat to a person who can balance their life and smoking. It is only dangerous because it is illegal. Legalizing would remove the penalties for enjoying a near harmless plant. |
SpareLiver | 1) Irrelevant, those who use hard drugs also started out by breathing first, doesn't mean breathing leads to hard drugs, and doesn't mean weed leads to hard drugs.
2) True of a whole lot of things, including sugar.
3) It won't get rid of it, it will curtail it. Many people who smoke weed would never even touch hard drugs, and if weed is legal, they no longer have reason to go to a gang member (or other shady drug dealer.) Gang activity wouldn't go away, but it would likely decline.
4) Everything is bad for you in large enough quantities (girl I went to school with died from drinking too much water, no really.)
5) Citation needed. Yes if you do nothing but smoke weed all day you aren't productive. Then again, if you do nothing but drink McFlurries all day you aren't productive either. Keep in mind that, those who smoke weed can't get a job that drug tests, and that contributes a large portion of the "unproductiveness" you talk about. If weed is legal, then smokers can get a job, be productive, and then smoke weed to unwind at the end of the day the same way many people have a beer to unwind.
Now that I've answered your questions, here are a few more important points. We spend billions upon billions keeping weed smokers in jail. Why? Over half of the prison population in the U.S. never hurt anyone except themselves (this statistic includes hard drugs, not just wee, but still serves a point.) Wouldn't that money be better spend elsewhere? With weed legal and taxed, we would raise a whole lot of money instead of spending it on a pointless drug war we will never win. It would also take A LOT of power away from Mexican drug cartels (though they'd still have other drugs to fall back on, but see point 3.)
tl;dr: It would save a lot of money and do more good than harm. | 1) Irrelevant, those who use hard drugs also started out by breathing first, doesn't mean breathing leads to hard drugs, and doesn't mean weed leads to hard drugs.
2) True of a whole lot of things, including sugar.
3) It won't get rid of it, it will curtail it. Many people who smoke weed would never even touch hard drugs, and if weed is legal, they no longer have reason to go to a gang member (or other shady drug dealer.) Gang activity wouldn't go away, but it would likely decline.
4) Everything is bad for you in large enough quantities (girl I went to school with died from drinking too much water, no really.)
5) Citation needed. Yes if you do nothing but smoke weed all day you aren't productive. Then again, if you do nothing but drink McFlurries all day you aren't productive either. Keep in mind that, those who smoke weed can't get a job that drug tests, and that contributes a large portion of the "unproductiveness" you talk about. If weed is legal, then smokers can get a job, be productive, and then smoke weed to unwind at the end of the day the same way many people have a beer to unwind.
Now that I've answered your questions, here are a few more important points. We spend billions upon billions keeping weed smokers in jail. Why? Over half of the prison population in the U.S. never hurt anyone except themselves (this statistic includes hard drugs, not just wee, but still serves a point.) Wouldn't that money be better spend elsewhere? With weed legal and taxed, we would raise a whole lot of money instead of spending it on a pointless drug war we will never win. It would also take A LOT of power away from Mexican drug cartels (though they'd still have other drugs to fall back on, but see point 3.)
tl;dr: It would save a lot of money and do more good than harm.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ccf6zzm | 1) Irrelevant, those who use hard drugs also started out by breathing first, doesn't mean breathing leads to hard drugs, and doesn't mean weed leads to hard drugs.
2) True of a whole lot of things, including sugar.
3) It won't get rid of it, it will curtail it. Many people who smoke weed would never even touch hard drugs, and if weed is legal, they no longer have reason to go to a gang member (or other shady drug dealer.) Gang activity wouldn't go away, but it would likely decline.
4) Everything is bad for you in large enough quantities (girl I went to school with died from drinking too much water, no really.)
5) Citation needed. Yes if you do nothing but smoke weed all day you aren't productive. Then again, if you do nothing but drink McFlurries all day you aren't productive either. Keep in mind that, those who smoke weed can't get a job that drug tests, and that contributes a large portion of the "unproductiveness" you talk about. If weed is legal, then smokers can get a job, be productive, and then smoke weed to unwind at the end of the day the same way many people have a beer to unwind.
Now that I've answered your questions, here are a few more important points. We spend billions upon billions keeping weed smokers in jail. Why? Over half of the prison population in the U.S. never hurt anyone except themselves (this statistic includes hard drugs, not just wee, but still serves a point.) Wouldn't that money be better spend elsewhere? With weed legal and taxed, we would raise a whole lot of money instead of spending it on a pointless drug war we will never win. It would also take A LOT of power away from Mexican drug cartels (though they'd still have other drugs to fall back on, but see point 3.) | It would save a lot of money and do more good than harm. |
rawr_dinosaur | Its sad how many donations girls gets on twitch.tv, Its no different than whoring yourself on camera at one of those webcam sites. Sat there on night on some chicks stream while she played LoL and she was just getting 150-200 donations every half hour, I shit my pants.
And they know it too, they work that shit and put big ass donation buttons and goals and lots of hearts and pictures of themselves to make sure people know they are a girl.
TL;DR if your a mildly attractive female with a webcam, sit on twitch while playing games and watch the donations fly in. | Its sad how many donations girls gets on twitch.tv, Its no different than whoring yourself on camera at one of those webcam sites. Sat there on night on some chicks stream while she played LoL and she was just getting 150-200 donations every half hour, I shit my pants.
And they know it too, they work that shit and put big ass donation buttons and goals and lots of hearts and pictures of themselves to make sure people know they are a girl.
TL;DR if your a mildly attractive female with a webcam, sit on twitch while playing games and watch the donations fly in.
| 4chan | t5_2qh4w | ccfmzel | Its sad how many donations girls gets on twitch.tv, Its no different than whoring yourself on camera at one of those webcam sites. Sat there on night on some chicks stream while she played LoL and she was just getting 150-200 donations every half hour, I shit my pants.
And they know it too, they work that shit and put big ass donation buttons and goals and lots of hearts and pictures of themselves to make sure people know they are a girl. | if your a mildly attractive female with a webcam, sit on twitch while playing games and watch the donations fly in. |
Spreeg | Amazon have a service called Amazon prime, which means you get your product the next day, providing it's bought before 6pm.
I would think they use the same shipping on pre-orders, so there is definitely a chance it will come tomorrow, although nobody can give a definite answer either way.
TL;DR Nobody can answer definitely, look at the estimated delivery date. But there is definitely a chance. | Amazon have a service called Amazon prime, which means you get your product the next day, providing it's bought before 6pm.
I would think they use the same shipping on pre-orders, so there is definitely a chance it will come tomorrow, although nobody can give a definite answer either way.
TL;DR Nobody can answer definitely, look at the estimated delivery date. But there is definitely a chance.
| FIFA | t5_2qxh7 | ccfasth | Amazon have a service called Amazon prime, which means you get your product the next day, providing it's bought before 6pm.
I would think they use the same shipping on pre-orders, so there is definitely a chance it will come tomorrow, although nobody can give a definite answer either way. | Nobody can answer definitely, look at the estimated delivery date. But there is definitely a chance. |
kittehmew | So I was heading into Walmart to pick up a few things for dinner. Mind you my little family does not have a lot of money, we are on food stamps, but we make due, and honestly intend to be off them shortly. I sell stuff on the internet and what not to make the money for on here, and get Oni what she needs, so I do work for what i can.
That being said, all three of us have our health, more or less, and we can eat quite well most of the time. Despite being low, and having to wait for them to reset, when I was heading into the store there was a small family, dad, pregnant mum, and little one, the dad had a sign, he just lost his job, needed help, anything. They didn't speak good English, but that doesn't matter. Sure it could have been a scam, but I like to hope that people wouldn't do that.
While getting my groceries I picked up a loaf of bread, some peanut butter, some grapes and bananas, nothing special. $5 worth of stuff, if that, and decided why not? People have helped me when my family couldn't eat, so time to help some others.
Little did I know that as soon as I handed over that bad I was going to get yelled at by some random stranger. He came storming up to me and accused me of helping those "damn foreigners". And he went on to explain how me helping them, and them not being able to help themselves, "are why America is poor." Okay. I'm confused, irritated, and ready to punch him, seriously.
Yes, some people just expect everything to be handed to them, but the reaction from them was entirely genuine, and a girl who couldn't be more than 2 was excited for the bananas, what is so wrong with that?
This man kept going on, ranting and raving, following me to my car, then harassing those poor people. Like any of know their situation, his sign said he lost his job, and hell, in this economy, I'm not surprised.
I'm just so annoyed that people can be so mean and heartless. I didn't hand them hundreds of dollars or McDonalds, I gave them some food. I'm sorry, but not too many people want to put themselves out there like that unless they're desperate. And no kid deserves to starve, so even if they're scamming, a kid will be eating some healthy food, nothing wrong with that.
So yeah, tl:dr, an angry white man in a truck yelled at me for giving food to a family down on their luck because they were "foreign". | So I was heading into Walmart to pick up a few things for dinner. Mind you my little family does not have a lot of money, we are on food stamps, but we make due, and honestly intend to be off them shortly. I sell stuff on the internet and what not to make the money for on here, and get Oni what she needs, so I do work for what i can.
That being said, all three of us have our health, more or less, and we can eat quite well most of the time. Despite being low, and having to wait for them to reset, when I was heading into the store there was a small family, dad, pregnant mum, and little one, the dad had a sign, he just lost his job, needed help, anything. They didn't speak good English, but that doesn't matter. Sure it could have been a scam, but I like to hope that people wouldn't do that.
While getting my groceries I picked up a loaf of bread, some peanut butter, some grapes and bananas, nothing special. $5 worth of stuff, if that, and decided why not? People have helped me when my family couldn't eat, so time to help some others.
Little did I know that as soon as I handed over that bad I was going to get yelled at by some random stranger. He came storming up to me and accused me of helping those "damn foreigners". And he went on to explain how me helping them, and them not being able to help themselves, "are why America is poor." Okay. I'm confused, irritated, and ready to punch him, seriously.
Yes, some people just expect everything to be handed to them, but the reaction from them was entirely genuine, and a girl who couldn't be more than 2 was excited for the bananas, what is so wrong with that?
This man kept going on, ranting and raving, following me to my car, then harassing those poor people. Like any of know their situation, his sign said he lost his job, and hell, in this economy, I'm not surprised.
I'm just so annoyed that people can be so mean and heartless. I didn't hand them hundreds of dollars or McDonalds, I gave them some food. I'm sorry, but not too many people want to put themselves out there like that unless they're desperate. And no kid deserves to starve, so even if they're scamming, a kid will be eating some healthy food, nothing wrong with that.
So yeah, tl:dr, an angry white man in a truck yelled at me for giving food to a family down on their luck because they were "foreign".
| Random_Acts_Of_Amazon | t5_2tx47 | ccfcegr | So I was heading into Walmart to pick up a few things for dinner. Mind you my little family does not have a lot of money, we are on food stamps, but we make due, and honestly intend to be off them shortly. I sell stuff on the internet and what not to make the money for on here, and get Oni what she needs, so I do work for what i can.
That being said, all three of us have our health, more or less, and we can eat quite well most of the time. Despite being low, and having to wait for them to reset, when I was heading into the store there was a small family, dad, pregnant mum, and little one, the dad had a sign, he just lost his job, needed help, anything. They didn't speak good English, but that doesn't matter. Sure it could have been a scam, but I like to hope that people wouldn't do that.
While getting my groceries I picked up a loaf of bread, some peanut butter, some grapes and bananas, nothing special. $5 worth of stuff, if that, and decided why not? People have helped me when my family couldn't eat, so time to help some others.
Little did I know that as soon as I handed over that bad I was going to get yelled at by some random stranger. He came storming up to me and accused me of helping those "damn foreigners". And he went on to explain how me helping them, and them not being able to help themselves, "are why America is poor." Okay. I'm confused, irritated, and ready to punch him, seriously.
Yes, some people just expect everything to be handed to them, but the reaction from them was entirely genuine, and a girl who couldn't be more than 2 was excited for the bananas, what is so wrong with that?
This man kept going on, ranting and raving, following me to my car, then harassing those poor people. Like any of know their situation, his sign said he lost his job, and hell, in this economy, I'm not surprised.
I'm just so annoyed that people can be so mean and heartless. I didn't hand them hundreds of dollars or McDonalds, I gave them some food. I'm sorry, but not too many people want to put themselves out there like that unless they're desperate. And no kid deserves to starve, so even if they're scamming, a kid will be eating some healthy food, nothing wrong with that.
So yeah, | an angry white man in a truck yelled at me for giving food to a family down on their luck because they were "foreign". |
watchoutsucka | Sweet Jesus, I have laughed myself stupid at this picture. I have this picture of the head of the cake department looking at this and saying "FINE WORK JOHNSON, OUT THE DOOR IT GOES."
I keep hearing "star wars" in mary katherine gallagher's "superstar" voice. I mean, how else do you sell the Star Wars piece.
tl;dr-don't eat this thing, frame it. | Sweet Jesus, I have laughed myself stupid at this picture. I have this picture of the head of the cake department looking at this and saying "FINE WORK JOHNSON, OUT THE DOOR IT GOES."
I keep hearing "star wars" in mary katherine gallagher's "superstar" voice. I mean, how else do you sell the Star Wars piece.
tl;dr-don't eat this thing, frame it.
| funny | t5_2qh33 | ccfm9iu | Sweet Jesus, I have laughed myself stupid at this picture. I have this picture of the head of the cake department looking at this and saying "FINE WORK JOHNSON, OUT THE DOOR IT GOES."
I keep hearing "star wars" in mary katherine gallagher's "superstar" voice. I mean, how else do you sell the Star Wars piece. | don't eat this thing, frame it. |
FollowMeOnGeocities | **So I did some geologizing last time this was posted, but to hardly any notice. Here's my response to how long it should last:**
I know a little bit about coastal morphodynamics so I'll give it a shot. It depends upon three main things:
1. Energy level in the area
2. Strength of materials making the feature
3. Size of the structure
**Energy level of the area:** 2.5m annual mean significant wave height ([source]( The tides are also large in this area, but the wave energy would be the main factor, and the area sees some of the largest waves in all of Europe.
**Strength of materials:** Kannesteinen Rock is composed of gneiss and eclogite. Gneiss and eclogite are both crystalline rocks. Gneiss would be difficult to erode and eclogites are doubly hard (almost literally). These are the rocks that support the mass of humanity in New York City.
**Size of structure:** The "neck" of the rock measures in with a circumference of 6.3m, but it much wider cross-shore than alongshore -- somewhat like a hammer. I would estimate it is slightly less than one meter at its widest in the cross-shore direction.
This means waves taller than anybody you have ever met break on a less than one meter wide rock on a regular basis (not during lower tides). Sediments up to the size of a fist are essentially abrasives working this rock constantly. The cliffs of Dover wouldn't stand a chance, but these dense, strong metamorphic rocks thrust from the depths of the crust and into the mantle of the earth hardly change over a lifetime. They are also resistant to deformation and failure and could *likely* support the rock above until it's just 10 cm wide.
What does this mean? How long until the rock succumbs to its ultimate fate? My qualitative answer is "a while." If you want me to get to a specific quantitative conclusion, then I'll go with 300 years, give or take an order of magnitude or two.
Boom, geologized.
**More** I'll use the erosional rate of the headlands of Monterey Bay (0.5mm/yr) as a proxy (iiiit's a stretch). The materials and wave climate are similar. 0.5mm each year means 1mm net/year. To go from ~90cm thickness to ~10cm thickness would take 900 years. In 900 years other factors come into play other than typical oceanic activity. Tectonic movement, sea level rise, seal orgies, [Seal]( orgies, multiple hundred year storms, a millennial storm, etc.
TL;DR: 900 years +/- some stuff. | So I did some geologizing last time this was posted, but to hardly any notice. Here's my response to how long it should last:
I know a little bit about coastal morphodynamics so I'll give it a shot. It depends upon three main things:
1. Energy level in the area
2. Strength of materials making the feature
3. Size of the structure
Energy level of the area: 2.5m annual mean significant wave height ([source]( The tides are also large in this area, but the wave energy would be the main factor, and the area sees some of the largest waves in all of Europe.
Strength of materials: Kannesteinen Rock is composed of gneiss and eclogite. Gneiss and eclogite are both crystalline rocks. Gneiss would be difficult to erode and eclogites are doubly hard (almost literally). These are the rocks that support the mass of humanity in New York City.
Size of structure: The "neck" of the rock measures in with a circumference of 6.3m, but it much wider cross-shore than alongshore -- somewhat like a hammer. I would estimate it is slightly less than one meter at its widest in the cross-shore direction.
This means waves taller than anybody you have ever met break on a less than one meter wide rock on a regular basis (not during lower tides). Sediments up to the size of a fist are essentially abrasives working this rock constantly. The cliffs of Dover wouldn't stand a chance, but these dense, strong metamorphic rocks thrust from the depths of the crust and into the mantle of the earth hardly change over a lifetime. They are also resistant to deformation and failure and could likely support the rock above until it's just 10 cm wide.
What does this mean? How long until the rock succumbs to its ultimate fate? My qualitative answer is "a while." If you want me to get to a specific quantitative conclusion, then I'll go with 300 years, give or take an order of magnitude or two.
Boom, geologized.
More I'll use the erosional rate of the headlands of Monterey Bay (0.5mm/yr) as a proxy (iiiit's a stretch). The materials and wave climate are similar. 0.5mm each year means 1mm net/year. To go from ~90cm thickness to ~10cm thickness would take 900 years. In 900 years other factors come into play other than typical oceanic activity. Tectonic movement, sea level rise, seal orgies, [Seal]( orgies, multiple hundred year storms, a millennial storm, etc.
TL;DR: 900 years +/- some stuff.
| EarthPorn | t5_2sbq3 | ccg81xk | So I did some geologizing last time this was posted, but to hardly any notice. Here's my response to how long it should last:
I know a little bit about coastal morphodynamics so I'll give it a shot. It depends upon three main things:
1. Energy level in the area
2. Strength of materials making the feature
3. Size of the structure
Energy level of the area: 2.5m annual mean significant wave height ([source]( The tides are also large in this area, but the wave energy would be the main factor, and the area sees some of the largest waves in all of Europe.
Strength of materials: Kannesteinen Rock is composed of gneiss and eclogite. Gneiss and eclogite are both crystalline rocks. Gneiss would be difficult to erode and eclogites are doubly hard (almost literally). These are the rocks that support the mass of humanity in New York City.
Size of structure: The "neck" of the rock measures in with a circumference of 6.3m, but it much wider cross-shore than alongshore -- somewhat like a hammer. I would estimate it is slightly less than one meter at its widest in the cross-shore direction.
This means waves taller than anybody you have ever met break on a less than one meter wide rock on a regular basis (not during lower tides). Sediments up to the size of a fist are essentially abrasives working this rock constantly. The cliffs of Dover wouldn't stand a chance, but these dense, strong metamorphic rocks thrust from the depths of the crust and into the mantle of the earth hardly change over a lifetime. They are also resistant to deformation and failure and could likely support the rock above until it's just 10 cm wide.
What does this mean? How long until the rock succumbs to its ultimate fate? My qualitative answer is "a while." If you want me to get to a specific quantitative conclusion, then I'll go with 300 years, give or take an order of magnitude or two.
Boom, geologized.
More I'll use the erosional rate of the headlands of Monterey Bay (0.5mm/yr) as a proxy (iiiit's a stretch). The materials and wave climate are similar. 0.5mm each year means 1mm net/year. To go from ~90cm thickness to ~10cm thickness would take 900 years. In 900 years other factors come into play other than typical oceanic activity. Tectonic movement, sea level rise, seal orgies, [Seal]( orgies, multiple hundred year storms, a millennial storm, etc. | 900 years +/- some stuff. |
Death_Star_ | This isn't really a "fan theory." This is basically a fan wishlist.
**Fan theories basically require you provide some sort of support and evidence. Your "theory" is more of a series of guesses.** And what's ironic is that you "don't buy any of the other theories," despite the fact that they at least attempted to use evidence to back up their theories.
I mean, you LITERALLY say **"somehow someway cap learns about vibranium in wakanda."** VERBATIM! What? How is this in any way backed up by anything we've seen in the movies? This is the very definition of an unsupported guess. This isn't theory. This is just imagination play time.
A supported theory would be, "**Cap learns about vibranium in Wakanda because we see that one of the 'red dots' marked on the S.H.I.E.L.D. digital global map is pinged on Africa, suggesting that there's something-of-interest there. It was at the end of *Iron Man 2*.**" You can't just say "I want Cap to get vibranium from Wakanda. I don't care how, but he just does, so just buy that."
And I read your entire "theory," out of respect.
What's your basis for the "uneven hulk brain thing" for saying "Hank Pym"? (I can't believe I just typed that and that it's actually what you wrote... I cannot believe you write "uneven hulk brain thing")
Again, not to be mean, **but these are really the worst types of fan theories..... because they're not even fan theories!** They're just fan wishlists. And hell, I even enjoy some of them if they're well-written enough, because they read like fan fiction.
But you come out and bash other theories (despite them being supported, even if by weak evidence), yet you offer your theory that has ZERO support.
Look, this is my theory, and I'm not saying it's good, but it's at least an example of a theory that is supported by evidence: [My Avengers/Ultron theory](
**TL;DR**: When you come up with fan theories, you must submit (or try to submit) at least *some* evidence. It's in the rules on the sidebar "You must back your theory up with some form of evidence." | This isn't really a "fan theory." This is basically a fan wishlist.
Fan theories basically require you provide some sort of support and evidence. Your "theory" is more of a series of guesses. And what's ironic is that you "don't buy any of the other theories," despite the fact that they at least attempted to use evidence to back up their theories.
I mean, you LITERALLY say "somehow someway cap learns about vibranium in wakanda." VERBATIM! What? How is this in any way backed up by anything we've seen in the movies? This is the very definition of an unsupported guess. This isn't theory. This is just imagination play time.
A supported theory would be, " Cap learns about vibranium in Wakanda because we see that one of the 'red dots' marked on the S.H.I.E.L.D. digital global map is pinged on Africa, suggesting that there's something-of-interest there. It was at the end of Iron Man 2 . " You can't just say "I want Cap to get vibranium from Wakanda. I don't care how, but he just does, so just buy that."
And I read your entire "theory," out of respect.
What's your basis for the "uneven hulk brain thing" for saying "Hank Pym"? (I can't believe I just typed that and that it's actually what you wrote... I cannot believe you write "uneven hulk brain thing")
Again, not to be mean, but these are really the worst types of fan theories..... because they're not even fan theories! They're just fan wishlists. And hell, I even enjoy some of them if they're well-written enough, because they read like fan fiction.
But you come out and bash other theories (despite them being supported, even if by weak evidence), yet you offer your theory that has ZERO support.
Look, this is my theory, and I'm not saying it's good, but it's at least an example of a theory that is supported by evidence: [My Avengers/Ultron theory](
TL;DR : When you come up with fan theories, you must submit (or try to submit) at least some evidence. It's in the rules on the sidebar "You must back your theory up with some form of evidence."
| FanTheories | t5_2u6rc | ccgu1uf | This isn't really a "fan theory." This is basically a fan wishlist.
Fan theories basically require you provide some sort of support and evidence. Your "theory" is more of a series of guesses. And what's ironic is that you "don't buy any of the other theories," despite the fact that they at least attempted to use evidence to back up their theories.
I mean, you LITERALLY say "somehow someway cap learns about vibranium in wakanda." VERBATIM! What? How is this in any way backed up by anything we've seen in the movies? This is the very definition of an unsupported guess. This isn't theory. This is just imagination play time.
A supported theory would be, " Cap learns about vibranium in Wakanda because we see that one of the 'red dots' marked on the S.H.I.E.L.D. digital global map is pinged on Africa, suggesting that there's something-of-interest there. It was at the end of Iron Man 2 . " You can't just say "I want Cap to get vibranium from Wakanda. I don't care how, but he just does, so just buy that."
And I read your entire "theory," out of respect.
What's your basis for the "uneven hulk brain thing" for saying "Hank Pym"? (I can't believe I just typed that and that it's actually what you wrote... I cannot believe you write "uneven hulk brain thing")
Again, not to be mean, but these are really the worst types of fan theories..... because they're not even fan theories! They're just fan wishlists. And hell, I even enjoy some of them if they're well-written enough, because they read like fan fiction.
But you come out and bash other theories (despite them being supported, even if by weak evidence), yet you offer your theory that has ZERO support.
Look, this is my theory, and I'm not saying it's good, but it's at least an example of a theory that is supported by evidence: [My Avengers/Ultron theory]( | When you come up with fan theories, you must submit (or try to submit) at least some evidence. It's in the rules on the sidebar "You must back your theory up with some form of evidence." |
Whisket | Environmental Engineer here.
ELI5 version:
Waste water and rain water are collected separately. If they are collected together, too much rain water can overwhelm the treatment plant. Then, bypasses are opened and raw sewage is spilled into the environment. The problem if rain water is collected separately, however, is bad stuff can get into the rainwater and pollute your ocean/bay/river without being cleaned first.
The collected wastewater goes to a water treatment plant. It smells pretty bad, but it doesn't look nasty because most of the nasty stuff is churned up or removed before you can see it.
The same principles for sewers have been around for a long time, so the design of all major cities should be similar: gravity fed pipelines leading to a treatment plant. Because not all treatment plants are at the lowest elevations, there are small segments of pipe where the sewage will be pumped to higher elevations, and then continue to flow by gravity. In general and principle, they are the same type of system.
Long version:
As PLJVYF mentioned, most newer cities have separate storm and sanitary sewer systems. However, not all cities do. San Francisco is one example that has a combined sanitary and storm sewer system (called a combined sewer). San Francisco has a plan in place to mitigate the potential problems with rainfall overwhelming their treatment capacity. You can read about it [here]( but basically they have constructed large underground storage basins to hold water until the treatment plants have capacity to store them. In extreme cases, there is a bypass pipeline that can discharge untreated water to the ocean. This takes water off the top of the storage basin, which is mostly the rainwater because it is lighter density than sewage.
The problem with a separate stormwater system is that they generally lead straight to the environment without any treatment. This means all the gas/oil/other junk people dump in there can flow straight from your street into your local water feature. Some cities are experimenting with the concept of continuing to collect stormwater separately, but having a pipe run to the treatment plant. In times where the treatment plant has excess capacity, it will treat stormwater, whereas the rest of the time it will simply discharge straight to the environment.
There are different "phases" of wastewater treatment:
Primary Treatment
* 1. Screening. Exactly how it sounds, screens to separate out some of the larger items. Often there are large "drills" that churn up all of the waste into smaller particles. A lot of random stuff gets into sewers (shoes, animals, etc.).
So that goldfish you flushed down the toilet? He probably got churned up by a large, rotating, merciless piece of steel.
* 2. Sedimentation. These are large "ponds" where the water will flow through very slowly. Each sedimentation basin is designed differently, but water will take hours to flow through. This allows particles to sink out of the water due to gravity, and the lighter oils to be skimmed off the top.
Secondary Treatment
* 1. Here the remaining water is sent to "activated sludge" i.e. bacteria vats. It can be either aerobic (with oxygen) or anaerobic (without oxygen) depending on the water being treated. Basically, bacteria grow using carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. As they grow, these nutrients are being removed from the water.
* 2. This again passes through "secondary clarifiers", which are basically the same as the sedimentation basins above. The bacteria will "fall" out of the water due to gravity.
This is the end of standard wastewater treatment processes. Depending on the specific characteristics of the wastewater flowing into the plant, further tertiary treatment can be conducted. This includes specific contaminant removal, or if there are extremely strict discharge requirements into the local river/lake/bay/ocean further treatment can be done.
In most cases, it is NOT disinfected. The water is going out into the environment, there's no need to make it sterile.
When visiting a treatment plant, it's not very nasty. Most of the "nasty" parts are removed during the screening process at the very beginning, so it doesn't make it through the plant into places you will see it. It does smell nasty, though, and your family will notice when you get home if you've been near wastewater all day.
tl:dr. If you are reading this, you probably care enough to just go read the whole thing.
| Environmental Engineer here.
ELI5 version:
Waste water and rain water are collected separately. If they are collected together, too much rain water can overwhelm the treatment plant. Then, bypasses are opened and raw sewage is spilled into the environment. The problem if rain water is collected separately, however, is bad stuff can get into the rainwater and pollute your ocean/bay/river without being cleaned first.
The collected wastewater goes to a water treatment plant. It smells pretty bad, but it doesn't look nasty because most of the nasty stuff is churned up or removed before you can see it.
The same principles for sewers have been around for a long time, so the design of all major cities should be similar: gravity fed pipelines leading to a treatment plant. Because not all treatment plants are at the lowest elevations, there are small segments of pipe where the sewage will be pumped to higher elevations, and then continue to flow by gravity. In general and principle, they are the same type of system.
Long version:
As PLJVYF mentioned, most newer cities have separate storm and sanitary sewer systems. However, not all cities do. San Francisco is one example that has a combined sanitary and storm sewer system (called a combined sewer). San Francisco has a plan in place to mitigate the potential problems with rainfall overwhelming their treatment capacity. You can read about it [here]( but basically they have constructed large underground storage basins to hold water until the treatment plants have capacity to store them. In extreme cases, there is a bypass pipeline that can discharge untreated water to the ocean. This takes water off the top of the storage basin, which is mostly the rainwater because it is lighter density than sewage.
The problem with a separate stormwater system is that they generally lead straight to the environment without any treatment. This means all the gas/oil/other junk people dump in there can flow straight from your street into your local water feature. Some cities are experimenting with the concept of continuing to collect stormwater separately, but having a pipe run to the treatment plant. In times where the treatment plant has excess capacity, it will treat stormwater, whereas the rest of the time it will simply discharge straight to the environment.
There are different "phases" of wastewater treatment:
Primary Treatment
Screening. Exactly how it sounds, screens to separate out some of the larger items. Often there are large "drills" that churn up all of the waste into smaller particles. A lot of random stuff gets into sewers (shoes, animals, etc.).
So that goldfish you flushed down the toilet? He probably got churned up by a large, rotating, merciless piece of steel.
Sedimentation. These are large "ponds" where the water will flow through very slowly. Each sedimentation basin is designed differently, but water will take hours to flow through. This allows particles to sink out of the water due to gravity, and the lighter oils to be skimmed off the top.
Secondary Treatment
Here the remaining water is sent to "activated sludge" i.e. bacteria vats. It can be either aerobic (with oxygen) or anaerobic (without oxygen) depending on the water being treated. Basically, bacteria grow using carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. As they grow, these nutrients are being removed from the water.
This again passes through "secondary clarifiers", which are basically the same as the sedimentation basins above. The bacteria will "fall" out of the water due to gravity.
This is the end of standard wastewater treatment processes. Depending on the specific characteristics of the wastewater flowing into the plant, further tertiary treatment can be conducted. This includes specific contaminant removal, or if there are extremely strict discharge requirements into the local river/lake/bay/ocean further treatment can be done.
In most cases, it is NOT disinfected. The water is going out into the environment, there's no need to make it sterile.
When visiting a treatment plant, it's not very nasty. Most of the "nasty" parts are removed during the screening process at the very beginning, so it doesn't make it through the plant into places you will see it. It does smell nasty, though, and your family will notice when you get home if you've been near wastewater all day.
tl:dr. If you are reading this, you probably care enough to just go read the whole thing.
| explainlikeimfive | t5_2sokd | ccg0gwf | Environmental Engineer here.
ELI5 version:
Waste water and rain water are collected separately. If they are collected together, too much rain water can overwhelm the treatment plant. Then, bypasses are opened and raw sewage is spilled into the environment. The problem if rain water is collected separately, however, is bad stuff can get into the rainwater and pollute your ocean/bay/river without being cleaned first.
The collected wastewater goes to a water treatment plant. It smells pretty bad, but it doesn't look nasty because most of the nasty stuff is churned up or removed before you can see it.
The same principles for sewers have been around for a long time, so the design of all major cities should be similar: gravity fed pipelines leading to a treatment plant. Because not all treatment plants are at the lowest elevations, there are small segments of pipe where the sewage will be pumped to higher elevations, and then continue to flow by gravity. In general and principle, they are the same type of system.
Long version:
As PLJVYF mentioned, most newer cities have separate storm and sanitary sewer systems. However, not all cities do. San Francisco is one example that has a combined sanitary and storm sewer system (called a combined sewer). San Francisco has a plan in place to mitigate the potential problems with rainfall overwhelming their treatment capacity. You can read about it [here]( but basically they have constructed large underground storage basins to hold water until the treatment plants have capacity to store them. In extreme cases, there is a bypass pipeline that can discharge untreated water to the ocean. This takes water off the top of the storage basin, which is mostly the rainwater because it is lighter density than sewage.
The problem with a separate stormwater system is that they generally lead straight to the environment without any treatment. This means all the gas/oil/other junk people dump in there can flow straight from your street into your local water feature. Some cities are experimenting with the concept of continuing to collect stormwater separately, but having a pipe run to the treatment plant. In times where the treatment plant has excess capacity, it will treat stormwater, whereas the rest of the time it will simply discharge straight to the environment.
