* Company A's insurance covers radiation therapy for cancers but not heart transplants \n \n Company B's insurance covers heart transplants but not radiation therapy \n \n There're many problems here with your understanding of healthcare. \n a) You don't understand the difference between Healthcare and health insurance, and you use the two terms interchangeability, which makes me doubt if you actually see the proper problem and its solution.s \n b) You don't understand that health insurance works on uncertainty and risks. You seem to think that its the task of customer to think whether he will get suffer from heart stroke or cancer. \n Lemme put it this way, if anyone can know which disease they will get, then they don't need health insurance. They need savings to build up because in that case of 100% certainty your health insurance premium equals the full payment of your healthcare cost. \n The reason why plans such as \"cancer or heart attack\" exist because they are aimed to provide consumer the satisfaction of knowing that they are covered for something they worry about(like a man who has had heart strokes in his family is more tempted to spend money on a heart stroke plan, even though he may die of cancer). \n These plans exists (and essentially all your problems raised by you exist) because of increased healthcare costs caused by various government regulations. \n You cannot mix the two problems, i.e. healthcare and health insurance and create this totally incoherent attack on free market healthcare. \n Finally your solution in","Summary: The shareholders want company to make more profit by specializing in wholesale business. They are perfectly ok with making more money by rening airplanes to supply their goods rather than opening new malls to sell those goods.\n\nPost: You could grow your own food and save a lot of money, but instead you decide to specialize into something like building houses, of programming or something like that. Why do you do that? Because you chose to spend your effort in being better in one field(which could be growing food), rather than being good or average in a bunch of different fields. \n Same thing goes for the wholesale business, they specialize in supply chains management and other things. That's where they especialize at, if they try to cut the middleman and they are outcompeted by a better and more efficient middleman who has specialized in the business then they will lose money.","Summary: Don't worry you'll settle down on the right one eventually, and wouldn't wanna go for any other, so keep trying.\n\nPost: I used to be exactly like that, I just couldn't resist the temptation of buying more inks and more colors, but then after using pens for long time, one clear requirement emerged that my inks MUST be waterproof, I just can't be writing letters to people all over the world with weak washable Diamine inks(even though they are beautiful in color and flow, they suck in water proofness). \n So I started acquiring only and only waterproof inks, and started getting rid of my non-waterproof inks. Finally I have settled down on Sailor Blue Black and Pilot Namiki Blue, and happily enjoying them.","Summary: The whole consequentialism/deontology differentiation is a false dichotomy. There is no such thing as consequence less deontological ethical system, neither there is a \"consequences always\" principle.\n\nPost: There are essentially two \"types\" of an-caps... those with the deontological view, and those with the consequentialist view. \n There are no two types of ethics or views. Its a false dichotomy to consider them to be \"separate\" routes. They are one and the same. As /u/JesseForgione describes it, its like if there are two kinds of people, the \"directionists\" and \"destinationists\", and you were to ask them how do you get to Empire state Building. The directionists says that \"as long as you take these beautiful direction, it doesn't matter where you end up\", and the destinationist says \"Empire state building? Just take whichever roads take you there\". \n This is precisely what you are doing when you think these are two different things. You are only perceiving one picture at a time, when the picture is of the same location. \n The moment I read the statement \"Murray Rothbard are more deontological, talking about how the morality of the thing trumps all else... \", I knew you were a consequentialist because of highly incorrect point you made. \n Murray Rothbard was not born with his ethical system of NAP. Sure he did give NAP, but he is technically the most brilliant \"consequentialist libertarian\" ever born. The only reason why you find David Friedman so alluring because he plays on your cognitive bias of thinking that things cannot be known in absolute and he writes in much more simplistic manner. \n Also, in later years when Hoppe came out with Argumentation Ethics, Rothbard acknowledged the superiority of the former in comparison to his own natural rights and NAP position: \n > In a dazzling breakthrough for political philosophy in general and for libertarianism in particular, he has managed to transcend the famous is/ought, fact/value dichotomy that has plagued philosophy since the days of the scholastics, and that had brought modern libertarianism into a tiresome deadlock. Not only that: Hans Hoppe has managed to establish the case for anarcho-capitalist-Lockean rights in an unprecedentedly hard-core manner, one that makes my own natural law/natural rights position seem almost wimpy in comparison.","Summary: The anti-intellectualism of USA makes it most vanguard in technology and scientific achievements.\n\nPost: Being from another country, I find the so called American anti-intellectualism quite refreshing. In America intellectuals don't get an automatic status of respect in the society, they must constantly strive for it, as opposed to in other countries where intellectuals are given the status of demi-gods. \n My own experience regarding this was when Paul Krugman won the nobel prize. I had been attacking his economics for ages. While talking to Americans nothing much changed, but the moment I made an attack on Paul Krugman in front of Indians, everybody jumped on me, they demanded that I show them my Nobel prize before I attack a Nobel Laureate. Their whole belief was that if someone wins a Nobel prize, then only other Nobel Laureates can challenge them.","Summary: mixed economies are nothing but a smooth slide towards Socialism because govt can never alter market behavior through intervention for long term. They will have to intervene again to make their last intervention work, and then they will have to intervene again.\n\nPost: but an Austrian can't, or won't consider the differences as relevant, because it's been made a moral issue. \n You are creating a straw man's argument. \n If you wanna know the simplest, shortest Austrian explanation(without the morality of the issue) to why they don't consider mixed economy and a full blown Socialist economy(btw Soviet Russia was a mixed economy too) then read this essay by Mises, its aptly titled: \n [Middle-of-the-road Policy leads to Socialism]( \n Just in case if you don't bother to read it, this is the","Summary: When money supply is increased, it doesn't result in high prices immediately, they first increase the prices of sector which are farthest removed from consumption (say iron mines and raw materials), then that price rise moves towards stages closer to consumption, and eventually its reflected in the prices consumer goods(say iPhones and cars).\n\nPost: Its important to understand the structure of production. \n Production in any economy happens in various stages. There are consumer goods, then there are capital goods which are used to produce the consumer goods. These capital goods are known as \"first order\" capital goods. The capital goods used to produce first order capital goods are known as \"second order\" capital goods. \n Similarly there are third order, fourth order etc capital goods. \n The higher the order of a capital goods is, the further away it is from consumption, and the longer it will take for the consumption good it will eventually produce to come to the market. A society is said to become prosperous if it lengthens the structure of production because a lengthier structure of production produces more goods for less effort therefore making things affordable for more people. \n When more money is introduced into the economy, it lowers down the interest rates. Because now its cheaper to borrow money, those plans which require maximum amount of time become more lucrative than plans which require lesser amount of time. \n This means that the sector which produce nth order of capital goods, show maximum price rise and profits. \n Soon those higher prices will travel to (n-1)th order of capital goods. \n Then to (n-2)th order of capital goods...and so on. \n Until eventually it will reach to the consumer sector goods and that's what we usually call as \"inflation\", and that's when everybody's talking about it and how its screwing them.","Summary: Me hoarding my $10K is tantamount to giving my money to all the other investors in proportion to their investments. Once I take money money out of the mattress its tantamount of me collecting my money back(With profit) from them.\n\nPost: I should have explained the \"hoarding is an investment in money\", but then that would have made example way too long. \n Here is the thing with hoarding money. Lets just say you and I are the only two individuals who invest money into the economy each year. We both invest $10K each. We get about 50% return(ridiculously high return for illustrative purposes), so we get $15K back each year. \n One year I decide to not invest my money and hold back, I just put it all under my mattress. what is going to happen here? Keep in mind the rate of voluntary savings hasn't risen(i.e. nobody is consuming any less). \n Because of less money in circulation the consumer prices will fall, the labor prices will fall therefore the other guy's $10K will not be able to hire more labor, buy more raw material, essentially their purchasing capability will go up. Its like I gave my $10K to you to invest. Although the numbers aren't in any way accurate, its like you now have $20K worth of purchasing power, you invest, it, make a 50% return off it(after adjusting for deflation its 100% profit). \n Then whenever I bring my money out of the mattress(for the sake of example lets just say I do it right after a year), there is additional money in the market, the prices must rise, that is the purchasing power would go down, and your 100% profit after adjusting for inflation will come down to 50%, and because of increased production the fallen prices have raised the purchasing power of your $10K to $15K, which is what you'd have made had you invested that money.","Summary: Political correctness is a non-issue for libertarianism because all what happens to you is you get socially ostracized for being political incorrect. Its a liberal vs conservative issue, it does not belong to /r/libertarian .\n\nPost: I am sorry guys but I am pretty annoyed by 'libertarians'(stress on the quotes), blame political correctness for some sort of tyrannical force in America, or calling pretty much every goddamn every request to be nice as \"political correctness gone mad\". \n What politicians wanna call their bills has nothing to with the actual impact of that bill.\nPolitical correctness does not make people leftist, political correctness does not make people support initiation of aggression on their fellow individuals.\nPolitical correctness does not make people wage wars, political correctness does not make people vote for spending your taxpayers dollars on welfare, political correctness does not make people kill each other. \n The war on political correctness is a conservative vs liberal issue. Liberals think somehow political correctness will make people better, remove xenophobia, racism, poverty from our society. Conservative thinks forcing them to be nice to people they don't interact with(the handicaps, blacks, immigrants) is taking away their liberties. \n What we call things, do really matter in libertarianism and the fight for liberty, but what we call people does not. The difference is, calling Dept of Domestic Tyranny as Dept of Homeland Security isn't political correctness issue, calling Dept of Waging Wars, as Dept of Defense isn't political correctness. Calling 'Childhood Brainwashing' as 'Public education' isn't an issue of political correctness. But calling black people as 'Negroes' or the N-word, and getting shunned by the whole society is political correctness but its not really an issue of liberty. \n If you have a problem with political correctness, then take it as a social issue, because nobody is really making it illegal(not yet) to use the n-word or to call illegal immigrants as illegal immigrants and not undocumented workers. \n I am a libertarian and at one point even considered myself as conservative, and if you are one of those people who for some reason judge people on their request of using a more socially polite term, or you are one of those morons who seems to be waging a war on political correctness and considering it as a great fight for liberty then I am free, and I will not interact with you in any social setup. (And I meet people like these dime a dozen).","Summary: If you had to bring your own slaves from Africa to America(in 17th-18th century) for farming, it won't be profitable. The slaves were so costly that you wouldn't be able to recover the cost until you make them work for you for over a decade. The profits from slavery wasn't the reason why it existed(although it may have started that way).\n\nPost: Slavery was only marginally profitable, but not more profitable than non-slave labor. Most people have this habit of seeing slave labor as something which costs $0 and gives you a lot of profit, but its not true. \n Lets say a slave will give you a total profit of $1 Million over 20 years of his work life. How much would you be willing to pay for it? Would you be willing to pay $100K? Sure you would, but then I will be willing to pay $150K for it, because a profit of $850K is still good enough. But then you will outbid me, and I will outbid you, until the point where maybbe you are paying $800K for the slave, and any more cost wouldn't be worth owning the slaves for 20 years. \n This $200K profit(over 20 years) will be an average profit to anything else in the market. \n This is the biggest reason why people didn't wanna give up their slaves. If you owned 5 slaves, setting them free meant bear a loss of some $4-5 million(2010 dollars for easy understanding) of capital investment. Also capturing of slaves was subsidized by the government when most of the slaves were being brought to US from Africa, on its own it wasn't worth the cost(we are talking about a time 200-300 years ago) to ship slaves from Africa to America, only to have them work on a farm. \n On the other hand voluntary labor was more efficient, you didn't require to hire taskmasters to oversee them, and you weren't tied to your slave until you recover the cost, you could fire your voluntary labor anytime you want. \n This is the biggest reason why north gave up the slaves, once the old slaves died people stopped getting new slaves, because it wasn't worth it. It wasn't overnight that Northerners realized they didn't wanna own slaves anymore. Please Civil War was all about bringing Southern states back to the union, they used emancipation as a punishment to southern states, that's why Emancipation declaration only set the slaves in the southern states free. \n In north, New Jersey even had slaves until 1965, when 13th amendment was passed.","Summary: Your classification of something being irrational doesn't change humans, they still have uneasiness they wanna get rid of, and they continue to act, to remove those uneasiness irrespective of your well-informed classification of their action.\n\nPost: Mail124 you are making value judgments about an individual. You are defining what rationality is. \n Drinking alcohol is considered irrational by Saudi Arabians, on the other hand, not drinking alcohol is considered irrational by some Americans. \n The point is that human action has nothing to do with what others think about rationality. All human actions are intended to do something. As long as you don't judge that goal, as long as you don't assume values for that action, you will find out that humans have done that action with an intend to remove uneasiness in their life. \n They may or may not be able to remove that uneasiness by that action, but speaking apriori, they would not act if they did not think that it will remove uneasiness in their life. \n Take for example someone who is trying to quit drinking, takes his next drink despite of knowing and even wishing that he stop drinking to remove the uneasiness in his life caused by drinking alcohol, but he still choses to smokes but he believes it will relieve the uneasiness caused by not drinking, which is very temporary, but it is there none the less. \n The reason why interference never does what it intends to do is because when you interfere in the market, and try to affect others in a way you think is rational for them but not according to them, then then end up trying to still somehow perform that action to remove that uneasiness. \n Take for example if you decide to interfere(as a govt) and ban alcohol in the above example, you don't take away their uneasiness from them, you just take away the means to remove that uneasiness from them. The uneasiness still persists, so they will now act to in some other way to remove that uneasiness, especially when the uneasiness builds up. \n The black market liquor pops up, and people trade in them. Because now uneasiness is building up, so the action must also be worth removing that uneasiness so more and more harder liquor is produced. During prohibition usage of whiskey went up, because drinking small amounts of that got you more drunk. During drug prohibition era crack, and Meth were created, again because the harder means of eliminating uneasiness are suppressed, the means must be even more worth it. All because you tried to hold value judgments for people. \n Now you may say that these are addictive substances, but I only used them to show you an example of people supposedly acting obviously \"irrationally\". I can take a similar example of gold in India during 70s-90s, when Government if India banned gold import, that ended up creating a massive black market of gold, and gold ownership desirability jumped up even higher in people's value scale. \n Same thing goes for any other human action. When you try to suppress the means of removing uneasiness, some people are actually ok with that, you did them a favor, but for most of the people, the uneasiness still remain.","Summary: You might find a guy who loves you, or you might not find such a guy, but if you don't start to love yourself, then you are guaranteed to not find such a guy because 'you have an ugly body', everything in the world will further reinforce your belief. \n Also, work out more and get strong. The woman I dated who had stretch marks skin at the stomach(she was never pregnant) like you had a fit body which was extremely attractive for me. Also she had a surgery scar(I never asked her what it was for, but I think it was for skin tightening surgery), which was pretty amazing(it made her look more awesome).\n\nPost: So she is going to find faults with the one she has. \n Which is precisely my point. Making your body better is definitely a good thing and you have managed to do that. You are not going to experience it in an unhealthy manner. \n I love this Socrates quote. \n > “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” - Socrates \n You think Socrates is talking about six packs or modelesque figures when he talks about beauty, and strength but no, he is talking about the fact beauty of your body's more natural and fit condition. Your body adapted to a stretched form to hold more fat(which was the consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle) and now you have gotten rid of it. \n I have lost 50 lbs too btw, no I didn't get a skin like that(also I'm a dude), and I had friends who were slim/fit most of their lives, they said that they would never date someone who used to be fat, but for me, this experience of taking control of your life and transforming it creates a lot more connection than to a girl who never used to be fat. \n Also check this video out, do you find this guy unattractive?: \n > Say I do meet a guy, and he's wonderful, we get along, care about each other, he likes my personality and everything is perfect and all that. But when he see's me naked for the first time how am I going to be certain that he is actually physically attracted to me and not just putting up with how I look because he likes everything else about me? \n Say you meet a guy, and he is wonderful, you get along, care about each other, you like his personality and everything is perfect and all that. But when you see him naked for the first time you realize that he has a micropenis. Assuming you would totally wanna be with him and have his kids if he had an average size penis, would you still date him and continue to have a relationship with him? Say you did that, how can he ever be sure that you really enjoys what he looks like naked? I mean you are turned on by him, and you enjoy him using his mouth and other toys, you enjoy being blindfolded, tied down and spanked by him. You wanna talk to him about everything, your dreams, your happiness your sadness, your successes, your failures, you wanna kiss him all day long, but all he wants to know is if you like his penis, and are not just putting up with it because of the rest of the things. \n The fact is that at the end of the day, he could have had an 8'' penis, but if he is extremely insecure about it then it doesn't matter, the experience you are going to have with him would be terrible. Similarly if the micropenis guy was confident about his life, then the size is just a side issue. \n So the more important question is, assuming you are interested in him and get turned on by looking at him, would he believe it? Or in your case the question is, assuming a guy IS really attracted to you, how can you really believe the fact? Would it be fun for a guy to be in a relationship with a woman who is extremely insecure about her body, and gets jealous and goes into emotional fits whenever he checks out another girl? So you are in a relationship with this guy who is great, and he says he likes your body too. But then you find him checking out this barista at a cafe bending over, or you walked in him jerking off to a porno, how would that make you feel? Chances are, you will feel very hurt, but its not like bfs of physically attractive girls don't check other chicks out or masturbate to porn(unless you found him from /r/NoFap ) \n What this question, \"Can I ever find a guy who is attracted towards me physically?\" is really saying, \"I am extremely insecure about my body and I will drive any guy who is attractive towards me, crazy with my insecurities.\" \n > Could you explain this a little more? Are you saying that my body may not be what he ideally wants, but he'll take it anyways because it's close enough? \n There is no 'ideal' body we really want. If a guy wants to order a blow up doll, he might go for Kate Upton's body, but when men get in a relationship with someone, they aren't really choosing their partner based on these set criteria(though some men might say that they really want a blonde or asian girl, in truth they are usually chasing some idea they have in their head, modeling them after real life girls they like/d). People only make a decision about someone as a whole. I like this girl. That includes things I wouldn't wanna go away and things I would be happy if they went away. But nobody really goes in for someone who is a statue of adonic perfection. \n All of us, men or women, are really attracted towards the minds of the other people(by that I don't mean their intelligence or talent or skill, but 'mind'). This is why we(many of us) fall in love with someone over the internet, someone we may have never seen. Some men only chase young women without a personality of any kind, some women only chase men with money or good looks, but happiness is only bestowed upon those people who actually go after someone who has more to offer to them than their looks or money. \n Penis size may not matter, but the truth is people with smaller penises have more self-esteem issues than people with average or larger penises. Similarly body size may not matter but women with too big too small bodies have these self-esteem issues which makes being in a relationship with them insufferable. \n My whole point is, that this though, 'would a guy ever find me physically attractive' is the biggest reason why a guy wouldn't find you attractive. You have to learn to love yourself before you can expect anyone to love you. I might be repeating myself for the nth time, but imagine your boyfriend feels bad about his big nose, he continuously talks about how cabs don't stop for him because his nose is too big, and how he was passed on for the promotion for his big nose. In case of a fight with you, he blames you for fighting with him because you don't like his nose and find him unattractive. He sees you talking to a guy and now he accuses you of flirting with a guy because he had a more beautiful nose. \n If you ever dump him, you may think(if you were naive) that 'I am better off being in a relationship with someone who has a more beautiful nose', but the truth will still be that it wouldn't have mattered if he wasn't so insecure about his nose, but to him it will be just a more proof that he is cursed from being happy because of his nose, because his gf just dumped him for a guy with a prettier nose.","Summary: Mafia is in existence because of govt prohibition(of any kind) on goods. Remove the prohibition and Mafia dies out.\n\nPost: Maybe I should have elaborated this. \n Criminals organize to do acts which are criminal not because they are harming any individual, but merely because the government has made it illegal for anyone to do those acts. \n Take for example America saw a massive rise in organized crime in 1920s, because of prohibition. Individuals made profit by providing market what it needed, liquor. But individuals can't fight and runaway from the govt for long, so they were either squashed, and put into jail or they got organized. Soon there were organized supply chains of alcohol production which will sell alcohol in black market. Its no different than Budweiser or Sam Adams doing business and selling beer. \n The only problem is because selling, manufacturing and consuming liquor was illegal back then therefore the only way these organizations would survive is through being as powerful as the police, being able to bribe the local law enforcement. And the thing is as long as profits from liquor keep on pouring in, it was all worth it. \n Soon these gangs would start doing other kinds of activities too. I mean there were a lot of things illegal before 18th amendment, but prohibition created a \"core business\". Loan sharking, money laundering, drugs, etc etc. \n After 21st amendment, it was the New Deal, which probably gave more channels for mafia to make money than prohibition ever did. By the time New Deal died, most of these gangs also disappeared. They disappear because if you don't have a massive channel for profits anymore then you can't fund yourself with weapons, and people, you can't bribe judges and cops. \n Now almost all the organized crime which exists is because of drugs. \n In India there is a very interesting observation, all the organized crime which existed was mostly because of import restrictions on gold and other foreign goods. Indians currently have world's largest private ownership of gold all because govt tried to restrict gold imports, that just created waves and waves of gangs bringing gold in from other countries. This is just to point out that drugs and liquor might be addictive, but gold is nothing like that, yet as long as a govt tries to ban something some people want, suddenly everybody wants it. Mafia died out after 1991 economic liberalization of India.","Summary: Turning off people by saying \"taxation is theft\" is extremely intentional. ;)\n\nPost: While I respect your view I don't believe that calling taxation \"theft\" is productive because you're going to extremes and closing the debate. \n As much as I understand the fact that it shocks people when you call taxation as \"theft\", it is the truth and nothing but the truth. Maybe I can say \"All unique attributes you prescribe to an action of acquisition of a property as 'theft', can also be prescribed to taxation\", what does that do? Makes the other person ask \"Are you calling taxation a theft?\", what shall I say to him next? Lie to him, or tell him the truth? \n Either taxation is theft, or it isn't theft. If in your mind you consider theft to be an extremely evil action, but consider taxation to be a more nobler action, then this would be a non-contradictory position, only if you don't consider taxation to be theft. If you cannot make an argument about why taxation isn't theft, then that would be nothing but cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonances ARE uncomfortable feelings which cannot be gotten rid of without discomfort. \n Imagine if you are an atheist and someone tells you that you musn't say \"God doesn't exist\" to religious people in a debate or else that would close the debate. That you should say \"God might not exist, or there is no substantial proof of his existence\". The fact is, considering there are billions of people you have to convince about atheism, you are better off closing the debate with anyone who thinks this statement should end the debate. \n Same goes here. If saying \"taxation is theft\" shuts down the debate, instead of making the other person ask \"How is taxation theft?\", then why do you think its a good investment of someone's time in avoiding the statement and continue to have that debate? \n > I suppose you believe that private property is a fundamental right. There are people who believe that \"private property is theft\", and some people that believe that some laws on property law should be debated or that a given piece of land's history is controversial and should be questioned. \n Private property is a fundamental right not because I just believe so. Private property is a fundamental right because of my right to own myself. \"Private property is theft\" is a contradictory statement, and non-sense because 'theft' cannot exist without acknowledging someone's property rights. If its theft, then theft from whom? If it is a theft from the society, then does the person using that property not a part of the society? \n What makes it a theft from the society? If there is a certain way by which a person must use that property in order for it to not be a theft, then what if the person does not agree with that way? Does he have a right to disagree with the society? The debate can go on and on(and I have had it dozens of times). \n At the end of the day, anyone who says \"property is theft\" and cannot see the contradiction in it, can be safely ignored and be left for later. \n > I don't like big statements that shut off conversations. I'm fundamentally against fundamentalism. \n What you don't understand is that I used to be exactly like that. It started out with me taking a strong position on something, then finding out that I as wrong, then I repeated this thing a few times so I landed on this more 'humble' position that it makes no sense to be that opinionated, because anyone could be wrong, and having these extreme statements I was just doing a damage to everyone overall. \n Until I realized that the real debate is between people who believe that the world exists as-is(whether you like it or not), vs those who believe that reality does not exist. \n The former position involves holding no contradictions, the latter is all about contradictions. \"Taxation is not theft.\" \"Don't say extreme statements even if you believe them to be completely true\", \"I'm fundamentally against fundamentalism.\"(I know you said it in jest, but I know you believe it), \"don't convince people about truth by saying the truth to people who will get turned off by truth\", and the list goes on.","Summary: What we need is more capital accumulation, and not economic inequality. If we forcefully redistribute wealth, then we will get relatively equal but we all get poorer. Its higher capital accumulation which makes our lives better, not inequality.\n\nPost: To understand anything about income equality or inequality we must first understand what is prosperity, and why is a country richer or poorer. \n Let me give you an example, lets first take an example of Robinson Crusoe who got stranded on an island. He catches fishes everyday from 8AM to 5PM and eats them. Since he just landed on the island, he catches these fishes by hand and he is able to catch 25 fishes everyday. Since Crusoe came from a modern society he realizes that he can build a net, and that will enable him to catch a lot more fishes. Unfortunately, he also realizes that he cannot just blink and wish a fishing net, he must build it, and making a fishing net requires 5 days of his work. The problem in front of Crusoe is that if he starts to work for 5 full days to build that net, then he won’t be able to catch any fish therefore he will starve to death. \n Crusoe in this scenario faces the problem of lack of capital. He needs capital to sustain himself until he extends the structure of production(that is from using only hands to catch fish, he uses hands to build a fishing net, which he uses to catch fishes. He realizes that by building that fishing net he will be able to catch 300 fishes everyday. \n So Crusoe has 2 options, he can either: \n \n Eat only 20 fishes everyday, and store the 5 uneaten fishes; Keep on doing this for 20 days, which will get him 100 fishes, which are good enough for him to sustain himself for five days when he won’t be able to work. \n Catch only 20 fishes each day and spend that extra time in building the net, so he will be spreading his 5 days of work, over 20 days. \n \n In either of the two cases Crusoe has deferred his present consumption of 5 fishes everyday so that after he builds the net he is now able to produce and consume a LOT more fishes everyday. He can either catch 300 fishes and maybe consume them all, or make more dishes out of them, etc etc, or he could continue to catch only 25 fishes everyday, work less and have more leisure time, and spending the remaining time in working on art, literature, maybe music etc. \n A third world country is exactly like Crusoe without the fishing net, and a rich western country like America is exactly like Crusoe with a fishing net. Because its easier for western countries to produce a lot without giving up a lot of present goods, America has a lot of time to spend on art, literature, music, etc. This is the exact reason why their athletes and sportsmen win so many medals in Olympics, they have the disposable income and time to train themselves for sports, whereas in poor countries people still spend most of their time catching fishes by hand. \n In order to build more capital, you require two things: \n \n People should be willing to put a lot of present goods for later consumption \n When they put their present goods for later consumption, nothing should reduce or steal away their capital from them \n \n Let me elaborate what I meant by nothing should reduce or steal away the capital from people who are deferring their present consumption for future. In the above example of Crusoe, lets say Crusoe’s fishes got rotten because they weren’t stored properly, so his capital has been destroyed, now to achieve the same earlier result he will have to build his savings again. \n Take another scenario, lets say Man Friday, is another cast away, who drifted to the other part of the Island, he also catches fishes by hand, but he is able to catch only 10 fishes because he is not that good with catching fishes. When Crusoe was saving 5 fishes everyday, Man Friday decried that Crusoe was being unfair and hoarding fishes, and it was causing income inequality, also Crusoe being more dexterous with fishing, must feed Man Friday some of his fishes. So everyday Man Friday raids Crusoe’s extra fishes and consumes them in the name of making the society more equal. In this case again Crusoe’s capital has been depleted, and he will never be able to build that fishing net, and although Man Friday and Crusoe will be a bit more equal, they will remain poor. In fact soon Crusoe will realize that he has no incentive to really starve himself by 5 fishes, so he will either consume all 25 fishes or will catch only 5 fishes each day. \n Had Man Friday allowed Crusoe to build his net, Crusoe would have been able to produce a lot more fishes everyday, and then Man Friday could then provide Crusoe with some other services, in exchange for his fishes. Lets just say all Man Friday is good at, is dancing and creating stories and telling them passionately, since they both are stranded on an island, Crusoe might value this entertainment service a lot, so Crusoe works all day catching 300 fishes, and gives 100 fishes to Man Friday in exchange of Man Friday’s entertainment services. This service would not be possible in a society without more capital accumulation. \n Had Man Friday stressed on equality, all the way along, Crusoe’s net wouldn’t have been built, and Crusoe would have remained relatively rich(because he caught 25 fishes everyday and consumed 20), and Man Friday would have remained poor(because he caught only 10 fishes everyday and was able to consume only 15). Please note that in the society with more capital(ie, when Crusoe built a net), Crusoe was consuming 200 fishes everyday, which is almost double of what Man Friday was consuming(100 fishes), which meant more inequality, but still Man Friday in the society was better off in this society.","Summary: You don't exchange services and goods directly with the \"rich\", you trade it with other people like you, the rich merely facilitate an easier transaction between you and me, without them we will merely be trading services differently.\n\nPost: We don't consume money, we only need money to trade services and goods from each other. Take for example I don't really use services of Warren Buffett directly, my car is fixed by a car mechanic called Ted(hired by Geico). My money is handled a (BOA) bank teller named Bud. \n If somehow one day some rich people decide to take out all their money and never spend/invest it again, then all that would happen is me, Ted and Bud will have to find another way to perform the same transactions. Somehow Ted will figure a way out to sell his mechanic services to mem, and similarly Bud will figure a way out to provide me with the same services. \n It would be marginally worse than what it is right now, but we won't starve, its impossible for us to starve when only thing which has happened is increased voluntary savings rate(i.e. people have just started to save more).","Summary: African countries have less technology because they don't have an ability to use that technology because of lack of Capital accumulation. Capital accumulates faster in countries with stronger property rights. The 'free time' HelioSeven is talking about is nothing but time they acquired through savings.\n\nPost: I disagree with the top answer here. To understand anything about why some countries have more technology and some less, must first understand what is prosperity, and why is a country richer or poorer. \n Let me give you an example, lets first take an example of Robinson Crusoe who got stranded on an island. He catches fishes everyday from 8AM to 5PM and eats them. Since he just landed on the island, he catches these fishes by hand and he is able to catch 25 fishes everyday. Since Crusoe came from a modern society he realizes that he can build a net, and that will enable him to catch a lot more fishes. Unfortunately, he also realizes that he cannot just blink and wish a fishing net, he must build it, and making a fishing net requires 5 days of his work. The problem in front of Crusoe is that if he starts to work for 5 full days to build that net, then he won’t be able to catch any fish therefore he will starve to death. \n Crusoe in this scenario faces the problem of lack of capital. He needs capital to sustain himself until he extends the structure of production(that is from using only hands to catch fish, he uses hands to build a fishing net, which he uses to catch fishes. He realizes that by building that fishing net he will be able to catch 300 fishes everyday. \n So Crusoe has 2 options, he can either: \n Eat only 20 fishes everyday, and store the 5 uneaten fishes; Keep on doing this for 20 days, which will get him 100 fishes, which are good enough for him to sustain himself for five days when he won’t be able to work. \n Catch only 20 fishes each day and spend that extra time in building the net, so he will be spreading his 5 days of work, over 20 days. \n In either of the two cases Crusoe has deferred his present consumption of 5 fishes everyday so that after he builds the net he is now able to produce and consume a LOT more fishes everyday. He can either catch 300 fishes and maybe consume them all, or make more dishes out of them, etc etc, or he could continue to catch only 25 fishes everyday, work less and have more leisure time, and spending the remaining time in working on art, literature, maybe music etc. \n A poor african country is exactly like Crusoe without the fishing net, and a rich western country like America is exactly like Crusoe with a fishing net. These African countries may figure out Technologies by merely copying western technologies, but what the knowledge isn't enough, what they really need is enough savings to lengthen the structure of production. If they are catching fishes by hand then they need to save enough to be able to feed themselves when they build a fishing net(let's call it sideways production). \n This is the exact reason why China is producing iPads and iPods for US but not for themselves, because they don't have enough savings by themselves to sustain themselves when they try to upgrade their capital goods. \n Its easier for western countries to produce a lot without giving up a lot of present goods, America has a lot of time to spend on art, literature, music, etc. This is the exact reason why their athletes and sportsmen win so many medals in Olympics, they have the disposable income and time to train themselves for sports, whereas in poor countries people still spend most of their time catching fishes by hand. \n In order to build more capital, you require two things: \n People should be willing to put a lot of present goods for later consumption, I.e. \nWhen they put their present goods for later consumption, nothing should reduce or steal away their capital from them. \n Let me elaborate what I meant by nothing should reduce or steal away the capital from people who are deferring their present consumption for future. In the above example of Crusoe, lets say Crusoe’s fishes got rotten because they weren’t stored properly, so his capital has been destroyed, now to achieve the same earlier result he will have to build his savings again. \n Take another scenario, lets say Man Friday, is another cast away, who drifted to the other part of the Island, he also catches fishes by hand, but he is able to catch only 10 fishes because he is not that good with catching fishes. When Crusoe was saving 5 fishes everyday, Man Friday decried that Crusoe was being unfair and hoarding fishes, and it was causing income inequality, also Crusoe being more dexterous with fishing, must feed Man Friday some of his fishes. So everyday Man Friday raids Crusoe’s extra fishes and consumes them in the name of making the society more equal. In this case again Crusoe’s capital has been depleted, and he will never be able to build that fishing net, and although Man Friday and Crusoe will be a bit more equal, they will remain poor. In fact soon Crusoe will realize that he has no incentive to really starve himself by 5 fishes, so he will either consume all 25 fishes or will catch only 5 fishes each day. \n Had Man Friday allowed Crusoe to build his net, Crusoe would have been able to produce a lot more fishes everyday, and then Man Friday could then provide Crusoe with some other services, in exchange for his fishes. Lets just say all Man Friday is good at, is dancing and creating stories and telling them passionately, since they both are stranded on an island, Crusoe might value this entertainment service a lot, so Crusoe works all day catching 300 fishes, and gives 100 fishes to Man Friday in exchange of Man Friday’s entertainment services. This service would not be possible in a society without more capital accumulation. \n If Crusoe isn't allowed to save because the property rights lack in his country then Crusoe’s net wouldn’t have been built, and Crusoe would have remained relatively rich(because he caught 25 fishes everyday and consumed 20), and Man Friday would have remained poor(because he caught only 10 fishes everyday and was able to consume only 15).","Summary: Network Effect does not save us from everything. One solution for alt-ethereums is a way by which(and I don't know how this would work out) is an ability for a fork to reward the original contributors of the technology. Any forker would like this idea for his own self-interest because this allows the core contributors to keep working on the technology. Ideas and suggestions regarding how this could be done are welcome.\n\nPost: My opinion: \n I got into Bitcoins in 2009(when it was merely a few months old). It excited me a lot. I was studying economics(Praxeology more specifically), and overall bitcoin just made immediate sense to me(nobody was interested in bitcoin at that time). I defended bitcoin to people when bitcoin was a non-entity, nobody cared about it. \n Since 2009, no other crypto-technology has excited me as much as Ethereum. I wanted to create an app in 2009(I only have 2 github commits to show for that) which would allow dispute resolution and it will track the 'reputation' of good arbitrators. Later judge.me managed to pull the same thing off with some success. \n Ethereum is the most promising technology ever, and it will serve to a major need of the Internet, that is third party arbitration and reputation tracking(and beyond). It is also one of the most flexible and open platform in terms of what can be done with it. \n The biggest conclusion which I came around recently was this. \n \n No cryptotechnology can survive without being open source \n \n No crypto-technology can ignore the reality(more specifically economic reality). That is, no matter what the principles of the creator behind an crypto-technology is, in order for him/her to benefit out of the technology they created, they must create the most capitalist/voluntaryist free market technology ever. \n \n \n If take for instance, someone creates a cryptocurrency which has \"self-redistributing wealth\" concept embedded in it, because they don't like economic inequality, then any fork of that currency which removes that feature will see people flocking to that fork. \n Same goes for any crypto-currency which humors \"Basic Income Guarantee\"(where the value of your possessions is depleted by using technology) or some other concept like that, it will not be able to survive a fork where this feature is disabled, because there is just more profit in the alternate currency. \n Network Effect : So the question comes in, how much is the network effect really a deterrence against alt-ethers? Some people give an example of bitcoin and how no alternate currency has managed to make a dent to its adoption. Well, my argument(which has been the case since 2009) is that bitcoin follows all the economic principles correctly(most importantly Say's law, I know majority of economic schools don't understand or agree with Say's law, but majority does not define truth), that's why any attempt to displace bitcoin fails. \n Also don't forget, the reason why we are here at Ethereum because it does things which bitcoin is nowhere near capable of doing. \n Network effect is only good deterrence against Clonetheums. Regarding Econetheums, I do not believe that Network effect is a major deterrence against it. I was a lot more on board with Ethereum when Charles Hoskinson was on board, he truly understood economics and the reasons behind Ethereum. \n Gavin Woods, with all due respect, says stupid shit like \"Ethereum allows you to implement social contract\". Has he even read the wikipedia entry on 'social contract'? He simply means to use the term 'contract'. Not that it makes a huge difference, but its clear these people are specialists in technology(i.e Vitalik and Gavin Woods). You can't expect them to get every non-technological detail right(but I will try my best). \n Which brings me to my next point. If a stupid economic principle makes into core Ethereum protocol(like Basic Income Guarantee, or Self-redistributing wealth), then I promise to fork it(bear with me before you start downvoting). To encash the network effect, I merely have to borrow the 'credibility' information from core Ethereum, that is a kickstarter DAC user can easily start his next project on the Econetheum clone I created, and the network will acknowledge that this is actually user ElonMusk who has in past (on core Ethereum network) successfully started multiple projects. \n BUT, at the same time I wouldn't want to harm the people like Vitalik and Gavin and other contributors for all the effort they put in. So what I would really like(and I believe most people would be able to get behind) is a fork where the founders are still rewarded. A mere blockchain based fork only rewards the people who are currently holding the original technology.","Summary: The person who saved up 10% of the currency and then bought more stuff when the price fell, completely and totally deserve the extra goods he was able to buy, because it was no different than the returns of his investment in money.\n\nPost: My argument is that you heavily misunderstand hoarding of money. \n Hoarding of money is nothing but investing in money itself. \n By hoarding, I do mean keeping stacks and stacks of it underneath your bed. \n Why do you invest in something? You invest in something because you believe that price of that commodity will go up in future. Hoarding intends to do that. (Also don't forget investments can go wrong too, you don't always make profit by hoarding money). \n When someone piles up 10% of the money, its tantamount of him giving his money to all those people who hold money(by raising the value of their cash). So everybody else sees their cash holdings gain 10% in value. Its like the guy hired everybody who uses the same currency, and gave some portion of his money to invest for him. \n What this does is when the profits are made? The total profits of a currency would be nothing but what the \"economic growth\" which took place in that society. Put it simple, if the society ends up seeing 5% more goods and servicing in the economy after a year, then when the guy come back and puts his money back into the society, his 10% are now able to buy worth 5% more(total is 10.5% not 15%). \n In simple words, a person who hoards money, is investing in money, and his returns are what the rate of growth of economy is(assuming govt isn't printing more money). If economy grows by 7%, then that's his profit, and if economy shrinks by 3% then that's his loss. \n The accusation of \"price manipulation\" you are making is no different than when a futures trader buys wheat anticipating a less rainfall next year. He raises prices now(makes everyone consume less wheat now and save more for next year), only to lower the prices next year when there is less rainfall. \n Even if you never spend that money(like this gentleman that still means you simply transferred the money to other holders of the same currency. It is nothing but \"donating\" money to everybody else.","Summary: The annoying austrians who have no understanding of mainstream economics aren't annoying because they haven't taken economics courses in college, but because they consider you as 'evil'. I do my part to show them that you are not evil(well not all). But then you(mainstream economists) pick and choose your opponents from them and classify all Austrians as stupid because you disagree with their methodology.\n\nPost: As a self-described Austrian Economist who has never taken even Econ 101, I totally understand your frustration. I used to be one of them, I now know enough about mainstream economist(the general idea of where everything lies) that I can dip my feet into it. I am reading General Theory right now. Soon I will dip my hands on Neo-classical textbooks.\nI will give you an insight into the group which calls itself Austrian Economists(I am not talking about the Austrian Scholars, most of them have <mainstream> economics degrees so they probably know as much as any average mainstream economics professor, but I am talking about people mostly libertarians who find Austrian Economics fascinating, and understand it through osmoses). \n When you start learning AE, and have a strong libertarian background(which is important for the kinds of individual I am talking about) everything mainstream economists suggests which are unlibertarian in nature(and therefore anti-market or pro-government) comes out as 'evil'. I mean you may or may not give shit to Karl Marx or political hack such as Krugman's Democrat-leaning politics, but to the Libertarians it all comes out as being purposely evil. \n See most mainstream liberals aren't economists, nor are most mainstream right-wing leaning conservatives or libertarians. People proposing more government spending may or may not use economics as an argument about making society more Pareto Efficient, but at that level saying that poor and unfortunate people need a social safety net is sufficient enough. Similarly people proposing tax cuts may or may not use the argument that deluding accumulated capital will result in society becoming poorer, or not being able to make its poor people better, but at that level saying that government shouldn't steal from them is sufficient enough. A liberal vs conservative debate hardly requires a lot of knowledge about economics. \n The problem comes in when one of them decide to learn a bit more economics and try to take down the economists from the other side. Especially when learning a specific economics does not require 4 years worth of degree. I mean I can totally trash so many non-economists from /r/politics when they make arguments like money supply should be increased in a recession. Not because I have convinced them but because then I get to say things like explaining Austrian Capital theory, which they cannot reply without at least knowing some economics. \n I used to think that mainstream economists are either stupid, for believing in ridiculous theories that increasing the money supply will make everybody richer, \"Can't they see it makes everybody poorer and only govt gets richer and big companies doing business with government take all the benefit from it?\". But then after making the effort to actually understand mainstream economist, I don't consider them as evil anymore. \n But there are a lot of young libertarians out there who 'mistake' mainstream economists as evil and/or stupid. \n This is actually quite frustrating for me too, because I have(or at least I consider I have) a logical argument against mainstream theories, but then most of the people who consider mainstream economics as evil do not understand it, or they say they understand it, but in their minds they short circuit it for the 'evil' theorem. \n Take for example I was trying to explain the problem with having a central bank(you know the whole Austrian Business Cycle Theory and how central banks cause the booms and bust cycle by causing intertemporal misallocation of resources), but these people short circuit the understanding of why central banks exist in first place to 'because the evil bankers set up a system to control the money of the nation so that they can control the people'. This reasoning is as frustrating for me as its for you. \n I have my own logical construct to explain them something, I tell them to assume Jesus Christ himself to be the President and Fed Chairman, and then I proceed to explain them that he would do the exact same thing as these guys are doing, because if you really believe in a faulty theory you don't have to be evil by nature to do wrong things. Of course that means if I am not evil then according to them I am doing evil things by believing in a faulty theory. \n I would rather spend my time defending mainstream economics for why that believes its correct, against libertarians than to spend my time convincing them fora specific political ideology, because they try be Austrians without really understanding anything, and many times it really pays if they understand the seriousness of the arguments made by mainstream economics, because that will motivate them to learn some real austrian economics. \n What I am trying to say is I play devil's adovcate so much with them just so that either they weed themselves out(which a lot many do), or they get off their butts trying to be armchair Austrians(of course Austrians themselves are mocked as armchair economists by the mainstream economists). \n To cut short this long post, the reason why 'Austrian economists' are annoying to you because they have hardly made an effort to understand Austrian Economics itself, and most of their ideas about mainstream economics is latter being 'evil'. \n Well my complain to you guys(and I believe after critiquing my own people so much, I deserve to register my complain against mainstream economists), is that you consider the whole school 'stupid'(remember they short circuit any analysis about mainstream argument as being evil, you do it by short circuiting it as being stupid), because you so vehemently disagree with the Austrian methodology. This is the sole reason why you although accept Chicago school here in this subreddit but reject specifically Austrian economics(also this is just an Austrian Economics circlejerk, I see /r/economics as having far more sane discussion about mainstrema economics).","Summary: There are two points about it, first natural monopolies(or as you call it private monopolies are hard to sustain), secondly, even when they can hypothetically exist it is for the good of the consumer, unlike govt monopolies which exist despite of all the inefficiency.\n\nPost: is this voluntary or not voluntary for the third person? \n For the third person this isn't even a question of voluntary vs non-voluntary, since the third party is not the party in the contract or be forced to do any kind of action with their property. \n But if you wanna know would I call this society a just and voluntary society, then my answer is yes. Just because you don't like a certain outcome doesn't mean the whole process needs to be fixed, because the basis of the society is derived through first principles(in this case principle of non-aggression). \n But, what economics tells me is that practically there is a little chance of this kind of collusion surviving, as in this situation is very highly tailored to elaborate a point(2 out of 3 people form a collusion), but in real life scenarios(With large number of people) this won't work. There is a great incentive for either of the colluding parties to break the collusion, start trading with the third guy and become better off. \n > I guess my full question is whether total monopolies are allowable in the libertarian philosophy and if so is this any different from the current government monopolies. \n Government monopoly is established through a gun. Accept my monopoly or I kill you. If the free market monopoly you are talking about is voluntary in nature, that is there is a monopoly because people value its product/service much more than any other product, then yes this is totally allowable and a desirable solution because this monopoly ends the moment there is a better competition in the market or the moment he becomes less efficient. Govt can simply kill their competition, or wage a war on them. \n A private monopoly is really hard to sustain, that is why economists come up with terms like 'duopoly' or 'oligopoly', or some other phony terms because natural monopolies are practically a hypothetical concept, so to make it a point they try to show a field where there are two companies in a field(Pepsi/Coke) or a bunch of companies and call it a 'kind' of monopoly. \n Even in 19th century when a company gained a lot of market and were busted by the govt(isn't this what we read in govt propaganda schools) the company was providing so much good products for such a cheap prices(and this is a verifiable fact) that within a generation Oil prices dropped by a tenth(The standard oil 'monopoly').","Summary: Native extensions are an unnecessary feature of Ethereum network. Contracts can be made cheaper by letting users do this themselves(call it 'Network Intervention' contracts), instead of including this feature and increasing the complexity of the code.\n\nPost: I find this whole idea a bit too unnecessary on the grounds of Economics and from Software Engineering perspective. I understand the need to reduce the cost, but it also increases the complexity of the system a lot. \n If a contract needs to be run with lower cost, why not execute that code on a separate non-node machine, which acts as a smart property. \n Economics dictate that we won't require such a requirement anytime near in future. Currently nobody's really executing getting their code executed on a decentralized network. Soon people will start offloading more and more of their real life needs to be executed on this network, but the way these 'needs' exists is that most of the work people do can be done without requiring a trusted third party, its only a minor(but economically significant) part of their business. \n Moreover economics also dictate how ways can be found under which ethereum could be used cheaply. For instance if you are running a DAO, instead of having your full organization legal charter being a code over the ethereum network, you can put 'checkpoints'. For instance, say the DAO sells goods online. The DAO doesn't really have to get every transaction verified and executed on the Ethereum network, rather the DAO contract 'trusts' the organization to do its job properly, and it only verifies the final balances off the user accounts, OR it holds a collateral from the DAO like 100Btc, sits and does nothing, until someone complains, and then verifies that and does all the processing required, and in case of a conflict, it resolves it.","Summary: My Name is Earl' style Karma is nothing but just a pattern which emerges in the society when society follows a simple rule of not screwing each other over, punishing for doing so and rewarding for not doing so.\n\nPost: I am a Hindu, and we coined Karma, but it was never suppose to be what most people in west perceive it to be. In Hinduism Karma simply means act. Each act can be good or bad, and Karma is an idea that you and only you follow and receive the outcome of your actions. Karma is nothing but individual responsibility, but in My Name is Earl(which I believe reflects what most people in west believe Karma to be) Karma is some sort of paranormal entity which punishes each individual for his action, this is so not true. \n In Hinduism Karma is what determines if you proceed to the next level or go down a level(Heaven and Hell are only two levels, Earth is another one, but there are stages beyond Heaven and there are stages below Hell). \n Scientifically speaking there ain't no such thing as a paranormal entity called Karma which affects you in your present life(or next life), the reason why people have this perception is because they are reading too many patterns. The fact is if you do a good thing, that isn't the only good thing you are doing, you are doing a bunch of them, and people remember that, similarly when you do bad things and screw people over, people remember that too. They sometime return you the favor back, or punish you and this is misconstrued as Karma. \n Lets say you are an asshole, you screw everybody up and get away with it. Your victims say that Karma is gonna get you one day. You laugh it off, then one day, you meet the wrong kind of guy(chances are pretty high), you screw him up slightly and he happens to be working for Mafia(or a Cop, or a Crazy loon who now wants to punish you), and they fuck you up.\nThe people harassed you all this time now breath a sigh of relief, believing in concept of Karma more strongly, because this was Karmic justice according to them. \n Similarly, lets say you are a really good guy. You help everybody up and assholes of the society screw you over, but some good people do remember you and help you out in a bad time, you are far more likely to attribute the returning of good favors to Karma. \n The fact is concept of Karma is nothing but like the concept of 'invisible hand', there is no real hand trying to direct the market operations, but it feels like so, because each individual acts in a certain way, follows a certain rule, and this results in a creation of a pattern in the society.","Summary: This is democracy working precisely as it was suppose to. Nobody has hijacked it. You need money to win the election because you need to gain people's attention to win it. With billion different things competing to get our attention, it takes a LOT of money to get us to vote. You can't just pour money out there either, you must spend it wisely. \n I do hope one of these days the campaign targeting technologies will become so advanced that they will figure out that they should NEVER show me a political ad, its completely useless.\n\nPost: We've all heard that it costs a lot of money to run for the President in America, so what really happens to this money? \n A lot of people who are sympathetic to democracy(there are even Ancaps who like Democracy and consider its optimal implementation to be better than what we have now), tend to think that because it requires that much money to win elections in America, therefore there must be something wrong with the way things are here. \n My argument is simple. The amount of $1 billion(lets stick with this number) is actually the cost of America's attention. Its not like all that money candidates spent on elections is going to bribe individuals to vote for them. \n This money is spent on running ads, and appearing in media, running strategies, analysing the population, create targeted marketing campaigns to appeal to the population. \n Hit them from everywhere \n Today to get people to vote for you, you must appear in front of them, and the cost to appear in front of them has become really high in an advanced prosperous society like America. \n Back in the days everybody knew that there would be a widely televised Presidential debate which would be a great way to watch and gauge the various candidates, and make up your mind. \n But now with Internet and the increase in the sheer quantity of media we consume(not to mention growing apathy), you must get our attention. Candidates must compete with Budweiser, Apple, GoDaddy and Facebook for adspace. They can't anymore just air ads during a really watched TV series or program, or newspapers. Most of us don't even read Newspapers anymore. \n For most companies(like Budweiser, Apple, and GoDaddy) this just means more opportunity and cheaper ad costs(budweiser can specifically air ads on Nascar videos on youtube, Apple expects its Keynote address to do most of its advertising). \n The sphere I live in, I don't even see Car or makeup ads unless they go viral. \n But for a product of a centralized entity such as \"Presidency of United States\", every vote you can capture, and every attention you can grab, can make a big difference. \n Make it nasty \n One good way to get bang for your buck is to spend only the minimum amount of money required to make your demographic show up at the poll booth. One great way to do that is to scare the people about your opponent. I remember a coworker, who went to vote in 2012 election for Obama, only because she really cared about the abortion issue and believed that Mitt Romney will ban abortion. I immediately laughed at her claim, but later when I fact checked, it turned out that back in 2008 Primary debate, Romney DID say that he will work to overturn Roe V Wade. \n It was clear that she didn't really care about Obama as much as she was scared of losing abortion rights, and I had no idea that Romney even said such a thing. The reason why she knew about it and I didn't because she was targeted specifically for this issue and the videos created for this purpose showed up on her newsfeed on facebook. \n Similarly, conservatives saw a lot more videos about Obama take their Guns away, this is why the whole Obama-gun hysteria existed. Romney may show how amazing his plan is to bring Conservatives to his pro-Gun platform(but this would scare liberals), OR he can show how Obama is going to take away all of their guns and make sure that every Conservative shows up to the election booth. \n Obama never made any great promises about Gay rights, but he got all the votes of the LGBTQ community because it was worth him to scare this demographics about McCain and Romney. \n Rock the Vote campaigns always benefits the Democrats \n Young people tend to vote for Democrats, so all the money spent on making people go out and vote affects mostly young people and benefits Democrats. \n Democrats cry about Campaign financing more than Republicans \n Campaign financing is always a Democratic issue because it benefits Republicans disproportionately. All they want is an end of funding to Republicans so that they can outspend the Republicans.","Summary: Wars don't happen because of profit, profit happens because of war and a lot more profit is made when peace exists. \n Postscript: Those who are claiming that NOBODY says that: \n [Alan Grayson On Syria Strike: 'Nobody Wants This Except The Military-Industrial Complex']( \n \n > Hello, users of CMV! This is a footnote from your moderators. We'd just like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please remember to [read through our rules]( If you see a comment that has broken one, it is more effective to report it than downvote it. Speaking of which, [downvotes don't change views]( If you are thinking about submitting a CMV yourself, please have a look through our ** [popular topics wiki]( first. Any questions or concerns? Feel free to **[message us]( Happy CMVing!*\n\nPost: People love to believe that they don't really want War, its their leaders because corrupted by the defense companies who want war. \n To be clear, I am not saying that defense industry doesn't influence politicians, but I am against this notion that somehow our noble society wouldn't harm a fly if not for these evil profit making organizations and military-industrial complex. \n In truth there are a lot more companies which profit from the lack of a war than with a war. There is an infinitesimally small chance of USA going on a war with India, Japan, Brazil, or France, even though it would be hugely profitable for defense industry than it is for going on a war with Syria. Say a politician talks about going on a war with a country where your multi-million dollar corporation is doing huge business with, wouldn't you lobby against such a measure, even try to fund his opponent to get him out of office? \n The profits of Coca-Cola, McDonalds, KFC, Pepsi, Nestle, Toyota, Walt Disney and other non-defense companies vastly larger the profits of defense industry(which is 3-4% of the GDP), and when it comes down to it, would lose a lot more money than the profit made by some defense company. \n This is the reason why we only go on a war with countries with little trade. Air strikes on Saudi will never happen even though almost all the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi and almost everyone in Al-Queda comes from Saudi Arabia. Americans don't join Military and go overseas to die because somehow bought out politicians asked them to. Americans do join a voluntary army to go to other countries because they want to."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: is this: \\n Because choosing healthcare is such an immensely complicated task which an single individual can't be expected to do, we should hand him the task to choose an agency which will choose the healthcare, the defense service, the judicial system and the roads for him, because clearly choosing between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama is the easiest way of choosing precisely which healthcare program do you need.\\n\\nPost: Healthcare is different. Let me give you an example: \\n > * Company A's insurance covers radiation therapy for cancers but not heart transplants \\n \\n Company B's insurance covers heart transplants but not radiation therapy \\n \\n There're many problems here with your understanding of healthcare. \\n a) You don't understand the difference between Healthcare and health insurance, and you use the two terms interchangeability, which makes me doubt if you actually see the proper problem and its solution.s \\n b) You don't understand that health insurance works on uncertainty and risks. You seem to think that its the task of customer to think whether he will get suffer from heart stroke or cancer. \\n Lemme put it this way, if anyone can know which disease they will get, then they don't need health insurance. They need savings to build up because in that case of 100% certainty your health insurance premium equals the full payment of your healthcare cost. \\n The reason why plans such as \\\"cancer or heart attack\\\" exist because they are aimed to provide consumer the satisfaction of knowing that they are covered for something they worry about(like a man who has had heart strokes in his family is more tempted to spend money on a heart stroke plan, even though he may die of cancer). \\n These plans exists (and essentially all your problems raised by you exist) because of increased healthcare costs caused by various government regulations. \\n You cannot mix the two problems, i.e. healthcare and health insurance and create this totally incoherent attack on free market healthcare. \\n Finally your solution in\",\n \"Summary: The shareholders want company to make more profit by specializing in wholesale business. They are perfectly ok with making more money by rening airplanes to supply their goods rather than opening new malls to sell those goods.\\n\\nPost: You could grow your own food and save a lot of money, but instead you decide to specialize into something like building houses, of programming or something like that. Why do you do that? Because you chose to spend your effort in being better in one field(which could be growing food), rather than being good or average in a bunch of different fields. \\n Same thing goes for the wholesale business, they specialize in supply chains management and other things. That's where they especialize at, if they try to cut the middleman and they are outcompeted by a better and more efficient middleman who has specialized in the business then they will lose money.\",\n \"Summary: Don't worry you'll settle down on the right one eventually, and wouldn't wanna go for any other, so keep trying.\\n\\nPost: I used to be exactly like that, I just couldn't resist the temptation of buying more inks and more colors, but then after using pens for long time, one clear requirement emerged that my inks MUST be waterproof, I just can't be writing letters to people all over the world with weak washable Diamine inks(even though they are beautiful in color and flow, they suck in water proofness). \\n So I started acquiring only and only waterproof inks, and started getting rid of my non-waterproof inks. Finally I have settled down on Sailor Blue Black and Pilot Namiki Blue, and happily enjoying them.