There are different "phases" of wastewater treatment:
Primary Treatment
Screening. Exactly how it sounds, screens to separate out some of the larger items. Often there are large "drills" that churn up all of the waste into smaller particles. A lot of random stuff gets into sewers (shoes, animals, etc.).
So that goldfish you flushed down the toilet? He probably got churned up by a large, rotating, merciless piece of steel.
Sedimentation. These are large "ponds" where the water will flow through very slowly. Each sedimentation basin is designed differently, but water will take hours to flow through. This allows particles to sink out of the water due to gravity, and the lighter oils to be skimmed off the top.
Secondary Treatment
Here the remaining water is sent to "activated sludge" i.e. bacteria vats. It can be either aerobic (with oxygen) or anaerobic (without oxygen) depending on the water being treated. Basically, bacteria grow using carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, etc. As they grow, these nutrients are being removed from the water.
This again passes through "secondary clarifiers", which are basically the same as the sedimentation basins above. The bacteria will "fall" out of the water due to gravity.
This is the end of standard wastewater treatment processes. Depending on the specific characteristics of the wastewater flowing into the plant, further tertiary treatment can be conducted. This includes specific contaminant removal, or if there are extremely strict discharge requirements into the local river/lake/bay/ocean further treatment can be done.
In most cases, it is NOT disinfected. The water is going out into the environment, there's no need to make it sterile.
When visiting a treatment plant, it's not very nasty. Most of the "nasty" parts are removed during the screening process at the very beginning, so it doesn't make it through the plant into places you will see it. It does smell nasty, though, and your family will notice when you get home if you've been near wastewater all day. | If you are reading this, you probably care enough to just go read the whole thing. |
IronChestplate1 | Anyway, here's my contribution.
Amerindian, Na-Dene, and Eskimo-Aleut are the first to go, surrendering to the Germanic and Romance armies. Romance armies formed in Quebec manage to hold off the Germanic Canadians, whose government has completely fallen. The Quebecois hold out for a while and manage to expand into Upstate New York before Montreal and Quebec City are captured and the Romance holdout in North America is reduced to New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
The Germanic armies in the US quickly take the Caribbean, establishing naval bases preparing to take Mexico. Meanwhile, the Romance armies in South America are moving north, fortifying the Mexican border and coast. With the arrival of fresh British and Scandinavian troops, the Germanics manage to take Mexico and most of Central America, but at a heavy cost. They seal the Panama Canal, preventing French, Spanish and Italian reinforcements from reaching Peru and Chile. They continue southward, subduing Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and that French colony. Ecuador surrenders, but Peru puts up a fight because the Germanics aren't prepared for the high elevation. Separate armies are crawling through the Amazon hoping to besiege Brasilia, while the combined Germanic navies are putting up a blockade on Rio and Sao Paolo. All three cities fall within a month, leaving only Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. One by one, they all surrender to the combined forces of the US, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia, which have formed the UGA (United Germanic Alliance).
In Asia, the Papuan armies are the first to be conquered by the UGA in Australia, having no more than a militia and a local police force, and the Australian natives follow, only holding out so far because of the vastness of the region. The Austronesians move into Taiwan and Hong Kong, halting major Chinese economic activity. They land on the shores of Vietnam and capture Hanoi, forcing the Austro-Asiatics into submission. Here they come into contact with the Sino-Tibetans, who have already conquered the Tai-Kadai. The Chinese (and Burmese) expand southward, until they reach all the way to Singapore, where a series of violent conflicts between the diverse languages have left the small country in ruins. The Chinese sweep through the formerly shining metropolis and prepare for their invasion of Java. They are partially successful, establishing a hold on the island by capturing Jakarta, but face heavy opposition from the newly-arrived Filipinos.
On China's northern end, they have pushed back the Altaic forces into Russia and Kazakhstan. Japan has also conquered most of Korea, which is in turn invaded by the Chinese. Japan eventually falls, with Tokyo bombed by the
Chinese. The Altaics, with their outdated weaponry and sparse populations, are forced back into Uzbekistan by the SA (Slavic Axis), Chinese, and Indo-Persians, but maintain a strong base in Pakistan. In the South, the Chinese remain in a stalemate with the Indo-Persians and decide to partition Bangladesh. The Dravidians manage to expand northward, taking Kolkata and Mumbai, as well as fully occupying Sri Lanka. Before taking New Delhi, they attempt to strike up a military alliance with the Sino-Tibetans (read: Chinese), who are still struggling to take Indonesia. The Chinese accept the deal, forming the Zhongguo-Yindu Alliance (ZYA) and together take Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, Hong Kong, and invade Perth. They move into New Delhi and continue west until they separate Eastern India from Pakistan. They move into Bangladesh, threatening to bomb Dhaka if the Indo-Persians don't surrender. Instead, the Indo-Persians plan to bomb Beijing, but their plan is exposed and the ZYA bombs Dhaka *and* Tehran, leading to the surrender of the Indo-Persians. The ZYA continues into Australia along the southern coast, but are stopped at Adelaide by the UGA and forced to leave Australia.
Europe is crazy. The Basques voluntarily join the Romance armies, just as the Albanians ally themselves with the SA. The Greeks, always prideful in their ways, stand alone and are quickly overrun by Altaics and angry Macedonians. The Altaics and the SA partition Greece, with the Altaics giving themselves the biggest portion. Estonia, part of the UTA (Uralic Tri-Alliance), quickly surrenders to the SA, and Hungary soon follows. Finland holds off the Russians for a while, but surrenders when the UGA invades from the west. The UGA is fighting a war on several fronts, holding off a French naval attack on the British Isles, a Romance attack from France or Italy, an SA attack from the East, in addition to desperately holding on to Switzerland. In Switzerland, the UGA successfully kicks out the Romance armies. The SA attacks Austria and captures Vienna, leading to the UGA surrendering East Austria. The Romance Alliance moves into Flanders, taking Brussels and Antwerp. The UGA also surrenders Northern Belgium.
Romania is surrendered to the SA, but not before they expand across the Black Sea into Georgia, quickly extinguishing the Caucasians. The Altaics here have conquered the Armenians, and are now in a standstill with the ZYA in Iran. The Romance armies establish a firm hold on Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, acting as a buffer between the SA, the Altaics, and the ZYA. This balance is only tipped when the Arab-Hebrew Friendship Alliance, the AHFA, moves in from Syria to conquer Ankara. The Altaics surrender Turkey but maintain a fort in Istanbul as well as their new base in Tashkent. The SA and ZYA mow through Uzbekistan, destroying the Altaics as more SA armies take Altaic Greece and Istanbul.
The Middle East is now unified, putting aside their religious differences as the previously warring region forms the AHFA to protect themselves against an invasion from Spain, Iran, or the Balkans. Their primary base is located in Cairo. They defeat the Nilo-Saharan regions that haven't already been subdued by the Niger-Congos and prepare to expand southward into Nigeria, hoping to take Lagos. Their invasion against the Niger-Congos, UGA, and Romance Alliance is unsuccessful, and they instead expand through Kenya. Here they manage to defeat the small UGA army and the Niger-Congo militia. The Niger-Congos, unlike other alliances were no more than a series of militias with a common enemy of the Arabs. They had already conquered the Khoi-Sans with not much trouble, but now faced an invasion from Madagascar; the ZYA was entering Africa. The ZYA defeated the scattered Romance, UGA, and Niger-Congo armies in Mozambique and formed a temporary alliance with the AHFA to eliminate the Niger-Congos. They succeeded, since many of the Niger-Congos surrendered as soon as they heard of an AHFA-ZYA alliance and the rest were easy to defeat. The main powers in Africa were the AHFA in the North, the ZYA in the East where they had defeated most UGA armies, the Romance Alliance in the West, and the UGA in South Africa.
At this point, the war comes to a bit of a standstill. The only powers are the SA, the AFHG, the ZYA, the UGA, and the Romance Alliance. Until, that is, the Koreans rebel against the preoccupied ZYA and, with the help of the vast North Korean army, take back their territory. They liberate Japan and form the Koryo-Japonic Alliance (KJA).
In an effort to break the standstill, the ZYA plans to release two nuclear bombs on New York and Paris. The plan succeeds and results in the death of over 500,000 people. The UGA and Romance Alliance together raid Guangzhou, prompting the ZYA to propose a peace treaty. The six powers meet in Honolulu to discuss peace. The UGA, AFHG, Romance Alliance, ZYA, KJA, and SA all agree to end the war with the following boundaries for each alliance: SA receives Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and all of Eastern Europe. The KJA is the smallest, only receiving Korea and Japan. The ZYA receives China, all of Southeast Asia, the -stans, South Asia, Iran, Madagascar, and much of East Africa. The Romance Alliance receives France, Spain, Poortugal, Italy, Belgium, the Caucasus, and West Africa. The AFHG receives North Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey. Finally, the UGA is given North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, the British Isles, and Scandinavia. These superpowers remain until WWIV.
What do you think, eh?
**TL;DR: NO ONE WINS. IT ENDS IN A BORING PEACE TREATY** | Anyway, here's my contribution.
Amerindian, Na-Dene, and Eskimo-Aleut are the first to go, surrendering to the Germanic and Romance armies. Romance armies formed in Quebec manage to hold off the Germanic Canadians, whose government has completely fallen. The Quebecois hold out for a while and manage to expand into Upstate New York before Montreal and Quebec City are captured and the Romance holdout in North America is reduced to New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
The Germanic armies in the US quickly take the Caribbean, establishing naval bases preparing to take Mexico. Meanwhile, the Romance armies in South America are moving north, fortifying the Mexican border and coast. With the arrival of fresh British and Scandinavian troops, the Germanics manage to take Mexico and most of Central America, but at a heavy cost. They seal the Panama Canal, preventing French, Spanish and Italian reinforcements from reaching Peru and Chile. They continue southward, subduing Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and that French colony. Ecuador surrenders, but Peru puts up a fight because the Germanics aren't prepared for the high elevation. Separate armies are crawling through the Amazon hoping to besiege Brasilia, while the combined Germanic navies are putting up a blockade on Rio and Sao Paolo. All three cities fall within a month, leaving only Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. One by one, they all surrender to the combined forces of the US, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia, which have formed the UGA (United Germanic Alliance).
In Asia, the Papuan armies are the first to be conquered by the UGA in Australia, having no more than a militia and a local police force, and the Australian natives follow, only holding out so far because of the vastness of the region. The Austronesians move into Taiwan and Hong Kong, halting major Chinese economic activity. They land on the shores of Vietnam and capture Hanoi, forcing the Austro-Asiatics into submission. Here they come into contact with the Sino-Tibetans, who have already conquered the Tai-Kadai. The Chinese (and Burmese) expand southward, until they reach all the way to Singapore, where a series of violent conflicts between the diverse languages have left the small country in ruins. The Chinese sweep through the formerly shining metropolis and prepare for their invasion of Java. They are partially successful, establishing a hold on the island by capturing Jakarta, but face heavy opposition from the newly-arrived Filipinos.
On China's northern end, they have pushed back the Altaic forces into Russia and Kazakhstan. Japan has also conquered most of Korea, which is in turn invaded by the Chinese. Japan eventually falls, with Tokyo bombed by the
Chinese. The Altaics, with their outdated weaponry and sparse populations, are forced back into Uzbekistan by the SA (Slavic Axis), Chinese, and Indo-Persians, but maintain a strong base in Pakistan. In the South, the Chinese remain in a stalemate with the Indo-Persians and decide to partition Bangladesh. The Dravidians manage to expand northward, taking Kolkata and Mumbai, as well as fully occupying Sri Lanka. Before taking New Delhi, they attempt to strike up a military alliance with the Sino-Tibetans (read: Chinese), who are still struggling to take Indonesia. The Chinese accept the deal, forming the Zhongguo-Yindu Alliance (ZYA) and together take Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, Hong Kong, and invade Perth. They move into New Delhi and continue west until they separate Eastern India from Pakistan. They move into Bangladesh, threatening to bomb Dhaka if the Indo-Persians don't surrender. Instead, the Indo-Persians plan to bomb Beijing, but their plan is exposed and the ZYA bombs Dhaka and Tehran, leading to the surrender of the Indo-Persians. The ZYA continues into Australia along the southern coast, but are stopped at Adelaide by the UGA and forced to leave Australia.
Europe is crazy. The Basques voluntarily join the Romance armies, just as the Albanians ally themselves with the SA. The Greeks, always prideful in their ways, stand alone and are quickly overrun by Altaics and angry Macedonians. The Altaics and the SA partition Greece, with the Altaics giving themselves the biggest portion. Estonia, part of the UTA (Uralic Tri-Alliance), quickly surrenders to the SA, and Hungary soon follows. Finland holds off the Russians for a while, but surrenders when the UGA invades from the west. The UGA is fighting a war on several fronts, holding off a French naval attack on the British Isles, a Romance attack from France or Italy, an SA attack from the East, in addition to desperately holding on to Switzerland. In Switzerland, the UGA successfully kicks out the Romance armies. The SA attacks Austria and captures Vienna, leading to the UGA surrendering East Austria. The Romance Alliance moves into Flanders, taking Brussels and Antwerp. The UGA also surrenders Northern Belgium.
Romania is surrendered to the SA, but not before they expand across the Black Sea into Georgia, quickly extinguishing the Caucasians. The Altaics here have conquered the Armenians, and are now in a standstill with the ZYA in Iran. The Romance armies establish a firm hold on Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, acting as a buffer between the SA, the Altaics, and the ZYA. This balance is only tipped when the Arab-Hebrew Friendship Alliance, the AHFA, moves in from Syria to conquer Ankara. The Altaics surrender Turkey but maintain a fort in Istanbul as well as their new base in Tashkent. The SA and ZYA mow through Uzbekistan, destroying the Altaics as more SA armies take Altaic Greece and Istanbul.
The Middle East is now unified, putting aside their religious differences as the previously warring region forms the AHFA to protect themselves against an invasion from Spain, Iran, or the Balkans. Their primary base is located in Cairo. They defeat the Nilo-Saharan regions that haven't already been subdued by the Niger-Congos and prepare to expand southward into Nigeria, hoping to take Lagos. Their invasion against the Niger-Congos, UGA, and Romance Alliance is unsuccessful, and they instead expand through Kenya. Here they manage to defeat the small UGA army and the Niger-Congo militia. The Niger-Congos, unlike other alliances were no more than a series of militias with a common enemy of the Arabs. They had already conquered the Khoi-Sans with not much trouble, but now faced an invasion from Madagascar; the ZYA was entering Africa. The ZYA defeated the scattered Romance, UGA, and Niger-Congo armies in Mozambique and formed a temporary alliance with the AHFA to eliminate the Niger-Congos. They succeeded, since many of the Niger-Congos surrendered as soon as they heard of an AHFA-ZYA alliance and the rest were easy to defeat. The main powers in Africa were the AHFA in the North, the ZYA in the East where they had defeated most UGA armies, the Romance Alliance in the West, and the UGA in South Africa.
At this point, the war comes to a bit of a standstill. The only powers are the SA, the AFHG, the ZYA, the UGA, and the Romance Alliance. Until, that is, the Koreans rebel against the preoccupied ZYA and, with the help of the vast North Korean army, take back their territory. They liberate Japan and form the Koryo-Japonic Alliance (KJA).
In an effort to break the standstill, the ZYA plans to release two nuclear bombs on New York and Paris. The plan succeeds and results in the death of over 500,000 people. The UGA and Romance Alliance together raid Guangzhou, prompting the ZYA to propose a peace treaty. The six powers meet in Honolulu to discuss peace. The UGA, AFHG, Romance Alliance, ZYA, KJA, and SA all agree to end the war with the following boundaries for each alliance: SA receives Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and all of Eastern Europe. The KJA is the smallest, only receiving Korea and Japan. The ZYA receives China, all of Southeast Asia, the -stans, South Asia, Iran, Madagascar, and much of East Africa. The Romance Alliance receives France, Spain, Poortugal, Italy, Belgium, the Caucasus, and West Africa. The AFHG receives North Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey. Finally, the UGA is given North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, the British Isles, and Scandinavia. These superpowers remain until WWIV.
What do you think, eh?
TL;DR: NO ONE WINS. IT ENDS IN A BORING PEACE TREATY
| hypotheticalsituation | t5_2uccy | ccijw8a | Anyway, here's my contribution.
Amerindian, Na-Dene, and Eskimo-Aleut are the first to go, surrendering to the Germanic and Romance armies. Romance armies formed in Quebec manage to hold off the Germanic Canadians, whose government has completely fallen. The Quebecois hold out for a while and manage to expand into Upstate New York before Montreal and Quebec City are captured and the Romance holdout in North America is reduced to New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
The Germanic armies in the US quickly take the Caribbean, establishing naval bases preparing to take Mexico. Meanwhile, the Romance armies in South America are moving north, fortifying the Mexican border and coast. With the arrival of fresh British and Scandinavian troops, the Germanics manage to take Mexico and most of Central America, but at a heavy cost. They seal the Panama Canal, preventing French, Spanish and Italian reinforcements from reaching Peru and Chile. They continue southward, subduing Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and that French colony. Ecuador surrenders, but Peru puts up a fight because the Germanics aren't prepared for the high elevation. Separate armies are crawling through the Amazon hoping to besiege Brasilia, while the combined Germanic navies are putting up a blockade on Rio and Sao Paolo. All three cities fall within a month, leaving only Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. One by one, they all surrender to the combined forces of the US, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Scandinavia, which have formed the UGA (United Germanic Alliance).
In Asia, the Papuan armies are the first to be conquered by the UGA in Australia, having no more than a militia and a local police force, and the Australian natives follow, only holding out so far because of the vastness of the region. The Austronesians move into Taiwan and Hong Kong, halting major Chinese economic activity. They land on the shores of Vietnam and capture Hanoi, forcing the Austro-Asiatics into submission. Here they come into contact with the Sino-Tibetans, who have already conquered the Tai-Kadai. The Chinese (and Burmese) expand southward, until they reach all the way to Singapore, where a series of violent conflicts between the diverse languages have left the small country in ruins. The Chinese sweep through the formerly shining metropolis and prepare for their invasion of Java. They are partially successful, establishing a hold on the island by capturing Jakarta, but face heavy opposition from the newly-arrived Filipinos.
On China's northern end, they have pushed back the Altaic forces into Russia and Kazakhstan. Japan has also conquered most of Korea, which is in turn invaded by the Chinese. Japan eventually falls, with Tokyo bombed by the
Chinese. The Altaics, with their outdated weaponry and sparse populations, are forced back into Uzbekistan by the SA (Slavic Axis), Chinese, and Indo-Persians, but maintain a strong base in Pakistan. In the South, the Chinese remain in a stalemate with the Indo-Persians and decide to partition Bangladesh. The Dravidians manage to expand northward, taking Kolkata and Mumbai, as well as fully occupying Sri Lanka. Before taking New Delhi, they attempt to strike up a military alliance with the Sino-Tibetans (read: Chinese), who are still struggling to take Indonesia. The Chinese accept the deal, forming the Zhongguo-Yindu Alliance (ZYA) and together take Indonesia, the Philippines, Madagascar, Hong Kong, and invade Perth. They move into New Delhi and continue west until they separate Eastern India from Pakistan. They move into Bangladesh, threatening to bomb Dhaka if the Indo-Persians don't surrender. Instead, the Indo-Persians plan to bomb Beijing, but their plan is exposed and the ZYA bombs Dhaka and Tehran, leading to the surrender of the Indo-Persians. The ZYA continues into Australia along the southern coast, but are stopped at Adelaide by the UGA and forced to leave Australia.
Europe is crazy. The Basques voluntarily join the Romance armies, just as the Albanians ally themselves with the SA. The Greeks, always prideful in their ways, stand alone and are quickly overrun by Altaics and angry Macedonians. The Altaics and the SA partition Greece, with the Altaics giving themselves the biggest portion. Estonia, part of the UTA (Uralic Tri-Alliance), quickly surrenders to the SA, and Hungary soon follows. Finland holds off the Russians for a while, but surrenders when the UGA invades from the west. The UGA is fighting a war on several fronts, holding off a French naval attack on the British Isles, a Romance attack from France or Italy, an SA attack from the East, in addition to desperately holding on to Switzerland. In Switzerland, the UGA successfully kicks out the Romance armies. The SA attacks Austria and captures Vienna, leading to the UGA surrendering East Austria. The Romance Alliance moves into Flanders, taking Brussels and Antwerp. The UGA also surrenders Northern Belgium.
Romania is surrendered to the SA, but not before they expand across the Black Sea into Georgia, quickly extinguishing the Caucasians. The Altaics here have conquered the Armenians, and are now in a standstill with the ZYA in Iran. The Romance armies establish a firm hold on Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia, acting as a buffer between the SA, the Altaics, and the ZYA. This balance is only tipped when the Arab-Hebrew Friendship Alliance, the AHFA, moves in from Syria to conquer Ankara. The Altaics surrender Turkey but maintain a fort in Istanbul as well as their new base in Tashkent. The SA and ZYA mow through Uzbekistan, destroying the Altaics as more SA armies take Altaic Greece and Istanbul.
The Middle East is now unified, putting aside their religious differences as the previously warring region forms the AHFA to protect themselves against an invasion from Spain, Iran, or the Balkans. Their primary base is located in Cairo. They defeat the Nilo-Saharan regions that haven't already been subdued by the Niger-Congos and prepare to expand southward into Nigeria, hoping to take Lagos. Their invasion against the Niger-Congos, UGA, and Romance Alliance is unsuccessful, and they instead expand through Kenya. Here they manage to defeat the small UGA army and the Niger-Congo militia. The Niger-Congos, unlike other alliances were no more than a series of militias with a common enemy of the Arabs. They had already conquered the Khoi-Sans with not much trouble, but now faced an invasion from Madagascar; the ZYA was entering Africa. The ZYA defeated the scattered Romance, UGA, and Niger-Congo armies in Mozambique and formed a temporary alliance with the AHFA to eliminate the Niger-Congos. They succeeded, since many of the Niger-Congos surrendered as soon as they heard of an AHFA-ZYA alliance and the rest were easy to defeat. The main powers in Africa were the AHFA in the North, the ZYA in the East where they had defeated most UGA armies, the Romance Alliance in the West, and the UGA in South Africa.
At this point, the war comes to a bit of a standstill. The only powers are the SA, the AFHG, the ZYA, the UGA, and the Romance Alliance. Until, that is, the Koreans rebel against the preoccupied ZYA and, with the help of the vast North Korean army, take back their territory. They liberate Japan and form the Koryo-Japonic Alliance (KJA).
In an effort to break the standstill, the ZYA plans to release two nuclear bombs on New York and Paris. The plan succeeds and results in the death of over 500,000 people. The UGA and Romance Alliance together raid Guangzhou, prompting the ZYA to propose a peace treaty. The six powers meet in Honolulu to discuss peace. The UGA, AFHG, Romance Alliance, ZYA, KJA, and SA all agree to end the war with the following boundaries for each alliance: SA receives Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and all of Eastern Europe. The KJA is the smallest, only receiving Korea and Japan. The ZYA receives China, all of Southeast Asia, the -stans, South Asia, Iran, Madagascar, and much of East Africa. The Romance Alliance receives France, Spain, Poortugal, Italy, Belgium, the Caucasus, and West Africa. The AFHG receives North Africa, the Middle East, and Turkey. Finally, the UGA is given North and South America, Australia, New Zealand, the British Isles, and Scandinavia. These superpowers remain until WWIV.
What do you think, eh? | NO ONE WINS. IT ENDS IN A BORING PEACE TREATY |
PhatLewtsGold | * Tells you to craft Malevolent PvP gear.
* Also says to do 522 armor.
* Says to craft old PvP gear.
* Daily CD (you don't say)
* Leg armor
* Uses numbers from his server to proclaim massive gold numbers using revenue instead of profit (classic youtuber move)
***
**TL;DR** Beginners guide to Leatherworking with overstated numbers to draw viewers in. |
Tells you to craft Malevolent PvP gear.
Also says to do 522 armor.
Says to craft old PvP gear.
Daily CD (you don't say)
Leg armor
Uses numbers from his server to proclaim massive gold numbers using revenue instead of profit (classic youtuber move)
TL;DR Beginners guide to Leatherworking with overstated numbers to draw viewers in.
| WoWGoldMaking | t5_2sdah | ccgf8e7 | Tells you to craft Malevolent PvP gear.
Also says to do 522 armor.
Says to craft old PvP gear.
Daily CD (you don't say)
Leg armor
Uses numbers from his server to proclaim massive gold numbers using revenue instead of profit (classic youtuber move) | Beginners guide to Leatherworking with overstated numbers to draw viewers in. |
AbonymousNom | I agree with his implication that Chris Johnson seemed a little more pissed at Fernandez than was warranted, but then again I don't really know the full details of what had happened between the two previously. On the other hand, everything Gomez did from the moment he stepped into the batter's box was straight bush league, look-at-me bullshit, and I'm sorry if people for some reason want baseball to be more like football or basketball, where players pimp shit up and do their little dances after scoring, but that's not how you do it in baseball, especially in our stadium. What Freddie said to Gomez, and what B-Mac said to Fernandez, to the effect of "Run the bases and act like you've been there before" is exactly correct in a 162-game season in a team sport, especially when your team has been out of postseason contention for a long while. Fuck these ignorant media people trying to paint the Brewers as the poor little victims of the big, bullying Braves. We have one of the most respected franchises in the sport, a farm system full of good young players who come up and make an impact, and do it humbly. The face of their franchise has been constantly mired in lying and cheating for 2 seasons now. What's looking like the new face of our franchise does goofy jokes on camera, hugs everyone after they do something great, and, oh yeah, has been probably the most clutch hitter in baseball all season long, though you won't ever hear a peep from him about it. I don't care that we've confronted 2 guys in the past month for stepping out of line. That's how it should be. Just because the rest of the world has become so non-confrontational and passive aggressive doesn't mean the Braves have to as well. As soon as I saw Gomez doing that shit I expected everything he got after. Fuck that. I can't believe people actually watched with their own eyes what Gomez was doing and somehow had a problem with the Braves reacting.
**tl;dr** rant | I agree with his implication that Chris Johnson seemed a little more pissed at Fernandez than was warranted, but then again I don't really know the full details of what had happened between the two previously. On the other hand, everything Gomez did from the moment he stepped into the batter's box was straight bush league, look-at-me bullshit, and I'm sorry if people for some reason want baseball to be more like football or basketball, where players pimp shit up and do their little dances after scoring, but that's not how you do it in baseball, especially in our stadium. What Freddie said to Gomez, and what B-Mac said to Fernandez, to the effect of "Run the bases and act like you've been there before" is exactly correct in a 162-game season in a team sport, especially when your team has been out of postseason contention for a long while. Fuck these ignorant media people trying to paint the Brewers as the poor little victims of the big, bullying Braves. We have one of the most respected franchises in the sport, a farm system full of good young players who come up and make an impact, and do it humbly. The face of their franchise has been constantly mired in lying and cheating for 2 seasons now. What's looking like the new face of our franchise does goofy jokes on camera, hugs everyone after they do something great, and, oh yeah, has been probably the most clutch hitter in baseball all season long, though you won't ever hear a peep from him about it. I don't care that we've confronted 2 guys in the past month for stepping out of line. That's how it should be. Just because the rest of the world has become so non-confrontational and passive aggressive doesn't mean the Braves have to as well. As soon as I saw Gomez doing that shit I expected everything he got after. Fuck that. I can't believe people actually watched with their own eyes what Gomez was doing and somehow had a problem with the Braves reacting.
tl;dr rant
| Braves | t5_2s0ok | ccgkn21 | I agree with his implication that Chris Johnson seemed a little more pissed at Fernandez than was warranted, but then again I don't really know the full details of what had happened between the two previously. On the other hand, everything Gomez did from the moment he stepped into the batter's box was straight bush league, look-at-me bullshit, and I'm sorry if people for some reason want baseball to be more like football or basketball, where players pimp shit up and do their little dances after scoring, but that's not how you do it in baseball, especially in our stadium. What Freddie said to Gomez, and what B-Mac said to Fernandez, to the effect of "Run the bases and act like you've been there before" is exactly correct in a 162-game season in a team sport, especially when your team has been out of postseason contention for a long while. Fuck these ignorant media people trying to paint the Brewers as the poor little victims of the big, bullying Braves. We have one of the most respected franchises in the sport, a farm system full of good young players who come up and make an impact, and do it humbly. The face of their franchise has been constantly mired in lying and cheating for 2 seasons now. What's looking like the new face of our franchise does goofy jokes on camera, hugs everyone after they do something great, and, oh yeah, has been probably the most clutch hitter in baseball all season long, though you won't ever hear a peep from him about it. I don't care that we've confronted 2 guys in the past month for stepping out of line. That's how it should be. Just because the rest of the world has become so non-confrontational and passive aggressive doesn't mean the Braves have to as well. As soon as I saw Gomez doing that shit I expected everything he got after. Fuck that. I can't believe people actually watched with their own eyes what Gomez was doing and somehow had a problem with the Braves reacting. | rant |
MikeSeth | Aight, I'll bite.
First, settlements. The discourse about the settlements' impact on an average Israeli's livelihood is tangential to the true core matter of the settlement debate: whether we have a right to post-1948 land or not, and whether waiving this right, if we do, will bring about the end of conflict with the arab world. I submit that the answer to that question is yes, we do, and that surrender of that right will not end the conflict. Settlement of land is our long term strategic interest. For a nation as small as Israel, land is the primary national asset. Waiver of this asset for the purpose of pacifying the Arabs is based on the fallacious presumption that it is the Israeli presence on this particular land that causes the offense. This presumption is easily demonstrated wrong by history and record of Arab behavior. Whenever the question of settlements is introduced into the debate about housing costs, it is introduced by those who wish settlements gone on the above fallacious principle of appeasing the enemy, or some sort of guilt about being in the position of power, and has nothing at all to do with the internal costs they allegedly create. I therefore view the settlements as a long term investment and the associated expenses as worthwhile, both in terms of government subsidy and in terms of the platform on which our deriders fabricate outrage and controversy. Simply put, if there weren't the settlements, they would have found another vehicle for their hate. Abandoning the settlements is a losing move. I have to admit, I've been contemplating to move into a settlement myself, and the reasoning for it is even more economical than ideological.
Now that we're done with this, let's get to the point of housing costs. There is no miraculous, inexplicable reason why housing in Israel is so expensive. There are three components to this, and these are the owners/builders of property, the banks, and the government.
The owners/builders are a problem that can be mitigated with *regulation* and *competition*. This has been demonstrated many times in Israel, the two most recent examples being the cable TV and cell phone markets. You increase competition either by allowing new competitors into the market, by lowering the bar of entry, or by applying regulation and maximizing the availability of choice information to the consumer - or, of course, both. From experience, you do not properly understand this mechanism until you observe it live. Eve Online (which I do not play anymore) is an amazing educational tool in this respect: the only way to reliably buy or sell something is on the local market exchange, where sellers compete with each other in real time. The most obvious answer for me here is to create an electronic real estate and lease exchange and create conditions in which both buyers and sellers are interested to prefer the exchange over any other kind of deal, for example by attaching insurance to the transactions and creating greater risks for out-of-exchange transactions by e.g. relaxing regulation or increasing taxes and tax enforcement. This will mitigate the greed of the property owners and undermine the property investment mechanism.
The government charges *outrageous* land and property taxes, and forces upon us an overwhelming and imposing bureaucracy. In fact, [according to what I read in Haaretz]( the impact of the land costs on property costs in Israel is 1/2, whereas in most of the world it is 1/3. The state has created a machine to milk its citizens for the budget, and the budget it manages with somewhat questionable efficiency, in which land leasing is a major contributing part. Therefore, the first topic would be a reform and optimization of government institutions and removal of privilege from state employees. Consider the national insurance institute, which is widely regarded as inhumane and dastardly organization that is so difficult for an average citizen to deal with that an entire class of legal professionals and commercial organizations emerged that specializes in battling it to ensure claimants' rights. This institute has carved its own section of law, where it gets to do whatever it wants and is not accountable to public in any genuine sense. It has recently renewed a lot of its offices, and spent millions on fancy machinery, big displays, and touch screen applications, yet it would easily ruin a person's life if they find an extra thousand sheqels in their bank account. Summarily, I give you here the standard fiscal conservative mantra: the government must be made smaller, more accountable, more efficient. Unlike stock fiscal conservatives, though, I submit that it needs more teeth in some areas, and must be totally defanged in others. A revamped government would consume less on its own maintenance. It could afford (and in fact, probably can afford right now) slashing the outrageous base component of property costs.
The banks are the chief drivers of property costs, because they earn insane amounts of money on mortgages and enable the property investment cycle. Consider the following: the current prime rate is at 2.75% and in general varied between 2% and 7% in the last decade. 20 years ago it could go up to 15%-18%. The prime rate is the central bank's assessment of profitability of loans. That is, if you loan (or otherwise invest) money to somebody at interest that is above the prime rate, you are making money. Banks generally hand out mortgages with some sort of interest that is compounded *on top* of the interest rate, and can make anywhere between (rough estimate, not verified) 10% and 200% over the lifetime of the loan. Availability of expensive credit together with high property costs further drives costs up in a vicious circle: those who can not afford the long term mortgage commitment mitigate the risk by renting, and thus paying the mortgages of those who do. Monthly rent on an apartment approaches and often exceeds a mortgage installment on the same apartment. And, imagine this, you end up without an apartment at the end of the period. The obvious answer is to deprive the banks of opportunity to make money on mortgage, and instead have the state issue the credit and supervise its execution directly and on a non-commercial basis. If the state is unable to bear the total cost of credit at once, it could find a break-even point between the impact on costs and opportunity. This approach would suffocate the property investment approach, and such suffocation is very important: an above-waterline person who can afford to invest in property is a seldom occurence, and therefore his or hers investment is somewhat secure in the long term. Such person does not *care* whether the property they buy costs a million or two if the return of investment is the same. They do not care about driving up property prices because property prices are what secures their investment in the first place, separating them from the rest. If this is made too unprofitable or risky, people will stop doing that and the prices will go down as well.
TL;DR reform. | Aight, I'll bite.
First, settlements. The discourse about the settlements' impact on an average Israeli's livelihood is tangential to the true core matter of the settlement debate: whether we have a right to post-1948 land or not, and whether waiving this right, if we do, will bring about the end of conflict with the arab world. I submit that the answer to that question is yes, we do, and that surrender of that right will not end the conflict. Settlement of land is our long term strategic interest. For a nation as small as Israel, land is the primary national asset. Waiver of this asset for the purpose of pacifying the Arabs is based on the fallacious presumption that it is the Israeli presence on this particular land that causes the offense. This presumption is easily demonstrated wrong by history and record of Arab behavior. Whenever the question of settlements is introduced into the debate about housing costs, it is introduced by those who wish settlements gone on the above fallacious principle of appeasing the enemy, or some sort of guilt about being in the position of power, and has nothing at all to do with the internal costs they allegedly create. I therefore view the settlements as a long term investment and the associated expenses as worthwhile, both in terms of government subsidy and in terms of the platform on which our deriders fabricate outrage and controversy. Simply put, if there weren't the settlements, they would have found another vehicle for their hate. Abandoning the settlements is a losing move. I have to admit, I've been contemplating to move into a settlement myself, and the reasoning for it is even more economical than ideological.
Now that we're done with this, let's get to the point of housing costs. There is no miraculous, inexplicable reason why housing in Israel is so expensive. There are three components to this, and these are the owners/builders of property, the banks, and the government.
The owners/builders are a problem that can be mitigated with regulation and competition . This has been demonstrated many times in Israel, the two most recent examples being the cable TV and cell phone markets. You increase competition either by allowing new competitors into the market, by lowering the bar of entry, or by applying regulation and maximizing the availability of choice information to the consumer - or, of course, both. From experience, you do not properly understand this mechanism until you observe it live. Eve Online (which I do not play anymore) is an amazing educational tool in this respect: the only way to reliably buy or sell something is on the local market exchange, where sellers compete with each other in real time. The most obvious answer for me here is to create an electronic real estate and lease exchange and create conditions in which both buyers and sellers are interested to prefer the exchange over any other kind of deal, for example by attaching insurance to the transactions and creating greater risks for out-of-exchange transactions by e.g. relaxing regulation or increasing taxes and tax enforcement. This will mitigate the greed of the property owners and undermine the property investment mechanism.
The government charges outrageous land and property taxes, and forces upon us an overwhelming and imposing bureaucracy. In fact, according to what I read in Haaretz slashing the outrageous base component of property costs.
The banks are the chief drivers of property costs, because they earn insane amounts of money on mortgages and enable the property investment cycle. Consider the following: the current prime rate is at 2.75% and in general varied between 2% and 7% in the last decade. 20 years ago it could go up to 15%-18%. The prime rate is the central bank's assessment of profitability of loans. That is, if you loan (or otherwise invest) money to somebody at interest that is above the prime rate, you are making money. Banks generally hand out mortgages with some sort of interest that is compounded on top of the interest rate, and can make anywhere between (rough estimate, not verified) 10% and 200% over the lifetime of the loan. Availability of expensive credit together with high property costs further drives costs up in a vicious circle: those who can not afford the long term mortgage commitment mitigate the risk by renting, and thus paying the mortgages of those who do. Monthly rent on an apartment approaches and often exceeds a mortgage installment on the same apartment. And, imagine this, you end up without an apartment at the end of the period. The obvious answer is to deprive the banks of opportunity to make money on mortgage, and instead have the state issue the credit and supervise its execution directly and on a non-commercial basis. If the state is unable to bear the total cost of credit at once, it could find a break-even point between the impact on costs and opportunity. This approach would suffocate the property investment approach, and such suffocation is very important: an above-waterline person who can afford to invest in property is a seldom occurence, and therefore his or hers investment is somewhat secure in the long term. Such person does not care whether the property they buy costs a million or two if the return of investment is the same. They do not care about driving up property prices because property prices are what secures their investment in the first place, separating them from the rest. If this is made too unprofitable or risky, people will stop doing that and the prices will go down as well.
TL;DR reform.
| Israel | t5_2qhvo | cch5j07 | Aight, I'll bite.
First, settlements. The discourse about the settlements' impact on an average Israeli's livelihood is tangential to the true core matter of the settlement debate: whether we have a right to post-1948 land or not, and whether waiving this right, if we do, will bring about the end of conflict with the arab world. I submit that the answer to that question is yes, we do, and that surrender of that right will not end the conflict. Settlement of land is our long term strategic interest. For a nation as small as Israel, land is the primary national asset. Waiver of this asset for the purpose of pacifying the Arabs is based on the fallacious presumption that it is the Israeli presence on this particular land that causes the offense. This presumption is easily demonstrated wrong by history and record of Arab behavior. Whenever the question of settlements is introduced into the debate about housing costs, it is introduced by those who wish settlements gone on the above fallacious principle of appeasing the enemy, or some sort of guilt about being in the position of power, and has nothing at all to do with the internal costs they allegedly create. I therefore view the settlements as a long term investment and the associated expenses as worthwhile, both in terms of government subsidy and in terms of the platform on which our deriders fabricate outrage and controversy. Simply put, if there weren't the settlements, they would have found another vehicle for their hate. Abandoning the settlements is a losing move. I have to admit, I've been contemplating to move into a settlement myself, and the reasoning for it is even more economical than ideological.
Now that we're done with this, let's get to the point of housing costs. There is no miraculous, inexplicable reason why housing in Israel is so expensive. There are three components to this, and these are the owners/builders of property, the banks, and the government.
The owners/builders are a problem that can be mitigated with regulation and competition . This has been demonstrated many times in Israel, the two most recent examples being the cable TV and cell phone markets. You increase competition either by allowing new competitors into the market, by lowering the bar of entry, or by applying regulation and maximizing the availability of choice information to the consumer - or, of course, both. From experience, you do not properly understand this mechanism until you observe it live. Eve Online (which I do not play anymore) is an amazing educational tool in this respect: the only way to reliably buy or sell something is on the local market exchange, where sellers compete with each other in real time. The most obvious answer for me here is to create an electronic real estate and lease exchange and create conditions in which both buyers and sellers are interested to prefer the exchange over any other kind of deal, for example by attaching insurance to the transactions and creating greater risks for out-of-exchange transactions by e.g. relaxing regulation or increasing taxes and tax enforcement. This will mitigate the greed of the property owners and undermine the property investment mechanism.
The government charges outrageous land and property taxes, and forces upon us an overwhelming and imposing bureaucracy. In fact, according to what I read in Haaretz slashing the outrageous base component of property costs.
The banks are the chief drivers of property costs, because they earn insane amounts of money on mortgages and enable the property investment cycle. Consider the following: the current prime rate is at 2.75% and in general varied between 2% and 7% in the last decade. 20 years ago it could go up to 15%-18%. The prime rate is the central bank's assessment of profitability of loans. That is, if you loan (or otherwise invest) money to somebody at interest that is above the prime rate, you are making money. Banks generally hand out mortgages with some sort of interest that is compounded on top of the interest rate, and can make anywhere between (rough estimate, not verified) 10% and 200% over the lifetime of the loan. Availability of expensive credit together with high property costs further drives costs up in a vicious circle: those who can not afford the long term mortgage commitment mitigate the risk by renting, and thus paying the mortgages of those who do. Monthly rent on an apartment approaches and often exceeds a mortgage installment on the same apartment. And, imagine this, you end up without an apartment at the end of the period. The obvious answer is to deprive the banks of opportunity to make money on mortgage, and instead have the state issue the credit and supervise its execution directly and on a non-commercial basis. If the state is unable to bear the total cost of credit at once, it could find a break-even point between the impact on costs and opportunity. This approach would suffocate the property investment approach, and such suffocation is very important: an above-waterline person who can afford to invest in property is a seldom occurence, and therefore his or hers investment is somewhat secure in the long term. Such person does not care whether the property they buy costs a million or two if the return of investment is the same. They do not care about driving up property prices because property prices are what secures their investment in the first place, separating them from the rest. If this is made too unprofitable or risky, people will stop doing that and the prices will go down as well. | reform. |
vibree | I'm a clown as a part time gig. Not a super creepy one (we wear less makeup, no wigs, etc). I paint faces and do balloon art for children. I sit at a table at a restaurant and I'm not allowed to leave the table unless I have to.
In one night I had two guys hit on me. One asked to get drinks after as he gave me a $5 tip to paint his hand into a shark, asking me about my life and creepy stuff. Then the next guy sat in the chair beside me and asked if he could sit there and watch me as I wrote in my journal.
I'm a clown for fucks sake. FOR CHILDREN. They were waiting for them to leave for a damn balloon animal. Fucking perverts. This tends to happen once every few weeks. But often... Its ridiculous.
TL;DR: Men like to hit on clowns. | I'm a clown as a part time gig. Not a super creepy one (we wear less makeup, no wigs, etc). I paint faces and do balloon art for children. I sit at a table at a restaurant and I'm not allowed to leave the table unless I have to.
In one night I had two guys hit on me. One asked to get drinks after as he gave me a $5 tip to paint his hand into a shark, asking me about my life and creepy stuff. Then the next guy sat in the chair beside me and asked if he could sit there and watch me as I wrote in my journal.
I'm a clown for fucks sake. FOR CHILDREN. They were waiting for them to leave for a damn balloon animal. Fucking perverts. This tends to happen once every few weeks. But often... Its ridiculous.
TL;DR: Men like to hit on clowns.
| AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | ccguykg | I'm a clown as a part time gig. Not a super creepy one (we wear less makeup, no wigs, etc). I paint faces and do balloon art for children. I sit at a table at a restaurant and I'm not allowed to leave the table unless I have to.
In one night I had two guys hit on me. One asked to get drinks after as he gave me a $5 tip to paint his hand into a shark, asking me about my life and creepy stuff. Then the next guy sat in the chair beside me and asked if he could sit there and watch me as I wrote in my journal.
I'm a clown for fucks sake. FOR CHILDREN. They were waiting for them to leave for a damn balloon animal. Fucking perverts. This tends to happen once every few weeks. But often... Its ridiculous. | Men like to hit on clowns. |
AlizarinQ | I was a naive 16 year old staying at a resort in Jamaica with my mom. All of the rooms were in separate little buildings and scattered across the property.
Being alone and 16 my nightlife consisted of trying to find internet so I could email my friends, but they didn't have Wi-Fi or anything at the rooms so I had to walk to the main building to use their business center.
It wasn't a long walk and they had security guards so no worries right?
The first night I walked out there I ran into one of the security guards and he started chatting with me. It seemed pretty normal at first that he was asking where I was from, but then he was saying that his dad lived in one of the major cities near me and he could come up and see me. There wasn't really a prelude to this conversation just "oh hey, how old are you? 16? I'm 28. Where are you from? Hey I can come visit you." And I got kinda sketched out and hurried to the business center.
Our room was connected to three or so other rooms and we all shared a private mini beach where I spent part of the next day reading and sunning. It seemed nice and secluded.
That night I went off to find the internet again. And ran into the same security guard. He wasn't big on personal space as he was telling me that he had seen me on the beach earlier and how pretty I looked in my bathing suit, etc... I'm sure he went on for a bit and it sounded like he had stalked me. I got really creeped out and tried to get out of there as soon as I could (though I still worried about seeming rude).
I didn't go to the business center again.
TL: DR security guards are supposed to protect you from the creeps, not be them. | I was a naive 16 year old staying at a resort in Jamaica with my mom. All of the rooms were in separate little buildings and scattered across the property.
Being alone and 16 my nightlife consisted of trying to find internet so I could email my friends, but they didn't have Wi-Fi or anything at the rooms so I had to walk to the main building to use their business center.
It wasn't a long walk and they had security guards so no worries right?
The first night I walked out there I ran into one of the security guards and he started chatting with me. It seemed pretty normal at first that he was asking where I was from, but then he was saying that his dad lived in one of the major cities near me and he could come up and see me. There wasn't really a prelude to this conversation just "oh hey, how old are you? 16? I'm 28. Where are you from? Hey I can come visit you." And I got kinda sketched out and hurried to the business center.
Our room was connected to three or so other rooms and we all shared a private mini beach where I spent part of the next day reading and sunning. It seemed nice and secluded.
That night I went off to find the internet again. And ran into the same security guard. He wasn't big on personal space as he was telling me that he had seen me on the beach earlier and how pretty I looked in my bathing suit, etc... I'm sure he went on for a bit and it sounded like he had stalked me. I got really creeped out and tried to get out of there as soon as I could (though I still worried about seeming rude).
I didn't go to the business center again.
TL: DR security guards are supposed to protect you from the creeps, not be them.
| AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | ccgwkhg | I was a naive 16 year old staying at a resort in Jamaica with my mom. All of the rooms were in separate little buildings and scattered across the property.
Being alone and 16 my nightlife consisted of trying to find internet so I could email my friends, but they didn't have Wi-Fi or anything at the rooms so I had to walk to the main building to use their business center.
It wasn't a long walk and they had security guards so no worries right?
The first night I walked out there I ran into one of the security guards and he started chatting with me. It seemed pretty normal at first that he was asking where I was from, but then he was saying that his dad lived in one of the major cities near me and he could come up and see me. There wasn't really a prelude to this conversation just "oh hey, how old are you? 16? I'm 28. Where are you from? Hey I can come visit you." And I got kinda sketched out and hurried to the business center.
Our room was connected to three or so other rooms and we all shared a private mini beach where I spent part of the next day reading and sunning. It seemed nice and secluded.
That night I went off to find the internet again. And ran into the same security guard. He wasn't big on personal space as he was telling me that he had seen me on the beach earlier and how pretty I looked in my bathing suit, etc... I'm sure he went on for a bit and it sounded like he had stalked me. I got really creeped out and tried to get out of there as soon as I could (though I still worried about seeming rude).
I didn't go to the business center again. | security guards are supposed to protect you from the creeps, not be them. |
girlfrodo | I went for a breast scan at the local hospital as I had a lump. The waiting room was full of women who were older than me, except for one who looked to be in her late teens and who was sitting there scowling, as her mother tried to make polite conversation with me about my iPad. As the day went on and we were moved from department to department, the awkwardness increased as I would inevitably turn up to each waiting room a few minutes after the teenager and her mother. Eventually I made a joke about the fact that I wasn't following them, and they both laughed. *This was the sole contact I had with this girl*. She then went back to playing a drumbeat on the chair in front and scowling.
Later, boobs confirmed healthy, I walked down to my car and noticed the girl hanging around the entrance, ostensibly waiting for her mother to bring the car around. I have her a polite smile as I passed her, but she fell into step with me. Introduced herself with a handshake, and said she thought I seemed like a pretty cool person. I thanked her, bemused, and she asked if I could add her on Facebook so that maybe we could meet up for a drink some time. I said ok, not wanting to embarrass her, but said it would be unlikely that I could have a drink with her as I don't live in the town. I left out the part about being heterosexual, in a relationship, and not thrilled at being hit on at the breast clinic, as I was so surprised - and how do you drop that in, anyway?
And then! She said it was great to meet me, and walked over to where her mother was sitting in the car, in the car park, where she'd clearly been told "wait here, I want to talk to that random girl".
**TL;DR Got asked out at the hospital's breast clinic by a teenage girl.** | I went for a breast scan at the local hospital as I had a lump. The waiting room was full of women who were older than me, except for one who looked to be in her late teens and who was sitting there scowling, as her mother tried to make polite conversation with me about my iPad. As the day went on and we were moved from department to department, the awkwardness increased as I would inevitably turn up to each waiting room a few minutes after the teenager and her mother. Eventually I made a joke about the fact that I wasn't following them, and they both laughed. This was the sole contact I had with this girl . She then went back to playing a drumbeat on the chair in front and scowling.
Later, boobs confirmed healthy, I walked down to my car and noticed the girl hanging around the entrance, ostensibly waiting for her mother to bring the car around. I have her a polite smile as I passed her, but she fell into step with me. Introduced herself with a handshake, and said she thought I seemed like a pretty cool person. I thanked her, bemused, and she asked if I could add her on Facebook so that maybe we could meet up for a drink some time. I said ok, not wanting to embarrass her, but said it would be unlikely that I could have a drink with her as I don't live in the town. I left out the part about being heterosexual, in a relationship, and not thrilled at being hit on at the breast clinic, as I was so surprised - and how do you drop that in, anyway?
And then! She said it was great to meet me, and walked over to where her mother was sitting in the car, in the car park, where she'd clearly been told "wait here, I want to talk to that random girl".
TL;DR Got asked out at the hospital's breast clinic by a teenage girl.
| AskWomen | t5_2rxrw | ccgz2wr | I went for a breast scan at the local hospital as I had a lump. The waiting room was full of women who were older than me, except for one who looked to be in her late teens and who was sitting there scowling, as her mother tried to make polite conversation with me about my iPad. As the day went on and we were moved from department to department, the awkwardness increased as I would inevitably turn up to each waiting room a few minutes after the teenager and her mother. Eventually I made a joke about the fact that I wasn't following them, and they both laughed. This was the sole contact I had with this girl . She then went back to playing a drumbeat on the chair in front and scowling.
Later, boobs confirmed healthy, I walked down to my car and noticed the girl hanging around the entrance, ostensibly waiting for her mother to bring the car around. I have her a polite smile as I passed her, but she fell into step with me. Introduced herself with a handshake, and said she thought I seemed like a pretty cool person. I thanked her, bemused, and she asked if I could add her on Facebook so that maybe we could meet up for a drink some time. I said ok, not wanting to embarrass her, but said it would be unlikely that I could have a drink with her as I don't live in the town. I left out the part about being heterosexual, in a relationship, and not thrilled at being hit on at the breast clinic, as I was so surprised - and how do you drop that in, anyway?
And then! She said it was great to meet me, and walked over to where her mother was sitting in the car, in the car park, where she'd clearly been told "wait here, I want to talk to that random girl". | Got asked out at the hospital's breast clinic by a teenage girl. |
Komain72 | Woah woah, are they gay? It would make sense as to why they were so comfortable doing all of that in front of the principal, but now I'm confused as to what the problem was if the principal wanted a video on them "grinding" with a girl if they're gay and aren't even into girls but they were called in due to grinding with girls and yet at the end of the video they were holding hands?
TL;DR What the hell just happened in this video? | Woah woah, are they gay? It would make sense as to why they were so comfortable doing all of that in front of the principal, but now I'm confused as to what the problem was if the principal wanted a video on them "grinding" with a girl if they're gay and aren't even into girls but they were called in due to grinding with girls and yet at the end of the video they were holding hands?
TL;DR What the hell just happened in this video?
| teenagers | t5_2rjli | ccgyx3i | Woah woah, are they gay? It would make sense as to why they were so comfortable doing all of that in front of the principal, but now I'm confused as to what the problem was if the principal wanted a video on them "grinding" with a girl if they're gay and aren't even into girls but they were called in due to grinding with girls and yet at the end of the video they were holding hands? | What the hell just happened in this video? |
r_u_dinkleberg | Hey buddy, it goes both ways!
I grew up as Catholic -- specifically, in Nebraska if that makes a difference -- and we were taught very explicitly that we Catholics were a., "not just Christians" and shouldn't be lumped in with them, and b., are a different, **superior**, religion to all of the different flavors of "just Christianity".
TLDR; They actually tried to teach me that Catholics were innately more holy than all other forms of Christianity.
(This may have tipped me off that religion was a scam. Gnostic Atheist now.) | Hey buddy, it goes both ways!
I grew up as Catholic -- specifically, in Nebraska if that makes a difference -- and we were taught very explicitly that we Catholics were a., "not just Christians" and shouldn't be lumped in with them, and b., are a different, superior , religion to all of the different flavors of "just Christianity".
TLDR; They actually tried to teach me that Catholics were innately more holy than all other forms of Christianity.
(This may have tipped me off that religion was a scam. Gnostic Atheist now.)
| politics | t5_2cneq | cch29hd | Hey buddy, it goes both ways!
I grew up as Catholic -- specifically, in Nebraska if that makes a difference -- and we were taught very explicitly that we Catholics were a., "not just Christians" and shouldn't be lumped in with them, and b., are a different, superior , religion to all of the different flavors of "just Christianity". | They actually tried to teach me that Catholics were innately more holy than all other forms of Christianity.
(This may have tipped me off that religion was a scam. Gnostic Atheist now.) |
ashkill | Now, I'm no scientist, but I had a wee think about it, and I don't know if this is right, but I feel like, unless the stars were traveling faster than the speed of light, there's no way it could have got to the other side in that 250,000 years...
TL;DR, Nope? | Now, I'm no scientist, but I had a wee think about it, and I don't know if this is right, but I feel like, unless the stars were traveling faster than the speed of light, there's no way it could have got to the other side in that 250,000 years...
TL;DR, Nope?
| spaceporn | t5_2s9jc | cchhzkb | Now, I'm no scientist, but I had a wee think about it, and I don't know if this is right, but I feel like, unless the stars were traveling faster than the speed of light, there's no way it could have got to the other side in that 250,000 years... | Nope? |
Max_Kas_ | You're right! With a galaxy as massive as Andromeda it would be very tricky for it to rotate that fast without losing all of its stuff.
Although, the contents of the galaxy do rotate faster in the center than they do on the edge, (look at a drain next time you empty a sink full of water), even then we still wouldn't see it happen unless we traveled away from Earth in a FTL ship. If you looked for millions of years, you would see the actual rotation and not just a snapshot of both sides.
The cool part about this is say you where around (roughly) 10 billion years ago when andromeda formed, you would have seen the light from the near side but the far side would have been completely dark. Both sides of light are about 2.5 million years old by the time they reach the spot where Earth would be. Fast forward (again roughy) 250,000 years and you would now see the whole galaxy!
**TL;DR**- Galaxy forms (10 billion years ago)- Light leaves nearest side and reaches us 2.5 million years later, only see half of galaxy- Fast forward 250,000 years (current time is 2.5 million + 250,000 years) and we now see the whole thing.
-*catches* *breath*
Take the solar system in the Milky Way for instance- we are about halfway from the center to the edge. Astronomers have given an approximate estimation that our solar system, (and galaxy arm), do a full rotation once every 225 million years!
Great question /u/unmoved.
| You're right! With a galaxy as massive as Andromeda it would be very tricky for it to rotate that fast without losing all of its stuff.
Although, the contents of the galaxy do rotate faster in the center than they do on the edge, (look at a drain next time you empty a sink full of water), even then we still wouldn't see it happen unless we traveled away from Earth in a FTL ship. If you looked for millions of years, you would see the actual rotation and not just a snapshot of both sides.
The cool part about this is say you where around (roughly) 10 billion years ago when andromeda formed, you would have seen the light from the near side but the far side would have been completely dark. Both sides of light are about 2.5 million years old by the time they reach the spot where Earth would be. Fast forward (again roughy) 250,000 years and you would now see the whole galaxy!
TL;DR - Galaxy forms (10 billion years ago)- Light leaves nearest side and reaches us 2.5 million years later, only see half of galaxy- Fast forward 250,000 years (current time is 2.5 million + 250,000 years) and we now see the whole thing.
- catches breath
Take the solar system in the Milky Way for instance- we are about halfway from the center to the edge. Astronomers have given an approximate estimation that our solar system, (and galaxy arm), do a full rotation once every 225 million years!
Great question /u/unmoved.
| spaceporn | t5_2s9jc | cchkoq7 | You're right! With a galaxy as massive as Andromeda it would be very tricky for it to rotate that fast without losing all of its stuff.
Although, the contents of the galaxy do rotate faster in the center than they do on the edge, (look at a drain next time you empty a sink full of water), even then we still wouldn't see it happen unless we traveled away from Earth in a FTL ship. If you looked for millions of years, you would see the actual rotation and not just a snapshot of both sides.
The cool part about this is say you where around (roughly) 10 billion years ago when andromeda formed, you would have seen the light from the near side but the far side would have been completely dark. Both sides of light are about 2.5 million years old by the time they reach the spot where Earth would be. Fast forward (again roughy) 250,000 years and you would now see the whole galaxy! | Galaxy forms (10 billion years ago)- Light leaves nearest side and reaches us 2.5 million years later, only see half of galaxy- Fast forward 250,000 years (current time is 2.5 million + 250,000 years) and we now see the whole thing.
- catches breath
Take the solar system in the Milky Way for instance- we are about halfway from the center to the edge. Astronomers have given an approximate estimation that our solar system, (and galaxy arm), do a full rotation once every 225 million years!
Great question /u/unmoved. |
Dark512 | Dove moisturising soap. I got scarring (or stretch marks (how I don't know, I haven't gained any weight) or something embarrassing) on the underside of my thigh. But I was advised to get some moisturising soap and rub it in, so I did (this was a few days ago). Got the soap, rubbed it into the scarring and all around the rest of my thighs, waist, crotch and rear just to be sure. Then moved onto the rest of the body because why not? Did all that, then washed all the soap off, then felt about my skin to see if it made a difference. Looked healthier, and felt healthier. Then I felt my rear. Oh. My. God. I have never felt smoothness like this before.
TL;DR - Feel my ass. Damn good soap made that.
EDIT: also, the scarring is clearing up pretty quickly. | Dove moisturising soap. I got scarring (or stretch marks (how I don't know, I haven't gained any weight) or something embarrassing) on the underside of my thigh. But I was advised to get some moisturising soap and rub it in, so I did (this was a few days ago). Got the soap, rubbed it into the scarring and all around the rest of my thighs, waist, crotch and rear just to be sure. Then moved onto the rest of the body because why not? Did all that, then washed all the soap off, then felt about my skin to see if it made a difference. Looked healthier, and felt healthier. Then I felt my rear. Oh. My. God. I have never felt smoothness like this before.
TL;DR - Feel my ass. Damn good soap made that.
EDIT: also, the scarring is clearing up pretty quickly.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cch49m4 | Dove moisturising soap. I got scarring (or stretch marks (how I don't know, I haven't gained any weight) or something embarrassing) on the underside of my thigh. But I was advised to get some moisturising soap and rub it in, so I did (this was a few days ago). Got the soap, rubbed it into the scarring and all around the rest of my thighs, waist, crotch and rear just to be sure. Then moved onto the rest of the body because why not? Did all that, then washed all the soap off, then felt about my skin to see if it made a difference. Looked healthier, and felt healthier. Then I felt my rear. Oh. My. God. I have never felt smoothness like this before. | Feel my ass. Damn good soap made that.
EDIT: also, the scarring is clearing up pretty quickly. |
fitz1015 | You can buy more storage for you photo stream but the thing with photos is that photos take a ton of space and iCloud space is not cheap. What I do is I have iCloud setup to take all my photos from my photo and sync them up with the mac/pc. And make sure any photo I put on the mac/pc I put in the same folder. I then have a apple airport that I have a external drive hooked up to it. I then setup time machine to back up all my important fail to the external drive every week. Then about every 3 months I copy that external to a different drive that I keep in a fire proof safe.
TL:DR. Save your money. Use a external drive with time machine to back everything up. | You can buy more storage for you photo stream but the thing with photos is that photos take a ton of space and iCloud space is not cheap. What I do is I have iCloud setup to take all my photos from my photo and sync them up with the mac/pc. And make sure any photo I put on the mac/pc I put in the same folder. I then have a apple airport that I have a external drive hooked up to it. I then setup time machine to back up all my important fail to the external drive every week. Then about every 3 months I copy that external to a different drive that I keep in a fire proof safe.
TL:DR. Save your money. Use a external drive with time machine to back everything up.
| mac | t5_2qh4u | cchllck | You can buy more storage for you photo stream but the thing with photos is that photos take a ton of space and iCloud space is not cheap. What I do is I have iCloud setup to take all my photos from my photo and sync them up with the mac/pc. And make sure any photo I put on the mac/pc I put in the same folder. I then have a apple airport that I have a external drive hooked up to it. I then setup time machine to back up all my important fail to the external drive every week. Then about every 3 months I copy that external to a different drive that I keep in a fire proof safe. | Save your money. Use a external drive with time machine to back everything up. |
FreakOO | Everyone is different I guess.
Before I purchased my first carto setup, I was very happy with my vision viva nova tanks and a shit load of other clearos. I was that impressed with them and ended up purchasing 10 novas, including enough replacement heads to last 12+ months. Not to mention 20 or so other authentic clearos.
I had every right to be impressed. They were my very first entry with vaping. They worked great, and no doubt they still work great.
Then after reading many comments from /u/seymour1 praising cartos, I decided to try them.
I purchased the [AGR carto tank]( and some cheap F16 tank.
After taking my time with priming the carto and filling the AGR tank, I took my first hit. Oh sweet muma. Why did I drop so much money into clearomizers.
Now, I've invested into several [AGR]( and [AGR+]( tanks. Some from [IBtanked]( [Salt and Pepper]( [Kir Fanis]( [Loki]( and a few others.
Listen to /u/seymour1. He knows carto tanks.
tl;dr. Yes. I did personally. The difference, to me, is night and day. I love carto tanks.
| Everyone is different I guess.
Before I purchased my first carto setup, I was very happy with my vision viva nova tanks and a shit load of other clearos. I was that impressed with them and ended up purchasing 10 novas, including enough replacement heads to last 12+ months. Not to mention 20 or so other authentic clearos.
I had every right to be impressed. They were my very first entry with vaping. They worked great, and no doubt they still work great.
Then after reading many comments from /u/seymour1 praising cartos, I decided to try them.
I purchased the [AGR carto tank]( and some cheap F16 tank.
After taking my time with priming the carto and filling the AGR tank, I took my first hit. Oh sweet muma. Why did I drop so much money into clearomizers.
Now, I've invested into several [AGR]( and [AGR+]( tanks. Some from [IBtanked]( [Salt and Pepper]( [Kir Fanis]( [Loki]( and a few others.
Listen to /u/seymour1. He knows carto tanks.
tl;dr. Yes. I did personally. The difference, to me, is night and day. I love carto tanks.
| electronic_cigarette | t5_2qmlu | cci0od7 | Everyone is different I guess.
Before I purchased my first carto setup, I was very happy with my vision viva nova tanks and a shit load of other clearos. I was that impressed with them and ended up purchasing 10 novas, including enough replacement heads to last 12+ months. Not to mention 20 or so other authentic clearos.
I had every right to be impressed. They were my very first entry with vaping. They worked great, and no doubt they still work great.
Then after reading many comments from /u/seymour1 praising cartos, I decided to try them.
I purchased the [AGR carto tank]( and some cheap F16 tank.
After taking my time with priming the carto and filling the AGR tank, I took my first hit. Oh sweet muma. Why did I drop so much money into clearomizers.
Now, I've invested into several [AGR]( and [AGR+]( tanks. Some from [IBtanked]( [Salt and Pepper]( [Kir Fanis]( [Loki]( and a few others.
Listen to /u/seymour1. He knows carto tanks. | Yes. I did personally. The difference, to me, is night and day. I love carto tanks. |
simen | It evens out over time. It's like karma. Sometimes you carry, sometimes you get carried. If you play lots of games and you get randomly matched with other players in roughly the same skill group, it stands to reason that over time you will be matched with approximately the same amount of better and worse players. You wouldn't have ranked down if you had won the 3 matches prior to that one. I've never gotten on a genuinely unfair streak where I'm getting matched with significantly worse teammates game after game in a row. Chances are there were things you could have done, if not in the 16-1 game, then in the games prior that would have prevented you from downranking.
tl;dr: it evens out over time | It evens out over time. It's like karma. Sometimes you carry, sometimes you get carried. If you play lots of games and you get randomly matched with other players in roughly the same skill group, it stands to reason that over time you will be matched with approximately the same amount of better and worse players. You wouldn't have ranked down if you had won the 3 matches prior to that one. I've never gotten on a genuinely unfair streak where I'm getting matched with significantly worse teammates game after game in a row. Chances are there were things you could have done, if not in the 16-1 game, then in the games prior that would have prevented you from downranking.
tl;dr: it evens out over time
| GlobalOffensive | t5_2sqho | cci6gs1 | It evens out over time. It's like karma. Sometimes you carry, sometimes you get carried. If you play lots of games and you get randomly matched with other players in roughly the same skill group, it stands to reason that over time you will be matched with approximately the same amount of better and worse players. You wouldn't have ranked down if you had won the 3 matches prior to that one. I've never gotten on a genuinely unfair streak where I'm getting matched with significantly worse teammates game after game in a row. Chances are there were things you could have done, if not in the 16-1 game, then in the games prior that would have prevented you from downranking. | it evens out over time |
bliprock | Childish invective does you no good here. I was pointing out the obvious lack of science in your posts but its no surprise you do not understand that.