\",\n \"Summary: The whole consequentialism/deontology differentiation is a false dichotomy. There is no such thing as consequence less deontological ethical system, neither there is a \\\"consequences always\\\" principle.\\n\\nPost: There are essentially two \\\"types\\\" of an-caps... those with the deontological view, and those with the consequentialist view. \\n There are no two types of ethics or views. Its a false dichotomy to consider them to be \\\"separate\\\" routes. They are one and the same. As /u/JesseForgione describes it, its like if there are two kinds of people, the \\\"directionists\\\" and \\\"destinationists\\\", and you were to ask them how do you get to Empire state Building. The directionists says that \\\"as long as you take these beautiful direction, it doesn't matter where you end up\\\", and the destinationist says \\\"Empire state building? Just take whichever roads take you there\\\". \\n This is precisely what you are doing when you think these are two different things. You are only perceiving one picture at a time, when the picture is of the same location. \\n The moment I read the statement \\\"Murray Rothbard are more deontological, talking about how the morality of the thing trumps all else... \\\", I knew you were a consequentialist because of highly incorrect point you made. \\n Murray Rothbard was not born with his ethical system of NAP. Sure he did give NAP, but he is technically the most brilliant \\\"consequentialist libertarian\\\" ever born. The only reason why you find David Friedman so alluring because he plays on your cognitive bias of thinking that things cannot be known in absolute and he writes in much more simplistic manner. \\n Also, in later years when Hoppe came out with Argumentation Ethics, Rothbard acknowledged the superiority of the former in comparison to his own natural rights and NAP position: \\n > In a dazzling breakthrough for political philosophy in general and for libertarianism in particular, he has managed to transcend the famous is/ought, fact/value dichotomy that has plagued philosophy since the days of the scholastics, and that had brought modern libertarianism into a tiresome deadlock. Not only that: Hans Hoppe has managed to establish the case for anarcho-capitalist-Lockean rights in an unprecedentedly hard-core manner, one that makes my own natural law/natural rights position seem almost wimpy in comparison.\",\n \"Summary: The anti-intellectualism of USA makes it most vanguard in technology and scientific achievements.\\n\\nPost: Being from another country, I find the so called American anti-intellectualism quite refreshing. In America intellectuals don't get an automatic status of respect in the society, they must constantly strive for it, as opposed to in other countries where intellectuals are given the status of demi-gods. \\n My own experience regarding this was when Paul Krugman won the nobel prize. I had been attacking his economics for ages. While talking to Americans nothing much changed, but the moment I made an attack on Paul Krugman in front of Indians, everybody jumped on me, they demanded that I show them my Nobel prize before I attack a Nobel Laureate. Their whole belief was that if someone wins a Nobel prize, then only other Nobel Laureates can challenge them.\",\n \"Summary: mixed economies are nothing but a smooth slide towards Socialism because govt can never alter market behavior through intervention for long term. They will have to intervene again to make their last intervention work, and then they will have to intervene again.\\n\\nPost: but an Austrian can't, or won't consider the differences as relevant, because it's been made a moral issue. \\n You are creating a straw man's argument. \\n If you wanna know the simplest, shortest Austrian explanation(without the morality of the issue) to why they don't consider mixed economy and a full blown Socialist economy(btw Soviet Russia was a mixed economy too) then read this essay by Mises, its aptly titled: \\n [Middle-of-the-road Policy leads to Socialism]( \\n Just in case if you don't bother to read it, this is the\",\n \"Summary: When money supply is increased, it doesn't result in high prices immediately, they first increase the prices of sector which are farthest removed from consumption (say iron mines and raw materials), then that price rise moves towards stages closer to consumption, and eventually its reflected in the prices consumer goods(say iPhones and cars).\\n\\nPost: Its important to understand the structure of production. \\n Production in any economy happens in various stages. There are consumer goods, then there are capital goods which are used to produce the consumer goods. These capital goods are known as \\\"first order\\\" capital goods. The capital goods used to produce first order capital goods are known as \\\"second order\\\" capital goods. \\n Similarly there are third order, fourth order etc capital goods. \\n The higher the order of a capital goods is, the further away it is from consumption, and the longer it will take for the consumption good it will eventually produce to come to the market. A society is said to become prosperous if it lengthens the structure of production because a lengthier structure of production produces more goods for less effort therefore making things affordable for more people. \\n When more money is introduced into the economy, it lowers down the interest rates. Because now its cheaper to borrow money, those plans which require maximum amount of time become more lucrative than plans which require lesser amount of time. \\n This means that the sector which produce nth order of capital goods, show maximum price rise and profits. \\n Soon those higher prices will travel to (n-1)th order of capital goods. \\n Then to (n-2)th order of capital goods...and so on. \\n Until eventually it will reach to the consumer sector goods and that's what we usually call as \\\"inflation\\\", and that's when everybody's talking about it and how its screwing them.\",\n \"Summary: Me hoarding my $10K is tantamount to giving my money to all the other investors in proportion to their investments. Once I take money money out of the mattress its tantamount of me collecting my money back(With profit) from them.\\n\\nPost: I should have explained the \\\"hoarding is an investment in money\\\", but then that would have made example way too long. \\n Here is the thing with hoarding money. Lets just say you and I are the only two individuals who invest money into the economy each year. We both invest $10K each. We get about 50% return(ridiculously high return for illustrative purposes), so we get $15K back each year. \\n One year I decide to not invest my money and hold back, I just put it all under my mattress. what is going to happen here? Keep in mind the rate of voluntary savings hasn't risen(i.e. nobody is consuming any less). \\n Because of less money in circulation the consumer prices will fall, the labor prices will fall therefore the other guy's $10K will not be able to hire more labor, buy more raw material, essentially their purchasing capability will go up. Its like I gave my $10K to you to invest. Although the numbers aren't in any way accurate, its like you now have $20K worth of purchasing power, you invest, it, make a 50% return off it(after adjusting for deflation its 100% profit). \\n Then whenever I bring my money out of the mattress(for the sake of example lets just say I do it right after a year), there is additional money in the market, the prices must rise, that is the purchasing power would go down, and your 100% profit after adjusting for inflation will come down to 50%, and because of increased production the fallen prices have raised the purchasing power of your $10K to $15K, which is what you'd have made had you invested that money.\",\n \"Summary: Political correctness is a non-issue for libertarianism because all what happens to you is you get socially ostracized for being political incorrect. Its a liberal vs conservative issue, it does not belong to /r/libertarian .\\n\\nPost: I am sorry guys but I am pretty annoyed by 'libertarians'(stress on the quotes), blame political correctness for some sort of tyrannical force in America, or calling pretty much every goddamn every request to be nice as \\\"political correctness gone mad\\\". \\n What politicians wanna call their bills has nothing to with the actual impact of that bill.\\nPolitical correctness does not make people leftist, political correctness does not make people support initiation of aggression on their fellow individuals.\\nPolitical correctness does not make people wage wars, political correctness does not make people vote for spending your taxpayers dollars on welfare, political correctness does not make people kill each other. \\n The war on political correctness is a conservative vs liberal issue. Liberals think somehow political correctness will make people better, remove xenophobia, racism, poverty from our society. Conservative thinks forcing them to be nice to people they don't interact with(the handicaps, blacks, immigrants) is taking away their liberties. \\n What we call things, do really matter in libertarianism and the fight for liberty, but what we call people does not. The difference is, calling Dept of Domestic Tyranny as Dept of Homeland Security isn't political correctness issue, calling Dept of Waging Wars, as Dept of Defense isn't political correctness. Calling 'Childhood Brainwashing' as 'Public education' isn't an issue of political correctness. But calling black people as 'Negroes' or the N-word, and getting shunned by the whole society is political correctness but its not really an issue of liberty. \\n If you have a problem with political correctness, then take it as a social issue, because nobody is really making it illegal(not yet) to use the n-word or to call illegal immigrants as illegal immigrants and not undocumented workers. \\n I am a libertarian and at one point even considered myself as conservative, and if you are one of those people who for some reason judge people on their request of using a more socially polite term, or you are one of those morons who seems to be waging a war on political correctness and considering it as a great fight for liberty then I am free, and I will not interact with you in any social setup. (And I meet people like these dime a dozen).\",\n \"Summary: If you had to bring your own slaves from Africa to America(in 17th-18th century) for farming, it won't be profitable. The slaves were so costly that you wouldn't be able to recover the cost until you make them work for you for over a decade. The profits from slavery wasn't the reason why it existed(although it may have started that way).\\n\\nPost: Slavery was only marginally profitable, but not more profitable than non-slave labor. Most people have this habit of seeing slave labor as something which costs $0 and gives you a lot of profit, but its not true. \\n Lets say a slave will give you a total profit of $1 Million over 20 years of his work life. How much would you be willing to pay for it? Would you be willing to pay $100K? Sure you would, but then I will be willing to pay $150K for it, because a profit of $850K is still good enough. But then you will outbid me, and I will outbid you, until the point where maybbe you are paying $800K for the slave, and any more cost wouldn't be worth owning the slaves for 20 years. \\n This $200K profit(over 20 years) will be an average profit to anything else in the market. \\n This is the biggest reason why people didn't wanna give up their slaves. If you owned 5 slaves, setting them free meant bear a loss of some $4-5 million(2010 dollars for easy understanding) of capital investment. Also capturing of slaves was subsidized by the government when most of the slaves were being brought to US from Africa, on its own it wasn't worth the cost(we are talking about a time 200-300 years ago) to ship slaves from Africa to America, only to have them work on a farm. \\n On the other hand voluntary labor was more efficient, you didn't require to hire taskmasters to oversee them, and you weren't tied to your slave until you recover the cost, you could fire your voluntary labor anytime you want. \\n This is the biggest reason why north gave up the slaves, once the old slaves died people stopped getting new slaves, because it wasn't worth it. It wasn't overnight that Northerners realized they didn't wanna own slaves anymore. Please Civil War was all about bringing Southern states back to the union, they used emancipation as a punishment to southern states, that's why Emancipation declaration only set the slaves in the southern states free. \\n In north, New Jersey even had slaves until 1965, when 13th amendment was passed.\",\n \"Summary: Your classification of something being irrational doesn't change humans, they still have uneasiness they wanna get rid of, and they continue to act, to remove those uneasiness irrespective of your well-informed classification of their action.\\n\\nPost: Mail124 you are making value judgments about an individual. You are defining what rationality is. \\n Drinking alcohol is considered irrational by Saudi Arabians, on the other hand, not drinking alcohol is considered irrational by some Americans. \\n The point is that human action has nothing to do with what others think about rationality. All human actions are intended to do something. As long as you don't judge that goal, as long as you don't assume values for that action, you will find out that humans have done that action with an intend to remove uneasiness in their life. \\n They may or may not be able to remove that uneasiness by that action, but speaking apriori, they would not act if they did not think that it will remove uneasiness in their life. \\n Take for example someone who is trying to quit drinking, takes his next drink despite of knowing and even wishing that he stop drinking to remove the uneasiness in his life caused by drinking alcohol, but he still choses to smokes but he believes it will relieve the uneasiness caused by not drinking, which is very temporary, but it is there none the less. \\n The reason why interference never does what it intends to do is because when you interfere in the market, and try to affect others in a way you think is rational for them but not according to them, then then end up trying to still somehow perform that action to remove that uneasiness. \\n Take for example if you decide to interfere(as a govt) and ban alcohol in the above example, you don't take away their uneasiness from them, you just take away the means to remove that uneasiness from them. The uneasiness still persists, so they will now act to in some other way to remove that uneasiness, especially when the uneasiness builds up. \\n The black market liquor pops up, and people trade in them. Because now uneasiness is building up, so the action must also be worth removing that uneasiness so more and more harder liquor is produced. During prohibition usage of whiskey went up, because drinking small amounts of that got you more drunk. During drug prohibition era crack, and Meth were created, again because the harder means of eliminating uneasiness are suppressed, the means must be even more worth it. All because you tried to hold value judgments for people. \\n Now you may say that these are addictive substances, but I only used them to show you an example of people supposedly acting obviously \\\"irrationally\\\". I can take a similar example of gold in India during 70s-90s, when Government if India banned gold import, that ended up creating a massive black market of gold, and gold ownership desirability jumped up even higher in people's value scale. \\n Same thing goes for any other human action. When you try to suppress the means of removing uneasiness, some people are actually ok with that, you did them a favor, but for most of the people, the uneasiness still remain.\",\n \"Summary: You might find a guy who loves you, or you might not find such a guy, but if you don't start to love yourself, then you are guaranteed to not find such a guy because 'you have an ugly body', everything in the world will further reinforce your belief. \\n Also, work out more and get strong. The woman I dated who had stretch marks skin at the stomach(she was never pregnant) like you had a fit body which was extremely attractive for me. Also she had a surgery scar(I never asked her what it was for, but I think it was for skin tightening surgery), which was pretty amazing(it made her look more awesome).\\n\\nPost: So she is going to find faults with the one she has. \\n Which is precisely my point. Making your body better is definitely a good thing and you have managed to do that. You are not going to experience it in an unhealthy manner. \\n I love this Socrates quote. \\n > “No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.” - Socrates \\n You think Socrates is talking about six packs or modelesque figures when he talks about beauty, and strength but no, he is talking about the fact beauty of your body's more natural and fit condition. Your body adapted to a stretched form to hold more fat(which was the consequences of an unhealthy lifestyle) and now you have gotten rid of it. \\n I have lost 50 lbs too btw, no I didn't get a skin like that(also I'm a dude), and I had friends who were slim/fit most of their lives, they said that they would never date someone who used to be fat, but for me, this experience of taking control of your life and transforming it creates a lot more connection than to a girl who never used to be fat. \\n Also check this video out, do you find this guy unattractive?: \\n > Say I do meet a guy, and he's wonderful, we get along, care about each other, he likes my personality and everything is perfect and all that. But when he see's me naked for the first time how am I going to be certain that he is actually physically attracted to me and not just putting up with how I look because he likes everything else about me? \\n Say you meet a guy, and he is wonderful, you get along, care about each other, you like his personality and everything is perfect and all that. But when you see him naked for the first time you realize that he has a micropenis. Assuming you would totally wanna be with him and have his kids if he had an average size penis, would you still date him and continue to have a relationship with him? Say you did that, how can he ever be sure that you really enjoys what he looks like naked? I mean you are turned on by him, and you enjoy him using his mouth and other toys, you enjoy being blindfolded, tied down and spanked by him. You wanna talk to him about everything, your dreams, your happiness your sadness, your successes, your failures, you wanna kiss him all day long, but all he wants to know is if you like his penis, and are not just putting up with it because of the rest of the things. \\n The fact is that at the end of the day, he could have had an 8'' penis, but if he is extremely insecure about it then it doesn't matter, the experience you are going to have with him would be terrible. Similarly if the micropenis guy was confident about his life, then the size is just a side issue. \\n So the more important question is, assuming you are interested in him and get turned on by looking at him, would he believe it? Or in your case the question is, assuming a guy IS really attracted to you, how can you really believe the fact? Would it be fun for a guy to be in a relationship with a woman who is extremely insecure about her body, and gets jealous and goes into emotional fits whenever he checks out another girl? So you are in a relationship with this guy who is great, and he says he likes your body too. But then you find him checking out this barista at a cafe bending over, or you walked in him jerking off to a porno, how would that make you feel? Chances are, you will feel very hurt, but its not like bfs of physically attractive girls don't check other chicks out or masturbate to porn(unless you found him from /r/NoFap ) \\n What this question, \\\"Can I ever find a guy who is attracted towards me physically?\\\" is really saying, \\\"I am extremely insecure about my body and I will drive any guy who is attractive towards me, crazy with my insecurities.\\\" \\n > Could you explain this a little more? Are you saying that my body may not be what he ideally wants, but he'll take it anyways because it's close enough? \\n There is no 'ideal' body we really want. If a guy wants to order a blow up doll, he might go for Kate Upton's body, but when men get in a relationship with someone, they aren't really choosing their partner based on these set criteria(though some men might say that they really want a blonde or asian girl, in truth they are usually chasing some idea they have in their head, modeling them after real life girls they like/d). People only make a decision about someone as a whole. I like this girl. That includes things I wouldn't wanna go away and things I would be happy if they went away. But nobody really goes in for someone who is a statue of adonic perfection. \\n All of us, men or women, are really attracted towards the minds of the other people(by that I don't mean their intelligence or talent or skill, but 'mind'). This is why we(many of us) fall in love with someone over the internet, someone we may have never seen. Some men only chase young women without a personality of any kind, some women only chase men with money or good looks, but happiness is only bestowed upon those people who actually go after someone who has more to offer to them than their looks or money. \\n Penis size may not matter, but the truth is people with smaller penises have more self-esteem issues than people with average or larger penises. Similarly body size may not matter but women with too big too small bodies have these self-esteem issues which makes being in a relationship with them insufferable. \\n My whole point is, that this though, 'would a guy ever find me physically attractive' is the biggest reason why a guy wouldn't find you attractive. You have to learn to love yourself before you can expect anyone to love you. I might be repeating myself for the nth time, but imagine your boyfriend feels bad about his big nose, he continuously talks about how cabs don't stop for him because his nose is too big, and how he was passed on for the promotion for his big nose. In case of a fight with you, he blames you for fighting with him because you don't like his nose and find him unattractive. He sees you talking to a guy and now he accuses you of flirting with a guy because he had a more beautiful nose. \\n If you ever dump him, you may think(if you were naive) that 'I am better off being in a relationship with someone who has a more beautiful nose', but the truth will still be that it wouldn't have mattered if he wasn't so insecure about his nose, but to him it will be just a more proof that he is cursed from being happy because of his nose, because his gf just dumped him for a guy with a prettier nose.\",\n \"Summary: Mafia is in existence because of govt prohibition(of any kind) on goods. Remove the prohibition and Mafia dies out.\\n\\nPost: Maybe I should have elaborated this. \\n Criminals organize to do acts which are criminal not because they are harming any individual, but merely because the government has made it illegal for anyone to do those acts. \\n Take for example America saw a massive rise in organized crime in 1920s, because of prohibition. Individuals made profit by providing market what it needed, liquor. But individuals can't fight and runaway from the govt for long, so they were either squashed, and put into jail or they got organized. Soon there were organized supply chains of alcohol production which will sell alcohol in black market. Its no different than Budweiser or Sam Adams doing business and selling beer. \\n The only problem is because selling, manufacturing and consuming liquor was illegal back then therefore the only way these organizations would survive is through being as powerful as the police, being able to bribe the local law enforcement. And the thing is as long as profits from liquor keep on pouring in, it was all worth it. \\n Soon these gangs would start doing other kinds of activities too. I mean there were a lot of things illegal before 18th amendment, but prohibition created a \\\"core business\\\". Loan sharking, money laundering, drugs, etc etc. \\n After 21st amendment, it was the New Deal, which probably gave more channels for mafia to make money than prohibition ever did. By the time New Deal died, most of these gangs also disappeared. They disappear because if you don't have a massive channel for profits anymore then you can't fund yourself with weapons, and people, you can't bribe judges and cops. \\n Now almost all the organized crime which exists is because of drugs. \\n In India there is a very interesting observation, all the organized crime which existed was mostly because of import restrictions on gold and other foreign goods. Indians currently have world's largest private ownership of gold all because govt tried to restrict gold imports, that just created waves and waves of gangs bringing gold in from other countries. This is just to point out that drugs and liquor might be addictive, but gold is nothing like that, yet as long as a govt tries to ban something some people want, suddenly everybody wants it. Mafia died out after 1991 economic liberalization of India.\",\n \"Summary: Turning off people by saying \\\"taxation is theft\\\" is extremely intentional. ;)\\n\\nPost: While I respect your view I don't believe that calling taxation \\\"theft\\\" is productive because you're going to extremes and closing the debate. \\n As much as I understand the fact that it shocks people when you call taxation as \\\"theft\\\", it is the truth and nothing but the truth. Maybe I can say \\\"All unique attributes you prescribe to an action of acquisition of a property as 'theft', can also be prescribed to taxation\\\", what does that do? Makes the other person ask \\\"Are you calling taxation a theft?\\\", what shall I say to him next? Lie to him, or tell him the truth? \\n Either taxation is theft, or it isn't theft. If in your mind you consider theft to be an extremely evil action, but consider taxation to be a more nobler action, then this would be a non-contradictory position, only if you don't consider taxation to be theft. If you cannot make an argument about why taxation isn't theft, then that would be nothing but cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonances ARE uncomfortable feelings which cannot be gotten rid of without discomfort. \\n Imagine if you are an atheist and someone tells you that you musn't say \\\"God doesn't exist\\\" to religious people in a debate or else that would close the debate. That you should say \\\"God might not exist, or there is no substantial proof of his existence\\\". The fact is, considering there are billions of people you have to convince about atheism, you are better off closing the debate with anyone who thinks this statement should end the debate. \\n Same goes here. If saying \\\"taxation is theft\\\" shuts down the debate, instead of making the other person ask \\\"How is taxation theft?\\\", then why do you think its a good investment of someone's time in avoiding the statement and continue to have that debate? \\n > I suppose you believe that private property is a fundamental right. There are people who believe that \\\"private property is theft\\\", and some people that believe that some laws on property law should be debated or that a given piece of land's history is controversial and should be questioned. \\n Private property is a fundamental right not because I just believe so. Private property is a fundamental right because of my right to own myself. \\\"Private property is theft\\\" is a contradictory statement, and non-sense because 'theft' cannot exist without acknowledging someone's property rights. If its theft, then theft from whom? If it is a theft from the society, then does the person using that property not a part of the society? \\n What makes it a theft from the society? If there is a certain way by which a person must use that property in order for it to not be a theft, then what if the person does not agree with that way? Does he have a right to disagree with the society? The debate can go on and on(and I have had it dozens of times). \\n At the end of the day, anyone who says \\\"property is theft\\\" and cannot see the contradiction in it, can be safely ignored and be left for later. \\n > I don't like big statements that shut off conversations. I'm fundamentally against fundamentalism. \\n What you don't understand is that I used to be exactly like that. It started out with me taking a strong position on something, then finding out that I as wrong, then I repeated this thing a few times so I landed on this more 'humble' position that it makes no sense to be that opinionated, because anyone could be wrong, and having these extreme statements I was just doing a damage to everyone overall. \\n Until I realized that the real debate is between people who believe that the world exists as-is(whether you like it or not), vs those who believe that reality does not exist. \\n The former position involves holding no contradictions, the latter is all about contradictions. \\\"Taxation is not theft.\\\" \\\"Don't say extreme statements even if you believe them to be completely true\\\", \\\"I'm fundamentally against fundamentalism.\\\"(I know you said it in jest, but I know you believe it), \\\"don't convince people about truth by saying the truth to people who will get turned off by truth\\\", and the list goes on.\",\n \"Summary: What we need is more capital accumulation, and not economic inequality. If we forcefully redistribute wealth, then we will get relatively equal but we all get poorer. Its higher capital accumulation which makes our lives better, not inequality.\\n\\nPost: To understand anything about income equality or inequality we must first understand what is prosperity, and why is a country richer or poorer. \\n Let me give you an example, lets first take an example of Robinson Crusoe who got stranded on an island. He catches fishes everyday from 8AM to 5PM and eats them. Since he just landed on the island, he catches these fishes by hand and he is able to catch 25 fishes everyday. Since Crusoe came from a modern society he realizes that he can build a net, and that will enable him to catch a lot more fishes. Unfortunately, he also realizes that he cannot just blink and wish a fishing net, he must build it, and making a fishing net requires 5 days of his work. The problem in front of Crusoe is that if he starts to work for 5 full days to build that net, then he won’t be able to catch any fish therefore he will starve to death. \\n Crusoe in this scenario faces the problem of lack of capital. He needs capital to sustain himself until he extends the structure of production(that is from using only hands to catch fish, he uses hands to build a fishing net, which he uses to catch fishes. He realizes that by building that fishing net he will be able to catch 300 fishes everyday. \\n So Crusoe has 2 options, he can either: \\n \\n Eat only 20 fishes everyday, and store the 5 uneaten fishes; Keep on doing this for 20 days, which will get him 100 fishes, which are good enough for him to sustain himself for five days when he won’t be able to work. \\n Catch only 20 fishes each day and spend that extra time in building the net, so he will be spreading his 5 days of work, over 20 days. \\n \\n In either of the two cases Crusoe has deferred his present consumption of 5 fishes everyday so that after he builds the net he is now able to produce and consume a LOT more fishes everyday. He can either catch 300 fishes and maybe consume them all, or make more dishes out of them, etc etc, or he could continue to catch only 25 fishes everyday, work less and have more leisure time, and spending the remaining time in working on art, literature, maybe music etc. \\n A third world country is exactly like Crusoe without the fishing net, and a rich western country like America is exactly like Crusoe with a fishing net. Because its easier for western countries to produce a lot without giving up a lot of present goods, America has a lot of time to spend on art, literature, music, etc. This is the exact reason why their athletes and sportsmen win so many medals in Olympics, they have the disposable income and time to train themselves for sports, whereas in poor countries people still spend most of their time catching fishes by hand. \\n In order to build more capital, you require two things: \\n \\n People should be willing to put a lot of present goods for later consumption \\n When they put their present goods for later consumption, nothing should reduce or steal away their capital from them \\n \\n Let me elaborate what I meant by nothing should reduce or steal away the capital from people who are deferring their present consumption for future. In the above example of Crusoe, lets say Crusoe’s fishes got rotten because they weren’t stored properly, so his capital has been destroyed, now to achieve the same earlier result he will have to build his savings again. \\n Take another scenario, lets say Man Friday, is another cast away, who drifted to the other part of the Island, he also catches fishes by hand, but he is able to catch only 10 fishes because he is not that good with catching fishes. When Crusoe was saving 5 fishes everyday, Man Friday decried that Crusoe was being unfair and hoarding fishes, and it was causing income inequality, also Crusoe being more dexterous with fishing, must feed Man Friday some of his fishes. So everyday Man Friday raids Crusoe’s extra fishes and consumes them in the name of making the society more equal. In this case again Crusoe’s capital has been depleted, and he will never be able to build that fishing net, and although Man Friday and Crusoe will be a bit more equal, they will remain poor. In fact soon Crusoe will realize that he has no incentive to really starve himself by 5 fishes, so he will either consume all 25 fishes or will catch only 5 fishes each day. \\n Had Man Friday allowed Crusoe to build his net, Crusoe would have been able to produce a lot more fishes everyday, and then Man Friday could then provide Crusoe with some other services, in exchange for his fishes. Lets just say all Man Friday is good at, is dancing and creating stories and telling them passionately, since they both are stranded on an island, Crusoe might value this entertainment service a lot, so Crusoe works all day catching 300 fishes, and gives 100 fishes to Man Friday in exchange of Man Friday’s entertainment services. This service would not be possible in a society without more capital accumulation. \\n Had Man Friday stressed on equality, all the way along, Crusoe’s net wouldn’t have been built, and Crusoe would have remained relatively rich(because he caught 25 fishes everyday and consumed 20), and Man Friday would have remained poor(because he caught only 10 fishes everyday and was able to consume only 15). Please note that in the society with more capital(ie, when Crusoe built a net), Crusoe was consuming 200 fishes everyday, which is almost double of what Man Friday was consuming(100 fishes), which meant more inequality, but still Man Friday in the society was better off in this society.\",\n \"Summary: You don't exchange services and goods directly with the \\\"rich\\\", you trade it with other people like you, the rich merely facilitate an easier transaction between you and me, without them we will merely be trading services differently.\\n\\nPost: We don't consume money, we only need money to trade services and goods from each other. Take for example I don't really use services of Warren Buffett directly, my car is fixed by a car mechanic called Ted(hired by Geico). My money is handled a (BOA) bank teller named Bud. \\n If somehow one day some rich people decide to take out all their money and never spend/invest it again, then all that would happen is me, Ted and Bud will have to find another way to perform the same transactions. Somehow Ted will figure a way out to sell his mechanic services to mem, and similarly Bud will figure a way out to provide me with the same services. \\n It would be marginally worse than what it is right now, but we won't starve, its impossible for us to starve when only thing which has happened is increased voluntary savings rate(i.e. people have just started to save more).\",\n \"Summary: African countries have less technology because they don't have an ability to use that technology because of lack of Capital accumulation. Capital accumulates faster in countries with stronger property rights. The 'free time' HelioSeven is talking about is nothing but time they acquired through savings.\\n\\nPost: I disagree with the top answer here. To understand anything about why some countries have more technology and some less, must first understand what is prosperity, and why is a country richer or poorer. \\n Let me give you an example, lets first take an example of Robinson Crusoe who got stranded on an island. He catches fishes everyday from 8AM to 5PM and eats them. Since he just landed on the island, he catches these fishes by hand and he is able to catch 25 fishes everyday. Since Crusoe came from a modern society he realizes that he can build a net, and that will enable him to catch a lot more fishes. Unfortunately, he also realizes that he cannot just blink and wish a fishing net, he must build it, and making a fishing net requires 5 days of his work. The problem in front of Crusoe is that if he starts to work for 5 full days to build that net, then he won’t be able to catch any fish therefore he will starve to death. \\n Crusoe in this scenario faces the problem of lack of capital. He needs capital to sustain himself until he extends the structure of production(that is from using only hands to catch fish, he uses hands to build a fishing net, which he uses to catch fishes. He realizes that by building that fishing net he will be able to catch 300 fishes everyday. \\n So Crusoe has 2 options, he can either: \\n Eat only 20 fishes everyday, and store the 5 uneaten fishes; Keep on doing this for 20 days, which will get him 100 fishes, which are good enough for him to sustain himself for five days when he won’t be able to work. \\n Catch only 20 fishes each day and spend that extra time in building the net, so he will be spreading his 5 days of work, over 20 days. \\n In either of the two cases Crusoe has deferred his present consumption of 5 fishes everyday so that after he builds the net he is now able to produce and consume a LOT more fishes everyday. He can either catch 300 fishes and maybe consume them all, or make more dishes out of them, etc etc, or he could continue to catch only 25 fishes everyday, work less and have more leisure time, and spending the remaining time in working on art, literature, maybe music etc. \\n A poor african country is exactly like Crusoe without the fishing net, and a rich western country like America is exactly like Crusoe with a fishing net. These African countries may figure out Technologies by merely copying western technologies, but what the knowledge isn't enough, what they really need is enough savings to lengthen the structure of production. If they are catching fishes by hand then they need to save enough to be able to feed themselves when they build a fishing net(let's call it sideways production). \\n This is the exact reason why China is producing iPads and iPods for US but not for themselves, because they don't have enough savings by themselves to sustain themselves when they try to upgrade their capital goods. \\n Its easier for western countries to produce a lot without giving up a lot of present goods, America has a lot of time to spend on art, literature, music, etc. This is the exact reason why their athletes and sportsmen win so many medals in Olympics, they have the disposable income and time to train themselves for sports, whereas in poor countries people still spend most of their time catching fishes by hand. \\n In order to build more capital, you require two things: \\n People should be willing to put a lot of present goods for later consumption, I.e. \\nWhen they put their present goods for later consumption, nothing should reduce or steal away their capital from them. \\n Let me elaborate what I meant by nothing should reduce or steal away the capital from people who are deferring their present consumption for future. In the above example of Crusoe, lets say Crusoe’s fishes got rotten because they weren’t stored properly, so his capital has been destroyed, now to achieve the same earlier result he will have to build his savings again. \\n Take another scenario, lets say Man Friday, is another cast away, who drifted to the other part of the Island, he also catches fishes by hand, but he is able to catch only 10 fishes because he is not that good with catching fishes. When Crusoe was saving 5 fishes everyday, Man Friday decried that Crusoe was being unfair and hoarding fishes, and it was causing income inequality, also Crusoe being more dexterous with fishing, must feed Man Friday some of his fishes. So everyday Man Friday raids Crusoe’s extra fishes and consumes them in the name of making the society more equal. In this case again Crusoe’s capital has been depleted, and he will never be able to build that fishing net, and although Man Friday and Crusoe will be a bit more equal, they will remain poor. In fact soon Crusoe will realize that he has no incentive to really starve himself by 5 fishes, so he will either consume all 25 fishes or will catch only 5 fishes each day. \\n Had Man Friday allowed Crusoe to build his net, Crusoe would have been able to produce a lot more fishes everyday, and then Man Friday could then provide Crusoe with some other services, in exchange for his fishes. Lets just say all Man Friday is good at, is dancing and creating stories and telling them passionately, since they both are stranded on an island, Crusoe might value this entertainment service a lot, so Crusoe works all day catching 300 fishes, and gives 100 fishes to Man Friday in exchange of Man Friday’s entertainment services. This service would not be possible in a society without more capital accumulation. \\n If Crusoe isn't allowed to save because the property rights lack in his country then Crusoe’s net wouldn’t have been built, and Crusoe would have remained relatively rich(because he caught 25 fishes everyday and consumed 20), and Man Friday would have remained poor(because he caught only 10 fishes everyday and was able to consume only 15).\",\n \"Summary: Network Effect does not save us from everything. One solution for alt-ethereums is a way by which(and I don't know how this would work out) is an ability for a fork to reward the original contributors of the technology. Any forker would like this idea for his own self-interest because this allows the core contributors to keep working on the technology. Ideas and suggestions regarding how this could be done are welcome.\\n\\nPost: My opinion: \\n I got into Bitcoins in 2009(when it was merely a few months old). It excited me a lot. I was studying economics(Praxeology more specifically), and overall bitcoin just made immediate sense to me(nobody was interested in bitcoin at that time). I defended bitcoin to people when bitcoin was a non-entity, nobody cared about it. \\n Since 2009, no other crypto-technology has excited me as much as Ethereum. I wanted to create an app in 2009(I only have 2 github commits to show for that) which would allow dispute resolution and it will track the 'reputation' of good arbitrators. Later judge.me managed to pull the same thing off with some success. \\n Ethereum is the most promising technology ever, and it will serve to a major need of the Internet, that is third party arbitration and reputation tracking(and beyond). It is also one of the most flexible and open platform in terms of what can be done with it. \\n The biggest conclusion which I came around recently was this. \\n \\n No cryptotechnology can survive without being open source \\n \\n No crypto-technology can ignore the reality(more specifically economic reality). That is, no matter what the principles of the creator behind an crypto-technology is, in order for him/her to benefit out of the technology they created, they must create the most capitalist/voluntaryist free market technology ever. \\n \\n \\n If take for instance, someone creates a cryptocurrency which has \\\"self-redistributing wealth\\\" concept embedded in it, because they don't like economic inequality, then any fork of that currency which removes that feature will see people flocking to that fork. \\n Same goes for any crypto-currency which humors \\\"Basic Income Guarantee\\\"(where the value of your possessions is depleted by using technology) or some other concept like that, it will not be able to survive a fork where this feature is disabled, because there is just more profit in the alternate currency. \\n Network Effect : So the question comes in, how much is the network effect really a deterrence against alt-ethers? Some people give an example of bitcoin and how no alternate currency has managed to make a dent to its adoption. Well, my argument(which has been the case since 2009) is that bitcoin follows all the economic principles correctly(most importantly Say's law, I know majority of economic schools don't understand or agree with Say's law, but majority does not define truth), that's why any attempt to displace bitcoin fails. \\n Also don't forget, the reason why we are here at Ethereum because it does things which bitcoin is nowhere near capable of doing. \\n Network effect is only good deterrence against Clonetheums. Regarding Econetheums, I do not believe that Network effect is a major deterrence against it. I was a lot more on board with Ethereum when Charles Hoskinson was on board, he truly understood economics and the reasons behind Ethereum. \\n Gavin Woods, with all due respect, says stupid shit like \\\"Ethereum allows you to implement social contract\\\". Has he even read the wikipedia entry on 'social contract'? He simply means to use the term 'contract'. Not that it makes a huge difference, but its clear these people are specialists in technology(i.e Vitalik and Gavin Woods). You can't expect them to get every non-technological detail right(but I will try my best). \\n Which brings me to my next point. If a stupid economic principle makes into core Ethereum protocol(like Basic Income Guarantee, or Self-redistributing wealth), then I promise to fork it(bear with me before you start downvoting). To encash the network effect, I merely have to borrow the 'credibility' information from core Ethereum, that is a kickstarter DAC user can easily start his next project on the Econetheum clone I created, and the network will acknowledge that this is actually user ElonMusk who has in past (on core Ethereum network) successfully started multiple projects. \\n BUT, at the same time I wouldn't want to harm the people like Vitalik and Gavin and other contributors for all the effort they put in. So what I would really like(and I believe most people would be able to get behind) is a fork where the founders are still rewarded. A mere blockchain based fork only rewards the people who are currently holding the original technology.\",\n \"Summary: The person who saved up 10% of the currency and then bought more stuff when the price fell, completely and totally deserve the extra goods he was able to buy, because it was no different than the returns of his investment in money.\\n\\nPost: My argument is that you heavily misunderstand hoarding of money. \\n Hoarding of money is nothing but investing in money itself. \\n By hoarding, I do mean keeping stacks and stacks of it underneath your bed. \\n Why do you invest in something? You invest in something because you believe that price of that commodity will go up in future. Hoarding intends to do that. (Also don't forget investments can go wrong too, you don't always make profit by hoarding money). \\n When someone piles up 10% of the money, its tantamount of him giving his money to all those people who hold money(by raising the value of their cash). So everybody else sees their cash holdings gain 10% in value. Its like the guy hired everybody who uses the same currency, and gave some portion of his money to invest for him. \\n What this does is when the profits are made? The total profits of a currency would be nothing but what the \\\"economic growth\\\" which took place in that society. Put it simple, if the society ends up seeing 5% more goods and servicing in the economy after a year, then when the guy come back and puts his money back into the society, his 10% are now able to buy worth 5% more(total is 10.5% not 15%). \\n In simple words, a person who hoards money, is investing in money, and his returns are what the rate of growth of economy is(assuming govt isn't printing more money). If economy grows by 7%, then that's his profit, and if economy shrinks by 3% then that's his loss. \\n The accusation of \\\"price manipulation\\\" you are making is no different than when a futures trader buys wheat anticipating a less rainfall next year. He raises prices now(makes everyone consume less wheat now and save more for next year), only to lower the prices next year when there is less rainfall. \\n Even if you never spend that money(like this gentleman that still means you simply transferred the money to other holders of the same currency. It is nothing but \\\"donating\\\" money to everybody else.\",\n \"Summary: The annoying austrians who have no understanding of mainstream economics aren't annoying because they haven't taken economics courses in college, but because they consider you as 'evil'. I do my part to show them that you are not evil(well not all). But then you(mainstream economists) pick and choose your opponents from them and classify all Austrians as stupid because you disagree with their methodology.\\n\\nPost: As a self-described Austrian Economist who has never taken even Econ 101, I totally understand your frustration. I used to be one of them, I now know enough about mainstream economist(the general idea of where everything lies) that I can dip my feet into it. I am reading General Theory right now. Soon I will dip my hands on Neo-classical textbooks.\\nI will give you an insight into the group which calls itself Austrian Economists(I am not talking about the Austrian Scholars, most of them have <mainstream> economics degrees so they probably know as much as any average mainstream economics professor, but I am talking about people mostly libertarians who find Austrian Economics fascinating, and understand it through osmoses). \\n When you start learning AE, and have a strong libertarian background(which is important for the kinds of individual I am talking about) everything mainstream economists suggests which are unlibertarian in nature(and therefore anti-market or pro-government) comes out as 'evil'. I mean you may or may not give shit to Karl Marx or political hack such as Krugman's Democrat-leaning politics, but to the Libertarians it all comes out as being purposely evil. \\n See most mainstream liberals aren't economists, nor are most mainstream right-wing leaning conservatives or libertarians. People proposing more government spending may or may not use economics as an argument about making society more Pareto Efficient, but at that level saying that poor and unfortunate people need a social safety net is sufficient enough. Similarly people proposing tax cuts may or may not use the argument that deluding accumulated capital will result in society becoming poorer, or not being able to make its poor people better, but at that level saying that government shouldn't steal from them is sufficient enough. A liberal vs conservative debate hardly requires a lot of knowledge about economics. \\n The problem comes in when one of them decide to learn a bit more economics and try to take down the economists from the other side. Especially when learning a specific economics does not require 4 years worth of degree. I mean I can totally trash so many non-economists from /r/politics when they make arguments like money supply should be increased in a recession. Not because I have convinced them but because then I get to say things like explaining Austrian Capital theory, which they cannot reply without at least knowing some economics. \\n I used to think that mainstream economists are either stupid, for believing in ridiculous theories that increasing the money supply will make everybody richer, \\\"Can't they see it makes everybody poorer and only govt gets richer and big companies doing business with government take all the benefit from it?\\\". But then after making the effort to actually understand mainstream economist, I don't consider them as evil anymore. \\n But there are a lot of young libertarians out there who 'mistake' mainstream economists as evil and/or stupid. \\n This is actually quite frustrating for me too, because I have(or at least I consider I have) a logical argument against mainstream theories, but then most of the people who consider mainstream economics as evil do not understand it, or they say they understand it, but in their minds they short circuit it for the 'evil' theorem. \\n Take for example I was trying to explain the problem with having a central bank(you know the whole Austrian Business Cycle Theory and how central banks cause the booms and bust cycle by causing intertemporal misallocation of resources), but these people short circuit the understanding of why central banks exist in first place to 'because the evil bankers set up a system to control the money of the nation so that they can control the people'. This reasoning is as frustrating for me as its for you. \\n I have my own logical construct to explain them something, I tell them to assume Jesus Christ himself to be the President and Fed Chairman, and then I proceed to explain them that he would do the exact same thing as these guys are doing, because if you really believe in a faulty theory you don't have to be evil by nature to do wrong things. Of course that means if I am not evil then according to them I am doing evil things by believing in a faulty theory. \\n I would rather spend my time defending mainstream economics for why that believes its correct, against libertarians than to spend my time convincing them fora specific political ideology, because they try be Austrians without really understanding anything, and many times it really pays if they understand the seriousness of the arguments made by mainstream economics, because that will motivate them to learn some real austrian economics. \\n What I am trying to say is I play devil's adovcate so much with them just so that either they weed themselves out(which a lot many do), or they get off their butts trying to be armchair Austrians(of course Austrians themselves are mocked as armchair economists by the mainstream economists). \\n To cut short this long post, the reason why 'Austrian economists' are annoying to you because they have hardly made an effort to understand Austrian Economics itself, and most of their ideas about mainstream economics is latter being 'evil'. \\n Well my complain to you guys(and I believe after critiquing my own people so much, I deserve to register my complain against mainstream economists), is that you consider the whole school 'stupid'(remember they short circuit any analysis about mainstream argument as being evil, you do it by short circuiting it as being stupid), because you so vehemently disagree with the Austrian methodology. This is the sole reason why you although accept Chicago school here in this subreddit but reject specifically Austrian economics(also this is just an Austrian Economics circlejerk, I see /r/economics as having far more sane discussion about mainstrema economics).\",\n \"Summary: There are two points about it, first natural monopolies(or as you call it private monopolies are hard to sustain), secondly, even when they can hypothetically exist it is for the good of the consumer, unlike govt monopolies which exist despite of all the inefficiency.\\n\\nPost: is this voluntary or not voluntary for the third person? \\n For the third person this isn't even a question of voluntary vs non-voluntary, since the third party is not the party in the contract or be forced to do any kind of action with their property. \\n But if you wanna know would I call this society a just and voluntary society, then my answer is yes. Just because you don't like a certain outcome doesn't mean the whole process needs to be fixed, because the basis of the society is derived through first principles(in this case principle of non-aggression). \\n But, what economics tells me is that practically there is a little chance of this kind of collusion surviving, as in this situation is very highly tailored to elaborate a point(2 out of 3 people form a collusion), but in real life scenarios(With large number of people) this won't work. There is a great incentive for either of the colluding parties to break the collusion, start trading with the third guy and become better off. \\n > I guess my full question is whether total monopolies are allowable in the libertarian philosophy and if so is this any different from the current government monopolies. \\n Government monopoly is established through a gun. Accept my monopoly or I kill you. If the free market monopoly you are talking about is voluntary in nature, that is there is a monopoly because people value its product/service much more than any other product, then yes this is totally allowable and a desirable solution because this monopoly ends the moment there is a better competition in the market or the moment he becomes less efficient. Govt can simply kill their competition, or wage a war on them. \\n A private monopoly is really hard to sustain, that is why economists come up with terms like 'duopoly' or 'oligopoly', or some other phony terms because natural monopolies are practically a hypothetical concept, so to make it a point they try to show a field where there are two companies in a field(Pepsi/Coke) or a bunch of companies and call it a 'kind' of monopoly. \\n Even in 19th century when a company gained a lot of market and were busted by the govt(isn't this what we read in govt propaganda schools) the company was providing so much good products for such a cheap prices(and this is a verifiable fact) that within a generation Oil prices dropped by a tenth(The standard oil 'monopoly').\",\n \"Summary: Native extensions are an unnecessary feature of Ethereum network. Contracts can be made cheaper by letting users do this themselves(call it 'Network Intervention' contracts), instead of including this feature and increasing the complexity of the code.\\n\\nPost: I find this whole idea a bit too unnecessary on the grounds of Economics and from Software Engineering perspective. I understand the need to reduce the cost, but it also increases the complexity of the system a lot. \\n If a contract needs to be run with lower cost, why not execute that code on a separate non-node machine, which acts as a smart property. \\n Economics dictate that we won't require such a requirement anytime near in future. Currently nobody's really executing getting their code executed on a decentralized network. Soon people will start offloading more and more of their real life needs to be executed on this network, but the way these 'needs' exists is that most of the work people do can be done without requiring a trusted third party, its only a minor(but economically significant) part of their business. \\n Moreover economics also dictate how ways can be found under which ethereum could be used cheaply. For instance if you are running a DAO, instead of having your full organization legal charter being a code over the ethereum network, you can put 'checkpoints'. For instance, say the DAO sells goods online. The DAO doesn't really have to get every transaction verified and executed on the Ethereum network, rather the DAO contract 'trusts' the organization to do its job properly, and it only verifies the final balances off the user accounts, OR it holds a collateral from the DAO like 100Btc, sits and does nothing, until someone complains, and then verifies that and does all the processing required, and in case of a conflict, it resolves it.\",\n \"Summary: My Name is Earl' style Karma is nothing but just a pattern which emerges in the society when society follows a simple rule of not screwing each other over, punishing for doing so and rewarding for not doing so.\\n\\nPost: I am a Hindu, and we coined Karma, but it was never suppose to be what most people in west perceive it to be. In Hinduism Karma simply means act. Each act can be good or bad, and Karma is an idea that you and only you follow and receive the outcome of your actions. Karma is nothing but individual responsibility, but in My Name is Earl(which I believe reflects what most people in west believe Karma to be) Karma is some sort of paranormal entity which punishes each individual for his action, this is so not true. \\n In Hinduism Karma is what determines if you proceed to the next level or go down a level(Heaven and Hell are only two levels, Earth is another one, but there are stages beyond Heaven and there are stages below Hell). \\n Scientifically speaking there ain't no such thing as a paranormal entity called Karma which affects you in your present life(or next life), the reason why people have this perception is because they are reading too many patterns. The fact is if you do a good thing, that isn't the only good thing you are doing, you are doing a bunch of them, and people remember that, similarly when you do bad things and screw people over, people remember that too. They sometime return you the favor back, or punish you and this is misconstrued as Karma. \\n Lets say you are an asshole, you screw everybody up and get away with it. Your victims say that Karma is gonna get you one day. You laugh it off, then one day, you meet the wrong kind of guy(chances are pretty high), you screw him up slightly and he happens to be working for Mafia(or a Cop, or a Crazy loon who now wants to punish you), and they fuck you up.\\nThe people harassed you all this time now breath a sigh of relief, believing in concept of Karma more strongly, because this was Karmic justice according to them. \\n Similarly, lets say you are a really good guy. You help everybody up and assholes of the society screw you over, but some good people do remember you and help you out in a bad time, you are far more likely to attribute the returning of good favors to Karma. \\n The fact is concept of Karma is nothing but like the concept of 'invisible hand', there is no real hand trying to direct the market operations, but it feels like so, because each individual acts in a certain way, follows a certain rule, and this results in a creation of a pattern in the society.\",\n \"Summary: This is democracy working precisely as it was suppose to. Nobody has hijacked it. You need money to win the election because you need to gain people's attention to win it. With billion different things competing to get our attention, it takes a LOT of money to get us to vote. You can't just pour money out there either, you must spend it wisely. \\n I do hope one of these days the campaign targeting technologies will become so advanced that they will figure out that they should NEVER show me a political ad, its completely useless.\\n\\nPost: We've all heard that it costs a lot of money to run for the President in America, so what really happens to this money? \\n A lot of people who are sympathetic to democracy(there are even Ancaps who like Democracy and consider its optimal implementation to be better than what we have now), tend to think that because it requires that much money to win elections in America, therefore there must be something wrong with the way things are here. \\n My argument is simple. The amount of $1 billion(lets stick with this number) is actually the cost of America's attention. Its not like all that money candidates spent on elections is going to bribe individuals to vote for them. \\n This money is spent on running ads, and appearing in media, running strategies, analysing the population, create targeted marketing campaigns to appeal to the population. \\n Hit them from everywhere \\n Today to get people to vote for you, you must appear in front of them, and the cost to appear in front of them has become really high in an advanced prosperous society like America. \\n Back in the days everybody knew that there would be a widely televised Presidential debate which would be a great way to watch and gauge the various candidates, and make up your mind. \\n But now with Internet and the increase in the sheer quantity of media we consume(not to mention growing apathy), you must get our attention. Candidates must compete with Budweiser, Apple, GoDaddy and Facebook for adspace. They can't anymore just air ads during a really watched TV series or program, or newspapers. Most of us don't even read Newspapers anymore. \\n For most companies(like Budweiser, Apple, and GoDaddy) this just means more opportunity and cheaper ad costs(budweiser can specifically air ads on Nascar videos on youtube, Apple expects its Keynote address to do most of its advertising). \\n The sphere I live in, I don't even see Car or makeup ads unless they go viral. \\n But for a product of a centralized entity such as \\\"Presidency of United States\\\", every vote you can capture, and every attention you can grab, can make a big difference. \\n Make it nasty \\n One good way to get bang for your buck is to spend only the minimum amount of money required to make your demographic show up at the poll booth. One great way to do that is to scare the people about your opponent. I remember a coworker, who went to vote in 2012 election for Obama, only because she really cared about the abortion issue and believed that Mitt Romney will ban abortion. I immediately laughed at her claim, but later when I fact checked, it turned out that back in 2008 Primary debate, Romney DID say that he will work to overturn Roe V Wade. \\n It was clear that she didn't really care about Obama as much as she was scared of losing abortion rights, and I had no idea that Romney even said such a thing. The reason why she knew about it and I didn't because she was targeted specifically for this issue and the videos created for this purpose showed up on her newsfeed on facebook. \\n Similarly, conservatives saw a lot more videos about Obama take their Guns away, this is why the whole Obama-gun hysteria existed. Romney may show how amazing his plan is to bring Conservatives to his pro-Gun platform(but this would scare liberals), OR he can show how Obama is going to take away all of their guns and make sure that every Conservative shows up to the election booth. \\n Obama never made any great promises about Gay rights, but he got all the votes of the LGBTQ community because it was worth him to scare this demographics about McCain and Romney. \\n Rock the Vote campaigns always benefits the Democrats \\n Young people tend to vote for Democrats, so all the money spent on making people go out and vote affects mostly young people and benefits Democrats. \\n Democrats cry about Campaign financing more than Republicans \\n Campaign financing is always a Democratic issue because it benefits Republicans disproportionately. All they want is an end of funding to Republicans so that they can outspend the Republicans.\",\n \"Summary: Wars don't happen because of profit, profit happens because of war and a lot more profit is made when peace exists. \\n Postscript: Those who are claiming that NOBODY says that: \\n [Alan Grayson On Syria Strike: 'Nobody Wants This Except The Military-Industrial Complex']( \\n \\n > Hello, users of CMV! This is a footnote from your moderators. We'd just like to remind you of a couple of things. Firstly, please remember to [read through our rules]( If you see a comment that has broken one, it is more effective to report it than downvote it. Speaking of which, [downvotes don't change views]( If you are thinking about submitting a CMV yourself, please have a look through our ** [popular topics wiki]( first. Any questions or concerns? Feel free to **[message us]( Happy CMVing!*\\n\\nPost: People love to believe that they don't really want War, its their leaders because corrupted by the defense companies who want war. \\n To be clear, I am not saying that defense industry doesn't influence politicians, but I am against this notion that somehow our noble society wouldn't harm a fly if not for these evil profit making organizations and military-industrial complex. \\n In truth there are a lot more companies which profit from the lack of a war than with a war. There is an infinitesimally small chance of USA going on a war with India, Japan, Brazil, or France, even though it would be hugely profitable for defense industry than it is for going on a war with Syria. Say a politician talks about going on a war with a country where your multi-million dollar corporation is doing huge business with, wouldn't you lobby against such a measure, even try to fund his opponent to get him out of office? \\n The profits of Coca-Cola, McDonalds, KFC, Pepsi, Nestle, Toyota, Walt Disney and other non-defense companies vastly larger the profits of defense industry(which is 3-4% of the GDP), and when it comes down to it, would lose a lot more money than the profit made by some defense company. \\n This is the reason why we only go on a war with countries with little trade. Air strikes on Saudi will never happen even though almost all the 9/11 hijackers were Saudi and almost everyone in Al-Queda comes from Saudi Arabia. Americans don't join Military and go overseas to die because somehow bought out politicians asked them to. Americans do join a voluntary army to go to other countries because they want to.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":25,"string":"25"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2982,"string":"2,982"}}},{"rowIdx":2983,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"lejefferson"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post We all done fucked up."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"as you would expect them to do ? \n No. I would expect countries not to be willing to rape the resources of another country for their own selfish desires and then complain that the Soviets are going to get the oil when we can't have it for free. \n The British government spent years trying to get the U.S. to do this because they were the only government powerful enough to do it. It doesn't mean that they weren't behind the operation and the main motivating factor. The British also pressured the U.S. to comply by reminding them that they were helping the U.S. in South Korea so they had the right to expect that the U.S. would back them in Iran. The U.S. is just as responsible but don't try to clear the U.K. of all wrong doing because they didn't have operatives on the ground which is almost definitely false anyway."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"as you would expect them to do ? \n No. I would expect countries not to be willing to rape the resources of another country for their own selfish desires and then complain that the Soviets are going to get the oil when we can't have it for free. \n The British government spent years trying to get the U.S. to do this because they were the only government powerful enough to do it. It doesn't mean that they weren't behind the operation and the main motivating factor. The British also pressured the U.S. to comply by reminding them that they were helping the U.S. in South Korea so they had the right to expect that the U.S. would back them in Iran. The U.S. is just as responsible but don't try to clear the U.K. of all wrong doing because they didn't have operatives on the ground which is almost definitely false anyway."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Basically just be a decent human being.\n\nPost: I just saw this comment and even though we already resolved this wanted to state for the record that. \n A. You don't have to have sex with someone just because they bought you a drink. \n but \n B. You shouldn't accept drinks from people or other gifts of generosity from someone who is obviously interested in you if you are not interested. Doing otherwise is abusing someones generosity and feelings and stringing them along.","Summary: Get your shit together God!!\n\nPost: This is according to your opinion and bias. According to the data and scientific research, ethanol is coverted to acetaldehyde and the ingestion of enough alcohol to make you drunk results in the build up of acetaldehyde in the human body enough so that it remains unmetabolized in the human body for long periods of time in the mouth, throat esphogus and stomach by microbes and in the liver and colon. While those individuals without the mitochronidal isozome are at an even higher risk due to their reduced ability to metabolize acetaldehyde ALL humans metabolyze ethanol into acetaldehyde which remains for extended period of time in the body when drinking, is an extremely toxic chemical and raises your risk for cancer. All studies have resulted in the conclusion that alcohol intake raises your risk for cancer. I'm sorry you can't accept that God but that it was the research shows. \n >The key issue in cancer prevention is the identification of specific aetiologic factors. Acetaldehyde, the first metabolite of ethanol oxidation, is carcinogenic in animals. ADH and ALDH2 gene mutations provide an exceptional human model to estimate the long-term effects of acetaldehyde exposure in man. These models provide strong evidence for the local carcinogenic potential of acetaldehyde also in humans. Ethanol is metabolized to acetaldehyde by both mucosal and microbial enzymes. Many microbes produce acetaldehyde from ethanol, but their capacity to eliminate acetaldehyde is low, which leads to the accumulation of acetaldehyde in saliva during an alcohol challenge. Acetaldehyde is the most abundant carcinogen in tobacco smoke, and it readily dissolves into saliva during smoking. Fermented food and many alcoholic beverages can also contain significant amounts of acetaldehyde. Thus acetaldehyde, derived from mucosal or microbial oxidation of ethanol, tobacco smoke, and/or diet, appears to act as a cumulative carcinogen in the upper digestive tract of humans. The evidence strongly suggests the importance of world-wide screening of acetaldehyde and ethanol levels in many beverages and foodstuffs, as well as an urgent need for regulatory measures and consumer guidance. Screening of the risk groups with enhanced acetaldehyde exposure, e.g. people with ADH and ALDH2 gene polymorphisms and hypochlorhydric atrophic gastritis, should also be seriously considered. Most importantly, the GRAS (generally regarded as safe) status of acetaldehyde, which allows it to be used as a food additive, should be re-evaluated, and the classification of acetaldehyde as a carcinogen should be upgraded. \n All organisms produce acetaldehyde in ethanol breakdown. It is the basic chemistry of ethanol breakdown. Any basic biochemistry textbook would show this. And any undergrad biochemistry student would know this. \n Complete Reaction: C2H6O(Ethanol)→C2H4O(Acetaldehyde)→C2H4O2(acetic Acid) →Acetyl-CoA→3H2O+2CO2. \n CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 81st Edition, 2000 \n >In humans, ADH exists in multiple forms as a dimer and is encoded by at least seven different genes. There are five classes (I-V) of alcohol dehydrogenase, but the hepatic form that is primarily used in humans is class 1. Class 1 consists of α, β, and γ subunits that are encoded by the genes ADH1A, ADH1B, and ADH1C. The enzyme is present at high levels in the liver and the lining of the stomach. It catalyzes the oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde","Summary: Americans no likey have to do stuff.