Ok so now I have to explain how belief has nothing to do with science to then? I do not choose to believe or not to believe, science does not work on belief. So again your inability to grasp simple science is a good indication of your ignorance.
Cos your are either woefully ignorant or just plain stupid in this case visa ve climate change.
If your where a decent critical thinker you would not try to be so contrary and actually view the science in a non prejudiced way and weigh it up for yourself. Any idiot like you can deny science but its cos your not a scientist or even understand science.
Tldr science bitch | Childish invective does you no good here. I was pointing out the obvious lack of science in your posts but its no surprise you do not understand that.
Ok so now I have to explain how belief has nothing to do with science to then? I do not choose to believe or not to believe, science does not work on belief. So again your inability to grasp simple science is a good indication of your ignorance.
Cos your are either woefully ignorant or just plain stupid in this case visa ve climate change.
If your where a decent critical thinker you would not try to be so contrary and actually view the science in a non prejudiced way and weigh it up for yourself. Any idiot like you can deny science but its cos your not a scientist or even understand science.
Tldr science bitch
| australia | t5_2qh8e | cciqvon | Childish invective does you no good here. I was pointing out the obvious lack of science in your posts but its no surprise you do not understand that.
Ok so now I have to explain how belief has nothing to do with science to then? I do not choose to believe or not to believe, science does not work on belief. So again your inability to grasp simple science is a good indication of your ignorance.
Cos your are either woefully ignorant or just plain stupid in this case visa ve climate change.
If your where a decent critical thinker you would not try to be so contrary and actually view the science in a non prejudiced way and weigh it up for yourself. Any idiot like you can deny science but its cos your not a scientist or even understand science. | science bitch |
Burdicus | I had a reoccuring nightmare for about 5 years of my life. I didn't have it every night, but usually it would happen between 2-8 times a month. Often enough to be very bothersome.
Anyway, it was when I was a kid. My room was in the 'attic' of my parents house. The dream was that I would awake in the middle of the night to the sound of running water. I would go downstairs and around the corner to the kitchen where I would see the faucet on. I would turn it off, but then for some reason I would turn my attention to the basement door. There wasn't a sound or anything that made me go over there, just a feeling that something was waiting for me. I would open the basement door and flip on the light switch. I would see a dark shadow at the base of the steps dash to the other room. Usually this is where I would wake up, but occasionally I would feel like I was getting dragged down the stairs and when I tried to scream no sound would come out.
Anyway, the really creepy part about this dream is that a few times during my childhood the faucet really would turn on in the middle of the night. One time in particular I remember becuase I was staying up late with my brother and all of a sudden we heard it come on. It was a small house, so if it had been turned on by one of my parents we would have heard them get out of bed and move around the kitchen, but there was none of that, it just turned on at about 1:15am.
Also, the corner of the room the shadow would dash to is where my grandfather eventually past away. He died of cancer and my parents had let him live the last year of his life with us so they made the basement his room. I had this dream for a few years before this, but it continued a few years after.
TLDR: Faucet would turn on, I'd check it out, go to the basement, see some scary shadow. In real life the faucet really did turn on a few times and my grandpa died where the shadow was. | I had a reoccuring nightmare for about 5 years of my life. I didn't have it every night, but usually it would happen between 2-8 times a month. Often enough to be very bothersome.
Anyway, it was when I was a kid. My room was in the 'attic' of my parents house. The dream was that I would awake in the middle of the night to the sound of running water. I would go downstairs and around the corner to the kitchen where I would see the faucet on. I would turn it off, but then for some reason I would turn my attention to the basement door. There wasn't a sound or anything that made me go over there, just a feeling that something was waiting for me. I would open the basement door and flip on the light switch. I would see a dark shadow at the base of the steps dash to the other room. Usually this is where I would wake up, but occasionally I would feel like I was getting dragged down the stairs and when I tried to scream no sound would come out.
Anyway, the really creepy part about this dream is that a few times during my childhood the faucet really would turn on in the middle of the night. One time in particular I remember becuase I was staying up late with my brother and all of a sudden we heard it come on. It was a small house, so if it had been turned on by one of my parents we would have heard them get out of bed and move around the kitchen, but there was none of that, it just turned on at about 1:15am.
Also, the corner of the room the shadow would dash to is where my grandfather eventually past away. He died of cancer and my parents had let him live the last year of his life with us so they made the basement his room. I had this dream for a few years before this, but it continued a few years after.
TLDR: Faucet would turn on, I'd check it out, go to the basement, see some scary shadow. In real life the faucet really did turn on a few times and my grandpa died where the shadow was.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cci6qm5 | I had a reoccuring nightmare for about 5 years of my life. I didn't have it every night, but usually it would happen between 2-8 times a month. Often enough to be very bothersome.
Anyway, it was when I was a kid. My room was in the 'attic' of my parents house. The dream was that I would awake in the middle of the night to the sound of running water. I would go downstairs and around the corner to the kitchen where I would see the faucet on. I would turn it off, but then for some reason I would turn my attention to the basement door. There wasn't a sound or anything that made me go over there, just a feeling that something was waiting for me. I would open the basement door and flip on the light switch. I would see a dark shadow at the base of the steps dash to the other room. Usually this is where I would wake up, but occasionally I would feel like I was getting dragged down the stairs and when I tried to scream no sound would come out.
Anyway, the really creepy part about this dream is that a few times during my childhood the faucet really would turn on in the middle of the night. One time in particular I remember becuase I was staying up late with my brother and all of a sudden we heard it come on. It was a small house, so if it had been turned on by one of my parents we would have heard them get out of bed and move around the kitchen, but there was none of that, it just turned on at about 1:15am.
Also, the corner of the room the shadow would dash to is where my grandfather eventually past away. He died of cancer and my parents had let him live the last year of his life with us so they made the basement his room. I had this dream for a few years before this, but it continued a few years after. | Faucet would turn on, I'd check it out, go to the basement, see some scary shadow. In real life the faucet really did turn on a few times and my grandpa died where the shadow was. |
sanjurotsubaki | I want the Rangers to win. I have no preference to who is the better team, giving us an easier path. If you are the best, then you should be able to beat the best.
That being said...I don't want to see Tampa Bay's cancer in the postseason. They have no fans, generate little interest to the game of baseball, and they play in a fucking circus tent which has been an embarrassment to the sport for years.
tl;dr - I don't want to see any team play in an empty stadium, where the carpet appears to be urine stained, and there are catwalks along the entire roof. | I want the Rangers to win. I have no preference to who is the better team, giving us an easier path. If you are the best, then you should be able to beat the best.
That being said...I don't want to see Tampa Bay's cancer in the postseason. They have no fans, generate little interest to the game of baseball, and they play in a fucking circus tent which has been an embarrassment to the sport for years.
tl;dr - I don't want to see any team play in an empty stadium, where the carpet appears to be urine stained, and there are catwalks along the entire roof.
| redsox | t5_2qh95 | ccifmsw | I want the Rangers to win. I have no preference to who is the better team, giving us an easier path. If you are the best, then you should be able to beat the best.
That being said...I don't want to see Tampa Bay's cancer in the postseason. They have no fans, generate little interest to the game of baseball, and they play in a fucking circus tent which has been an embarrassment to the sport for years. | I don't want to see any team play in an empty stadium, where the carpet appears to be urine stained, and there are catwalks along the entire roof. |
Arab_Money_ | When you bully someone that creates an angry lonely ugly boy who goes to community college becomes angry at life and when he gets brought to his knees and considers bullying he might not have reddit to ask for advice and he goes on to bully someone and create another angry lonely ugly boy. And suddenly there is a world of assholes.
TL;DR Don't bully or it will create a viscous cycle of assholery. | When you bully someone that creates an angry lonely ugly boy who goes to community college becomes angry at life and when he gets brought to his knees and considers bullying he might not have reddit to ask for advice and he goes on to bully someone and create another angry lonely ugly boy. And suddenly there is a world of assholes.
TL;DR Don't bully or it will create a viscous cycle of assholery.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ccijuwi | When you bully someone that creates an angry lonely ugly boy who goes to community college becomes angry at life and when he gets brought to his knees and considers bullying he might not have reddit to ask for advice and he goes on to bully someone and create another angry lonely ugly boy. And suddenly there is a world of assholes. | Don't bully or it will create a viscous cycle of assholery. |
jecniencikn | He's not really asking questions to learn, he's using the "socratic method" to try to persuade other people that they're wrong and that he's right.
It's incredibly fucking arrogant. He's ignorant, and determined to stay ignorant. Nothing anyone says to him is going to change his mind - which is okay - but it's really dishonest to come here pretending to seek information when that's not his intent.
And the way he's going about it is potentially really harmful, and could do people real actual harm.
tl:dr fuck off yourself. | He's not really asking questions to learn, he's using the "socratic method" to try to persuade other people that they're wrong and that he's right.
It's incredibly fucking arrogant. He's ignorant, and determined to stay ignorant. Nothing anyone says to him is going to change his mind - which is okay - but it's really dishonest to come here pretending to seek information when that's not his intent.
And the way he's going about it is potentially really harmful, and could do people real actual harm.
tl:dr fuck off yourself.
| selfharm | t5_2rm6q | cdlg9iz | He's not really asking questions to learn, he's using the "socratic method" to try to persuade other people that they're wrong and that he's right.
It's incredibly fucking arrogant. He's ignorant, and determined to stay ignorant. Nothing anyone says to him is going to change his mind - which is okay - but it's really dishonest to come here pretending to seek information when that's not his intent.
And the way he's going about it is potentially really harmful, and could do people real actual harm. | fuck off yourself. |
BeyondElectricDreams | I'm glad you clearly read my whole post, and made an amazing, informed comment.
Oh wait, you didn't do that. You read maybe a paragraph or two and then threw a huge hissy fit. For someone criticizing me for naming myself after Bad Religion, you're failing hard at some of their free-thinking philosophies.
"It's a dangerous slip, a conscientious shift, in the spirit of resistance, you've gotta hold your grip, lest the state of your resolve makes you quickly devolve to a fundamentalist. You're an archetype, they can pin to the wall when you cling to your convictions like a farm animal in its stall, never thinking of the bigger world outside, as they take you for a ride"
I never ONCE said this is an amazing system, and I never once stood behind it as the end-all-be-all of healthcare legislation. I think for-profit healthcare is inherently evil and I think until we have true single payer, we're going to have these issues.
THAT SAID my post was more to the point of, this is the system we have NOW. It's not ideal, not by a long shot - I know that. But just because the system is not ideal does NOT mean that you (or anyone for that matter) is justified in failing to participate. The point of the system -profit to the healthcare industry be damned - is to force the risk to be spread across a greater number of people. This isn't as efficient as single payer (for the obvious reason of greedy insurance middlemen) but it's still a step up from where we once were - especially with the provisions for pre-existing conditions. Pushing for it to fail is being stubborn in the opposite direction - it's the same goddamn whiny bullshit the republicans in government did with the shutdown. "I don't like this so I'm gonna stamp my feet and make a scene over it and complain how much it sucks"
it's not perfect, it needs replaced eventually, but the principles in place with it - if worked correctly - can work to bring about lower costs for the time being. not to ideal lows, but still better than before.
And fuck you, seriously, for daring to question my fandom with Bad Religion. I own all of their CDs, every last goddamn one. I was listening to True North on the way home from work. If you think I'm blind to the messages of anti-corporations in that album I don't know what to think of you.
tl;dr I'm being realistic and working with what we have even if it's a known factor that it's not perfect.
| I'm glad you clearly read my whole post, and made an amazing, informed comment.
Oh wait, you didn't do that. You read maybe a paragraph or two and then threw a huge hissy fit. For someone criticizing me for naming myself after Bad Religion, you're failing hard at some of their free-thinking philosophies.
"It's a dangerous slip, a conscientious shift, in the spirit of resistance, you've gotta hold your grip, lest the state of your resolve makes you quickly devolve to a fundamentalist. You're an archetype, they can pin to the wall when you cling to your convictions like a farm animal in its stall, never thinking of the bigger world outside, as they take you for a ride"
I never ONCE said this is an amazing system, and I never once stood behind it as the end-all-be-all of healthcare legislation. I think for-profit healthcare is inherently evil and I think until we have true single payer, we're going to have these issues.
THAT SAID my post was more to the point of, this is the system we have NOW. It's not ideal, not by a long shot - I know that. But just because the system is not ideal does NOT mean that you (or anyone for that matter) is justified in failing to participate. The point of the system -profit to the healthcare industry be damned - is to force the risk to be spread across a greater number of people. This isn't as efficient as single payer (for the obvious reason of greedy insurance middlemen) but it's still a step up from where we once were - especially with the provisions for pre-existing conditions. Pushing for it to fail is being stubborn in the opposite direction - it's the same goddamn whiny bullshit the republicans in government did with the shutdown. "I don't like this so I'm gonna stamp my feet and make a scene over it and complain how much it sucks"
it's not perfect, it needs replaced eventually, but the principles in place with it - if worked correctly - can work to bring about lower costs for the time being. not to ideal lows, but still better than before.
And fuck you, seriously, for daring to question my fandom with Bad Religion. I own all of their CDs, every last goddamn one. I was listening to True North on the way home from work. If you think I'm blind to the messages of anti-corporations in that album I don't know what to think of you.
tl;dr I'm being realistic and working with what we have even if it's a known factor that it's not perfect.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | ccj5udj | I'm glad you clearly read my whole post, and made an amazing, informed comment.
Oh wait, you didn't do that. You read maybe a paragraph or two and then threw a huge hissy fit. For someone criticizing me for naming myself after Bad Religion, you're failing hard at some of their free-thinking philosophies.
"It's a dangerous slip, a conscientious shift, in the spirit of resistance, you've gotta hold your grip, lest the state of your resolve makes you quickly devolve to a fundamentalist. You're an archetype, they can pin to the wall when you cling to your convictions like a farm animal in its stall, never thinking of the bigger world outside, as they take you for a ride"
I never ONCE said this is an amazing system, and I never once stood behind it as the end-all-be-all of healthcare legislation. I think for-profit healthcare is inherently evil and I think until we have true single payer, we're going to have these issues.
THAT SAID my post was more to the point of, this is the system we have NOW. It's not ideal, not by a long shot - I know that. But just because the system is not ideal does NOT mean that you (or anyone for that matter) is justified in failing to participate. The point of the system -profit to the healthcare industry be damned - is to force the risk to be spread across a greater number of people. This isn't as efficient as single payer (for the obvious reason of greedy insurance middlemen) but it's still a step up from where we once were - especially with the provisions for pre-existing conditions. Pushing for it to fail is being stubborn in the opposite direction - it's the same goddamn whiny bullshit the republicans in government did with the shutdown. "I don't like this so I'm gonna stamp my feet and make a scene over it and complain how much it sucks"
it's not perfect, it needs replaced eventually, but the principles in place with it - if worked correctly - can work to bring about lower costs for the time being. not to ideal lows, but still better than before.
And fuck you, seriously, for daring to question my fandom with Bad Religion. I own all of their CDs, every last goddamn one. I was listening to True North on the way home from work. If you think I'm blind to the messages of anti-corporations in that album I don't know what to think of you. | I'm being realistic and working with what we have even if it's a known factor that it's not perfect. |
RambleOff | Normally I wouldn't be so blunt in my reply, but you've been a dick with your phrasing, so I'll go ahead and take a few liberties:
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about and should just refrain from adding any input on it in the future.
Simply knowing that your game will have a huge server load for its newly-released online function does not provide enough information to fully prepare for it so that no problems will be encountered.
And the thing is, even you say it yourself:
> And this is after the Diablo 3 and Sim City fiasco. What idiots.
Funnily enough, that line of text is what really outs *you* as the idiot here. For starters, "Diablo 3 and Sim City fiasco"? What the fuck is that? For one, Sim City's problems were not even close to the same thing, people didn't flock to Sim City Online in nearly the same way as what is happening now with GTAO. So that's ridiculous to bring up Sim City specifically on its own. But even further, do you think those are the first times big crashes of online functionality has happened in recent years? Servers and services buckling and going down under immense day-one player loads is something that has happened over and over, constantly for *years and years.* Many games, many developers, many attempts at preparing in order to prevent them, and almost as many failures to do so. And you're honestly citing "After the Diablo 3 and Sim City fiasco" in that manner, as though those two incidents should mean this should never happen again? What do you think they should have learned from "that fiasco" that might have prevented this problem? Do you honestly think it's something that you yourself have noticed or come up with, that they simply haven't? Are you retarded? Like actually retarded, for real I mean. If you are, I'll stop now.
And secondly, the mere fact that "fiascos" such as this keep happening should tip off your impaired brain that the reason they keep happening is because they're pretty much impossible to prevent. What, do you think the devs simply *"didn't consider it"* or something equally dumb-as-fuck?
tl;dr you are suffering from a (hopefully terminally) ***severe*** case of stupidity. Consider suicide, or at the very least just never weigh in with your input on this subject again.
P.S.
> They had two weeks!!!!
How old are you? Honestly? 'Cause that part of your post makes me think the answer to this question has got to be either 12 years old and you're a boy, or 40 years old and you're a woman. lol. I just couldn't resist commenting on that sentence. Specifically the fact that you think two weeks is some game-changing amount of time during which a company could prepare for *anything*, and even more ridiculously funny is the ***four*** exclamation marks. | Normally I wouldn't be so blunt in my reply, but you've been a dick with your phrasing, so I'll go ahead and take a few liberties:
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about and should just refrain from adding any input on it in the future.
Simply knowing that your game will have a huge server load for its newly-released online function does not provide enough information to fully prepare for it so that no problems will be encountered.
And the thing is, even you say it yourself:
> And this is after the Diablo 3 and Sim City fiasco. What idiots.
Funnily enough, that line of text is what really outs you as the idiot here. For starters, "Diablo 3 and Sim City fiasco"? What the fuck is that? For one, Sim City's problems were not even close to the same thing, people didn't flock to Sim City Online in nearly the same way as what is happening now with GTAO. So that's ridiculous to bring up Sim City specifically on its own. But even further, do you think those are the first times big crashes of online functionality has happened in recent years? Servers and services buckling and going down under immense day-one player loads is something that has happened over and over, constantly for years and years. Many games, many developers, many attempts at preparing in order to prevent them, and almost as many failures to do so. And you're honestly citing "After the Diablo 3 and Sim City fiasco" in that manner, as though those two incidents should mean this should never happen again? What do you think they should have learned from "that fiasco" that might have prevented this problem? Do you honestly think it's something that you yourself have noticed or come up with, that they simply haven't? Are you retarded? Like actually retarded, for real I mean. If you are, I'll stop now.
And secondly, the mere fact that "fiascos" such as this keep happening should tip off your impaired brain that the reason they keep happening is because they're pretty much impossible to prevent. What, do you think the devs simply "didn't consider it" or something equally dumb-as-fuck?
tl;dr you are suffering from a (hopefully terminally) severe case of stupidity. Consider suicide, or at the very least just never weigh in with your input on this subject again.
P.S.
> They had two weeks!!!!
How old are you? Honestly? 'Cause that part of your post makes me think the answer to this question has got to be either 12 years old and you're a boy, or 40 years old and you're a woman. lol. I just couldn't resist commenting on that sentence. Specifically the fact that you think two weeks is some game-changing amount of time during which a company could prepare for anything , and even more ridiculously funny is the four exclamation marks.
| GTAV | t5_2rjys | cck3tfd | Normally I wouldn't be so blunt in my reply, but you've been a dick with your phrasing, so I'll go ahead and take a few liberties:
You don't know what the fuck you're talking about and should just refrain from adding any input on it in the future.
Simply knowing that your game will have a huge server load for its newly-released online function does not provide enough information to fully prepare for it so that no problems will be encountered.
And the thing is, even you say it yourself:
> And this is after the Diablo 3 and Sim City fiasco. What idiots.
Funnily enough, that line of text is what really outs you as the idiot here. For starters, "Diablo 3 and Sim City fiasco"? What the fuck is that? For one, Sim City's problems were not even close to the same thing, people didn't flock to Sim City Online in nearly the same way as what is happening now with GTAO. So that's ridiculous to bring up Sim City specifically on its own. But even further, do you think those are the first times big crashes of online functionality has happened in recent years? Servers and services buckling and going down under immense day-one player loads is something that has happened over and over, constantly for years and years. Many games, many developers, many attempts at preparing in order to prevent them, and almost as many failures to do so. And you're honestly citing "After the Diablo 3 and Sim City fiasco" in that manner, as though those two incidents should mean this should never happen again? What do you think they should have learned from "that fiasco" that might have prevented this problem? Do you honestly think it's something that you yourself have noticed or come up with, that they simply haven't? Are you retarded? Like actually retarded, for real I mean. If you are, I'll stop now.
And secondly, the mere fact that "fiascos" such as this keep happening should tip off your impaired brain that the reason they keep happening is because they're pretty much impossible to prevent. What, do you think the devs simply "didn't consider it" or something equally dumb-as-fuck? | you are suffering from a (hopefully terminally) severe case of stupidity. Consider suicide, or at the very least just never weigh in with your input on this subject again.
P.S.
> They had two weeks!!!!
How old are you? Honestly? 'Cause that part of your post makes me think the answer to this question has got to be either 12 years old and you're a boy, or 40 years old and you're a woman. lol. I just couldn't resist commenting on that sentence. Specifically the fact that you think two weeks is some game-changing amount of time during which a company could prepare for anything , and even more ridiculously funny is the four exclamation marks. |
MaxGladstone | Hi! I love this stuff, and want to participate in the discussion, but it's late so I'm not going to be as thorough with footnotes as I usually would be. Sorry!
Time period and tech determine a great deal about what constitutes "authentic" swordplay—I'm having a little trouble finding sources at the moment, but from what I recall, swords grew lighter as plate armor became less dominant on the field of battle post-Agincourt. That, plus the fact that urban middle-class folks in Italy and Spain started wearing swords on the street, sans armor of any sort, gave rise to fighting styles designed to use and deal with lighter weapons—because the best fighting style is the one that uses the weapons to hand (in this case smallswords) against the defenses your opponents actually use (in this case basically nothing). Which (again, IIRC) is the reason the Switzers were so unstoppable in law enforcement scenarios. Mercenaries from Switzerland clad in full plate wielding zweihanders really aren't impressed by finger-width rapiers.
That said, the sport of fencing developed to train people for duels with sharp weapons that looked very similar to early fencing foils—though the modern Olympic sport has diverged from its roots since modern fencers haven't needed to worry about duels with sharps since 1918 or so. Olympic fencing certainly isn't 9th century Viking combat, high medieval combat, or Renaissance Italian combat, but neither does it look completely different from classical smallsword thrust fencing (as you'll see if you watch modern reconstructions of 19th century live-blade swordplay, e.g. [this video](
**tl;dr — different times, different swordplays!** | Hi! I love this stuff, and want to participate in the discussion, but it's late so I'm not going to be as thorough with footnotes as I usually would be. Sorry!
Time period and tech determine a great deal about what constitutes "authentic" swordplay—I'm having a little trouble finding sources at the moment, but from what I recall, swords grew lighter as plate armor became less dominant on the field of battle post-Agincourt. That, plus the fact that urban middle-class folks in Italy and Spain started wearing swords on the street, sans armor of any sort, gave rise to fighting styles designed to use and deal with lighter weapons—because the best fighting style is the one that uses the weapons to hand (in this case smallswords) against the defenses your opponents actually use (in this case basically nothing). Which (again, IIRC) is the reason the Switzers were so unstoppable in law enforcement scenarios. Mercenaries from Switzerland clad in full plate wielding zweihanders really aren't impressed by finger-width rapiers.
That said, the sport of fencing developed to train people for duels with sharp weapons that looked very similar to early fencing foils—though the modern Olympic sport has diverged from its roots since modern fencers haven't needed to worry about duels with sharps since 1918 or so. Olympic fencing certainly isn't 9th century Viking combat, high medieval combat, or Renaissance Italian combat, but neither does it look completely different from classical smallsword thrust fencing (as you'll see if you watch modern reconstructions of 19th century live-blade swordplay, e.g. [this video](
tl;dr — different times, different swordplays!
| Fantasy | t5_2qknd | ccjbhdj | Hi! I love this stuff, and want to participate in the discussion, but it's late so I'm not going to be as thorough with footnotes as I usually would be. Sorry!
Time period and tech determine a great deal about what constitutes "authentic" swordplay—I'm having a little trouble finding sources at the moment, but from what I recall, swords grew lighter as plate armor became less dominant on the field of battle post-Agincourt. That, plus the fact that urban middle-class folks in Italy and Spain started wearing swords on the street, sans armor of any sort, gave rise to fighting styles designed to use and deal with lighter weapons—because the best fighting style is the one that uses the weapons to hand (in this case smallswords) against the defenses your opponents actually use (in this case basically nothing). Which (again, IIRC) is the reason the Switzers were so unstoppable in law enforcement scenarios. Mercenaries from Switzerland clad in full plate wielding zweihanders really aren't impressed by finger-width rapiers.
That said, the sport of fencing developed to train people for duels with sharp weapons that looked very similar to early fencing foils—though the modern Olympic sport has diverged from its roots since modern fencers haven't needed to worry about duels with sharps since 1918 or so. Olympic fencing certainly isn't 9th century Viking combat, high medieval combat, or Renaissance Italian combat, but neither does it look completely different from classical smallsword thrust fencing (as you'll see if you watch modern reconstructions of 19th century live-blade swordplay, e.g. [this video]( | different times, different swordplays! |
herrsmith | There is no live, internet-only subscription for NFL in the US. I suppose you could buy the European "NFL Game Pass" and use a VPN, but you're not likely to get great speeds. This year, however, I was able to buy the Madden 25 Anniversary Edition from Amazon, which was $40 more than the normal game (or, since I didn't really care about the game, $100 but includes a free game) and included a year of the internet-only NFL Sunday Ticket (usually only available with a DirecTV subscription). Note: you can only watch out-of-market games, which includes everything that's nationally televised (Sunday, Monday, and Thursday night games). There have been reports of Google being in talks with the NFL, but what they were in talks to do was not clear. I'm hoping they will be able to provide an online-only subscription to watch NFL games. Of course, there's always the option to use an antenna for local stuff.
**tl;dr - It's hard to watch the NFL on the internet.** | There is no live, internet-only subscription for NFL in the US. I suppose you could buy the European "NFL Game Pass" and use a VPN, but you're not likely to get great speeds. This year, however, I was able to buy the Madden 25 Anniversary Edition from Amazon, which was $40 more than the normal game (or, since I didn't really care about the game, $100 but includes a free game) and included a year of the internet-only NFL Sunday Ticket (usually only available with a DirecTV subscription). Note: you can only watch out-of-market games, which includes everything that's nationally televised (Sunday, Monday, and Thursday night games). There have been reports of Google being in talks with the NFL, but what they were in talks to do was not clear. I'm hoping they will be able to provide an online-only subscription to watch NFL games. Of course, there's always the option to use an antenna for local stuff.
tl;dr - It's hard to watch the NFL on the internet.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | ccjis2t | There is no live, internet-only subscription for NFL in the US. I suppose you could buy the European "NFL Game Pass" and use a VPN, but you're not likely to get great speeds. This year, however, I was able to buy the Madden 25 Anniversary Edition from Amazon, which was $40 more than the normal game (or, since I didn't really care about the game, $100 but includes a free game) and included a year of the internet-only NFL Sunday Ticket (usually only available with a DirecTV subscription). Note: you can only watch out-of-market games, which includes everything that's nationally televised (Sunday, Monday, and Thursday night games). There have been reports of Google being in talks with the NFL, but what they were in talks to do was not clear. I'm hoping they will be able to provide an online-only subscription to watch NFL games. Of course, there's always the option to use an antenna for local stuff. | It's hard to watch the NFL on the internet. |
xami_euw | Ok.
I think you need to understand the system before you start complaining about it.
Highest ranking here is platinum 1.
I have played aprox 2000~ ish normal games and I have about 100 more wins than looses.
The way the system work is that you practically have a Match Making Rating (MMR) for each and every queue you go to.
This basically means that you could be a Diamond 1 ranked player but get matched up with people who are Bronze 5.
Here you argument that this isn't fair, I can somewhat agree to that but you have to take a few things into consideration before you call the system broken.
If a person reaches a high rating in ranked games, this means that the person is LIKELY to be good at playing in draft mode under pressure.
Playing a normal 5v5 is a lot different than playing a ranked game, with blind pick you cannot counter your opponents tactics, they may just do something cheesy or something you don't expect, so the gameplay is very very different.
Also most high rank players that goes into a normal game does so to try out new things, there will always be people who play very very seriously, but it is very common that people just enjoy the game and trying our new things that is likely not optimal.
Last and not least, I assume that you simply use a site such as lolnexus or the likes before the match starts and here just checks the rank of your opponent.
If the first thing you do is go, oh god, that guy on my lane is a diamond player, I cannot beat that, then you are surely going to loose.
Just play as you normally would, your rank doesn't give you any stats nor any damage, it is just an indicator that there is likely some mechanical skills present.
I have won large over Diamond 1 players and I have been killed by great plays made from guys in Silver.
To sum up what I am trying to say.
**TL:DR Ranked is nothing at all like 5v5 blind pick, don't let ranking fool you and play like you normally would. If a player on the enemy team is doing well, coordinate and shut them down.**
| Ok.
I think you need to understand the system before you start complaining about it.
Highest ranking here is platinum 1.
I have played aprox 2000~ ish normal games and I have about 100 more wins than looses.
The way the system work is that you practically have a Match Making Rating (MMR) for each and every queue you go to.
This basically means that you could be a Diamond 1 ranked player but get matched up with people who are Bronze 5.
Here you argument that this isn't fair, I can somewhat agree to that but you have to take a few things into consideration before you call the system broken.
If a person reaches a high rating in ranked games, this means that the person is LIKELY to be good at playing in draft mode under pressure.
Playing a normal 5v5 is a lot different than playing a ranked game, with blind pick you cannot counter your opponents tactics, they may just do something cheesy or something you don't expect, so the gameplay is very very different.
Also most high rank players that goes into a normal game does so to try out new things, there will always be people who play very very seriously, but it is very common that people just enjoy the game and trying our new things that is likely not optimal.
Last and not least, I assume that you simply use a site such as lolnexus or the likes before the match starts and here just checks the rank of your opponent.
If the first thing you do is go, oh god, that guy on my lane is a diamond player, I cannot beat that, then you are surely going to loose.
Just play as you normally would, your rank doesn't give you any stats nor any damage, it is just an indicator that there is likely some mechanical skills present.
I have won large over Diamond 1 players and I have been killed by great plays made from guys in Silver.
To sum up what I am trying to say.
TL:DR Ranked is nothing at all like 5v5 blind pick, don't let ranking fool you and play like you normally would. If a player on the enemy team is doing well, coordinate and shut them down.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | ccjgned | Ok.
I think you need to understand the system before you start complaining about it.
Highest ranking here is platinum 1.
I have played aprox 2000~ ish normal games and I have about 100 more wins than looses.
The way the system work is that you practically have a Match Making Rating (MMR) for each and every queue you go to.
This basically means that you could be a Diamond 1 ranked player but get matched up with people who are Bronze 5.
Here you argument that this isn't fair, I can somewhat agree to that but you have to take a few things into consideration before you call the system broken.
If a person reaches a high rating in ranked games, this means that the person is LIKELY to be good at playing in draft mode under pressure.
Playing a normal 5v5 is a lot different than playing a ranked game, with blind pick you cannot counter your opponents tactics, they may just do something cheesy or something you don't expect, so the gameplay is very very different.
Also most high rank players that goes into a normal game does so to try out new things, there will always be people who play very very seriously, but it is very common that people just enjoy the game and trying our new things that is likely not optimal.
Last and not least, I assume that you simply use a site such as lolnexus or the likes before the match starts and here just checks the rank of your opponent.
If the first thing you do is go, oh god, that guy on my lane is a diamond player, I cannot beat that, then you are surely going to loose.
Just play as you normally would, your rank doesn't give you any stats nor any damage, it is just an indicator that there is likely some mechanical skills present.
I have won large over Diamond 1 players and I have been killed by great plays made from guys in Silver.