\n\nPost: But then people wouldn't have the right to not abstain. It's just semantics at this point but makes the point that if you HAVE to do something it's taking away your freedom. Yes it's the ridiculous freedom to not have take any part in an election but it's still a freedom. And we all know how Americans feel about dem freedoms.","Summary: I would make a really good cult leader.\n\nPost: When I was a little kid I faked sick so I didn't have to go to school one day. When my brother got home he asked me why I didn't go to school. For some reason I just felt like making up another lie that day and told him I got my hand cut off. I had my hand tucked up in my sleeve and he bought it hook line and sinker. I went into the tool shed and got all my dads tools and I would come out one by one showing him all of the new \"attachments\" I got for my newly chopped off hand. Screwdrivers, drills, hooks, garden trowels. The look of wonderment on his face was so good I just kept it up for a couple of days. Eventually we just kind of forgot about and we went back to normal. To this day he's never asked me or questioned about it. Oh and also he was ten years old and I was 7...","Summary: Soda drinkers are picky babies\n\nPost: I think people who drink soda are more loyal about their beverage choices. Like if someone drinks Coke and you try to hand them a Diet Coke, a Coke with lime or dare I say a Pepsi they will make a cranky baby face at you like you just tried to pass off dirt as solid gold. If they made variety packs not enough people would buy them because everyone has their preferred beverage they like to stick to.","Summary: You are arguing only with yourself because no one here disagrees with you. I only disagree with the way you have acted like a prick and turned this into a huge argument and putting words in peoples mouth to make some crazy political statement about regional dialects that no one disagrees with you about.\n\nPost: I'm defending the right to speak in regional accents that differ from Broadcast English. \n This is exactly the problem. You are ranting and raving and \"defending rights\" when nobody said anything about this. Who threatened to take away peoples right to speak in their own accent? Do you realize how crazy you sound? \n > The implication was that people with broad/regional accents should speak in a less accented way so s/he might find it easier to understand them. \n He never said this either. You are the only one who said that. He said he couldn't understand these accents. He never said they should change the way they speak so that they are more understandable. \n You are doing more of what you seem to do a lot which is make assumptions. I agree that no one should change the way they speak but That doesn't make them any easier to understand. That's all he was saying. \n You have taken what was a complement to Scandinavian speakers on their excellent English speaking abilities and twisted it and convoluted it to make some crazy political statement about Irish and Scottish accents. Nobody ever said that these people shouldn't speak however the hell they want. I personally love Scottish and Irish and all different accents. I just don't know why you're freaking out because someone said that they are difficult to understand. \n > They are [deficiencies] when coupled with incorrect grammar and atrocious spelling when using your own native language. \n This comment was made later in reply to your defensive statement not in the original comment I replied to but still doesn't comply to your assumptions. It is saying that \"atrocious spelling and incorrect grammar\" are deficiencies. A true statement.","Summary: Raise taxes on extremely wealthy to provide for those who are in situations where income and wealth is difficult to come by. They're doing fine with just 4 trillion in assets instead of 8 trillion. \n Raise wages to more fairly represent who is creating the wealth and diversify where the wealth is created.\n\nPost: I explained to you why your questions are irrelavent. Do you really not understand that? Instead all you can do is make fun my spelling and grammar. Sorry, I didn't realize we were submitting these comments on an internet forum to the New York Times. I'll be sure to get them peer reviewed from now on. \n The answer to your question is two fold. First of all, If 85 people own half the worlds wealth then raising the taxes on 85 people would provide for 25% of the worlds population. Did you hear me? Raising the taxes on just 85 people would solve a quarter of the worlds poverty crisis. The second solution is as simple as paying your employees better wages. If 85 people own half the worlds wealth then clearly we have a disparity between the workers and the owners. This is where free market capitalism breaks down. It is in the owners advantage to pay their workers only the minimum that it will take to keep them working for you and doing a good job. If trillions of dollars of the wealth that those workers are creating is going back to one person then raising the wages for the workers is called for. This will not only redistribute the wealth instead of one man owning it but will also increase the benefit for other rich people as those workers are better able to buy other goods and services instead of one man or 85 in this case controlling and deciding the fate of half the worlds wealth.","Summary: Go home buddy. You're drunk.\n\nPost: What are you talking about!! Are you on drugs?? I can't handle this any more!! Too much crazy. I've tried to be polite but this is just fucking INSANE man. You have completley lost track of the conversation. I can't go through this and point out to you the crazy that is going on here. Here's a brief sum up. \n >And simple facts show that the greatest genocides in modern history have been perpetrated by governments or government sponsored groups against unarmed people. The Rwanda Genocide was largely carried out with machetes. And the Bosnian war resulted in such an unilateral slaughter precisely thanks to UN gun embargos supported by Clinton. \n >And simple facts show us that prohibition and banning of illegal products in the US has not worked to keep those products off criminal hands. \n Machetes? Bosnia? What the fuck are you talking about? So we should just say to hell with all laws because you can get stuff anyway so just fuck it do whatever you want? We do that with literally NOTHING else but you make the excuse that we should do it with guns. \n >Again, self-defenders rarely actually injure or kill their assailants. But it is one heck of a deterrent if the assailant has a knife (which is more likely than him having a gun) or if the criminals outnumber you in the attack (which is more likely than being attacked by a single criminal).\nThey are the best means of self defense available. What are these alternatives you keep referring to. Pepper spray? Not 100% effective at the best of times and it can be countered with swimming googles and a mask available in every hardware store. Tazers? Even those with range are mostly single-shot units and can be countered with thick clothes. Karate? Not really something soccer moms, the crippled, or old people with fake hips can practice. Oh by all means, call the police, but if you are not in a nice neighbourhood their response time will leave you pretty much on your own. \n Karate? Swimming goggles? Soccer Moms? Have you lost your mind man? Ever hear of locks on your doors? Yes most criminals go around wearing swimming goggles to counteract the effects of pepper spray. And that tazer argument? That's just brilliant man. Did you forget the studies I showed you that those who carry guns are 7 more times more likely to be killed by guns than those who don't?","Summary: Having a viewpoint does not make you a crowd follower. Having a viewpoint blindly because everyone else is doing it, being unable to see that the opposing viewpoint has any merit whatsoever and showing an obvious lack of critical thinking abilities does. Please learn how to have an argument AND think critically before devolving into more pseudo intellectual nonsense.\n\nPost: So many horrible assumptions. Just because I point out the irony of your comment does not automatically make me for one \"crowd\" or even reveal any argument at all let alone put me anywhere near your level of bashing crowd following. Pointing out that this giant circlejerk of people making fun of people of one opinion as ridiculous without even so much as a drop of critical thinking is incredibly ironic does not make me a crowd following circlejerker. If anything it is the opposite because i'm not afraid to say something different than what the overwhelming majority of circlejerkers in thread are saying.","Summary: You're a pendantic ass and need something else to fill your time besides unneccarily criticising strangers on the internet.\n\nPost: Congratulaions pedant. You've saved so many people today with your completly necarry criticism. All i'm saying is that GIVEN WHAT WE KNOW she should report it to the police. It's completly unneccary for you to fell the need to criticize that we don't know everything about the case so no one can tell her what to do. Well no shit asshole. But if you're going to take a reddit comments advice without taking into account any other circumstances you're an idiot. There is plenty that can be done and plenty of benefits of reporting the assualt even if there is no conviction as i've already demonstrated to you and you've ignored and said nothing about. All you've said is \"Well well well just calm down now. We wouldn't want to raise no ruckus with rape allegations now do we? Why doesn't everyone just keep their mouth shut.\" Like some creepy sleezeball. \n The irony is that YOU don't know all of the circumstances of the case yet feel perfectly justified in saying she shouldn't press charges but then jump all over my back because I don't know all the circumstances. Feeling hypocritical my friend?","Summary: Explain to your wife that if it was you sodomizing your dog there would have been no reason for you to bring any of this up in the first place, so that accusation is unfounded. If she still doesn't listen stand up for yourself and what's right by getting the dog out of there. The worst thing that can happen is you'll lose what seems to be spiteful uncaring wife.\n\nPost: First of all you're right that your wife is a bitch. But i'm sorry that's not helpful. I do think there are things you can do about it. Present your wife with the facts. Why would you take the dog to vet in the first place if it was you sodomizing it? Why would have then brought it up to your son? Why would you have then brought it up to her if you were sodomizing you dog? It would make no sense. If you were doing this you would have kept it a secret and never brought it up in the first place. Present the evidence you found on your sons computer. See if it can still be recovered. Present this to her and if she still won't listen then you can be fairly certain that this is not the real issue here and that you're wife is just using it as an excuse. \n Second of all you need to get some balls. Sorry for the expression but that's the best way I can think of to say it. Go and get the dog out of the house. I know you are worried that this will confirm your wife's suspicions but again after presenting her with the evidence if she still denies it there is nothing you can do. You need to stand up for yourself and your dog. There is no real reason for your wife to be upset with you about not telling her to begin with. Yes you should have brought it up to her to begin with but you were trying to respect your son and work it out with him and there is no reason for her to be upset about that.","Summary: Science can't disprove most of Mormonism's claims but as logical people it would be silly for us to assume it is true. It's contradictory that Joseph Smith didn't know which religion to believe so he prayed and God told him and then for God to expect us to just believe Joseph Smith.\n\nPost: Here's the thing. And it's why I don't think I'll ever come out and say the Mormon church is false even though i don't believe it any more. None of their views actually contradict science because science is based on observation, while religion by it's very nature is an assumption about things that are unknown and unseen. So while we can now disprove Roman Mythology and now early Judaeo-Christian mythology it is still impossible for science to say with 100% accuracy that, for example, there were NO horses in America before Columbus or, there is no God. The best we can say is that we have no EVIDENCE for horses and so for most of us it would be silly to assume that there were. But if you choose to believe the dude with the magic book who says there were that's your decision. I'm just not going to live my life based on conjecture in a very unlikely and often contradictory scenario. I'm also not going to say it didn't happen. \n This is what has brought me around to an agnostic world view. As a missionary I lived in South America for two years and saw first hand and for the first time that there were at first a handful and then hundreds and thousands of other perspectives than my own. So how am I to know which of all of these contradicting opinions is true? Knowing that Joseph Smith had this exact same question I felt no guilt in this and did what he did: Asked God which of the churches and which ideas were true. Joseph Smith had God and Jesus H. Christ himself appear to him and tell him flat out to set the record straight. I. Got nothing. So I am now stuck in the EXACT same position as Joseph Smith was in only I didn't get a feeling or personal message let alone a vision telling me what the truth was, so it would be stupid for me or anyone to just pick a religion at random and hope I picked the right one and if we're going by which is most likely it probably wouldn't be Mormon. \n While Mormonism is most certainly a beautiful mythology and a beautiful culture it remains, as far as I know, a myth. A possible but unprovable and unlikely myth. I spent years after being a missionary trying to justify my belief in the church but once you realize you are looking at Platos shadows on the cave wall you can't go back, despite the fact that I miss the sense of belonging and pure purpose and would probably be happier if I had never realized it. That isn't to say I can't find beauty and connection in just experiencing and living in the world and not knowing all of it's mysteries just grateful for the gift of existence and remaining, just a little, hopeful that there might be some greater design to it all.","Summary: You have to remember that it doesn't matter what people think. But if you just talk to people you will eventually meet someone who likes you and wants to be your friend.\n\nPost: As a fellow introvert, clumsy person, not the best looking person on the planet and someone who has struggled with shyness and self esteem issues all his life, you have my deepest sympathies and understanding. What I can share with you is this. At some point you have to ask yourself: Is it worth living in my mom's basement and having no friends and being miserable because i'm too afraid to open up my mouth and talk to people and be friendly? The answer is no. So what you have to do is just get passed that fear of rejection and fear of saying the wrong thing and just say whatever you feel like, (within reason.) At the end of the day none of us know what we're doing in this crazy world and all you can do is be yourself and be friendly and I can GUARANTEE you, within a few days you'll meet somebody who's willing to talk to you, who'd give you their phone number and would enjoy getting to know you better. Look how many people have offered their friendship just from reaching out in this post. After that it's merely an odds game. There will be people who don't respond. There will be people who will say you're ugly or won't talk to you. You WILL mess up sometimes and do something stupid, but that's okay, at the end of the day your odds are better than the alternative, which is 0. That concept and idea really helped me get over the anxiety and fear of social settings. The more you do it, the more you learn and the better you become at it. Work on ways you can improve yourself. Learn interesting things that people would be interested in, the way you dress and style yourself can also have a huge effect on the way people see you regardless of how you look, read books on communication, get a therapist to help you deal with your social anxiety and self esteem issues. Best of luck and always feel free to message me. You've got a friend here.","Summary: Latin moms are awesome.\n\nPost: Please tell me where you are from. There is no way this took place in America. Americans would be way uptight for this kind of thing. I'm guessing some Latin country. Latin moms are always cool with this kind of thing. Was dating a girl in Spain and was chilling at her moms house while we there to visit. Her mom went out to get groceries and pulled me aside and asked me, \"What flavor of condoms do you want me to get?\", without so much as batting an eye.","Summary: Your business model sucks if someone is going around with a free bottle of booze pouring it on her tits with every glass of lemonade for a cheaper price and you're just going along with business as usual. That's without even mentioning all the other lemonade stand that are going to copy your model of just selling good honest lemonade at half the cost. You're going out of business and the contract is the cause. Airlines are only able to make contracts like this because they know no one will be able to compete, get cheaper gas and undersell them.\n\nPost: It means that unless you lower your price the competition is going to run you out of business. You tried to make it seem like a contract wasn't allowing you to lower your prices. And that is only true when competion is not a factor. If competition was a factor and other companies were able set lower prices because of the increase in supply of gas you would either have to lower your prices to compete or go out of business. And in a business like lemon selling or safety regulated airline industry price is going to determine your amount of customers. There is no marketable difference in airlines like there are in whores my friend.","Summary: Reddit were dicks but OP was a lying douchebag.\n\nPost: You do realize this is the internet right? A couple of douchebags doesn't excuses douchebaggy OP behaviour. The guy never had any way to open the safe BECAUSE HE DIDN\"T EVEN LIVE IN THE HOUSE and it wasn't his safe to open. Instead he lead everyone on thinking he was going to open it. A guy came along a year later who moved into the house and had it open and mystery solved in two days.","Summary: It's a nightmare.\n\nPost: Not quite. They keep a record of the money you give to the church and if you are donating the full ten percent they won't let you in. You also have to attend 3 hours of church every Sunday and fulfill your \"calling\" which is essential your church job. Either a pastor or youth leader or teacher or other service position which depending on the calling can be as much as a full time job.","Summary: You're better off going to a Dennys or something.\n\nPost: Just so you know if you want to go into this building you have to pay the Mormon church 10 percent of every paycheck or income you earn, not drink coffee, not drink alcohol, not have sex and swear that you will follow the leaders of the church or risk eternal damnation.","Summary: Correlation is not causation.\n\nPost: I don't think the study alludes to cerebrovacular disease at all. As this is a cohort study all it does is measure who exercised and who did and didn't develop dementia. I think it's easy to point to exercise in this kind of study and say, \"Wow! Everyone who exercised was healthier than everyone else! Exercise must be the cause!\" What we fail to realize is that it may simply be that those who were able and motivated to exercise were naturally healthier and had less cognitive dysfunction because they were already healthier and less disposed to these diseases. People who were already genetically predisposed to dementia may have found it harder to stay motivated to exercise and exercise itself may not have been the direct cause at all. The fact that healthier people are able to exercise more than unhealthy people, that people with vascular disease are able to exercise less than those who don't, that people with cognitive dysfunction are less motivated to exercise than people who don't is a rather obvious confounding factor we're overlooking.","Summary: Learn to fucking read you moron.\n\nPost: Every answer to your questions is in my previous comment. You are either the most clueless vacant minded person with whom I have ever had a discussion or you are full of shit. \n >Address this point. Default position is that divorce does not contribute. \n \"I'm not trying to prove that there is a contribution from the divorce. How many times do I have to say that?\" \n >The author of the article tried to make correlation with false numbers. He was called out on it. \n The author of the article never used any numbers. He didn't cite any source. And the person who \"called him out on it\" completley manipulated the data, and I called him out on it. \n >You continue to say that divorce can contribute, but without evidence this is only ever an opinion. \n \" I'm not trying to prove this situation at all. I am simply saying that the argument that just because a factor doesn't effect everyone in the population means it must not be a cause or contributing factor in some situations is a fallacy. And using that point to disprove the divorce argument, were there any actually statistics to support it, would be invalid. \" \n >Your examples regarding smoking and lung cancer are not valid comparisons, because there is fucking evidence to support smoking causing lung cancer, and there is none to support a change to the default premise that divorce does not contribute. \n \"I used the smoking example and the factory example to prove that, not compare it to this scenario and say that it must be true. We all know that it's not necessarily true because there is no data to support it. \" \n That is exactly what I said. I said IF the Statistics claimed in the article were true, then it can be a factor just as the statistics on smoking and lung cancer prove that to be true. You think i'm arguing about these statistics but I am arguing a logical flaw in the original responders comment. I have never claimed that those statistics exist. I have always maintained that since we don't have them we must assume the default position that divorce does not contribute but that IF they did it would provide evidence that it contributes.","Summary: Your post sucks.\n\nPost: You know I have to disagree with you here. If someone is going to downvote me, i'd prefer it if they told me why. I don't think it's fair or justifiable to go around downvoting peoples things without any kind of concern for why they posted it in the first place and without an explanation of why you disagree at all. Another point is that simply downvoting doesn't teach the poster anything. They leave uneducated about why they were downvoted in the first place and are likely to continue posting banal content. However if you take the time to tell them why you downvoted, the poster can learn from their mistakes and learn what posts people like and don't like making the entire site better educated as a community and better as a whole instead of cutting people off. Finally it's just more polite in general to give someone your reasons for disliking something and giving them a chance to retort.","Summary: Don't be a dick like this lady but don't be a dick to your neighbors by leaving them to bark all the time.\n\nPost: This lady is a dumbass but I just have to say I understand the frustration of neighbors of people who leave their fucking dogs and bark for hours and they do nothing about it. When you call the police they get pissed at you for calling the cops and then when you try to do something about it yourself shit like this happens. I'm not saying OP is one of these people or that it justifies this dumbass lady's behavior but that shit is annoying.","Summary: If there's a God he's got a lot of splaining to do. \n “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”\n\nPost: If by some miracle of miracles Jesus Christ the lord our Savior Joseph Smith came down to me and told me the church is true i'd have a lot of questions about the blatant lies, manipulations and falsehoods of the church. Why do the prophets of God speak clear falsehoods? Why would god pick a convicted con man treasure hunter to be his holy prophet of the Last Days? Why would he make the Book of Mormon story seem so hilariously implausible? Why are there contradictions littering the holy scriptures? Why are you more concerned with young women wearing two earrings and having plenty of legroom in chapels in Utah then helping starving children in 3rd world countries? I could go on for hours. If these were answered by somehow turning logic on it's head then yeah i'd go back.","Summary: You are a dumbass.\n\nPost: Well you might need to level up your biochemistry if you can't understand studies done by biochemists and the obvious fact that alcohol raises your risk for cancer. As many other people have pointed out to you alcohol can have a positive effect on heart health while raising the risk for esophageal and stomach cancers. Don't pick out one uncited quote and ignore every other study and every other source even ones you yourself have quoted. That's not biochemistry thats douchebaggery. \n >These findings, published in the April 2013 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, also show that reducing alcohol consumption is an important cancer prevention strategy as alcohol is a known carcinogen even when consumed in small quantities. \n Then there's this, but of course you already know this since you speak biochemistry. \n >The first metabolic product of ethanol in the liver, acetaldehyde, is toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic. \n And this. \n > There is no doubt that alcohol can cause seven types of cancer","Summary: I'm a linguist.\n\nPost: Funnily enough. ME TOO . In fact IT' MY JOB . And I can do that too. \n IT really does. = Not this thing here but that thing over there. \n It REALLY does. = Not just a little bit but a lot. \n It really DOES . = I thought it didn't but it does. \n It's called lexical stress and you use it every day with every sentence. It's a central part of communication.","Summary: There is no such thing as past things and future things happening at the same time because the past and the future DO NOT EXIST.\n\nPost: I don't think you know what \"relative\" means. \"Time is relative because it's a dimension?\" What does that mean? What I'm saying is that the past does not exist. The future does not exist. There is nothing to exist at the same time because there is only one thing. The present. This notion that they all exist at once is physical mythology and misinterpretation. When you travel at the speed of light it only means the time it TAKES you to travel from point A to point B is different so while someone who is stationary will have counted 1 second you will have counted none at all. That it was is meant by \"time\" is relative. I mean we know that just because you travel at light speed doesn't mean time and space are all \"smushed into the same point\". We know the amount of time it takes for light traveling at light speed to reach the earth. It's 8 minutes. We know that it takes billions of years for light to travel from parts of space to us. That amount of time will be the same whether you are riding the wave of light or whether you are on the earth. But it is the perception of that time that will change from perspective to perspective."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Basically just be a decent human being.\\n\\nPost: I just saw this comment and even though we already resolved this wanted to state for the record that. \\n A. You don't have to have sex with someone just because they bought you a drink. \\n but \\n B. You shouldn't accept drinks from people or other gifts of generosity from someone who is obviously interested in you if you are not interested. Doing otherwise is abusing someones generosity and feelings and stringing them along.\",\n \"Summary: Get your shit together God!!\\n\\nPost: This is according to your opinion and bias. According to the data and scientific research, ethanol is coverted to acetaldehyde and the ingestion of enough alcohol to make you drunk results in the build up of acetaldehyde in the human body enough so that it remains unmetabolized in the human body for long periods of time in the mouth, throat esphogus and stomach by microbes and in the liver and colon. While those individuals without the mitochronidal isozome are at an even higher risk due to their reduced ability to metabolize acetaldehyde ALL humans metabolyze ethanol into acetaldehyde which remains for extended period of time in the body when drinking, is an extremely toxic chemical and raises your risk for cancer. All studies have resulted in the conclusion that alcohol intake raises your risk for cancer. I'm sorry you can't accept that God but that it was the research shows. \\n >The key issue in cancer prevention is the identification of specific aetiologic factors. Acetaldehyde, the first metabolite of ethanol oxidation, is carcinogenic in animals. ADH and ALDH2 gene mutations provide an exceptional human model to estimate the long-term effects of acetaldehyde exposure in man. These models provide strong evidence for the local carcinogenic potential of acetaldehyde also in humans. Ethanol is metabolized to acetaldehyde by both mucosal and microbial enzymes. Many microbes produce acetaldehyde from ethanol, but their capacity to eliminate acetaldehyde is low, which leads to the accumulation of acetaldehyde in saliva during an alcohol challenge. Acetaldehyde is the most abundant carcinogen in tobacco smoke, and it readily dissolves into saliva during smoking. Fermented food and many alcoholic beverages can also contain significant amounts of acetaldehyde. Thus acetaldehyde, derived from mucosal or microbial oxidation of ethanol, tobacco smoke, and/or diet, appears to act as a cumulative carcinogen in the upper digestive tract of humans. The evidence strongly suggests the importance of world-wide screening of acetaldehyde and ethanol levels in many beverages and foodstuffs, as well as an urgent need for regulatory measures and consumer guidance. Screening of the risk groups with enhanced acetaldehyde exposure, e.g. people with ADH and ALDH2 gene polymorphisms and hypochlorhydric atrophic gastritis, should also be seriously considered. Most importantly, the GRAS (generally regarded as safe) status of acetaldehyde, which allows it to be used as a food additive, should be re-evaluated, and the classification of acetaldehyde as a carcinogen should be upgraded. \\n All organisms produce acetaldehyde in ethanol breakdown. It is the basic chemistry of ethanol breakdown. Any basic biochemistry textbook would show this. And any undergrad biochemistry student would know this. \\n Complete Reaction: C2H6O(Ethanol)→C2H4O(Acetaldehyde)→C2H4O2(acetic Acid) →Acetyl-CoA→3H2O+2CO2. \\n CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 81st Edition, 2000 \\n >In humans, ADH exists in multiple forms as a dimer and is encoded by at least seven different genes. There are five classes (I-V) of alcohol dehydrogenase, but the hepatic form that is primarily used in humans is class 1. Class 1 consists of α, β, and γ subunits that are encoded by the genes ADH1A, ADH1B, and ADH1C. The enzyme is present at high levels in the liver and the lining of the stomach. It catalyzes the oxidation of ethanol to acetaldehyde\",\n \"Summary: Americans no likey have to do stuff.\\n\\nPost: But then people wouldn't have the right to not abstain. It's just semantics at this point but makes the point that if you HAVE to do something it's taking away your freedom. Yes it's the ridiculous freedom to not have take any part in an election but it's still a freedom. And we all know how Americans feel about dem freedoms.\",\n \"Summary: I would make a really good cult leader.\\n\\nPost: When I was a little kid I faked sick so I didn't have to go to school one day. When my brother got home he asked me why I didn't go to school. For some reason I just felt like making up another lie that day and told him I got my hand cut off. I had my hand tucked up in my sleeve and he bought it hook line and sinker. I went into the tool shed and got all my dads tools and I would come out one by one showing him all of the new \\\"attachments\\\" I got for my newly chopped off hand. Screwdrivers, drills, hooks, garden trowels. The look of wonderment on his face was so good I just kept it up for a couple of days. Eventually we just kind of forgot about and we went back to normal. To this day he's never asked me or questioned about it. Oh and also he was ten years old and I was 7...\",\n \"Summary: Soda drinkers are picky babies\\n\\nPost: I think people who drink soda are more loyal about their beverage choices. Like if someone drinks Coke and you try to hand them a Diet Coke, a Coke with lime or dare I say a Pepsi they will make a cranky baby face at you like you just tried to pass off dirt as solid gold. If they made variety packs not enough people would buy them because everyone has their preferred beverage they like to stick to.\",\n \"Summary: You are arguing only with yourself because no one here disagrees with you. I only disagree with the way you have acted like a prick and turned this into a huge argument and putting words in peoples mouth to make some crazy political statement about regional dialects that no one disagrees with you about.\\n\\nPost: I'm defending the right to speak in regional accents that differ from Broadcast English. \\n This is exactly the problem. You are ranting and raving and \\\"defending rights\\\" when nobody said anything about this. Who threatened to take away peoples right to speak in their own accent? Do you realize how crazy you sound? \\n > The implication was that people with broad/regional accents should speak in a less accented way so s/he might find it easier to understand them. \\n He never said this either. You are the only one who said that. He said he couldn't understand these accents. He never said they should change the way they speak so that they are more understandable. \\n You are doing more of what you seem to do a lot which is make assumptions. I agree that no one should change the way they speak but That doesn't make them any easier to understand. That's all he was saying. \\n You have taken what was a complement to Scandinavian speakers on their excellent English speaking abilities and twisted it and convoluted it to make some crazy political statement about Irish and Scottish accents. Nobody ever said that these people shouldn't speak however the hell they want. I personally love Scottish and Irish and all different accents. I just don't know why you're freaking out because someone said that they are difficult to understand. \\n > They are [deficiencies] when coupled with incorrect grammar and atrocious spelling when using your own native language. \\n This comment was made later in reply to your defensive statement not in the original comment I replied to but still doesn't comply to your assumptions. It is saying that \\\"atrocious spelling and incorrect grammar\\\" are deficiencies. A true statement.\",\n \"Summary: Raise taxes on extremely wealthy to provide for those who are in situations where income and wealth is difficult to come by. They're doing fine with just 4 trillion in assets instead of 8 trillion. \\n Raise wages to more fairly represent who is creating the wealth and diversify where the wealth is created.\\n\\nPost: I explained to you why your questions are irrelavent. Do you really not understand that? Instead all you can do is make fun my spelling and grammar. Sorry, I didn't realize we were submitting these comments on an internet forum to the New York Times. I'll be sure to get them peer reviewed from now on. \\n The answer to your question is two fold. First of all, If 85 people own half the worlds wealth then raising the taxes on 85 people would provide for 25% of the worlds population. Did you hear me? Raising the taxes on just 85 people would solve a quarter of the worlds poverty crisis. The second solution is as simple as paying your employees better wages. If 85 people own half the worlds wealth then clearly we have a disparity between the workers and the owners. This is where free market capitalism breaks down. It is in the owners advantage to pay their workers only the minimum that it will take to keep them working for you and doing a good job. If trillions of dollars of the wealth that those workers are creating is going back to one person then raising the wages for the workers is called for. This will not only redistribute the wealth instead of one man owning it but will also increase the benefit for other rich people as those workers are better able to buy other goods and services instead of one man or 85 in this case controlling and deciding the fate of half the worlds wealth.\",\n \"Summary: Go home buddy. You're drunk.\\n\\nPost: What are you talking about!! Are you on drugs?? I can't handle this any more!! Too much crazy. I've tried to be polite but this is just fucking INSANE man. You have completley lost track of the conversation. I can't go through this and point out to you the crazy that is going on here. Here's a brief sum up. \\n >And simple facts show that the greatest genocides in modern history have been perpetrated by governments or government sponsored groups against unarmed people. The Rwanda Genocide was largely carried out with machetes. And the Bosnian war resulted in such an unilateral slaughter precisely thanks to UN gun embargos supported by Clinton. \\n >And simple facts show us that prohibition and banning of illegal products in the US has not worked to keep those products off criminal hands. \\n Machetes? Bosnia? What the fuck are you talking about? So we should just say to hell with all laws because you can get stuff anyway so just fuck it do whatever you want? We do that with literally NOTHING else but you make the excuse that we should do it with guns. \\n >Again, self-defenders rarely actually injure or kill their assailants. But it is one heck of a deterrent if the assailant has a knife (which is more likely than him having a gun) or if the criminals outnumber you in the attack (which is more likely than being attacked by a single criminal).\\nThey are the best means of self defense available. What are these alternatives you keep referring to. Pepper spray? Not 100% effective at the best of times and it can be countered with swimming googles and a mask available in every hardware store. Tazers? Even those with range are mostly single-shot units and can be countered with thick clothes. Karate? Not really something soccer moms, the crippled, or old people with fake hips can practice. Oh by all means, call the police, but if you are not in a nice neighbourhood their response time will leave you pretty much on your own. \\n Karate? Swimming goggles? Soccer Moms? Have you lost your mind man? Ever hear of locks on your doors? Yes most criminals go around wearing swimming goggles to counteract the effects of pepper spray. And that tazer argument? That's just brilliant man. Did you forget the studies I showed you that those who carry guns are 7 more times more likely to be killed by guns than those who don't?\",\n \"Summary: Having a viewpoint does not make you a crowd follower. Having a viewpoint blindly because everyone else is doing it, being unable to see that the opposing viewpoint has any merit whatsoever and showing an obvious lack of critical thinking abilities does. Please learn how to have an argument AND think critically before devolving into more pseudo intellectual nonsense.\\n\\nPost: So many horrible assumptions. Just because I point out the irony of your comment does not automatically make me for one \\\"crowd\\\" or even reveal any argument at all let alone put me anywhere near your level of bashing crowd following. Pointing out that this giant circlejerk of people making fun of people of one opinion as ridiculous without even so much as a drop of critical thinking is incredibly ironic does not make me a crowd following circlejerker. If anything it is the opposite because i'm not afraid to say something different than what the overwhelming majority of circlejerkers in thread are saying.\",\n \"Summary: You're a pendantic ass and need something else to fill your time besides unneccarily criticising strangers on the internet.\\n\\nPost: Congratulaions pedant. You've saved so many people today with your completly necarry criticism. All i'm saying is that GIVEN WHAT WE KNOW she should report it to the police. It's completly unneccary for you to fell the need to criticize that we don't know everything about the case so no one can tell her what to do. Well no shit asshole. But if you're going to take a reddit comments advice without taking into account any other circumstances you're an idiot. There is plenty that can be done and plenty of benefits of reporting the assualt even if there is no conviction as i've already demonstrated to you and you've ignored and said nothing about. All you've said is \\\"Well well well just calm down now. We wouldn't want to raise no ruckus with rape allegations now do we? Why doesn't everyone just keep their mouth shut.\\\" Like some creepy sleezeball. \\n The irony is that YOU don't know all of the circumstances of the case yet feel perfectly justified in saying she shouldn't press charges but then jump all over my back because I don't know all the circumstances. Feeling hypocritical my friend?\",\n \"Summary: Explain to your wife that if it was you sodomizing your dog there would have been no reason for you to bring any of this up in the first place, so that accusation is unfounded. If she still doesn't listen stand up for yourself and what's right by getting the dog out of there. The worst thing that can happen is you'll lose what seems to be spiteful uncaring wife.\\n\\nPost: First of all you're right that your wife is a bitch. But i'm sorry that's not helpful. I do think there are things you can do about it. Present your wife with the facts. Why would you take the dog to vet in the first place if it was you sodomizing it? Why would have then brought it up to your son? Why would you have then brought it up to her if you were sodomizing you dog? It would make no sense. If you were doing this you would have kept it a secret and never brought it up in the first place. Present the evidence you found on your sons computer. See if it can still be recovered. Present this to her and if she still won't listen then you can be fairly certain that this is not the real issue here and that you're wife is just using it as an excuse. \\n Second of all you need to get some balls. Sorry for the expression but that's the best way I can think of to say it. Go and get the dog out of the house. I know you are worried that this will confirm your wife's suspicions but again after presenting her with the evidence if she still denies it there is nothing you can do. You need to stand up for yourself and your dog. There is no real reason for your wife to be upset with you about not telling her to begin with. Yes you should have brought it up to her to begin with but you were trying to respect your son and work it out with him and there is no reason for her to be upset about that.\",\n \"Summary: Science can't disprove most of Mormonism's claims but as logical people it would be silly for us to assume it is true. It's contradictory that Joseph Smith didn't know which religion to believe so he prayed and God told him and then for God to expect us to just believe Joseph Smith.\\n\\nPost: Here's the thing. And it's why I don't think I'll ever come out and say the Mormon church is false even though i don't believe it any more. None of their views actually contradict science because science is based on observation, while religion by it's very nature is an assumption about things that are unknown and unseen. So while we can now disprove Roman Mythology and now early Judaeo-Christian mythology it is still impossible for science to say with 100% accuracy that, for example, there were NO horses in America before Columbus or, there is no God. The best we can say is that we have no EVIDENCE for horses and so for most of us it would be silly to assume that there were. But if you choose to believe the dude with the magic book who says there were that's your decision. I'm just not going to live my life based on conjecture in a very unlikely and often contradictory scenario. I'm also not going to say it didn't happen. \\n This is what has brought me around to an agnostic world view. As a missionary I lived in South America for two years and saw first hand and for the first time that there were at first a handful and then hundreds and thousands of other perspectives than my own. So how am I to know which of all of these contradicting opinions is true? Knowing that Joseph Smith had this exact same question I felt no guilt in this and did what he did: Asked God which of the churches and which ideas were true. Joseph Smith had God and Jesus H. Christ himself appear to him and tell him flat out to set the record straight. I. Got nothing. So I am now stuck in the EXACT same position as Joseph Smith was in only I didn't get a feeling or personal message let alone a vision telling me what the truth was, so it would be stupid for me or anyone to just pick a religion at random and hope I picked the right one and if we're going by which is most likely it probably wouldn't be Mormon. \\n While Mormonism is most certainly a beautiful mythology and a beautiful culture it remains, as far as I know, a myth. A possible but unprovable and unlikely myth. I spent years after being a missionary trying to justify my belief in the church but once you realize you are looking at Platos shadows on the cave wall you can't go back, despite the fact that I miss the sense of belonging and pure purpose and would probably be happier if I had never realized it. That isn't to say I can't find beauty and connection in just experiencing and living in the world and not knowing all of it's mysteries just grateful for the gift of existence and remaining, just a little, hopeful that there might be some greater design to it all.\",\n \"Summary: You have to remember that it doesn't matter what people think. But if you just talk to people you will eventually meet someone who likes you and wants to be your friend.\\n\\nPost: As a fellow introvert, clumsy person, not the best looking person on the planet and someone who has struggled with shyness and self esteem issues all his life, you have my deepest sympathies and understanding. What I can share with you is this. At some point you have to ask yourself: Is it worth living in my mom's basement and having no friends and being miserable because i'm too afraid to open up my mouth and talk to people and be friendly? The answer is no. So what you have to do is just get passed that fear of rejection and fear of saying the wrong thing and just say whatever you feel like, (within reason.) At the end of the day none of us know what we're doing in this crazy world and all you can do is be yourself and be friendly and I can GUARANTEE you, within a few days you'll meet somebody who's willing to talk to you, who'd give you their phone number and would enjoy getting to know you better. Look how many people have offered their friendship just from reaching out in this post. After that it's merely an odds game. There will be people who don't respond. There will be people who will say you're ugly or won't talk to you. You WILL mess up sometimes and do something stupid, but that's okay, at the end of the day your odds are better than the alternative, which is 0. That concept and idea really helped me get over the anxiety and fear of social settings. The more you do it, the more you learn and the better you become at it. Work on ways you can improve yourself. Learn interesting things that people would be interested in, the way you dress and style yourself can also have a huge effect on the way people see you regardless of how you look, read books on communication, get a therapist to help you deal with your social anxiety and self esteem issues. Best of luck and always feel free to message me. You've got a friend here.\",\n \"Summary: Latin moms are awesome.\\n\\nPost: Please tell me where you are from. There is no way this took place in America. Americans would be way uptight for this kind of thing. I'm guessing some Latin country. Latin moms are always cool with this kind of thing. Was dating a girl in Spain and was chilling at her moms house while we there to visit. Her mom went out to get groceries and pulled me aside and asked me, \\\"What flavor of condoms do you want me to get?\\\", without so much as batting an eye.\",\n \"Summary: Your business model sucks if someone is going around with a free bottle of booze pouring it on her tits with every glass of lemonade for a cheaper price and you're just going along with business as usual. That's without even mentioning all the other lemonade stand that are going to copy your model of just selling good honest lemonade at half the cost. You're going out of business and the contract is the cause. Airlines are only able to make contracts like this because they know no one will be able to compete, get cheaper gas and undersell them.\\n\\nPost: It means that unless you lower your price the competition is going to run you out of business. You tried to make it seem like a contract wasn't allowing you to lower your prices. And that is only true when competion is not a factor. If competition was a factor and other companies were able set lower prices because of the increase in supply of gas you would either have to lower your prices to compete or go out of business. And in a business like lemon selling or safety regulated airline industry price is going to determine your amount of customers. There is no marketable difference in airlines like there are in whores my friend.\",\n \"Summary: Reddit were dicks but OP was a lying douchebag.\\n\\nPost: You do realize this is the internet right? A couple of douchebags doesn't excuses douchebaggy OP behaviour. The guy never had any way to open the safe BECAUSE HE DIDN\\\"T EVEN LIVE IN THE HOUSE and it wasn't his safe to open. Instead he lead everyone on thinking he was going to open it. A guy came along a year later who moved into the house and had it open and mystery solved in two days.\",\n \"Summary: It's a nightmare.\\n\\nPost: Not quite. They keep a record of the money you give to the church and if you are donating the full ten percent they won't let you in. You also have to attend 3 hours of church every Sunday and fulfill your \\\"calling\\\" which is essential your church job. Either a pastor or youth leader or teacher or other service position which depending on the calling can be as much as a full time job.\",\n \"Summary: You're better off going to a Dennys or something.\\n\\nPost: Just so you know if you want to go into this building you have to pay the Mormon church 10 percent of every paycheck or income you earn, not drink coffee, not drink alcohol, not have sex and swear that you will follow the leaders of the church or risk eternal damnation.\",\n \"Summary: Correlation is not causation.\\n\\nPost: I don't think the study alludes to cerebrovacular disease at all. As this is a cohort study all it does is measure who exercised and who did and didn't develop dementia. I think it's easy to point to exercise in this kind of study and say, \\\"Wow! Everyone who exercised was healthier than everyone else! Exercise must be the cause!\\\" What we fail to realize is that it may simply be that those who were able and motivated to exercise were naturally healthier and had less cognitive dysfunction because they were already healthier and less disposed to these diseases. People who were already genetically predisposed to dementia may have found it harder to stay motivated to exercise and exercise itself may not have been the direct cause at all. The fact that healthier people are able to exercise more than unhealthy people, that people with vascular disease are able to exercise less than those who don't, that people with cognitive dysfunction are less motivated to exercise than people who don't is a rather obvious confounding factor we're overlooking.\",\n \"Summary: Learn to fucking read you moron.\\n\\nPost: Every answer to your questions is in my previous comment. You are either the most clueless vacant minded person with whom I have ever had a discussion or you are full of shit. \\n >Address this point. Default position is that divorce does not contribute. \\n \\\"I'm not trying to prove that there is a contribution from the divorce. How many times do I have to say that?\\\" \\n >The author of the article tried to make correlation with false numbers. He was called out on it. \\n The author of the article never used any numbers. He didn't cite any source. And the person who \\\"called him out on it\\\" completley manipulated the data, and I called him out on it. \\n >You continue to say that divorce can contribute, but without evidence this is only ever an opinion. \\n \\\" I'm not trying to prove this situation at all. I am simply saying that the argument that just because a factor doesn't effect everyone in the population means it must not be a cause or contributing factor in some situations is a fallacy. And using that point to disprove the divorce argument, were there any actually statistics to support it, would be invalid. \\\" \\n >Your examples regarding smoking and lung cancer are not valid comparisons, because there is fucking evidence to support smoking causing lung cancer, and there is none to support a change to the default premise that divorce does not contribute. \\n \\\"I used the smoking example and the factory example to prove that, not compare it to this scenario and say that it must be true. We all know that it's not necessarily true because there is no data to support it. \\\" \\n That is exactly what I said. I said IF the Statistics claimed in the article were true, then it can be a factor just as the statistics on smoking and lung cancer prove that to be true. You think i'm arguing about these statistics but I am arguing a logical flaw in the original responders comment. I have never claimed that those statistics exist. I have always maintained that since we don't have them we must assume the default position that divorce does not contribute but that IF they did it would provide evidence that it contributes.\",\n \"Summary: Your post sucks.\\n\\nPost: You know I have to disagree with you here. If someone is going to downvote me, i'd prefer it if they told me why. I don't think it's fair or justifiable to go around downvoting peoples things without any kind of concern for why they posted it in the first place and without an explanation of why you disagree at all. Another point is that simply downvoting doesn't teach the poster anything. They leave uneducated about why they were downvoted in the first place and are likely to continue posting banal content. However if you take the time to tell them why you downvoted, the poster can learn from their mistakes and learn what posts people like and don't like making the entire site better educated as a community and better as a whole instead of cutting people off. Finally it's just more polite in general to give someone your reasons for disliking something and giving them a chance to retort.\",\n \"Summary: Don't be a dick like this lady but don't be a dick to your neighbors by leaving them to bark all the time.\\n\\nPost: This lady is a dumbass but I just have to say I understand the frustration of neighbors of people who leave their fucking dogs and bark for hours and they do nothing about it. When you call the police they get pissed at you for calling the cops and then when you try to do something about it yourself shit like this happens. I'm not saying OP is one of these people or that it justifies this dumbass lady's behavior but that shit is annoying.\",\n \"Summary: If there's a God he's got a lot of splaining to do. \\n “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.”\\n\\nPost: If by some miracle of miracles Jesus Christ the lord our Savior Joseph Smith came down to me and told me the church is true i'd have a lot of questions about the blatant lies, manipulations and falsehoods of the church. Why do the prophets of God speak clear falsehoods? Why would god pick a convicted con man treasure hunter to be his holy prophet of the Last Days? Why would he make the Book of Mormon story seem so hilariously implausible? Why are there contradictions littering the holy scriptures? Why are you more concerned with young women wearing two earrings and having plenty of legroom in chapels in Utah then helping starving children in 3rd world countries? I could go on for hours. If these were answered by somehow turning logic on it's head then yeah i'd go back.\",\n \"Summary: You are a dumbass.\\n\\nPost: Well you might need to level up your biochemistry if you can't understand studies done by biochemists and the obvious fact that alcohol raises your risk for cancer. As many other people have pointed out to you alcohol can have a positive effect on heart health while raising the risk for esophageal and stomach cancers. Don't pick out one uncited quote and ignore every other study and every other source even ones you yourself have quoted. That's not biochemistry thats douchebaggery. \\n >These findings, published in the April 2013 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, also show that reducing alcohol consumption is an important cancer prevention strategy as alcohol is a known carcinogen even when consumed in small quantities. \\n Then there's this, but of course you already know this since you speak biochemistry. \\n >The first metabolic product of ethanol in the liver, acetaldehyde, is toxic, mutagenic, and carcinogenic. \\n And this. \\n > There is no doubt that alcohol can cause seven types of cancer\",\n \"Summary: I'm a linguist.\\n\\nPost: Funnily enough. ME TOO . In fact IT' MY JOB . And I can do that too. \\n IT really does. = Not this thing here but that thing over there. \\n It REALLY does. = Not just a little bit but a lot. \\n It really DOES . = I thought it didn't but it does. \\n It's called lexical stress and you use it every day with every sentence. It's a central part of communication.\",\n \"Summary: There is no such thing as past things and future things happening at the same time because the past and the future DO NOT EXIST.\\n\\nPost: I don't think you know what \\\"relative\\\" means. \\\"Time is relative because it's a dimension?\\\" What does that mean? What I'm saying is that the past does not exist. The future does not exist. There is nothing to exist at the same time because there is only one thing. The present. This notion that they all exist at once is physical mythology and misinterpretation. When you travel at the speed of light it only means the time it TAKES you to travel from point A to point B is different so while someone who is stationary will have counted 1 second you will have counted none at all. That it was is meant by \\\"time\\\" is relative. I mean we know that just because you travel at light speed doesn't mean time and space are all \\\"smushed into the same point\\\". We know the amount of time it takes for light traveling at light speed to reach the earth. It's 8 minutes. We know that it takes billions of years for light to travel from parts of space to us. That amount of time will be the same whether you are riding the wave of light or whether you are on the earth. But it is the perception of that time that will change from perspective to perspective.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":26,"string":"26"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2983,"string":"2,983"}}},{"rowIdx":2984,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"dorianfinch"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post maybe date other genderqueers. it made me the [happiest girldude ever.]("},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I consider myself an almost-transman genderqueer individual (no hormones, no surgery, just present pretty masculine) and I like boyish people, but I doubt any gay guy would have anything to do with me. So I got even luckier and ended up dating a nonbinary person like myself who self-describes as \"like 70% boy and 30% girl,\" much like myself. So they totally get me, and there's no awkward fear that they're either straight and not appreciating me as the gender I identify as, or gay and disappointed in my lack of dong."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I consider myself an almost-transman genderqueer individual (no hormones, no surgery, just present pretty masculine) and I like boyish people, but I doubt any gay guy would have anything to do with me. So I got even luckier and ended up dating a nonbinary person like myself who self-describes as \"like 70% boy and 30% girl,\" much like myself. So they totally get me, and there's no awkward fear that they're either straight and not appreciating me as the gender I identify as, or gay and disappointed in my lack of dong."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: in my subjective opinion, gender is what you make of it and it's your decision! can be confusing, but also freeing.\n\nPost: Honestly - and this might be an unpopular opinion here, idk - over the course of my life i've discovered that gender isn't as cut-and-dried as we sometimes wish it would be. At least, not for everyone. I know some people who are perfectly happy and confident that they are one side of the binary (e.g. they were born in a male body and are totally sure they identify as male, or female, and are thus perfectly cisgender or transgender) but to me, gender is such an ambiguous concept, all determined by a variety of random personality traits, styles of dress, behaviorisms, etc. that it's ALL UP TO YOU. \n You get to decide if you're \"male,\" \"female,\" or nothing at all, and you get to decide if your version of \"male\" means wearing tight t-shirts and shimmying yr hips, or wearing baggy clothing and baking cookies-- if your version of \"female\" means wearing silk dresses and acting coy, or wearing derby grrl socks and bright lipstick and playing sports. Also, you can still identify as a guy and enjoy wearing skirts and doing stereotypically \"feminine\" things. It's just a piece of cloth whose \"gendered\" value is determined by the culture you live in. People in Indonesia wear sarongs. It's your call!","Summary: irrelevant tangent about masculinity\n\nPost: I know you're being facetious, so don't take this criticism too literally (it's not like I'm seethingly offended or anything) but I hate the whole \" _ means you're gay/a woman\". Men don't have as much flexibility as women do; a woman can be tomboyish/butch or whatever and still be seen as credible, but the instant a dude enjoys something arguably \"feminine\" such as fashion/cats (haha)/baking/ _ it suddenly means \"you've taken a cock or two.\" \n ^(or ^maybe ^i'm ^just ^someone ^who ^likes ^effeminate ^guys ^^don't ^^mind ^^me)","Summary: Our theory is, this dude became obsessed with a scammer online who said she was from Hawaii and needed $$$ because her father was in the hospital. Upon not hearing from her again, homie lost his shit, flew all the way to Hawaii to put up posters, and is now flyering the neighborhoods of San Francisco, where we found this.\n\nPost: Transcribed for y'all's reading pleasure: \n GWEN9___\nYOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE ONE \n \n If you are reading this, I hope your father is fully recuperating. \n \n Please know that I have always had you and your family in my heart and prayers. It was my every intention to support you through your hardship. I'm so sorry I wasn't able to, because of my screw-up. \n \n WHAT HAPPENED: I couldn't stand the thought of not hearing from you for several days. It concerned me. I thought it's because there may be news of your father. I called every single hospital in Oahu. When I found out there was no such patient in any hospital on the island, I got scared. Confused. Many people had planted this thought in my head early on, that you could be a guy playing a prank on me. I refused to believe it! I have never believed this! \n \n But when I couldn't find anybody by that name, confusion and vulnerability kicked in. I was devastated when I thought I had been lied to, and tricked by a \"CATFISH\" online. I was at a weak state. I even took off from work. My emotions made me say hurtful things to the person I care about deeply. I immediately regretted that. \n \n We were both emotionally vulnerable and sensitive. My words were insensitive and I've hurt you. I'm so sorry. I've shed many tears, knowing how I've hurt you and broken your trust for me. \n \n We have something really deep and genuine. NONE OF THAT WAS EVER A LIE OR DECEIT, BELIEVE ME! My feelings for you have always been real! \n \n Everything I have ever told you is the truth! Please believe me Gwen. I cry every day, and my stomach tightens, knowing what I've done. The way I feel about you has never changed. I didn't change. I spoke out of frustration when I was weak. I was scared that I had been tricked. \n \n I flew to Oahu and put up fliers all over Haleiwa and hospitals. I wish I could take this all back. I love you so much. I'm so sorry. There's not a moment when I don't regret my mistake. I think about you every moment of every day. I cry over what I've done to you! \n \n I love you so much. Please don't let this erase everything we were building. I'm sorry I've let you down when you needed me most. I would take it all back. \n \n I will never stop trying to seek your forgiveness. I have never fallen for somebody this hard. I would do anything in this world to earn your trust again. I love you Gwen! Please believe me!","Summary: may have been followed from Berkeley to Oakland by some creepy dude, but scared him away with a knife.\n\nPost: This might have been paranoia-fueled, so I'm not actually sure whether violent crime was imminent. However, I used to work at a movie theater a couple train stations away from my neighborhood (West Oakland...an interesting place) and one night, when getting off a closing shift around 11 p.m., some dude stood right next to me at the train station, just staring at me. \n I made eye contact but he never spoke, just kept staring. I got on the train, so did he, and at first he sat several rows away, but after the train started moving, he looked right at me and came and sat in the seat directly behind me. \n I chose to take this as a coincidence, and at my stop I got up and waited for the train doors to open. He got up and stood less than a foot behind me. Despite that the train station was pretty full of people coming back from a baseball game, he remained that distance from me all the way across the station platform, up two escalators, through the train station, and onto the street in downtown Oakland. \n By this time, I was getting a bit paranoid, so I pulled out the knife I carried around (just for show/intimidation, I doubt I'd ever use it on anyone) and crossed the street. When I got to the other side, the dude was standing there across the street, still staring at me but not following. \n Hell, maybe he was just awkwardly interested in me, or it was a coincidence, or he was trying to tell me I dropped something, but it still gave me the heebie jeebs.","Summary: megalomaniac magazine editor treats his employees like garbage, everyone quits.\n\nPost: I worked for like two weeks, maximum, at some uppity magazine in San Francisco. The owner/editor/???? was some crotchety old man who claimed his magazine was the most hip and avant-garde publication in the city, although I'd never heard of it, nor had anyone I'd met. \n This guy: \n \n Revealed personal info about an acquaintance I knew who worked there (basically, said acquaintance called in to work sick because of a personal issue, and the boss told me exactly what that issue was) \n \n Talked shit about a friend of mine who had interned with him (he thought she dressed indecently), talked shit about all his employees when they weren't there, and especially one guy (let's call him Max) who seemed really genuinely nice and capable, so, in a moment of what I admit was complete unprofessionalism (this was one of my first jobs post-graduation from college, so I was pretty naive) I casually mentioned to Max over Gchat that the boss is suggesting he really needs to clean up his act. \n \n The next day, boss tried to guilt-trip me by telling me I'd caused Max to lose his job and only means of income, forcing him to struggle for a means to live and eat and whatever. He also said I shouldn't meddle in things and accused me of doing this because I had a crush on Max and wanted to help the \"cuuuute boooy.\" (I didn't.) So then I quit. \n \n \n Also: I talked to Max later----he hadn't got fired, he actually QUIT of his own volition, and was happy he did, so what Boss was saying was a load of shit. I think a few other people also quit as well afterwards, including the acquaintance whose private issue was aired by the Boss. \n Finally, I submitted an invoice for the two articles I wrote for the magazine, and never got paid, as far as I can recall, but it wasn't enough money to care about so I never pursued it further. The end.","Summary: Guy from OkCupid comes on too strong, bites my hand, and has a hissy fit over a party I had no idea was happening.\n\nPost: Long story ahead: \n Met this kid on OkC, he seemed okay, no sparks or anything--he was a bit weird/mysterious but I appreciate honesty/openness (example: it was really put-offish one time when I went to his house and he pointed out the queer erotica book on his bedstand and was like, \"I JUST MASTURBATED TO THAT THIS MORNING, HEH\" or something to that effect). \n To his credit, he was a really nice person, albeit a bit too \"alternative\" for me (and I'm a genderqueer dreampop musician in San Francisco, so i naturally have a high \"weird\" tolerance). He was openly poly (which I don't have a problem with, just not my thing), talked about sex a lot, and smelled like a health food store all the time, a smell I can't really describe except it bore traces of nutritional yeast, seaweed noodles, and patchouli. He was really set on getting a treadmill desk. I feel like he would be the type to wear those toe shoes. \n We had fun sometimes when we hung out, we went to various concerts, restaurants, etc. (and before anyone accuses of \"leading on\" or whatever, we paid halfsies, it's not like I was mooching off him) and eventually when we were hanging at his house he said something akin to \"I'm starting to develop feelings for you and I would consider being exclusive with you if you asked\" or something. So I politely declined. He looked at me, picked up my hand, and bit down on it, pretty hard, for about maybe 30 seconds. I was so nonplussed I didn't even react, I just made baffled eye contact with him until he stopped. \n The rest of our friendship was....eventful. He was very supportive and kind and stayed with me when I thought my then-best friend had committed suicide---it was a false alarm, long story. Then things got a bit rocky. He asked me to hang out several times during finals week, which also happened to be the week of my birthday, and I turned him down because I was very busy studying, and he started begging me and saying \"Please? Just for a few hours? I just need to see you soon\" or something and I got really freaked out and backed off. \n He gave me the silent treatment for a few months, at which point I mentioned it to my roommate (who had met him before) and she said, \"Oh, is it because of that surprise birthday party that fell through?\" \n ..... \n He got mad at me, because I refused to accept an invitation to a surprise party that, by definition, I had no idea was happening (since it was a SURPRISE) during finals week. \n And now I don't really talk to him anymore. \n Sorry if that was rambly.","Summary: leave ppl to be themselves and we will all be happier\n\nPost: That's just it, though--apart for biological sex (penis, vagina), it's very hard to argue that there is much, personality-wise, that inherently separates being a man from being a woman, other than how you are socially perceived. \n For instance, if you happened to really like fashion or cooking or child-rearing, that wouldn't make you any less of a man, right? If your personality wasn't conventionally \"masculine,\" you'd still feel like yourself; it would just be other people telling you \"THAT'S GIRLY\" or whatever.","Summary: doofus meets dweeb, love ensues\n\nPost: My first date with my partner came after a few weeks of really blatant hints. The last time I hung out at their house (yes, their) we bonded over both identifying as genderqueer (see? they pronouns) and therefore somewhat unusual-looking. \n \"It's okay, I have weird taste in people,\" quoth I hamfistedly, \"I think you're a babe.\" \n \"I think YOU'RE a babe,\" they said. \n Awkward silence ensued and I went home. \n On the evening of the date, we went to a concert for a small band that was no longer popular, but for which we both had a strange affinity. We sat really close on the bus. I'd made them a mix CD as a gift, because they'd asked me to introduce them to more music. \n It was cold outside, and when we got into the venue they put their arm around me. As we left, they said, not suavely at all, \"I might be completely mistaken, but I feel like we're attracted to each other, right?\" \n \"Totally, I was about to say that myself,\" I replied, like an asshat. \n \"What should we do about that?\" they said. \n \"Probably make out,\" I said, very romantically. \"But let's finish walking to the bus stop first, just to make sure we don't miss our bus. They don't come very frequently at night.