To sum up what I am trying to say. | Ranked is nothing at all like 5v5 blind pick, don't let ranking fool you and play like you normally would. If a player on the enemy team is doing well, coordinate and shut them down. |
deathpigeonx | One thing really needs to be added to that second point:
**Boehner wants to bring the motion to a vote, but he crippled himself out of fear.**
You see, what he did was make the judgement that he wouldn't bring *any* bill to vote without a majority in favor from his own party. Why? Because he *tried* working with the Democrats on the issue, but got a huge blowback from the tea party. He's afraid that, if he works with the Democrats, the tea party will oust him in the primary and put into his position someone who really is crazy. Now, the problem is that this means that, if at least 14 Republicans oppose a bill, he won't bring it up for vote out of fear that a Tea Partier might take his seat, or, even worse, the Speakership of the house. There are an estimated 30-50 who oppose Obamacare enough that they're willing to shut down the government. Those 30-50 representatives refuse to reason with *anyone*. Ever. They are holding the government hostage, and Boehner is to terrified of them to reach out to the Democrats. If he does, next year will probably be the last we ever hear of him and the next Speaker of the House might be a member of the tea party.
**tl;dr The tea party has Boehner by the balls.** | One thing really needs to be added to that second point:
Boehner wants to bring the motion to a vote, but he crippled himself out of fear.
You see, what he did was make the judgement that he wouldn't bring any bill to vote without a majority in favor from his own party. Why? Because he tried working with the Democrats on the issue, but got a huge blowback from the tea party. He's afraid that, if he works with the Democrats, the tea party will oust him in the primary and put into his position someone who really is crazy. Now, the problem is that this means that, if at least 14 Republicans oppose a bill, he won't bring it up for vote out of fear that a Tea Partier might take his seat, or, even worse, the Speakership of the house. There are an estimated 30-50 who oppose Obamacare enough that they're willing to shut down the government. Those 30-50 representatives refuse to reason with anyone . Ever. They are holding the government hostage, and Boehner is to terrified of them to reach out to the Democrats. If he does, next year will probably be the last we ever hear of him and the next Speaker of the House might be a member of the tea party.
tl;dr The tea party has Boehner by the balls.
| TrueReddit | t5_2qyt6 | ccjvmu8 | One thing really needs to be added to that second point:
Boehner wants to bring the motion to a vote, but he crippled himself out of fear.
You see, what he did was make the judgement that he wouldn't bring any bill to vote without a majority in favor from his own party. Why? Because he tried working with the Democrats on the issue, but got a huge blowback from the tea party. He's afraid that, if he works with the Democrats, the tea party will oust him in the primary and put into his position someone who really is crazy. Now, the problem is that this means that, if at least 14 Republicans oppose a bill, he won't bring it up for vote out of fear that a Tea Partier might take his seat, or, even worse, the Speakership of the house. There are an estimated 30-50 who oppose Obamacare enough that they're willing to shut down the government. Those 30-50 representatives refuse to reason with anyone . Ever. They are holding the government hostage, and Boehner is to terrified of them to reach out to the Democrats. If he does, next year will probably be the last we ever hear of him and the next Speaker of the House might be a member of the tea party. | The tea party has Boehner by the balls. |
deathpigeonx | It is more complicated than that. The way you, and many others, are putting it, he's like the Grinch stealing Christmas. This is not an accurate assessment. Boehner actually wants to bring the motion to a vote, but he crippled himself out of fear. You see, what he did was make the judgement that he wouldn't bring *any* bill to vote without a majority in favor from his own party. Why? Because he *tried* working with the Democrats on the issue, but got a huge blowback from the tea party. He's afraid that, if he works with the Democrats, the tea party will oust him in the primary and put into his position someone who really is crazy. Now, the problem is that this means that, if at least 14 Republicans oppose a bill, he won't bring it up for vote out of fear that a Tea Partier might take his seat, or, even worse, the Speakership of the house. There are an estimated 30-50 who oppose Obamacare enough that they're willing to shut down the government. Those 30-50 representatives refuse to reason with *anyone*. Ever. They are holding the government hostage, and Boehner is to terrified of them to reach out to the Democrats. If he does, next year will probably be the last we ever hear of him and the next Speaker of the House might be a member of the tea party.
**tl;dr Boehner isn't the Grinch who stole Christmas. He's a guy with a gun to his head (metaphorically speaking) reading a list of demands for his captors (who are the tea party, in this metaphor).** | It is more complicated than that. The way you, and many others, are putting it, he's like the Grinch stealing Christmas. This is not an accurate assessment. Boehner actually wants to bring the motion to a vote, but he crippled himself out of fear. You see, what he did was make the judgement that he wouldn't bring any bill to vote without a majority in favor from his own party. Why? Because he tried working with the Democrats on the issue, but got a huge blowback from the tea party. He's afraid that, if he works with the Democrats, the tea party will oust him in the primary and put into his position someone who really is crazy. Now, the problem is that this means that, if at least 14 Republicans oppose a bill, he won't bring it up for vote out of fear that a Tea Partier might take his seat, or, even worse, the Speakership of the house. There are an estimated 30-50 who oppose Obamacare enough that they're willing to shut down the government. Those 30-50 representatives refuse to reason with anyone . Ever. They are holding the government hostage, and Boehner is to terrified of them to reach out to the Democrats. If he does, next year will probably be the last we ever hear of him and the next Speaker of the House might be a member of the tea party.
tl;dr Boehner isn't the Grinch who stole Christmas. He's a guy with a gun to his head (metaphorically speaking) reading a list of demands for his captors (who are the tea party, in this metaphor).
| TrueReddit | t5_2qyt6 | ccjvr2k | It is more complicated than that. The way you, and many others, are putting it, he's like the Grinch stealing Christmas. This is not an accurate assessment. Boehner actually wants to bring the motion to a vote, but he crippled himself out of fear. You see, what he did was make the judgement that he wouldn't bring any bill to vote without a majority in favor from his own party. Why? Because he tried working with the Democrats on the issue, but got a huge blowback from the tea party. He's afraid that, if he works with the Democrats, the tea party will oust him in the primary and put into his position someone who really is crazy. Now, the problem is that this means that, if at least 14 Republicans oppose a bill, he won't bring it up for vote out of fear that a Tea Partier might take his seat, or, even worse, the Speakership of the house. There are an estimated 30-50 who oppose Obamacare enough that they're willing to shut down the government. Those 30-50 representatives refuse to reason with anyone . Ever. They are holding the government hostage, and Boehner is to terrified of them to reach out to the Democrats. If he does, next year will probably be the last we ever hear of him and the next Speaker of the House might be a member of the tea party. | Boehner isn't the Grinch who stole Christmas. He's a guy with a gun to his head (metaphorically speaking) reading a list of demands for his captors (who are the tea party, in this metaphor). |
deathpigeonx | Except, in anarchy, there would be no corporations. Corporations are mini-tyrannies, and anarchists oppose them just as much. Anarchism is a socialistic political philosophy. Under anarchism, the workers manage themselves. There are no corporations ruled by oligarchs. There aren't even hierarchical small businesses. Under anarchy, every business would be worker owned and managed through direct democracy, thus they would be worker cooperatives.
Heck, the majority of anarchists are communists who believe in complete market abolition, so there would be absolutely no way for corporations or rich people to gain power.
tl;dr Anarchism is far more than an opposition to the state. It includes an opposition to corporations and capitalistic business structures, so no corporations wouldn't gain more power, they wouldn't exist. | Except, in anarchy, there would be no corporations. Corporations are mini-tyrannies, and anarchists oppose them just as much. Anarchism is a socialistic political philosophy. Under anarchism, the workers manage themselves. There are no corporations ruled by oligarchs. There aren't even hierarchical small businesses. Under anarchy, every business would be worker owned and managed through direct democracy, thus they would be worker cooperatives.
Heck, the majority of anarchists are communists who believe in complete market abolition, so there would be absolutely no way for corporations or rich people to gain power.
tl;dr Anarchism is far more than an opposition to the state. It includes an opposition to corporations and capitalistic business structures, so no corporations wouldn't gain more power, they wouldn't exist.
| TrueReddit | t5_2qyt6 | ccjwphx | Except, in anarchy, there would be no corporations. Corporations are mini-tyrannies, and anarchists oppose them just as much. Anarchism is a socialistic political philosophy. Under anarchism, the workers manage themselves. There are no corporations ruled by oligarchs. There aren't even hierarchical small businesses. Under anarchy, every business would be worker owned and managed through direct democracy, thus they would be worker cooperatives.
Heck, the majority of anarchists are communists who believe in complete market abolition, so there would be absolutely no way for corporations or rich people to gain power. | Anarchism is far more than an opposition to the state. It includes an opposition to corporations and capitalistic business structures, so no corporations wouldn't gain more power, they wouldn't exist. |
Widsith | ‘Survive’ is the wrong word in a way, because what they really are are *borrowings* from Brythonic into Old English. There are very few (not more than two dozen, according to the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language), and most of them are dialectal nowadays. The only one that's really part of modern English is **crag**. There's also **brock** ‘badger’, which is still relatively well-known in some bits of England…and of course a few place-names like London or Dover. A couple of others probably came from Celtic via Latin, like **anchor** ‘hermit’.
tl;dr: yes, but very few. | ‘Survive’ is the wrong word in a way, because what they really are are borrowings from Brythonic into Old English. There are very few (not more than two dozen, according to the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language), and most of them are dialectal nowadays. The only one that's really part of modern English is crag . There's also brock ‘badger’, which is still relatively well-known in some bits of England…and of course a few place-names like London or Dover. A couple of others probably came from Celtic via Latin, like anchor ‘hermit’.
tl;dr: yes, but very few.
| etymology | t5_2qspe | ccjmvie | Survive’ is the wrong word in a way, because what they really are are borrowings from Brythonic into Old English. There are very few (not more than two dozen, according to the Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language), and most of them are dialectal nowadays. The only one that's really part of modern English is crag . There's also brock ‘badger’, which is still relatively well-known in some bits of England…and of course a few place-names like London or Dover. A couple of others probably came from Celtic via Latin, like anchor ‘hermit’. | yes, but very few. |
VegasRanger | The loading screen is a reference to the single player garages. NOT ONLINE.
I was in a private game with a couple of buddy's and me and another friend were given a free garage for online because we had the Collectors Edition. We tried testing if we our other 2 friends had that garage for free as well, but they didn't. One had the special edition and the other had a regular copy.
TL;DR : Collectors Edition nets you a $25,000 garage for free. | The loading screen is a reference to the single player garages. NOT ONLINE.
I was in a private game with a couple of buddy's and me and another friend were given a free garage for online because we had the Collectors Edition. We tried testing if we our other 2 friends had that garage for free as well, but they didn't. One had the special edition and the other had a regular copy.
TL;DR : Collectors Edition nets you a $25,000 garage for free.
| gtaonline | t5_2xrd1 | cck5h3i | The loading screen is a reference to the single player garages. NOT ONLINE.
I was in a private game with a couple of buddy's and me and another friend were given a free garage for online because we had the Collectors Edition. We tried testing if we our other 2 friends had that garage for free as well, but they didn't. One had the special edition and the other had a regular copy. | Collectors Edition nets you a $25,000 garage for free. |
jstokes45 | Yeah, but it was an absolute monsoon. While I think the defense is pretty damn good, there was about 8 fumbles between the two teams in the first quarter alone.
tl;dr Didn't really get to see Cal's offense in full swing. | Yeah, but it was an absolute monsoon. While I think the defense is pretty damn good, there was about 8 fumbles between the two teams in the first quarter alone.
tl;dr Didn't really get to see Cal's offense in full swing.
| CFB | t5_2qm9d | cckan9v | Yeah, but it was an absolute monsoon. While I think the defense is pretty damn good, there was about 8 fumbles between the two teams in the first quarter alone. | Didn't really get to see Cal's offense in full swing. |
evange | Yes.
The key to finding a girlfriend is first to find enough friends that are girls: eventually one will have mutual romantic feeling towards you.
And if you can't learn to be friendly towards women without also wanting to date them or putting them on a pedestal, then any romantic relationship you do end up forming will be doomed to failure and disappointment.
**TL;DR:** Treat women like people, not vaginas. | Yes.
The key to finding a girlfriend is first to find enough friends that are girls: eventually one will have mutual romantic feeling towards you.
And if you can't learn to be friendly towards women without also wanting to date them or putting them on a pedestal, then any romantic relationship you do end up forming will be doomed to failure and disappointment.
TL;DR: Treat women like people, not vaginas.
| ForeverAlone | t5_2s3yz | cckekdn | Yes.
The key to finding a girlfriend is first to find enough friends that are girls: eventually one will have mutual romantic feeling towards you.
And if you can't learn to be friendly towards women without also wanting to date them or putting them on a pedestal, then any romantic relationship you do end up forming will be doomed to failure and disappointment. | Treat women like people, not vaginas. |
soopse | It's a great item, as she's very similar to ashe, using mana on almost every attack. Yes, you will have a minigun, but in teamfights you'll generally want to use the rockets. Besides which, the muramana also procs off the minigun shots, so the only downside is the ramp-up time. Besides, you use 20 mana on every shot, and late game it doesn't seem like much, but you can end up attacking really fast.
TL;DR: Really strong with her kit. Strongly suggested. Take with grain of salt though, I am a Bronze player. | It's a great item, as she's very similar to ashe, using mana on almost every attack. Yes, you will have a minigun, but in teamfights you'll generally want to use the rockets. Besides which, the muramana also procs off the minigun shots, so the only downside is the ramp-up time. Besides, you use 20 mana on every shot, and late game it doesn't seem like much, but you can end up attacking really fast.
TL;DR: Really strong with her kit. Strongly suggested. Take with grain of salt though, I am a Bronze player.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | cckt77u | It's a great item, as she's very similar to ashe, using mana on almost every attack. Yes, you will have a minigun, but in teamfights you'll generally want to use the rockets. Besides which, the muramana also procs off the minigun shots, so the only downside is the ramp-up time. Besides, you use 20 mana on every shot, and late game it doesn't seem like much, but you can end up attacking really fast. | Really strong with her kit. Strongly suggested. Take with grain of salt though, I am a Bronze player. |
Heartnotes | I didn't want to wall-of-text on it but it's come a long way. In the beginning, there really were no male characters and Spike was regularly humiliated and bullied by Rarity and Twilight Sparkle (this is *still* true but now we have strong male characters like Discord and Shining Armor to point to as good role models in the series.)
The staff responded to the claims that the series was a bit anti-male and went on to change things up a bit in the next few seasons. As far as the comics go, this problem isn't even prevalent. In fact, I would go so far as to say the MLP IDW comics are clearly superior to their animated counterpart that spawned them.
Also, you have to read *into* the series a bit to see the sexism. Given where we are, I'm obviously not going to say much that will be picked apart here, this is just my opinion. Like with Equestria Girls, when they made Spike a dog and not a proper humanoid type, I was personally a bit offended by that because I really like that character.
A lot of times the anti-male humor is "played for laughs" and it just doesn't sit well with me.
I'm a bit above the target audience for the show by about 10 years or so, but when I watch it with my little sister, I can't help but pause it sometimes to interject with my own observations on the writer's or animator's decisions and how I sometimes disagree with them.
TL;DR it's an opinion and subjective reading of a little girl's cartoon | I didn't want to wall-of-text on it but it's come a long way. In the beginning, there really were no male characters and Spike was regularly humiliated and bullied by Rarity and Twilight Sparkle (this is still true but now we have strong male characters like Discord and Shining Armor to point to as good role models in the series.)
The staff responded to the claims that the series was a bit anti-male and went on to change things up a bit in the next few seasons. As far as the comics go, this problem isn't even prevalent. In fact, I would go so far as to say the MLP IDW comics are clearly superior to their animated counterpart that spawned them.
Also, you have to read into the series a bit to see the sexism. Given where we are, I'm obviously not going to say much that will be picked apart here, this is just my opinion. Like with Equestria Girls, when they made Spike a dog and not a proper humanoid type, I was personally a bit offended by that because I really like that character.
A lot of times the anti-male humor is "played for laughs" and it just doesn't sit well with me.
I'm a bit above the target audience for the show by about 10 years or so, but when I watch it with my little sister, I can't help but pause it sometimes to interject with my own observations on the writer's or animator's decisions and how I sometimes disagree with them.
TL;DR it's an opinion and subjective reading of a little girl's cartoon
| TumblrInAction | t5_2vizz | cclkbfw | I didn't want to wall-of-text on it but it's come a long way. In the beginning, there really were no male characters and Spike was regularly humiliated and bullied by Rarity and Twilight Sparkle (this is still true but now we have strong male characters like Discord and Shining Armor to point to as good role models in the series.)
The staff responded to the claims that the series was a bit anti-male and went on to change things up a bit in the next few seasons. As far as the comics go, this problem isn't even prevalent. In fact, I would go so far as to say the MLP IDW comics are clearly superior to their animated counterpart that spawned them.
Also, you have to read into the series a bit to see the sexism. Given where we are, I'm obviously not going to say much that will be picked apart here, this is just my opinion. Like with Equestria Girls, when they made Spike a dog and not a proper humanoid type, I was personally a bit offended by that because I really like that character.
A lot of times the anti-male humor is "played for laughs" and it just doesn't sit well with me.
I'm a bit above the target audience for the show by about 10 years or so, but when I watch it with my little sister, I can't help but pause it sometimes to interject with my own observations on the writer's or animator's decisions and how I sometimes disagree with them. | it's an opinion and subjective reading of a little girl's cartoon |
stophomeforlunch | Dude go do me a favor and read the rest of it because I said that C# == Dart. I understand C# has evolved over Java, I SAID this. C# IS Microsofts Java, but unlike Java it kept evolving. The premise of your argument seems to be rooted in the incorrect assumption that my critiques were of the merits of the products in question. My prediction about Dart would be a fucking stupid one if it was exclusively on technical merits of the product. My prediction was not about what SHOULD be the future, it was about one that I imagine COULD be.
But I'll bite and indulge in a response that was frankly orthogonal to the point I was trying to make.
Actually, C# now has a more convoluted type system than DART does. Dart is more or less completely dynamic where the static typing is just sugar. I'm sorry, C# has done better than Java over the recent years, but they are messing up with it through horrible things like heavy syntax (e.g., var, dynamic, static types) and the worst part is the DataFlow library. I mean at least C# appreciates the need for it, but what a horrible way to do it.
Now, I've been getting a lot of crap about the Microsoft's stupidity comment. But let me make it plain, it (Typescript) WILL fail. Why? Not because it itself is necessarily a bad language but because Microsoft, instead of first getting the community behind it is playing the same game that Google appears to be playing with Dart. And even Google playing that game seems stupid, but at least its done a better job of establishing its name with programmer hippie community.
I've run out of patience in terms of people not understanding this. Microsoft is still, for the most part, ignored by the web development community. Slowly, and unwillingly, its giving up on Knockout.js for Angular.js. Slowly, and unwillingly, its adding support for Node.js. But its half assed attempt while developing its open source Typescript on Codeplex because they fail to understand that it does fucking matter that they aren't using Github IS stupid. Google's been doing somewhat similar things by sticking with google code hosting, but at least its got a better name in the open source community while also giving Github the same love that the community does. I mean, SERIOUSLY, before they start pushing for TypeScript at least get your fucking browser to support HTML5 as Firefox and Chrome do, let alone do some PR work on its ever growing "shit browser" branding issues. You'd be a fool to think that everything that is good is measured as such, on its own, in its first introduction.
I don't care if you don't think its "stupidity" is not important or relevant. I suppose you will just see a perfectly good language like TypeScript fail for apparently random reasons "because its sure as hell got nothing to do with Github". Do yourself a favor and learn from past mistakes. Improving on Java with C# and then claiming that its no longer open to criticism IS stupid. You have more to gain by talking about what can still be improved rather than shouting "hurrayyyy we've got lambda's, something that Java doesn't".
TLDR; DART will be more successful than TypeScript. FACT. It has the bare minimum justification that the effort required to simply move JavaScript forward is better done by setting an example rather than wasting time arguing with people like you. TypeScript is the equivalent of CodePlex, of Knockout.js, of htmldoctor.com. It's merit is simply that Microsoft wants its dominance through proprietary crap. Google code hosting, Angular.js, and html5rocks.com is NOT the same thing. The day Google does something that is the same is the day Google will face the same future as Microsoft.
Bring on the down votes. | Dude go do me a favor and read the rest of it because I said that C# == Dart. I understand C# has evolved over Java, I SAID this. C# IS Microsofts Java, but unlike Java it kept evolving. The premise of your argument seems to be rooted in the incorrect assumption that my critiques were of the merits of the products in question. My prediction about Dart would be a fucking stupid one if it was exclusively on technical merits of the product. My prediction was not about what SHOULD be the future, it was about one that I imagine COULD be.
But I'll bite and indulge in a response that was frankly orthogonal to the point I was trying to make.
Actually, C# now has a more convoluted type system than DART does. Dart is more or less completely dynamic where the static typing is just sugar. I'm sorry, C# has done better than Java over the recent years, but they are messing up with it through horrible things like heavy syntax (e.g., var, dynamic, static types) and the worst part is the DataFlow library. I mean at least C# appreciates the need for it, but what a horrible way to do it.
Now, I've been getting a lot of crap about the Microsoft's stupidity comment. But let me make it plain, it (Typescript) WILL fail. Why? Not because it itself is necessarily a bad language but because Microsoft, instead of first getting the community behind it is playing the same game that Google appears to be playing with Dart. And even Google playing that game seems stupid, but at least its done a better job of establishing its name with programmer hippie community.
I've run out of patience in terms of people not understanding this. Microsoft is still, for the most part, ignored by the web development community. Slowly, and unwillingly, its giving up on Knockout.js for Angular.js. Slowly, and unwillingly, its adding support for Node.js. But its half assed attempt while developing its open source Typescript on Codeplex because they fail to understand that it does fucking matter that they aren't using Github IS stupid. Google's been doing somewhat similar things by sticking with google code hosting, but at least its got a better name in the open source community while also giving Github the same love that the community does. I mean, SERIOUSLY, before they start pushing for TypeScript at least get your fucking browser to support HTML5 as Firefox and Chrome do, let alone do some PR work on its ever growing "shit browser" branding issues. You'd be a fool to think that everything that is good is measured as such, on its own, in its first introduction.
I don't care if you don't think its "stupidity" is not important or relevant. I suppose you will just see a perfectly good language like TypeScript fail for apparently random reasons "because its sure as hell got nothing to do with Github". Do yourself a favor and learn from past mistakes. Improving on Java with C# and then claiming that its no longer open to criticism IS stupid. You have more to gain by talking about what can still be improved rather than shouting "hurrayyyy we've got lambda's, something that Java doesn't".
TLDR; DART will be more successful than TypeScript. FACT. It has the bare minimum justification that the effort required to simply move JavaScript forward is better done by setting an example rather than wasting time arguing with people like you. TypeScript is the equivalent of CodePlex, of Knockout.js, of htmldoctor.com. It's merit is simply that Microsoft wants its dominance through proprietary crap. Google code hosting, Angular.js, and html5rocks.com is NOT the same thing. The day Google does something that is the same is the day Google will face the same future as Microsoft.
Bring on the down votes.
| programming | t5_2fwo | ccmagcw | Dude go do me a favor and read the rest of it because I said that C# == Dart. I understand C# has evolved over Java, I SAID this. C# IS Microsofts Java, but unlike Java it kept evolving. The premise of your argument seems to be rooted in the incorrect assumption that my critiques were of the merits of the products in question. My prediction about Dart would be a fucking stupid one if it was exclusively on technical merits of the product. My prediction was not about what SHOULD be the future, it was about one that I imagine COULD be.
But I'll bite and indulge in a response that was frankly orthogonal to the point I was trying to make.
Actually, C# now has a more convoluted type system than DART does. Dart is more or less completely dynamic where the static typing is just sugar. I'm sorry, C# has done better than Java over the recent years, but they are messing up with it through horrible things like heavy syntax (e.g., var, dynamic, static types) and the worst part is the DataFlow library. I mean at least C# appreciates the need for it, but what a horrible way to do it.
Now, I've been getting a lot of crap about the Microsoft's stupidity comment. But let me make it plain, it (Typescript) WILL fail. Why? Not because it itself is necessarily a bad language but because Microsoft, instead of first getting the community behind it is playing the same game that Google appears to be playing with Dart. And even Google playing that game seems stupid, but at least its done a better job of establishing its name with programmer hippie community.
I've run out of patience in terms of people not understanding this. Microsoft is still, for the most part, ignored by the web development community. Slowly, and unwillingly, its giving up on Knockout.js for Angular.js. Slowly, and unwillingly, its adding support for Node.js. But its half assed attempt while developing its open source Typescript on Codeplex because they fail to understand that it does fucking matter that they aren't using Github IS stupid. Google's been doing somewhat similar things by sticking with google code hosting, but at least its got a better name in the open source community while also giving Github the same love that the community does. I mean, SERIOUSLY, before they start pushing for TypeScript at least get your fucking browser to support HTML5 as Firefox and Chrome do, let alone do some PR work on its ever growing "shit browser" branding issues. You'd be a fool to think that everything that is good is measured as such, on its own, in its first introduction.
I don't care if you don't think its "stupidity" is not important or relevant. I suppose you will just see a perfectly good language like TypeScript fail for apparently random reasons "because its sure as hell got nothing to do with Github". Do yourself a favor and learn from past mistakes. Improving on Java with C# and then claiming that its no longer open to criticism IS stupid. You have more to gain by talking about what can still be improved rather than shouting "hurrayyyy we've got lambda's, something that Java doesn't". | DART will be more successful than TypeScript. FACT. It has the bare minimum justification that the effort required to simply move JavaScript forward is better done by setting an example rather than wasting time arguing with people like you. TypeScript is the equivalent of CodePlex, of Knockout.js, of htmldoctor.com. It's merit is simply that Microsoft wants its dominance through proprietary crap. Google code hosting, Angular.js, and html5rocks.com is NOT the same thing. The day Google does something that is the same is the day Google will face the same future as Microsoft.
Bring on the down votes. |
justablur | Military here, this is briefly how it was explained to me:
Allowing people to come in and work unpaid creates an unfair advantage when it comes to performance reviews. For example, someone who can afford to work unpaid would be more likely to receive praise from their supervisor than someone who didn't/couldn't.
TLDR: "equal opportunity" or something | Military here, this is briefly how it was explained to me:
Allowing people to come in and work unpaid creates an unfair advantage when it comes to performance reviews. For example, someone who can afford to work unpaid would be more likely to receive praise from their supervisor than someone who didn't/couldn't.
TLDR: "equal opportunity" or something
| news | t5_2qh3l | ccm5yyd | Military here, this is briefly how it was explained to me:
Allowing people to come in and work unpaid creates an unfair advantage when it comes to performance reviews. For example, someone who can afford to work unpaid would be more likely to receive praise from their supervisor than someone who didn't/couldn't. | equal opportunity" or something |
Nyxian | Because riot doesn't hand the BBB money.
What happens is pretty simple. Customers file complaints with the BBB. BBB notices riot has a bunch of complaints. BBB offers riot a chance to get an account to "respond" to complaints to keep a good rating.
Since riot does NOT pay the BBB to get an account to respond, all they see is a bunch of bad ratings, thus, an F.
tl;dr - scam. | Because riot doesn't hand the BBB money.
What happens is pretty simple. Customers file complaints with the BBB. BBB notices riot has a bunch of complaints. BBB offers riot a chance to get an account to "respond" to complaints to keep a good rating.
Since riot does NOT pay the BBB to get an account to respond, all they see is a bunch of bad ratings, thus, an F.
tl;dr - scam.
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | ccm1s3t | Because riot doesn't hand the BBB money.
What happens is pretty simple. Customers file complaints with the BBB. BBB notices riot has a bunch of complaints. BBB offers riot a chance to get an account to "respond" to complaints to keep a good rating.
Since riot does NOT pay the BBB to get an account to respond, all they see is a bunch of bad ratings, thus, an F. | scam. |
high_like_everyday | Not exactly. If we view marijuana purely through the lens of intoxication, then the medicinal patients (by this, I mean the patients who literally can not get through their day without pot: the palsy, cancer, Parkinson's, etc., sufferers who lose all quality of life without weed to ease their symptoms) simply become the same legally as addicts, needing a controlled substance to get through the day. Since we know this is not true, we have to include a medical element to any legislation for legalization, otherwise we're refusing to take into consideration those who really need to be.
Tldr: Not everyone smokes weed to get high; some people really do view it as medicine. Thus, weed is different than tobacco and alcohol; it's BETTER. | Not exactly. If we view marijuana purely through the lens of intoxication, then the medicinal patients (by this, I mean the patients who literally can not get through their day without pot: the palsy, cancer, Parkinson's, etc., sufferers who lose all quality of life without weed to ease their symptoms) simply become the same legally as addicts, needing a controlled substance to get through the day. Since we know this is not true, we have to include a medical element to any legislation for legalization, otherwise we're refusing to take into consideration those who really need to be.
Tldr: Not everyone smokes weed to get high; some people really do view it as medicine. Thus, weed is different than tobacco and alcohol; it's BETTER.
| trees | t5_2r9vp | ccmuqp9 | Not exactly. If we view marijuana purely through the lens of intoxication, then the medicinal patients (by this, I mean the patients who literally can not get through their day without pot: the palsy, cancer, Parkinson's, etc., sufferers who lose all quality of life without weed to ease their symptoms) simply become the same legally as addicts, needing a controlled substance to get through the day. Since we know this is not true, we have to include a medical element to any legislation for legalization, otherwise we're refusing to take into consideration those who really need to be. | Not everyone smokes weed to get high; some people really do view it as medicine. Thus, weed is different than tobacco and alcohol; it's BETTER. |
shiryeon | It seems to me like religious colleges (at least around here in the midwest) are still usually pretty diverse, whether it be having students with religion at all or having a very different one than that of the school. I don't go to one, but I did apply to some (I'm not religious either by the way). I think it's generally true that they put an more of an emphasis on volunteering/service-oriented work.
The best way to find out is to visit the school, really, or else do a lot of reading around in the college confidential/college prowler forums and whatnot. There are some schools that are so religious that they don't want you to apply if you aren't religious too; there are others that will encourage you to pursue your own beliefs. (think Bob Jones vs. St. Olaf) You might have to take a required theology course at a religious college, but it wouldn't be for the purpose to getting you to convert.
tl;dr It depends on the school. I think your best bet at this point is to do some googling about each one you're interested in. | It seems to me like religious colleges (at least around here in the midwest) are still usually pretty diverse, whether it be having students with religion at all or having a very different one than that of the school. I don't go to one, but I did apply to some (I'm not religious either by the way). I think it's generally true that they put an more of an emphasis on volunteering/service-oriented work.
The best way to find out is to visit the school, really, or else do a lot of reading around in the college confidential/college prowler forums and whatnot. There are some schools that are so religious that they don't want you to apply if you aren't religious too; there are others that will encourage you to pursue your own beliefs. (think Bob Jones vs. St. Olaf) You might have to take a required theology course at a religious college, but it wouldn't be for the purpose to getting you to convert.
tl;dr It depends on the school. I think your best bet at this point is to do some googling about each one you're interested in.
| college | t5_2qh3z | ccmfdyn | It seems to me like religious colleges (at least around here in the midwest) are still usually pretty diverse, whether it be having students with religion at all or having a very different one than that of the school. I don't go to one, but I did apply to some (I'm not religious either by the way). I think it's generally true that they put an more of an emphasis on volunteering/service-oriented work.
The best way to find out is to visit the school, really, or else do a lot of reading around in the college confidential/college prowler forums and whatnot. There are some schools that are so religious that they don't want you to apply if you aren't religious too; there are others that will encourage you to pursue your own beliefs. (think Bob Jones vs. St. Olaf) You might have to take a required theology course at a religious college, but it wouldn't be for the purpose to getting you to convert. | It depends on the school. I think your best bet at this point is to do some googling about each one you're interested in. |
frownybear | I think that enjoying to dance by yourself is important at raves/clubs. Dancing with someone else should be pretty simple once they see you enjoying yourself. What I do at clubs is once i am dancing alone and having a good time I look up and see if anyone makes eye contact. Once I see them checking me out I grab them and pull them towards me. When you are face to face just hold on to her and try to up the energy level a bit because if you lower the energy level she would just get bored.
So once you are face to face getting a kiss is usually pretty straightforward. Lock eyes, smile, wait for her to smile back, look at her lips, and go in. Dont try to talk to girls at a rave or a club if you are dancing, it is futile. If you want to number close just pull our your phone in the dance floor and hand it to her making the phone to ear sign with your hand. Once she dials in save her name as something funny and show it to her. Usually pulling girls away from the dance floor to talk doesnt work for me because the girls just want to keep dancing.
TL;DR Pull them to you, dance more, go in for kiss. Dont talk | I think that enjoying to dance by yourself is important at raves/clubs. Dancing with someone else should be pretty simple once they see you enjoying yourself. What I do at clubs is once i am dancing alone and having a good time I look up and see if anyone makes eye contact. Once I see them checking me out I grab them and pull them towards me. When you are face to face just hold on to her and try to up the energy level a bit because if you lower the energy level she would just get bored.
So once you are face to face getting a kiss is usually pretty straightforward. Lock eyes, smile, wait for her to smile back, look at her lips, and go in. Dont try to talk to girls at a rave or a club if you are dancing, it is futile. If you want to number close just pull our your phone in the dance floor and hand it to her making the phone to ear sign with your hand. Once she dials in save her name as something funny and show it to her. Usually pulling girls away from the dance floor to talk doesnt work for me because the girls just want to keep dancing.