\" \n Awkward silence, arrival at bus stop, awkward make-out session. \n This may not sound super warm and fuzzy but it was so great; I'd never met someone until then who was just as blunt and socially inept as I was, and had no desire for courtship rituals, gender roles, or playing mind games. \n So perf~ we live together now and it's great great great","Summary: Crazy neighbor lady deemed my partner's schlong a threat to society\n\nPost: Long story ahead: \n Our neighbor is a crazy older lady that we call Bloody Mary. She screams at people when they park even remotely close to her house, and if they close their doors too loudly --- and she's always watching. Just standing there at her window, staring. She stared hard when my housemate came home with a boy and kissed him goodbye at the door. She stared hard when my friends came over for band practice. \n Most recently, she saw my partner walking around innocently naked through the mostly-closed blinds (the slats weren't fully turned shut so there were slight cracks between them) and later that day, when we were walking home from grocery shopping, she began to scream and swear at us, calling us all sorts of names (and she had two maybe 10-year-old kids with her as she was doing this. What a great example to be setting.). After we went home, we got a visit from the cops telling us they had heard reports that we were doing \"lewd things\" with the blinds open.... (and yeah, I know it's illegal to be naked with the blinds open, but dude, there are so many other ways she could have gone about telling us.) \n The worst part is that there is nothing we could do. Apparently, this lady volunteers at the police station and is friends with all the local cops, and so they always take her word over ours. Our landlady said that when she used to live in our house, she filed seven harassment complaints against Bloody Mary, and nothing was ever done. \n So, my partner and I did the next best thing we could do, and put [this]( sign in our window. Almost instantaneously, we got a call from our landlady, saying that Bloody Mary had called her and told her to make us take it down. \n ...and we did. There is no happy ending to this story except that we're hoping to move away in a month....","Summary: On my third day of work I almost cost my company $450 in accidental postage\n\nPost: I had just started a new administrative job, and it seemed ridiculously easy--filing papers, stuffing envelopes, etc. By the third day, I was convinced I had the job beat. \n That entire day I stuffed and sealed about 300 envelopes. At the very end of my shift, I carried them all to the mailroom to stamp them with our handy dandy automated stamping machine(?). However, I found that carrying 300 envelopes was incredibly unwieldy, so I set most of them down and started running them through the machine. Some 30 seconds later, I realized I'd set the envelopes down on the goddamn postal scale . I managed to stop the machine but not before I'd let some 70-ish letters go through each stamped $6.30.... \n I had to take them all back to the post office and get them cancelled, and even then we couldn't get the entire amount of money back because the post office took a percentage as a fine. \n I still work here eight months later, but I was a laughing stock for a few days.","Summary: saved up a year's worth of loose change to go on a date where the waiter had a one-way conversation about Beatles trivia the whole time\n\nPost: My partner and I keep a small box where we collect all our change, and once it is full to the brim we pour our savings into Coinstar and use the money to go on a nice date (pricier than we can normally afford). So a few months back, we use our collected change to go to a semi-fancy little restaurant whose menu we saw online (entrees about $15-$20---do-able on our budget). \n When we got to the restaurant, all the prices on the menu were twice what they were online, so we only ordered appetizers. The (heretofore normal-looking) server who took our order had a sticker of John Lennon on his notepad; my partner, trying to make small talk, said something like \"Nice John Lennon sticker!\" \n The demon server's eyes glinted and he said, \"...We'll talk\" and walked away. \n He returned to bring us our tiny little appetizers, laid them on the table....and then he just stood there. \n \"I know more about the Beatles than anyone in the city,\" he said. \n And so it began. \n He started rattling off Beatle fact after Beatle fact, with barely enough room for us to get a word in edgewise to HIM, let alone to each other on our DATE. In the time that he took to illuminate us on how John fell in love with Yoko (spoiler: it was a word on the ceiling of an art exhibit she did in London, and that word was \"yes\"), we had basically finished our food and were ready to get the hell out of there. Which we did. I hope we never see that guy again. \n (With the remainder of our saved money we went out, got shitty sushi, and had a good time.)","Summary: You may like red hair, but not everyone wants/needs to know that\n\nPost: What I don't get is why you take it so personally; it's not as though we're asking you to be sensitive to every individual's whims, but simply when you make a well-meaning statement that happens to hurt someone's feelings accidentally, just to retract it in that particular occasion. I don't think you should NOT SPEAK EVER AGAIN ABOUT ANYTHING TO ANYONE \n for a really basic example: \"your mom\" is a joke that's commonly accepted as appropriate/harmless, if a little immature, in most social circles. maybe you accidentally one day happen to make a \"your mom\" joke to a friend whose mother just died. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't make those jokes ever again, but that in that SPECIFIC circumstance, you would say \"sorry, that was out of line\" instead of going \"HEY, I was just trying to make a JOKE, buddy, god, people get offended at everything these days.\" \n in this particular occasion: the original commenter never replied and said she was offended, so maybe your comment was still relatively OKAY, but in her post she herself said she wanted to shave her head because people place such a highly fetishistic value on the trait of red hair, which is why we thought it was out of line for you to do exactly what she said she didn't like and tell her how attractive red hair is.","Summary: Friend tried to plan a surprise party for me during finals week, I postpone all plans to hang out with him because, duh, I had no idea he was planning a party, he gets pissed and never speaks to me again\n\nPost: Probably too late on this one, but a rather weird acquaintance of mine (who had admitted to having a crush on me, which I didn't reciprocate) wanted to throw a surprise party for me when I was in college. Thing is, my birthday takes place during finals week, and this was senior year, so I had a thesis paper to write and tests to study for. \n This person kept messaging me things like \"Do you have even a spare hour to come over? Could you please hang out with me? This is really important to me...\" increasingly desperately over the weeks preceding my birthday, and, given the context of our acquaintance, I thought he was being needy and trying to get with me, so I kept saying things like \"Is it okay if we meet after finals week? I'm REALLY REALLY busy.\" \n Finals (and my birthday) came and went, and I tried to contact my friend like \"Yo, done with finals now! You wanted to hang out, when's good for you?\" but my needy friend got really pissed off at me for seemingly no reason and completely stopped talking to me altogether. \n Weeks later, my roommate casually asked how NeedyFriend was doing, and I said \"I don't know, he got really butthurt all of a sudden and hasn't talked to me in months...\" and she said something like \"oh...he had contacted me and our other roommates/friends to try and organize a surprise party, but I guess it never panned out?\" \n Okay then. Way to get mad at me for something I had no idea about...","Summary: greeted a poodle, offended some oogles\n\nPost: Backstory: I have social anxiety. Always have. It's a long story (but being homeschooled until high school has something to do with it...) I can't make eye contact, even at job interviews or meeting my SO's parents, and I have a really hard time talking to strangers. That said, I can talk to animals just fine. I don't feel like they're judging me. In fact, sometimes I address them at people. \n ANYWAY, so a year or two ago, I was at the grocery store minding my own business, and a dog comes around a corner and I almost walk into it. \n \"Sorry, doggy,\" I say, for no apparent reason. Hell, maybe I was channelling my inner Tommy Wiseau. \n Two grubby-looking street punk types (a man and a woman, probably early-20s, white, matted dreadlocks...you know the type...) emerge from the aisle right behind the dog. \n \"OH, so you'll apologize to a dog and not to us?\" one of them squawks. \"You think we're subhuman?\" \n Now, a normal person would have apologized and explained themselves. Me, your common garden variety basement-dweller, I just walked away as fast as I could without saying anything, further cementing my guilt in their eyes. \n \"Yeah, walk away!\" they said, and continued to shit talk me as I hastily made my departure. \n Every once in a while when I say hi to a dog I think of that memory. Feels bad man.","Summary: I can't be creative anymore; halp\n\nPost: I haven't written a new song in months, and I know this happens to all of us every once in a while, but my self-confidence has gone down the crapper. I've tried not thinking about it for a while (nothing changed), just improvising and playing whatever came to me (nothing came to me), trying to revise old songs (nope), doing other forms of art (was equally uncreative at those). \n i can't tell what's the cause of this creative slump. could be chronic depression, could be my corporate office job, could be all in my head...","Summary: My partner and I both work, but I have more time to spend at home so, by convenience, I end up having to do a lot of the domestic chores, and it's really wearing my mental health raw. Any suggestions on coping with this?\n\nPost: Let me try and keep this simple, because it's really kind of a simple problem. the background: \n \n I graduated college two years ago and have been working a full-time 9-5 office job since then \n my partner is still in school and works part-time, has an internship, and is going to classes full time (one semester left!). because of that, he has very little free time. \n my partner is very kind and helpful and does the dishes every day after I cook \n as for me, I take on the duties of cooking, laundry, grocery shopping (i also pay for about 75% of groceries because i make twice what my partner does, I'm totally happy with this part of the situation because i'm a socialist and it makes sense haha), and, if i have spare time, cleaning/fixing stuff around the house. \n i'm currently coping with depression/anxiety/possible ADD that i've had all my life? started on some meds, it's helping, but i still have a hard time focusing and also just finding the will/motivation to get out of bed and do stuff. \n i also have some health problems---a bum knee (that i'm getting checked out at the doctor soon) that makes it hard for me to do a lot of walking or kneeling---which makes cleaning difficult sometimes. \n while I make enough money to support us, I don't make enough to hire a domestic cleaner or anything on a regular basis, especially with medical expenses from my psychologist, doctor, dentist, etc. (i need to get my wisdom teeth out this year, too) \n \n specific situation: \n our house is a mess because neither of us really has time to clean much (well, i do on the weekends, but see above problem about motivation). the mess is really stressing my poor partner out because he has to study/do homework in the room and seeing all the clutter and the clothes on the floor and the papers/garbage all over his desk makes it really hard for him to concentrate. \n i would really love to have a great, organized, beautiful domestic environment. however here i am on a holiday (i don't have work today because it's presidents day! however my partner works in retail so he had to go to work) and i've been really daunted by everything i have to do. two loads of laundry, folding and putting away laundry, cleaning the room, doing inventory of all our food items, going grocery shopping, putting away the groceries, and cleaning the room are the main tasks I have set for this weekend. \n i've been on and off crying all yesterday and today because for some reason it just really stresses me out looking at everything i have to do, even though i make detailed lists and try to take it on one item at a time. I know when my partner graduates college, he will have more time to help me out at home, so I don't resent him at all--he would definitely do more if he could, but he basically works or does internship in the mornings and goes to school evenings so he's beat, and what evenings he doesn't have class, he has homework or group projects.","Summary: Is it abnormal/unhealthy that I still have a huge freaking crush on my partner, even though my partner's already transitioned into the chill, farting, dirty dishes, sweat pants stage of the relationship? \n P.S. this is both of our first long-term relationship (everything before that was casual dating that didn't last much longer than a few months) so we are still kinda new to this\n\nPost: So, sorry about the Q thing first off, but we identify as genderqueer. Yeah I know that part is weird, but that's not what I'm asking about, haha. \n I've been dating this awesome person for about two and a half years, and we moved in together maybe a year and a half ago (so, about a year into the relationship). Because of this, my partner has settled into a more chill, semi-married stage where our lives are more centered around mundane things like doing chores, making dinner, etc. rather then making out and getting butterflies and going on dates. \n I have no problem with that; in fact I love how comfortable we are with one another. However, I'm still super infatuated with my partner and we're not sure if that's normal. I still get shivers looking at them, and I feel my partner becomes more beautiful every day. I still want to impress them, and dress up nice, and buy them gifts, and do favors for them, whereas they feel no compulsion to do the same for me. \n My partner has in fact expressed a little bit of guilt that they feel as though they're not doing enough, and that they take me for granted, but I don't feel that way at all. They are also afraid that maybe I like them more than they like me, and that I'm spoiling them. I'm pretty content with how things are, but the way my partner talks about it, I'm beginning to wonder if something's wrong with me or if I have an unhealthy attitude towards the relationship.","Summary: PIVOT!!!!!!!!\n\nPost: My better half is out getting a uhaul. I says to myself \"hey, I'm a strong guy, how hard can it possibly be? My SO will be so proud of me when I move the bed downstairs!\" \n Then...uh... Pictures speak louder than words \n It's stuck. I'm going to meet my doom"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: in my subjective opinion, gender is what you make of it and it's your decision! can be confusing, but also freeing.\\n\\nPost: Honestly - and this might be an unpopular opinion here, idk - over the course of my life i've discovered that gender isn't as cut-and-dried as we sometimes wish it would be. At least, not for everyone. I know some people who are perfectly happy and confident that they are one side of the binary (e.g. they were born in a male body and are totally sure they identify as male, or female, and are thus perfectly cisgender or transgender) but to me, gender is such an ambiguous concept, all determined by a variety of random personality traits, styles of dress, behaviorisms, etc. that it's ALL UP TO YOU. \\n You get to decide if you're \\\"male,\\\" \\\"female,\\\" or nothing at all, and you get to decide if your version of \\\"male\\\" means wearing tight t-shirts and shimmying yr hips, or wearing baggy clothing and baking cookies-- if your version of \\\"female\\\" means wearing silk dresses and acting coy, or wearing derby grrl socks and bright lipstick and playing sports. Also, you can still identify as a guy and enjoy wearing skirts and doing stereotypically \\\"feminine\\\" things. It's just a piece of cloth whose \\\"gendered\\\" value is determined by the culture you live in. People in Indonesia wear sarongs. It's your call!\",\n \"Summary: irrelevant tangent about masculinity\\n\\nPost: I know you're being facetious, so don't take this criticism too literally (it's not like I'm seethingly offended or anything) but I hate the whole \\\" _ means you're gay/a woman\\\". Men don't have as much flexibility as women do; a woman can be tomboyish/butch or whatever and still be seen as credible, but the instant a dude enjoys something arguably \\\"feminine\\\" such as fashion/cats (haha)/baking/ _ it suddenly means \\\"you've taken a cock or two.\\\" \\n ^(or ^maybe ^i'm ^just ^someone ^who ^likes ^effeminate ^guys ^^don't ^^mind ^^me)\",\n \"Summary: Our theory is, this dude became obsessed with a scammer online who said she was from Hawaii and needed $$$ because her father was in the hospital. Upon not hearing from her again, homie lost his shit, flew all the way to Hawaii to put up posters, and is now flyering the neighborhoods of San Francisco, where we found this.\\n\\nPost: Transcribed for y'all's reading pleasure: \\n GWEN9___\\nYOU HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE ONE \\n \\n If you are reading this, I hope your father is fully recuperating. \\n \\n Please know that I have always had you and your family in my heart and prayers. It was my every intention to support you through your hardship. I'm so sorry I wasn't able to, because of my screw-up. \\n \\n WHAT HAPPENED: I couldn't stand the thought of not hearing from you for several days. It concerned me. I thought it's because there may be news of your father. I called every single hospital in Oahu. When I found out there was no such patient in any hospital on the island, I got scared. Confused. Many people had planted this thought in my head early on, that you could be a guy playing a prank on me. I refused to believe it! I have never believed this! \\n \\n But when I couldn't find anybody by that name, confusion and vulnerability kicked in. I was devastated when I thought I had been lied to, and tricked by a \\\"CATFISH\\\" online. I was at a weak state. I even took off from work. My emotions made me say hurtful things to the person I care about deeply. I immediately regretted that. \\n \\n We were both emotionally vulnerable and sensitive. My words were insensitive and I've hurt you. I'm so sorry. I've shed many tears, knowing how I've hurt you and broken your trust for me. \\n \\n We have something really deep and genuine. NONE OF THAT WAS EVER A LIE OR DECEIT, BELIEVE ME! My feelings for you have always been real! \\n \\n Everything I have ever told you is the truth! Please believe me Gwen. I cry every day, and my stomach tightens, knowing what I've done. The way I feel about you has never changed. I didn't change. I spoke out of frustration when I was weak. I was scared that I had been tricked. \\n \\n I flew to Oahu and put up fliers all over Haleiwa and hospitals. I wish I could take this all back. I love you so much. I'm so sorry. There's not a moment when I don't regret my mistake. I think about you every moment of every day. I cry over what I've done to you! \\n \\n I love you so much. Please don't let this erase everything we were building. I'm sorry I've let you down when you needed me most. I would take it all back. \\n \\n I will never stop trying to seek your forgiveness. I have never fallen for somebody this hard. I would do anything in this world to earn your trust again. I love you Gwen! Please believe me!\",\n \"Summary: may have been followed from Berkeley to Oakland by some creepy dude, but scared him away with a knife.\\n\\nPost: This might have been paranoia-fueled, so I'm not actually sure whether violent crime was imminent. However, I used to work at a movie theater a couple train stations away from my neighborhood (West Oakland...an interesting place) and one night, when getting off a closing shift around 11 p.m., some dude stood right next to me at the train station, just staring at me. \\n I made eye contact but he never spoke, just kept staring. I got on the train, so did he, and at first he sat several rows away, but after the train started moving, he looked right at me and came and sat in the seat directly behind me. \\n I chose to take this as a coincidence, and at my stop I got up and waited for the train doors to open. He got up and stood less than a foot behind me. Despite that the train station was pretty full of people coming back from a baseball game, he remained that distance from me all the way across the station platform, up two escalators, through the train station, and onto the street in downtown Oakland. \\n By this time, I was getting a bit paranoid, so I pulled out the knife I carried around (just for show/intimidation, I doubt I'd ever use it on anyone) and crossed the street. When I got to the other side, the dude was standing there across the street, still staring at me but not following. \\n Hell, maybe he was just awkwardly interested in me, or it was a coincidence, or he was trying to tell me I dropped something, but it still gave me the heebie jeebs.\",\n \"Summary: megalomaniac magazine editor treats his employees like garbage, everyone quits.\\n\\nPost: I worked for like two weeks, maximum, at some uppity magazine in San Francisco. The owner/editor/???? was some crotchety old man who claimed his magazine was the most hip and avant-garde publication in the city, although I'd never heard of it, nor had anyone I'd met. \\n This guy: \\n \\n Revealed personal info about an acquaintance I knew who worked there (basically, said acquaintance called in to work sick because of a personal issue, and the boss told me exactly what that issue was) \\n \\n Talked shit about a friend of mine who had interned with him (he thought she dressed indecently), talked shit about all his employees when they weren't there, and especially one guy (let's call him Max) who seemed really genuinely nice and capable, so, in a moment of what I admit was complete unprofessionalism (this was one of my first jobs post-graduation from college, so I was pretty naive) I casually mentioned to Max over Gchat that the boss is suggesting he really needs to clean up his act. \\n \\n The next day, boss tried to guilt-trip me by telling me I'd caused Max to lose his job and only means of income, forcing him to struggle for a means to live and eat and whatever. He also said I shouldn't meddle in things and accused me of doing this because I had a crush on Max and wanted to help the \\\"cuuuute boooy.\\\" (I didn't.) So then I quit. \\n \\n \\n Also: I talked to Max later----he hadn't got fired, he actually QUIT of his own volition, and was happy he did, so what Boss was saying was a load of shit. I think a few other people also quit as well afterwards, including the acquaintance whose private issue was aired by the Boss. \\n Finally, I submitted an invoice for the two articles I wrote for the magazine, and never got paid, as far as I can recall, but it wasn't enough money to care about so I never pursued it further. The end.\",\n \"Summary: Guy from OkCupid comes on too strong, bites my hand, and has a hissy fit over a party I had no idea was happening.\\n\\nPost: Long story ahead: \\n Met this kid on OkC, he seemed okay, no sparks or anything--he was a bit weird/mysterious but I appreciate honesty/openness (example: it was really put-offish one time when I went to his house and he pointed out the queer erotica book on his bedstand and was like, \\\"I JUST MASTURBATED TO THAT THIS MORNING, HEH\\\" or something to that effect). \\n To his credit, he was a really nice person, albeit a bit too \\\"alternative\\\" for me (and I'm a genderqueer dreampop musician in San Francisco, so i naturally have a high \\\"weird\\\" tolerance). He was openly poly (which I don't have a problem with, just not my thing), talked about sex a lot, and smelled like a health food store all the time, a smell I can't really describe except it bore traces of nutritional yeast, seaweed noodles, and patchouli. He was really set on getting a treadmill desk. I feel like he would be the type to wear those toe shoes. \\n We had fun sometimes when we hung out, we went to various concerts, restaurants, etc. (and before anyone accuses of \\\"leading on\\\" or whatever, we paid halfsies, it's not like I was mooching off him) and eventually when we were hanging at his house he said something akin to \\\"I'm starting to develop feelings for you and I would consider being exclusive with you if you asked\\\" or something. So I politely declined. He looked at me, picked up my hand, and bit down on it, pretty hard, for about maybe 30 seconds. I was so nonplussed I didn't even react, I just made baffled eye contact with him until he stopped. \\n The rest of our friendship was....eventful. He was very supportive and kind and stayed with me when I thought my then-best friend had committed suicide---it was a false alarm, long story. Then things got a bit rocky. He asked me to hang out several times during finals week, which also happened to be the week of my birthday, and I turned him down because I was very busy studying, and he started begging me and saying \\\"Please? Just for a few hours? I just need to see you soon\\\" or something and I got really freaked out and backed off. \\n He gave me the silent treatment for a few months, at which point I mentioned it to my roommate (who had met him before) and she said, \\\"Oh, is it because of that surprise birthday party that fell through?\\\" \\n ..... \\n He got mad at me, because I refused to accept an invitation to a surprise party that, by definition, I had no idea was happening (since it was a SURPRISE) during finals week. \\n And now I don't really talk to him anymore. \\n Sorry if that was rambly.\",\n \"Summary: leave ppl to be themselves and we will all be happier\\n\\nPost: That's just it, though--apart for biological sex (penis, vagina), it's very hard to argue that there is much, personality-wise, that inherently separates being a man from being a woman, other than how you are socially perceived. \\n For instance, if you happened to really like fashion or cooking or child-rearing, that wouldn't make you any less of a man, right? If your personality wasn't conventionally \\\"masculine,\\\" you'd still feel like yourself; it would just be other people telling you \\\"THAT'S GIRLY\\\" or whatever.\",\n \"Summary: doofus meets dweeb, love ensues\\n\\nPost: My first date with my partner came after a few weeks of really blatant hints. The last time I hung out at their house (yes, their) we bonded over both identifying as genderqueer (see? they pronouns) and therefore somewhat unusual-looking. \\n \\\"It's okay, I have weird taste in people,\\\" quoth I hamfistedly, \\\"I think you're a babe.\\\" \\n \\\"I think YOU'RE a babe,\\\" they said. \\n Awkward silence ensued and I went home. \\n On the evening of the date, we went to a concert for a small band that was no longer popular, but for which we both had a strange affinity. We sat really close on the bus. I'd made them a mix CD as a gift, because they'd asked me to introduce them to more music. \\n It was cold outside, and when we got into the venue they put their arm around me. As we left, they said, not suavely at all, \\\"I might be completely mistaken, but I feel like we're attracted to each other, right?\\\" \\n \\\"Totally, I was about to say that myself,\\\" I replied, like an asshat. \\n \\\"What should we do about that?\\\" they said. \\n \\\"Probably make out,\\\" I said, very romantically. \\\"But let's finish walking to the bus stop first, just to make sure we don't miss our bus. They don't come very frequently at night.\\\" \\n Awkward silence, arrival at bus stop, awkward make-out session. \\n This may not sound super warm and fuzzy but it was so great; I'd never met someone until then who was just as blunt and socially inept as I was, and had no desire for courtship rituals, gender roles, or playing mind games. \\n So perf~ we live together now and it's great great great\",\n \"Summary: Crazy neighbor lady deemed my partner's schlong a threat to society\\n\\nPost: Long story ahead: \\n Our neighbor is a crazy older lady that we call Bloody Mary. She screams at people when they park even remotely close to her house, and if they close their doors too loudly --- and she's always watching. Just standing there at her window, staring. She stared hard when my housemate came home with a boy and kissed him goodbye at the door. She stared hard when my friends came over for band practice. \\n Most recently, she saw my partner walking around innocently naked through the mostly-closed blinds (the slats weren't fully turned shut so there were slight cracks between them) and later that day, when we were walking home from grocery shopping, she began to scream and swear at us, calling us all sorts of names (and she had two maybe 10-year-old kids with her as she was doing this. What a great example to be setting.). After we went home, we got a visit from the cops telling us they had heard reports that we were doing \\\"lewd things\\\" with the blinds open.... (and yeah, I know it's illegal to be naked with the blinds open, but dude, there are so many other ways she could have gone about telling us.) \\n The worst part is that there is nothing we could do. Apparently, this lady volunteers at the police station and is friends with all the local cops, and so they always take her word over ours. Our landlady said that when she used to live in our house, she filed seven harassment complaints against Bloody Mary, and nothing was ever done. \\n So, my partner and I did the next best thing we could do, and put [this]( sign in our window. Almost instantaneously, we got a call from our landlady, saying that Bloody Mary had called her and told her to make us take it down. \\n ...and we did. There is no happy ending to this story except that we're hoping to move away in a month....\",\n \"Summary: On my third day of work I almost cost my company $450 in accidental postage\\n\\nPost: I had just started a new administrative job, and it seemed ridiculously easy--filing papers, stuffing envelopes, etc. By the third day, I was convinced I had the job beat. \\n That entire day I stuffed and sealed about 300 envelopes. At the very end of my shift, I carried them all to the mailroom to stamp them with our handy dandy automated stamping machine(?). However, I found that carrying 300 envelopes was incredibly unwieldy, so I set most of them down and started running them through the machine. Some 30 seconds later, I realized I'd set the envelopes down on the goddamn postal scale . I managed to stop the machine but not before I'd let some 70-ish letters go through each stamped $6.30.... \\n I had to take them all back to the post office and get them cancelled, and even then we couldn't get the entire amount of money back because the post office took a percentage as a fine. \\n I still work here eight months later, but I was a laughing stock for a few days.\",\n \"Summary: saved up a year's worth of loose change to go on a date where the waiter had a one-way conversation about Beatles trivia the whole time\\n\\nPost: My partner and I keep a small box where we collect all our change, and once it is full to the brim we pour our savings into Coinstar and use the money to go on a nice date (pricier than we can normally afford). So a few months back, we use our collected change to go to a semi-fancy little restaurant whose menu we saw online (entrees about $15-$20---do-able on our budget). \\n When we got to the restaurant, all the prices on the menu were twice what they were online, so we only ordered appetizers. The (heretofore normal-looking) server who took our order had a sticker of John Lennon on his notepad; my partner, trying to make small talk, said something like \\\"Nice John Lennon sticker!\\\" \\n The demon server's eyes glinted and he said, \\\"...We'll talk\\\" and walked away. \\n He returned to bring us our tiny little appetizers, laid them on the table....and then he just stood there. \\n \\\"I know more about the Beatles than anyone in the city,\\\" he said. \\n And so it began. \\n He started rattling off Beatle fact after Beatle fact, with barely enough room for us to get a word in edgewise to HIM, let alone to each other on our DATE. In the time that he took to illuminate us on how John fell in love with Yoko (spoiler: it was a word on the ceiling of an art exhibit she did in London, and that word was \\\"yes\\\"), we had basically finished our food and were ready to get the hell out of there. Which we did. I hope we never see that guy again. \\n (With the remainder of our saved money we went out, got shitty sushi, and had a good time.)\",\n \"Summary: You may like red hair, but not everyone wants/needs to know that\\n\\nPost: What I don't get is why you take it so personally; it's not as though we're asking you to be sensitive to every individual's whims, but simply when you make a well-meaning statement that happens to hurt someone's feelings accidentally, just to retract it in that particular occasion. I don't think you should NOT SPEAK EVER AGAIN ABOUT ANYTHING TO ANYONE \\n for a really basic example: \\\"your mom\\\" is a joke that's commonly accepted as appropriate/harmless, if a little immature, in most social circles. maybe you accidentally one day happen to make a \\\"your mom\\\" joke to a friend whose mother just died. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't make those jokes ever again, but that in that SPECIFIC circumstance, you would say \\\"sorry, that was out of line\\\" instead of going \\\"HEY, I was just trying to make a JOKE, buddy, god, people get offended at everything these days.\\\" \\n in this particular occasion: the original commenter never replied and said she was offended, so maybe your comment was still relatively OKAY, but in her post she herself said she wanted to shave her head because people place such a highly fetishistic value on the trait of red hair, which is why we thought it was out of line for you to do exactly what she said she didn't like and tell her how attractive red hair is.\",\n \"Summary: Friend tried to plan a surprise party for me during finals week, I postpone all plans to hang out with him because, duh, I had no idea he was planning a party, he gets pissed and never speaks to me again\\n\\nPost: Probably too late on this one, but a rather weird acquaintance of mine (who had admitted to having a crush on me, which I didn't reciprocate) wanted to throw a surprise party for me when I was in college. Thing is, my birthday takes place during finals week, and this was senior year, so I had a thesis paper to write and tests to study for. \\n This person kept messaging me things like \\\"Do you have even a spare hour to come over? Could you please hang out with me? This is really important to me...\\\" increasingly desperately over the weeks preceding my birthday, and, given the context of our acquaintance, I thought he was being needy and trying to get with me, so I kept saying things like \\\"Is it okay if we meet after finals week? I'm REALLY REALLY busy.\\\" \\n Finals (and my birthday) came and went, and I tried to contact my friend like \\\"Yo, done with finals now! You wanted to hang out, when's good for you?\\\" but my needy friend got really pissed off at me for seemingly no reason and completely stopped talking to me altogether. \\n Weeks later, my roommate casually asked how NeedyFriend was doing, and I said \\\"I don't know, he got really butthurt all of a sudden and hasn't talked to me in months...\\\" and she said something like \\\"oh...he had contacted me and our other roommates/friends to try and organize a surprise party, but I guess it never panned out?\\\" \\n Okay then. Way to get mad at me for something I had no idea about...\",\n \"Summary: greeted a poodle, offended some oogles\\n\\nPost: Backstory: I have social anxiety. Always have. It's a long story (but being homeschooled until high school has something to do with it...) I can't make eye contact, even at job interviews or meeting my SO's parents, and I have a really hard time talking to strangers. That said, I can talk to animals just fine. I don't feel like they're judging me. In fact, sometimes I address them at people. \\n ANYWAY, so a year or two ago, I was at the grocery store minding my own business, and a dog comes around a corner and I almost walk into it. \\n \\\"Sorry, doggy,\\\" I say, for no apparent reason. Hell, maybe I was channelling my inner Tommy Wiseau. \\n Two grubby-looking street punk types (a man and a woman, probably early-20s, white, matted dreadlocks...you know the type...) emerge from the aisle right behind the dog. \\n \\\"OH, so you'll apologize to a dog and not to us?\\\" one of them squawks. \\\"You think we're subhuman?\\\" \\n Now, a normal person would have apologized and explained themselves. Me, your common garden variety basement-dweller, I just walked away as fast as I could without saying anything, further cementing my guilt in their eyes. \\n \\\"Yeah, walk away!\\\" they said, and continued to shit talk me as I hastily made my departure. \\n Every once in a while when I say hi to a dog I think of that memory. Feels bad man.\",\n \"Summary: I can't be creative anymore; halp\\n\\nPost: I haven't written a new song in months, and I know this happens to all of us every once in a while, but my self-confidence has gone down the crapper. I've tried not thinking about it for a while (nothing changed), just improvising and playing whatever came to me (nothing came to me), trying to revise old songs (nope), doing other forms of art (was equally uncreative at those). \\n i can't tell what's the cause of this creative slump. could be chronic depression, could be my corporate office job, could be all in my head...\",\n \"Summary: My partner and I both work, but I have more time to spend at home so, by convenience, I end up having to do a lot of the domestic chores, and it's really wearing my mental health raw. Any suggestions on coping with this?\\n\\nPost: Let me try and keep this simple, because it's really kind of a simple problem. the background: \\n \\n I graduated college two years ago and have been working a full-time 9-5 office job since then \\n my partner is still in school and works part-time, has an internship, and is going to classes full time (one semester left!). because of that, he has very little free time. \\n my partner is very kind and helpful and does the dishes every day after I cook \\n as for me, I take on the duties of cooking, laundry, grocery shopping (i also pay for about 75% of groceries because i make twice what my partner does, I'm totally happy with this part of the situation because i'm a socialist and it makes sense haha), and, if i have spare time, cleaning/fixing stuff around the house. \\n i'm currently coping with depression/anxiety/possible ADD that i've had all my life? started on some meds, it's helping, but i still have a hard time focusing and also just finding the will/motivation to get out of bed and do stuff. \\n i also have some health problems---a bum knee (that i'm getting checked out at the doctor soon) that makes it hard for me to do a lot of walking or kneeling---which makes cleaning difficult sometimes. \\n while I make enough money to support us, I don't make enough to hire a domestic cleaner or anything on a regular basis, especially with medical expenses from my psychologist, doctor, dentist, etc. (i need to get my wisdom teeth out this year, too) \\n \\n specific situation: \\n our house is a mess because neither of us really has time to clean much (well, i do on the weekends, but see above problem about motivation). the mess is really stressing my poor partner out because he has to study/do homework in the room and seeing all the clutter and the clothes on the floor and the papers/garbage all over his desk makes it really hard for him to concentrate. \\n i would really love to have a great, organized, beautiful domestic environment. however here i am on a holiday (i don't have work today because it's presidents day! however my partner works in retail so he had to go to work) and i've been really daunted by everything i have to do. two loads of laundry, folding and putting away laundry, cleaning the room, doing inventory of all our food items, going grocery shopping, putting away the groceries, and cleaning the room are the main tasks I have set for this weekend. \\n i've been on and off crying all yesterday and today because for some reason it just really stresses me out looking at everything i have to do, even though i make detailed lists and try to take it on one item at a time. I know when my partner graduates college, he will have more time to help me out at home, so I don't resent him at all--he would definitely do more if he could, but he basically works or does internship in the mornings and goes to school evenings so he's beat, and what evenings he doesn't have class, he has homework or group projects.\",\n \"Summary: Is it abnormal/unhealthy that I still have a huge freaking crush on my partner, even though my partner's already transitioned into the chill, farting, dirty dishes, sweat pants stage of the relationship? \\n P.S. this is both of our first long-term relationship (everything before that was casual dating that didn't last much longer than a few months) so we are still kinda new to this\\n\\nPost: So, sorry about the Q thing first off, but we identify as genderqueer. Yeah I know that part is weird, but that's not what I'm asking about, haha. \\n I've been dating this awesome person for about two and a half years, and we moved in together maybe a year and a half ago (so, about a year into the relationship). Because of this, my partner has settled into a more chill, semi-married stage where our lives are more centered around mundane things like doing chores, making dinner, etc. rather then making out and getting butterflies and going on dates. \\n I have no problem with that; in fact I love how comfortable we are with one another. However, I'm still super infatuated with my partner and we're not sure if that's normal. I still get shivers looking at them, and I feel my partner becomes more beautiful every day. I still want to impress them, and dress up nice, and buy them gifts, and do favors for them, whereas they feel no compulsion to do the same for me. \\n My partner has in fact expressed a little bit of guilt that they feel as though they're not doing enough, and that they take me for granted, but I don't feel that way at all. They are also afraid that maybe I like them more than they like me, and that I'm spoiling them. I'm pretty content with how things are, but the way my partner talks about it, I'm beginning to wonder if something's wrong with me or if I have an unhealthy attitude towards the relationship.\",\n \"Summary: PIVOT!!!!!!!!\\n\\nPost: My better half is out getting a uhaul. I says to myself \\\"hey, I'm a strong guy, how hard can it possibly be? My SO will be so proud of me when I move the bed downstairs!\\\" \\n Then...uh... Pictures speak louder than words \\n It's stuck. I'm going to meet my doom\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":18,"string":"18"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2984,"string":"2,984"}}},{"rowIdx":2985,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"RagingErectus"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post People are dumb and this comic hits the nail on the head."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Definitely the problem with Truth. The punchline is a true statement, but it almost implies that two separate, unrelated things have causality. Most people take the almost-implicated-if-you're-not-paying-attention causality and make two mistakes by 1) Believing something someone told them without any corroborating evidence and 2) Not even fully parsing the meaning of the statement or text to begin with."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Definitely the problem with Truth. The punchline is a true statement, but it almost implies that two separate, unrelated things have causality. Most people take the almost-implicated-if-you're-not-paying-attention causality and make two mistakes by 1) Believing something someone told them without any corroborating evidence and 2) Not even fully parsing the meaning of the statement or text to begin with."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: My experience is that the difference in \"upkeep\" between OSX and Win is that the difference is negligible and should not really be a consideration in the purchasing decision.\n\nPost: Writing from a Linux desktop right now, next to my dual boot laptop with OSX and Win7 on it. I say this so you know I'm 100% OS-Agnostic. I don't really prefer one over the other. \n I've managed IT departments in large environments before with lots of macs, lots of PC's, and lots of linux and mac servers. About 200 users overall. \n Your comment was basically true, but not relevant to the OP's current problem. \n OSX requires slightly more \"upkeep\" than a Windows 7 box, but in reality it depends on usage and how many \"Free buddy icons\" the user installs. \n Preferences files are more likely to get corrupted than the registry. OSX will hose a resource fork on a font (mysteriously corrupting it) more often than Windows. Extensions are slightly more likely to go wacky for no reason or conflict as compared to drivers (which usually only get hosed when you install something bad.) \n The difference is maybe 5-10%, but after managing a 200+ mac/pc mixed environment, it's definitely there. \n OSX is much easier to reload than windows when the time finally comes, because all the drivers are generally on the disc. On any system, that time is usually because the user (mostly designers) loaded 500 \"free\" programs they \"need\" from versiontracker and the system is bogged down and unusable. This is not Mac or PC specific, it's something users will do until the end of time. \n The OP's problem is because he installed something he shouldn't have. Guaranteed. I'm not saying it's impossible, but a Windows system (particularly 7) seldom has these kinds of problems unless you're getting malware or installing stuff you shouldn't. OSX is less likely to be affected by malware because there's less of it, but more likely to simply decide you don't really need that preferences file and corrupt it. \n This is just my anecdotal experience, but it's anecdotal experience having been responsible for thousands of systems over a long career. \n If someone's going to ask me which system to get, it's basically going to come down to: \"What do you like more: Drop shadows, or money?\"","Summary: Be honest, respectful. Don't assume you know her feelings (although you probably do) and be a good listener. Give her space, be professional and friendly at work and it won't be awkward.\n\nPost: A few times she has said that’s she’s really into me even though she’s fully aware that I’m not looking for anything serious. \n She's 'fully aware' but still hanging around you hoping for it. \n > I suppose I could just tell her that I don’t want to do this anymore but I know she is becoming attached... \n You know she's becoming attached. I know it. Everyone here knows it. Don't say it. Give her the dignity of phrasing that a little better. \"I feel like this is turning into a relationship...\" \n Girls (and guys) will sometimes hang around in a FWB situation because they're thinking the other person will come around. You know she's going in that direction by all the hints she's dropping. Those are CALCULATED hints, and by continuing to see her, in her mind you're accepting them and everything is going according to her plan. \n > I guess I really shouldn’t be seeing a girl I work with. Lesson learned. \n I disagree with this statement strongly. You spend more waking time with your coworkers than anyone else, including your friends and family. Where else will you find a pool of similar people to date? Nowhere in life (except college.) Just do it responsibly. \n > So reddit, how do I break this in the cleanest way possible? \n I won't put words in your mouth: But acknowledge all the awesome things about her, reaffirm that you're not in a place where you are looking for a relationship, and that you don't feel right about being a FWB right now. \n Remember that girls take everything personally. Even if it really is just that you're not in that place in your life right now, she will think it's because she wasn't good enough in some way. In reality, it probably is, but I'll leave that for another day. \n At the end of the day, it's her decision whether or not she will play recklessly with her emotions by being a FWB with a dude she actually likes. You're not her emotional babysitter. So don't beat yourself up over the situation too much. \n So be respectful. Admit you don't have all the answers. Listen to her feelings, and give her some space. (Tell her you're being respectful of her space.) \n Credentials: I've had FWB's at work many times over the years, and every single time we have gone back to just friends/coworkers successfully. Chances are her maturity allowed her to get her job in the first place, she can probably handle it well. If not, she probably wouldn't have worked out in the job OR the relationship in the first place.","Summary: I think you have quite a bit more responsibility here than you're leading on to. I'm not attacking you, but I suggest that this is a good learning experience for you. Also, get a key.\n\nPost: 1) You don't have a key and you live there. That destroys your credibility to just about everything. Get a key to the place you live, regardless of absolutely everything else. It's $2, you can afford it. \n 2) She dumped you. You gain little to nothing by impeding her ability to allow other dudes to rail her. In fact you'll be stronger the more supportive you are of this while you're forced to live with her. You will not and can not control her behavior- if she wants to hook up with other guys she will. What you can do is control your reaction to the situation. \n 3) She sounds a bit unstable to begin with. Getting entangled with \"friends\" - then suggesting to get married and then getting bored and going and find another guy while she's living with you... live and learn. Fool me once, etc... Normal people do not do this. I bet if you were really close friends (by which I mean, you weren't just infatuated with her and hoping to nail her) for long enough, and you're honest with yourself, you could have seen this coming.","Summary: Don't overestimate your importance in other people's lives, and move on.\n\nPost: It was one of the most awful experiences I have ever had to go through. \n I just want to put things in perspective for you. How do you think the experience was for him? \n > We weren't friends before so I don't feel obligated to fake a friendship with him, especially when I still have feelings for him. \n You're under no obligation to remain \"friends\" with him whatsoever. Don't let him guilt you into it. \n > Dated 2 guys my whole life, both turned out to be gay/questioning their sexuality. \n You're 20. Chances are they're 18-24. This is the age range where people generally question and/or experiment with their sexuality. We've all seen girls making out with other girls at parties. Maybe you're just forming a closer relationship with these guys and they're comfortable with \"coming out\" to you. This certainly isn't a bad trait. \n So for the most part, it's not about you, it's about them. But that doesn't help your dating situation... \n > What do I do now? How do I approach dating? \n Two guys at age 20 is hardly enough to establish a sufficient life-long pattern. At this point, coincidence is more than enough to explain it. \n Or to put it another way - do you really there's something about you that can cause someone to change their entire sexuality? Obviously not. \n So it really comes down to two possible questions: \n 1) Are you attracting men that are really attracted to men? This would mean there's something about you that's masculine that they like and you're a magnet for these guys. At 20 and only two relationships, there's not enough evidence for this unless you've got a mustache and wear flannel and baseball caps all year. You can post some pics here and I'll give you an honest assessment, but I seriously doubt it's necessary. \n 2) Are you rejecting guys that are really into you sexually? Maybe the reason you got together with these guys is because they weren't being as sexually aggressive as the other guys. Do you push guys away that show an interest in you physically? \n I have a friend who's girlfriend changed teams while dating him and it put him through a lot, but he's since had several normal relationships. The girl also briefly became a stripper. The moral of the story is it wasn't about him - it was about her making some major lifestyle changes.","Summary: go to japan, get a girlfriend instantly.\n\nPost: There's something else here that's implied but unstated: Sometimes if you just don't jive with the opposite sex in your culture, you can still connect with someone from another culture. This is because the social constructs are very different between cultures. \n I can't believe height is as much as a problem to the women as it is to you. I can only say this having anecdotally seen the success of very short yet very social and outgoing guys with hot/tall women. So maybe it's a factor, and has indirectly caused you to be more insecure, but it's not the only factor.","Summary: bothers me too.\n\nPost: Going into the friend zone isn't something that someone does to you. It's something you do to yourself when you're too afraid of rejection to properly ask someone out. \n I find it sneaky and deceitful when someone tries to make friends with a person they desire but can't bring themselves to flirt or ask them out due to fear of rejection. It's like they're spying on the person to get intimate details that a romantic pursuer wouldn't because the guard is always up. \n Sometimes this plays out for a decade or more, all while secretly harboring feelings and resenting all that time spent \"investing\" in the \"friendship.\" \n This is a frequent (daily) theme in /r/relationships. Read my comment history and you'll see that I ... offer advice to these people frequently in a mostly futile attempt to eliminate this common misconception.","Summary: Enjoy and appreciate her, don't get attached, work on improving your own self-image above all else. This year is all about you. \n EDIT: I skipped this gem: \n > But mostly, what am I doing wrong that no one ever wants anything real with me? \n You just covered everything that \"nobody\" wants to do with you in this single sentence. It's brilliant actually. The fact that you believe nobody wants anything real to do with you probably scares people off. You may be analyzing too much. If you have fun with someone, and they have fun with you, maybe it's enough. We're not necessarily going to make an intimate emotional connection with everyone we meet. \n If you ask a girl out and she rejects you, it's no more a failure on you than folding a hand at poker is a failure at playing poker. Winning a single hand is irrelevant, you need to play for the long haul, folding many times and betting wisely, so that you come out ahead in the end. It's probably the same with friends. Everyone is an individual, but nobody is special. If you think you're so special that you're the only person on earth that absolutely nobody likes, then I'd almost say you have an ego problem... almost :).\n\nPost: She sounds lonely, like you. \n > she's said to me that she doesn't want anything serious. \n From your posting, depression, and general negativity, it sounds like she doesn't want to emotionally support you. I don't blame her. People want to be with someone that inspires them to be their best, not that they have to support. \n > What if I become too attached? \n You're lonely, so it's possible you'll become attached to any girl that gives you the time of day right now. You need to realize that just because she's being nice to you right now does not in any way mean that you're special to her - you're just there for her right now. \n > We live together, so is what we're doing wise? \n Yes. In fact, it's oh-so-wise. And convenient. But with one catch: as long as you're mature enough to handle it. \n Be impartial. Appreciate her for giving you some affection right now. \n Use this to enjoy her and your current connection to the fullest, and be happy to have had the time with her when you split up. \n Meanwhile, your only path to happiness is going to be with yourself, not with a relationship. I'd actually recommend you avoid getting seriously involved with someone until you get yourself in order. If you're staying in school and actively seeking help, then you have a leg up on a lot of other folks in your mental situation.","Summary: If long term support, cost, and stability are your main concerns, Blackberry. If you want something cool (actually really cool) and trendy get the iPhone.\n\nPost: I prefer blackberries. Many parts and nearly all accessories are interchangable. Most modern blackberries have SD card support. They're very, very durable and easy/cheap to fix in case you happen to break something. Almost all BB's (besides the storm) connect to devices and charge with a standard USB port. The headphone jack is nothing special (actually some iPhones do require special headphone jacks because of the depth.) \n A blackberry fits into my existing technology ecosystem perfectly, without buying proprietary adapters, connectors, dealing with BS software installs, etc. Also, it's trivial to save/backup/restore all your data from one device to another. I have a 6 year old blackberry in the closet for emergencies. If something happens to my current hardware, I just restore a backup and go. \n iPhones are very nice, have really cool games and apps, and are a bit sexy. If you use your phone for \"fun\" then I strongly recommend it. The amount of cool apps and games available for iPhone are unrivaled on any platform. You're going to pay through the nose, for the plan, battery changes, any work done, etc. Not for a budget or longevity. \n I don't recommend anything running windows mobile, only for the fact that you absolutely cannot be far from a power source for long. Email was pretty crappy on them as I recall until recently as well. \n HTC devices are usually leading edge in terms of hardware and \"features\" - but most of them are on windows mobile. You're also not going to get any serviceable parts that will go from one model to the next. I tend to shy away from the bleeding edge- I want my phone to work solidly and you don't get that on 1st gen hardware (which seems like most HTC stuff is.) Good bang for the buck though. \n Nokia has fallen out of my favor since the smartphone paradigm shift, but they've got some hot stuff coming out. The N900 comes to mind.","Summary: you're right, they're wrong.\n\nPost: First of all, I'm sorry for your loss. I can't imagine what it would be like to go through that. But from your post you sound like a well adjusted individual and I think you're going to do fine. \n Secondly, a woman in your position, 32 y/o, responsible, with a kid and having \"been through it\" makes you very, very desirable in my opinion, for either long term committed or short term shenannegans. I hope you know you're at the top end of the market. \n Having said that, let me replay the absurdity of these guys that are annoyed at you for not mentioning your situation: \n Him: \"Hi there little lady. My name is Studly DewRight, can I take you out on a date?\" \n You: \"Wow Studly, you're so Handsome! Of course! Tee-hee! By the way, my last husband is DEAD and I'm raising our kid all by myself.\" \n Him: \"...\" \n There is no social context where that's appropriate to mention upon first meeting. Anyone that's annoyed by that is a little simple. I think you have the right approach. Keep in mind that average dudes tend to be way less observant of social rules than average females, so they may not have just thought this through. I won't pass the judgement hammer of saint d-bag down on any of these guys just yet. \n It may be appropriate to reject a first date and give up your phone number instead. Get to know the dude a bit (may not be a bad idea anyway) and drop in that you spawned nearly a decade ago before setting up the details of the first date. It's only appropriate to mention that you're a widow if asked, or until you naturally get to that sort of stage in the relationship. \n > lately, there has been something in the water that is causing any dating I do to come out of chatting in line at the coffee shop, or at the bookstore, and so on. \n ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE WARNING: I find that girls I meet in the 32-34 range have this happen frequently as a result of surging hormones. There's some unconscious flirty body language happening.","Summary: This guy is one badly cooked steak away from beating you into a coma. Don't be one of those girls on the news, please.\n\nPost: My husband has a temper, which I think most men do, but his can get really bad, where he breaks things. \n You seem to be mistaken. Men do not break things when angry, although petulant children sometimes do. \n > and he thinks he is going to go a week without speaking to me, and then see how he feels. \n This is the anger of a small child throwing a tantrum. He's \"punishing\" you. This is so far removed from how a husband and wife treat each other it's almost a bad joke. \n > Really a week, are you nuts? \n You know the answer to that already. \n > What the hell do I do? \n You know what you should do. \n > What do I do? How do I make this better? \n What you mean is: How do you make him better? You can't. He may choose to make himself better at some point in the future, but right now he doesn't see himself as the problem, he sees you as the problem. \n As long as you stay with him, you're validating his behavior and letting him know that he's right. \"Punishing\" you by not speaking to you for a week is obviously working because it has you upset. When this stuff works and you tip-toe around his anger, you \"prove him right.\" \n Re-read your post. Now read it again. You're not focused on how to stabilize your life, and you're not even thinking about your child. You're thinking on how to better tiptoe around his tantrums and not make him so angry. \n > I am truly madly in love with him \n Everyone in an abusive relationship is. Why do you think you deserve it? Do you think he will somehow get better when you add the stress of a child into the mix? \n His anger has nothing to do with you, and as such you cannot do anything to prevent or mitigate it. He may choose to do something about it and seek therapy or self-help methods, but as long as you stay with him you are validating and encouraging his behavior. Why would he change as long as he has someone encouraging him? \n I could go on for hours about this. You need to leave this guy. For his sake, for yours, and especially your child's. \n I'm not going to go into all the reasons why people seek and stay in abusive relationships, but you're doing it and will probably continue to do it no matter what I say. \n I will try to appeal to your sense of motherhood for the sake of your innocent child and beg you not to teach him/her that that abuse is acceptable by staying around with this guy. Cut him out of your life completely, and get a court order that he has to seek anger management counseling for visitation rights for the baby.","Summary: Figure out what you want first.\n\nPost: What do you want to do? Sleep with her again? Break up with her? Work out the relationship? \n Sort that out first. The recommendation from here is going to be to dump her immediately and have as little contact with her as possible going forward. \n Basically there was something in her relationship or life she didn't like, so she had to get out of town and act on a fantasy. Obviously not the best way to handle being dissatisfied, but she did it. \n It's unlikely, but not impossible, that she really wants to stay with you. \n At this point, full breakup can be more or less implied. No need to have a big fight or discussion, she's already ended it unless you feel the need to and take steps to reconcile. But if you do, make sure it's only with great remorse, acknowledgement and ownership of the issue and ALL issues in your relationship on her side. \n It's very likely that she's going to come back blaming you for some issues in the relationship and make herself feel justified and in fact the victim in this situation. If she does this, just disengage from her and let her go on about her life. There's no point in arguing the fact. \n She may not want to talk about it because she doesn't feel like the lines of communication are open, and this was her passive-aggressive way of controlling her situation. She can't dump you, so she'll cheat on you and make you dump her.","Summary: You're a predator, preying on someone without the experience or fortitude to turn you away.\n\nPost: I still don't think you're real, and I think you're trolling for some reason. \n The only way I can imagine anybody writing this is to gauge the reaction of the community to prove some kind of point... \n Why? Your post and responses are too arch-typical. James Cameron couldn't have done a better job. \n ...but I'll go ahead give you advice based on the person you portrayed to see how you respond. \n > I have been in some very fulfilling committed relationships in my life and am generally comfortable flirting with girls. \n I'm suspicious about this. Describe your relationships briefly. \n > I met a girl around a year ago and we became very good friends. \n What website did you meet her on? You met her when she was 20 and you were 27? Usually those age groups don't mix too much. You're also not friends by any definition. Every interaction you have with her is focused on sleeping with her. You're nicer to her than you would be to real friends. \n Massages: Of course you want to put your hands on a hot 21 year old. Who wouldn't? You're using the guise of friendship to form a physical bond with this girl. Basically lying to her. \n Down-talking the boyfriend: This is because you're weak and can't sell her on your own merits. Unless she's an idiot, she sees this as making you look weak as well. It does not help you get with her at all, and if it does, you don't/shouldn't want a person that simple minded. \n She's not your best friend. You're a lonely guy that's having trouble getting girls, and this one is nice to you / tolerates you. It's also probable that this one is much hotter than the girls you normally get, so you're more excited about her. You make things easy on her because you like her, so she sees you as an easy person to be around that doesn't challenge her. This is not a friendship, or the start of a new relationship. It's a lonely dude and a confused girl. \n You're using your age and \"experience\" to lie to and corner this girl into having sex with you. She thought she saw it, and you basically berated her into crying about it. \n Advice 1: If you want to sleep with her, I suggest mixing alcohol in with your massage sessions. Lay off the boyfriend subject completely. \n Advice 2: If you want to be happy with your life, I suggest you put some of this energy into meeting someone that isn't as confused and vulnerable as she is.","Summary: The last thing either of you need, can handle, or should subject any other human to is a relationship.\n\nPost: Sweet, baby Jesus. \n I'm not going to do the usual of analyzing how problematic this relationship is for both of you line by line. Just re-read it. If the text you wrote seems OK or normal to you, then you have much bigger problems than this relationship. I will answer your questions directly: \n > How can I sleep without his hug. \n The same way everyone else on earth sleeps. \n > How can I survive college without him. \n The same way everyone else \"survives\" college. Why is college so tragic/epic for you? \n > Who is going to take care of us if not each other. \n Neither of you knows how to take care of your selves yet. How are you going to take care of someone else if you don't even have your own act together? \n > its college! Its time to have fun and not have stress, \n Wrong, wrong wrong. College is, yes, time for some fun and learning about yourself, but mostly about getting a piece of paper so you can sit on the job market for months while you feel entitled to a gold plated ferrari. If you're not stressed about getting good grades (and more focused on finding parties and drugs) then I have on piece of advice for you: Yes, I would like fries with that. \n > this relationship is to mature for us. \n No, it's not a mature relationship. It's an immature relationship from immature people. I'm not saying that to be harsh, but you did ask for some help. The first step to this is realize just how much help you both need, independently.","Summary: kiss her.\n\nPost: The ethical person in me tells me to wait my turn. \n That's the weak person in you. The 'ethical' person to whom you're referring doesn't exist - you're already spending way too much time with a girl that is involved with someone else. I don't have a problem with it, but don't BS yourself about it. \n > The alpha male in me tells me to kiss her. \n There are exactly three possible outcomes from this. \n 1> She reciprocates, confesses her feelings for you, and leaves her boyfriend for you. A few years later she leaves you for another dude. \n 2> She reciprocates and you have a fun fling. \n 3> She rejects you and you lose your 'friendship,' causing you to go and pursue girls you actually have a chance with. \n If you don't kiss her, there are two possibilities: \n 1> You continue to have feelings for her for years, passing up chances with girls that might actually like you, only to one day finally 'confess' to her, only to have her say that she likes you as a friend (because you spent YEARS convincing her that's all you are). \n 2> Actually I don't see any other way that could go. Don't be a loser. \n You've got nothing to lose if you kiss her. Absolutely nothing.","Summary: Do it. \n EDIT: looks like I need to take my own advice :)\n\nPost: I have a crazy/supportive family. A great boyfriend. Wonderful loving friends and a job that fulfills me. \n You have achieved what many people struggle their whole lives to get but never find: happiness and stability. Appreciate it. \n > Yet every night I fantasize about picking up and leaving this bitch. \n Whoops. :) \n > I'm in my 20s, and everywhere around me I feel people are stitching their plans and ideas on to me. \n Do you mean they're telling you that you have to get married, have 2.5 kids and a dog, drive a minivan, etc? Don't listen to them, you've got to want it for yourself or you'll resent it. \n > Perhaps my life is not so great as I imagine it to be. \n On the contrary. Your life is far greater than you imagine it to be. You could be living in a shack in central america, selling individual sticks of gum out of a pack at an intersection, commuting 4 hours each way only to get mugged on your way home at night. That's... probably a billion other people. \n > I dream up detailed little fantasies of deserts I'd like to get lost in or forests I'd like to explore. \n The deserts will kill you from dehydration. The forests have all kinds of poisons that will make you wish you were in the desert dehydrating. \n > I read about these fascinating individuals doing wonderful things wanting so badly to just taste the bit of adventure they have. \n People that are adventuring live their dreams 24/7. You sit in an air conditioned room and read about an article of some dude walking 4,000 miles over a few years through uninhabited jungle, or a girl sailing around the world on her own, but meanwhile they're nearly dying, suffering awful diseases, life threatening situations, sometimes dying or cutting off their own limbs to survive, etc. They're training or practicing for years to do what they do and are quite rightly labeled \"crazy\" by everyone around them. Imagine thinking about something and preparing for it as often as you breathe. Adventure is not romantic, and if you want to taste a little bit of it, you need to taste a lot of other things first. \n > For a little while I wandered driving around for no reason, getting lost and playing the adventurer. \n I did this when I was 16. Just go down a road. Make a turn. Make another turn. Pull over and sleep for a bit. Find some food. Meet some people. Great fun, actually! \n > But in the quest to be an adult I settled back home. \n I think you meant \"adult.\" Adult by whose standards? \n > Have you ever had this itch in your mind/heart/soul to just explore? To leave it all behind and just go? \n Yes. And I have. I've been all over the world - well, not to Africa (yet.) I've gone out into dangerous places. I've had guns pointed at me, and been on the wrong end of a minefield. I've walked out the door in countries where I didn't know the language or the terrain and just gone walking. I've woken up in a hospital where I literally could not communicate with any of the staff because of the language barrier. \n More than once I thought I was going to die. I've even been to the point where I accepted it and felt the readiness of being at peace. This is what it means to go adventuring, not going on a tour bus to some museum you saw on a website. \n But... I played soccer with 12 year old children that looked 5 due to malnutrition.... some just watched... (above mentioned minefield.) They actually asked me where I learned English!! They ate in a week what you and I have in a day, but they were so happy to play with me. That will change your life. I've seen jungles and mountains and jungles on mountains and mountains in jungles.... that were so majestic, the pictures do them no justice at all. I've seen snow covered mountains.... from the beach. I've met yoga masters, musicians, people practicing arts or religions or speaking languages that will probably die with our generation. \n Most Americans think \"Hey I'd like to visit Europe one day...\" but there are literally millions of cultures to experience and they are all happy and see the world from their tiny little pocket in their own way. It's really no different from being in small town, USA from that perspective. \n > ...To leave it all behind and just go? Opinions, stories and perspectives are greatly appreciated. \n Do it. It's terrible and wonderful, and it will literally change your life. You'll appreciate what you have, whatever it is , so much more than you can imagine right now.","Summary: You're thinking too much, just do her if she'll let you. \n EDIT: Oh yeah, and do this:\n\nPost: I might just be trying to get some subconsciously. \n Yep. \n > Another thing is that my roommate that I have now has also slept with her, so that makes things kind of awkward. \n Yep. \n > she is almost marriable tho \n Doubt it. Sounds like she's just having fun, and you're already pretty attached. Too attached, and you've put her on a pedestal. You should put your penis in her and stop thinking about it so much. \n I sort of nailed the chick my brother liked. Oops. It happens. But the chances are, particularly in this case, that she'll only let the one of you she likes have her. Or neither. Don't forget she's got a choice in the matter too. You're sorely mistaken if you think this is just a matter between you and your buddy.","Summary: It's very possible to be successful by most common success metrics without a degree. For some people, a degree might slow your career down.\n\nPost: I think you missed my point. The question was: \n > So how do you begin a career without a college degree? \n In a world where the OP saw no way other than a degree to start a career, I answered in the extreme - that from some viewpoints and individuals, getting a degree slows down a career. \n I see what you're saying. Your perspective is that most people need a degree to be successful in most careers. I won't dispute you, nor will I agree. It is certainly the most common way of going about things. \n I also agree I couldn't be a doctor or lawyer, or scientist (chemical, materials, etc.) without lots of academia. Besides those three specific things, anyone could be successful in a \"career\" with a huge jump-start on their peers by getting experience early, if they are motivated and have direction. You're right that I never considered such careers as I see them as having very limited potential. Even if I were an Actuary billing $300/hr or more, I'm still limited by my own personal work at ~40hrs/week. I'd rather earn a percentage of a scalable workforce effort or product sales. \n I don't see where my ego comes into play. I was stating a series of facts to serve as an example, provide a different viewpoint, and to encourage the OP. \n > I don't imagine your company is recruiting many top 20 grads. \n I don't know what that is. Is it a list of special schools? Not interested. It sounds like a dong-measuring contest. I'll recruit individuals based on their individual attributes, enthusiasm, and experience. \n > What company do you work for? Fortune 500? \n Not that I find it relevant, but since you asked: My clients include half of the top 10 brands in the world, Fortune 100. Not currently at a Fortune 500 company, but spent most of the last decade at two. Maybe this will give more credibility to my perspective for you, maybe not. \n I really didn't mean to poo-poo on all you nice folks that spent so much time and money in school. Maybe you guys needed it, but not everyone does. I'm detecting a bit of resentment here.","Summary: You can have everything you want, but you have to first stop wanting what you think you already have.\n\nPost: I have basically two points I could use some help with, first off what is the etiquette with dating in a situation like mine \n You have a FWB. You're also friends with your ex. Being friends with your ex is something for a new girl to know when/if you ever talk about ex's. I don't recommend talking about specific details. Don't name your ex, but let your new girl know that you remain friends with your ex's. I recommend staying vauge on the ex discussion, if it ever happens. \n The new girl(s) don't necessarily need to know that you have a FWB, but they need to know you're the type of person that's OK with casual sex. They could turn out to be your next FWB without the emotional strings attached. \n Stop having sex with one girl when you start having sex with another. Unless they're in the same room of course ;). \n > when/how are you expected to talk about exclusivity in a new relationship? \n Generally for me this is when sex starts and looks like it's going to be regular. If it's a one night stand or drunken tryst, obviously exclusivity doesn't matter. \n > When should I tell my FWB? \n I like FWB's as an impartial but intimate source of advice and action regarding \"real\" relationships. I tend to be very honest with FWB's. If you're truly friends with your ex, you should be able to talk about anything. \n You: \"Hey, look at this girl I met!\" \n Her: \"She's hot! You should totally do her!!\" \n etc, and vice versa. The problem here is your entwined feelings. Can you encourage her to get off thinking about the new guy that she likes but hasn't boned yet? If not, you may not be able to handle this FWB. \n > I don’t want to be deceitful but on the flip side I do not feel the need to give every potential GF my life history on the first date. \n This is wise. \n > Also really worried about hurting my friends feelings, I know this will not be easy for her. \n If you're talking about your current FWB/ex - you should be able to encourage each other and give honest helpful insight with new relationships. If not, neither of you will be able to seek a new relationship. \n > The second and VERY important for me is how do I keep my FWB as a friend in the long term? She is really the first person I have ever had this kind of deep emotional connection with and consider her the best friend I have ever had, I really really do not want to lose her as a friend, can you transition to just friends when so many feelings are involved? \n You want to be friends with her in 20 years? Then ironically, this has to not be the #1 priority in your life. You have too much of an attachment to her. So much that it's going to prevent you from living a fulfilling life. If you're not engaged and fulfilled in your life, you're going to dwell on a time you think was better- namely with her. You'll become bitter towards her for moving on, it will come out in your \"friendship\" and you'll become distant. \n Also, don't be so dramatic about your deep emotional connection. You're young, although you neglected to post your ages. You will connect with more people if you get out there and keep trying.","Summary: If you see a girl and you're attracted to her, don't think about it too much or assume you're going to fail, just go for it.\n\nPost: This brings up another point - I find it extremely attractive when a women has goals and ambitions. Do women also find the quality attractive in men? \n This is one of the things that attracted me to my girlfriend. If my girl winds up making more money than me, I think it's awesome. :) But it isn't about money, it's about being hardworking and wanting to accomplish things in life. Hopefully she will keep me motivated as well and we can help each other achieve our dreams. \n > I have social skills; it just seems she is more interested in the guy across the room with a nice jaw-line (who can barely put a sentence together), than an average looking engineering student who is trying to accomplish something in his life. \n You're selling yourself short here. Really, don't assume you know what a girl prefers before ever talking to her. As an aside, most of the girls I've dated (and indeed the one I'm about to marry) have come right out and said I'm not their usual type. At the end of the day it's all about your chemistry and compatibility. Maybe the guy with the nice jaw-line just assumes that all girls like a guy with a nice jaw-line automatically, thus he's able to present himself honestly and openly, giving him more success? Just some things to chew on for you. \n > But I think you are right, women are looking for a \"bad\" guy when they are out at the bar. \n Most of the time I've found this to be the case. \"Girl's night out\" = \"Let's find some guys to do.\" I really don't mean this in a bad way, nor am I saying it's always the case, it's just been my experience that it's the case more often than not. I've been the only dude with a large group of girls (I do not recommend this unless you really like talking about shoes and hair,) and picked up girls in a GNO. If girls in a group are really not interested in meeting dudes for a hookup, they'll go to a gay bar.","Summary: just do it. \n Out of the blue is totally fine. You might make her day.\n\nPost: I'm a huge fan of dating in the workplace. Just be responsible about it. You don't want to date immature people anyway, so don't ask out immature coworkers and everyone is good. \n Walk into her office, ask her out, if she says yes, schedule it and leave. If she says no, it's totally fine. \n There is nothing at all legally or morally wrong with simply asking a coworker out on a date. The legal definition of inappropriate workplace behavior is something that might make any party witness or involved in an activity uncomfortable. So if you slap a girl on the butt, she may like it (probably won't) but someone else might see it or hear about it and feel uncomfortable, therefore it's inappropriate.","Summary: go for it.\n\nPost: Why do you like her? Because she's hot. Do you have any actual chemistry? It sounds like no because she doesn't know your name at this point. \n Regardless - you're far better off talking to her now rather than later. \n If you talk to her at this point it's going to be clear to her that you're only talking to her because you think she's hot / want to get in her pants, and it's true because you really don't know her or have any chemistry with her at this point. \n I'd catch up to her after class and ask her if she wants to review something right then and there. Don't make plans to run off or grab lunch somewhere, just be spontaneous and ask her right then and there. \n Once you've got some one-on-one time, if there's any chemistry you can sense it. When you get a little play time in, ask her if she's got a boyfriend and if she would want to make plans with you sometime. \n The key is not to wait for anything. Don't build it up in your head. Just go for it when/where you see it. \n And remember: Rejection is not a failure. Do not fear it. Rejection is a badge of honor, and it's only one step in the path to success. Failure is not trying. If nothing else, she's practice.","Summary: move on, X doesn't respect you. new girl is probably not as awesome as you think. Enjoy life. \n PS: If you ever get a shot, there is absolutely nothing in the world like NSA sex with the ex. You have not lived until you've experienced this. May the force be with you.\n\nPost: Ok... let's break it down. \n > This new girl is really awesome! Just everything that she's doing and acting these past three weeks is just blowing my mind. We did have sex, and well....it was some really really.....really good sex. \n You and the new girl are both in your infatuation phase of the relationship. The really good sex is also part of it. Can you clarify - did you have sex with this girl a week after you met her? I wholeheartedly approve, but there is a chance that if this is the case she's got a little bit of the crazy in her. Crazy is often really good in bed. \n > My X calls up crying. At this point this woman has told me everything under the sun to say that she's sorry she said that and that she wants me back and well blah blah blah. \n Let me tell you what actually happened. \n Your X met a new guy that you probably don't know about. She started to see things in the new guy that she felt you were missing. This, possibly combined with some advice from some friends, lead her to break up with you and pursue the other guy. \n For whatever reason, things didn't work out with that guy. Either he wasn't really interested in a relationship once he found out she was single, turned out to be gay, or as soon as she got past the honeymoon phase with him, she started to see the cracks in his armor and realized that nobody's perfect, etc. I can virtually promise you there was another guy she was infatuated with, regardless of whether or not there was anything mutual or real going on. \n You are your X's runner up. Even if there isn't another guy (which I highly, highly doubt) you're telling her that she can treat you however she likes, take you for granted, and you'll just be waiting around for her when she changes her mind... again. \n I suggest telling the X you're trying to move on and that she made her decision. A 3 year engagement sounds pretty long anyway, and I think if you guys had really wanted to, you would have done the wedding already. \n Enjoy the new girl, but watch out for the crazy. You probably don't see it now, but it might hit you when you least expect it. \n Being in a relationship for 7 years does NOT mean you're good at dating. This girl is all new, and you're going to be very surprised after your honeymoon period with things that are different about her compared to your X. Give her a fair shot. \n The X is playing on your male instinct to keep girls from crying at any cost. Try to limit contact with her as much as possible. \n Regardless of having a new girl in your life, it's best to move on. You obviously weren't too hung up on the X to begin with.","Summary: Yes, very clingly :). The clingiest.\n\nPost: As a very good friend am I not entitled to some kind of explanation? Or is that clingy as well? Sorry, I am new to this game. \n No, you're not entitled to anything . A girl doesn't owe it to you to tell you why she doesn't like you. You're assuming that she must like you unless there's a specific reason, possibly to negotiate with. \"Oh, you don't like my nose? Then I'll get a nosejob!\" What would be the point? \n Most girls are not going to just have that spark that makes them like you, and they don't owe you an explanation for that. It also makes them uncomfortable. How would you feel if an ugly girl came up to you and asked you why you think she's ugly?","Summary: Yes, very clingly :). The clingiest.\n\nPost: As a very good friend am I not entitled to some kind of explanation? Or is that clingy as well? Sorry, I am new to this game. \n No, you're not entitled to anything . A girl doesn't owe it to you to tell you why she doesn't like you. You're assuming that she must like you unless there's a specific reason, possibly to negotiate with. \"Oh, you don't like my nose? Then I'll get a nosejob!\" What would be the point? \n Most girls are not going to just have that spark that makes them like you, and they don't owe you an explanation for that. It also makes them uncomfortable. How would you feel if an ugly girl came up to you and asked you why you think she's ugly?","Summary: Sleeping with a guy who won't commit and stringing along two others. \n You don't like being strung along by John, but you want to keep your options open with the other guys. Sound like what John may be doing to you? How do you think the other guys feel? Don't string them along, either.\n\nPost: Soon we were having wonderful kinky sex that just kept getting better and better. We’ve tried so many new things together and both agree that our sexual chemistry is amazing. \n This is the blessing (curse?) of FWB/NSA sex. Haven't reasoned this out yet, but people will generally go way farther in the kinky domain when it's NSA/FWB. Don't think that means he is magical or the one for you. It's the nature of the beast. Don't judge future relationships or guys by this standard, either. \n > He even told me he was still in love with his ex. After sex we’d have rambling philosophical discussions and he’d often muse about the failure of their relationship. \n Great FWB relationship. \n > He says he really cares about me and wonders whether he’s being a selfish jerk. \n He's being completely honest with you. There's absolutely nothing selfish or jerkish about that. You can make your own decisions about whether you want to take what he's offering you or not. \n > But then he also told me I'm out of his league. \n That's BS. He's lying to himself, or trying to be polite to you. \n > Am I crazy to still be into this guy who doesn’t know what he wants? \n You're the most into the guy that is the least into you. That's pretty damn normal. Crazy world. \n > Do I only like him so much because fucking him shoots so much dopamine into my brain? \n Why do you think that happens? Because he's aloof and you have to work hard to get his attention. You're mixing up the cause and effect. \n > Should I end my trysts with John and try for a relationship with one of the other guys? \n Frankly, you're young. I think you should have fun and let loose. When you're ready to settle down, do not accept anything less than someone that gives you 100% commitment. \n > And then maybe, eventually, when he’s done with his thesis and feeling less confused, try for something more than just sex? \n Put that out of your head forever. This guy is not going to ever give you the commitment you think you want from him. Waiting around for him will make him respect you less, not more. He's Mr Fun, not Mr Forever. \n > I’d also like to know whether you think I have a right to be annoyed with him for being so communicative in some ways and yet so distant in others. \n No, you shouldn't be annoyed with him. He's distant in the ways you want him to be close, but he never agreed to that - you made it up on your own, so you've got to deal with those consequences on your own. \n >","Summary: Just use the 3 day rule :). \n Also, a first date on a Friday or Saturday is a bad idea. You've always got awesome plans on Friday or Saturday night because you're an awesome and sociable person, and she's not important enough (yet) for those key days because you don't know her yet.\n\nPost: Personally and anecdotally, calling the next day has never worked for me. Calling the next day for a Friday date is going to turn all girls off, unless she's already very into you. Even if she is into you, a next day call may put her off. Normally I agree with \"just call when you want,\" and sometimes do myself, but girls read way more into trivial decisions than you or I could ever imagine.","Summary: Get over yourself.\n\nPost: instead of, oh I don't know, something stupid like; THE QUALITY OF MY DEGREE. \n I know you worked hard for it, but as an employer, let me tell you that very, very few positions will give a damn about how hard you worked on your degree or a class project. \n > Why is it that you create a situation where you employ those who are best at lying rather then those who have shown themselves to be hard workers, or proven their intelligence? \n A degree, education, and coursework results have shown me exactly zero relationship to an employee's fitness to perform a particular task. \n You know all the idiots that graduated with you? The people that didn't do shit in group work? They're all out in the workforce as well. \n > It just seems that the best way to get a job presently isn't to work hard, but join a sports society, go out and get pissed, and then make out that it shows great character development. Or have a well connected Daddy. \n You forgot being extremely attractive. That helps too. \n But here is why I think you're really not getting a job: \n > Surely you know that the my real answer is that I got it off a fucking recruitment website, you aren't special at all. \n I don't want to hire someone that is just collecting a paycheck. I want to hire someone that would do some version of what they're doing for me on their own if they didn't need a paycheck. Someone that cares about my industry enough to know something about my company. \n People that are just there to collect a paycheck do the minimum necessary to not get fired. I don't want those people. \n Everything about your attitude and approach to this is telling me that I, as the employer, have to play by your rules to have the honor of your services. That's not how it works. I've got cash, I need a job done. \n If I can choose between two equal pieces of paper (resumes,) I'm going to go with the one that was written by a person that's got more enthusiasm. \n I've literally heard \"Maybe I'd work harder if they paid me more,\" from someone of your generation. I can't even tell you how backwards that is in my brain. \n One more thing you're kind of missing. Having \"connections\" means that you're invested and participate in your field enough that you know people. Whatever field you're in, there are half a dozen networking groups in your area, of professionals that talk about what they're doing and learn from each other. Yes, connections are good, but the fact that you're able to make connections and that people trust you is really why. I would never in a million years give a job to someone or recommend them just because I like them if I didn't think they were capable. Yes, there are people that will hire you just because you play golf with them, but they are in the minority because a hiring manager fails when they hire incompetent people. It's just not a viable strategy.","Summary: The sexy maid outfit is the least of your problems, but at least try to do her in it once before things get any worse.\n\nPost: She uses hysterical situations and crying to control you and prevent you from calling her out on her BS. \n Her BS is that she'd rather be partying with friends than being responsible and faithful to you. \n You're enabling her by being a doormat. \n I don't think you're being overprotective as much as you are just being manipulated by her. She wants a caring, protective boyfriend so she can have a boyfriend, but she also wants to go out and party and do wild college stuff. You're not a real priority for her at this point in her life, but she feels like she's supposed to have a boyfriend like you so she hasn't dumped you yet. \n Eventually what she wants (partying) will conflict with what she thinks she's supposed to have (you) so much that she won't be able to ignore it and leave you. She may trying to do that now passive-aggressively by showing you how you're less important than hazing and partying, but eventually it will escalate into her cheating on you. \n This is a somewhat normal transition for people to make when they get to college. You should be focusing on your life and having fun right now, too.","Summary: Yahoo! Answers.\n\nPost: Game theory tells us why this will never stop: Going to the front is simply the dominant strategy. No matter what everyone else does, shoving to the front will always give you the best view & access. \n So true. I wonder how this also applies to fucking up our traffic situations. \n > ... what? \n Ask yourself these questions: \n 1) What's the ratio of people that are entertained by zoom/enhance to the people that complain about it? \n 2) Take 10 people. How many unique American Idol (or insert your favorite reality/whatever show here) contestants/actors can be named in this group? Now how many inventors of things they use every day, or Nobel winners can they name? Which list is longer? \n 3) Ask anyone their favorite brand of soda, shoe, clothing, etc. Ask them why. Realize that all soda is sugar water, and most of their clothes from different vendors come from Pakistan. Repeat for car, toilet paper, toothpaste, etc etc. Their preference is really what advertising they've been exposed to the most. \n 4) How many people around you could really change their own tire if it went flat on the highway? \n 5) How many hours would the average person survive in the wilderness with basic equipment and no supplies? \n 6) Ask a group to list famous athletes and what they play. Then ask them to list Nobel prize winners and why they won. Which list is longer? \n My point is that people are primarily concerned with useless things like the prime time TV line up, and not concerned at all with useful things like how the stuff they use in their daily lives work even on a basic level.","Summary: Video chat. Make sure your talks include some flirting and/or romance. \n And whatever you do- don't make the 10 hour drive (5hrs each way) before you mutually agree and both know and have clearly stated there is romantic interest and a non-zero chance of sexual intercourse, since it will probably be an overnight visit.\n\nPost: I promise there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of girls within a reasonable range that you can connect with if you try. \n I think you've escalated this girl a little bit in your mind because she's being nice to you and is \"reciprocating\" the attention you're giving her online. After all, how many girls suggest you become facebook friends after exchanging a couple of messages on OKC? Probably not many. \n From someone that's hooked up with girls online before (me): I think you need a strong reality check. Chemistry happens in person, or it doesn't. You have no idea where this girl's head is right now, and for all you know she is having the same conversations with a dozen guys or chatrooms every day. Some people have very active online social lives. \n Try a video chat with her and see how that goes. You'll get 100% of her attention, or not. You'll either have some romantic flirting on the video cam, or zero. \n Also, some people like to initiate relationships with people that are far away because they're afraid they'll screw things up if they have to see the other person too often. Are you or she one of those kinds of people?","Summary: agreed.\n\nPost: I think she's gotta be pretty enthusiastic. There is some work involved, although it's not very technical. In other words it's not about the technique. If she's truly committed, she can generally be successful. \n I generally don't get too much out of it so never request it. However when they really want to do it, then it works. Some girls absolutely love it. Others refuse to do it. Some will if asked. The ones that will if asked will want to do it occasionally when feeling especially naughty, in that case they can be successful too.","Summary: Cut all contact. Delete from Facebook. Hit the gym. Stop making excuses, it's for your own good.\n\nPost: But what if we've been good friends for a long time and that friendship is something you treasure and hold dearly? \n Translation: \"But what if you became friends with her because you couldn't ask her out directly, and hoped that by getting to know her non-romantically you could weasel your way into her pants?\" \n Answer: Cut all contact. Delete from Facebook. Hit the gym. \n > It's more of an emotional and friendship love we both mutually share, and it will probably never get sexual. \n Translation: She never developed romantic feelings for you because you never approached her romantically or sexually until you already spent a lot of time establishing yourself as a platonic, non-threatening friend. You did this because you were inexperienced and/or afraid of rejection. \n Answer: Cut all contact. Delete from Facebook. Hit the gym. \n > So do the same rules apply? \n You developed feelings for her all on your own, in your own world, without any reciprocation or romantic involvement. You put her on a pedestal. \n Answer: Yes. \n > I don't want to lose her from my life. \n You don't want to lose a girl from your life that you have romantic feelings for that will never reciprocate them? That's.... pathetic. No offense, but it is, and precisely why you must Cut all contact. Delete from Facebook. Hit the gym. \n If you're not building yourself and going out attempting to meet and attract new mates, you're going to be stuck on this girl for years. It happens so often it's sad. Don't be a statistic.","Summary: women are different :)\n\nPost: Not everything women do or say, is flirting... but men who are clueless can interpret it as such. \n Yes, agreed. But also: Some women flirt with men by default - it's just in their nature and it's not malicious or misleading, just innocent fun. Also, some women do flirt more than is strictly necessary because they like the attention... (this is why I also tend to be more flirty than is strictly necessary.)","Summary: don't read this :)\n\nPost: You need advice from someone who waited nearly as long as you have for sex and getting married. I suggest not listening to anyone coming from anything other than this perspective. \n > So basically, I am thinking that maybe I am wasting all of the years that I could be going out and hooking up with girls. \n You're in your prime hooking-up years right now. This is important because you learn more about yourself when you're intimate with other people. I think people that wait until they're married do their future partners a disservice. This is why I cannot give you advice on the subject and why my only advice is that I recommend you're careful about who you listen to. \n On second thought, contrast the responses of the \"waiters\" with the \"non-waiters.\" I suspect that the people that only have one partner in their lives don't know what they're missing so won't have much to complain about. On the other hand, some of them may be remorseful that they know something else is out there and they've never experienced it.","Summary: If actions and words don't match up, look at actions and ignore the words.\n\nPost: He's just really defensive about stuff he knows he should do, nagging or not. \n This is a conditioned response for him. If you're even talking about things he should do, it's because you're bringing them up and he's not doing them. This is nagging. Particularly when they're things that are obvious to you you that should be done, such as dishes or the trash. \n Also, why is he defensive in the first place? Basically he doesn't feel like doing the dishes or taking out the trash. If the two of you had separate lives, his trash and dishes would be piled up all the time. Yours would not. The two of you have vastly different definitions of what he \"knows he should do.\" He probably says \"Yeah I need to do this and that...\" without really feeling it. If actions and words differ, look at actions, always. \n > Nah its easy to find fault with me but when I make a one sentence suggestion for him to go to bed and he later regrets not going to bed for 3 days in a row (he has to get up early th and fri to go to work at like 5 am) its a slam dunk for how stupid he is about managing his affairs. \n Again, the guy isn't really interested in changing his behavior. When he's \"admitting\" something to you but not changing his behavior, he's saying \"You're right, but I'm not going to do anything about it.\" He may change in the future, on his own, but he won't change now. \n > I can see how its easy to pin this stuff on me \n I'm not trying to pin anything on you. I think I went out of my way to point that out. What I am doing is seeing a strong pattern from all of your responses that the two of you are not very compatible at this stage of your lives. \n I'm also seeing you be somewhat defensive (although, not too badly) at the other people here that have come to the same conclusion. \n I don't think you're a bad person or in the wrong here, but you clearly have strong expectations of what's necessary (the dishes, trash, sleeping at a decent hour, doing homework, being responsible) that are not the same as his. When you \"discuss\" this with him, of course everyone would agree that these things are important, but not everyone can be really bothered with them on their own. \n I've actually known people in your situation to call off weddings because \"he didn't wipe down the stove.\" At the end of the day that sounds extremely petty, and it's the kind of thing that this thread seems to be telling you to look at. \n Really accepting this guy for who he is (which is even more important than \"open communication\" because he might not be a good communicator, and you might not be as good as you think you are) means that you accept he's not going to do the dishes, take out the trash, do his homework or in general keep his life in order on his own. Look at your comment here: \n > Its important to have a reasonably clean house as responsible adults, darling. \n It's so important and obvious to you that you actually got a little snide with AnnArchist. But it's not that important to him. None of these things he's \"doing wrong,\" even by his own admission, are really that important to him. The key is not who's right or who's wrong, it's that you and your boyfriend are different. \n Lots and lots of dudes live out their lives in the state your boyfriend does. They're perfectly happy with it, and so are their girlfriends and wives.","Summary: if you like a dude but don't want to meet his parents or bear his children, why not give it a shot?\n\nPost: Look through my post history for the FWB rules. (I really should have them bookmarked.) \n The thing about casual sex / friends with benefits is that it's not just about putting a penis in a vagina. It's about all the physical needs that we have as people, but without all of the responsibilities and \"burdens\" of a committed relationship. \n Granted, it's those responsibilities that give you the long term rewards of a LTR, but sometimes we just want to have fun. Having casual sex also lets us learn a lot about ourselves and what our physical and emotional needs really are. \n You might be surprised how much more adventurous you can be in a NSA physical relationship. Especially girls - having first time orgasms, discovering new fetishes, etc. In a typical LTR, many people are too shy to step outside of what they perceive as social norms for bedroom behavior. \n If you set aside the social stigma and just think about having a good physical time with someone you're attracted to and enjoy spending time with, you might think about it differently. \n > I think I need to feel an emotional connection to really enjoy sex \n You never know until you try. Most girls that really have a problem with this don't want to raise their \"number\" too high. The \"number\" is the number of penises they've had in their vagina over a lifetime. It's really arbitrary and silly, and in my opinion prevents a lot of people from learning about themselves and enjoying many parts of life.","Summary: You're in a dangerous place right now where she's trying to see if she can fit you in the friend/boost my confidence zone. You probably still have a chance, but you need to back off a little bit. Just a little.\n\nPost: Hard not to fall for her, but I avoided it. \n No, you didn't. \n > It's probably a matter of her wanting to feel desired or that she still 'has it' and can attract someone despite being in the safety of a relationship for a year. \n A lot of girls will do this. They don't want you, they just want you to want them. And once you're there, you've found yourself in the friend zone. Girls only want guys that don't want them, until they do want them. \n > So I kind of forget about it, but she texts me a bit later saying \"you're never online any more :( \" and texts me the next day. \n She's noticing you're not giving her as much attention or being as nice to her. This is her way of reeling you back in to the friend zone. \n You're close to doing the right thing, which is dropping her. Don't get sucked in. If you really weren't interested in her, it wouldn't be an issue. You're too worried about future opportunities. \n Tell her you're getting too many flirty vibes from her and you're not comfortable with that because she has a boyfriend. She may pull the friend card on you and say she wants to see you more as a friend, but that's a trick to get you to be nice to her so she can put you in the friend zone. \n Always be nice and friendly with her, but you've really gotta put some more distance between yourselves. She's trying hard to put you in the friend zone, or at least in a comfortable backup zone, and if you let her do this she's going to lose respect for you. If you can honestly make yourself aloof and really not care, I think you've still got a shot. \n > I've kind of got the impression that she has been trying to get me to like her -- but she's a nice person and I don't consider her manipulative. \n Sounds like she's good at it, then. \n EDIT:","Summary: 1) One more conversation with the ex, to be kept to 60 seconds maximum indicating you're cutting off all contact permanently. This is for everyone's safety. \n 2) If ex shows up, literally only say \"You're not welcome here. I'm calling the police now.\" Call police, have him removed immediately. Not after just talking for a minute, immediately means fucking immediately. This is for everyone's safety. \n 3) Contact parents and let them know the situation so they can take steps to get him treatment. \n 4) Tell boyfriend psycho ex is getting more unstable and advise him on the action plan. Also for safety. \n Do not mess around with crazy.\n\nPost: All I want to do is cut off all contact with him again, but I feel that doing so might make him break down again \n You cannot make him do anything. You cannot make him harm himself. You cannot make him go crazy. \n What you can do is create an ongoing dependency and make him feel like his threatening to harm himself is a useful way to control you. \n Your speaking to him increases the amount of time his obsession with you will continue, and adds the possibility of escalation. Every time you speak to him you're increasing the pressure on a ticking time bomb. \n There are basically three things you've got to do: \n 1) Attempt to contact his parents and/or family. Let them know he's threatening self-harm and his life may be in danger. \n 2) Cut off all contact with him. Let him know he is never to contact you again in any way, shape or form. Keep it short and simple. If he appears at your residence you need to call the police and have him removed immediately. Do not talk. Do not attempt to diffuse. The conversation is simply: \"You're not welcome here. Leave now. I'm calling the police.\" Every word you speak to him gives him more to hang on to and engages him further. \n You cannot keep him from harming himself. You cannot make him kill himself. Having said that, the more you talk to him, engage with him in any way, even as it's telling him to leave you alone, the more you're increasing his obsession and the more you're validating him. I really cannot stress enough how important it is to disengage from this person. If you keep engaging with him in ANY way there could be violence. \n 3) To tell your boyfriend: Your psycho ex has been contacting you and you were stupidly trying to keep him from hurting himself out of concern for another human being only, but you've learned your lesson. He needs to know in case the ex shows up as things could get violent.","Summary: I think you're trying to build justification for leaving him as soon as things are getting a little tough without really trying to fix things. I also think your \"attempts\" to fix things are doing more harm than good. \n Not trying to attack you, just offering another perspective that might help.\n\nPost: I have a sense for what might be going on here. You and your husband communicate very differently, and I think you went into it thinking you could change him or he would change based on your other comments. Let me try to put in his perspective: \n > When I get home from work, I try to start a conversation with him, but he just has nothing to say. \n \"When she gets home she starts whining right away and always complains. She's a pretty negative person and all this complaining is getting to me.\" \n > I have tried sharing my emotions or stuff about my day, but he just looks at me with a blank stare. \n \"Why is she telling me about problems I can't fix?\" \n > I have tried asking him how he feels about things, but he either doesn't answer, or just gives me a one-word response. \n Frankly, he doesn't communicate the way you do. Why would you expect him to? You're interrogating him, not getting him to open up. Of course he would shut down. \n > He doesn't seem to be able to relate to anything I say, and if he hasn't had the same exact experience, he just says he can't understand it. Even if he's had the same experience, he tells me I shouldn't feel the way I feel. \n Obviously. You're getting your emotions out and talking through it helps. He sees no point in talking about something unless it's to find a solution. If he is in a situation and doesn't think he should feel a certain way, he'll keep it to himself and work it out. You have to talk it out. \n Neither of you is wrong, but neither of you is respecting the way the other handles these situations. \n > When it's about our relationship, the response is \"What do you mean? That's not true\" instead of asking why I feel that way or opening up a deeper conversation. \n Again, pushing him to communicate your way just alienates him. The more frustrated you get about this the more he senses it. You \"shouldn't\" be frustrated according to him, and from his perspective you're just getting more and more hysterical. \n > I think he just honestly cannot relate to others and doesn't see the need to try. \n The pot is calling the kettle black... or something like that. You're just as incapable of relating to him as he is to you. If you're so much more emotional and open as you seem to claim, why not try things from his point of view for a while? \n > He doesn't socialize with friends at all and avoids social interactions at all costs. \n Not wrong by itself. Did you know this before you got married? \n > I am going through a lot of stress in other areas of my life, and not being able to talk to him about it or get any support is just killing me. \n I bet he will support you with things he can fix, but he's not interested in just talking about it with no action or resolution. This is a classic (and cliche') male vs. female issue. \n > I have friends I can talk to, but it is not the same as feeling close to the one person you come home to every day. \n Gossip and talk with your female friends. When you're ready for decisions and action, go to him. You'll be surprised with the results. \n I heard somewhere that men use 2,000 words per day, while women use 6,000. I have no idea if it's true, but he's probably just used up most of his words at work and your style of communication is overwhelming for him. None of this is wrong, but you need to be aware of it. \n > I used to think we could get through anything, but how, when we can't communicate? I could tell him all this but I don't think he'd say anything. :( \n Start by bridging the communication gap on your side. From my perspective, you're just as equally at \"fault\" here as he is. You were very one sided in your post and it seems like you're just trying to build up some support to leave him, but I think that's very premature at this point- partly because you haven't even tried to do things his way. At least, not that you've mentioned. \n Some responders even suggested he get tested for Asperger's - I think that's a huge overreaction considering the picture you've painted here. Conveniently you left out the reasons why you married him in the first place. \n Trying to do it your way even harder doesn't count.","Summary: Live life without regret.\n\nPost: If you accept these things, you'll be fine: \n 1) There's a 100% chance you'll meet someone else that you feel \"eerily similar\" to, and have great connections. \n 2) You will regret the things you don't do more than the things you do. \n 3) Its extremely unlikely your first relationship and connection will result in LTR. \n You have a tremendous opportunity to enjoy each other for right now. You know you like each other, that's all that's important at this moment. If you can both be mature enough to say \"no expectations and no strings,\" and realize the above three, then it's possible you can enjoy each other, learn a lot about life and yourselves, and have a nice experience. \n An hour away is really nothing. Many people (and myself included) commute that much one-way every single day. Having said that, you'll both have plenty of other opportunities and it's important to realize and acknowledge that you'll both always be special to each other.","Summary: Aggressive women seem to be happier with more aggressive men.\n\nPost: Well, that's dumb. You should turn into the near lane, that's the lane that you need to be in.\" \n > \"That looks stupid, why would you put it there? \n > \"Why would I need to shower? That's a stupid question.\" \n Fundamentally she does not respect you. She treats you like a child. You accept it. \n I'm sure you're perfectly capable of driving and putting away dishes. You both know this. You may both be reasonable people, but she probably needs a much stronger and more aggressive dude, and you probably need someone that is going to respect you without constantly testing you. \n It sounds like you're cowed, and she doesn't respect you for it. I think she wants a guy she can ask \"Why did you put the dishes there?\" and he will respond \"If you don't like 'em, move 'em. And get me a beer while you're at it.\" \n I don't think either of you are crazy, but you don't sound right for each other. \n If you want, start standing up for yourself and see what happens. She'll either start respecting you, or if she's lost enough respect already she'll just leave. Example: \n Her: \"Why are you in this lane?\" \n You: \"Because I'm driving. Are you driving?\" \n Her: \"Why didn't you put these dishes away?\" \n You: \"I don't know. If it bothers you, put them away.\" (Bonus points here: \"I was busy doing your mom.\") \n Protip: When she asks you \"Why?\" about something, it's a test. It's always a test. Whatever the question is about is irrelevant. The way you handle being challenged is what's relevant. Also, \"I don't know\" is a perfectly reasonable answer to almost everything, as long as it's not apologetic. I think this kind of girl really wants to feel like you're in charge and in control. If she's taking control, it's because she is already in a state of worry about you. If you \"put her in her place,\" she may be a little hurt but at the moment, at least she'll be more confident that you're in charge.","Summary: I fell in a love with a coworker, got cheated on, and dumped. What do I do? \n Raise your standards. Are you really so worthless that you can't get someone stable? You will never be anything to this girl but the most recent fling. She doesn't know stability, she only knows the highs and passion of the thrill, and when she doesn't get that fix from you anymore, she'll move on to the next one. You're nothing to her, and you never were.\n\nPost: I have had other relationships after she ditched me, and the joy and passion that she and I had was never matched by another. \n Crazy is crazy. The highs are great and the lows are awful - but you're lying to yourself if you think there's something about her that's so amazing you won't feel it with anyone else. \n > the joy and passion that she and I had was never matched by another. \n This is the classic crazy trap. It's what abused women (on here) frequently say as well. \n Let me put it simply: Put her out of your head. Crazy does not benefit you in any way, shape or form. \n > The only problem with that was not only did she already have a terrible boyfriend, but she had a son. \n These are not problems. These are symptoms of problems. If a woman's boyfriend is so bad that her coworkers know about it and she's still with him, she's seeking attention. Why else would she be with someone that makes her so unhappy? \n She probably made some bad decisions and had a kid before she was ready too. \n Ugh.. I get grossed out just reading about this person. \n >","Summary: Lighten up, ho.\n\nPost: You may have missed the irony in my previous post, in which case it's further ironic that your message seems to be a sarcastic criticism directed at my comprehension of the English language. Or, more literally, my lack of comprehension. \n Unless you were also being ironic in response, in which case the joke is on me! Well played! \n However, my gut tells me you did not read the reversal of meaning in my original message. I'll take the blame for it being too subtle. In retrospect, my mistake was that I could not possibly fathom any native English speaker would think the term, \"Ho,\" be used in any but a whimsical sense as it has not been used in a culturally significant and literal fashion since 1989, or sometime around then. My bad. \n In fact, irony is sometimes used to strengthen or illustrate camaraderie among close friends. I attempted to use it to further illustrate my point and develop humorous rapport so that we could establish an honest and frank dialog with mutual understanding and enlightenment that comes from another's perspective. \n So I'll state my original intent plainly and unambiguously : If you are so extremely concerned with social rules and order that you are unable to tolerate natural biological processes that are almost unavoidable while being in close proximity to another human continuously, such as is common with relationships, then your two options are to either relax, learn to take a joke, and accept biology; or be single. \n You've chosen the latter, and from your delight it seems like that choice is working well for you. Allow me to state very plainly and fully that if that if I reinforced your confidence in this matter, I am glad and wish you the best.","Summary: if you didn't read the whole thing, then I don't want your advise. \n I just advised you by giving you some advice. My work here is done.\n\nPost: I asked her, since I was upfront about it, and told her, why she slept with me at all, if that's how she feels. She said, \"I love you, and I am idiot, too I guess.\" At another point, she threatens \"I hope you know if you'v given me anything worse I will press charges.\" I respond, \"So it's safe to say we're over?\" \n This is an escalating argument. She's the type of person that says hurtful things because she's angry, but she doesn't mean them. You're the type of person that will take what she says literally. Don't - because she will take your response to her angry statement literally, and use it against you. \n To make matters worse, you can't use what she said against her, because she was \"just angry.\" \n In other words, keep your mouth shut when this happens. If anything, she is feeling like she needs more support, not \"Then I guess we're over.\" \n It's a bit passive-aggressive. Actually, it's a lot passive aggressive, but if you'll read on, my opinion of her actually goes down from here. \n > At some point she went to eat, and let me know where she was going, to which I replied, \"Okay\". She flipped on me because thats all I said. \n This is her passive-aggressive way of getting you to go see her. She's flipping at you because you're supposed to behave a certain way, and she's angry that you don't. This is a classic sign of an abusive person. I know the situation is a little bit extreme, but you're seeing her true colors here and she will always be capable of this behavior when she's not happy. \n I don't think you did anything wrong, and I don't think a judge would think you did either. \n I think you're actually pretty lucky. 2 months into the relationship you got to see how she handles a personal crisis. Most people don't get to see that for years. She handles it by attacking and blaming you when she's scared and afraid. \n She's got the herp - so now she's \"tainted\" (in her mind) and she's going to leave you? That's honestly the opposite of what I think I would do in that situation. I'd be thinking nobody would ever want me, so I better hang on to what I've got. Is that what you're thinking too? She's attacking you with all she's got, but in such a way that she's expecting you to grovel and apologize for making her angry. \n I think you dodged a bullet. She's going to push you away by being as spiteful as she can be, then get sympathy because you're the \"mean guy that gave her herpies and then left her.\" I bet she's already pulling the sympathy card here. \n Don't let her push you around. She knew the risks, and rather than coming to you for support she's playing games and making your life miserable. Key phrase here: Making your life miserable. I think she's going to do that no matter what. \n Let her go, and thank your lucky stars. \n >","Summary: dump her, or screw with her mind then dump her for your own educational benefit.\n\nPost: People show you their best in the first two months of a relationship. Things would only get worse with this girl. \n She's completely self-absorbed and doesn't respect you in any way. \n The only two options you have are: \n 1) Dump her and move on (probably most recommended.) \n 2) PRACTICE with her. Since it's pretty clear you've got no future with her (or more specifically, she's got no future with anyone until she gets her act together,) why not practice trying to fix things or talk things out with her? You'll get some valuable experience. Tell her \"If you don't want to screw, then give me a BJ or GTFO.\" Even better, whip out some porn and take care of business right in front of her. Be blunt and critical about her. Let it all out. \n Think of it as practice for actually being yourself and saying exactly what you think/feel. People usually don't get this kind of experience unless they have a FWB and it can be a valuable life lesson."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: My experience is that the difference in \\\"upkeep\\\" between OSX and Win is that the difference is negligible and should not really be a consideration in the purchasing decision.\\n\\nPost: Writing from a Linux desktop right now, next to my dual boot laptop with OSX and Win7 on it. I say this so you know I'm 100% OS-Agnostic. I don't really prefer one over the other. \\n I've managed IT departments in large environments before with lots of macs, lots of PC's, and lots of linux and mac servers. About 200 users overall. \\n Your comment was basically true, but not relevant to the OP's current problem. \\n OSX requires slightly more \\\"upkeep\\\" than a Windows 7 box, but in reality it depends on usage and how many \\\"Free buddy icons\\\" the user installs. \\n Preferences files are more likely to get corrupted than the registry. OSX will hose a resource fork on a font (mysteriously corrupting it) more often than Windows. Extensions are slightly more likely to go wacky for no reason or conflict as compared to drivers (which usually only get hosed when you install something bad.) \\n The difference is maybe 5-10%, but after managing a 200+ mac/pc mixed environment, it's definitely there. \\n OSX is much easier to reload than windows when the time finally comes, because all the drivers are generally on the disc. On any system, that time is usually because the user (mostly designers) loaded 500 \\\"free\\\" programs they \\\"need\\\" from versiontracker and the system is bogged down and unusable. This is not Mac or PC specific, it's something users will do until the end of time. \\n The OP's problem is because he installed something he shouldn't have. Guaranteed. I'm not saying it's impossible, but a Windows system (particularly 7) seldom has these kinds of problems unless you're getting malware or installing stuff you shouldn't. OSX is less likely to be affected by malware because there's less of it, but more likely to simply decide you don't really need that preferences file and corrupt it. \\n This is just my anecdotal experience, but it's anecdotal experience having been responsible for thousands of systems over a long career. \\n If someone's going to ask me which system to get, it's basically going to come down to: \\\"What do you like more: Drop shadows, or money?\\\"\",\n \"Summary: Be honest, respectful. Don't assume you know her feelings (although you probably do) and be a good listener. Give her space, be professional and friendly at work and it won't be awkward.\\n\\nPost: A few times she has said that’s she’s really into me even though she’s fully aware that I’m not looking for anything serious. \\n She's 'fully aware' but still hanging around you hoping for it. \\n > I suppose I could just tell her that I don’t want to do this anymore but I know she is becoming attached... \\n You know she's becoming attached. I know it. Everyone here knows it. Don't say it. Give her the dignity of phrasing that a little better. \\\"I feel like this is turning into a relationship...\\\" \\n Girls (and guys) will sometimes hang around in a FWB situation because they're thinking the other person will come around. You know she's going in that direction by all the hints she's dropping. Those are CALCULATED hints, and by continuing to see her, in her mind you're accepting them and everything is going according to her plan. \\n > I guess I really shouldn’t be seeing a girl I work with. Lesson learned. \\n I disagree with this statement strongly. You spend more waking time with your coworkers than anyone else, including your friends and family. Where else will you find a pool of similar people to date? Nowhere in life (except college.) Just do it responsibly. \\n > So reddit, how do I break this in the cleanest way possible? \\n I won't put words in your mouth: But acknowledge all the awesome things about her, reaffirm that you're not in a place where you are looking for a relationship, and that you don't feel right about being a FWB right now. \\n Remember that girls take everything personally. Even if it really is just that you're not in that place in your life right now, she will think it's because she wasn't good enough in some way. In reality, it probably is, but I'll leave that for another day. \\n At the end of the day, it's her decision whether or not she will play recklessly with her emotions by being a FWB with a dude she actually likes. You're not her emotional babysitter. So don't beat yourself up over the situation too much. \\n So be respectful. Admit you don't have all the answers. Listen to her feelings, and give her some space. (Tell her you're being respectful of her space.) \\n Credentials: I've had FWB's at work many times over the years, and every single time we have gone back to just friends/coworkers successfully. Chances are her maturity allowed her to get her job in the first place, she can probably handle it well. If not, she probably wouldn't have worked out in the job OR the relationship in the first place.\",\n \"Summary: I think you have quite a bit more responsibility here than you're leading on to. I'm not attacking you, but I suggest that this is a good learning experience for you. Also, get a key.\\n\\nPost: 1) You don't have a key and you live there. That destroys your credibility to just about everything. Get a key to the place you live, regardless of absolutely everything else. It's $2, you can afford it. \\n 2) She dumped you. You gain little to nothing by impeding her ability to allow other dudes to rail her. In fact you'll be stronger the more supportive you are of this while you're forced to live with her. You will not and can not control her behavior- if she wants to hook up with other guys she will. What you can do is control your reaction to the situation. \\n 3) She sounds a bit unstable to begin with. Getting entangled with \\\"friends\\\" - then suggesting to get married and then getting bored and going and find another guy while she's living with you... live and learn. Fool me once, etc... Normal people do not do this. I bet if you were really close friends (by which I mean, you weren't just infatuated with her and hoping to nail her) for long enough, and you're honest with yourself, you could have seen this coming.\",\n \"Summary: Don't overestimate your importance in other people's lives, and move on.\\n\\nPost: It was one of the most awful experiences I have ever had to go through. \\n I just want to put things in perspective for you. How do you think the experience was for him? \\n > We weren't friends before so I don't feel obligated to fake a friendship with him, especially when I still have feelings for him. \\n You're under no obligation to remain \\\"friends\\\" with him whatsoever. Don't let him guilt you into it. \\n > Dated 2 guys my whole life, both turned out to be gay/questioning their sexuality. \\n You're 20. Chances are they're 18-24. This is the age range where people generally question and/or experiment with their sexuality. We've all seen girls making out with other girls at parties. Maybe you're just forming a closer relationship with these guys and they're comfortable with \\\"coming out\\\" to you. This certainly isn't a bad trait. \\n So for the most part, it's not about you, it's about them. But that doesn't help your dating situation... \\n > What do I do now? How do I approach dating? \\n Two guys at age 20 is hardly enough to establish a sufficient life-long pattern. At this point, coincidence is more than enough to explain it. \\n Or to put it another way - do you really there's something about you that can cause someone to change their entire sexuality? Obviously not. \\n So it really comes down to two possible questions: \\n 1) Are you attracting men that are really attracted to men? This would mean there's something about you that's masculine that they like and you're a magnet for these guys. At 20 and only two relationships, there's not enough evidence for this unless you've got a mustache and wear flannel and baseball caps all year. You can post some pics here and I'll give you an honest assessment, but I seriously doubt it's necessary. \\n 2) Are you rejecting guys that are really into you sexually? Maybe the reason you got together with these guys is because they weren't being as sexually aggressive as the other guys. Do you push guys away that show an interest in you physically? \\n I have a friend who's girlfriend changed teams while dating him and it put him through a lot, but he's since had several normal relationships. The girl also briefly became a stripper. The moral of the story is it wasn't about him - it was about her making some major lifestyle changes.\",\n \"Summary: go to japan, get a girlfriend instantly.\\n\\nPost: There's something else here that's implied but unstated: Sometimes if you just don't jive with the opposite sex in your culture, you can still connect with someone from another culture. This is because the social constructs are very different between cultures. \\n I can't believe height is as much as a problem to the women as it is to you. I can only say this having anecdotally seen the success of very short yet very social and outgoing guys with hot/tall women. So maybe it's a factor, and has indirectly caused you to be more insecure, but it's not the only factor.\",\n \"Summary: bothers me too.\\n\\nPost: Going into the friend zone isn't something that someone does to you. It's something you do to yourself when you're too afraid of rejection to properly ask someone out. \\n I find it sneaky and deceitful when someone tries to make friends with a person they desire but can't bring themselves to flirt or ask them out due to fear of rejection. It's like they're spying on the person to get intimate details that a romantic pursuer wouldn't because the guard is always up. \\n Sometimes this plays out for a decade or more, all while secretly harboring feelings and resenting all that time spent \\\"investing\\\" in the \\\"friendship.\\\" \\n This is a frequent (daily) theme in /r/relationships. Read my comment history and you'll see that I ... offer advice to these people frequently in a mostly futile attempt to eliminate this common misconception.\",\n \"Summary: Enjoy and appreciate her, don't get attached, work on improving your own self-image above all else. This year is all about you. \\n EDIT: I skipped this gem: \\n > But mostly, what am I doing wrong that no one ever wants anything real with me? \\n You just covered everything that \\\"nobody\\\" wants to do with you in this single sentence. It's brilliant actually. The fact that you believe nobody wants anything real to do with you probably scares people off. You may be analyzing too much. If you have fun with someone, and they have fun with you, maybe it's enough. We're not necessarily going to make an intimate emotional connection with everyone we meet. \\n If you ask a girl out and she rejects you, it's no more a failure on you than folding a hand at poker is a failure at playing poker. Winning a single hand is irrelevant, you need to play for the long haul, folding many times and betting wisely, so that you come out ahead in the end. It's probably the same with friends. Everyone is an individual, but nobody is special. If you think you're so special that you're the only person on earth that absolutely nobody likes, then I'd almost say you have an ego problem... almost :).\\n\\nPost: She sounds lonely, like you. \\n > she's said to me that she doesn't want anything serious. \\n From your posting, depression, and general negativity, it sounds like she doesn't want to emotionally support you. I don't blame her. People want to be with someone that inspires them to be their best, not that they have to support. \\n > What if I become too attached? \\n You're lonely, so it's possible you'll become attached to any girl that gives you the time of day right now. You need to realize that just because she's being nice to you right now does not in any way mean that you're special to her - you're just there for her right now. \\n > We live together, so is what we're doing wise? \\n Yes. In fact, it's oh-so-wise. And convenient. But with one catch: as long as you're mature enough to handle it. \\n Be impartial. Appreciate her for giving you some affection right now. \\n Use this to enjoy her and your current connection to the fullest, and be happy to have had the time with her when you split up. \\n Meanwhile, your only path to happiness is going to be with yourself, not with a relationship. I'd actually recommend you avoid getting seriously involved with someone until you get yourself in order. If you're staying in school and actively seeking help, then you have a leg up on a lot of other folks in your mental situation.\",\n \"Summary: If long term support, cost, and stability are your main concerns, Blackberry. If you want something cool (actually really cool) and trendy get the iPhone.\\n\\nPost: I prefer blackberries. Many parts and nearly all accessories are interchangable. Most modern blackberries have SD card support. They're very, very durable and easy/cheap to fix in case you happen to break something. Almost all BB's (besides the storm) connect to devices and charge with a standard USB port. The headphone jack is nothing special (actually some iPhones do require special headphone jacks because of the depth.) \\n A blackberry fits into my existing technology ecosystem perfectly, without buying proprietary adapters, connectors, dealing with BS software installs, etc. Also, it's trivial to save/backup/restore all your data from one device to another. I have a 6 year old blackberry in the closet for emergencies. If something happens to my current hardware, I just restore a backup and go. \\n iPhones are very nice, have really cool games and apps, and are a bit sexy. If you use your phone for \\\"fun\\\" then I strongly recommend it. The amount of cool apps and games available for iPhone are unrivaled on any platform. You're going to pay through the nose, for the plan, battery changes, any work done, etc. Not for a budget or longevity. \\n I don't recommend anything running windows mobile, only for the fact that you absolutely cannot be far from a power source for long. Email was pretty crappy on them as I recall until recently as well. \\n HTC devices are usually leading edge in terms of hardware and \\\"features\\\" - but most of them are on windows mobile. You're also not going to get any serviceable parts that will go from one model to the next. I tend to shy away from the bleeding edge- I want my phone to work solidly and you don't get that on 1st gen hardware (which seems like most HTC stuff is.) Good bang for the buck though. \\n Nokia has fallen out of my favor since the smartphone paradigm shift, but they've got some hot stuff coming out. The N900 comes to mind.\",\n \"Summary: you're right, they're wrong.\\n\\nPost: First of all, I'm sorry for your loss. I can't imagine what it would be like to go through that. But from your post you sound like a well adjusted individual and I think you're going to do fine. \\n Secondly, a woman in your position, 32 y/o, responsible, with a kid and having \\\"been through it\\\" makes you very, very desirable in my opinion, for either long term committed or short term shenannegans. I hope you know you're at the top end of the market. \\n Having said that, let me replay the absurdity of these guys that are annoyed at you for not mentioning your situation: \\n Him: \\\"Hi there little lady. My name is Studly DewRight, can I take you out on a date?\\\" \\n You: \\\"Wow Studly, you're so Handsome! Of course! Tee-hee! By the way, my last husband is DEAD and I'm raising our kid all by myself.\\\" \\n Him: \\\"...\\\" \\n There is no social context where that's appropriate to mention upon first meeting. Anyone that's annoyed by that is a little simple. I think you have the right approach. Keep in mind that average dudes tend to be way less observant of social rules than average females, so they may not have just thought this through. I won't pass the judgement hammer of saint d-bag down on any of these guys just yet. \\n It may be appropriate to reject a first date and give up your phone number instead. Get to know the dude a bit (may not be a bad idea anyway) and drop in that you spawned nearly a decade ago before setting up the details of the first date. It's only appropriate to mention that you're a widow if asked, or until you naturally get to that sort of stage in the relationship. \\n > lately, there has been something in the water that is causing any dating I do to come out of chatting in line at the coffee shop, or at the bookstore, and so on. \\n ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE WARNING: I find that girls I meet in the 32-34 range have this happen frequently as a result of surging hormones. There's some unconscious flirty body language happening.\",\n \"Summary: This guy is one badly cooked steak away from beating you into a coma. Don't be one of those girls on the news, please.\\n\\nPost: My husband has a temper, which I think most men do, but his can get really bad, where he breaks things. \\n You seem to be mistaken. Men do not break things when angry, although petulant children sometimes do. \\n > and he thinks he is going to go a week without speaking to me, and then see how he feels. \\n This is the anger of a small child throwing a tantrum. He's \\\"punishing\\\" you. This is so far removed from how a husband and wife treat each other it's almost a bad joke. \\n > Really a week, are you nuts? \\n You know the answer to that already. \\n > What the hell do I do? \\n You know what you should do. \\n > What do I do? How do I make this better? \\n What you mean is: How do you make him better? You can't. He may choose to make himself better at some point in the future, but right now he doesn't see himself as the problem, he sees you as the problem. \\n As long as you stay with him, you're validating his behavior and letting him know that he's right. \\\"Punishing\\\" you by not speaking to you for a week is obviously working because it has you upset. When this stuff works and you tip-toe around his anger, you \\\"prove him right.\\\" \\n Re-read your post. Now read it again. You're not focused on how to stabilize your life, and you're not even thinking about your child. You're thinking on how to better tiptoe around his tantrums and not make him so angry. \\n > I am truly madly in love with him \\n Everyone in an abusive relationship is. Why do you think you deserve it? Do you think he will somehow get better when you add the stress of a child into the mix? \\n His anger has nothing to do with you, and as such you cannot do anything to prevent or mitigate it. He may choose to do something about it and seek therapy or self-help methods, but as long as you stay with him you are validating and encouraging his behavior. Why would he change as long as he has someone encouraging him? \\n I could go on for hours about this. You need to leave this guy. For his sake, for yours, and especially your child's. \\n I'm not going to go into all the reasons why people seek and stay in abusive relationships, but you're doing it and will probably continue to do it no matter what I say. \\n I will try to appeal to your sense of motherhood for the sake of your innocent child and beg you not to teach him/her that that abuse is acceptable by staying around with this guy. Cut him out of your life completely, and get a court order that he has to seek anger management counseling for visitation rights for the baby.\",\n \"Summary: Figure out what you want first.\\n\\nPost: What do you want to do? Sleep with her again? Break up with her? Work out the relationship? \\n Sort that out first. The recommendation from here is going to be to dump her immediately and have as little contact with her as possible going forward. \\n Basically there was something in her relationship or life she didn't like, so she had to get out of town and act on a fantasy. Obviously not the best way to handle being dissatisfied, but she did it. \\n It's unlikely, but not impossible, that she really wants to stay with you. \\n At this point, full breakup can be more or less implied. No need to have a big fight or discussion, she's already ended it unless you feel the need to and take steps to reconcile. But if you do, make sure it's only with great remorse, acknowledgement and ownership of the issue and ALL issues in your relationship on her side. \\n It's very likely that she's going to come back blaming you for some issues in the relationship and make herself feel justified and in fact the victim in this situation. If she does this, just disengage from her and let her go on about her life. There's no point in arguing the fact. \\n She may not want to talk about it because she doesn't feel like the lines of communication are open, and this was her passive-aggressive way of controlling her situation. She can't dump you, so she'll cheat on you and make you dump her.\",\n \"Summary: You're a predator, preying on someone without the experience or fortitude to turn you away.\\n\\nPost: I still don't think you're real, and I think you're trolling for some reason. \\n The only way I can imagine anybody writing this is to gauge the reaction of the community to prove some kind of point... \\n Why? Your post and responses are too arch-typical. James Cameron couldn't have done a better job. \\n ...but I'll go ahead give you advice based on the person you portrayed to see how you respond. \\n > I have been in some very fulfilling committed relationships in my life and am generally comfortable flirting with girls. \\n I'm suspicious about this. Describe your relationships briefly. \\n > I met a girl around a year ago and we became very good friends. \\n What website did you meet her on? You met her when she was 20 and you were 27? Usually those age groups don't mix too much. You're also not friends by any definition. Every interaction you have with her is focused on sleeping with her. You're nicer to her than you would be to real friends. \\n Massages: Of course you want to put your hands on a hot 21 year old. Who wouldn't? You're using the guise of friendship to form a physical bond with this girl. Basically lying to her. \\n Down-talking the boyfriend: This is because you're weak and can't sell her on your own merits. Unless she's an idiot, she sees this as making you look weak as well. It does not help you get with her at all, and if it does, you don't/shouldn't want a person that simple minded. \\n She's not your best friend. You're a lonely guy that's having trouble getting girls, and this one is nice to you / tolerates you. It's also probable that this one is much hotter than the girls you normally get, so you're more excited about her. You make things easy on her because you like her, so she sees you as an easy person to be around that doesn't challenge her. This is not a friendship, or the start of a new relationship. It's a lonely dude and a confused girl. \\n You're using your age and \\\"experience\\\" to lie to and corner this girl into having sex with you. She thought she saw it, and you basically berated her into crying about it. \\n Advice 1: If you want to sleep with her, I suggest mixing alcohol in with your massage sessions. Lay off the boyfriend subject completely. \\n Advice 2: If you want to be happy with your life, I suggest you put some of this energy into meeting someone that isn't as confused and vulnerable as she is.\",\n \"Summary: The last thing either of you need, can handle, or should subject any other human to is a relationship.\\n\\nPost: Sweet, baby Jesus. \\n I'm not going to do the usual of analyzing how problematic this relationship is for both of you line by line. Just re-read it. If the text you wrote seems OK or normal to you, then you have much bigger problems than this relationship. I will answer your questions directly: \\n > How can I sleep without his hug. \\n The same way everyone else on earth sleeps. \\n > How can I survive college without him. \\n The same way everyone else \\\"survives\\\" college. Why is college so tragic/epic for you? \\n > Who is going to take care of us if not each other. \\n Neither of you knows how to take care of your selves yet. How are you going to take care of someone else if you don't even have your own act together? \\n > its college! Its time to have fun and not have stress, \\n Wrong, wrong wrong. College is, yes, time for some fun and learning about yourself, but mostly about getting a piece of paper so you can sit on the job market for months while you feel entitled to a gold plated ferrari. If you're not stressed about getting good grades (and more focused on finding parties and drugs) then I have on piece of advice for you: Yes, I would like fries with that. \\n > this relationship is to mature for us. \\n No, it's not a mature relationship. It's an immature relationship from immature people. I'm not saying that to be harsh, but you did ask for some help. The first step to this is realize just how much help you both need, independently.\",\n \"Summary: kiss her.\\n\\nPost: The ethical person in me tells me to wait my turn. \\n That's the weak person in you. The 'ethical' person to whom you're referring doesn't exist - you're already spending way too much time with a girl that is involved with someone else. I don't have a problem with it, but don't BS yourself about it. \\n > The alpha male in me tells me to kiss her. \\n There are exactly three possible outcomes from this. \\n 1> She reciprocates, confesses her feelings for you, and leaves her boyfriend for you. A few years later she leaves you for another dude. \\n 2> She reciprocates and you have a fun fling. \\n 3> She rejects you and you lose your 'friendship,' causing you to go and pursue girls you actually have a chance with. \\n If you don't kiss her, there are two possibilities: \\n 1> You continue to have feelings for her for years, passing up chances with girls that might actually like you, only to one day finally 'confess' to her, only to have her say that she likes you as a friend (because you spent YEARS convincing her that's all you are). \\n 2> Actually I don't see any other way that could go. Don't be a loser. \\n You've got nothing to lose if you kiss her. Absolutely nothing.