TL;DR Pull them to you, dance more, go in for kiss. Dont talk
| seduction | t5_2qhrv | ccmeync | I think that enjoying to dance by yourself is important at raves/clubs. Dancing with someone else should be pretty simple once they see you enjoying yourself. What I do at clubs is once i am dancing alone and having a good time I look up and see if anyone makes eye contact. Once I see them checking me out I grab them and pull them towards me. When you are face to face just hold on to her and try to up the energy level a bit because if you lower the energy level she would just get bored.
So once you are face to face getting a kiss is usually pretty straightforward. Lock eyes, smile, wait for her to smile back, look at her lips, and go in. Dont try to talk to girls at a rave or a club if you are dancing, it is futile. If you want to number close just pull our your phone in the dance floor and hand it to her making the phone to ear sign with your hand. Once she dials in save her name as something funny and show it to her. Usually pulling girls away from the dance floor to talk doesnt work for me because the girls just want to keep dancing. | Pull them to you, dance more, go in for kiss. Dont talk |
noptastic | > Even if D3D is slower than OpenGL
Driver speed isn't much of an issue. The APIs are so close in performance that bickering over 2% differences measured in unrepresentative microbenchmarks is silly. GL and D3D are about the same, except when it comes to loading shaders, where D3D has a clear advantage since the drivers get optimized bytecode rather than text.
> The big problem I've experienced with OpenGL is shoddy drivers.
> Will developers move to OpenGL (which has long been claimed to be faster) if the drivers - including non-AMD ones - remain shoddy?
D3D definitely wins in terms of having fewer API and driver bugs. I think the reference (software) implementation Microsoft publishes has a lot to do with that. Developers being able to verify if a bug is theirs or the driver's must do wonders for the quality of bug reports AMD and NV receive, and having that implementation to test the actual drivers against must be a huge boon as well.
However, it's not even the driver bugs that make GL a pain to work with. It's the godawful fragmentation...
> Even if D3D is slower than OpenGL, the drivers are typically much more uniform and stable.
Exactly. This right here: **Uniform and stable.** That's a *massively* good reason to target D3D first on Windows.
Under D3D you have the core feature set and *N* optional features, and it's a pain dealing with all the different combinations of those N features you might run into in the wild. Under GL, you have the same problem, except now it's multiplied by the choice of an NV, AMD, EXT, and ARB extension flavor to access each of these features. And some flavors are unavailable on some cards. And on cards where all extensions are supported, some have bugs (including bizarre cases like AMD cards with broken AMD extensions where the NV-equivalent extension works). And sometimes the set of bugs changes between driver revisions. (I've written "if NV GPU and driver version >= XX.xx and driver version != Y.y then prefer EXT extension over ARB or Core GL"-equivalents far too many times...)
On top of that, GL features levels vary drastically not only among vendors and GPUs, but also among driver versions. Sometimes driver updates cause extensions to vanish (replaced by other equivalents). Other times, new GL drivers expose new extensions only on the newest GPUs, even though those extensions are just exposing old hardware features in a new way. (By comparison, D3D11 can be initialized in feature-restricted modes to target D3D9-era GPUs.)
And then, just to add injury to insult, you have stuff like NV enabling non-standard shading language features *by default*, causing perfectly standard-conforming shaders to miscompile because some little thing they did changes overload resolution in some subtle way...
OpenGL is managed by a committee, and the members of that committee are more interested in bickering with each other than they are in making OpenGL a great API, causing fragmentation among GL implementation and imposing a *massive* burden on developers. On the other hand, D3D's controlled by a company that cares about the API *first*, and which has the clout to keep the hardware vendors in line, so it ends up much easier to develop and test against.
**Edit:** Removed "TL;DR" from the last paragraph since it's not actually a recap of the post. | > Even if D3D is slower than OpenGL
Driver speed isn't much of an issue. The APIs are so close in performance that bickering over 2% differences measured in unrepresentative microbenchmarks is silly. GL and D3D are about the same, except when it comes to loading shaders, where D3D has a clear advantage since the drivers get optimized bytecode rather than text.
> The big problem I've experienced with OpenGL is shoddy drivers.
> Will developers move to OpenGL (which has long been claimed to be faster) if the drivers - including non-AMD ones - remain shoddy?
D3D definitely wins in terms of having fewer API and driver bugs. I think the reference (software) implementation Microsoft publishes has a lot to do with that. Developers being able to verify if a bug is theirs or the driver's must do wonders for the quality of bug reports AMD and NV receive, and having that implementation to test the actual drivers against must be a huge boon as well.
However, it's not even the driver bugs that make GL a pain to work with. It's the godawful fragmentation...
> Even if D3D is slower than OpenGL, the drivers are typically much more uniform and stable.
Exactly. This right here: Uniform and stable. That's a massively good reason to target D3D first on Windows.
Under D3D you have the core feature set and N optional features, and it's a pain dealing with all the different combinations of those N features you might run into in the wild. Under GL, you have the same problem, except now it's multiplied by the choice of an NV, AMD, EXT, and ARB extension flavor to access each of these features. And some flavors are unavailable on some cards. And on cards where all extensions are supported, some have bugs (including bizarre cases like AMD cards with broken AMD extensions where the NV-equivalent extension works). And sometimes the set of bugs changes between driver revisions. (I've written "if NV GPU and driver version >= XX.xx and driver version != Y.y then prefer EXT extension over ARB or Core GL"-equivalents far too many times...)
On top of that, GL features levels vary drastically not only among vendors and GPUs, but also among driver versions. Sometimes driver updates cause extensions to vanish (replaced by other equivalents). Other times, new GL drivers expose new extensions only on the newest GPUs, even though those extensions are just exposing old hardware features in a new way. (By comparison, D3D11 can be initialized in feature-restricted modes to target D3D9-era GPUs.)
And then, just to add injury to insult, you have stuff like NV enabling non-standard shading language features by default , causing perfectly standard-conforming shaders to miscompile because some little thing they did changes overload resolution in some subtle way...
OpenGL is managed by a committee, and the members of that committee are more interested in bickering with each other than they are in making OpenGL a great API, causing fragmentation among GL implementation and imposing a massive burden on developers. On the other hand, D3D's controlled by a company that cares about the API first , and which has the clout to keep the hardware vendors in line, so it ends up much easier to develop and test against.
Edit: Removed "TL;DR" from the last paragraph since it's not actually a recap of the post.
| programming | t5_2fwo | ccmpyu5 | Even if D3D is slower than OpenGL
Driver speed isn't much of an issue. The APIs are so close in performance that bickering over 2% differences measured in unrepresentative microbenchmarks is silly. GL and D3D are about the same, except when it comes to loading shaders, where D3D has a clear advantage since the drivers get optimized bytecode rather than text.
> The big problem I've experienced with OpenGL is shoddy drivers.
> Will developers move to OpenGL (which has long been claimed to be faster) if the drivers - including non-AMD ones - remain shoddy?
D3D definitely wins in terms of having fewer API and driver bugs. I think the reference (software) implementation Microsoft publishes has a lot to do with that. Developers being able to verify if a bug is theirs or the driver's must do wonders for the quality of bug reports AMD and NV receive, and having that implementation to test the actual drivers against must be a huge boon as well.
However, it's not even the driver bugs that make GL a pain to work with. It's the godawful fragmentation...
> Even if D3D is slower than OpenGL, the drivers are typically much more uniform and stable.
Exactly. This right here: Uniform and stable. That's a massively good reason to target D3D first on Windows.
Under D3D you have the core feature set and N optional features, and it's a pain dealing with all the different combinations of those N features you might run into in the wild. Under GL, you have the same problem, except now it's multiplied by the choice of an NV, AMD, EXT, and ARB extension flavor to access each of these features. And some flavors are unavailable on some cards. And on cards where all extensions are supported, some have bugs (including bizarre cases like AMD cards with broken AMD extensions where the NV-equivalent extension works). And sometimes the set of bugs changes between driver revisions. (I've written "if NV GPU and driver version >= XX.xx and driver version != Y.y then prefer EXT extension over ARB or Core GL"-equivalents far too many times...)
On top of that, GL features levels vary drastically not only among vendors and GPUs, but also among driver versions. Sometimes driver updates cause extensions to vanish (replaced by other equivalents). Other times, new GL drivers expose new extensions only on the newest GPUs, even though those extensions are just exposing old hardware features in a new way. (By comparison, D3D11 can be initialized in feature-restricted modes to target D3D9-era GPUs.)
And then, just to add injury to insult, you have stuff like NV enabling non-standard shading language features by default , causing perfectly standard-conforming shaders to miscompile because some little thing they did changes overload resolution in some subtle way...
OpenGL is managed by a committee, and the members of that committee are more interested in bickering with each other than they are in making OpenGL a great API, causing fragmentation among GL implementation and imposing a massive burden on developers. On the other hand, D3D's controlled by a company that cares about the API first , and which has the clout to keep the hardware vendors in line, so it ends up much easier to develop and test against.
Edit: Removed " | from the last paragraph since it's not actually a recap of the post. |
Stonaman | Actually bro... I did say you made a valid point.
But, at least since I've been playing in this campaign, we haven't killed for the sake of killing except for when you tried to hire a group of miscreants to kill the guards on what was essentially a royal vessel. Yes, your character was "Evil" when you did it, which is a reasonable(I guess) excuse for why it was ok that you did that. But even then once the characters in the party realized what was going on they began to try and stop you from doing it. Going so far as to attack the thugs you hired.
But when the party is attacked by a group of creatures in the dead of night that have the capability to shape shift and lured us into a trap(you were missing for the vast majority of the fight, so you didn't hear about the part where their faces were peeling away from their skulls) and its obvious that they are not humans killing them is a much more reasonable response.
On top of which, the "cutting them open" was performed by one person. Everyone else other than you was more interested in opening up the barrel that had the muffled voice coming from it. Considering the barrel was in a cart that was stuck in some mud, there was a good chance we would have had to make various skill checks to figure out what was happening and safely retrieve it.
It is during this period of time that the one person who was doing dissection(a doctor-type player who would obviously be studying the creatures. He's also playing an evil character so its not like its any more out of alignment for him to do it than it was for you to try and kill the sailors) would have been doing this, in secret.
It was at this point you took it upon yourself to cover your character in the blood of the monsters(not people)we had just killed right before you made it back to the game. And even then we tried to end it peacefully with you. The BARBARIAN tried to bring you back to the camp when you had your Eidolon threaten the entire party. Had she not done that, the Paladin was going to give you his cloak and bring you back to camp to try and see if you were ok.
For a tangent real fast, you are the same player that slayed an entire village of goblins while the rest of the party was asleep. The excuse being "they are evil and this is what we were sent to do." So its ok to kill one set of evil creatures but not another? There has to be some sort of middle ground, or else you're just setting double standards.
tl;dr - There shouldn't be consequences for killing monsters that lure you into traps and attack you in the middle of the night. | Actually bro... I did say you made a valid point.
But, at least since I've been playing in this campaign, we haven't killed for the sake of killing except for when you tried to hire a group of miscreants to kill the guards on what was essentially a royal vessel. Yes, your character was "Evil" when you did it, which is a reasonable(I guess) excuse for why it was ok that you did that. But even then once the characters in the party realized what was going on they began to try and stop you from doing it. Going so far as to attack the thugs you hired.
But when the party is attacked by a group of creatures in the dead of night that have the capability to shape shift and lured us into a trap(you were missing for the vast majority of the fight, so you didn't hear about the part where their faces were peeling away from their skulls) and its obvious that they are not humans killing them is a much more reasonable response.
On top of which, the "cutting them open" was performed by one person. Everyone else other than you was more interested in opening up the barrel that had the muffled voice coming from it. Considering the barrel was in a cart that was stuck in some mud, there was a good chance we would have had to make various skill checks to figure out what was happening and safely retrieve it.
It is during this period of time that the one person who was doing dissection(a doctor-type player who would obviously be studying the creatures. He's also playing an evil character so its not like its any more out of alignment for him to do it than it was for you to try and kill the sailors) would have been doing this, in secret.
It was at this point you took it upon yourself to cover your character in the blood of the monsters(not people)we had just killed right before you made it back to the game. And even then we tried to end it peacefully with you. The BARBARIAN tried to bring you back to the camp when you had your Eidolon threaten the entire party. Had she not done that, the Paladin was going to give you his cloak and bring you back to camp to try and see if you were ok.
For a tangent real fast, you are the same player that slayed an entire village of goblins while the rest of the party was asleep. The excuse being "they are evil and this is what we were sent to do." So its ok to kill one set of evil creatures but not another? There has to be some sort of middle ground, or else you're just setting double standards.
tl;dr - There shouldn't be consequences for killing monsters that lure you into traps and attack you in the middle of the night.
| Pathfinder_RPG | t5_2trms | ccn0by4 | Actually bro... I did say you made a valid point.
But, at least since I've been playing in this campaign, we haven't killed for the sake of killing except for when you tried to hire a group of miscreants to kill the guards on what was essentially a royal vessel. Yes, your character was "Evil" when you did it, which is a reasonable(I guess) excuse for why it was ok that you did that. But even then once the characters in the party realized what was going on they began to try and stop you from doing it. Going so far as to attack the thugs you hired.
But when the party is attacked by a group of creatures in the dead of night that have the capability to shape shift and lured us into a trap(you were missing for the vast majority of the fight, so you didn't hear about the part where their faces were peeling away from their skulls) and its obvious that they are not humans killing them is a much more reasonable response.
On top of which, the "cutting them open" was performed by one person. Everyone else other than you was more interested in opening up the barrel that had the muffled voice coming from it. Considering the barrel was in a cart that was stuck in some mud, there was a good chance we would have had to make various skill checks to figure out what was happening and safely retrieve it.
It is during this period of time that the one person who was doing dissection(a doctor-type player who would obviously be studying the creatures. He's also playing an evil character so its not like its any more out of alignment for him to do it than it was for you to try and kill the sailors) would have been doing this, in secret.
It was at this point you took it upon yourself to cover your character in the blood of the monsters(not people)we had just killed right before you made it back to the game. And even then we tried to end it peacefully with you. The BARBARIAN tried to bring you back to the camp when you had your Eidolon threaten the entire party. Had she not done that, the Paladin was going to give you his cloak and bring you back to camp to try and see if you were ok.
For a tangent real fast, you are the same player that slayed an entire village of goblins while the rest of the party was asleep. The excuse being "they are evil and this is what we were sent to do." So its ok to kill one set of evil creatures but not another? There has to be some sort of middle ground, or else you're just setting double standards. | There shouldn't be consequences for killing monsters that lure you into traps and attack you in the middle of the night. |
Noxater | Ask her to prove her credential on biblical morality. If she is an authority on biblical morality she would be able to recite the 10 commandments. If unable recite these this person has no biblical moral authority to speak from.
(copy pasta from derrick miller) Most people are familiar with the "Ten Commandments" that were given to Moses in the book of Exodus (Ex. 20:3-17), but what these people don't realize, is that these are not the Ten Commandments that were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. God didn't even call the commandments mentioned in Exodus 20, The Ten Commandments. The actual Ten Commandments were given in Exodus 34:14-26. As you can see below, they are much different than the ones that Christians are fighting to put up in our schools and courtrooms.
1. For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
2. Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
3. The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep.
4. All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
5. Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
6. And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
7. Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
8. Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the feast of the Passover be left until the morning.
9. The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
10. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Tldr: Tell her to prove her biblical moral authority or shut up and leave.
| Ask her to prove her credential on biblical morality. If she is an authority on biblical morality she would be able to recite the 10 commandments. If unable recite these this person has no biblical moral authority to speak from.
(copy pasta from derrick miller) Most people are familiar with the "Ten Commandments" that were given to Moses in the book of Exodus (Ex. 20:3-17), but what these people don't realize, is that these are not the Ten Commandments that were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. God didn't even call the commandments mentioned in Exodus 20, The Ten Commandments. The actual Ten Commandments were given in Exodus 34:14-26. As you can see below, they are much different than the ones that Christians are fighting to put up in our schools and courtrooms.
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep.
All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the feast of the Passover be left until the morning.
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Tldr: Tell her to prove her biblical moral authority or shut up and leave.
| atheism | t5_2qh2p | ccn3cae | Ask her to prove her credential on biblical morality. If she is an authority on biblical morality she would be able to recite the 10 commandments. If unable recite these this person has no biblical moral authority to speak from.
(copy pasta from derrick miller) Most people are familiar with the "Ten Commandments" that were given to Moses in the book of Exodus (Ex. 20:3-17), but what these people don't realize, is that these are not the Ten Commandments that were placed in the Ark of the Covenant. God didn't even call the commandments mentioned in Exodus 20, The Ten Commandments. The actual Ten Commandments were given in Exodus 34:14-26. As you can see below, they are much different than the ones that Christians are fighting to put up in our schools and courtrooms.
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.
The feast of unleavened bread shalt thou keep.
All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leaven; neither shall the feast of the Passover be left until the morning.
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God.
Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk. | Tell her to prove her biblical moral authority or shut up and leave. |
kenmaclean | The only non-undead NPC I can think of would be Seiglinde, and even then I'm not sure.
I don't know why they don't respawn, though. I would think that hollow undead don't respawn, and they go hollow right before you kill them (most of them are already near there anyways, being the enemy of the one who is to free them from their curse is likely not good for humanity). However the hollows elsewhere respawn without coming near a bonfire.
Another theory is base on the fact that the flow of time in lordran is convoluted, maybe they get respawned right there, but three days after you defeat gwyn, or a thousand years before. Maybe their world and yours simply drift apart after that, as they do for you and other chosen undead.
TL;DR: not a damned clue. | The only non-undead NPC I can think of would be Seiglinde, and even then I'm not sure.
I don't know why they don't respawn, though. I would think that hollow undead don't respawn, and they go hollow right before you kill them (most of them are already near there anyways, being the enemy of the one who is to free them from their curse is likely not good for humanity). However the hollows elsewhere respawn without coming near a bonfire.
Another theory is base on the fact that the flow of time in lordran is convoluted, maybe they get respawned right there, but three days after you defeat gwyn, or a thousand years before. Maybe their world and yours simply drift apart after that, as they do for you and other chosen undead.
TL;DR: not a damned clue.
| darksouls | t5_2sazo | ccn5rdx | The only non-undead NPC I can think of would be Seiglinde, and even then I'm not sure.
I don't know why they don't respawn, though. I would think that hollow undead don't respawn, and they go hollow right before you kill them (most of them are already near there anyways, being the enemy of the one who is to free them from their curse is likely not good for humanity). However the hollows elsewhere respawn without coming near a bonfire.
Another theory is base on the fact that the flow of time in lordran is convoluted, maybe they get respawned right there, but three days after you defeat gwyn, or a thousand years before. Maybe their world and yours simply drift apart after that, as they do for you and other chosen undead. | not a damned clue. |
wwvpv | I had difficulty doing up the other 3 buttons in the 14.5 oz. depends more on the warp and weft, I guess - tl;dr the denim was stiff. | I had difficulty doing up the other 3 buttons in the 14.5 oz. depends more on the warp and weft, I guess - tl;dr the denim was stiff.
| rawdenim | t5_2scl9 | ccnfjb8 | I had difficulty doing up the other 3 buttons in the 14.5 oz. depends more on the warp and weft, I guess - | the denim was stiff. |
mikuasakura | Oh boy, the Green/Blue confusion.
So, in Japan, there were originally Red and Green versions of Pokemon. The main character that you play as was Red and your Rival was Green. The games were pretty different originally, [notably in the sprites for the characters]( A lot of people didn't like that the Pokemon looked different between the games so Nintendo and Game Freak developed Pokemon Blue to be a replacement to Green. At that point though, it had been established that the characters were Red and Green so, it stayed that way in Japan.
Then Pokemon made the trip across the ocean to the U.S. but, we only ever got Red and Blue. The U.S. localization team thought that it would be much less confusing to have the characters be named Red and Blue, rather than Red and Green since there were Red and Blue versions of the game. Thus, in U.S. versions, we know the hero to be Red and the rival to be Blue.
These translations are congruent in every official medium. In Japan, Red is Red, Green is Green, Blue (the girl from the Pokemon Special Manga) is Blue. In the U.S. Red is Red, Green is Blue, and Blue is Green (the girl from the Pokemon Special Manga). This essentially splits the fan-base into two camps on names.
Some people feel like the Japanese names are the only correct ones and that the official localizations are wrong and should not be used. When they make fan translations of the manga, they refer to the rival as Green because they believe it's his true name.
Others feel that, even though it's a "changed" name, it would be easier to always use the correct localization when referring to the characters. Their translations, along with all official localizations, will all use the same names.
The last piece of the puzzle is what happened with Pokemon Special. Originally, it was a Japan-only release. Being so involved with the Japanese side of Pokemon, the first group of fans got their hands on the manga early on and translated it. They stuck to their beliefs and did a direct translation, then posted it to the internet. Later, the manga was officially localized and released, name changes and all.
So, to hopefully clear up your confusion, bulbapedia sticks to the localized names since they are the technical official names in English (the rival is Blue). The screen shot of the manga that you've found is a fan translation of Pokemon Special that sticks to the original names (the rival is Green). In the officially translated manga, Pokemon Adventure, the rival is Blue.
tldr;
Many fan translations of the Pokemon Special manga use a direct translation of the Japanese names, making the rival character Green. The official localization calls the rival Blue (and switched the girl character to Green) because only Japan ever saw Pokemon Green Version. | Oh boy, the Green/Blue confusion.
So, in Japan, there were originally Red and Green versions of Pokemon. The main character that you play as was Red and your Rival was Green. The games were pretty different originally, [notably in the sprites for the characters]( A lot of people didn't like that the Pokemon looked different between the games so Nintendo and Game Freak developed Pokemon Blue to be a replacement to Green. At that point though, it had been established that the characters were Red and Green so, it stayed that way in Japan.
Then Pokemon made the trip across the ocean to the U.S. but, we only ever got Red and Blue. The U.S. localization team thought that it would be much less confusing to have the characters be named Red and Blue, rather than Red and Green since there were Red and Blue versions of the game. Thus, in U.S. versions, we know the hero to be Red and the rival to be Blue.
These translations are congruent in every official medium. In Japan, Red is Red, Green is Green, Blue (the girl from the Pokemon Special Manga) is Blue. In the U.S. Red is Red, Green is Blue, and Blue is Green (the girl from the Pokemon Special Manga). This essentially splits the fan-base into two camps on names.
Some people feel like the Japanese names are the only correct ones and that the official localizations are wrong and should not be used. When they make fan translations of the manga, they refer to the rival as Green because they believe it's his true name.
Others feel that, even though it's a "changed" name, it would be easier to always use the correct localization when referring to the characters. Their translations, along with all official localizations, will all use the same names.
The last piece of the puzzle is what happened with Pokemon Special. Originally, it was a Japan-only release. Being so involved with the Japanese side of Pokemon, the first group of fans got their hands on the manga early on and translated it. They stuck to their beliefs and did a direct translation, then posted it to the internet. Later, the manga was officially localized and released, name changes and all.
So, to hopefully clear up your confusion, bulbapedia sticks to the localized names since they are the technical official names in English (the rival is Blue). The screen shot of the manga that you've found is a fan translation of Pokemon Special that sticks to the original names (the rival is Green). In the officially translated manga, Pokemon Adventure, the rival is Blue.
tldr;
Many fan translations of the Pokemon Special manga use a direct translation of the Japanese names, making the rival character Green. The official localization calls the rival Blue (and switched the girl character to Green) because only Japan ever saw Pokemon Green Version.
| Animesuggest | t5_2ssl0 | ccnf2fy | Oh boy, the Green/Blue confusion.
So, in Japan, there were originally Red and Green versions of Pokemon. The main character that you play as was Red and your Rival was Green. The games were pretty different originally, [notably in the sprites for the characters]( A lot of people didn't like that the Pokemon looked different between the games so Nintendo and Game Freak developed Pokemon Blue to be a replacement to Green. At that point though, it had been established that the characters were Red and Green so, it stayed that way in Japan.
Then Pokemon made the trip across the ocean to the U.S. but, we only ever got Red and Blue. The U.S. localization team thought that it would be much less confusing to have the characters be named Red and Blue, rather than Red and Green since there were Red and Blue versions of the game. Thus, in U.S. versions, we know the hero to be Red and the rival to be Blue.
These translations are congruent in every official medium. In Japan, Red is Red, Green is Green, Blue (the girl from the Pokemon Special Manga) is Blue. In the U.S. Red is Red, Green is Blue, and Blue is Green (the girl from the Pokemon Special Manga). This essentially splits the fan-base into two camps on names.
Some people feel like the Japanese names are the only correct ones and that the official localizations are wrong and should not be used. When they make fan translations of the manga, they refer to the rival as Green because they believe it's his true name.
Others feel that, even though it's a "changed" name, it would be easier to always use the correct localization when referring to the characters. Their translations, along with all official localizations, will all use the same names.
The last piece of the puzzle is what happened with Pokemon Special. Originally, it was a Japan-only release. Being so involved with the Japanese side of Pokemon, the first group of fans got their hands on the manga early on and translated it. They stuck to their beliefs and did a direct translation, then posted it to the internet. Later, the manga was officially localized and released, name changes and all.
So, to hopefully clear up your confusion, bulbapedia sticks to the localized names since they are the technical official names in English (the rival is Blue). The screen shot of the manga that you've found is a fan translation of Pokemon Special that sticks to the original names (the rival is Green). In the officially translated manga, Pokemon Adventure, the rival is Blue. | Many fan translations of the Pokemon Special manga use a direct translation of the Japanese names, making the rival character Green. The official localization calls the rival Blue (and switched the girl character to Green) because only Japan ever saw Pokemon Green Version. |
forgottenpassword03 | I was having diarhea and threw up on my own dick in an attempt to throw up through my legs while sitting on the toilet
tldr; you are not the only one
| I was having diarhea and threw up on my own dick in an attempt to throw up through my legs while sitting on the toilet
tldr; you are not the only one
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ccny8fl | I was having diarhea and threw up on my own dick in an attempt to throw up through my legs while sitting on the toilet | you are not the only one |
AnnRutledge | I'm phasing into vegetarian and hadn't had meat in a while, when on Saturday, we stopped at Wendys. Of course, their salads are awful (best IMO are McDonalds) so I got a small cheeseburger with lettuce.
About 2 hours later, I got the worst feeling ever, not sick persay, but messed up. I imagine it to be comprable to a hangover. I slept for almost 4 hours and woke up around 7. I didn't sleep well since I had napped, so I just sat up talking to myself and reading.
Sunday was ok, a bit of stomach ache but better.
Monday sucked. I had to stay curled up in bed for a few hours, then I went to school for he second half of the day. So, yeah, other people get that too.
TL; DR: Yes. | I'm phasing into vegetarian and hadn't had meat in a while, when on Saturday, we stopped at Wendys. Of course, their salads are awful (best IMO are McDonalds) so I got a small cheeseburger with lettuce.
About 2 hours later, I got the worst feeling ever, not sick persay, but messed up. I imagine it to be comprable to a hangover. I slept for almost 4 hours and woke up around 7. I didn't sleep well since I had napped, so I just sat up talking to myself and reading.
Sunday was ok, a bit of stomach ache but better.
Monday sucked. I had to stay curled up in bed for a few hours, then I went to school for he second half of the day. So, yeah, other people get that too.
TL; DR: Yes.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | ccnu38b | I'm phasing into vegetarian and hadn't had meat in a while, when on Saturday, we stopped at Wendys. Of course, their salads are awful (best IMO are McDonalds) so I got a small cheeseburger with lettuce.
About 2 hours later, I got the worst feeling ever, not sick persay, but messed up. I imagine it to be comprable to a hangover. I slept for almost 4 hours and woke up around 7. I didn't sleep well since I had napped, so I just sat up talking to myself and reading.
Sunday was ok, a bit of stomach ache but better.
Monday sucked. I had to stay curled up in bed for a few hours, then I went to school for he second half of the day. So, yeah, other people get that too. | Yes. |
jakeismyname505 | My rationalization for it is that, by thinking about all the terrible things we're able to do, it allows us to analyze the situation, and keep ourselves from doing them on impulse.
Of course, we don't need to worry about that now that we've created social morals, but I could see how this trait could be useful in a primitive species, still developing it's first societies.
TL;DR: We think about killing babies because society. | My rationalization for it is that, by thinking about all the terrible things we're able to do, it allows us to analyze the situation, and keep ourselves from doing them on impulse.
Of course, we don't need to worry about that now that we've created social morals, but I could see how this trait could be useful in a primitive species, still developing it's first societies.
TL;DR: We think about killing babies because society.
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cco12tt | My rationalization for it is that, by thinking about all the terrible things we're able to do, it allows us to analyze the situation, and keep ourselves from doing them on impulse.
Of course, we don't need to worry about that now that we've created social morals, but I could see how this trait could be useful in a primitive species, still developing it's first societies. | We think about killing babies because society. |
mudgod2 | The way to go about it is generally incrementally making sure they understand a single issue and then moving on to the next. That way they themselves have time to deal with things at their own pace.
Additionally in the bigger picture it's about your own life so you should focus on building that, getting a good education and job so you're at a point where they can't blackmail you or control you. The issues in life are who you have children with, what career you have, who you marry. You should be planning to have all that go the way you want and would make you happy
tl;dr Don't rush into things, play the long game and conquer all | The way to go about it is generally incrementally making sure they understand a single issue and then moving on to the next. That way they themselves have time to deal with things at their own pace.
Additionally in the bigger picture it's about your own life so you should focus on building that, getting a good education and job so you're at a point where they can't blackmail you or control you. The issues in life are who you have children with, what career you have, who you marry. You should be planning to have all that go the way you want and would make you happy
tl;dr Don't rush into things, play the long game and conquer all
| exmuslim | t5_2s7k2 | cco7mv6 | The way to go about it is generally incrementally making sure they understand a single issue and then moving on to the next. That way they themselves have time to deal with things at their own pace.
Additionally in the bigger picture it's about your own life so you should focus on building that, getting a good education and job so you're at a point where they can't blackmail you or control you. The issues in life are who you have children with, what career you have, who you marry. You should be planning to have all that go the way you want and would make you happy | Don't rush into things, play the long game and conquer all |
goliveyourdreams | Maybe he could become dominant if asked to be - or at least play the role. He may simply be respectful in bed and not sure of her boundaries, so he lets her lead. If told, "Tear my clothes off, hold me down, spank my ass and fuck me hard" I'd think even the most submissive guy would oblige. I certainly would.
TL;DR: Communicate clearly. Make sure he gets it. | Maybe he could become dominant if asked to be - or at least play the role. He may simply be respectful in bed and not sure of her boundaries, so he lets her lead. If told, "Tear my clothes off, hold me down, spank my ass and fuck me hard" I'd think even the most submissive guy would oblige. I certainly would.
TL;DR: Communicate clearly. Make sure he gets it.
| sex | t5_2qh3p | ccoh1o7 | Maybe he could become dominant if asked to be - or at least play the role. He may simply be respectful in bed and not sure of her boundaries, so he lets her lead. If told, "Tear my clothes off, hold me down, spank my ass and fuck me hard" I'd think even the most submissive guy would oblige. I certainly would. | Communicate clearly. Make sure he gets it. |
dismayed_obelisk | Deaf person here. My other senses aren't better, per se, but I do use them more than a hearing person does. While driving for example, I pay more attention to the vibrations of the car and can tell when to change gear earlier than a hearing person can from the sound of the car. I'm also aware of vibrations from footsteps, doors closing, washing machines and so on. I can tell if my baby is wheezing from vibrations in her chest when she breathes. The list goes on.
My eyesight is terrible. Deaf people tend to use vibrations rather than eyesight to make up for their hearing loss, apart from obvious situations like checking whether a car is coming while crossing the road.
TL;DR: Losing a sense doesn't make the other senses better, the person is just more aware of them. | Deaf person here. My other senses aren't better, per se, but I do use them more than a hearing person does. While driving for example, I pay more attention to the vibrations of the car and can tell when to change gear earlier than a hearing person can from the sound of the car. I'm also aware of vibrations from footsteps, doors closing, washing machines and so on. I can tell if my baby is wheezing from vibrations in her chest when she breathes. The list goes on.
My eyesight is terrible. Deaf people tend to use vibrations rather than eyesight to make up for their hearing loss, apart from obvious situations like checking whether a car is coming while crossing the road.
TL;DR: Losing a sense doesn't make the other senses better, the person is just more aware of them.
| askscience | t5_2qm4e | ccoss7c | Deaf person here. My other senses aren't better, per se, but I do use them more than a hearing person does. While driving for example, I pay more attention to the vibrations of the car and can tell when to change gear earlier than a hearing person can from the sound of the car. I'm also aware of vibrations from footsteps, doors closing, washing machines and so on. I can tell if my baby is wheezing from vibrations in her chest when she breathes. The list goes on.
My eyesight is terrible. Deaf people tend to use vibrations rather than eyesight to make up for their hearing loss, apart from obvious situations like checking whether a car is coming while crossing the road. | Losing a sense doesn't make the other senses better, the person is just more aware of them. |
Carthonas | Cut off their arms and legs, remove their eyes and tongue, pop out their eardrums... as well as chemically castrate them. Hook them up to life support. Give them a button or something they can roll onto that when they activate it they'll be impaled with some sort of lance and die.