\",\n \"Summary: Do it. \\n EDIT: looks like I need to take my own advice :)\\n\\nPost: I have a crazy/supportive family. A great boyfriend. Wonderful loving friends and a job that fulfills me. \\n You have achieved what many people struggle their whole lives to get but never find: happiness and stability. Appreciate it. \\n > Yet every night I fantasize about picking up and leaving this bitch. \\n Whoops. :) \\n > I'm in my 20s, and everywhere around me I feel people are stitching their plans and ideas on to me. \\n Do you mean they're telling you that you have to get married, have 2.5 kids and a dog, drive a minivan, etc? Don't listen to them, you've got to want it for yourself or you'll resent it. \\n > Perhaps my life is not so great as I imagine it to be. \\n On the contrary. Your life is far greater than you imagine it to be. You could be living in a shack in central america, selling individual sticks of gum out of a pack at an intersection, commuting 4 hours each way only to get mugged on your way home at night. That's... probably a billion other people. \\n > I dream up detailed little fantasies of deserts I'd like to get lost in or forests I'd like to explore. \\n The deserts will kill you from dehydration. The forests have all kinds of poisons that will make you wish you were in the desert dehydrating. \\n > I read about these fascinating individuals doing wonderful things wanting so badly to just taste the bit of adventure they have. \\n People that are adventuring live their dreams 24/7. You sit in an air conditioned room and read about an article of some dude walking 4,000 miles over a few years through uninhabited jungle, or a girl sailing around the world on her own, but meanwhile they're nearly dying, suffering awful diseases, life threatening situations, sometimes dying or cutting off their own limbs to survive, etc. They're training or practicing for years to do what they do and are quite rightly labeled \\\"crazy\\\" by everyone around them. Imagine thinking about something and preparing for it as often as you breathe. Adventure is not romantic, and if you want to taste a little bit of it, you need to taste a lot of other things first. \\n > For a little while I wandered driving around for no reason, getting lost and playing the adventurer. \\n I did this when I was 16. Just go down a road. Make a turn. Make another turn. Pull over and sleep for a bit. Find some food. Meet some people. Great fun, actually! \\n > But in the quest to be an adult I settled back home. \\n I think you meant \\\"adult.\\\" Adult by whose standards? \\n > Have you ever had this itch in your mind/heart/soul to just explore? To leave it all behind and just go? \\n Yes. And I have. I've been all over the world - well, not to Africa (yet.) I've gone out into dangerous places. I've had guns pointed at me, and been on the wrong end of a minefield. I've walked out the door in countries where I didn't know the language or the terrain and just gone walking. I've woken up in a hospital where I literally could not communicate with any of the staff because of the language barrier. \\n More than once I thought I was going to die. I've even been to the point where I accepted it and felt the readiness of being at peace. This is what it means to go adventuring, not going on a tour bus to some museum you saw on a website. \\n But... I played soccer with 12 year old children that looked 5 due to malnutrition.... some just watched... (above mentioned minefield.) They actually asked me where I learned English!! They ate in a week what you and I have in a day, but they were so happy to play with me. That will change your life. I've seen jungles and mountains and jungles on mountains and mountains in jungles.... that were so majestic, the pictures do them no justice at all. I've seen snow covered mountains.... from the beach. I've met yoga masters, musicians, people practicing arts or religions or speaking languages that will probably die with our generation. \\n Most Americans think \\\"Hey I'd like to visit Europe one day...\\\" but there are literally millions of cultures to experience and they are all happy and see the world from their tiny little pocket in their own way. It's really no different from being in small town, USA from that perspective. \\n > ...To leave it all behind and just go? Opinions, stories and perspectives are greatly appreciated. \\n Do it. It's terrible and wonderful, and it will literally change your life. You'll appreciate what you have, whatever it is , so much more than you can imagine right now.\",\n \"Summary: You're thinking too much, just do her if she'll let you. \\n EDIT: Oh yeah, and do this:\\n\\nPost: I might just be trying to get some subconsciously. \\n Yep. \\n > Another thing is that my roommate that I have now has also slept with her, so that makes things kind of awkward. \\n Yep. \\n > she is almost marriable tho \\n Doubt it. Sounds like she's just having fun, and you're already pretty attached. Too attached, and you've put her on a pedestal. You should put your penis in her and stop thinking about it so much. \\n I sort of nailed the chick my brother liked. Oops. It happens. But the chances are, particularly in this case, that she'll only let the one of you she likes have her. Or neither. Don't forget she's got a choice in the matter too. You're sorely mistaken if you think this is just a matter between you and your buddy.\",\n \"Summary: It's very possible to be successful by most common success metrics without a degree. For some people, a degree might slow your career down.\\n\\nPost: I think you missed my point. The question was: \\n > So how do you begin a career without a college degree? \\n In a world where the OP saw no way other than a degree to start a career, I answered in the extreme - that from some viewpoints and individuals, getting a degree slows down a career. \\n I see what you're saying. Your perspective is that most people need a degree to be successful in most careers. I won't dispute you, nor will I agree. It is certainly the most common way of going about things. \\n I also agree I couldn't be a doctor or lawyer, or scientist (chemical, materials, etc.) without lots of academia. Besides those three specific things, anyone could be successful in a \\\"career\\\" with a huge jump-start on their peers by getting experience early, if they are motivated and have direction. You're right that I never considered such careers as I see them as having very limited potential. Even if I were an Actuary billing $300/hr or more, I'm still limited by my own personal work at ~40hrs/week. I'd rather earn a percentage of a scalable workforce effort or product sales. \\n I don't see where my ego comes into play. I was stating a series of facts to serve as an example, provide a different viewpoint, and to encourage the OP. \\n > I don't imagine your company is recruiting many top 20 grads. \\n I don't know what that is. Is it a list of special schools? Not interested. It sounds like a dong-measuring contest. I'll recruit individuals based on their individual attributes, enthusiasm, and experience. \\n > What company do you work for? Fortune 500? \\n Not that I find it relevant, but since you asked: My clients include half of the top 10 brands in the world, Fortune 100. Not currently at a Fortune 500 company, but spent most of the last decade at two. Maybe this will give more credibility to my perspective for you, maybe not. \\n I really didn't mean to poo-poo on all you nice folks that spent so much time and money in school. Maybe you guys needed it, but not everyone does. I'm detecting a bit of resentment here.\",\n \"Summary: You can have everything you want, but you have to first stop wanting what you think you already have.\\n\\nPost: I have basically two points I could use some help with, first off what is the etiquette with dating in a situation like mine \\n You have a FWB. You're also friends with your ex. Being friends with your ex is something for a new girl to know when/if you ever talk about ex's. I don't recommend talking about specific details. Don't name your ex, but let your new girl know that you remain friends with your ex's. I recommend staying vauge on the ex discussion, if it ever happens. \\n The new girl(s) don't necessarily need to know that you have a FWB, but they need to know you're the type of person that's OK with casual sex. They could turn out to be your next FWB without the emotional strings attached. \\n Stop having sex with one girl when you start having sex with another. Unless they're in the same room of course ;). \\n > when/how are you expected to talk about exclusivity in a new relationship? \\n Generally for me this is when sex starts and looks like it's going to be regular. If it's a one night stand or drunken tryst, obviously exclusivity doesn't matter. \\n > When should I tell my FWB? \\n I like FWB's as an impartial but intimate source of advice and action regarding \\\"real\\\" relationships. I tend to be very honest with FWB's. If you're truly friends with your ex, you should be able to talk about anything. \\n You: \\\"Hey, look at this girl I met!\\\" \\n Her: \\\"She's hot! You should totally do her!!\\\" \\n etc, and vice versa. The problem here is your entwined feelings. Can you encourage her to get off thinking about the new guy that she likes but hasn't boned yet? If not, you may not be able to handle this FWB. \\n > I don’t want to be deceitful but on the flip side I do not feel the need to give every potential GF my life history on the first date. \\n This is wise. \\n > Also really worried about hurting my friends feelings, I know this will not be easy for her. \\n If you're talking about your current FWB/ex - you should be able to encourage each other and give honest helpful insight with new relationships. If not, neither of you will be able to seek a new relationship. \\n > The second and VERY important for me is how do I keep my FWB as a friend in the long term? She is really the first person I have ever had this kind of deep emotional connection with and consider her the best friend I have ever had, I really really do not want to lose her as a friend, can you transition to just friends when so many feelings are involved? \\n You want to be friends with her in 20 years? Then ironically, this has to not be the #1 priority in your life. You have too much of an attachment to her. So much that it's going to prevent you from living a fulfilling life. If you're not engaged and fulfilled in your life, you're going to dwell on a time you think was better- namely with her. You'll become bitter towards her for moving on, it will come out in your \\\"friendship\\\" and you'll become distant. \\n Also, don't be so dramatic about your deep emotional connection. You're young, although you neglected to post your ages. You will connect with more people if you get out there and keep trying.\",\n \"Summary: If you see a girl and you're attracted to her, don't think about it too much or assume you're going to fail, just go for it.\\n\\nPost: This brings up another point - I find it extremely attractive when a women has goals and ambitions. Do women also find the quality attractive in men? \\n This is one of the things that attracted me to my girlfriend. If my girl winds up making more money than me, I think it's awesome. :) But it isn't about money, it's about being hardworking and wanting to accomplish things in life. Hopefully she will keep me motivated as well and we can help each other achieve our dreams. \\n > I have social skills; it just seems she is more interested in the guy across the room with a nice jaw-line (who can barely put a sentence together), than an average looking engineering student who is trying to accomplish something in his life. \\n You're selling yourself short here. Really, don't assume you know what a girl prefers before ever talking to her. As an aside, most of the girls I've dated (and indeed the one I'm about to marry) have come right out and said I'm not their usual type. At the end of the day it's all about your chemistry and compatibility. Maybe the guy with the nice jaw-line just assumes that all girls like a guy with a nice jaw-line automatically, thus he's able to present himself honestly and openly, giving him more success? Just some things to chew on for you. \\n > But I think you are right, women are looking for a \\\"bad\\\" guy when they are out at the bar. \\n Most of the time I've found this to be the case. \\\"Girl's night out\\\" = \\\"Let's find some guys to do.\\\" I really don't mean this in a bad way, nor am I saying it's always the case, it's just been my experience that it's the case more often than not. I've been the only dude with a large group of girls (I do not recommend this unless you really like talking about shoes and hair,) and picked up girls in a GNO. If girls in a group are really not interested in meeting dudes for a hookup, they'll go to a gay bar.\",\n \"Summary: just do it. \\n Out of the blue is totally fine. You might make her day.\\n\\nPost: I'm a huge fan of dating in the workplace. Just be responsible about it. You don't want to date immature people anyway, so don't ask out immature coworkers and everyone is good. \\n Walk into her office, ask her out, if she says yes, schedule it and leave. If she says no, it's totally fine. \\n There is nothing at all legally or morally wrong with simply asking a coworker out on a date. The legal definition of inappropriate workplace behavior is something that might make any party witness or involved in an activity uncomfortable. So if you slap a girl on the butt, she may like it (probably won't) but someone else might see it or hear about it and feel uncomfortable, therefore it's inappropriate.\",\n \"Summary: go for it.\\n\\nPost: Why do you like her? Because she's hot. Do you have any actual chemistry? It sounds like no because she doesn't know your name at this point. \\n Regardless - you're far better off talking to her now rather than later. \\n If you talk to her at this point it's going to be clear to her that you're only talking to her because you think she's hot / want to get in her pants, and it's true because you really don't know her or have any chemistry with her at this point. \\n I'd catch up to her after class and ask her if she wants to review something right then and there. Don't make plans to run off or grab lunch somewhere, just be spontaneous and ask her right then and there. \\n Once you've got some one-on-one time, if there's any chemistry you can sense it. When you get a little play time in, ask her if she's got a boyfriend and if she would want to make plans with you sometime. \\n The key is not to wait for anything. Don't build it up in your head. Just go for it when/where you see it. \\n And remember: Rejection is not a failure. Do not fear it. Rejection is a badge of honor, and it's only one step in the path to success. Failure is not trying. If nothing else, she's practice.\",\n \"Summary: move on, X doesn't respect you. new girl is probably not as awesome as you think. Enjoy life. \\n PS: If you ever get a shot, there is absolutely nothing in the world like NSA sex with the ex. You have not lived until you've experienced this. May the force be with you.\\n\\nPost: Ok... let's break it down. \\n > This new girl is really awesome! Just everything that she's doing and acting these past three weeks is just blowing my mind. We did have sex, and well....it was some really really.....really good sex. \\n You and the new girl are both in your infatuation phase of the relationship. The really good sex is also part of it. Can you clarify - did you have sex with this girl a week after you met her? I wholeheartedly approve, but there is a chance that if this is the case she's got a little bit of the crazy in her. Crazy is often really good in bed. \\n > My X calls up crying. At this point this woman has told me everything under the sun to say that she's sorry she said that and that she wants me back and well blah blah blah. \\n Let me tell you what actually happened. \\n Your X met a new guy that you probably don't know about. She started to see things in the new guy that she felt you were missing. This, possibly combined with some advice from some friends, lead her to break up with you and pursue the other guy. \\n For whatever reason, things didn't work out with that guy. Either he wasn't really interested in a relationship once he found out she was single, turned out to be gay, or as soon as she got past the honeymoon phase with him, she started to see the cracks in his armor and realized that nobody's perfect, etc. I can virtually promise you there was another guy she was infatuated with, regardless of whether or not there was anything mutual or real going on. \\n You are your X's runner up. Even if there isn't another guy (which I highly, highly doubt) you're telling her that she can treat you however she likes, take you for granted, and you'll just be waiting around for her when she changes her mind... again. \\n I suggest telling the X you're trying to move on and that she made her decision. A 3 year engagement sounds pretty long anyway, and I think if you guys had really wanted to, you would have done the wedding already. \\n Enjoy the new girl, but watch out for the crazy. You probably don't see it now, but it might hit you when you least expect it. \\n Being in a relationship for 7 years does NOT mean you're good at dating. This girl is all new, and you're going to be very surprised after your honeymoon period with things that are different about her compared to your X. Give her a fair shot. \\n The X is playing on your male instinct to keep girls from crying at any cost. Try to limit contact with her as much as possible. \\n Regardless of having a new girl in your life, it's best to move on. You obviously weren't too hung up on the X to begin with.\",\n \"Summary: Yes, very clingly :). The clingiest.\\n\\nPost: As a very good friend am I not entitled to some kind of explanation? Or is that clingy as well? Sorry, I am new to this game. \\n No, you're not entitled to anything . A girl doesn't owe it to you to tell you why she doesn't like you. You're assuming that she must like you unless there's a specific reason, possibly to negotiate with. \\\"Oh, you don't like my nose? Then I'll get a nosejob!\\\" What would be the point? \\n Most girls are not going to just have that spark that makes them like you, and they don't owe you an explanation for that. It also makes them uncomfortable. How would you feel if an ugly girl came up to you and asked you why you think she's ugly?\",\n \"Summary: Yes, very clingly :). The clingiest.\\n\\nPost: As a very good friend am I not entitled to some kind of explanation? Or is that clingy as well? Sorry, I am new to this game. \\n No, you're not entitled to anything . A girl doesn't owe it to you to tell you why she doesn't like you. You're assuming that she must like you unless there's a specific reason, possibly to negotiate with. \\\"Oh, you don't like my nose? Then I'll get a nosejob!\\\" What would be the point? \\n Most girls are not going to just have that spark that makes them like you, and they don't owe you an explanation for that. It also makes them uncomfortable. How would you feel if an ugly girl came up to you and asked you why you think she's ugly?\",\n \"Summary: Sleeping with a guy who won't commit and stringing along two others. \\n You don't like being strung along by John, but you want to keep your options open with the other guys. Sound like what John may be doing to you? How do you think the other guys feel? Don't string them along, either.\\n\\nPost: Soon we were having wonderful kinky sex that just kept getting better and better. We’ve tried so many new things together and both agree that our sexual chemistry is amazing. \\n This is the blessing (curse?) of FWB/NSA sex. Haven't reasoned this out yet, but people will generally go way farther in the kinky domain when it's NSA/FWB. Don't think that means he is magical or the one for you. It's the nature of the beast. Don't judge future relationships or guys by this standard, either. \\n > He even told me he was still in love with his ex. After sex we’d have rambling philosophical discussions and he’d often muse about the failure of their relationship. \\n Great FWB relationship. \\n > He says he really cares about me and wonders whether he’s being a selfish jerk. \\n He's being completely honest with you. There's absolutely nothing selfish or jerkish about that. You can make your own decisions about whether you want to take what he's offering you or not. \\n > But then he also told me I'm out of his league. \\n That's BS. He's lying to himself, or trying to be polite to you. \\n > Am I crazy to still be into this guy who doesn’t know what he wants? \\n You're the most into the guy that is the least into you. That's pretty damn normal. Crazy world. \\n > Do I only like him so much because fucking him shoots so much dopamine into my brain? \\n Why do you think that happens? Because he's aloof and you have to work hard to get his attention. You're mixing up the cause and effect. \\n > Should I end my trysts with John and try for a relationship with one of the other guys? \\n Frankly, you're young. I think you should have fun and let loose. When you're ready to settle down, do not accept anything less than someone that gives you 100% commitment. \\n > And then maybe, eventually, when he’s done with his thesis and feeling less confused, try for something more than just sex? \\n Put that out of your head forever. This guy is not going to ever give you the commitment you think you want from him. Waiting around for him will make him respect you less, not more. He's Mr Fun, not Mr Forever. \\n > I’d also like to know whether you think I have a right to be annoyed with him for being so communicative in some ways and yet so distant in others. \\n No, you shouldn't be annoyed with him. He's distant in the ways you want him to be close, but he never agreed to that - you made it up on your own, so you've got to deal with those consequences on your own. \\n >\",\n \"Summary: Just use the 3 day rule :). \\n Also, a first date on a Friday or Saturday is a bad idea. You've always got awesome plans on Friday or Saturday night because you're an awesome and sociable person, and she's not important enough (yet) for those key days because you don't know her yet.\\n\\nPost: Personally and anecdotally, calling the next day has never worked for me. Calling the next day for a Friday date is going to turn all girls off, unless she's already very into you. Even if she is into you, a next day call may put her off. Normally I agree with \\\"just call when you want,\\\" and sometimes do myself, but girls read way more into trivial decisions than you or I could ever imagine.\",\n \"Summary: Get over yourself.\\n\\nPost: instead of, oh I don't know, something stupid like; THE QUALITY OF MY DEGREE. \\n I know you worked hard for it, but as an employer, let me tell you that very, very few positions will give a damn about how hard you worked on your degree or a class project. \\n > Why is it that you create a situation where you employ those who are best at lying rather then those who have shown themselves to be hard workers, or proven their intelligence? \\n A degree, education, and coursework results have shown me exactly zero relationship to an employee's fitness to perform a particular task. \\n You know all the idiots that graduated with you? The people that didn't do shit in group work? They're all out in the workforce as well. \\n > It just seems that the best way to get a job presently isn't to work hard, but join a sports society, go out and get pissed, and then make out that it shows great character development. Or have a well connected Daddy. \\n You forgot being extremely attractive. That helps too. \\n But here is why I think you're really not getting a job: \\n > Surely you know that the my real answer is that I got it off a fucking recruitment website, you aren't special at all. \\n I don't want to hire someone that is just collecting a paycheck. I want to hire someone that would do some version of what they're doing for me on their own if they didn't need a paycheck. Someone that cares about my industry enough to know something about my company. \\n People that are just there to collect a paycheck do the minimum necessary to not get fired. I don't want those people. \\n Everything about your attitude and approach to this is telling me that I, as the employer, have to play by your rules to have the honor of your services. That's not how it works. I've got cash, I need a job done. \\n If I can choose between two equal pieces of paper (resumes,) I'm going to go with the one that was written by a person that's got more enthusiasm. \\n I've literally heard \\\"Maybe I'd work harder if they paid me more,\\\" from someone of your generation. I can't even tell you how backwards that is in my brain. \\n One more thing you're kind of missing. Having \\\"connections\\\" means that you're invested and participate in your field enough that you know people. Whatever field you're in, there are half a dozen networking groups in your area, of professionals that talk about what they're doing and learn from each other. Yes, connections are good, but the fact that you're able to make connections and that people trust you is really why. I would never in a million years give a job to someone or recommend them just because I like them if I didn't think they were capable. Yes, there are people that will hire you just because you play golf with them, but they are in the minority because a hiring manager fails when they hire incompetent people. It's just not a viable strategy.\",\n \"Summary: The sexy maid outfit is the least of your problems, but at least try to do her in it once before things get any worse.\\n\\nPost: She uses hysterical situations and crying to control you and prevent you from calling her out on her BS. \\n Her BS is that she'd rather be partying with friends than being responsible and faithful to you. \\n You're enabling her by being a doormat. \\n I don't think you're being overprotective as much as you are just being manipulated by her. She wants a caring, protective boyfriend so she can have a boyfriend, but she also wants to go out and party and do wild college stuff. You're not a real priority for her at this point in her life, but she feels like she's supposed to have a boyfriend like you so she hasn't dumped you yet. \\n Eventually what she wants (partying) will conflict with what she thinks she's supposed to have (you) so much that she won't be able to ignore it and leave you. She may trying to do that now passive-aggressively by showing you how you're less important than hazing and partying, but eventually it will escalate into her cheating on you. \\n This is a somewhat normal transition for people to make when they get to college. You should be focusing on your life and having fun right now, too.\",\n \"Summary: Yahoo! Answers.\\n\\nPost: Game theory tells us why this will never stop: Going to the front is simply the dominant strategy. No matter what everyone else does, shoving to the front will always give you the best view & access. \\n So true. I wonder how this also applies to fucking up our traffic situations. \\n > ... what? \\n Ask yourself these questions: \\n 1) What's the ratio of people that are entertained by zoom/enhance to the people that complain about it? \\n 2) Take 10 people. How many unique American Idol (or insert your favorite reality/whatever show here) contestants/actors can be named in this group? Now how many inventors of things they use every day, or Nobel winners can they name? Which list is longer? \\n 3) Ask anyone their favorite brand of soda, shoe, clothing, etc. Ask them why. Realize that all soda is sugar water, and most of their clothes from different vendors come from Pakistan. Repeat for car, toilet paper, toothpaste, etc etc. Their preference is really what advertising they've been exposed to the most. \\n 4) How many people around you could really change their own tire if it went flat on the highway? \\n 5) How many hours would the average person survive in the wilderness with basic equipment and no supplies? \\n 6) Ask a group to list famous athletes and what they play. Then ask them to list Nobel prize winners and why they won. Which list is longer? \\n My point is that people are primarily concerned with useless things like the prime time TV line up, and not concerned at all with useful things like how the stuff they use in their daily lives work even on a basic level.\",\n \"Summary: Video chat. Make sure your talks include some flirting and/or romance. \\n And whatever you do- don't make the 10 hour drive (5hrs each way) before you mutually agree and both know and have clearly stated there is romantic interest and a non-zero chance of sexual intercourse, since it will probably be an overnight visit.\\n\\nPost: I promise there are literally hundreds, if not thousands of girls within a reasonable range that you can connect with if you try. \\n I think you've escalated this girl a little bit in your mind because she's being nice to you and is \\\"reciprocating\\\" the attention you're giving her online. After all, how many girls suggest you become facebook friends after exchanging a couple of messages on OKC? Probably not many. \\n From someone that's hooked up with girls online before (me): I think you need a strong reality check. Chemistry happens in person, or it doesn't. You have no idea where this girl's head is right now, and for all you know she is having the same conversations with a dozen guys or chatrooms every day. Some people have very active online social lives. \\n Try a video chat with her and see how that goes. You'll get 100% of her attention, or not. You'll either have some romantic flirting on the video cam, or zero. \\n Also, some people like to initiate relationships with people that are far away because they're afraid they'll screw things up if they have to see the other person too often. Are you or she one of those kinds of people?\",\n \"Summary: agreed.\\n\\nPost: I think she's gotta be pretty enthusiastic. There is some work involved, although it's not very technical. In other words it's not about the technique. If she's truly committed, she can generally be successful. \\n I generally don't get too much out of it so never request it. However when they really want to do it, then it works. Some girls absolutely love it. Others refuse to do it. Some will if asked. The ones that will if asked will want to do it occasionally when feeling especially naughty, in that case they can be successful too.\",\n \"Summary: Cut all contact. Delete from Facebook. Hit the gym. Stop making excuses, it's for your own good.\\n\\nPost: But what if we've been good friends for a long time and that friendship is something you treasure and hold dearly? \\n Translation: \\\"But what if you became friends with her because you couldn't ask her out directly, and hoped that by getting to know her non-romantically you could weasel your way into her pants?\\\" \\n Answer: Cut all contact. Delete from Facebook. Hit the gym. \\n > It's more of an emotional and friendship love we both mutually share, and it will probably never get sexual. \\n Translation: She never developed romantic feelings for you because you never approached her romantically or sexually until you already spent a lot of time establishing yourself as a platonic, non-threatening friend. You did this because you were inexperienced and/or afraid of rejection. \\n Answer: Cut all contact. Delete from Facebook. Hit the gym. \\n > So do the same rules apply? \\n You developed feelings for her all on your own, in your own world, without any reciprocation or romantic involvement. You put her on a pedestal. \\n Answer: Yes. \\n > I don't want to lose her from my life. \\n You don't want to lose a girl from your life that you have romantic feelings for that will never reciprocate them? That's.... pathetic. No offense, but it is, and precisely why you must Cut all contact. Delete from Facebook. Hit the gym. \\n If you're not building yourself and going out attempting to meet and attract new mates, you're going to be stuck on this girl for years. It happens so often it's sad. Don't be a statistic.\",\n \"Summary: women are different :)\\n\\nPost: Not everything women do or say, is flirting... but men who are clueless can interpret it as such. \\n Yes, agreed. But also: Some women flirt with men by default - it's just in their nature and it's not malicious or misleading, just innocent fun. Also, some women do flirt more than is strictly necessary because they like the attention... (this is why I also tend to be more flirty than is strictly necessary.)\",\n \"Summary: don't read this :)\\n\\nPost: You need advice from someone who waited nearly as long as you have for sex and getting married. I suggest not listening to anyone coming from anything other than this perspective. \\n > So basically, I am thinking that maybe I am wasting all of the years that I could be going out and hooking up with girls. \\n You're in your prime hooking-up years right now. This is important because you learn more about yourself when you're intimate with other people. I think people that wait until they're married do their future partners a disservice. This is why I cannot give you advice on the subject and why my only advice is that I recommend you're careful about who you listen to. \\n On second thought, contrast the responses of the \\\"waiters\\\" with the \\\"non-waiters.\\\" I suspect that the people that only have one partner in their lives don't know what they're missing so won't have much to complain about. On the other hand, some of them may be remorseful that they know something else is out there and they've never experienced it.\",\n \"Summary: If actions and words don't match up, look at actions and ignore the words.\\n\\nPost: He's just really defensive about stuff he knows he should do, nagging or not. \\n This is a conditioned response for him. If you're even talking about things he should do, it's because you're bringing them up and he's not doing them. This is nagging. Particularly when they're things that are obvious to you you that should be done, such as dishes or the trash. \\n Also, why is he defensive in the first place? Basically he doesn't feel like doing the dishes or taking out the trash. If the two of you had separate lives, his trash and dishes would be piled up all the time. Yours would not. The two of you have vastly different definitions of what he \\\"knows he should do.\\\" He probably says \\\"Yeah I need to do this and that...\\\" without really feeling it. If actions and words differ, look at actions, always. \\n > Nah its easy to find fault with me but when I make a one sentence suggestion for him to go to bed and he later regrets not going to bed for 3 days in a row (he has to get up early th and fri to go to work at like 5 am) its a slam dunk for how stupid he is about managing his affairs. \\n Again, the guy isn't really interested in changing his behavior. When he's \\\"admitting\\\" something to you but not changing his behavior, he's saying \\\"You're right, but I'm not going to do anything about it.\\\" He may change in the future, on his own, but he won't change now. \\n > I can see how its easy to pin this stuff on me \\n I'm not trying to pin anything on you. I think I went out of my way to point that out. What I am doing is seeing a strong pattern from all of your responses that the two of you are not very compatible at this stage of your lives. \\n I'm also seeing you be somewhat defensive (although, not too badly) at the other people here that have come to the same conclusion. \\n I don't think you're a bad person or in the wrong here, but you clearly have strong expectations of what's necessary (the dishes, trash, sleeping at a decent hour, doing homework, being responsible) that are not the same as his. When you \\\"discuss\\\" this with him, of course everyone would agree that these things are important, but not everyone can be really bothered with them on their own. \\n I've actually known people in your situation to call off weddings because \\\"he didn't wipe down the stove.\\\" At the end of the day that sounds extremely petty, and it's the kind of thing that this thread seems to be telling you to look at. \\n Really accepting this guy for who he is (which is even more important than \\\"open communication\\\" because he might not be a good communicator, and you might not be as good as you think you are) means that you accept he's not going to do the dishes, take out the trash, do his homework or in general keep his life in order on his own. Look at your comment here: \\n > Its important to have a reasonably clean house as responsible adults, darling. \\n It's so important and obvious to you that you actually got a little snide with AnnArchist. But it's not that important to him. None of these things he's \\\"doing wrong,\\\" even by his own admission, are really that important to him. The key is not who's right or who's wrong, it's that you and your boyfriend are different. \\n Lots and lots of dudes live out their lives in the state your boyfriend does. They're perfectly happy with it, and so are their girlfriends and wives.\",\n \"Summary: if you like a dude but don't want to meet his parents or bear his children, why not give it a shot?\\n\\nPost: Look through my post history for the FWB rules. (I really should have them bookmarked.) \\n The thing about casual sex / friends with benefits is that it's not just about putting a penis in a vagina. It's about all the physical needs that we have as people, but without all of the responsibilities and \\\"burdens\\\" of a committed relationship. \\n Granted, it's those responsibilities that give you the long term rewards of a LTR, but sometimes we just want to have fun. Having casual sex also lets us learn a lot about ourselves and what our physical and emotional needs really are. \\n You might be surprised how much more adventurous you can be in a NSA physical relationship. Especially girls - having first time orgasms, discovering new fetishes, etc. In a typical LTR, many people are too shy to step outside of what they perceive as social norms for bedroom behavior. \\n If you set aside the social stigma and just think about having a good physical time with someone you're attracted to and enjoy spending time with, you might think about it differently. \\n > I think I need to feel an emotional connection to really enjoy sex \\n You never know until you try. Most girls that really have a problem with this don't want to raise their \\\"number\\\" too high. The \\\"number\\\" is the number of penises they've had in their vagina over a lifetime. It's really arbitrary and silly, and in my opinion prevents a lot of people from learning about themselves and enjoying many parts of life.\",\n \"Summary: You're in a dangerous place right now where she's trying to see if she can fit you in the friend/boost my confidence zone. You probably still have a chance, but you need to back off a little bit. Just a little.\\n\\nPost: Hard not to fall for her, but I avoided it. \\n No, you didn't. \\n > It's probably a matter of her wanting to feel desired or that she still 'has it' and can attract someone despite being in the safety of a relationship for a year. \\n A lot of girls will do this. They don't want you, they just want you to want them. And once you're there, you've found yourself in the friend zone. Girls only want guys that don't want them, until they do want them. \\n > So I kind of forget about it, but she texts me a bit later saying \\\"you're never online any more :( \\\" and texts me the next day. \\n She's noticing you're not giving her as much attention or being as nice to her. This is her way of reeling you back in to the friend zone. \\n You're close to doing the right thing, which is dropping her. Don't get sucked in. If you really weren't interested in her, it wouldn't be an issue. You're too worried about future opportunities. \\n Tell her you're getting too many flirty vibes from her and you're not comfortable with that because she has a boyfriend. She may pull the friend card on you and say she wants to see you more as a friend, but that's a trick to get you to be nice to her so she can put you in the friend zone. \\n Always be nice and friendly with her, but you've really gotta put some more distance between yourselves. She's trying hard to put you in the friend zone, or at least in a comfortable backup zone, and if you let her do this she's going to lose respect for you. If you can honestly make yourself aloof and really not care, I think you've still got a shot. \\n > I've kind of got the impression that she has been trying to get me to like her -- but she's a nice person and I don't consider her manipulative. \\n Sounds like she's good at it, then. \\n EDIT:\",\n \"Summary: 1) One more conversation with the ex, to be kept to 60 seconds maximum indicating you're cutting off all contact permanently. This is for everyone's safety. \\n 2) If ex shows up, literally only say \\\"You're not welcome here. I'm calling the police now.\\\" Call police, have him removed immediately. Not after just talking for a minute, immediately means fucking immediately. This is for everyone's safety. \\n 3) Contact parents and let them know the situation so they can take steps to get him treatment. \\n 4) Tell boyfriend psycho ex is getting more unstable and advise him on the action plan. Also for safety. \\n Do not mess around with crazy.\\n\\nPost: All I want to do is cut off all contact with him again, but I feel that doing so might make him break down again \\n You cannot make him do anything. You cannot make him harm himself. You cannot make him go crazy. \\n What you can do is create an ongoing dependency and make him feel like his threatening to harm himself is a useful way to control you. \\n Your speaking to him increases the amount of time his obsession with you will continue, and adds the possibility of escalation. Every time you speak to him you're increasing the pressure on a ticking time bomb. \\n There are basically three things you've got to do: \\n 1) Attempt to contact his parents and/or family. Let them know he's threatening self-harm and his life may be in danger. \\n 2) Cut off all contact with him. Let him know he is never to contact you again in any way, shape or form. Keep it short and simple. If he appears at your residence you need to call the police and have him removed immediately. Do not talk. Do not attempt to diffuse. The conversation is simply: \\\"You're not welcome here. Leave now. I'm calling the police.\\\" Every word you speak to him gives him more to hang on to and engages him further. \\n You cannot keep him from harming himself. You cannot make him kill himself. Having said that, the more you talk to him, engage with him in any way, even as it's telling him to leave you alone, the more you're increasing his obsession and the more you're validating him. I really cannot stress enough how important it is to disengage from this person. If you keep engaging with him in ANY way there could be violence. \\n 3) To tell your boyfriend: Your psycho ex has been contacting you and you were stupidly trying to keep him from hurting himself out of concern for another human being only, but you've learned your lesson. He needs to know in case the ex shows up as things could get violent.\",\n \"Summary: I think you're trying to build justification for leaving him as soon as things are getting a little tough without really trying to fix things. I also think your \\\"attempts\\\" to fix things are doing more harm than good. \\n Not trying to attack you, just offering another perspective that might help.\\n\\nPost: I have a sense for what might be going on here. You and your husband communicate very differently, and I think you went into it thinking you could change him or he would change based on your other comments. Let me try to put in his perspective: \\n > When I get home from work, I try to start a conversation with him, but he just has nothing to say. \\n \\\"When she gets home she starts whining right away and always complains. She's a pretty negative person and all this complaining is getting to me.\\\" \\n > I have tried sharing my emotions or stuff about my day, but he just looks at me with a blank stare. \\n \\\"Why is she telling me about problems I can't fix?\\\" \\n > I have tried asking him how he feels about things, but he either doesn't answer, or just gives me a one-word response. \\n Frankly, he doesn't communicate the way you do. Why would you expect him to? You're interrogating him, not getting him to open up. Of course he would shut down. \\n > He doesn't seem to be able to relate to anything I say, and if he hasn't had the same exact experience, he just says he can't understand it. Even if he's had the same experience, he tells me I shouldn't feel the way I feel. \\n Obviously. You're getting your emotions out and talking through it helps. He sees no point in talking about something unless it's to find a solution. If he is in a situation and doesn't think he should feel a certain way, he'll keep it to himself and work it out. You have to talk it out. \\n Neither of you is wrong, but neither of you is respecting the way the other handles these situations. \\n > When it's about our relationship, the response is \\\"What do you mean? That's not true\\\" instead of asking why I feel that way or opening up a deeper conversation. \\n Again, pushing him to communicate your way just alienates him. The more frustrated you get about this the more he senses it. You \\\"shouldn't\\\" be frustrated according to him, and from his perspective you're just getting more and more hysterical. \\n > I think he just honestly cannot relate to others and doesn't see the need to try. \\n The pot is calling the kettle black... or something like that. You're just as incapable of relating to him as he is to you. If you're so much more emotional and open as you seem to claim, why not try things from his point of view for a while? \\n > He doesn't socialize with friends at all and avoids social interactions at all costs. \\n Not wrong by itself. Did you know this before you got married? \\n > I am going through a lot of stress in other areas of my life, and not being able to talk to him about it or get any support is just killing me. \\n I bet he will support you with things he can fix, but he's not interested in just talking about it with no action or resolution. This is a classic (and cliche') male vs. female issue. \\n > I have friends I can talk to, but it is not the same as feeling close to the one person you come home to every day. \\n Gossip and talk with your female friends. When you're ready for decisions and action, go to him. You'll be surprised with the results. \\n I heard somewhere that men use 2,000 words per day, while women use 6,000. I have no idea if it's true, but he's probably just used up most of his words at work and your style of communication is overwhelming for him. None of this is wrong, but you need to be aware of it. \\n > I used to think we could get through anything, but how, when we can't communicate? I could tell him all this but I don't think he'd say anything. :( \\n Start by bridging the communication gap on your side. From my perspective, you're just as equally at \\\"fault\\\" here as he is. You were very one sided in your post and it seems like you're just trying to build up some support to leave him, but I think that's very premature at this point- partly because you haven't even tried to do things his way. At least, not that you've mentioned. \\n Some responders even suggested he get tested for Asperger's - I think that's a huge overreaction considering the picture you've painted here. Conveniently you left out the reasons why you married him in the first place. \\n Trying to do it your way even harder doesn't count.\",\n \"Summary: Live life without regret.\\n\\nPost: If you accept these things, you'll be fine: \\n 1) There's a 100% chance you'll meet someone else that you feel \\\"eerily similar\\\" to, and have great connections. \\n 2) You will regret the things you don't do more than the things you do. \\n 3) Its extremely unlikely your first relationship and connection will result in LTR. \\n You have a tremendous opportunity to enjoy each other for right now. You know you like each other, that's all that's important at this moment. If you can both be mature enough to say \\\"no expectations and no strings,\\\" and realize the above three, then it's possible you can enjoy each other, learn a lot about life and yourselves, and have a nice experience. \\n An hour away is really nothing. Many people (and myself included) commute that much one-way every single day. Having said that, you'll both have plenty of other opportunities and it's important to realize and acknowledge that you'll both always be special to each other.\",\n \"Summary: Aggressive women seem to be happier with more aggressive men.\\n\\nPost: Well, that's dumb. You should turn into the near lane, that's the lane that you need to be in.\\\" \\n > \\\"That looks stupid, why would you put it there? \\n > \\\"Why would I need to shower? That's a stupid question.\\\" \\n Fundamentally she does not respect you. She treats you like a child. You accept it. \\n I'm sure you're perfectly capable of driving and putting away dishes. You both know this. You may both be reasonable people, but she probably needs a much stronger and more aggressive dude, and you probably need someone that is going to respect you without constantly testing you. \\n It sounds like you're cowed, and she doesn't respect you for it. I think she wants a guy she can ask \\\"Why did you put the dishes there?\\\" and he will respond \\\"If you don't like 'em, move 'em. And get me a beer while you're at it.\\\" \\n I don't think either of you are crazy, but you don't sound right for each other. \\n If you want, start standing up for yourself and see what happens. She'll either start respecting you, or if she's lost enough respect already she'll just leave. Example: \\n Her: \\\"Why are you in this lane?\\\" \\n You: \\\"Because I'm driving. Are you driving?\\\" \\n Her: \\\"Why didn't you put these dishes away?\\\" \\n You: \\\"I don't know. If it bothers you, put them away.\\\" (Bonus points here: \\\"I was busy doing your mom.\\\") \\n Protip: When she asks you \\\"Why?\\\" about something, it's a test. It's always a test. Whatever the question is about is irrelevant. The way you handle being challenged is what's relevant. Also, \\\"I don't know\\\" is a perfectly reasonable answer to almost everything, as long as it's not apologetic. I think this kind of girl really wants to feel like you're in charge and in control. If she's taking control, it's because she is already in a state of worry about you. If you \\\"put her in her place,\\\" she may be a little hurt but at the moment, at least she'll be more confident that you're in charge.\",\n \"Summary: I fell in a love with a coworker, got cheated on, and dumped. What do I do? \\n Raise your standards. Are you really so worthless that you can't get someone stable? You will never be anything to this girl but the most recent fling. She doesn't know stability, she only knows the highs and passion of the thrill, and when she doesn't get that fix from you anymore, she'll move on to the next one. You're nothing to her, and you never were.\\n\\nPost: I have had other relationships after she ditched me, and the joy and passion that she and I had was never matched by another. \\n Crazy is crazy. The highs are great and the lows are awful - but you're lying to yourself if you think there's something about her that's so amazing you won't feel it with anyone else. \\n > the joy and passion that she and I had was never matched by another. \\n This is the classic crazy trap. It's what abused women (on here) frequently say as well. \\n Let me put it simply: Put her out of your head. Crazy does not benefit you in any way, shape or form. \\n > The only problem with that was not only did she already have a terrible boyfriend, but she had a son. \\n These are not problems. These are symptoms of problems. If a woman's boyfriend is so bad that her coworkers know about it and she's still with him, she's seeking attention. Why else would she be with someone that makes her so unhappy? \\n She probably made some bad decisions and had a kid before she was ready too. \\n Ugh.. I get grossed out just reading about this person. \\n >\",\n \"Summary: Lighten up, ho.\\n\\nPost: You may have missed the irony in my previous post, in which case it's further ironic that your message seems to be a sarcastic criticism directed at my comprehension of the English language. Or, more literally, my lack of comprehension. \\n Unless you were also being ironic in response, in which case the joke is on me! Well played! \\n However, my gut tells me you did not read the reversal of meaning in my original message. I'll take the blame for it being too subtle. In retrospect, my mistake was that I could not possibly fathom any native English speaker would think the term, \\\"Ho,\\\" be used in any but a whimsical sense as it has not been used in a culturally significant and literal fashion since 1989, or sometime around then. My bad. \\n In fact, irony is sometimes used to strengthen or illustrate camaraderie among close friends. I attempted to use it to further illustrate my point and develop humorous rapport so that we could establish an honest and frank dialog with mutual understanding and enlightenment that comes from another's perspective. \\n So I'll state my original intent plainly and unambiguously : If you are so extremely concerned with social rules and order that you are unable to tolerate natural biological processes that are almost unavoidable while being in close proximity to another human continuously, such as is common with relationships, then your two options are to either relax, learn to take a joke, and accept biology; or be single. \\n You've chosen the latter, and from your delight it seems like that choice is working well for you. Allow me to state very plainly and fully that if that if I reinforced your confidence in this matter, I am glad and wish you the best.\",\n \"Summary: if you didn't read the whole thing, then I don't want your advise. \\n I just advised you by giving you some advice. My work here is done.\\n\\nPost: I asked her, since I was upfront about it, and told her, why she slept with me at all, if that's how she feels. She said, \\\"I love you, and I am idiot, too I guess.\\\" At another point, she threatens \\\"I hope you know if you'v given me anything worse I will press charges.\\\" I respond, \\\"So it's safe to say we're over?\\\" \\n This is an escalating argument. She's the type of person that says hurtful things because she's angry, but she doesn't mean them. You're the type of person that will take what she says literally. Don't - because she will take your response to her angry statement literally, and use it against you. \\n To make matters worse, you can't use what she said against her, because she was \\\"just angry.\\\" \\n In other words, keep your mouth shut when this happens. If anything, she is feeling like she needs more support, not \\\"Then I guess we're over.\\\" \\n It's a bit passive-aggressive. Actually, it's a lot passive aggressive, but if you'll read on, my opinion of her actually goes down from here. \\n > At some point she went to eat, and let me know where she was going, to which I replied, \\\"Okay\\\". She flipped on me because thats all I said. \\n This is her passive-aggressive way of getting you to go see her. She's flipping at you because you're supposed to behave a certain way, and she's angry that you don't. This is a classic sign of an abusive person. I know the situation is a little bit extreme, but you're seeing her true colors here and she will always be capable of this behavior when she's not happy. \\n I don't think you did anything wrong, and I don't think a judge would think you did either. \\n I think you're actually pretty lucky. 2 months into the relationship you got to see how she handles a personal crisis. Most people don't get to see that for years. She handles it by attacking and blaming you when she's scared and afraid. \\n She's got the herp - so now she's \\\"tainted\\\" (in her mind) and she's going to leave you? That's honestly the opposite of what I think I would do in that situation. I'd be thinking nobody would ever want me, so I better hang on to what I've got. Is that what you're thinking too? She's attacking you with all she's got, but in such a way that she's expecting you to grovel and apologize for making her angry. \\n I think you dodged a bullet. She's going to push you away by being as spiteful as she can be, then get sympathy because you're the \\\"mean guy that gave her herpies and then left her.\\\" I bet she's already pulling the sympathy card here. \\n Don't let her push you around. She knew the risks, and rather than coming to you for support she's playing games and making your life miserable. Key phrase here: Making your life miserable. I think she's going to do that no matter what. \\n Let her go, and thank your lucky stars. \\n >\",\n \"Summary: dump her, or screw with her mind then dump her for your own educational benefit.\\n\\nPost: People show you their best in the first two months of a relationship. Things would only get worse with this girl. \\n She's completely self-absorbed and doesn't respect you in any way. \\n The only two options you have are: \\n 1) Dump her and move on (probably most recommended.) \\n 2) PRACTICE with her. Since it's pretty clear you've got no future with her (or more specifically, she's got no future with anyone until she gets her act together,) why not practice trying to fix things or talk things out with her? You'll get some valuable experience. Tell her \\\"If you don't want to screw, then give me a BJ or GTFO.\\\" Even better, whip out some porn and take care of business right in front of her. Be blunt and critical about her. Let it all out. \\n Think of it as practice for actually being yourself and saying exactly what you think/feel. People usually don't get this kind of experience unless they have a FWB and it can be a valuable life lesson.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":45,"string":"45"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2985,"string":"2,985"}}},{"rowIdx":2986,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"UnknownHer0"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post dam is the easiest base map by a wide margin, just bring a sniper and a bunch of scanners"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I never have understood why people have trouble on that mission. I'm pretty new to long war, but playing on classic I've done the mission twice now and both times I absolutely blew through the mission. The Dam level I think may be the easiest level in the entire game, The highground towers are such perfect places for snipers that they can basically kill every enemy on the level for you. Then all you need is a few anti mech dps guys to kill mechs. \n 2 infantry\n1 sniper (precise shot) + maybe a second sniper\n1 rocket\n1 engineer w/ scanners+chem\n1 15 move assault to hit the button\n2 whatever else you want, probably heat gunner+medic \n Throw scanners precise shot mutons standing around. Check their perks to make sure you kill the good ones. Move up when you aren't afraid of pulling a big pod (1 scanner covers everything on dam because its so straight and narrow). Over watch everyone while your assault uses R&G to double move to all the buttons you need to hit. Kill all the mechtoids with chem+close range attacks. Mop up any remaining sectoids with your sniper whoever randomly happens to be flanking them."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I never have understood why people have trouble on that mission. I'm pretty new to long war, but playing on classic I've done the mission twice now and both times I absolutely blew through the mission. The Dam level I think may be the easiest level in the entire game, The highground towers are such perfect places for snipers that they can basically kill every enemy on the level for you. Then all you need is a few anti mech dps guys to kill mechs. \n 2 infantry\n1 sniper (precise shot) + maybe a second sniper\n1 rocket\n1 engineer w/ scanners+chem\n1 15 move assault to hit the button\n2 whatever else you want, probably heat gunner+medic \n Throw scanners precise shot mutons standing around. Check their perks to make sure you kill the good ones. Move up when you aren't afraid of pulling a big pod (1 scanner covers everything on dam because its so straight and narrow). Over watch everyone while your assault uses R&G to double move to all the buttons you need to hit. Kill all the mechtoids with chem+close range attacks. Mop up any remaining sectoids with your sniper whoever randomly happens to be flanking them."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: it all boils down to what \"options\" means to you. Do you want more possible builds for every mech variant? Or do you want to see more different kinds of hunchbacks? I prefer building my own mech out of each variant rather than being assigned an ac20 hunchback and a ac10 hunchback.\n\nPost: Assuming everyone knows what they are talking about and can reasonably predict the future, logical buffing would work something like this \n Lets assume the target tier for \"balance\" is tier 2. \n Hunchback-4g is tier 5, Ac 20+mls is the best build (this is known) \n Give energy buffs, It is now tier 4 \n Give HP buff's it is now tier 3 \n Give 12.5% ballistic buffs it is tier 2.5 \n Give ac20 buff it is tier 2 \n We've done it this is a balanced mech! ONLY if you use the ac20 though, If you don't take advantage of that last quirk you will be play a (now slightly) worse mech than everyone else. Contrast this with a full strength ballistic quirk. Which version of the quirks allows for more build diversity?","Summary: If you want to hop in some mechs and shot lasers at stuff, tinker with different builds ect. The game is the best its ever been. The clan mechs look and sound beautiful, The IS mechs have been improved too. There are new maps. The IS weapons have been smoothed out, making for a lot more viable mechs and builds. \n If you play competitively or semi-competitively (you care a lot about winning) unless you own clan mechs the game is the worst its ever been. If being easily defeated by players weaker than you because they spent dollars and you didn't bothers you, the game is borderline unplayable.\n\nPost: Clan mechs are clos-ER to balanced than any other other MWO title, clan mechs are currently have about 25-35% more game impact than IS mechs. Currently clan mechs average 35% more damage out put and 25% more kills. They also are faster and more durable than IS mechs as well. \n There is debate as to WHY the clan mechs perform so much better, some people say its because many pieces of clan equipment are strictly better, such as the smaller, and lighter (with no downside) erppc and gauus, the smaller heatsinks and VASTLY better clan cl engines. \n Other parties argue that clan superiority is to their expensive ($100+) price tag. The idea being that only the most dedicated players pay this kind of money for the clan mechs. The big problem with this argument is that having a lot of money doesn't really correlate with being a great player of video games. It only really correlates with being older, which actually weakly correlates with being a BAD gamers, as you being to lose the fluid thinking and rapid motor skills in your mid 20's.","Summary: I couldn't disagree more with recommending stuff like the banshee for random PUG games. The last things you want are poor peakers that are slow and can only fight at 300m or less.\n\nPost: TDR-9SE, TDR-9SE, TDR-'not 9SE because I only own two but should really be a 9SE', random 55 ton mech to suit your mood. \n IS assaults are too slow in pugs you can't get out of the way of generator rushes and big pushes in them and you can't stand and fight because your team sure as shit isn't going to help you in a PUG game. Sub 75KPH mechs are pretty much worthless unless you are queuing with like 6 other people. \n I guess you could take Gauss jager's if you want some variety but the rest of IS heavies are kind of a joke compared to","Summary: it is more reasonable to predict these mechs will get worse rather than better like the shadowhawk did.\n\nPost: 3/3/3/3 and weight restricted competitive play helped mediums become more relevant. The shadowhawk is still a complete POS next to the pre jump jet nerf ctf-3d. I would say its like 90% mediums are/were useless 10% the size that made for the misread. The value of JJ was also different when the pheonix pack was announced, as it was before the uac5 nerf. Back then the uac5 could chainsaw through mechs in seconds, so much so that the jump jetless 3xuac5 ilya was a popular meta choice. If the rules were the same as they were back then the shadowhawk probably would be crap. \n Seeing as the shadowhawk really became relevant through strong nerfs to the top performers and through forced usage it is unlikely that any of these new clan mechs are \"shadowhawks\" as the nerf that hit the biggest offenders will almost undoubtedly hit them as well. Clans as a whole need nerfs more badly than the uac5 did and those nerfs are going to hit the wave 2 mechs as well as the wave 1 mechs.","Summary: L: There were good reasons for these modules to exist, its one of PGIs few competent balance choices. The fact clan versions exist is the lowest on a list of HUGE problems with clan balance. (almost like no effort was made to balance them after \"lol longer lasers beams\" didn't work)\n\nPost: When weapon modules were initially released the game was HEAVILY dominated by a few weapons, The biggest two were the UAC5 and the PPC. These two weapons were not given modules largely do to public outcry that added flexibility would make these weapons even more powerful. Giving all the other weapons a module and excluding the uac5 and ppc, is the same as givinging them a minor buff. \n PGI is EXTREMELY slow and possibly ignorant on the balance front. They frequently make very questionable choices, that are either totally inconsequential and totally miss the point (I'm looking at you 10% mpl range increase). Or they make HUGE game breaking changes that need to be reverted several days later (Super LRMs). \n Whoever makes the choices on balance is clearly not the brightest build at PGI but the lack of an erll/ppc/uac5 module was not something that was one of these decided at random.","Summary: I guess my point is that you are a fool to hold on to the other atlases, and kind of a jerk to drop into a game with them other than to level them. The K is shit but you will want an xl300 in your career, like a dozen if you have dedicated engines for every mech.\n\nPost: I agree with all of this, but all of the other atlases are unplayably bad. Buy and sell is the way to go and the K is actually the best choice for that! \n It is only more expensive because of the xl300. I reccomend the xl 300 specifically because it is near best choice for almost every xl engine using mech in the game. I strongly reccomend buying>basicing>selling any other other atlases they are really REALLY bad, offering no unique playstyles (besides 2ml ct zombies which are more of a joke than a threat) and all having significant hard point disadvantages over the S and DDC. \n ALL OF THIS IS NOT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT QUIRKS THE REAL ADVICE IS TO NOT BUY ANYTHING RIGHT NOW!","Summary: no don't buy highlanders\n\nPost: In regards to the 2nd question \n -The highlander IS very sluggish now, and doesn't jump well at all. Even with max engine.\n-It's still a high tier mech, but its pretty much strictly dominated by the victor. \n Not sure if you have these mechs elited based on the way you phrased your post. If you haven't elited then you should prioritize that, it isn't a waste of cbills at all, it will give whole new life to your mechs.","Summary: you own all the good hero mediums, either expand your horizon's, buy the arrow or accept a shitty duplicate of a mech you already own.\n\nPost: You probably want the ember, or maybe the arrow. Almost all of the light and medium hero mechs are trash, the rest are duplicates of non-hero mechs that do nothing unique. Even the arrow is just going to be a another yen-lo/SHD-2H, how many 90ish KPH ac20+3ml mechs do you really need? So the arrow is just going to be a jokey 6mg mech, which I could never recommend paying dollars for. \n The ember is probably the best or tied for the best light mech in the game, it is need to own for any serious player. It also offers unique loadouts that no cbill mech can do anything similar to. \n My REALLY real recommendation is to not buy a hero mech at all, you already own the only reasonable IS medium hero's and mechs. All that is left for you to buy is shittier duplicates of mechs you already own. Buy some clan mechs, you seem to enjoy good mechs that go 80-90 kph and this is exactly what the clan mechs offer. They are currently WAY WAY stronger than is mediums while offering similar movement capabilities. The new clan pack looks pretty crappy in my opinion so either save dollars for when the timberwolf becomes available, or buy the stormcrow now. Or my REALLY REALLY real recommendation, buy a bunch of mechbays and premium time and just buy them with cbills.","Summary: examine mechs that travel the same speed but are different weights, and ask yourself that same question.\n\nPost: Not close at all, while in general heavier mechs are higher game impact, each weight has an optimal speed that only it can go while maintaining maximum payload. \n For example, If you wanted to play a IS mech that goes, 77 KPH (pretweak) and uses a STD engine the best option are 65 ton mechs using a STD310, yielding a pre-armor payload of 31 tons. If you tried to go 77 KPH in a a 75 ton mech, you would have to use STD 360 and have a pre-armor payload of 27.5 tons. So by picking the wrong weight mech for the speed you want to move at you lose out on 3.5 tons of space. \n The game is a balance between speed/armor/firepower. While current balance decisions have made the heavier end of the spectrum stronger in the abstract, speed still is an important factor in the game. \n The problem with the Hellbringer has nothing to do with tonnage, It's totally possible to have a great 65 ton mech, the Hellbringer just isn't it. 65 ton mechs want an XL350-370, the hellbringer just doesn't have that. The 75 ton timberwolf wants a 360, exactly what it has. The timberwolf also wins out or ties in all the other factors, except ECM. \n Timberwolf advantages \n -Endo \n -Ferro \n -Jump jets \n Hellbringer \n -ECM","Summary: I want to see real games on interesting maps, not pro players all inning because they can't waste time prepping for starbow\n\nPost: u feel \n I don't want to see starbow because shoutcraft is a very good thing for sc2 IF PEOPLE PREPARE. If all it turns into is people all inning for money, because they are playing more and more ridiculous game modes, shoutcraft will be a bad thing for sc2. We already have to watch super unprepared 2v2 games(this makes me sad). I don't want to watch a bunch of irrelevant starbow games that people also are unprepared for. Starbow to me is not honest competition, its a nice diversion from sc2 but that's really it right now.","Summary: If your team isn't going towards the middle of the map from second zero, and if your team isn't absolutely spoiling for a fight and firing their weapons by minute two, you are probably losing that game 90%+ of the time.\n\nPost: There are many ways to predict wins in the first few minutes, I wouldn't say unit tags is necessarily one of them though. Maybe unit tags you recognize? obviously if you spot a bunch of steel jags on the other team you are going to see some game impact out of them. \n Looking at the behavior of your team in the first few minutes tells you a lot more. \n Alpine conquest and 4+ guys are going gamma? you probably lose. \n Terratherma and people are running the side of the map: you probably lose \n Terratherma and people aren't all heading directly to mid: you probably lose \n Canyon Network 1:30 into the round and less than two players are standing on the high-ground firing thier weapons, get ready to get 12-0ed. \n Crimson strait conquest and 6 guys rush saddle, get ready for another 12-2. \n There many maps with VERY important locations to get to quickly (in pub games). If people aren't going to them its probably because they don't know to go to them, aka they don't know what they are doing. \n There are important basic idea's to game play, like firing your weapons a lot. Shockingly large amounts of players don't do this. If you have a team that's not looking to fire their weapon early and often it's probably because they have the mentality \" I got fucking crushed last game\" not because they are looking to break 1500 damage this game.","Summary: LRMS were a cool idea on paper but they really have NOTHING going for them in terms of good gameplay. Waiting 10 minute behind a building is not my idea of fun.\n\nPost: most of what people are saying is true \n -Results with little effort, although you could make an argument they give accessibility to the very very bottom tier of players. MWO has very low mechanical demands already \n -Slows down pace of games, the best strategy for dealing with them involves waiting for 5-10 minutes doing absolutely nothing. Players are killed because they AREN'T HAVING FUN, get bored and charge out. You should be getting killed because you ARE having fun but got outplayed. \n -poor map design to account for them, Some maps you get narced and there is literally nothing you can do to survive, Other maps, like crimson straight or HPG manifold, you drop with 4 lrm users on your team and automaticly lose the game because there is a fucking roof. It's a massive contributor to blowout games. \n -a very very very low skill cieling, anyone can get kills with LRM but even the VERY VERY best player using LRMs is pretty much the same as an average one. \n -Both the LRM user and reciever lose agency, MWO is a competitive PvP game, most players want to win because they did something and want there to have been something they could have done better when they lose. Kills for LRM players almost ALWAYS are teh result of some other players work (your spotter). When the LRM boater died they often die hopelessly to one jenner or something \n -LRMS do not combine well with any other weapon system. A good rule for mech design is to be able to be using ALL of your weapon all the time you would be fighting. LRMs have a large minimum range, long travel times, fire indirectly ect. All attributes that they share with no other weapon. BOATING is the only choice. Boating isn't something that is necessarily bad game design or bad for game play, but the general consensus of the mwo community is that boating is bad.","Summary: This LRM theme is a terrible terrible idea, feel free to try it but it's not going to help your team win games. Try to keep your builds focused on doing one thing well, and then in game focus on doing what your mech is designed to do.\n\nPost: Ditch the random LRM's on everything, You'll never get a chance to really use them and if you do it will just get shot down by AMS. Replace the tonnage with heatsinks or ammo. The way LRMs are designed you pretty much have to go all out or none at all, it's not very fun, it's shitty game design but its the sad truth. \n The 1N gets 50% ac5 cooldown and only 25% to other ballistic weapons. The ac5 is just a way better weapon in general, you'd be CRAZY not to use it. This build ignores what may the single most powerful quirk in the game. \n Your 5N build needs more ammo. It has 18 tons of ac2 that can deal a maximum of 300 damage, that is just crazy. you can get the 3 more tons you'll need from losing the LRMs. \n The DRG-1C I would change the most. Obviously I'm going to say ditch the LRM's. I would reccomend using that tonnage to upgrade that uac5 to a gauss rifle, strip a little leg armor for a 3rd ton of ammo and you have a solid long range fire support mech. In general I would advise against using a single uac5 (ever on any mech). The UAC5 is a stare the guy down DPS weapon. You never want to Stare at the guy continuously unless you have a HUGE DPS advantage, you won't ever have that with 1 uac5. If you are in love with the UAC5 and want to keep it spend your LRM tonnage on more heatsinks, and another medium laser.","Summary: save your MC, low weight heroes are crap.\n\nPost: I would only recommend the oxide in addition to your ember, Keep it mind that while the ember is just good, the oxide is a HIGHLY situational role player. It hunts non-ecm lights and does basically nothing else. MAYBE it will be good as an srm dive bomber in the coming months after some patches, but as of right now this build is crap due to SRM hit detection issues be exacerbated by being fired from fast moving mechs, and just generally being bad. \n Unless you love Light hunters don't care about winning don't buy the oxide. \n It's not a Hero but the Raven 3l is one of the best cbill grinders in the game. buy some premium time and put 2 ERLL on it and it will earn you way more than a hero will. It's also a solo drop power house, basicly everyone top10 in the solo-drop light tournament was playing this mech. \n None of the medium mech heroes are good. Medium mechs in general are pretty weak and the heroes are all just worse versions of some other non-hero medium. \n buy the raven 3l and shadowhawks, and you will have mechs that do everything any other light mech can do. Spend your mc on premium time to make up the lost cbill bonus.","Summary: IS is weak right now, PGI is trending towards nerfing them. Clans are strong PGI is trending towards buffing them. All announced plans are clan buffs.\n\nPost: Any of the clans, after the recent quirk changes the best IS CW mechs got absolutely dumped on. The 10 ton advantage does more to highlight just how terrible the middle weight IS mechs are right now than solve any problems. \n What the weight change WILL do is be a commitment to IS being weaker for some time, it is very unlikely they would have made this change if they had any plans to fix the current balance issues. \n Clans are also about to see a possibly big increase in the number of CW viable mechs with quirks being added to the adder/iceferret/summoner/gargoyle. \n The most recent/nearest upcoming cbill mech releases favor the clans. The hellbringer will get played because its good, the panther will get played because people need to level it.","Summary: Mid is by far the most reliable strategy, all other strategies on terra therma either give and advantage to the opponent or result in a tie. (assuming the game is played well and noone suicides)\n\nPost: OK not to call you out, but I'm going to call you out. There is a reason why you go caldera, a very very important reason.(I'm going to focus on assault/skirmish but the reasoning applies to conquest as well) \n MWO isn't a game of mechanics(aim and movement) its a game of strategy. Your ability to shoot slightly better won't win75% of your games for you like it will in counterstrike. \n Strategy in MWO has two main components teamwork and personal positioning. Team work is simple, its a game of hitpoints, two people shooting one means the guy dies twice as fast and shoots back half as much. ALL hitpoint based shooters work on this principal, it applies to TF2 or quake or XCOM or MWO take your pick. Going mid ensures that you have all 12 of your guys in one place attacking the other team. This isn't counterstrike where one sweep of your weapon from a hidden position can kill a whole team. FLANKING IS NOT A THING IN MWO. your team moves as a group and fights as a group. \n So why go mid, simple it's the fastest place to get all 12 people together and keeps them together. Except for you who stops in the choke and makes it so half the team goes in and dies 6v12 because you blocked half your team. \n The second part of the game (and the only part you control in a solo PUG) is personal positioning. Mechs are very slow, you have few opportunities to correct your position without either dieing or taking a very long walk(see teamwork for why this is bad). \n So why is Mid on Terra Therma a strong personal position. Lets start with objectives. MECHS ARE SLOW and the only way to get places quickly is to take a direct route. Cap to cap the fastest route in through mid, its also the fastest return to base route. By being in mid you position your team to access anywhere on the map as quickly as possible. \n Lets take an hypothetical assault game, my team goes mid, your team goes around the outside. We pass like ships in the night, but I arrive at your base sooner than you get to mine, and I cap first and win. Whats your best strategy to stop this? either camp or go mid yourself. Mid vs Mid is the current dominant strategy, so lets look at Mid v camp. Camping can work but it has 2 important flaws. The first is that it relies on your opponent making a mistake and charging in to you, if they've don't all you accomplished with your strategy is to allow me to be able to get anywhere one the map more quickly than you(I'm now in mid). So assuming we are perfectly evenly matched in all other aspects, your strategy has only served to lose you the game (as we are evenly matched in skill but I have an advantage in mobility).","Summary: I'd say no artemis on the cent\n\nPost: a \n I don't play cents besides the free one I got (with artemis). I was SUPER unimpressed. I have played srm shadow hawks which are pretty much just better cents, they are usually heavier AND faster AND jump. \n Overall both the ASRM cent and SRM shadowhawk were pretty weak, Niether had enough punch for the one big volley to be a knockout punch so you usually ended up in a a brawl with everything splashing all over the place as your opponents twist to roll damage. \n If you want pinpoint close-range damage take an ac20, if you already have an ac20 and want more take ASRMs I guess.","Summary: MWO is and never will be a balanced game, its counterstrike not starcraft. The fanbase is RABID about stopping change. Until we stop this attitude, or are ignored we are never going to get Balance like starcraft, tf2 or dota.\n\nPost: There are three good games I would cite as examples of good meta games. \n You already discussed starcraft. Every unit in starcraft has a place. While some may not be common they at least show up at specific times ON SPECIFIC MAPS. Starcraft is not an inherently balanced game, especially not Broodwar. Despite is legend broodwar required VERY specific map design in order for all 3 races to function. PGI has openly stated that they WILL NOT create role encouraging maps, such as an all city street brawling map. Why they took this policy I do not know, its a really really stupid policy imo. \n The second I would mention is DOTA 2. Dota is an inherently UNBALANCED game, there is simply too much going on to have every hero be equally used or even seriously used at all. There will always be one who's stats are too weak, or who is too directly countered by another hero or build. To deal with this problem the developer make HUGE sweeping patches changing 30+ heroes or items often in big ways. There may be little changs like the +7% srm damage or +10% mpl range, but these would be paired with changes to EVERYTHING else. Each patch creates a whole new world, old solutions don't work, new ones are found, and just when the next 2xppc+2xac5 dragonslayer is found a new patch roles out. \n The last example worth mentioning is TF2, TF2's competitive scene honestly never looked great, but its pub scene has HUGE diversity in choices, every class gets played and feels entirely different. Beyond that each class has its own list of weapons that all are VERY different. The bad news is that everything in mwo almost identical, so this would never work. Think about it, what really is the difference between an atlas and a jenner, pretty much just move speed hp and the number of guns (the same guns). Even the guns are very similar, lasers only really differ in range and damage ect. \n MWO has a HUGE reluctance to change the status quo, both from players and designers. MWO's closest comparison in counterstrike, a VERY fun game but very poorly balanced, fifteen fucking years of AK47vsM4A1 + awps. I love counterstrike, the recent design changes by valve have turned it into the best game it has ever been. MWO faces the same kind of stagnation, it has a community that insists that the LORE is how much ppcs weigh, or how much damage they do, or that Clan mechs get better everything or w/e. The lore is the characters, worlds, art design, famous battles not the numbers.","Summary: Many clan mechs have strict advantages and NO DISADVANTAGES. Many clan weapons (the tactically best weapons) have some advantages AND EXACTLY ZERO DISADVANTAGES. You can beat the clans by being a much better pilot, but you will never defeat a clone of yourself playing a clan mech \n The abusive tactics aren't new, the dragon slayer is the best mech in the game of last month, you'd have to be insane to argue otherwise. This month we have the timberwolf, the exact same weapon loadout with bonus range and damage, but it goes 90kph. \n Right now is the time to play, experiment and analyze. This is the period where we use our past experience to identify strictly superior builds to what we used before. The sky isn't falling, the universe is not imploding but there is crushing imbalance in a video game that we all care about. Good indications are the absolute best players in the game giving statements that are being ignored, while people out of loyalty to \"lore\" that is not lore, using hyperbole, and strawmen to defend shitty game design.\n\nPost: Balance has two sides the underpowered and the over powered. Conversations generally focus on the overpowered, as these are the topics that overtake the game. The underpowered stuff just gets ignored. So while some clan mechs have inappropriate loadouts there are many that have excellent load outs, yes there are some that have only ferro but those ones are irrelevant, because those aren't the ones breaking the game. \n engines, this is just misinformation, clan xl's weigh the same as IS XL's. You just pick the chassis that has an appropriate engine for what you want to do. at least you admit these are strictly better, you seem to skip past the part that the increased heat demands are because the clan weapons are lighter and the clan mechs just have more guns that need cooling. This synergy is EXACTLY what makes the clan mechs have high game impact that IS mechs.\n forced endo only, it only takes one mech to break the game, as long as there are some that have both, or just endo, the just ferro are irrelevant. Even in the case you suggest, very few if any clan builds are slot capped, so ferro is probably still advantage if not strictly better. locked slots, I'm going to have to ask that you provide an example of a mech that is even moderately handicapped by this, the closest i can fine are that direwolves can't run 4 ac10's in teh side torso (they could just use the arms) or maybe you mean the adder's hardlocked flamer, because that sure keeps everything in check.\n*several clan weapons are balanced, the clan autocannons are probably maybe close to where they should be, but this is a strawman. When discussing imbalance you typically focus on the problems not the few area's that are ok. The problem is ppc/gauss builds not lasers or ACs.","Summary: the PPC and gauss are the only important weapons and the clan versions are strictly better.\n\nPost: The IDEA as to do exactly this, the lasers autocannons and LRMs all got this treatment. Its an interesting idea to achieve balance, the clan mechs are \"better\" but the increased face time forces them to play a normally bad tactic (brawling). The problem is that the BEST strategy (as demonstrated by every competitive match pretty much without exception) is to use low face time weapons to jump shoot and then hide without taking return fire, thus getting ahead in the hitpoint race. The best weapons for this strategy are PPCs, Gauss, and autocannons. \n After a recent nerf to autocannons, Gauss rifles took up a MUCH MUCH great role as the only un-nerfed heat neutral weapon. \n Competitive builds pretty much require 2xppc + as much ballistics as you can carry. I could explain why this is the case but it would take forever. With the recent nerf the PPC and probably the Gauss are the MOST IMPORTANT weapons in the game. \n THE PROBLEM is that the clan versions of these weapons recieved ABSOLUTELY NO DOWNSIDE, the only differences are upsides, the PPC does more damage(the EXTRA is splashed but is still helpful). BOTH weapons are smaller and lighter. I repeat they have these upsides and ZERO downside. \n As for the comment on the DS, it is simply the best mech for mounting 2xPPC+ballistic and jumpjets. Its larger engine size took over after a massive nerf to the turn rate on the highlanders (which ran the same weapons).","Summary: never\n\nPost: It's a pretty firm no, devs have discussed this issue before. The problem is that cryengine is (I'm told) very bad for animating picture in picture type stuff. Basically this means that putting a changing image on that would be a waste of system resources in a game that is already really really poorly optimized.","Summary: All signs point to warhawk, It's what I got.\n\nPost: The warhawk, it's more expensive it will save you a few million cbills down the road. The xp bonus from champion mechs is not all that helpful in the short run and literally useless in the long run. \n My personal opinion is that the end goal for any committed MWO player should be to own all the mechs, or at least all the useful ones. Make choices that will get you to this point. \n Role playing is fine but it is imagination, there is no reason to be a clan loyalist or a IS loyalist IRL. Skipping out on clans or skipping gout on IS is just screwing yourself out of half the fun to be had in MWO.","Summary: There will ALWAYS be a build were the pieces fall into place if you have clan tech that is strictly superior.\n\nPost: To start I'm going to ASSUME that we are talking about changing just XL engines, with no other nerfs in the same fantasy patch. \n This solution can be paraphrased as \"leave them better, because customization.\" While I agree clans don't have an option right now for standard engines, leaving the CXL engine as a FAR FAR strictly better option would be incredibly game breaking. While in competitive builds prefer standard engines, many many people in the competitive game will be running XL's (Lights, Cicadas, Victors ect.) \n Just because some clan mechs have an inappropriate engine for what you want to do, does not make them any weaker, it just makes them less fun to customize. People will find the \"victors\" of the clans, that want an XL engine in them and then you will have a mech that wants an XL and gets a strictly better one. That mech will also be strictly better in erppc, guass, heatsink, endo, and ferro (HUGE HUGE advantages in all these). It will also have access to the better (not strictly but definitely better) clan lasers. \n So your customization is a nerf theory leads us to a faster, cooler, bigger alpha, longer range, higher dps Dragon Slayer. So we've taken the absolute worst aspect of the game and multiplied it. We get one super mech that no other mech can compete with, that can only be purchased with IRL dollars. Except because we are relying on \"customization\" as a nerf We've allowed this super mech (probably a timberwolf or direwolf but it could be anything) to be EVEN MORE DOMINANT, than the dragonslayer was.","Summary: the nerf cost you basicly nothing, the nerf took away .53 sustained dps (15%ish) and 5 seconds time to overheat. So in a brawl that may last lets say 2 minutes after you lose a side torso, the nerf will cause you to put out 63.6 less damage, assuming you survive, never miss and never hit zero heat.\n\nPost: This is pretty much the worst possible case scenario. It would basically be impossible to design a practical mech that is more impacted by the change than this one. \n 16 second time to overheat, 4.77 sustained dps. \n overkilled it by removing 3 DHS (3x.14>2x2.0) \n 18 second time to overheat 3.17 sustained dps. \n You lost about 1/3 your sustained dps. Your time to overheat actually went up. For being the pretty much the absolute worst case possible this seem a hell of a lot better than death. \n To expand on that a little, and show what the nerf actually cost you. Pre-nerf you had 23 seconds time to overheat and 3.7 sustained dps.","Summary: Make sure you are taking the best damage trade you can even when that trade is only \"less bad\"\n\nPost: Play good mechs. Good mechs are good because they give you options and the ability to demonstrate skill. good peaking/poptarting/component targeting/whatever. \n \n Good crosshair placement, This is a CS:GO video but everything 100% applies to MWO. THIS IS HOW GOOD PLAYERS AIM. \n \n Always always ALWAYS be firing your weapons. After the 30 second mark you should never EVER be at resting heat. If there are enemies you can possibly fire at your weapons should NEVER be off cooldown. The weapons off cooldown problem is something weaker players do when taking large amounts of damage. \n \n \n Say you take a bad peak into 3 enemy heavies. You have enough time to make a decision most players will say \"Oh shit DEFENSE TIME\" and swing their shield side into position. They will take 90ish damage and duck back into cover. A better move is to fire your alpha into one and THEN damage roll dealing 50 damage and taking 100, a MUCH better trade. Damage rolling helps but it only increases survivability a little bit.","Summary: I feel safe concluding that this guy also has no idea what he is talking about. He misses a shitload of information that is super easy to get a hold of, AND his math makes no sense.\n\nPost: The first source is HORRIBLY outdated. The second one sort of says what I just said. Critical hits are not like critical hits in dota. The damage is equipment damage and will not result in the enemy mech dieing any more quickly. I'm not sure you have a solid understanding of the terminology \"critical hit\" \n Everyone in the second source pretty clearly has no idea what they are talking about except for the last poster. He seems to be knowledgeable but I think he may be taking outdated information. Many of the numbers he uses are straight up wrong, other places he doesn't use numbers where the numbers are clearly available. He says machine guns do .1 damage per tick, when they do .08. He uses the ambiguous term \"crit seeker\" when machine gun's were clearly listed in patch notes as doing 1250% critical damage. \n He mentions weapons doing extra internal damage when they score critical hits, which definitely could be a thing. However, I have never seen this mentioned anywhere EVER. Especially have never heard the exact +1/15 weapon damage per crit, most sources that I have read specifically say that critical hits DO NOT do extra damage. \n If this 1/15th thing was a a thing this guys explanation still wouldn't make sense. 1250% increase in crits x 1/15 is not going to give you the huge damage numbers suggest. He seems to suggest that 12.5x(1/15) is somehow going to be more than 5 times the damage. If we assumed that machine guns ALWAYS triple crit they would do (12.5x3x.08X1/15)+.08=.28, or .35 if you use his incorrect damage number (his math is still wrong)","Summary: the proposed nerfs directly target the nova, and don't affect a single thing the summoner does. Make your own choices but the nova will likely go down in game impact while the summoner goes up. I remains to be seen how big the difference will be.\n\nPost: The idea's they posted are VERY light nerfs to clans. They also posted a very major nerf tho the IS ERll. If they go through with the changes as planned clan mechs as a whole will likely be stronger than ever. \n That is of course making the big assumption that the changes go through as tested (they were pretty idiotic IMO) \n Overall the nerfs seems to hit lasers across the board, tiny nerfs to every clan laser, a bigger (but not huge) nerf to the cerml and the biggest nerf to the IS ERll. \n The nerfs were focused on range and heat for the clan mechs, This will probably hit laser vomit builds the hardest. Since the only think the nova does at all is laser vomit, particularly by using the CerML, I would agree that waiting on buying a nova would be a smart call. The summoner however has a TON to gain from the proposed nerfs only hit lasers, the summoner is a jump sniper. If all the laser strategies take a hit, this will be an indirect buff to other strategies, In this case, PPC jump snipers, srm brawlers, ballistic users and LRM boats. In otherwords all the things the the summoner does (although it does none of them as well as the timberwolf).","Summary: Yes they are worse, 7 events that were either direct nerfs or MAJOR indirect nerfs. These are just the ones I can remember. I can't remember there ever really being a time they got an overall buff. They are still a great weapon though, just not much really wants to run them right now. Maybe the upcoming Mauler will give them a home.\n\nPost: If you have been away for 2.5 years yes they were nerfed, pretty heavily shortly after you left with reduced RoF as well as i think increased jam chance, they also fixed some exploited that allowed for double firing with out/lower risk jamming. \n There was a major nerf to all ballistics that removed their ability to go out to triple listed range (now double listed range) \n There was a minor nerf where their base range was slightly reduced. \n Many MANY other weapons were buffed, LRMS, SRMs major buffs to pulse weapons(range, range again, and heat reduction), major buffs to large lasers of all types (3 at a time w/o ghost heat). The list goes on. All of these buffs, some of these extremely major, are indirect nerfs to the IS ultra ac5 as it has not received any buffs. \n The IS PPC was nerfed into the ground, killing the most common compliment to the ultraAC5. This is an indirect nerf to the UAC5. \n Clan weapons are pretty much all strictly better than IS weapons, the ultra looks weaker in comparison. Although ironically the IS version is one of the very few IS versions that may be better. But still everything else is better now so the IS UAC5 looks worse in comparison. \n IS mechs are DEFINED by what quirks they have, almost nothing else matters. Mechs that don't use the UAC5 tended to get very powerful quirks. The classical UAC5 users got basically nothing (everyone was sick of them). The mechs that could have got UAC5 quirks got quirks for other stuff instead (DRG-1N 50% ac5 cooldown, Ilya got AC10 stuff that was later switched to ac5 stuff) \n Their are a few builds that still use them, the Jager and the king crab jump to mind. So even after the shit was piled on a mile deep they still aren't dead.","Summary: Most people who play MWO are actually really bad at the game and weak gamers in general. MWO doesn't attract the type of people who make for good competitive players.\n\nPost: I could believe wall hacks exist but there is NO FUCKING WAY anyone is aim botting, even the best players are not even close to good enough to warrant that accusation. \n The reason the top competitive teams are way ahead of the 'B' teams is because they are filled with people who are competitive style gamers. The other teams are full of guys who think because they are ex-army their military training relates to competitive gaming, not realizing that thinking army training makes you a better MWO player is just as retarded as thinking being a good MWO would make you a good soldier IRL. Be aware that this is an example indicative of a mindset and obviously not the exact case for every team.","Summary: r/mwo style fuck this pathetic game balance rant + actual number analysis.\n\nPost: If you read the descriptions of clan mech weapons you COULD make a case for them not being MUCH better. Then you look at the weights... and slots... and you realise they are lighter, smaller and longer range. The clan weapons are just better. \n Look at the IS erppc vs clan erppc they have the EXACT same heat, rate of fire, projectile speed, and range BUT the clan version splashes on free 5 damage, AND is 1 slot smaller AND is 1 ton lighter. DAFUQ? how did anyone think this was balance? \n OK maybe its just the one weapon lets look at other super alpha culprits. Maybe the Gauss rifle is better thought out. EXACT SAME damage, range, projectile speed and charge up time. the ONLY differences is that the clan version is one slot smaller and THREE tons lighter. \n All this because clan mechs can't change their engine? They just pick the chassis that has a good engine size on it. But don't worry clan mechs get smaller endo and ferro, smaller heatsinks, and have to lose both sides of thier torso to die with XL. So their heat problems by being forced to use the less desireable erppc and XL on assaults TOTALLY matters.","Summary: Who knows what they will do, but people generally try to make money and do less work. A price change would likely do both of these things for them.\n\nPost: Their cost doubles IS mechs AFTER upgrades and xl engines for the IS mechs. My guess that they will change the price comes from several things. \n -Clan weapons cost more in lore because they are better in the lore, in MWO they will not be better. \n -25mil is pretty unaffordable, I would guess a large chunk of mc sales are spent on mechbays, I know the vast majority of my spending is on mechbays. If they are comfortable with the amount of grinding it takes to buy a mech now, why would they suddenly double the grind for something else. \n -MC relates to cbills at a somewhat uniform rate. Many hero mechs are extremely expensive dollar wise. The mechwarrior player base is generally wealthy as far as play bases go, but it is likely that doubling the MC price would not result in good sales. Lets take a mech like the boars head, a mech that costs 7500 MC, or $30 MINIMUM (not counting sale prices, but using the best possible MC bundle). Would people be willing to spend $60 on one mech? Maybe I don't know. \n All of these factors point towards not keeping the doubled cbill prices, especially when it comes to a probable hit to PGI's sales. The only real argument to keep them at the high prices goes something like \"well that's what it is in the lore.\" PGI has already taken on some hefty burdens gameplay wise, by hamstringing their balance with un-editable weapon weights and slot requirements.","Summary: I don't see any of these mechs jumping to top spots, or even competing with clans very much. The only meta change might be the return of ac20 brawler mediums.\n\nPost: Ok super quick looks at these in my opinions, Ill rate them 1-5 based on what tier I think they are AFTER quirks. Keep in mind all these are based on the linked quirk list with none of today's revised quirks being considered. \n Jester: 3 \n Large lasers are pretty bad, a large laser specialist is still going to look really REALLY stupid with the CerML in the game. \n Atlas-D: 3 \n Still going to be AWFUL compared to a DDC. The slightly better srms and ac20 in no way make up for the better hardpoints and ecm on the DDC. You will be doing your team a HUHE disservice by dropping this mech. \n Highlander-733C: 2 \n It will stay on top as a brawler, especially if the negative movement quirks come off. I still can't see these guys not getting absolutely smashed in a brawl by direwolves though. \n Hunchback-4SP: 3 \n This one gets a lot of help in things that actually matter, specifically the heat gen quirks. This should be a pretty solid medium brawler. It will still suck in PUGs because it is a brawler. \n Dragon-1N: 3 \n A lot of help to weapons that are actually decent for the IS. Still going to get it world rocked by any clan fire support mech though. \n Dragon Fang: 4 \n Pulse lasers and ac10 are amongst the worst IS weapons. The LPL will play nice on this but the AC10 is almost a blank quirk. A 30 point semi pinpoint alpha is just not impressive anymore. \n Thunderbolt-5s :5 \n No help for it's best weapon hardpoint, the 2xB. There is also very little synergy between the two energy wepaons. LL get range and RoF, ML get beam duration and heat efficiency. Very unlikely you will be able to take advantage of both sets of quirks on one build. \n Jenner-D: 2 \n 10% srm4 range? who the fuck cares, there are modules that do that already, no one uses them. Absolutely no help for the SSRM2 option either. \n Awesome Pretty Baby 4 \n Still bad but man did this one get some HUGE help. Heat efficiency and cooldown are exactly what you want on the LL, you can only run 3 though. Bumped up to playable, but still pretty bad. \n Kintaro-18: 4 \n Another mech with no synergy between quirks, the laser thing might as well not exist. LRM 5 heat efficiency is so good already this quirk is pretty useless too. With a LRM ghost heat nerf coming down teh pipe and every other mech in the game getting better, this mech will probably be worse than it is now. \n Oxide: 3 \n It got some help, but it's assassination ability is still crap next to the ML version. I always thought the oxides usefulness lay far more in the streak light v light builds. If you wanted to play it as a dive bomber, what it needed was more alpha damage, not more dps. \n Centurian-D 3 \n Crazy LBX machine gun makes up for the super anti synergy of the quirks. Can't use both ballistic slots and you can't use all your missile tubes. \n Yen Lo Wange: 2.5 \n The mech that only does one thing does that one thing much better. This might actually do AC20 brawling better than the shadowhawk now, If the shadowhawk gets anything at all probably not though. \n Hunchback 4g : 3.5 \n Ac20 brawler mediums have always been decent, This mech will still look stupid if the shadowhawk gets any help at all. The energy stuff is probably the real upgrade. \n Hunchback 4H: 4 \n ac10 hunchbacks are still going to suck, don't kid yourself. Maybe ditch the stupid mono weapon quirk and go ac5+2erLL? (today's change will help with this) \n Awesoem 8Q: 4 \n Man those ppc quirks are fucking SEXY. But the reason ppc are good is because you can peak/jump with them so well, this guy can't do that. You also can only really use 2 ppc's at a time or you totally defeat the whole point of your pinpoint weapons. A LOT more playable but still bad.","Summary: I dismiss people who reference table top because they have no idea what they are talking about.\n\nPost: People shut it down because table top rules are not lore, at all. Lore is the fictional world where mechs actually exist. Nothing in the lore works like it does in table top. Table top rules don't represent the lore any better then video game rules do, there is no reason to pay any respect to them other than names and nostalgia. \n Any proposal that references table top rules as a source doesn't understand the lack of relationship. The only contributions tabletop rules have had to the game have been \n 1)words for thing \"hey cool its called a mech\" \n 2)cripplingly bad gameplay \"hey lets have half the total armor points!\" Even the double armor system they have now we are discovering is not a good game design. PGI agrees, that is why you are seeing mechs changed from this system, light mech legs, hunchback internals, various parts of other mechs. \n 3)cripplingly bad game play again. \"hey lets go back to 4xerppc stalkers!\" some 40 year old lore junky that wants to role play being a mechwarrior might chainfire and stuff for the cool sound effects but MOST players are going to play to win and run around one shotting people. The game has to be designed for people trying to win or the people trying to win will ruin the game for everyone else. You can still roleplay with PPCs that do 8 damage, or clan mechs that aren't stronger than IS mechs.","Summary: Literally any other heavy will serve you better. If you are looking for a heavy you probably want to go thunderbolt, even after the recent nerf the 9s has a role at long range. The 7mpl 5ss is a monster at short range.\n\nPost: nononononono no no noo nooooooooooooooooooooo. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! \n The ctf are TERRIBLE right now. The 3d used to be good but it has had no quirks for a long time and PGI's idea to scrape it off the floor was a 7.5% laser duration quirk. You will be very VERY unhappy with the CTFs. \n I was a die hard CTF player for over a year but people that recommend it now are trying to relive an era that is LONG gone. \n Jump jet on heavies to poptart are pretty dead \n Standard ppcs are pretty dead \n Quirkless mechs were already dead. \n The CTF-3d was a absolute top tier monster for a long time but it is NOT ANYMORE. \n The other CTF's are amongst the worst mechs in the game. The 4x can do a few cute but mediocre builds, and the other 2 CTFs are absolute shit tier.","Summary: This type of event is really REALLY bad for looking at balance. Find some competitive matches with few mech choice restrictions and see what people play there if you want to know where balance is at.\n\nPost: I wouldn't say that this is a great indicator as there are significant differences in demographics. I think clans still have significant barrier to entry in mech ownership that filters out the bottom tiers of players. I switched sides halfway through and I noticed a DRASTIC shift in the quality of players on the bottom half of my team. Maybe 3 times as many trial mech players on the IS on average, so the clans start out the game pretty much 11v9, a pretty impossible game to lose. \n Speaking of switching sides, the game was borderline unplayable from the IS side 30+ minute search times (zero seconds on clan side), Huge chunks of knowledgeable players switched sides, the people that don't really know what they are doing were far more likely to stay IS. \n IS mechs require organization. In general IS mechs are higher dps and higher sustained dps thanks to their quirks. Clan mechs are faster, better at long range, and have bigger alpha's but suck in sustained fights/brawls (at least without very specialized builds). Disorganization leads to long range peak fights not brawls, The structure of the event again heavily favors the clans.","Summary: It's hard to say machine guns are/were bad when the mechs that ran them either got blank quirks equating them to pre-quirkening clan mech power levels, or they have received massive nerfs in recent history.\n\nPost: Quirks killed mg's not the hitreg era nerf. DPS basically doubled with the release of clans and it practically doubled for many IS mechs as well. The idea of critting out internals was great when 'building a big alpha was' was 2xpc 2xac5 for 30 damage now the heavies with low alphas hit for like 35 and go all the way up to 50+. Stuff just dies to fast to make crippling mechs viable. \n The real REAL reason I think for the falloff of machine guns is because none of the mechs that use them have good quirks. Imagine if the ember got the FS9-S 45% mpl heat reduction. You'd see embers all over the place. Before they nerfed the quirks on the huginn you saw them all the time. Those two are really the only realistic MG running lights (that don't/didn't always suck). Without a complete restructuring of how the game works the spider 5k and locust are going to always suck.","Summary: You would have done 20 more damage with a heatsink instead of the small lasers.\n\nPost: Nice round! \n You are a poster child for why I advocate for simple builds though, you fire your small lasers a total of 4 or 5 times, once was mostly out of range. Not to be overly critical but you also missed several opportunities to use them against that timberwolf. You seem to know what you were doing so maybe you didn't want to waste the heat, after all the LPL do roughly 2 damage per heat on the banshee 3m, the smalls do like 1.6ish. You spent most of the important fights (tunnel and timberwolf) heat capped not cool down capped(which is a good thing). \n Tunnel fight you have heat issues from 13:12 to 11:02 total time 130 seconds \n Timberwolf fight was 10:10 to 9:50, 20 seconds. \n 4ish good small laser volleys =24 damage \n 150 seconds x .14 heat per second = 21 heat units \n 21 heat units/5ish heat LPL shots = about 4 LPL shots \n 4LPL shots x 11 damage = 44 damage \n There are several hard to calculate things here obviously but most of them lean in favor of the heatsink. The LPL shots have lower damage spread and higher range, as well as an ease of use factor because you are managing less total weapons. You also would have a slightly higher heat cap to play around with. \n Unless you are slot capped, then fuck everything I just said.","Summary: the 2.5 ton cost I listed is accurate, it's just an opportunity cost. Yes the mad dog will be trumped by the madcat for non-LRM builds.\n\nPost: Clan ECM on it's own is actually 1 ton/1 slot. Because fuck balance table top rules, you are think of the IS version that costs 1.5 tons/2slots. \n I said it costs 2.5 tons, because in comparison to the mad dog that is what you are paying for it. It is basically impossible to use up all the slots on a clan mech. If you aren't using the last 7 slots you are basicly \"wasting\" 1.5 tons as that's what the mad dog saves by having ferro, these 1.5 ton's are basicly free, as again, you aren't going to use all those slots. \n As for the hard point layout's 6m is king for pure brawlers, I though I was pretty clear that this is great for brawling, but brawlers are REALLY REALLY fucking terrible in pug games, so even the best brawler is doomed to mediocrity. The strategy you want to be playing in pugs is a mass erML+2erLPL. If you want to play this strategy you want to be in a Timberwolf not a Mad Dog. The timberwolf just does it way better, its going to be the same speed, more armored and cooler with more total guns. A mad dog playing a laser strategy is just a worse timberwolf. \n As for the LRM mad dog, ya its got I guess you could run a 6xlrm5 build like you can on the catapult, this time with your own tag, but mass small LRM's isn't very unique for clan mechs. Small, cool rapid fire volleys are what all the clan launchers do. You wont see much difference in play style or game impact between 6x5 and 3x10 LRMs","Summary: Radar deprivation helps drop locks that take a much longer time to reacquire in the first place. Is this a big deal? I think so.\n\nPost: I think it needs to be said that radar deprivation is probably going to skyrocket in value. \n Radar deprivation is already the best (or at least tied for the best) module in the game. It and seismic stand head and shoulders over the other modules. Radar deprivation on its own almost grants total immunity to LRMs. \n I'm of the opinion that even without LRM's in the game the information denial is so valuable that radar deprivation would still be the best module in the game. Not letting your opponent know if you are going to re-peak or if you have ran away when you take cover can really improve your peaking game. \n Now with the at times seconds long dorito acquisition times the ability to ditch your dorito is going to become more powerful. Even the high duration alpha strikers like a timberwolf can peak under the targeting time and then be back in cover. Ya an alert player can shoot you without the dorito but the MWO community is hardly an alert one."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: it all boils down to what \\\"options\\\" means to you. Do you want more possible builds for every mech variant? Or do you want to see more different kinds of hunchbacks? I prefer building my own mech out of each variant rather than being assigned an ac20 hunchback and a ac10 hunchback.\\n\\nPost: Assuming everyone knows what they are talking about and can reasonably predict the future, logical buffing would work something like this \\n Lets assume the target tier for \\\"balance\\\" is tier 2. \\n Hunchback-4g is tier 5, Ac 20+mls is the best build (this is known) \\n Give energy buffs, It is now tier 4 \\n Give HP buff's it is now tier 3 \\n Give 12.5% ballistic buffs it is tier 2.5 \\n Give ac20 buff it is tier 2 \\n We've done it this is a balanced mech! ONLY if you use the ac20 though, If you don't take advantage of that last quirk you will be play a (now slightly) worse mech than everyone else. Contrast this with a full strength ballistic quirk. Which version of the quirks allows for more build diversity?\",\n \"Summary: If you want to hop in some mechs and shot lasers at stuff, tinker with different builds ect. The game is the best its ever been. The clan mechs look and sound beautiful, The IS mechs have been improved too. There are new maps. The IS weapons have been smoothed out, making for a lot more viable mechs and builds. \\n If you play competitively or semi-competitively (you care a lot about winning) unless you own clan mechs the game is the worst its ever been. If being easily defeated by players weaker than you because they spent dollars and you didn't bothers you, the game is borderline unplayable.\\n\\nPost: Clan mechs are clos-ER to balanced than any other other MWO title, clan mechs are currently have about 25-35% more game impact than IS mechs. Currently clan mechs average 35% more damage out put and 25% more kills. They also are faster and more durable than IS mechs as well. \\n There is debate as to WHY the clan mechs perform so much better, some people say its because many pieces of clan equipment are strictly better, such as the smaller, and lighter (with no downside) erppc and gauus, the smaller heatsinks and VASTLY better clan cl engines. \\n Other parties argue that clan superiority is to their expensive ($100+) price tag. The idea being that only the most dedicated players pay this kind of money for the clan mechs. The big problem with this argument is that having a lot of money doesn't really correlate with being a great player of video games. It only really correlates with being older, which actually weakly correlates with being a BAD gamers, as you being to lose the fluid thinking and rapid motor skills in your mid 20's.\",\n \"Summary: I couldn't disagree more with recommending stuff like the banshee for random PUG games. The last things you want are poor peakers that are slow and can only fight at 300m or less.\\n\\nPost: TDR-9SE, TDR-9SE, TDR-'not 9SE because I only own two but should really be a 9SE', random 55 ton mech to suit your mood. \\n IS assaults are too slow in pugs you can't get out of the way of generator rushes and big pushes in them and you can't stand and fight because your team sure as shit isn't going to help you in a PUG game. Sub 75KPH mechs are pretty much worthless unless you are queuing with like 6 other people. \\n I guess you could take Gauss jager's if you want some variety but the rest of IS heavies are kind of a joke compared to\",\n \"Summary: it is more reasonable to predict these mechs will get worse rather than better like the shadowhawk did.\\n\\nPost: 3/3/3/3 and weight restricted competitive play helped mediums become more relevant. The shadowhawk is still a complete POS next to the pre jump jet nerf ctf-3d. I would say its like 90% mediums are/were useless 10% the size that made for the misread. The value of JJ was also different when the pheonix pack was announced, as it was before the uac5 nerf. Back then the uac5 could chainsaw through mechs in seconds, so much so that the jump jetless 3xuac5 ilya was a popular meta choice. If the rules were the same as they were back then the shadowhawk probably would be crap. \\n Seeing as the shadowhawk really became relevant through strong nerfs to the top performers and through forced usage it is unlikely that any of these new clan mechs are \\\"shadowhawks\\\" as the nerf that hit the biggest offenders will almost undoubtedly hit them as well. Clans as a whole need nerfs more badly than the uac5 did and those nerfs are going to hit the wave 2 mechs as well as the wave 1 mechs.\",\n \"Summary: L: There were good reasons for these modules to exist, its one of PGIs few competent balance choices. The fact clan versions exist is the lowest on a list of HUGE problems with clan balance. (almost like no effort was made to balance them after \\\"lol longer lasers beams\\\" didn't work)\\n\\nPost: When weapon modules were initially released the game was HEAVILY dominated by a few weapons, The biggest two were the UAC5 and the PPC. These two weapons were not given modules largely do to public outcry that added flexibility would make these weapons even more powerful. Giving all the other weapons a module and excluding the uac5 and ppc, is the same as givinging them a minor buff. \\n PGI is EXTREMELY slow and possibly ignorant on the balance front. They frequently make very questionable choices, that are either totally inconsequential and totally miss the point (I'm looking at you 10% mpl range increase). Or they make HUGE game breaking changes that need to be reverted several days later (Super LRMs). \\n Whoever makes the choices on balance is clearly not the brightest build at PGI but the lack of an erll/ppc/uac5 module was not something that was one of these decided at random.\",\n \"Summary: I guess my point is that you are a fool to hold on to the other atlases, and kind of a jerk to drop into a game with them other than to level them. The K is shit but you will want an xl300 in your career, like a dozen if you have dedicated engines for every mech.\\n\\nPost: I agree with all of this, but all of the other atlases are unplayably bad. Buy and sell is the way to go and the K is actually the best choice for that! \\n It is only more expensive because of the xl300. I reccomend the xl 300 specifically because it is near best choice for almost every xl engine using mech in the game. I strongly reccomend buying>basicing>selling any other other atlases they are really REALLY bad, offering no unique playstyles (besides 2ml ct zombies which are more of a joke than a threat) and all having significant hard point disadvantages over the S and DDC. \\n ALL OF THIS IS NOT TAKING INTO ACCOUNT QUIRKS THE REAL ADVICE IS TO NOT BUY ANYTHING RIGHT NOW!\",\n \"Summary: no don't buy highlanders\\n\\nPost: In regards to the 2nd question \\n -The highlander IS very sluggish now, and doesn't jump well at all. Even with max engine.\\n-It's still a high tier mech, but its pretty much strictly dominated by the victor. \\n Not sure if you have these mechs elited based on the way you phrased your post. If you haven't elited then you should prioritize that, it isn't a waste of cbills at all, it will give whole new life to your mechs.\",\n \"Summary: you own all the good hero mediums, either expand your horizon's, buy the arrow or accept a shitty duplicate of a mech you already own.\\n\\nPost: You probably want the ember, or maybe the arrow. Almost all of the light and medium hero mechs are trash, the rest are duplicates of non-hero mechs that do nothing unique. Even the arrow is just going to be a another yen-lo/SHD-2H, how many 90ish KPH ac20+3ml mechs do you really need? So the arrow is just going to be a jokey 6mg mech, which I could never recommend paying dollars for. \\n The ember is probably the best or tied for the best light mech in the game, it is need to own for any serious player. It also offers unique loadouts that no cbill mech can do anything similar to. \\n My REALLY real recommendation is to not buy a hero mech at all, you already own the only reasonable IS medium hero's and mechs. All that is left for you to buy is shittier duplicates of mechs you already own. Buy some clan mechs, you seem to enjoy good mechs that go 80-90 kph and this is exactly what the clan mechs offer. They are currently WAY WAY stronger than is mediums while offering similar movement capabilities. The new clan pack looks pretty crappy in my opinion so either save dollars for when the timberwolf becomes available, or buy the stormcrow now. Or my REALLY REALLY real recommendation, buy a bunch of mechbays and premium time and just buy them with cbills.\",\n \"Summary: examine mechs that travel the same speed but are different weights, and ask yourself that same question.\\n\\nPost: Not close at all, while in general heavier mechs are higher game impact, each weight has an optimal speed that only it can go while maintaining maximum payload. \\n For example, If you wanted to play a IS mech that goes, 77 KPH (pretweak) and uses a STD engine the best option are 65 ton mechs using a STD310, yielding a pre-armor payload of 31 tons. If you tried to go 77 KPH in a a 75 ton mech, you would have to use STD 360 and have a pre-armor payload of 27.5 tons. So by picking the wrong weight mech for the speed you want to move at you lose out on 3.5 tons of space. \\n The game is a balance between speed/armor/firepower. While current balance decisions have made the heavier end of the spectrum stronger in the abstract, speed still is an important factor in the game. \\n The problem with the Hellbringer has nothing to do with tonnage, It's totally possible to have a great 65 ton mech, the Hellbringer just isn't it. 65 ton mechs want an XL350-370, the hellbringer just doesn't have that. The 75 ton timberwolf wants a 360, exactly what it has. The timberwolf also wins out or ties in all the other factors, except ECM. \\n Timberwolf advantages \\n -Endo \\n -Ferro \\n -Jump jets \\n Hellbringer \\n -ECM\",\n \"Summary: I want to see real games on interesting maps, not pro players all inning because they can't waste time prepping for starbow\\n\\nPost: u feel \\n I don't want to see starbow because shoutcraft is a very good thing for sc2 IF PEOPLE PREPARE. If all it turns into is people all inning for money, because they are playing more and more ridiculous game modes, shoutcraft will be a bad thing for sc2. We already have to watch super unprepared 2v2 games(this makes me sad). I don't want to watch a bunch of irrelevant starbow games that people also are unprepared for. Starbow to me is not honest competition, its a nice diversion from sc2 but that's really it right now.\",\n \"Summary: If your team isn't going towards the middle of the map from second zero, and if your team isn't absolutely spoiling for a fight and firing their weapons by minute two, you are probably losing that game 90%+ of the time.\\n\\nPost: There are many ways to predict wins in the first few minutes, I wouldn't say unit tags is necessarily one of them though. Maybe unit tags you recognize? obviously if you spot a bunch of steel jags on the other team you are going to see some game impact out of them. \\n Looking at the behavior of your team in the first few minutes tells you a lot more. \\n Alpine conquest and 4+ guys are going gamma? you probably lose. \\n Terratherma and people are running the side of the map: you probably lose \\n Terratherma and people aren't all heading directly to mid: you probably lose \\n Canyon Network 1:30 into the round and less than two players are standing on the high-ground firing thier weapons, get ready to get 12-0ed. \\n Crimson strait conquest and 6 guys rush saddle, get ready for another 12-2. \\n There many maps with VERY important locations to get to quickly (in pub games). If people aren't going to them its probably because they don't know to go to them, aka they don't know what they are doing. \\n There are important basic idea's to game play, like firing your weapons a lot. Shockingly large amounts of players don't do this. If you have a team that's not looking to fire their weapon early and often it's probably because they have the mentality \\\" I got fucking crushed last game\\\" not because they are looking to break 1500 damage this game.\",\n \"Summary: LRMS were a cool idea on paper but they really have NOTHING going for them in terms of good gameplay. Waiting 10 minute behind a building is not my idea of fun.\\n\\nPost: most of what people are saying is true \\n -Results with little effort, although you could make an argument they give accessibility to the very very bottom tier of players. MWO has very low mechanical demands already \\n -Slows down pace of games, the best strategy for dealing with them involves waiting for 5-10 minutes doing absolutely nothing. Players are killed because they AREN'T HAVING FUN, get bored and charge out. You should be getting killed because you ARE having fun but got outplayed. \\n -poor map design to account for them, Some maps you get narced and there is literally nothing you can do to survive, Other maps, like crimson straight or HPG manifold, you drop with 4 lrm users on your team and automaticly lose the game because there is a fucking roof. It's a massive contributor to blowout games. \\n -a very very very low skill cieling, anyone can get kills with LRM but even the VERY VERY best player using LRMs is pretty much the same as an average one. \\n -Both the LRM user and reciever lose agency, MWO is a competitive PvP game, most players want to win because they did something and want there to have been something they could have done better when they lose. Kills for LRM players almost ALWAYS are teh result of some other players work (your spotter). When the LRM boater died they often die hopelessly to one jenner or something \\n -LRMS do not combine well with any other weapon system. A good rule for mech design is to be able to be using ALL of your weapon all the time you would be fighting. LRMs have a large minimum range, long travel times, fire indirectly ect. All attributes that they share with no other weapon. BOATING is the only choice. Boating isn't something that is necessarily bad game design or bad for game play, but the general consensus of the mwo community is that boating is bad.\",\n \"Summary: This LRM theme is a terrible terrible idea, feel free to try it but it's not going to help your team win games. Try to keep your builds focused on doing one thing well, and then in game focus on doing what your mech is designed to do.\\n\\nPost: Ditch the random LRM's on everything, You'll never get a chance to really use them and if you do it will just get shot down by AMS. Replace the tonnage with heatsinks or ammo. The way LRMs are designed you pretty much have to go all out or none at all, it's not very fun, it's shitty game design but its the sad truth. \\n The 1N gets 50% ac5 cooldown and only 25% to other ballistic weapons. The ac5 is just a way better weapon in general, you'd be CRAZY not to use it. This build ignores what may the single most powerful quirk in the game. \\n Your 5N build needs more ammo. It has 18 tons of ac2 that can deal a maximum of 300 damage, that is just crazy. you can get the 3 more tons you'll need from losing the LRMs. \\n The DRG-1C I would change the most. Obviously I'm going to say ditch the LRM's. I would reccomend using that tonnage to upgrade that uac5 to a gauss rifle, strip a little leg armor for a 3rd ton of ammo and you have a solid long range fire support mech. In general I would advise against using a single uac5 (ever on any mech). The UAC5 is a stare the guy down DPS weapon. You never want to Stare at the guy continuously unless you have a HUGE DPS advantage, you won't ever have that with 1 uac5. If you are in love with the UAC5 and want to keep it spend your LRM tonnage on more heatsinks, and another medium laser.\",\n \"Summary: save your MC, low weight heroes are crap.\\n\\nPost: I would only recommend the oxide in addition to your ember, Keep it mind that while the ember is just good, the oxide is a HIGHLY situational role player. It hunts non-ecm lights and does basically nothing else. MAYBE it will be good as an srm dive bomber in the coming months after some patches, but as of right now this build is crap due to SRM hit detection issues be exacerbated by being fired from fast moving mechs, and just generally being bad. \\n Unless you love Light hunters don't care about winning don't buy the oxide. \\n It's not a Hero but the Raven 3l is one of the best cbill grinders in the game. buy some premium time and put 2 ERLL on it and it will earn you way more than a hero will. It's also a solo drop power house, basicly everyone top10 in the solo-drop light tournament was playing this mech. \\n None of the medium mech heroes are good. Medium mechs in general are pretty weak and the heroes are all just worse versions of some other non-hero medium. \\n buy the raven 3l and shadowhawks, and you will have mechs that do everything any other light mech can do. Spend your mc on premium time to make up the lost cbill bonus.\",\n \"Summary: IS is weak right now, PGI is trending towards nerfing them. Clans are strong PGI is trending towards buffing them. All announced plans are clan buffs.\\n\\nPost: Any of the clans, after the recent quirk changes the best IS CW mechs got absolutely dumped on. The 10 ton advantage does more to highlight just how terrible the middle weight IS mechs are right now than solve any problems. \\n What the weight change WILL do is be a commitment to IS being weaker for some time, it is very unlikely they would have made this change if they had any plans to fix the current balance issues. \\n Clans are also about to see a possibly big increase in the number of CW viable mechs with quirks being added to the adder/iceferret/summoner/gargoyle. \\n The most recent/nearest upcoming cbill mech releases favor the clans. The hellbringer will get played because its good, the panther will get played because people need to level it.\",\n \"Summary: Mid is by far the most reliable strategy, all other strategies on terra therma either give and advantage to the opponent or result in a tie. (assuming the game is played well and noone suicides)\\n\\nPost: OK not to call you out, but I'm going to call you out. There is a reason why you go caldera, a very very important reason.(I'm going to focus on assault/skirmish but the reasoning applies to conquest as well) \\n MWO isn't a game of mechanics(aim and movement) its a game of strategy. Your ability to shoot slightly better won't win75% of your games for you like it will in counterstrike. \\n Strategy in MWO has two main components teamwork and personal positioning. Team work is simple, its a game of hitpoints, two people shooting one means the guy dies twice as fast and shoots back half as much. ALL hitpoint based shooters work on this principal, it applies to TF2 or quake or XCOM or MWO take your pick. Going mid ensures that you have all 12 of your guys in one place attacking the other team. This isn't counterstrike where one sweep of your weapon from a hidden position can kill a whole team. FLANKING IS NOT A THING IN MWO. your team moves as a group and fights as a group. \\n So why go mid, simple it's the fastest place to get all 12 people together and keeps them together. Except for you who stops in the choke and makes it so half the team goes in and dies 6v12 because you blocked half your team. \\n The second part of the game (and the only part you control in a solo PUG) is personal positioning. Mechs are very slow, you have few opportunities to correct your position without either dieing or taking a very long walk(see teamwork for why this is bad). \\n So why is Mid on Terra Therma a strong personal position. Lets start with objectives. MECHS ARE SLOW and the only way to get places quickly is to take a direct route. Cap to cap the fastest route in through mid, its also the fastest return to base route. By being in mid you position your team to access anywhere on the map as quickly as possible. \\n Lets take an hypothetical assault game, my team goes mid, your team goes around the outside. We pass like ships in the night, but I arrive at your base sooner than you get to mine, and I cap first and win. Whats your best strategy to stop this? either camp or go mid yourself. Mid vs Mid is the current dominant strategy, so lets look at Mid v camp. Camping can work but it has 2 important flaws. The first is that it relies on your opponent making a mistake and charging in to you, if they've don't all you accomplished with your strategy is to allow me to be able to get anywhere one the map more quickly than you(I'm now in mid). So assuming we are perfectly evenly matched in all other aspects, your strategy has only served to lose you the game (as we are evenly matched in skill but I have an advantage in mobility).\",\n \"Summary: I'd say no artemis on the cent\\n\\nPost: a \\n I don't play cents besides the free one I got (with artemis). I was SUPER unimpressed. I have played srm shadow hawks which are pretty much just better cents, they are usually heavier AND faster AND jump. \\n Overall both the ASRM cent and SRM shadowhawk were pretty weak, Niether had enough punch for the one big volley to be a knockout punch so you usually ended up in a a brawl with everything splashing all over the place as your opponents twist to roll damage. \\n If you want pinpoint close-range damage take an ac20, if you already have an ac20 and want more take ASRMs I guess.\",\n \"Summary: MWO is and never will be a balanced game, its counterstrike not starcraft. The fanbase is RABID about stopping change. Until we stop this attitude, or are ignored we are never going to get Balance like starcraft, tf2 or dota.\\n\\nPost: There are three good games I would cite as examples of good meta games. \\n You already discussed starcraft. Every unit in starcraft has a place. While some may not be common they at least show up at specific times ON SPECIFIC MAPS. Starcraft is not an inherently balanced game, especially not Broodwar. Despite is legend broodwar required VERY specific map design in order for all 3 races to function. PGI has openly stated that they WILL NOT create role encouraging maps, such as an all city street brawling map. Why they took this policy I do not know, its a really really stupid policy imo. \\n The second I would mention is DOTA 2. Dota is an inherently UNBALANCED game, there is simply too much going on to have every hero be equally used or even seriously used at all. There will always be one who's stats are too weak, or who is too directly countered by another hero or build. To deal with this problem the developer make HUGE sweeping patches changing 30+ heroes or items often in big ways. There may be little changs like the +7% srm damage or +10% mpl range, but these would be paired with changes to EVERYTHING else. Each patch creates a whole new world, old solutions don't work, new ones are found, and just when the next 2xppc+2xac5 dragonslayer is found a new patch roles out. \\n The last example worth mentioning is TF2, TF2's competitive scene honestly never looked great, but its pub scene has HUGE diversity in choices, every class gets played and feels entirely different. Beyond that each class has its own list of weapons that all are VERY different. The bad news is that everything in mwo almost identical, so this would never work. Think about it, what really is the difference between an atlas and a jenner, pretty much just move speed hp and the number of guns (the same guns). Even the guns are very similar, lasers only really differ in range and damage ect. \\n MWO has a HUGE reluctance to change the status quo, both from players and designers. MWO's closest comparison in counterstrike, a VERY fun game but very poorly balanced, fifteen fucking years of AK47vsM4A1 + awps. I love counterstrike, the recent design changes by valve have turned it into the best game it has ever been. MWO faces the same kind of stagnation, it has a community that insists that the LORE is how much ppcs weigh, or how much damage they do, or that Clan mechs get better everything or w/e. The lore is the characters, worlds, art design, famous battles not the numbers.\",\n \"Summary: Many clan mechs have strict advantages and NO DISADVANTAGES. Many clan weapons (the tactically best weapons) have some advantages AND EXACTLY ZERO DISADVANTAGES. You can beat the clans by being a much better pilot, but you will never defeat a clone of yourself playing a clan mech \\n The abusive tactics aren't new, the dragon slayer is the best mech in the game of last month, you'd have to be insane to argue otherwise. This month we have the timberwolf, the exact same weapon loadout with bonus range and damage, but it goes 90kph. \\n Right now is the time to play, experiment and analyze. This is the period where we use our past experience to identify strictly superior builds to what we used before. The sky isn't falling, the universe is not imploding but there is crushing imbalance in a video game that we all care about. Good indications are the absolute best players in the game giving statements that are being ignored, while people out of loyalty to \\\"lore\\\" that is not lore, using hyperbole, and strawmen to defend shitty game design.\\n\\nPost: Balance has two sides the underpowered and the over powered. Conversations generally focus on the overpowered, as these are the topics that overtake the game. The underpowered stuff just gets ignored. So while some clan mechs have inappropriate loadouts there are many that have excellent load outs, yes there are some that have only ferro but those ones are irrelevant, because those aren't the ones breaking the game. \\n engines, this is just misinformation, clan xl's weigh the same as IS XL's. You just pick the chassis that has an appropriate engine for what you want to do. at least you admit these are strictly better, you seem to skip past the part that the increased heat demands are because the clan weapons are lighter and the clan mechs just have more guns that need cooling. This synergy is EXACTLY what makes the clan mechs have high game impact that IS mechs.\\n forced endo only, it only takes one mech to break the game, as long as there are some that have both, or just endo, the just ferro are irrelevant. Even in the case you suggest, very few if any clan builds are slot capped, so ferro is probably still advantage if not strictly better. locked slots, I'm going to have to ask that you provide an example of a mech that is even moderately handicapped by this, the closest i can fine are that direwolves can't run 4 ac10's in teh side torso (they could just use the arms) or maybe you mean the adder's hardlocked flamer, because that sure keeps everything in check.\\n*several clan weapons are balanced, the clan autocannons are probably maybe close to where they should be, but this is a strawman. When discussing imbalance you typically focus on the problems not the few area's that are ok. The problem is ppc/gauss builds not lasers or ACs.\",\n \"Summary: the PPC and gauss are the only important weapons and the clan versions are strictly better.\\n\\nPost: The IDEA as to do exactly this, the lasers autocannons and LRMs all got this treatment. Its an interesting idea to achieve balance, the clan mechs are \\\"better\\\" but the increased face time forces them to play a normally bad tactic (brawling). The problem is that the BEST strategy (as demonstrated by every competitive match pretty much without exception) is to use low face time weapons to jump shoot and then hide without taking return fire, thus getting ahead in the hitpoint race. The best weapons for this strategy are PPCs, Gauss, and autocannons. \\n After a recent nerf to autocannons, Gauss rifles took up a MUCH MUCH great role as the only un-nerfed heat neutral weapon. \\n Competitive builds pretty much require 2xppc + as much ballistics as you can carry. I could explain why this is the case but it would take forever. With the recent nerf the PPC and probably the Gauss are the MOST IMPORTANT weapons in the game. \\n THE PROBLEM is that the clan versions of these weapons recieved ABSOLUTELY NO DOWNSIDE, the only differences are upsides, the PPC does more damage(the EXTRA is splashed but is still helpful). BOTH weapons are smaller and lighter. I repeat they have these upsides and ZERO downside. \\n As for the comment on the DS, it is simply the best mech for mounting 2xPPC+ballistic and jumpjets. Its larger engine size took over after a massive nerf to the turn rate on the highlanders (which ran the same weapons).\",\n \"Summary: never\\n\\nPost: It's a pretty firm no, devs have discussed this issue before. The problem is that cryengine is (I'm told) very bad for animating picture in picture type stuff. Basically this means that putting a changing image on that would be a waste of system resources in a game that is already really really poorly optimized.\",\n \"Summary: All signs point to warhawk, It's what I got.\\n\\nPost: The warhawk, it's more expensive it will save you a few million cbills down the road. The xp bonus from champion mechs is not all that helpful in the short run and literally useless in the long run. \\n My personal opinion is that the end goal for any committed MWO player should be to own all the mechs, or at least all the useful ones. Make choices that will get you to this point. \\n Role playing is fine but it is imagination, there is no reason to be a clan loyalist or a IS loyalist IRL. Skipping out on clans or skipping gout on IS is just screwing yourself out of half the fun to be had in MWO.\",\n \"Summary: There will ALWAYS be a build were the pieces fall into place if you have clan tech that is strictly superior.\\n\\nPost: To start I'm going to ASSUME that we are talking about changing just XL engines, with no other nerfs in the same fantasy patch. \\n This solution can be paraphrased as \\\"leave them better, because customization.\\\" While I agree clans don't have an option right now for standard engines, leaving the CXL engine as a FAR FAR strictly better option would be incredibly game breaking. While in competitive builds prefer standard engines, many many people in the competitive game will be running XL's (Lights, Cicadas, Victors ect.) \\n Just because some clan mechs have an inappropriate engine for what you want to do, does not make them any weaker, it just makes them less fun to customize. People will find the \\\"victors\\\" of the clans, that want an XL engine in them and then you will have a mech that wants an XL and gets a strictly better one. That mech will also be strictly better in erppc, guass, heatsink, endo, and ferro (HUGE HUGE advantages in all these). It will also have access to the better (not strictly but definitely better) clan lasers. \\n So your customization is a nerf theory leads us to a faster, cooler, bigger alpha, longer range, higher dps Dragon Slayer. So we've taken the absolute worst aspect of the game and multiplied it. We get one super mech that no other mech can compete with, that can only be purchased with IRL dollars. Except because we are relying on \\\"customization\\\" as a nerf We've allowed this super mech (probably a timberwolf or direwolf but it could be anything) to be EVEN MORE DOMINANT, than the dragonslayer was.\",\n \"Summary: the nerf cost you basicly nothing, the nerf took away .53 sustained dps (15%ish) and 5 seconds time to overheat. So in a brawl that may last lets say 2 minutes after you lose a side torso, the nerf will cause you to put out 63.6 less damage, assuming you survive, never miss and never hit zero heat.\\n\\nPost: This is pretty much the worst possible case scenario. It would basically be impossible to design a practical mech that is more impacted by the change than this one. \\n 16 second time to overheat, 4.77 sustained dps. \\n overkilled it by removing 3 DHS (3x.14>2x2.0) \\n 18 second time to overheat 3.17 sustained dps. \\n You lost about 1/3 your sustained dps. Your time to overheat actually went up. For being the pretty much the absolute worst case possible this seem a hell of a lot better than death. \\n To expand on that a little, and show what the nerf actually cost you. Pre-nerf you had 23 seconds time to overheat and 3.7 sustained dps.\",\n \"Summary: Make sure you are taking the best damage trade you can even when that trade is only \\\"less bad\\\"\\n\\nPost: Play good mechs. Good mechs are good because they give you options and the ability to demonstrate skill. good peaking/poptarting/component targeting/whatever. \\n \\n Good crosshair placement, This is a CS:GO video but everything 100% applies to MWO. THIS IS HOW GOOD PLAYERS AIM. \\n \\n Always always ALWAYS be firing your weapons. After the 30 second mark you should never EVER be at resting heat. If there are enemies you can possibly fire at your weapons should NEVER be off cooldown. The weapons off cooldown problem is something weaker players do when taking large amounts of damage. \\n \\n \\n Say you take a bad peak into 3 enemy heavies. You have enough time to make a decision most players will say \\\"Oh shit DEFENSE TIME\\\" and swing their shield side into position. They will take 90ish damage and duck back into cover. A better move is to fire your alpha into one and THEN damage roll dealing 50 damage and taking 100, a MUCH better trade. Damage rolling helps but it only increases survivability a little bit.\",\n \"Summary: I feel safe concluding that this guy also has no idea what he is talking about. He misses a shitload of information that is super easy to get a hold of, AND his math makes no sense.\\n\\nPost: The first source is HORRIBLY outdated. The second one sort of says what I just said. Critical hits are not like critical hits in dota. The damage is equipment damage and will not result in the enemy mech dieing any more quickly. I'm not sure you have a solid understanding of the terminology \\\"critical hit\\\" \\n Everyone in the second source pretty clearly has no idea what they are talking about except for the last poster. He seems to be knowledgeable but I think he may be taking outdated information. Many of the numbers he uses are straight up wrong, other places he doesn't use numbers where the numbers are clearly available. He says machine guns do .1 damage per tick, when they do .08. He uses the ambiguous term \\\"crit seeker\\\" when machine gun's were clearly listed in patch notes as doing 1250% critical damage. \\n He mentions weapons doing extra internal damage when they score critical hits, which definitely could be a thing. However, I have never seen this mentioned anywhere EVER. Especially have never heard the exact +1/15 weapon damage per crit, most sources that I have read specifically say that critical hits DO NOT do extra damage. \\n If this 1/15th thing was a a thing this guys explanation still wouldn't make sense. 1250% increase in crits x 1/15 is not going to give you the huge damage numbers suggest. He seems to suggest that 12.5x(1/15) is somehow going to be more than 5 times the damage. If we assumed that machine guns ALWAYS triple crit they would do (12.5x3x.08X1/15)+.08=.28, or .35 if you use his incorrect damage number (his math is still wrong)\",\n \"Summary: the proposed nerfs directly target the nova, and don't affect a single thing the summoner does. Make your own choices but the nova will likely go down in game impact while the summoner goes up. I remains to be seen how big the difference will be.\\n\\nPost: The idea's they posted are VERY light nerfs to clans. They also posted a very major nerf tho the IS ERll. If they go through with the changes as planned clan mechs as a whole will likely be stronger than ever. \\n That is of course making the big assumption that the changes go through as tested (they were pretty idiotic IMO) \\n Overall the nerfs seems to hit lasers across the board, tiny nerfs to every clan laser, a bigger (but not huge) nerf to the cerml and the biggest nerf to the IS ERll. \\n The nerfs were focused on range and heat for the clan mechs, This will probably hit laser vomit builds the hardest. Since the only think the nova does at all is laser vomit, particularly by using the CerML, I would agree that waiting on buying a nova would be a smart call. The summoner however has a TON to gain from the proposed nerfs only hit lasers, the summoner is a jump sniper. If all the laser strategies take a hit, this will be an indirect buff to other strategies, In this case, PPC jump snipers, srm brawlers, ballistic users and LRM boats. In otherwords all the things the the summoner does (although it does none of them as well as the timberwolf).\",\n \"Summary: Yes they are worse, 7 events that were either direct nerfs or MAJOR indirect nerfs. These are just the ones I can remember. I can't remember there ever really being a time they got an overall buff. They are still a great weapon though, just not much really wants to run them right now. Maybe the upcoming Mauler will give them a home.