Then wait until they can't bear the eternal insane emptiness of their mind and they kill themselves.
tl;dr forced suicide | Cut off their arms and legs, remove their eyes and tongue, pop out their eardrums... as well as chemically castrate them. Hook them up to life support. Give them a button or something they can roll onto that when they activate it they'll be impaled with some sort of lance and die.
Then wait until they can't bear the eternal insane emptiness of their mind and they kill themselves.
tl;dr forced suicide
| AskReddit | t5_2qh1i | cco9gvk | Cut off their arms and legs, remove their eyes and tongue, pop out their eardrums... as well as chemically castrate them. Hook them up to life support. Give them a button or something they can roll onto that when they activate it they'll be impaled with some sort of lance and die.
Then wait until they can't bear the eternal insane emptiness of their mind and they kill themselves. | forced suicide |
DarkLasombra | Oh they are definitely teenagers. As I approached 30, I realized something. When girls are in their teens, almost all of them are skinny or seem to have really nice bodies. I say "seem to" because most women nowadays have designer clothes that shape them quite nicely. Once women (and men too) hit 21 or so, almost all of them lose the automatic skinny thing and start to gain a bit of curve. Once you get to the late 20's, almost all women in this age range are what these ignorant kids are calling fat. Give them a few years to realize how stupid they are.
TL;DR Young kids/adults don't know shit about what fat is and make themselves look like total dickheads.
Also, in my opinion, she has a fairly attractive body and her boobs sit very nicely for their size. I would rock that. | Oh they are definitely teenagers. As I approached 30, I realized something. When girls are in their teens, almost all of them are skinny or seem to have really nice bodies. I say "seem to" because most women nowadays have designer clothes that shape them quite nicely. Once women (and men too) hit 21 or so, almost all of them lose the automatic skinny thing and start to gain a bit of curve. Once you get to the late 20's, almost all women in this age range are what these ignorant kids are calling fat. Give them a few years to realize how stupid they are.
TL;DR Young kids/adults don't know shit about what fat is and make themselves look like total dickheads.
Also, in my opinion, she has a fairly attractive body and her boobs sit very nicely for their size. I would rock that.
| AdviceAnimals | t5_2s7tt | ccohqdj | Oh they are definitely teenagers. As I approached 30, I realized something. When girls are in their teens, almost all of them are skinny or seem to have really nice bodies. I say "seem to" because most women nowadays have designer clothes that shape them quite nicely. Once women (and men too) hit 21 or so, almost all of them lose the automatic skinny thing and start to gain a bit of curve. Once you get to the late 20's, almost all women in this age range are what these ignorant kids are calling fat. Give them a few years to realize how stupid they are. | Young kids/adults don't know shit about what fat is and make themselves look like total dickheads.
Also, in my opinion, she has a fairly attractive body and her boobs sit very nicely for their size. I would rock that. |
robdelfranco | Thoughts after Rapid completion:
Plot Line: Very easy to follow both in Tartarus and with the Argo II. While predictable in some parts (as Rick's books mostly are, but its not the complete point), the overall structure provided a great platform for each character to learn and grow as a teen and as a hero/heroine.
Nico: Like his shadowy powers, Nico has been kept in the dark for a long time without much explanation. He has so much angst and not only does it make sense for his heritage, but also who he is as a person. He has to be guarded, alone, in the dark, be cause not only can he not confront other people well, he has a hard time confronting himself. His time in Cupid's castle, while once again predictable that he did not like Annabeth but had homosexual feelings for Percy, was necessary and answered so many questions about why he chose to be the "Ghost King", why he has trouble meeting people's eyes or why he constantly pushes people away. Seeing his feeling for percy through Jason's chapter was both heartfelt and tragic, and I felt for him the entire time. While I still want to hit him on the head and say, "LISTEN! You have friends and they will accept you if you stop constantly pushing people away", I still do understand where he is coming from. I hope on all hopes this series ends with him at least genuinely smiling.
Percy & Annabeth: Love the characters, and because they grew so much in the first series, not much growth hear, besides expressions of love and support and talk of the future. Their time in Tartarus together showed that they really do love each other and will do anything for each and for their friends. But some things did come out of their time down their. For the first time, Annabeth saw the power that Percy truly has at his disposal. She feared him when he battled Akhlys and her poisons. And he felt power that wasn't used for mere protection, but for actual pain. Very dark chapter, (though the following chapter with tricking Nyx seemed way too easy, I will give it a pass). Annabeth didn't grow strength wise in this book, but emotionally, she went through loss, despair, misery, and still stayed strong. Her resolve was only heightened by her now unquestionable and undying love for Percy, who knows that they will have a future together no matter what.
Leo: After the dwarves chapter and all of his self doubt following the Archimedes Sphere, I wasn't sure where Rick was looking for Leo's path to go. But landing on Ogygia and meeting Calypso, that saga was incredible. He no longer pined after Hazel, nor Khione, nor Echo. He found love in the best format for him: healthy, fun, and works like a well oiled machine. He and Calypso found love in the most pure of senses, and when he leaves Ogygia, he leaves it as a different man. Everyone can see that (Jason and Hazel for sure, Frank after the fire-proof pouch); its as if he is more grounded and has finally grown past his teasing and wisecracks out of uncomfortability, to finding a place where he could belong. He may be an seventh wheel, but this wheel provides laughter and a sense of hope to the seven, a fire to keep them all warm. I applaud Leo in this book and Rick's choice for this character.
Frank: Similarly, Rick's plan for Frank gave me chills every time he had a chapter. Frank has grown in this book, literally. He was so awkward in his own skin. Never comfortable with his weight, with his heritage, his weakness, nor his strengths as a member of this team, he finally grew into the man he really is. Strong, confident, powerful, but not only that, tactical, wise, and a natural leader. He gained the blessing of Mars not only once, but twice in this book, and has fully accepted his heritage as a warrior and a leader, and with the help of an inflammable pouch to hold his life stick, Frank ends this book with a new outlook on life that everyone can obviously see and respect in awe.
Hazel: Always an anachronism, Hazel has seen tragedy in all facets of her life, and meets the "so-called" cause of it Hecate, who not only helped Hazel's mother use magic to summon Pluto, but tells Hazel she has magic herself and must control the Mist to succeed in the quest. While her inner struggle with all of this was sort of glossed over, she too accepted her parentage outright when Pluto himself was proud of Hazel for understanding the powers of the Mist and Pluto's dominion over greed. She gained leadership at the loss Percy and Annabeth, and ultimately in her battle at the end with Pasiphaë, showed courage, strength, and intelligence in a battle that hasn't been seen thus far in the series. She and Frank grow closer to as each better understand themselves.
Piper: Though she has always felt weak, her 4 chapter saga was a nice touch to her character path that shows that she too has grown. Khione and the Boreads, as well as some talks with Hazel, that her power should not be over what she wants people to do, but what they want to see/hear for themselves to result in utter control. She activates Festus, a mechanical object, with charmspeak, and gains some sword abilities at last as well, making her a damn formidable opponent.
Jason: And obviously the easiest to see/understand his changes. Jason's struggle was choosing between his Roman heritage but his now Grecian heart. This was most obviously seen in the palace of the southern winds, where he truly chooses Greek his the southern venti to control them, and during the Battle at the House of Hades, where he cannot control the undead roman leigon because he is no longer a true praetor of the Roman Camp, and gives his praetorship to Frank. While this character development is crucial, as he sees he just wants to be happy with Piper, its more of his leadership skills that brings Jason home. Jason was chosen wisely by Juno, for he is a great figurehead of this quest. He cares deeply for each member of their team, and while he is tactical and can eb scary, he would do anything for them. He protects and honors his pact with Nico, he tells immediately that Leo is changed almost instantly after his time on Ogygia, and understands that he had to relinquish his title as praetor to Frank in order survive. Jason Grace is a natural leader, and beyond that, finding himself as the man he wants and needs to be.
On some other characters:
Bob, Little Bob, and Damasen were amazing and heartwrenching to see gone.
Loved seeing Rachel and Grover again!
Hate Octavian, but thats pretty obvious.
Reyna coming across the sea was pretty spectacular, hopefully she can do something about the Greek-Roman Battle.
Tartarus was one scary dude.
And seeing a lot of the old villains, as well as Percy's response to the curses of the monsters of the past was great.
**TL;DR: This was an amazing book that really fleshed out the main characters nicely and I cannot wait until next fall.** | Thoughts after Rapid completion:
Plot Line: Very easy to follow both in Tartarus and with the Argo II. While predictable in some parts (as Rick's books mostly are, but its not the complete point), the overall structure provided a great platform for each character to learn and grow as a teen and as a hero/heroine.
Nico: Like his shadowy powers, Nico has been kept in the dark for a long time without much explanation. He has so much angst and not only does it make sense for his heritage, but also who he is as a person. He has to be guarded, alone, in the dark, be cause not only can he not confront other people well, he has a hard time confronting himself. His time in Cupid's castle, while once again predictable that he did not like Annabeth but had homosexual feelings for Percy, was necessary and answered so many questions about why he chose to be the "Ghost King", why he has trouble meeting people's eyes or why he constantly pushes people away. Seeing his feeling for percy through Jason's chapter was both heartfelt and tragic, and I felt for him the entire time. While I still want to hit him on the head and say, "LISTEN! You have friends and they will accept you if you stop constantly pushing people away", I still do understand where he is coming from. I hope on all hopes this series ends with him at least genuinely smiling.
Percy & Annabeth: Love the characters, and because they grew so much in the first series, not much growth hear, besides expressions of love and support and talk of the future. Their time in Tartarus together showed that they really do love each other and will do anything for each and for their friends. But some things did come out of their time down their. For the first time, Annabeth saw the power that Percy truly has at his disposal. She feared him when he battled Akhlys and her poisons. And he felt power that wasn't used for mere protection, but for actual pain. Very dark chapter, (though the following chapter with tricking Nyx seemed way too easy, I will give it a pass). Annabeth didn't grow strength wise in this book, but emotionally, she went through loss, despair, misery, and still stayed strong. Her resolve was only heightened by her now unquestionable and undying love for Percy, who knows that they will have a future together no matter what.
Leo: After the dwarves chapter and all of his self doubt following the Archimedes Sphere, I wasn't sure where Rick was looking for Leo's path to go. But landing on Ogygia and meeting Calypso, that saga was incredible. He no longer pined after Hazel, nor Khione, nor Echo. He found love in the best format for him: healthy, fun, and works like a well oiled machine. He and Calypso found love in the most pure of senses, and when he leaves Ogygia, he leaves it as a different man. Everyone can see that (Jason and Hazel for sure, Frank after the fire-proof pouch); its as if he is more grounded and has finally grown past his teasing and wisecracks out of uncomfortability, to finding a place where he could belong. He may be an seventh wheel, but this wheel provides laughter and a sense of hope to the seven, a fire to keep them all warm. I applaud Leo in this book and Rick's choice for this character.
Frank: Similarly, Rick's plan for Frank gave me chills every time he had a chapter. Frank has grown in this book, literally. He was so awkward in his own skin. Never comfortable with his weight, with his heritage, his weakness, nor his strengths as a member of this team, he finally grew into the man he really is. Strong, confident, powerful, but not only that, tactical, wise, and a natural leader. He gained the blessing of Mars not only once, but twice in this book, and has fully accepted his heritage as a warrior and a leader, and with the help of an inflammable pouch to hold his life stick, Frank ends this book with a new outlook on life that everyone can obviously see and respect in awe.
Hazel: Always an anachronism, Hazel has seen tragedy in all facets of her life, and meets the "so-called" cause of it Hecate, who not only helped Hazel's mother use magic to summon Pluto, but tells Hazel she has magic herself and must control the Mist to succeed in the quest. While her inner struggle with all of this was sort of glossed over, she too accepted her parentage outright when Pluto himself was proud of Hazel for understanding the powers of the Mist and Pluto's dominion over greed. She gained leadership at the loss Percy and Annabeth, and ultimately in her battle at the end with Pasiphaë, showed courage, strength, and intelligence in a battle that hasn't been seen thus far in the series. She and Frank grow closer to as each better understand themselves.
Piper: Though she has always felt weak, her 4 chapter saga was a nice touch to her character path that shows that she too has grown. Khione and the Boreads, as well as some talks with Hazel, that her power should not be over what she wants people to do, but what they want to see/hear for themselves to result in utter control. She activates Festus, a mechanical object, with charmspeak, and gains some sword abilities at last as well, making her a damn formidable opponent.
Jason: And obviously the easiest to see/understand his changes. Jason's struggle was choosing between his Roman heritage but his now Grecian heart. This was most obviously seen in the palace of the southern winds, where he truly chooses Greek his the southern venti to control them, and during the Battle at the House of Hades, where he cannot control the undead roman leigon because he is no longer a true praetor of the Roman Camp, and gives his praetorship to Frank. While this character development is crucial, as he sees he just wants to be happy with Piper, its more of his leadership skills that brings Jason home. Jason was chosen wisely by Juno, for he is a great figurehead of this quest. He cares deeply for each member of their team, and while he is tactical and can eb scary, he would do anything for them. He protects and honors his pact with Nico, he tells immediately that Leo is changed almost instantly after his time on Ogygia, and understands that he had to relinquish his title as praetor to Frank in order survive. Jason Grace is a natural leader, and beyond that, finding himself as the man he wants and needs to be.
On some other characters:
Bob, Little Bob, and Damasen were amazing and heartwrenching to see gone.
Loved seeing Rachel and Grover again!
Hate Octavian, but thats pretty obvious.
Reyna coming across the sea was pretty spectacular, hopefully she can do something about the Greek-Roman Battle.
Tartarus was one scary dude.
And seeing a lot of the old villains, as well as Percy's response to the curses of the monsters of the past was great.
TL;DR: This was an amazing book that really fleshed out the main characters nicely and I cannot wait until next fall.
| PercyJackson | t5_2td8t | ccp9pcx | Thoughts after Rapid completion:
Plot Line: Very easy to follow both in Tartarus and with the Argo II. While predictable in some parts (as Rick's books mostly are, but its not the complete point), the overall structure provided a great platform for each character to learn and grow as a teen and as a hero/heroine.
Nico: Like his shadowy powers, Nico has been kept in the dark for a long time without much explanation. He has so much angst and not only does it make sense for his heritage, but also who he is as a person. He has to be guarded, alone, in the dark, be cause not only can he not confront other people well, he has a hard time confronting himself. His time in Cupid's castle, while once again predictable that he did not like Annabeth but had homosexual feelings for Percy, was necessary and answered so many questions about why he chose to be the "Ghost King", why he has trouble meeting people's eyes or why he constantly pushes people away. Seeing his feeling for percy through Jason's chapter was both heartfelt and tragic, and I felt for him the entire time. While I still want to hit him on the head and say, "LISTEN! You have friends and they will accept you if you stop constantly pushing people away", I still do understand where he is coming from. I hope on all hopes this series ends with him at least genuinely smiling.
Percy & Annabeth: Love the characters, and because they grew so much in the first series, not much growth hear, besides expressions of love and support and talk of the future. Their time in Tartarus together showed that they really do love each other and will do anything for each and for their friends. But some things did come out of their time down their. For the first time, Annabeth saw the power that Percy truly has at his disposal. She feared him when he battled Akhlys and her poisons. And he felt power that wasn't used for mere protection, but for actual pain. Very dark chapter, (though the following chapter with tricking Nyx seemed way too easy, I will give it a pass). Annabeth didn't grow strength wise in this book, but emotionally, she went through loss, despair, misery, and still stayed strong. Her resolve was only heightened by her now unquestionable and undying love for Percy, who knows that they will have a future together no matter what.
Leo: After the dwarves chapter and all of his self doubt following the Archimedes Sphere, I wasn't sure where Rick was looking for Leo's path to go. But landing on Ogygia and meeting Calypso, that saga was incredible. He no longer pined after Hazel, nor Khione, nor Echo. He found love in the best format for him: healthy, fun, and works like a well oiled machine. He and Calypso found love in the most pure of senses, and when he leaves Ogygia, he leaves it as a different man. Everyone can see that (Jason and Hazel for sure, Frank after the fire-proof pouch); its as if he is more grounded and has finally grown past his teasing and wisecracks out of uncomfortability, to finding a place where he could belong. He may be an seventh wheel, but this wheel provides laughter and a sense of hope to the seven, a fire to keep them all warm. I applaud Leo in this book and Rick's choice for this character.
Frank: Similarly, Rick's plan for Frank gave me chills every time he had a chapter. Frank has grown in this book, literally. He was so awkward in his own skin. Never comfortable with his weight, with his heritage, his weakness, nor his strengths as a member of this team, he finally grew into the man he really is. Strong, confident, powerful, but not only that, tactical, wise, and a natural leader. He gained the blessing of Mars not only once, but twice in this book, and has fully accepted his heritage as a warrior and a leader, and with the help of an inflammable pouch to hold his life stick, Frank ends this book with a new outlook on life that everyone can obviously see and respect in awe.
Hazel: Always an anachronism, Hazel has seen tragedy in all facets of her life, and meets the "so-called" cause of it Hecate, who not only helped Hazel's mother use magic to summon Pluto, but tells Hazel she has magic herself and must control the Mist to succeed in the quest. While her inner struggle with all of this was sort of glossed over, she too accepted her parentage outright when Pluto himself was proud of Hazel for understanding the powers of the Mist and Pluto's dominion over greed. She gained leadership at the loss Percy and Annabeth, and ultimately in her battle at the end with Pasiphaë, showed courage, strength, and intelligence in a battle that hasn't been seen thus far in the series. She and Frank grow closer to as each better understand themselves.
Piper: Though she has always felt weak, her 4 chapter saga was a nice touch to her character path that shows that she too has grown. Khione and the Boreads, as well as some talks with Hazel, that her power should not be over what she wants people to do, but what they want to see/hear for themselves to result in utter control. She activates Festus, a mechanical object, with charmspeak, and gains some sword abilities at last as well, making her a damn formidable opponent.
Jason: And obviously the easiest to see/understand his changes. Jason's struggle was choosing between his Roman heritage but his now Grecian heart. This was most obviously seen in the palace of the southern winds, where he truly chooses Greek his the southern venti to control them, and during the Battle at the House of Hades, where he cannot control the undead roman leigon because he is no longer a true praetor of the Roman Camp, and gives his praetorship to Frank. While this character development is crucial, as he sees he just wants to be happy with Piper, its more of his leadership skills that brings Jason home. Jason was chosen wisely by Juno, for he is a great figurehead of this quest. He cares deeply for each member of their team, and while he is tactical and can eb scary, he would do anything for them. He protects and honors his pact with Nico, he tells immediately that Leo is changed almost instantly after his time on Ogygia, and understands that he had to relinquish his title as praetor to Frank in order survive. Jason Grace is a natural leader, and beyond that, finding himself as the man he wants and needs to be.
On some other characters:
Bob, Little Bob, and Damasen were amazing and heartwrenching to see gone.
Loved seeing Rachel and Grover again!
Hate Octavian, but thats pretty obvious.
Reyna coming across the sea was pretty spectacular, hopefully she can do something about the Greek-Roman Battle.
Tartarus was one scary dude.
And seeing a lot of the old villains, as well as Percy's response to the curses of the monsters of the past was great. | This was an amazing book that really fleshed out the main characters nicely and I cannot wait until next fall. |
Ukiah | > sPVP is fun, it's great for a competitive scene, but it's too disconnected to feel like it's a part of the Guild Wars 2 I wanted to experience.
I wish they had handled sPVP like they handled PVP in GW1. I didn't do a lot of the random 4x4 battles, but I played the hell out of Fort Aspenwood and Jade Quarry. I don't particularly care for sPVP in GW2 because it seems so divorced from the rest of the game.
However, by the same token:
> Open world PVP/PK, this game would have been marvelous for this.
No. Just... no. You cited WoW's pvp system and seemed to imply you found it superior or more desirable. I largely disagree and one of the biggest detractions of WoW (and there were many) were the open world PVP. I'm not talking about the specific zones. I thought Halaa was BRILLIANT. I'm talking open world, random PVP. I DETESTED that aspect of the game and 'lost' friends by refusing to play on PVP servers. That might not be totally honest.... what might have lost me those friends was telling them if they wanted REAL pvp, they should play Eve Online.
> This leads into something else though. The lack of truly playable dungeons, leads to the lack of Raiding. Raiding is fun, and can lead into intensive play, and it allows progressive play. Raiding is an extended way of engaging a player and giving PVE heavy players a definite source of content to play.
I will concede I've yet to do a GW2 dungeon I found engaging. The ones I've done have been boring and frustrating as hell. That being said, I don't want 'the grind' of WoW raiding in my GW2. I will agree that there are seeming gaps in what GW2 offers. But 'raiding' isn't one.
> You do not need, nor want a trinity style dungeon, I get that, and it's really cool to not have to find tanks healers and DPS, everyone needs to DPS, some people need to be tanky. But supporting exists, toughness and vitality exist, and high DPS builds exist.
I was excited about GW'2 promise to remove the trinity. What I didn't realize was how I enjoyed playing a support character. And when I tried to roll one in GW2, it wasn't terribly successful and the people I was running with were irritated. Gw2 prizes dmg and 'don't die' above anything else. The 'don't die' attitude was perhaps the biggest problem with WoW's raiding. There were huge swaths of TERRIBLE players outfitted in top tier gear who brought NO skills or value to the group other than their ability to NOT stand in something bad. And it's doubly disheartening to know that there was an even LARGER swath of terrible players who couldn't even manage THAT level of potato-counting.
TLDR: I agree with a lot of your points, but disagree with more. GW2 isn't ideal from my perspective but it's the best thing on the block right now. Like you, I've played MMO's for QUITE awhile (Asheron's Call was my first). I'm still missing a lot of the uniqueness and draw of those early games. Nothing has quite seemed to hold me or impress me.
**EDIT:** I meant to say that for the dungeons/trinity/pve portion, I rather liked how Rift incorporated a support role in it's dungeonfinder. The problem with Rift was, it's macro system was so powerful that with a little ingenuity and know-how, you could one button your way through everything, particularly as a Cleric. | > sPVP is fun, it's great for a competitive scene, but it's too disconnected to feel like it's a part of the Guild Wars 2 I wanted to experience.
I wish they had handled sPVP like they handled PVP in GW1. I didn't do a lot of the random 4x4 battles, but I played the hell out of Fort Aspenwood and Jade Quarry. I don't particularly care for sPVP in GW2 because it seems so divorced from the rest of the game.
However, by the same token:
> Open world PVP/PK, this game would have been marvelous for this.
No. Just... no. You cited WoW's pvp system and seemed to imply you found it superior or more desirable. I largely disagree and one of the biggest detractions of WoW (and there were many) were the open world PVP. I'm not talking about the specific zones. I thought Halaa was BRILLIANT. I'm talking open world, random PVP. I DETESTED that aspect of the game and 'lost' friends by refusing to play on PVP servers. That might not be totally honest.... what might have lost me those friends was telling them if they wanted REAL pvp, they should play Eve Online.
> This leads into something else though. The lack of truly playable dungeons, leads to the lack of Raiding. Raiding is fun, and can lead into intensive play, and it allows progressive play. Raiding is an extended way of engaging a player and giving PVE heavy players a definite source of content to play.
I will concede I've yet to do a GW2 dungeon I found engaging. The ones I've done have been boring and frustrating as hell. That being said, I don't want 'the grind' of WoW raiding in my GW2. I will agree that there are seeming gaps in what GW2 offers. But 'raiding' isn't one.
> You do not need, nor want a trinity style dungeon, I get that, and it's really cool to not have to find tanks healers and DPS, everyone needs to DPS, some people need to be tanky. But supporting exists, toughness and vitality exist, and high DPS builds exist.
I was excited about GW'2 promise to remove the trinity. What I didn't realize was how I enjoyed playing a support character. And when I tried to roll one in GW2, it wasn't terribly successful and the people I was running with were irritated. Gw2 prizes dmg and 'don't die' above anything else. The 'don't die' attitude was perhaps the biggest problem with WoW's raiding. There were huge swaths of TERRIBLE players outfitted in top tier gear who brought NO skills or value to the group other than their ability to NOT stand in something bad. And it's doubly disheartening to know that there was an even LARGER swath of terrible players who couldn't even manage THAT level of potato-counting.
TLDR: I agree with a lot of your points, but disagree with more. GW2 isn't ideal from my perspective but it's the best thing on the block right now. Like you, I've played MMO's for QUITE awhile (Asheron's Call was my first). I'm still missing a lot of the uniqueness and draw of those early games. Nothing has quite seemed to hold me or impress me.
EDIT: I meant to say that for the dungeons/trinity/pve portion, I rather liked how Rift incorporated a support role in it's dungeonfinder. The problem with Rift was, it's macro system was so powerful that with a little ingenuity and know-how, you could one button your way through everything, particularly as a Cleric.
| Guildwars2 | t5_2r9po | ccoy029 | sPVP is fun, it's great for a competitive scene, but it's too disconnected to feel like it's a part of the Guild Wars 2 I wanted to experience.
I wish they had handled sPVP like they handled PVP in GW1. I didn't do a lot of the random 4x4 battles, but I played the hell out of Fort Aspenwood and Jade Quarry. I don't particularly care for sPVP in GW2 because it seems so divorced from the rest of the game.
However, by the same token:
> Open world PVP/PK, this game would have been marvelous for this.
No. Just... no. You cited WoW's pvp system and seemed to imply you found it superior or more desirable. I largely disagree and one of the biggest detractions of WoW (and there were many) were the open world PVP. I'm not talking about the specific zones. I thought Halaa was BRILLIANT. I'm talking open world, random PVP. I DETESTED that aspect of the game and 'lost' friends by refusing to play on PVP servers. That might not be totally honest.... what might have lost me those friends was telling them if they wanted REAL pvp, they should play Eve Online.
> This leads into something else though. The lack of truly playable dungeons, leads to the lack of Raiding. Raiding is fun, and can lead into intensive play, and it allows progressive play. Raiding is an extended way of engaging a player and giving PVE heavy players a definite source of content to play.
I will concede I've yet to do a GW2 dungeon I found engaging. The ones I've done have been boring and frustrating as hell. That being said, I don't want 'the grind' of WoW raiding in my GW2. I will agree that there are seeming gaps in what GW2 offers. But 'raiding' isn't one.
> You do not need, nor want a trinity style dungeon, I get that, and it's really cool to not have to find tanks healers and DPS, everyone needs to DPS, some people need to be tanky. But supporting exists, toughness and vitality exist, and high DPS builds exist.
I was excited about GW'2 promise to remove the trinity. What I didn't realize was how I enjoyed playing a support character. And when I tried to roll one in GW2, it wasn't terribly successful and the people I was running with were irritated. Gw2 prizes dmg and 'don't die' above anything else. The 'don't die' attitude was perhaps the biggest problem with WoW's raiding. There were huge swaths of TERRIBLE players outfitted in top tier gear who brought NO skills or value to the group other than their ability to NOT stand in something bad. And it's doubly disheartening to know that there was an even LARGER swath of terrible players who couldn't even manage THAT level of potato-counting. | I agree with a lot of your points, but disagree with more. GW2 isn't ideal from my perspective but it's the best thing on the block right now. Like you, I've played MMO's for QUITE awhile (Asheron's Call was my first). I'm still missing a lot of the uniqueness and draw of those early games. Nothing has quite seemed to hold me or impress me.
EDIT: I meant to say that for the dungeons/trinity/pve portion, I rather liked how Rift incorporated a support role in it's dungeonfinder. The problem with Rift was, it's macro system was so powerful that with a little ingenuity and know-how, you could one button your way through everything, particularly as a Cleric. |
whatswrongwithchuck | I think s/he means [this differece.]( It seems like a crazy thing to complain about but seeing as a huge part of the price tag is a combination of aesthetics and taste I can see it as a relevant thing to mention. /u/ProstetnicVogonJelz was joking about the glacier thing... but I don't see it as any more ridiculous than other aspects of this meal.
TL/DR - $300 dinner I want crazy stuff, like hand carved ice sculptures that melt in my drink. | I think s/he means [this differece.]( It seems like a crazy thing to complain about but seeing as a huge part of the price tag is a combination of aesthetics and taste I can see it as a relevant thing to mention. /u/ProstetnicVogonJelz was joking about the glacier thing... but I don't see it as any more ridiculous than other aspects of this meal.
TL/DR - $300 dinner I want crazy stuff, like hand carved ice sculptures that melt in my drink.
| food | t5_2qh55 | ccp67l7 | I think s/he means [this differece.]( It seems like a crazy thing to complain about but seeing as a huge part of the price tag is a combination of aesthetics and taste I can see it as a relevant thing to mention. /u/ProstetnicVogonJelz was joking about the glacier thing... but I don't see it as any more ridiculous than other aspects of this meal. | 300 dinner I want crazy stuff, like hand carved ice sculptures that melt in my drink. |
ControlPhreakk | Absolutely amazing. I have such a huge grin on my face right now. Everything from the artstyle, to the characters, to the music, to the controls just work so well together! I've never read any of the Fables comics, but I just LOVE the premise. I can strongly recommend this game to fans of The Walking Dead as well as previous TellTale Games titles. I can't wait for the upcoming episodes.
**TL;DR**: The Wolf Among Us is one of the best games I've played this year. And there are 4 more episodes left. | Absolutely amazing. I have such a huge grin on my face right now. Everything from the artstyle, to the characters, to the music, to the controls just work so well together! I've never read any of the Fables comics, but I just LOVE the premise. I can strongly recommend this game to fans of The Walking Dead as well as previous TellTale Games titles. I can't wait for the upcoming episodes.
TL;DR : The Wolf Among Us is one of the best games I've played this year. And there are 4 more episodes left.
| Games | t5_2qhwp | ccpz1uv | Absolutely amazing. I have such a huge grin on my face right now. Everything from the artstyle, to the characters, to the music, to the controls just work so well together! I've never read any of the Fables comics, but I just LOVE the premise. I can strongly recommend this game to fans of The Walking Dead as well as previous TellTale Games titles. I can't wait for the upcoming episodes. | The Wolf Among Us is one of the best games I've played this year. And there are 4 more episodes left. |
IHv2RtrnSumVdeotapes | ebay power seller here. first off thanks for calling us jerks, its bad enough i get treated like a piece shit at the post office by people at the front desk in real life, let alone hear it from a mail carrier on the internet. we're jerks you say? fine. now let me fucking tell you something about the postal service from my personal experience:
as i said im a power seller on ebay.so when i sell, there is a chance that anywhere from 50 to 75 packages or more are going out each time. at first i used to bring them to my postal service.i have never been treated like such a piece of shit as a customer in my life. i have actually been sworn at for bringing my packages in that keep in mind, are ALREADY SEALED WITH PREPAID POSTAGE USING ONLINE POSTAGE, because im bringing them so many at a time. all they have to do is scan a few and dump the rest in the back, and they act like its the hardest task in the world.
i was told i needed to schedule packages to be picked up from my house because quote : "this is ridiculous to be bringing this many packages in." ok no problem ill schedule a pickup. guess what? they never come to get the packages. i rely on fast shipping to keep my ebay rating excellent, and when you assholes dont come out in time, i lose a day of shipping which is NOT FUCKING ACCEPTABLE. so back to my local post office i go.
at my local post office i have witnessed the front desk people:
-literally yell at people for asking questions.
-loudly and rudely been accused in front of an entire crowd of customers by a front office person of "trying to rip off the postal service" when my scale malfunctioned for weighing items and i was off less then an eighth of an ounce on my measurements. i literally owed about 3 dollars after every package was weighed.now i over pay on shipping to avoid items being sent back to me(i was told that they will be looking at my packages closely from now on and would be warning the surrounding postal offices of me, like im a criminal.)
-saw a military man with a clearly marked PTSD dog get yelled at for having the animal inside the postal service. when the man replied the dog was a PTSD dog the postal clerk refused to apologize and replied "oh..well i aint getting into all of that.that politically correct stuff. dog shouldnt be allowed in here anyway though." the disgusted looks on customers faces was enraging to me.
-have had my packages refused to be accepted because they stated i could not use tape on the front of priority packages. this is absolutely not true and when i called headquarters and they told me i could tape them, they still refused to accept them.
i have had my mail carriers:
-refuse to pick up my packages even when they are sitting in front of their mail trucks and their truck is empty because "thats too many packages" when i said i was told by headquarters they are to take packages if the have a light load his reply was "call them up i dont give a shit."
it got so bad that i started driving 40 minutes away to another postal service that was slightly friendlier to take my packages. 40 fucking minutes away to avoid blowing up on these assholes and being kicked out or worse. i know what people are thinking. why not just switch carriers. sadly its just not cost effective to go with ups or fedex, i am literally at the postal services mercy.as are many people. and they know it.
its so bad dealing with anyone at the postal service i now dump my packages in the big mailboxes outside.something i didnt want to do because i didnt want some disgruntled worker open up the box and see 40 packages and fuck with them. yes i have had my packages fucked with before. but i cant deal with these assholes inside anymore.i would rather take the risk of dumping them outside.
heres the problem with the postal service: the people behind the counters and mail carriers have usually been there a very long time. and they have a powerful union.so they know they can treat people like shit and get away with it. the postal service needs to eliminate these disgruntled pieces of shit by either firing them or regulating them to the back for the rest of their time there.
personally i cant wait for the day the post office finally collapses and they force a lot of you fuckers into retirement. maybe the next batch of people treat customers better. the people who work at the postal service literally are killing the postal industry.
TLDR: fuck the united states postal service. | ebay power seller here. first off thanks for calling us jerks, its bad enough i get treated like a piece shit at the post office by people at the front desk in real life, let alone hear it from a mail carrier on the internet. we're jerks you say? fine. now let me fucking tell you something about the postal service from my personal experience:
as i said im a power seller on ebay.so when i sell, there is a chance that anywhere from 50 to 75 packages or more are going out each time. at first i used to bring them to my postal service.i have never been treated like such a piece of shit as a customer in my life. i have actually been sworn at for bringing my packages in that keep in mind, are ALREADY SEALED WITH PREPAID POSTAGE USING ONLINE POSTAGE, because im bringing them so many at a time. all they have to do is scan a few and dump the rest in the back, and they act like its the hardest task in the world.
i was told i needed to schedule packages to be picked up from my house because quote : "this is ridiculous to be bringing this many packages in." ok no problem ill schedule a pickup. guess what? they never come to get the packages. i rely on fast shipping to keep my ebay rating excellent, and when you assholes dont come out in time, i lose a day of shipping which is NOT FUCKING ACCEPTABLE. so back to my local post office i go.
at my local post office i have witnessed the front desk people:
-literally yell at people for asking questions.
-loudly and rudely been accused in front of an entire crowd of customers by a front office person of "trying to rip off the postal service" when my scale malfunctioned for weighing items and i was off less then an eighth of an ounce on my measurements. i literally owed about 3 dollars after every package was weighed.now i over pay on shipping to avoid items being sent back to me(i was told that they will be looking at my packages closely from now on and would be warning the surrounding postal offices of me, like im a criminal.)
-saw a military man with a clearly marked PTSD dog get yelled at for having the animal inside the postal service. when the man replied the dog was a PTSD dog the postal clerk refused to apologize and replied "oh..well i aint getting into all of that.that politically correct stuff. dog shouldnt be allowed in here anyway though." the disgusted looks on customers faces was enraging to me.
-have had my packages refused to be accepted because they stated i could not use tape on the front of priority packages. this is absolutely not true and when i called headquarters and they told me i could tape them, they still refused to accept them.
i have had my mail carriers:
-refuse to pick up my packages even when they are sitting in front of their mail trucks and their truck is empty because "thats too many packages" when i said i was told by headquarters they are to take packages if the have a light load his reply was "call them up i dont give a shit."
it got so bad that i started driving 40 minutes away to another postal service that was slightly friendlier to take my packages. 40 fucking minutes away to avoid blowing up on these assholes and being kicked out or worse. i know what people are thinking. why not just switch carriers. sadly its just not cost effective to go with ups or fedex, i am literally at the postal services mercy.as are many people. and they know it.
its so bad dealing with anyone at the postal service i now dump my packages in the big mailboxes outside.something i didnt want to do because i didnt want some disgruntled worker open up the box and see 40 packages and fuck with them. yes i have had my packages fucked with before. but i cant deal with these assholes inside anymore.i would rather take the risk of dumping them outside.
heres the problem with the postal service: the people behind the counters and mail carriers have usually been there a very long time. and they have a powerful union.so they know they can treat people like shit and get away with it. the postal service needs to eliminate these disgruntled pieces of shit by either firing them or regulating them to the back for the rest of their time there.
personally i cant wait for the day the post office finally collapses and they force a lot of you fuckers into retirement. maybe the next batch of people treat customers better. the people who work at the postal service literally are killing the postal industry.
TLDR: fuck the united states postal service.
| pics | t5_2qh0u | ccq7yln | ebay power seller here. first off thanks for calling us jerks, its bad enough i get treated like a piece shit at the post office by people at the front desk in real life, let alone hear it from a mail carrier on the internet. we're jerks you say? fine. now let me fucking tell you something about the postal service from my personal experience:
as i said im a power seller on ebay.so when i sell, there is a chance that anywhere from 50 to 75 packages or more are going out each time. at first i used to bring them to my postal service.i have never been treated like such a piece of shit as a customer in my life. i have actually been sworn at for bringing my packages in that keep in mind, are ALREADY SEALED WITH PREPAID POSTAGE USING ONLINE POSTAGE, because im bringing them so many at a time. all they have to do is scan a few and dump the rest in the back, and they act like its the hardest task in the world.
i was told i needed to schedule packages to be picked up from my house because quote : "this is ridiculous to be bringing this many packages in." ok no problem ill schedule a pickup. guess what? they never come to get the packages. i rely on fast shipping to keep my ebay rating excellent, and when you assholes dont come out in time, i lose a day of shipping which is NOT FUCKING ACCEPTABLE. so back to my local post office i go.
at my local post office i have witnessed the front desk people:
-literally yell at people for asking questions.
-loudly and rudely been accused in front of an entire crowd of customers by a front office person of "trying to rip off the postal service" when my scale malfunctioned for weighing items and i was off less then an eighth of an ounce on my measurements. i literally owed about 3 dollars after every package was weighed.now i over pay on shipping to avoid items being sent back to me(i was told that they will be looking at my packages closely from now on and would be warning the surrounding postal offices of me, like im a criminal.)
-saw a military man with a clearly marked PTSD dog get yelled at for having the animal inside the postal service. when the man replied the dog was a PTSD dog the postal clerk refused to apologize and replied "oh..well i aint getting into all of that.that politically correct stuff. dog shouldnt be allowed in here anyway though." the disgusted looks on customers faces was enraging to me.
-have had my packages refused to be accepted because they stated i could not use tape on the front of priority packages. this is absolutely not true and when i called headquarters and they told me i could tape them, they still refused to accept them.
i have had my mail carriers:
-refuse to pick up my packages even when they are sitting in front of their mail trucks and their truck is empty because "thats too many packages" when i said i was told by headquarters they are to take packages if the have a light load his reply was "call them up i dont give a shit."
it got so bad that i started driving 40 minutes away to another postal service that was slightly friendlier to take my packages. 40 fucking minutes away to avoid blowing up on these assholes and being kicked out or worse. i know what people are thinking. why not just switch carriers. sadly its just not cost effective to go with ups or fedex, i am literally at the postal services mercy.as are many people. and they know it.
its so bad dealing with anyone at the postal service i now dump my packages in the big mailboxes outside.something i didnt want to do because i didnt want some disgruntled worker open up the box and see 40 packages and fuck with them. yes i have had my packages fucked with before. but i cant deal with these assholes inside anymore.i would rather take the risk of dumping them outside.
heres the problem with the postal service: the people behind the counters and mail carriers have usually been there a very long time. and they have a powerful union.so they know they can treat people like shit and get away with it. the postal service needs to eliminate these disgruntled pieces of shit by either firing them or regulating them to the back for the rest of their time there.
personally i cant wait for the day the post office finally collapses and they force a lot of you fuckers into retirement. maybe the next batch of people treat customers better. the people who work at the postal service literally are killing the postal industry. | fuck the united states postal service. |
snowmannn | Ahh man I just watched this is the end recently and I loved Michael Cera in it. Seeing him act like a coked out spoiled Hollywood brat and then getting gruesomely impaled by a street lamp was priceless.. Especially after all those YouTube videos of him being a dickwad on set. On another note, I for one have seen so many instances of drunk ass people falsely claiming to the whole party that someone stole their phone or iPod only to find it 5 minutes later, which is always funny in real life.
Tldr : it was nice to see Michael Cera make fun of himself | Ahh man I just watched this is the end recently and I loved Michael Cera in it. Seeing him act like a coked out spoiled Hollywood brat and then getting gruesomely impaled by a street lamp was priceless.. Especially after all those YouTube videos of him being a dickwad on set. On another note, I for one have seen so many instances of drunk ass people falsely claiming to the whole party that someone stole their phone or iPod only to find it 5 minutes later, which is always funny in real life.
Tldr : it was nice to see Michael Cera make fun of himself
| todayilearned | t5_2qqjc | ccqcqv9 | Ahh man I just watched this is the end recently and I loved Michael Cera in it. Seeing him act like a coked out spoiled Hollywood brat and then getting gruesomely impaled by a street lamp was priceless.. Especially after all those YouTube videos of him being a dickwad on set. On another note, I for one have seen so many instances of drunk ass people falsely claiming to the whole party that someone stole their phone or iPod only to find it 5 minutes later, which is always funny in real life. | it was nice to see Michael Cera make fun of himself |
InvisibleManiac | Date labeling is a huge mess in the US. It's not always there to help the consumer out.
Canned food? Canned food (if done properly) is sterile, and the shelf life is more or less determined by the container. Your stock metal grocery store cans will probably break down in a few years, (way past the labeled date) depending on the acid content of the food in question, but glass jars? I've heard stories of heirloom peaches being opened and eaten 60+ years after canning and them being fine. The stuff my mom preserved from the garden never made it more than one winter, so I only have what I've heard there, but see no reason for it not to be the case.
I've personally eaten MRE's that were more than ten years old, and they weren't much worse than anything "fresher", if that word even applies to something like an MRE. I've heard more than one story of twenty year old MRE's being eaten. Stored well, they will not last forever, but they will last for decades, easy.
tl;dr: You're probably about on the money for the social part of it. But the takeaway is that without a massive population drop, every scrap of everything (we're talking dental floss, and gum, here) will be consumed LONG before it has a chance to expire.
I just found this site, and it looks like it's worth checking out.
| Date labeling is a huge mess in the US. It's not always there to help the consumer out.
Canned food? Canned food (if done properly) is sterile, and the shelf life is more or less determined by the container. Your stock metal grocery store cans will probably break down in a few years, (way past the labeled date) depending on the acid content of the food in question, but glass jars? I've heard stories of heirloom peaches being opened and eaten 60+ years after canning and them being fine. The stuff my mom preserved from the garden never made it more than one winter, so I only have what I've heard there, but see no reason for it not to be the case.
I've personally eaten MRE's that were more than ten years old, and they weren't much worse than anything "fresher", if that word even applies to something like an MRE. I've heard more than one story of twenty year old MRE's being eaten. Stored well, they will not last forever, but they will last for decades, easy.
tl;dr: You're probably about on the money for the social part of it. But the takeaway is that without a massive population drop, every scrap of everything (we're talking dental floss, and gum, here) will be consumed LONG before it has a chance to expire.
I just found this site, and it looks like it's worth checking out.
| worldbuilding | t5_2rd6n | ccqiynd | Date labeling is a huge mess in the US. It's not always there to help the consumer out.
Canned food? Canned food (if done properly) is sterile, and the shelf life is more or less determined by the container. Your stock metal grocery store cans will probably break down in a few years, (way past the labeled date) depending on the acid content of the food in question, but glass jars? I've heard stories of heirloom peaches being opened and eaten 60+ years after canning and them being fine. The stuff my mom preserved from the garden never made it more than one winter, so I only have what I've heard there, but see no reason for it not to be the case.
I've personally eaten MRE's that were more than ten years old, and they weren't much worse than anything "fresher", if that word even applies to something like an MRE. I've heard more than one story of twenty year old MRE's being eaten. Stored well, they will not last forever, but they will last for decades, easy. | You're probably about on the money for the social part of it. But the takeaway is that without a massive population drop, every scrap of everything (we're talking dental floss, and gum, here) will be consumed LONG before it has a chance to expire.
I just found this site, and it looks like it's worth checking out. |
thatssometrainshit | Not that this is a terrible idea, it's just not a theory, per se. This is fan-fiction, and that's totally fine. I've got nothing against fan-fiction. It's just that a theory is rooted in evidence and is falsifiable. This isn't either.
It's much like the Pokemon coma "theory." You can't prove that Ash isn't in a coma, so supposing that he is means nothing. It's the same thing as saying, "Maybe Kuwabara was also descended from a Mazoku ancestor and he just hasn't died yet so we don't know."
The whole point of the genetic mechanism called the atavism is that it goes un-pronounced for generations before reappearing. We know that the atavism occurred in Yusuke because he dies and comes back to life as a demon. Your theory states that the atavism actually occurred either in Toguro or in Yusuke's father. If that were the case, Yusuke would have been with pronounced demon qualities and it would have been known to Spirit World (certainly to Koenma) that he was part demon. But it wasn't.
But I guess my problem with this idea is more narrative based. I'd love to see another season of YYH, but this would be, in my opinion, the wrong way to go about it. It's just retcons too much backstory and it, frankly, cheapens it. Why do Genkai and Yusuke have to be related? It's much more realistic the way it is. And it makes their relationship that much more special. Why does Toguro have to be a demon from the beginning? This weakens his personal tragedy; deciding to give up everything he believed in and become a demon doesn't really hit as hard if he already was one, or was going to become one. The whole emotional drive of the character is that he was a human who became a demon.
Anyway, I rambled on there a bit.
tl;dr Not a theory; fan-fiction. But, imo, also not the best way to continue the story. | Not that this is a terrible idea, it's just not a theory, per se. This is fan-fiction, and that's totally fine. I've got nothing against fan-fiction. It's just that a theory is rooted in evidence and is falsifiable. This isn't either.
It's much like the Pokemon coma "theory." You can't prove that Ash isn't in a coma, so supposing that he is means nothing. It's the same thing as saying, "Maybe Kuwabara was also descended from a Mazoku ancestor and he just hasn't died yet so we don't know."
The whole point of the genetic mechanism called the atavism is that it goes un-pronounced for generations before reappearing. We know that the atavism occurred in Yusuke because he dies and comes back to life as a demon. Your theory states that the atavism actually occurred either in Toguro or in Yusuke's father. If that were the case, Yusuke would have been with pronounced demon qualities and it would have been known to Spirit World (certainly to Koenma) that he was part demon. But it wasn't.
But I guess my problem with this idea is more narrative based. I'd love to see another season of YYH, but this would be, in my opinion, the wrong way to go about it. It's just retcons too much backstory and it, frankly, cheapens it. Why do Genkai and Yusuke have to be related? It's much more realistic the way it is. And it makes their relationship that much more special. Why does Toguro have to be a demon from the beginning? This weakens his personal tragedy; deciding to give up everything he believed in and become a demon doesn't really hit as hard if he already was one, or was going to become one. The whole emotional drive of the character is that he was a human who became a demon.
Anyway, I rambled on there a bit.
tl;dr Not a theory; fan-fiction. But, imo, also not the best way to continue the story.
| YuYuHakusho | t5_2sanu | ccr1lvf | Not that this is a terrible idea, it's just not a theory, per se. This is fan-fiction, and that's totally fine. I've got nothing against fan-fiction. It's just that a theory is rooted in evidence and is falsifiable. This isn't either.
It's much like the Pokemon coma "theory." You can't prove that Ash isn't in a coma, so supposing that he is means nothing. It's the same thing as saying, "Maybe Kuwabara was also descended from a Mazoku ancestor and he just hasn't died yet so we don't know."
The whole point of the genetic mechanism called the atavism is that it goes un-pronounced for generations before reappearing. We know that the atavism occurred in Yusuke because he dies and comes back to life as a demon. Your theory states that the atavism actually occurred either in Toguro or in Yusuke's father. If that were the case, Yusuke would have been with pronounced demon qualities and it would have been known to Spirit World (certainly to Koenma) that he was part demon. But it wasn't.
But I guess my problem with this idea is more narrative based. I'd love to see another season of YYH, but this would be, in my opinion, the wrong way to go about it. It's just retcons too much backstory and it, frankly, cheapens it. Why do Genkai and Yusuke have to be related? It's much more realistic the way it is. And it makes their relationship that much more special. Why does Toguro have to be a demon from the beginning? This weakens his personal tragedy; deciding to give up everything he believed in and become a demon doesn't really hit as hard if he already was one, or was going to become one. The whole emotional drive of the character is that he was a human who became a demon.
Anyway, I rambled on there a bit. | Not a theory; fan-fiction. But, imo, also not the best way to continue the story. |
nazpwnz | Shaco is a risky pick somehow, because the early game depends on you snowballing other lanes and pressuring the enemy jungle and even if your team is behind you can always split push 24/7.
Shaco is a split pusher and you build him assasin'ish, he doesn't need any nerf or buff he's fine like he is.If you're a good shaco you can always make plays.
TL;DR: Shaco is fine | Shaco is a risky pick somehow, because the early game depends on you snowballing other lanes and pressuring the enemy jungle and even if your team is behind you can always split push 24/7.
Shaco is a split pusher and you build him assasin'ish, he doesn't need any nerf or buff he's fine like he is.If you're a good shaco you can always make plays.
TL;DR: Shaco is fine
| leagueoflegends | t5_2rfxx | ccqqs7z | Shaco is a risky pick somehow, because the early game depends on you snowballing other lanes and pressuring the enemy jungle and even if your team is behind you can always split push 24/7.
Shaco is a split pusher and you build him assasin'ish, he doesn't need any nerf or buff he's fine like he is.If you're a good shaco you can always make plays. | Shaco is fine |
akeryw | TOP5 w min. 15 strimach.
Byłem zapraszany do moderacji gdyż wykonywałem to dobrze, (prawie) każdej akcji moderatora powiadamiałem innych.
Wywaliłem maxia z portalu XD
Ujarzmiałem flame-wary we wpisach.
Rozwijałem kilka strimów moich i nie moich, bitcoin, autorskiefotografie, UK, Islandia, humorInformatyczny, linux, opensuse, prywatnosci
Tylko dwie z moich sugestii nie weszły do głównego.
Miałem 4 konta, więc znacznie zwiększałem aktywność XD
Stworzyłem skrypt do monitorowania aktywności, punktów, statystyk strimów/użytkowników/głównej bez dostępu do API - parsowałem stronę regexpami...
Mając ponad 180 strimów na koncie siedziałem na stronie najnowszych użytkowników podczas flameów i banowałem z góry każdego nowego zielonego o głupim nicku by nie mógl dalej robić flamów.
Przjąłem strimy handrona by usunąć z nich treści obrażające użytkowników.
Oddawałem moje strimy na życzenie, przejmowałem by maxiu nie robił chaosu.
tl;dr;
sprzątałem mnóstwo treści, żeby nie dopuszczać do flamemów. | TOP5 w min. 15 strimach.
Byłem zapraszany do moderacji gdyż wykonywałem to dobrze, (prawie) każdej akcji moderatora powiadamiałem innych.
Wywaliłem maxia z portalu XD
Ujarzmiałem flame-wary we wpisach.
Rozwijałem kilka strimów moich i nie moich, bitcoin, autorskiefotografie, UK, Islandia, humorInformatyczny, linux, opensuse, prywatnosci
Tylko dwie z moich sugestii nie weszły do głównego.
Miałem 4 konta, więc znacznie zwiększałem aktywność XD
Stworzyłem skrypt do monitorowania aktywności, punktów, statystyk strimów/użytkowników/głównej bez dostępu do API - parsowałem stronę regexpami...
Mając ponad 180 strimów na koncie siedziałem na stronie najnowszych użytkowników podczas flameów i banowałem z góry każdego nowego zielonego o głupim nicku by nie mógl dalej robić flamów.
Przjąłem strimy handrona by usunąć z nich treści obrażające użytkowników.
Oddawałem moje strimy na życzenie, przejmowałem by maxiu nie robił chaosu.
tl;dr;
sprzątałem mnóstwo treści, żeby nie dopuszczać do flamemów.
| Strims | t5_2x5dv | ccrd23t | TOP5 w min. 15 strimach.
Byłem zapraszany do moderacji gdyż wykonywałem to dobrze, (prawie) każdej akcji moderatora powiadamiałem innych.
Wywaliłem maxia z portalu XD
Ujarzmiałem flame-wary we wpisach.
Rozwijałem kilka strimów moich i nie moich, bitcoin, autorskiefotografie, UK, Islandia, humorInformatyczny, linux, opensuse, prywatnosci
Tylko dwie z moich sugestii nie weszły do głównego.
Miałem 4 konta, więc znacznie zwiększałem aktywność XD
Stworzyłem skrypt do monitorowania aktywności, punktów, statystyk strimów/użytkowników/głównej bez dostępu do API - parsowałem stronę regexpami...
Mając ponad 180 strimów na koncie siedziałem na stronie najnowszych użytkowników podczas flameów i banowałem z góry każdego nowego zielonego o głupim nicku by nie mógl dalej robić flamów.
Przjąłem strimy handrona by usunąć z nich treści obrażające użytkowników.
Oddawałem moje strimy na życzenie, przejmowałem by maxiu nie robił chaosu. | sprzątałem mnóstwo treści, żeby nie dopuszczać do flamemów. |
MartimusPrime | The problem is that nobody is making an offer that gives the other side anything. The Republicans want Obamacare out of the picture (which the Democrats will never accept) and the Democrats opened with either flat refusals to even consider it (which do nothing to move the ball forward) or with posturing and insults (which merely harden the Republican's resolve and sense of moral high-grounding). When negotiations finally started, the Democrats dug themselves in further by [bringing something to the table that the Republicans are unlikely to ever accept either]( (as seen in another discussion on this forum).
TL;DR - Bilaterally, nothing. | The problem is that nobody is making an offer that gives the other side anything. The Republicans want Obamacare out of the picture (which the Democrats will never accept) and the Democrats opened with either flat refusals to even consider it (which do nothing to move the ball forward) or with posturing and insults (which merely harden the Republican's resolve and sense of moral high-grounding). When negotiations finally started, the Democrats dug themselves in further by bringing something to the table that the Republicans are unlikely to ever accept either .
TL;DR - Bilaterally, nothing.
| PoliticalDiscussion | t5_2sfmf | ccrd3os | The problem is that nobody is making an offer that gives the other side anything. The Republicans want Obamacare out of the picture (which the Democrats will never accept) and the Democrats opened with either flat refusals to even consider it (which do nothing to move the ball forward) or with posturing and insults (which merely harden the Republican's resolve and sense of moral high-grounding). When negotiations finally started, the Democrats dug themselves in further by bringing something to the table that the Republicans are unlikely to ever accept either . | Bilaterally, nothing. |
heretiq | > If you're trying to suggest that all the women who enjoy dominant men are somehow broken, I'm pretty sure you fall further into the misogyny camp than TRP does.
Woah, bro. Don't put words in my mouth I didn't say. I didn't say a single word about dominance. I said what I said.
> I think it varies. A lot of women get turned on by guys who act like that. Some people realize that TRP relationships tend to be more symbiotic. Some sure, have love self esteem. Some enjoy to please.
I think you're right. It's a very effective approach.
But I'm not discussing whether it works or it doesn't: I'm challenging its *ethics*. **What I'm saying is that bedding more women does not necessarily make you a better man than another one.** And that if a RP kind of guy beds many women, does that mean he's great and better than a "nice guy"? **My answer is no.**
I think that what makes "asshole psychology" so enticing is the power it displays. They do not give a shit and that makes them looks strong to others. They show little attention and that makes the girl want to chase him to show him "he's good enough". They are very open to new experiences. They are unable to commit. That creates doubt, doubt creates interest, drama, thrill.
But *ethically*, does being a misogynist make you a good person? Nope. They are merely so successful because many women were raised in chauvinistic surroundings themselves. A person who *truly* makes a woman feel better about herself because he makes her feel worthy is better than another one who allures her, even if he makes a woman feel *worthless* in the process.
**tl;dr: It's not about being an asshole, it's about being dominant as well as making her feel good about herself.** | > If you're trying to suggest that all the women who enjoy dominant men are somehow broken, I'm pretty sure you fall further into the misogyny camp than TRP does.
Woah, bro. Don't put words in my mouth I didn't say. I didn't say a single word about dominance. I said what I said.
> I think it varies. A lot of women get turned on by guys who act like that. Some people realize that TRP relationships tend to be more symbiotic. Some sure, have love self esteem. Some enjoy to please.
I think you're right. It's a very effective approach.
But I'm not discussing whether it works or it doesn't: I'm challenging its ethics . What I'm saying is that bedding more women does not necessarily make you a better man than another one. And that if a RP kind of guy beds many women, does that mean he's great and better than a "nice guy"? My answer is no.
I think that what makes "asshole psychology" so enticing is the power it displays. They do not give a shit and that makes them looks strong to others. They show little attention and that makes the girl want to chase him to show him "he's good enough". They are very open to new experiences. They are unable to commit. That creates doubt, doubt creates interest, drama, thrill.
But ethically , does being a misogynist make you a good person? Nope. They are merely so successful because many women were raised in chauvinistic surroundings themselves. A person who truly makes a woman feel better about herself because he makes her feel worthy is better than another one who allures her, even if he makes a woman feel worthless in the process.
tl;dr: It's not about being an asshole, it's about being dominant as well as making her feel good about herself.
| NoFap | t5_2skrn | ccr5s7q | If you're trying to suggest that all the women who enjoy dominant men are somehow broken, I'm pretty sure you fall further into the misogyny camp than TRP does.
Woah, bro. Don't put words in my mouth I didn't say. I didn't say a single word about dominance. I said what I said.
> I think it varies. A lot of women get turned on by guys who act like that. Some people realize that TRP relationships tend to be more symbiotic. Some sure, have love self esteem. Some enjoy to please.
I think you're right. It's a very effective approach.
But I'm not discussing whether it works or it doesn't: I'm challenging its ethics . What I'm saying is that bedding more women does not necessarily make you a better man than another one. And that if a RP kind of guy beds many women, does that mean he's great and better than a "nice guy"? My answer is no.
I think that what makes "asshole psychology" so enticing is the power it displays. They do not give a shit and that makes them looks strong to others. They show little attention and that makes the girl want to chase him to show him "he's good enough". They are very open to new experiences. They are unable to commit. That creates doubt, doubt creates interest, drama, thrill.
But ethically , does being a misogynist make you a good person? Nope. They are merely so successful because many women were raised in chauvinistic surroundings themselves. A person who truly makes a woman feel better about herself because he makes her feel worthy is better than another one who allures her, even if he makes a woman feel worthless in the process. | It's not about being an asshole, it's about being dominant as well as making her feel good about herself. |
pure_x01 | I agree that this subreddit should be for nofap and getting over pmo addiction. But it should be ok to mention success with girls and even direct others to resources on how to find women and actually get girlfriends. But as you say this is not the subreddit for learning all this.
For many guys that have been pmo addicts it has been hard to meet a GF or hold a steady relationship. So when getting out of the addiction many men feel that it is natural urge to meet women. This is the reaction i got from quitting pmo. I now see girls differently and i really want to approach them much more.
/r/seduction is actually a very nice subreddit. There are scumbags but 90% of the people who are there are good people. Things like "leave the girl in a better state after than what you found her in" are some of the things that are set as recommendations. There are a lot of texts about inner game that is pure self improvement. Please read mark mansons book Models if you want to find out what the modern seddit seduction is all about.
TL;DR: NoFap is not for discussing seduction. /r/seduction is not sleazy and the people there are very nice | I agree that this subreddit should be for nofap and getting over pmo addiction. But it should be ok to mention success with girls and even direct others to resources on how to find women and actually get girlfriends. But as you say this is not the subreddit for learning all this.
For many guys that have been pmo addicts it has been hard to meet a GF or hold a steady relationship. So when getting out of the addiction many men feel that it is natural urge to meet women. This is the reaction i got from quitting pmo. I now see girls differently and i really want to approach them much more.
/r/seduction is actually a very nice subreddit. There are scumbags but 90% of the people who are there are good people. Things like "leave the girl in a better state after than what you found her in" are some of the things that are set as recommendations. There are a lot of texts about inner game that is pure self improvement. Please read mark mansons book Models if you want to find out what the modern seddit seduction is all about.
TL;DR: NoFap is not for discussing seduction. /r/seduction is not sleazy and the people there are very nice
| NoFap | t5_2skrn | ccqwfds | I agree that this subreddit should be for nofap and getting over pmo addiction. But it should be ok to mention success with girls and even direct others to resources on how to find women and actually get girlfriends. But as you say this is not the subreddit for learning all this.
For many guys that have been pmo addicts it has been hard to meet a GF or hold a steady relationship. So when getting out of the addiction many men feel that it is natural urge to meet women. This is the reaction i got from quitting pmo. I now see girls differently and i really want to approach them much more.
/r/seduction is actually a very nice subreddit. There are scumbags but 90% of the people who are there are good people. Things like "leave the girl in a better state after than what you found her in" are some of the things that are set as recommendations. There are a lot of texts about inner game that is pure self improvement. Please read mark mansons book Models if you want to find out what the modern seddit seduction is all about. | NoFap is not for discussing seduction. /r/seduction is not sleazy and the people there are very nice |
SAWK | I hate to be "that guy" in /r/motorcycles, but fuck it. Here goes...
Why are you trying to get a knee on the ground on a public road?
>I approached a hairpin left at a speed that I could go full lean...
Why? Had you been on this road before and were trying to improve your technique in this corner? Seriously, what were you trying to do?
>Knowing not to break...
Come on, you ride and use your foot and hand to slow down all the time, you know it's brake, not break, right?
>I prepared for a low side, then stood the bike up to try and slow. I was headed straight for a wall of rock at about 35mph so I decided to re-commit and make the turn.
Sounds like a big turn, but I *am* glad you decided to commit. That's the best part of this post, deciding to commit. Happened to me on the way home from the grocery the other night. I went in "hot" (~22mph instead of ~15mph) , just pushed w/ my right hand and everything fell into place.
>I put my feet back on the pegs and dumped it hard in to the corner.
Why were your feet off the pegs?
>The moral of the story (tl;dr) is if you ever have a moment where you're a bit out of your comfort zone, or you hit a corner faster than you're use to: stay committed.
I agree 100%. In that respect you did the right thing. My post is to bring up the question of why you were trying to get a knee on the ground in the first place?
And fyi.
>Trust your bike, and if it's a sport bike (R1, R6, CBR, GSXR, 1098, and so on) with good tires, it's literally capable of dragging pegs.
There are plenty of bikes that will scrape pegs that aren't on your list, like...every bike that's not on your list.:) | I hate to be "that guy" in /r/motorcycles, but fuck it. Here goes...
Why are you trying to get a knee on the ground on a public road?
>I approached a hairpin left at a speed that I could go full lean...
Why? Had you been on this road before and were trying to improve your technique in this corner? Seriously, what were you trying to do?
>Knowing not to break...
Come on, you ride and use your foot and hand to slow down all the time, you know it's brake, not break, right?
>I prepared for a low side, then stood the bike up to try and slow. I was headed straight for a wall of rock at about 35mph so I decided to re-commit and make the turn.
Sounds like a big turn, but I am glad you decided to commit. That's the best part of this post, deciding to commit. Happened to me on the way home from the grocery the other night. I went in "hot" (~22mph instead of ~15mph) , just pushed w/ my right hand and everything fell into place.
>I put my feet back on the pegs and dumped it hard in to the corner.
Why were your feet off the pegs?
>The moral of the story (tl;dr) is if you ever have a moment where you're a bit out of your comfort zone, or you hit a corner faster than you're use to: stay committed.
I agree 100%. In that respect you did the right thing. My post is to bring up the question of why you were trying to get a knee on the ground in the first place?
And fyi.
>Trust your bike, and if it's a sport bike (R1, R6, CBR, GSXR, 1098, and so on) with good tires, it's literally capable of dragging pegs.
There are plenty of bikes that will scrape pegs that aren't on your list, like...every bike that's not on your list.:)
| motorcycles | t5_2qi6d | ccrr471 | I hate to be "that guy" in /r/motorcycles, but fuck it. Here goes...
Why are you trying to get a knee on the ground on a public road?
>I approached a hairpin left at a speed that I could go full lean...
Why? Had you been on this road before and were trying to improve your technique in this corner? Seriously, what were you trying to do?
>Knowing not to break...
Come on, you ride and use your foot and hand to slow down all the time, you know it's brake, not break, right?
>I prepared for a low side, then stood the bike up to try and slow. I was headed straight for a wall of rock at about 35mph so I decided to re-commit and make the turn.
Sounds like a big turn, but I am glad you decided to commit. That's the best part of this post, deciding to commit. Happened to me on the way home from the grocery the other night. I went in "hot" (~22mph instead of ~15mph) , just pushed w/ my right hand and everything fell into place.
>I put my feet back on the pegs and dumped it hard in to the corner.
Why were your feet off the pegs?
>The moral of the story ( | is if you ever have a moment where you're a bit out of your comfort zone, or you hit a corner faster than you're use to: stay committed.
I agree 100%. In that respect you did the right thing. My post is to bring up the question of why you were trying to get a knee on the ground in the first place?
And fyi.
>Trust your bike, and if it's a sport bike (R1, R6, CBR, GSXR, 1098, and so on) with good tires, it's literally capable of dragging pegs.
There are plenty of bikes that will scrape pegs that aren't on your list, like...every bike that's not on your list.:) |
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