\\n\\nPost: If you have been away for 2.5 years yes they were nerfed, pretty heavily shortly after you left with reduced RoF as well as i think increased jam chance, they also fixed some exploited that allowed for double firing with out/lower risk jamming. \\n There was a major nerf to all ballistics that removed their ability to go out to triple listed range (now double listed range) \\n There was a minor nerf where their base range was slightly reduced. \\n Many MANY other weapons were buffed, LRMS, SRMs major buffs to pulse weapons(range, range again, and heat reduction), major buffs to large lasers of all types (3 at a time w/o ghost heat). The list goes on. All of these buffs, some of these extremely major, are indirect nerfs to the IS ultra ac5 as it has not received any buffs. \\n The IS PPC was nerfed into the ground, killing the most common compliment to the ultraAC5. This is an indirect nerf to the UAC5. \\n Clan weapons are pretty much all strictly better than IS weapons, the ultra looks weaker in comparison. Although ironically the IS version is one of the very few IS versions that may be better. But still everything else is better now so the IS UAC5 looks worse in comparison. \\n IS mechs are DEFINED by what quirks they have, almost nothing else matters. Mechs that don't use the UAC5 tended to get very powerful quirks. The classical UAC5 users got basically nothing (everyone was sick of them). The mechs that could have got UAC5 quirks got quirks for other stuff instead (DRG-1N 50% ac5 cooldown, Ilya got AC10 stuff that was later switched to ac5 stuff) \\n Their are a few builds that still use them, the Jager and the king crab jump to mind. So even after the shit was piled on a mile deep they still aren't dead.\",\n \"Summary: Most people who play MWO are actually really bad at the game and weak gamers in general. MWO doesn't attract the type of people who make for good competitive players.\\n\\nPost: I could believe wall hacks exist but there is NO FUCKING WAY anyone is aim botting, even the best players are not even close to good enough to warrant that accusation. \\n The reason the top competitive teams are way ahead of the 'B' teams is because they are filled with people who are competitive style gamers. The other teams are full of guys who think because they are ex-army their military training relates to competitive gaming, not realizing that thinking army training makes you a better MWO player is just as retarded as thinking being a good MWO would make you a good soldier IRL. Be aware that this is an example indicative of a mindset and obviously not the exact case for every team.\",\n \"Summary: r/mwo style fuck this pathetic game balance rant + actual number analysis.\\n\\nPost: If you read the descriptions of clan mech weapons you COULD make a case for them not being MUCH better. Then you look at the weights... and slots... and you realise they are lighter, smaller and longer range. The clan weapons are just better. \\n Look at the IS erppc vs clan erppc they have the EXACT same heat, rate of fire, projectile speed, and range BUT the clan version splashes on free 5 damage, AND is 1 slot smaller AND is 1 ton lighter. DAFUQ? how did anyone think this was balance? \\n OK maybe its just the one weapon lets look at other super alpha culprits. Maybe the Gauss rifle is better thought out. EXACT SAME damage, range, projectile speed and charge up time. the ONLY differences is that the clan version is one slot smaller and THREE tons lighter. \\n All this because clan mechs can't change their engine? They just pick the chassis that has a good engine size on it. But don't worry clan mechs get smaller endo and ferro, smaller heatsinks, and have to lose both sides of thier torso to die with XL. So their heat problems by being forced to use the less desireable erppc and XL on assaults TOTALLY matters.\",\n \"Summary: Who knows what they will do, but people generally try to make money and do less work. A price change would likely do both of these things for them.\\n\\nPost: Their cost doubles IS mechs AFTER upgrades and xl engines for the IS mechs. My guess that they will change the price comes from several things. \\n -Clan weapons cost more in lore because they are better in the lore, in MWO they will not be better. \\n -25mil is pretty unaffordable, I would guess a large chunk of mc sales are spent on mechbays, I know the vast majority of my spending is on mechbays. If they are comfortable with the amount of grinding it takes to buy a mech now, why would they suddenly double the grind for something else. \\n -MC relates to cbills at a somewhat uniform rate. Many hero mechs are extremely expensive dollar wise. The mechwarrior player base is generally wealthy as far as play bases go, but it is likely that doubling the MC price would not result in good sales. Lets take a mech like the boars head, a mech that costs 7500 MC, or $30 MINIMUM (not counting sale prices, but using the best possible MC bundle). Would people be willing to spend $60 on one mech? Maybe I don't know. \\n All of these factors point towards not keeping the doubled cbill prices, especially when it comes to a probable hit to PGI's sales. The only real argument to keep them at the high prices goes something like \\\"well that's what it is in the lore.\\\" PGI has already taken on some hefty burdens gameplay wise, by hamstringing their balance with un-editable weapon weights and slot requirements.\",\n \"Summary: I don't see any of these mechs jumping to top spots, or even competing with clans very much. The only meta change might be the return of ac20 brawler mediums.\\n\\nPost: Ok super quick looks at these in my opinions, Ill rate them 1-5 based on what tier I think they are AFTER quirks. Keep in mind all these are based on the linked quirk list with none of today's revised quirks being considered. \\n Jester: 3 \\n Large lasers are pretty bad, a large laser specialist is still going to look really REALLY stupid with the CerML in the game. \\n Atlas-D: 3 \\n Still going to be AWFUL compared to a DDC. The slightly better srms and ac20 in no way make up for the better hardpoints and ecm on the DDC. You will be doing your team a HUHE disservice by dropping this mech. \\n Highlander-733C: 2 \\n It will stay on top as a brawler, especially if the negative movement quirks come off. I still can't see these guys not getting absolutely smashed in a brawl by direwolves though. \\n Hunchback-4SP: 3 \\n This one gets a lot of help in things that actually matter, specifically the heat gen quirks. This should be a pretty solid medium brawler. It will still suck in PUGs because it is a brawler. \\n Dragon-1N: 3 \\n A lot of help to weapons that are actually decent for the IS. Still going to get it world rocked by any clan fire support mech though. \\n Dragon Fang: 4 \\n Pulse lasers and ac10 are amongst the worst IS weapons. The LPL will play nice on this but the AC10 is almost a blank quirk. A 30 point semi pinpoint alpha is just not impressive anymore. \\n Thunderbolt-5s :5 \\n No help for it's best weapon hardpoint, the 2xB. There is also very little synergy between the two energy wepaons. LL get range and RoF, ML get beam duration and heat efficiency. Very unlikely you will be able to take advantage of both sets of quirks on one build. \\n Jenner-D: 2 \\n 10% srm4 range? who the fuck cares, there are modules that do that already, no one uses them. Absolutely no help for the SSRM2 option either. \\n Awesome Pretty Baby 4 \\n Still bad but man did this one get some HUGE help. Heat efficiency and cooldown are exactly what you want on the LL, you can only run 3 though. Bumped up to playable, but still pretty bad. \\n Kintaro-18: 4 \\n Another mech with no synergy between quirks, the laser thing might as well not exist. LRM 5 heat efficiency is so good already this quirk is pretty useless too. With a LRM ghost heat nerf coming down teh pipe and every other mech in the game getting better, this mech will probably be worse than it is now. \\n Oxide: 3 \\n It got some help, but it's assassination ability is still crap next to the ML version. I always thought the oxides usefulness lay far more in the streak light v light builds. If you wanted to play it as a dive bomber, what it needed was more alpha damage, not more dps. \\n Centurian-D 3 \\n Crazy LBX machine gun makes up for the super anti synergy of the quirks. Can't use both ballistic slots and you can't use all your missile tubes. \\n Yen Lo Wange: 2.5 \\n The mech that only does one thing does that one thing much better. This might actually do AC20 brawling better than the shadowhawk now, If the shadowhawk gets anything at all probably not though. \\n Hunchback 4g : 3.5 \\n Ac20 brawler mediums have always been decent, This mech will still look stupid if the shadowhawk gets any help at all. The energy stuff is probably the real upgrade. \\n Hunchback 4H: 4 \\n ac10 hunchbacks are still going to suck, don't kid yourself. Maybe ditch the stupid mono weapon quirk and go ac5+2erLL? (today's change will help with this) \\n Awesoem 8Q: 4 \\n Man those ppc quirks are fucking SEXY. But the reason ppc are good is because you can peak/jump with them so well, this guy can't do that. You also can only really use 2 ppc's at a time or you totally defeat the whole point of your pinpoint weapons. A LOT more playable but still bad.\",\n \"Summary: I dismiss people who reference table top because they have no idea what they are talking about.\\n\\nPost: People shut it down because table top rules are not lore, at all. Lore is the fictional world where mechs actually exist. Nothing in the lore works like it does in table top. Table top rules don't represent the lore any better then video game rules do, there is no reason to pay any respect to them other than names and nostalgia. \\n Any proposal that references table top rules as a source doesn't understand the lack of relationship. The only contributions tabletop rules have had to the game have been \\n 1)words for thing \\\"hey cool its called a mech\\\" \\n 2)cripplingly bad gameplay \\\"hey lets have half the total armor points!\\\" Even the double armor system they have now we are discovering is not a good game design. PGI agrees, that is why you are seeing mechs changed from this system, light mech legs, hunchback internals, various parts of other mechs. \\n 3)cripplingly bad game play again. \\\"hey lets go back to 4xerppc stalkers!\\\" some 40 year old lore junky that wants to role play being a mechwarrior might chainfire and stuff for the cool sound effects but MOST players are going to play to win and run around one shotting people. The game has to be designed for people trying to win or the people trying to win will ruin the game for everyone else. You can still roleplay with PPCs that do 8 damage, or clan mechs that aren't stronger than IS mechs.\",\n \"Summary: Literally any other heavy will serve you better. If you are looking for a heavy you probably want to go thunderbolt, even after the recent nerf the 9s has a role at long range. The 7mpl 5ss is a monster at short range.\\n\\nPost: nononononono no no noo nooooooooooooooooooooo. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! \\n The ctf are TERRIBLE right now. The 3d used to be good but it has had no quirks for a long time and PGI's idea to scrape it off the floor was a 7.5% laser duration quirk. You will be very VERY unhappy with the CTFs. \\n I was a die hard CTF player for over a year but people that recommend it now are trying to relive an era that is LONG gone. \\n Jump jet on heavies to poptart are pretty dead \\n Standard ppcs are pretty dead \\n Quirkless mechs were already dead. \\n The CTF-3d was a absolute top tier monster for a long time but it is NOT ANYMORE. \\n The other CTF's are amongst the worst mechs in the game. The 4x can do a few cute but mediocre builds, and the other 2 CTFs are absolute shit tier.\",\n \"Summary: This type of event is really REALLY bad for looking at balance. Find some competitive matches with few mech choice restrictions and see what people play there if you want to know where balance is at.\\n\\nPost: I wouldn't say that this is a great indicator as there are significant differences in demographics. I think clans still have significant barrier to entry in mech ownership that filters out the bottom tiers of players. I switched sides halfway through and I noticed a DRASTIC shift in the quality of players on the bottom half of my team. Maybe 3 times as many trial mech players on the IS on average, so the clans start out the game pretty much 11v9, a pretty impossible game to lose. \\n Speaking of switching sides, the game was borderline unplayable from the IS side 30+ minute search times (zero seconds on clan side), Huge chunks of knowledgeable players switched sides, the people that don't really know what they are doing were far more likely to stay IS. \\n IS mechs require organization. In general IS mechs are higher dps and higher sustained dps thanks to their quirks. Clan mechs are faster, better at long range, and have bigger alpha's but suck in sustained fights/brawls (at least without very specialized builds). Disorganization leads to long range peak fights not brawls, The structure of the event again heavily favors the clans.\",\n \"Summary: It's hard to say machine guns are/were bad when the mechs that ran them either got blank quirks equating them to pre-quirkening clan mech power levels, or they have received massive nerfs in recent history.\\n\\nPost: Quirks killed mg's not the hitreg era nerf. DPS basically doubled with the release of clans and it practically doubled for many IS mechs as well. The idea of critting out internals was great when 'building a big alpha was' was 2xpc 2xac5 for 30 damage now the heavies with low alphas hit for like 35 and go all the way up to 50+. Stuff just dies to fast to make crippling mechs viable. \\n The real REAL reason I think for the falloff of machine guns is because none of the mechs that use them have good quirks. Imagine if the ember got the FS9-S 45% mpl heat reduction. You'd see embers all over the place. Before they nerfed the quirks on the huginn you saw them all the time. Those two are really the only realistic MG running lights (that don't/didn't always suck). Without a complete restructuring of how the game works the spider 5k and locust are going to always suck.\",\n \"Summary: You would have done 20 more damage with a heatsink instead of the small lasers.\\n\\nPost: Nice round! \\n You are a poster child for why I advocate for simple builds though, you fire your small lasers a total of 4 or 5 times, once was mostly out of range. Not to be overly critical but you also missed several opportunities to use them against that timberwolf. You seem to know what you were doing so maybe you didn't want to waste the heat, after all the LPL do roughly 2 damage per heat on the banshee 3m, the smalls do like 1.6ish. You spent most of the important fights (tunnel and timberwolf) heat capped not cool down capped(which is a good thing). \\n Tunnel fight you have heat issues from 13:12 to 11:02 total time 130 seconds \\n Timberwolf fight was 10:10 to 9:50, 20 seconds. \\n 4ish good small laser volleys =24 damage \\n 150 seconds x .14 heat per second = 21 heat units \\n 21 heat units/5ish heat LPL shots = about 4 LPL shots \\n 4LPL shots x 11 damage = 44 damage \\n There are several hard to calculate things here obviously but most of them lean in favor of the heatsink. The LPL shots have lower damage spread and higher range, as well as an ease of use factor because you are managing less total weapons. You also would have a slightly higher heat cap to play around with. \\n Unless you are slot capped, then fuck everything I just said.\",\n \"Summary: the 2.5 ton cost I listed is accurate, it's just an opportunity cost. Yes the mad dog will be trumped by the madcat for non-LRM builds.\\n\\nPost: Clan ECM on it's own is actually 1 ton/1 slot. Because fuck balance table top rules, you are think of the IS version that costs 1.5 tons/2slots. \\n I said it costs 2.5 tons, because in comparison to the mad dog that is what you are paying for it. It is basically impossible to use up all the slots on a clan mech. If you aren't using the last 7 slots you are basicly \\\"wasting\\\" 1.5 tons as that's what the mad dog saves by having ferro, these 1.5 ton's are basicly free, as again, you aren't going to use all those slots. \\n As for the hard point layout's 6m is king for pure brawlers, I though I was pretty clear that this is great for brawling, but brawlers are REALLY REALLY fucking terrible in pug games, so even the best brawler is doomed to mediocrity. The strategy you want to be playing in pugs is a mass erML+2erLPL. If you want to play this strategy you want to be in a Timberwolf not a Mad Dog. The timberwolf just does it way better, its going to be the same speed, more armored and cooler with more total guns. A mad dog playing a laser strategy is just a worse timberwolf. \\n As for the LRM mad dog, ya its got I guess you could run a 6xlrm5 build like you can on the catapult, this time with your own tag, but mass small LRM's isn't very unique for clan mechs. Small, cool rapid fire volleys are what all the clan launchers do. You wont see much difference in play style or game impact between 6x5 and 3x10 LRMs\",\n \"Summary: Radar deprivation helps drop locks that take a much longer time to reacquire in the first place. Is this a big deal? I think so.\\n\\nPost: I think it needs to be said that radar deprivation is probably going to skyrocket in value. \\n Radar deprivation is already the best (or at least tied for the best) module in the game. It and seismic stand head and shoulders over the other modules. Radar deprivation on its own almost grants total immunity to LRMs. \\n I'm of the opinion that even without LRM's in the game the information denial is so valuable that radar deprivation would still be the best module in the game. Not letting your opponent know if you are going to re-peak or if you have ran away when you take cover can really improve your peaking game. \\n Now with the at times seconds long dorito acquisition times the ability to ditch your dorito is going to become more powerful. Even the high duration alpha strikers like a timberwolf can peak under the targeting time and then be back in cover. Ya an alert player can shoot you without the dorito but the MWO community is hardly an alert one.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":39,"string":"39"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2986,"string":"2,986"}}},{"rowIdx":2987,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"DoDope_FuckHope"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Freestyle to everything,watch Whiplash and freestyle to that too. DRUMS ARE YOUR FREESTYLING FRIEND! \n P.S.that ending doe"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Freestyle to EVERYTHING. \n I've been doing this for a while now and not only does it make you better at freestyling, but it tests your ability to stay on beat (whatever it is), your flow and how you incorporate your vocals to sound dope with the shit you're freestyling over! \n I've just had an great birthday party and finished it off with watching Whiplash for the first time and I started freestyling to the part at the end (specifically to Carrivan and that solo at the end) and that sounded incredibly dope. \n What I did was trying to spit a rhyme every time he hits the drums with his sticks and the result was amzing. Not only did I actually physically FEEL his pain but I felt how good it is pulling it off and besides that I went full Busta Rymes and I did his solo justice. Because it was a freestyle I repeated some bars a couple of times to stay and beat and to think of new ones but it was absolutely insane the feeling of your vocal cords killing you after already being strained from a night of partying and you're STiLL GOING SOOO HARD IN...."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Freestyle to EVERYTHING. \n I've been doing this for a while now and not only does it make you better at freestyling, but it tests your ability to stay on beat (whatever it is), your flow and how you incorporate your vocals to sound dope with the shit you're freestyling over! \n I've just had an great birthday party and finished it off with watching Whiplash for the first time and I started freestyling to the part at the end (specifically to Carrivan and that solo at the end) and that sounded incredibly dope. \n What I did was trying to spit a rhyme every time he hits the drums with his sticks and the result was amzing. Not only did I actually physically FEEL his pain but I felt how good it is pulling it off and besides that I went full Busta Rymes and I did his solo justice. Because it was a freestyle I repeated some bars a couple of times to stay and beat and to think of new ones but it was absolutely insane the feeling of your vocal cords killing you after already being strained from a night of partying and you're STiLL GOING SOOO HARD IN...."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Dude I was cool with 5 min. Ago starts swinging on me fuckboi style and I laugh in his face. \n EDIT: Also forgot to mention that that same dick almost got beat up by another dude in my class because that deuchebag was constantly harrassing that other dude.\n\nPost: so im in this new class with new people and one of the guys there was really cool, we grew fond of each other because we had the same interests and the same sence of humor so we quickly became really tight but he always had something \"hater\"ish about him. He hates gays,certain nationalities (Its actually normal here, but that's another topic) and oftain complains about lots of shit so hes genrally negativce but other thenthaty he's cool. \n So last friday we were fucking around,joking and he starts pushing me playfully and laughing, I didn't get it bu at some point he pushes me back and I accidentally step on this chicks iphone that she was charging on the floor and he starts lauging. So I say what the fuck man, thats not cool and hes like I wanted you to do that and continues laughing. \n So after that were fucking around some more and that chick with the iphone comes to us and asks us wtf happened and he instantly says I stepped on it and I reply saying \"fuck you,you pushed me you prick \" and he looks pissed at me, then I repeat what he said about him doing it on purpose, this apperently pissed him off. \n So like 2 minutes later I'm doing something with other guys in the class and while Im doing that my ex friend turned deuchebag is like 2 meters next to me walking in circles saying how hell fuck me up, I ignore him cuz I knew he wouldn't do shit (if he would he would have already) and at some point I say just that,and then I look back at some papers we were reading and I get pushed. \n He starts swinging at me but not with his fists,with open palms like a bitch and kicking me in the legs, now at this point i still dont realize that hes serious because Im used to people fighting with their fists (not fuckboi style) so start laughing at him and just then he hits me in the neck with his hand and just before I got to deck him in his bitch ass face they devided us. I kept on laughing at him saying if he wants to fight we can do that but I fight with my fists and not like a bitch. Later they calm him down and I still dont know how to feel about it. \n The only reason I didnt fuckin K.O. him is cuz we were cool 5 minutes ago and it'll be awkward the next few weeks. \n So,does anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this things? What should I do the next time I see him?","Summary: Drunk girl claiming to know me from kindergarden starts doing dmb shit, my brother laughs at her and she runs away crying, never to be seen or heard from again\n\nPost: I just got a really strong flashback of the most surreal thing ever to happen to me in a night club. \n I was sitting with a friend until a random ass chick aproached me, hugging me and kissing me saying that we went to preschool together (who the fuck remembers that?) \n So my friend comments something like \"I see you got nice company here, I'll be right back\" so she keeps on hugging me and then starts dancing to some weird ass music dragging me to dance with her but because I haven't actually SEEN her (it was really dark) and I was way too dazed and confused to do anything I just kept on watchng her. \n At this point my (more popular and a bit deuchey) brother walks past her and she hugs him too, he starts laughing his ass of and points the phone at the girl and now shes all ashamed and hiding her face and my bro and his friends are laughing their asses off. At this point I try to intervine but i'm too drunk to say/do anything and I just comment \"nice phone\". He walks off and the girl runs away crying, I never saw that girl again.This all happened in a minute.","Summary: Shallow bitches and flexing assholes everywhere.\n\nPost: This asshole in my class is flexing in the classes facebook group that we made for schoolwork and schoolwork strictly. He's complaining how he only bought 2 pair of 100 dollar sneakers (that's a lot here btw) during his 7 day trip to Slovenia or something and missed these sneakers he wanted, meanwhile we're all going to school and I'm going through financial hardships and shit and he's just flexing like a scumbag. The worst part is when other people talk about shit that isn't related to school they get shunned, but when this prick flexes on us, the incredibly shallow and popular girls are like \"ooh,that's so cool\" and supporting him and shit. The only redeeming part is knowing that these are his 5 minutes of fame and soon enough I'll get mine. I'm usually really humble and I don't like when people praise me and congratulate me, but I'm just gonna flex for no reason when around him. \n Also, I saw this girl yesterday who hangs in this clique of girls who seem ok but always a bit shallow and simple and I noticed she was staring at something, turns out she was staring at the money my friend next to me was counting and she didn't take hers eyes off it until he put them in his pocket. \n That was so shallow I was literally disgusted.","Summary: pre FHD J.Cole was boring and bland,current FHD J.Cole is more emotional, honest and raw.\n\nPost: I used to think like you before FHD 2014 since I fucked with only like 3 songs from him before that project but FHD J.Cole is great for me because the production is amazing (Love yourz sounds like your first night in L.A. after wantingto live there your whole life) and he's a good rapper. I did notice however that weirdly enough he sounds WAY better to me a bit sped up, I noticed this while listening to the edited versions of GOMD and Fire Squad. It doesn't work always but those songs sound SO much better and ferocious when sped up. Also, you really notice that every song on FHD wasn't forced and came off naturally.","Summary: if you're an artist spend as much time on managing your project/album as you do making songs for that project/album\n\nPost: OVERKILL \n but honestly, I STRONGLY believe in quality over quantity because you can have an album of 50 amazing songs, it will still lose points because it is way too long. As an artist I completely get this, I'm currently working on my first project and the last 2 years have been spent writing raps so now I have over 40 written songs and It's hard to decide which ones you will keep and throw away or save for later but since my first project I have lots of time to manage everything, that's why most first albums are more well thought out then others in most artists discography.","Summary: 2015 WILL THE BE SHIT, GET HYPED \n EDIT: Dat Mick Jenkins and Chance The Rapper album and any and all upcoming artists that release their breakthrough project this year\n\nPost: Earl's album \n Vince Staples album \n Kanye's album \n Kendrick's album \n Tyler's album (probably since there's a 2 year gap in every single one of his albums) \n Whatever Mac Miller does \n Big K.R.I.T. will probably drop a mixtape or something \n THA CARTER V FINALLY \n Hopefully Method Man finally drops something. \n King Push \n Views From The 6 \n Purple Haze 2 \n Dipset's mixtape \n Eminem's album \n MR.Wonderful \n The Weeknd hopefully \n Andre 3000's album \n and I'm still waiting on those Mos Def albums.","Summary: Fantano's on point as usual, race isnt a boarder anymore and nationalism is slowly fighting its battle as well. Also, Fuck Lord Jamal\n\nPost: The video is great, I agree with most of what he's saying. It's the 21st century. Hip Hop is global now, no more limits on race and the only wall we have left nationality (Drake,Iggy,Grime music that is only big in one country and Young Lean dont count) and by the way things are going that isnt gonna be a problem for long. \n The thing that I disagree with is his little speech on Lord Jamal. I hate that guy so fuckin much. His video with VladTV responding to Yelawolf who pretty much said \"I disagree with him but I still respect him\" was just disgusting. He sounds so ignorant and so fuckin homophobic that it's out of this world. He's the black version of your old grandad who's awfully racist but OK outside of that and you dont take him seriously because hes so old. \n Hopping on a genre that's new doesn't allow you to say and do half the shit he does. Not a single artist I know of was directly influenced by Brand Newbians and his attitude literally made want to never check out their music and I never will. I don't care that they might have influenced the greats, the greatest thing in Lord Jamals pathetic little career is getting his group mentioned in a Biggie line. The fact that the only way hes influencing hip hop culture is through some bullshit clickbait interviews is proof enough on why I think he's just an ignorant fuckboi who got lucky that he rapped when he did.","Summary: My life is shit and I'm broke and stressed as fuck.\n\nPost: This shit is fucked up, I'm retardedly stressed out bout the last week of school cuz I gotta fix lik 5 of my grades to get 50 bucks from my parents to save up to by a new phone (a phone which I should have got like a year ago). I know I'm sounding like a 14 y.o. But fuck my parents, they cant save money for shit. My dad owes me 50 euros and is in a crazy ammount of debt, my mom spends cash on food and dumb shit instead of my 200 dollar phone that I NEED cuz my current one's 3 Y.O. And is crapping on me in every way possible. My sisters birthday is today and my parents forgot, mine will be on January 15th and none of us are expecting anything as a gift. All of my friends are going somewhere and I'm too broke to spend 20 dollars on a night. Did I mention we don't have a fucking christmas tree? That too... \n I just hope some crazy miracle happens cuz this is straight up depressing.","Summary: DETOX COMING 2015, THE YEAR OF THE [FRESH] TAG IS REAL\n\nPost: I was JUST reading Dr.Dre's wiki page today and I noticed something weird, we know it's not called Detox but the wiki insists on it being called Donezo even though the only time that word is mentioned along with Dre is on a HipHopDX article (I believe) where the title is \"Dr.Dre's Detox is Donezo\" and the article is about how we know the project WON'T be called Detox, donezo isn't mentioned after that AT ALL (which makes sense cuz that is an AWFUL name) \n But anyway I can confirm without a doubt that we'll get some more news on the project (maybe even a single?I'm not doubting 2015) after Straight Outta Compton. He's is in a PERFECT place now to work on finishing the album off. K.Dot's done, the movie is done, Beats has reached it's pinnacle and he has no other protige's to worry about (I'm not counting on that Dallas kid without a proper album out to fuck up Detox's release date) so I don't see what's holding him back, not like he doesn't have enough tracks for the project.","Summary: Music is entertainment, it doesn't mean shit most of the time, you can listen to relaxing jazz, hardcore death metal Gucci Mane, Classical and still be a completely normal dude or a psycho.\n\nPost: I remember in English class we did this shit where we talk about the music genres we listen to and the book that we were using had this same question and the most stereotypical answers. \n These are some of the personality traits connected with some musical genres (direct quotes btw) \n > Lovers of indie music arent very confident, gentle or hard working but they are very creative \n > Country and western fans are hard working and not shy \n >Fans of pop songs aren't creative, but are hard working, gentle and outgoing \n > Rap fans are outgoing and confident \n > The best fan to be is a soul fan, because they are creative, confident outgoing and gentle! \n As you can see most of this sounds like total bullshit and very stereotypical, this was even more obvious when I read that the \"research\" doesn't say what people who listen to lots of different music are like. \n In my personal opinion it depends, I'm someone who listens to everything except Metal and Techno (I dabble in a few artists from this genre) and I'd say this says more about me than the genre's I DO listen to, because I don't listen to Metal because I hate yelling and most of it is filled with white guys yelling cheezy ass lines in my personal experiences and techno is just too samey for me. \n On a side note, I realize that not all of these genres are these sterotypes but most of them are and the ones that are not I would probably like.","Summary: Dr.Dre is the rap game Fletcher (that teacher from Whiplash) \n P.S. if someone could photoshop K.Dot's face on Andrews and Dre's face on Fletcher that would be the GOAT sidebar pic.\n\nPost: it's really funny reading that little snippet of the review you posted there since this album turned out to be everything but not lasting and It's also funny to see Dre not being a legend in the game. This album is most well known for it's great, timeless production and it's incredible mixing. I always wondered why no other album also has this stamp on it of timelessness (production wise, that is). The answer to that is because Dr.Dre didn't do it. His hot streak of the N.W.A., then The Chronic, then Snoop, then Em, then 2001 and finally 50 is legendary. \n Him as a rapper is a bit more lack luster and he may have (not saying he did since we never got to hear him fully post 2001) fallen off production wise by now but god DAMN if he isn't the best mentor to have in the rap game. Not because Kendrick's his latest student and K.Dot is K.Dot and I'm dick riding. It's because he's a perfectionist and he is so meticulous when he works and that almost guarantee's you to make it. \n Plus you get the ...By Dr.Dre cosign so you can almost guarantee you'll see attention from it. I honestly believe that if Dre didn't come along we would never have a Section.80 and probably not a GKMC, while this is pure speculation I believe that Dre's work ethic really influenced Kendrick enough to focus really hard on his project and if Dre never put him through all of that shit we would probably never have such greatness.","Summary: what's would be the better situation for me, that she hooks up with the prick and ends the relationship a couple of days later like the prick usually does and then me hooking up with her or should she try forgetting about the dude and me trying to hook up with her then?\n\nPost: So basically she was with this dude last year for a short amount of time and they kinda hooked up as a one time thing and since then he wanted to hook up with her last week but since he is a prick and she knows it she rejected him, now he's mad at her and now SHE is telling me how even though she knows the dude is an asshole she still likes him because they had great fun during the summer \n MEANWHILE I actually fucking love this girl and I'm planning on telling her how I feel but this might not be the best time. \n Also, the girl has low self esteem and that might be why she's falling for the dude who is a fucking asshole to girls he hooks up with and if she hooked up with me that would be a lot better because I truly have feelings for her and we get along incredibly well but I just don't know.","Summary: Girl I love has low self esteem, I want to start a relationship with her,she doesn't know what she wants,help, I'm scared and emotional\n\nPost: ok so I guess this is kindaaa friendzone stuff but I wouldn't acutally say that because I'm pretty sure we can go a bit further but I'm not just 100% sure how to do that so here I am \n Basically, she's this really pretty,funny short girl with a nice ass and tits (hate to say it like that and sound like a pig but I think it's worth a mention) that I know for a year now and she's an 8 but a 9 for me since we click really well together, but she also has a low self esteem and considers herself fat and she rates herself a 5. \n I'd rate myself a 6 but maaaaaybee a 7 for her since we reallly fit each other mentally both with the sense of humor and we can also talk about deeper issues. \n Honestly,she's the first girl I really talk to every day. We chat late at night and I never did that kind of stuff,always found it to be a waste of time and forced but our convos are really interesting and natural so now that I got all of the backstory out of the way I can get on to the juicy love stuff \n She was in a relationship for basically 2 years on and off with some dude that she broke up with last week because it got boring for her and now she's solo again and a couple days ago she mentioned how she hooked up with this dude who's a deuchebag and is in my class in school and she told me that yesterday he walked her home and is trying to hook up with her and she isn't sure, to be more specific she sent me some pics of their convo where they talk about how he's asking her to hook up but she's rejecting him because he puts girls on blast after relationships and that he doesn't take relationships seriously, then she told me how she thought about hooking up with him when she's bored but then she decided she wasn't like that and wasn't gonna do it and she finished with \"we will see\" \n Also, since then she sent me some qutesy message about how you should believe in yourself and shouldn't just be another name on somebody's list because one day you'll stumble upon a dude who will truly love you and you'll be their everything \n So now I'm not sure if I should risk our great friendship to go for something bigger or should I wait a bit until she gets over her boyfriend and try something then. \n It's really annoying and I need to know what to do before I slip up and be a bit too honest... Plus I'm quickly running out of emtional Drake songs to relate to so any advice would be great","Summary: No body will care if you don't like black people or gays unless you are directly hurting someone by turning your opinions into actions\n\nPost: You can look at it as a counter culture to all this PC bullshit, and I'm not saying people will be racist and homophobic I'm just saying that the people who are won't get crucified and it will be similar to a differing political opinion (unless the people are actually hurting someone with their open homophobia or racism)","Summary: lots of stupid shit is stopping me from doing what I love and actually making my life better, if you want to give a useful and informed tip than I suggest reading the whole thing, I'll really appreciate it!\n\nPost: I'm finally on summer vacation and I got one final thing left to do, I need to get in a fucking studio. \n Here's some background: I'm 16 and I've been writing raps for like 2 years and I'm foreign. Here where I'm from rap is really popular but no where near the quality of the rap we have in the US, so basically my plan of action is to spit on my native language over US beats and I can guarantee it's better than 90 percent of the music other Rappers are making. \n I was searching for a studio and I found where it's at finally. Turns out it's located at this old fashioned pub and the owner is a local musician and he let's people record there for free. \n He has a bunch of equipment there if anyone's interested I can post his setup since he has it written out on his website. And now I'm sure yall are thinking \"if you're so sure that you're good why the fuck haven't you went already?\" but it's more complicated than that. \n First off, I'm really weird when music is concerned, my parents don't know what I listen to, I always play shit on my headphones, we don't talk about it or anything. Second, my uncle is a local musician too and since I live in a small town everybody knows each other so I don't want my uncle (or any of my family members) to know that I'm making shit until I achieve at least SOME success out of it for reasons that are plentiful and if anyone is interested I'll add the reasons later on \n Now with all that being said, I'm really fucking scared to just go in there, say \"hey can I record my raps?\" even though he probably won't have a problem with it and even if he can't for some reason I doubt he'd shit on me. \n It's mostly the self doubt that's causing the thought that I'll just choke when I get in the booth just like I'm choking now just by thinking of doing this and the social anxiety of me approaching someone way older than me that I don't even know and showing him something I'm putting my heart and soul into, you know? \n If nothing else I might call an old friend I know that will always have my back, show him some of the shit that I've been making and if he likes it I'll just go with him and it'll be easier, if not that then I could always do it on my own even though that will be way harder. \n Either way, this is just something I need to do ONCE and after all that introduction shit I can just go and record all day \n So, dear reddit, what do you guys think my plan of attack should be? \n P.S. Thanks for reading the whole thing, it means a lot to me"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Dude I was cool with 5 min. Ago starts swinging on me fuckboi style and I laugh in his face. \\n EDIT: Also forgot to mention that that same dick almost got beat up by another dude in my class because that deuchebag was constantly harrassing that other dude.\\n\\nPost: so im in this new class with new people and one of the guys there was really cool, we grew fond of each other because we had the same interests and the same sence of humor so we quickly became really tight but he always had something \\\"hater\\\"ish about him. He hates gays,certain nationalities (Its actually normal here, but that's another topic) and oftain complains about lots of shit so hes genrally negativce but other thenthaty he's cool. \\n So last friday we were fucking around,joking and he starts pushing me playfully and laughing, I didn't get it bu at some point he pushes me back and I accidentally step on this chicks iphone that she was charging on the floor and he starts lauging. So I say what the fuck man, thats not cool and hes like I wanted you to do that and continues laughing. \\n So after that were fucking around some more and that chick with the iphone comes to us and asks us wtf happened and he instantly says I stepped on it and I reply saying \\\"fuck you,you pushed me you prick \\\" and he looks pissed at me, then I repeat what he said about him doing it on purpose, this apperently pissed him off. \\n So like 2 minutes later I'm doing something with other guys in the class and while Im doing that my ex friend turned deuchebag is like 2 meters next to me walking in circles saying how hell fuck me up, I ignore him cuz I knew he wouldn't do shit (if he would he would have already) and at some point I say just that,and then I look back at some papers we were reading and I get pushed. \\n He starts swinging at me but not with his fists,with open palms like a bitch and kicking me in the legs, now at this point i still dont realize that hes serious because Im used to people fighting with their fists (not fuckboi style) so start laughing at him and just then he hits me in the neck with his hand and just before I got to deck him in his bitch ass face they devided us. I kept on laughing at him saying if he wants to fight we can do that but I fight with my fists and not like a bitch. Later they calm him down and I still dont know how to feel about it. \\n The only reason I didnt fuckin K.O. him is cuz we were cool 5 minutes ago and it'll be awkward the next few weeks. \\n So,does anyone have any ideas on how to deal with this things? What should I do the next time I see him?\",\n \"Summary: Drunk girl claiming to know me from kindergarden starts doing dmb shit, my brother laughs at her and she runs away crying, never to be seen or heard from again\\n\\nPost: I just got a really strong flashback of the most surreal thing ever to happen to me in a night club. \\n I was sitting with a friend until a random ass chick aproached me, hugging me and kissing me saying that we went to preschool together (who the fuck remembers that?) \\n So my friend comments something like \\\"I see you got nice company here, I'll be right back\\\" so she keeps on hugging me and then starts dancing to some weird ass music dragging me to dance with her but because I haven't actually SEEN her (it was really dark) and I was way too dazed and confused to do anything I just kept on watchng her. \\n At this point my (more popular and a bit deuchey) brother walks past her and she hugs him too, he starts laughing his ass of and points the phone at the girl and now shes all ashamed and hiding her face and my bro and his friends are laughing their asses off. At this point I try to intervine but i'm too drunk to say/do anything and I just comment \\\"nice phone\\\". He walks off and the girl runs away crying, I never saw that girl again.This all happened in a minute.\",\n \"Summary: Shallow bitches and flexing assholes everywhere.\\n\\nPost: This asshole in my class is flexing in the classes facebook group that we made for schoolwork and schoolwork strictly. He's complaining how he only bought 2 pair of 100 dollar sneakers (that's a lot here btw) during his 7 day trip to Slovenia or something and missed these sneakers he wanted, meanwhile we're all going to school and I'm going through financial hardships and shit and he's just flexing like a scumbag. The worst part is when other people talk about shit that isn't related to school they get shunned, but when this prick flexes on us, the incredibly shallow and popular girls are like \\\"ooh,that's so cool\\\" and supporting him and shit. The only redeeming part is knowing that these are his 5 minutes of fame and soon enough I'll get mine. I'm usually really humble and I don't like when people praise me and congratulate me, but I'm just gonna flex for no reason when around him. \\n Also, I saw this girl yesterday who hangs in this clique of girls who seem ok but always a bit shallow and simple and I noticed she was staring at something, turns out she was staring at the money my friend next to me was counting and she didn't take hers eyes off it until he put them in his pocket. \\n That was so shallow I was literally disgusted.\",\n \"Summary: pre FHD J.Cole was boring and bland,current FHD J.Cole is more emotional, honest and raw.\\n\\nPost: I used to think like you before FHD 2014 since I fucked with only like 3 songs from him before that project but FHD J.Cole is great for me because the production is amazing (Love yourz sounds like your first night in L.A. after wantingto live there your whole life) and he's a good rapper. I did notice however that weirdly enough he sounds WAY better to me a bit sped up, I noticed this while listening to the edited versions of GOMD and Fire Squad. It doesn't work always but those songs sound SO much better and ferocious when sped up. Also, you really notice that every song on FHD wasn't forced and came off naturally.\",\n \"Summary: if you're an artist spend as much time on managing your project/album as you do making songs for that project/album\\n\\nPost: OVERKILL \\n but honestly, I STRONGLY believe in quality over quantity because you can have an album of 50 amazing songs, it will still lose points because it is way too long. As an artist I completely get this, I'm currently working on my first project and the last 2 years have been spent writing raps so now I have over 40 written songs and It's hard to decide which ones you will keep and throw away or save for later but since my first project I have lots of time to manage everything, that's why most first albums are more well thought out then others in most artists discography.\",\n \"Summary: 2015 WILL THE BE SHIT, GET HYPED \\n EDIT: Dat Mick Jenkins and Chance The Rapper album and any and all upcoming artists that release their breakthrough project this year\\n\\nPost: Earl's album \\n Vince Staples album \\n Kanye's album \\n Kendrick's album \\n Tyler's album (probably since there's a 2 year gap in every single one of his albums) \\n Whatever Mac Miller does \\n Big K.R.I.T. will probably drop a mixtape or something \\n THA CARTER V FINALLY \\n Hopefully Method Man finally drops something. \\n King Push \\n Views From The 6 \\n Purple Haze 2 \\n Dipset's mixtape \\n Eminem's album \\n MR.Wonderful \\n The Weeknd hopefully \\n Andre 3000's album \\n and I'm still waiting on those Mos Def albums.\",\n \"Summary: Fantano's on point as usual, race isnt a boarder anymore and nationalism is slowly fighting its battle as well. Also, Fuck Lord Jamal\\n\\nPost: The video is great, I agree with most of what he's saying. It's the 21st century. Hip Hop is global now, no more limits on race and the only wall we have left nationality (Drake,Iggy,Grime music that is only big in one country and Young Lean dont count) and by the way things are going that isnt gonna be a problem for long. \\n The thing that I disagree with is his little speech on Lord Jamal. I hate that guy so fuckin much. His video with VladTV responding to Yelawolf who pretty much said \\\"I disagree with him but I still respect him\\\" was just disgusting. He sounds so ignorant and so fuckin homophobic that it's out of this world. He's the black version of your old grandad who's awfully racist but OK outside of that and you dont take him seriously because hes so old. \\n Hopping on a genre that's new doesn't allow you to say and do half the shit he does. Not a single artist I know of was directly influenced by Brand Newbians and his attitude literally made want to never check out their music and I never will. I don't care that they might have influenced the greats, the greatest thing in Lord Jamals pathetic little career is getting his group mentioned in a Biggie line. The fact that the only way hes influencing hip hop culture is through some bullshit clickbait interviews is proof enough on why I think he's just an ignorant fuckboi who got lucky that he rapped when he did.\",\n \"Summary: My life is shit and I'm broke and stressed as fuck.\\n\\nPost: This shit is fucked up, I'm retardedly stressed out bout the last week of school cuz I gotta fix lik 5 of my grades to get 50 bucks from my parents to save up to by a new phone (a phone which I should have got like a year ago). I know I'm sounding like a 14 y.o. But fuck my parents, they cant save money for shit. My dad owes me 50 euros and is in a crazy ammount of debt, my mom spends cash on food and dumb shit instead of my 200 dollar phone that I NEED cuz my current one's 3 Y.O. And is crapping on me in every way possible. My sisters birthday is today and my parents forgot, mine will be on January 15th and none of us are expecting anything as a gift. All of my friends are going somewhere and I'm too broke to spend 20 dollars on a night. Did I mention we don't have a fucking christmas tree? That too... \\n I just hope some crazy miracle happens cuz this is straight up depressing.\",\n \"Summary: DETOX COMING 2015, THE YEAR OF THE [FRESH] TAG IS REAL\\n\\nPost: I was JUST reading Dr.Dre's wiki page today and I noticed something weird, we know it's not called Detox but the wiki insists on it being called Donezo even though the only time that word is mentioned along with Dre is on a HipHopDX article (I believe) where the title is \\\"Dr.Dre's Detox is Donezo\\\" and the article is about how we know the project WON'T be called Detox, donezo isn't mentioned after that AT ALL (which makes sense cuz that is an AWFUL name) \\n But anyway I can confirm without a doubt that we'll get some more news on the project (maybe even a single?I'm not doubting 2015) after Straight Outta Compton. He's is in a PERFECT place now to work on finishing the album off. K.Dot's done, the movie is done, Beats has reached it's pinnacle and he has no other protige's to worry about (I'm not counting on that Dallas kid without a proper album out to fuck up Detox's release date) so I don't see what's holding him back, not like he doesn't have enough tracks for the project.\",\n \"Summary: Music is entertainment, it doesn't mean shit most of the time, you can listen to relaxing jazz, hardcore death metal Gucci Mane, Classical and still be a completely normal dude or a psycho.\\n\\nPost: I remember in English class we did this shit where we talk about the music genres we listen to and the book that we were using had this same question and the most stereotypical answers. \\n These are some of the personality traits connected with some musical genres (direct quotes btw) \\n > Lovers of indie music arent very confident, gentle or hard working but they are very creative \\n > Country and western fans are hard working and not shy \\n >Fans of pop songs aren't creative, but are hard working, gentle and outgoing \\n > Rap fans are outgoing and confident \\n > The best fan to be is a soul fan, because they are creative, confident outgoing and gentle! \\n As you can see most of this sounds like total bullshit and very stereotypical, this was even more obvious when I read that the \\\"research\\\" doesn't say what people who listen to lots of different music are like. \\n In my personal opinion it depends, I'm someone who listens to everything except Metal and Techno (I dabble in a few artists from this genre) and I'd say this says more about me than the genre's I DO listen to, because I don't listen to Metal because I hate yelling and most of it is filled with white guys yelling cheezy ass lines in my personal experiences and techno is just too samey for me. \\n On a side note, I realize that not all of these genres are these sterotypes but most of them are and the ones that are not I would probably like.\",\n \"Summary: Dr.Dre is the rap game Fletcher (that teacher from Whiplash) \\n P.S. if someone could photoshop K.Dot's face on Andrews and Dre's face on Fletcher that would be the GOAT sidebar pic.\\n\\nPost: it's really funny reading that little snippet of the review you posted there since this album turned out to be everything but not lasting and It's also funny to see Dre not being a legend in the game. This album is most well known for it's great, timeless production and it's incredible mixing. I always wondered why no other album also has this stamp on it of timelessness (production wise, that is). The answer to that is because Dr.Dre didn't do it. His hot streak of the N.W.A., then The Chronic, then Snoop, then Em, then 2001 and finally 50 is legendary. \\n Him as a rapper is a bit more lack luster and he may have (not saying he did since we never got to hear him fully post 2001) fallen off production wise by now but god DAMN if he isn't the best mentor to have in the rap game. Not because Kendrick's his latest student and K.Dot is K.Dot and I'm dick riding. It's because he's a perfectionist and he is so meticulous when he works and that almost guarantee's you to make it. \\n Plus you get the ...By Dr.Dre cosign so you can almost guarantee you'll see attention from it. I honestly believe that if Dre didn't come along we would never have a Section.80 and probably not a GKMC, while this is pure speculation I believe that Dre's work ethic really influenced Kendrick enough to focus really hard on his project and if Dre never put him through all of that shit we would probably never have such greatness.\",\n \"Summary: what's would be the better situation for me, that she hooks up with the prick and ends the relationship a couple of days later like the prick usually does and then me hooking up with her or should she try forgetting about the dude and me trying to hook up with her then?\\n\\nPost: So basically she was with this dude last year for a short amount of time and they kinda hooked up as a one time thing and since then he wanted to hook up with her last week but since he is a prick and she knows it she rejected him, now he's mad at her and now SHE is telling me how even though she knows the dude is an asshole she still likes him because they had great fun during the summer \\n MEANWHILE I actually fucking love this girl and I'm planning on telling her how I feel but this might not be the best time. \\n Also, the girl has low self esteem and that might be why she's falling for the dude who is a fucking asshole to girls he hooks up with and if she hooked up with me that would be a lot better because I truly have feelings for her and we get along incredibly well but I just don't know.\",\n \"Summary: Girl I love has low self esteem, I want to start a relationship with her,she doesn't know what she wants,help, I'm scared and emotional\\n\\nPost: ok so I guess this is kindaaa friendzone stuff but I wouldn't acutally say that because I'm pretty sure we can go a bit further but I'm not just 100% sure how to do that so here I am \\n Basically, she's this really pretty,funny short girl with a nice ass and tits (hate to say it like that and sound like a pig but I think it's worth a mention) that I know for a year now and she's an 8 but a 9 for me since we click really well together, but she also has a low self esteem and considers herself fat and she rates herself a 5. \\n I'd rate myself a 6 but maaaaaybee a 7 for her since we reallly fit each other mentally both with the sense of humor and we can also talk about deeper issues. \\n Honestly,she's the first girl I really talk to every day. We chat late at night and I never did that kind of stuff,always found it to be a waste of time and forced but our convos are really interesting and natural so now that I got all of the backstory out of the way I can get on to the juicy love stuff \\n She was in a relationship for basically 2 years on and off with some dude that she broke up with last week because it got boring for her and now she's solo again and a couple days ago she mentioned how she hooked up with this dude who's a deuchebag and is in my class in school and she told me that yesterday he walked her home and is trying to hook up with her and she isn't sure, to be more specific she sent me some pics of their convo where they talk about how he's asking her to hook up but she's rejecting him because he puts girls on blast after relationships and that he doesn't take relationships seriously, then she told me how she thought about hooking up with him when she's bored but then she decided she wasn't like that and wasn't gonna do it and she finished with \\\"we will see\\\" \\n Also, since then she sent me some qutesy message about how you should believe in yourself and shouldn't just be another name on somebody's list because one day you'll stumble upon a dude who will truly love you and you'll be their everything \\n So now I'm not sure if I should risk our great friendship to go for something bigger or should I wait a bit until she gets over her boyfriend and try something then. \\n It's really annoying and I need to know what to do before I slip up and be a bit too honest... Plus I'm quickly running out of emtional Drake songs to relate to so any advice would be great\",\n \"Summary: No body will care if you don't like black people or gays unless you are directly hurting someone by turning your opinions into actions\\n\\nPost: You can look at it as a counter culture to all this PC bullshit, and I'm not saying people will be racist and homophobic I'm just saying that the people who are won't get crucified and it will be similar to a differing political opinion (unless the people are actually hurting someone with their open homophobia or racism)\",\n \"Summary: lots of stupid shit is stopping me from doing what I love and actually making my life better, if you want to give a useful and informed tip than I suggest reading the whole thing, I'll really appreciate it!\\n\\nPost: I'm finally on summer vacation and I got one final thing left to do, I need to get in a fucking studio. \\n Here's some background: I'm 16 and I've been writing raps for like 2 years and I'm foreign. Here where I'm from rap is really popular but no where near the quality of the rap we have in the US, so basically my plan of action is to spit on my native language over US beats and I can guarantee it's better than 90 percent of the music other Rappers are making. \\n I was searching for a studio and I found where it's at finally. Turns out it's located at this old fashioned pub and the owner is a local musician and he let's people record there for free. \\n He has a bunch of equipment there if anyone's interested I can post his setup since he has it written out on his website. And now I'm sure yall are thinking \\\"if you're so sure that you're good why the fuck haven't you went already?\\\" but it's more complicated than that. \\n First off, I'm really weird when music is concerned, my parents don't know what I listen to, I always play shit on my headphones, we don't talk about it or anything. Second, my uncle is a local musician too and since I live in a small town everybody knows each other so I don't want my uncle (or any of my family members) to know that I'm making shit until I achieve at least SOME success out of it for reasons that are plentiful and if anyone is interested I'll add the reasons later on \\n Now with all that being said, I'm really fucking scared to just go in there, say \\\"hey can I record my raps?\\\" even though he probably won't have a problem with it and even if he can't for some reason I doubt he'd shit on me. \\n It's mostly the self doubt that's causing the thought that I'll just choke when I get in the booth just like I'm choking now just by thinking of doing this and the social anxiety of me approaching someone way older than me that I don't even know and showing him something I'm putting my heart and soul into, you know? \\n If nothing else I might call an old friend I know that will always have my back, show him some of the shit that I've been making and if he likes it I'll just go with him and it'll be easier, if not that then I could always do it on my own even though that will be way harder. \\n Either way, this is just something I need to do ONCE and after all that introduction shit I can just go and record all day \\n So, dear reddit, what do you guys think my plan of attack should be? \\n P.S. Thanks for reading the whole thing, it means a lot to me\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":15,"string":"15"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2987,"string":"2,987"}}},{"rowIdx":2988,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"SilverHoudini"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Plants need different watering regimes. To see if the plant needs water, check the soil that's a few inches below the surface."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"One of the main reasons a soil doesn't take up water is because it's already at full capacity. I personally don't ever really recommend the watering globes because I don't feel like they provide enough air for the roots. But I know other people swear by them. My guess is it depends on the plant and soil, etc. The differences you are seeing in the other plants is most likely due to their different needs. For example, I could plant a jade and a mum in the same type of pot and same type of soil, but the mum will almost always needs more water. Some plants also don't tolerate \"wet feet\" as much as others. Mums, for example can stand the soil a bit on the damp side, while a Jade cannot. \n The key to watering that I always tell people is to stick your finger (I usually suggest middle finger, since it's the longest) down to the second knuckle. If you don't feel any damp soil, time to rewater. If the soil is still damp down there, you can forgo the watering for the time. Most plants don't have many roots in the upper inch or two of a pot, which is why I suggest sticking a finger in the soil. The top inch will always dry out faster, but that doesn't necessarily mean the plant needs more water. For most plants it's ok to let them get a bit dry before rewatering. Helps prevent root rot, which is a fairly common problem in potted plants."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"One of the main reasons a soil doesn't take up water is because it's already at full capacity. I personally don't ever really recommend the watering globes because I don't feel like they provide enough air for the roots. But I know other people swear by them. My guess is it depends on the plant and soil, etc. The differences you are seeing in the other plants is most likely due to their different needs. For example, I could plant a jade and a mum in the same type of pot and same type of soil, but the mum will almost always needs more water. Some plants also don't tolerate \"wet feet\" as much as others. Mums, for example can stand the soil a bit on the damp side, while a Jade cannot. \n The key to watering that I always tell people is to stick your finger (I usually suggest middle finger, since it's the longest) down to the second knuckle. If you don't feel any damp soil, time to rewater. If the soil is still damp down there, you can forgo the watering for the time. Most plants don't have many roots in the upper inch or two of a pot, which is why I suggest sticking a finger in the soil. The top inch will always dry out faster, but that doesn't necessarily mean the plant needs more water. For most plants it's ok to let them get a bit dry before rewatering. Helps prevent root rot, which is a fairly common problem in potted plants."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Hybridization is quite common in nature without humans doing anything.\n\nPost: That's not to say that they aren't natural. There are tons of species that hybridize in nature without the interference of humans. Silver and Red maples, for example, hybridize quite readily. There's a theory that Bur and White oaks are starting to hybridize as well. There are two species of wild cherry that are native here that are hybridizing so well taxonomists might put them into a single species. \n It's all very similar to dog breeds. You can have a purebred german shepard and a purebred husky, but you can also have a mix. (Granted, they're all the same (sub)species Canus lupus familiaris , but it's a similar idea).","Summary: sealant is turning models cloudy. Help??\n\nPost: Hey guys. We have having some MAJOR issues with our sealant. we've been using armory matte clear sealant for a while now, but recently our models have turned cloudy immediately after sealing. When sprayed on cardboard, you can tell its the sealant. We've tried clearing the line after each session, even tried clearing the line between each individual spray. Nothing it working. This is a fairly new can of sealant, as our last one went bad and started melting the paint off the models.","Summary: I need a wireless mouse that has a scroll wheel and a center programmable button, not a DPI adjustment one. Back/Forward buttons also a must.\n\nPost: I currently own a Logitech Anywhere MX wireless mouse. I absolutely love the thing, but it has a loose wire or something and double clicks majority of the time. Very annoying when I'm working in Sketchup or Excel or even gaming. I am having an incredibly hard time finding a good replacement. I'm hoping you can help. \n I'd like it to have a back/forward button as well as a scroll wheel that has some resistance. I'd also like a button bu the scroll bar that is programmable, not a DPI adjuster. I usually use it for opening a link in a new window or adjusting the viewing pane in sketchup. \n Any ideas guys?","Summary: New city, bad tap water, conditioner not working as well as I thought. Suggestions on conditioner or other additives? Fish suggestions to replace the ones I lost?\n\nPost: A few months ago, I moved from River Falls, WI to Fargo, ND. I brought along my 10 gallon fish tank. After setting it up, I let it cycle for a week or so with the new water. I had transported the substrate damp, driftwood and live plants were transported with the fish in a 5 gallon bucket filled with original tank water. I placed the driftwood, substrate, and plants into the tank and let that cycle for a while. All should be well, yes? \n After I checked water parameters (which were good. pH was a bit high, but I added some pH down and it calmed down), I added the rest of the original tank water and the fish. All was well for about 2 months. I did bi-weekly water changes (I know, I should do more), and added water conditioner every time I added water. Recently, however, I have lost 3 fish and a snail. Two of the fish were purchased and added since moving here, the third was a guppy I had purchased in River Falls. So, I did a more thorough check of water parameters (Had just been using test strips). Turns out my ammonia was a bit high (0.5ppm the weekend after loosing the fish. Closer to 0.25ppm right now, two weeks later). \n This weekend, I finally have time to look into the issue more. Turns out my tap water is SUPER high in ammonia (no surprise), but the water conditioner I was using wasn't fully working. \n Is there a better way to get ammonia out of the tap before adding it to the tank? I added a terracotta pot to the tank today, hoping it will help increase the bacteria population. What's the \"best\" water conditioner? Is API's ammo lock worth the money? What fish are a bit more tolerant to slightly higher ammonia?","Summary: picky eater pukes up food. Too much grain? Other factors explained above.\n\nPost: So one of my cats, Sage, is turning into a very picky eater. Her \"foster\" (not allowed to have pets where I'm staying, so cats are with the in-laws) says she often pukes up her food shortly after eating. \n She gets fed 4 times a day, an 1/8 of a cup each time. She weighs approximately 8 pounds (I'll get an updated weight at the vet. For her size, 8-9lbs is a good weight) and she hasn't noticeably lost weight. She's currently on science diet. Usually it's the indoor long haired cat food, but I have purchased the light before because her \"sister\" is a few pounds over weight. \n One theory the in-laws have is that she eats too fast. Any suggestions on that front? \n I wonder if she should be eating a grain free diet. Any thoughts? \n She's a very active cat, but can be quite the drama queen. She has a nasty habit of pooping outside her litter box. No pattern on that has been established yet. She's about 4 years old (rescue) and has been living with the in-laws for 6 months. Before that she was with me and I had very little problems. \n In-laws only give her hairball control treats, whereas I gave her greenies and anything I got in the KitNip boxes. Maybe they're giving her too many? I gave them on occasion, I think she gets one every night now. \n Like I said, I'll be taking her to the vet soon for her vaccinations. (Scheduling app tomorrow). Any help/advice/ideas?","Summary: Collected Siberian Elm, good idea or bad? How about ones that are continually mowed over but still have a 3\" height? Other tips on collecting in general?\n\nPost: I work at an arboretum in North Dakota. Many years ago, someone thought it would be a fantastic idea to plant Siberian Elm ( Ulmus pumila ) as a wind break. As a result, we have THOUSANDS of seedlings scarrered everywhere on the property. We've been just cutting them down and dosing them with dicamba (round up). Recently, however I got the idea that some of them might make good trial bonsai. \n I am new to bonsai, so I'm still learning. Any tips for collecting? None of them have even started turning into fall colors, so they shouldn't be too inactive yet I would think. I can collect any size, really. But the thinker the trunk, the taller the tree at this point. With one exception. We have hundreds of the effers in the grass. The \"trunk\" would be less than 3\" tall since that's the mowing height. Think they're worth it?","Summary: switching from a 10 gal to a 20gal, any tips?\n\nPost: I resently purchased a 20gal tall (with stand and light) that I would like to set up. However, my roommates have requested I keep it down to one tank. So, I'm thinking of moving everything from the 10 into the 20. I know I'll need more substrate and a few more plants and such. But my filter should work, since it was originally in a 20gal (I got it from my father in law when his tank broke). Same with the heater. \n Is there any pointers or tips you guys can give me? Is there a certain order I should move things over? I'm thinking I'll hold the fish in a 5gal with an air pump (actually the one I moved them in) until the tank finishes cycling. If I use majority of the water from the 10 gal (minus what I put in the 5gal bucket), use the same subtrate, driftwood, filter, plants, etc, about how long should it take to cycle?","Summary: need help figuring out four digit ID numbers from The Source in Roseville, MN\n\nPost: The other day, my buddies and I went to The Source Comics in Roseville, MN. I was looking at miniatures they had in their display case. I was trying to remember a bunch that I liked, so I wrote down the numbers they had written on the bases. Here's the problem. Now I can't find them anywhere online. \n Here's a sample of the numbers I wrote: 1168, 1179, 7442, 4102, 3105, 1122, 2108 \n That's all the info stupid me wrote down. I thought I would be able to go onto ReaperMini and find them, but none of the number match up. One set of numbers was for a female druid weilding a spear/pole arm. When I did the mini finder, I couldn't find anything in those paremeters that I liked, which means reapermini doesn't even carry the ones I was looking at.","Summary: Roommate/classmate and I need to design an experiment based around aquatic plants. Fertilizer suggestions? Substrate suggestions? Other pointers?\n\nPost: My roommate and I are in a Crop Physiology class this spring semester and need to come up with a pretty detailed experiment to propose, conduct, and report on. Because of my recent interest in planted tanks, she and I thought it would be a good idea to merge that with this class. Our professor is on board so long as we can figure out what we want to do. \n We spoke to the greenhouse manager, who is also a fish keeper himself, and he has graciously said he'd donate a few 10 gallon tanks. Another friend of ours said she might have a few 10 gallons as well. So, I think we'll have five 10 gallon tanks to work with. \n Here are our current hang ups: \n \n There's maybe $20-$30 in the school budget for each project, and that's pushing it. \n \n We think we want to run an experiment on fertilizer doses. What fertilizers do you guys suggest? \n \n Which plants does everyone suggest? We would like something that would grow fairly well with minimal maintenance and fairly quick (we have about 2.5 months for the experiment). \n \n What should we use for substrate? The greenhouse has access to most types of standard potting media, including sand. Getting river rock would be fairly easy as well. I've heard of people using soil, but I'm not sure what that means or how I could translate that. \n \n \n Any and all resources you guys could point me to, we'd be eternally grateful.","Summary: I'm breeding magnolias this summer and am looking for research and articles relating to them.\n\nPost: Hey all! For my last undergrad program, I might be able to work with Magnolia breeding up here in the WI/MN/ND area. I was wondering if anyone around here knew where I could get some more information that's different from the stuff coming out of Green Bay. This May I will be traveling with Dr Todd West (NDSU), and Dr David Zlesak (UWRF) to visit Dennis Ledvina at the Green Bay Botanical Garden and breed magnolias for a day or two. I will then be working with Dr West at Absaraka, NSDU's research botanical garden. The more I know going into the projects the better. I know next to nothing about Magnolia, so the more the merrier!","Summary: tap water is too hard for my tank. What can I do to lower it?\n\nPost: Hello all! I'm a fairly new tank owner and have been trying my hand at a planted tank. Here's the specs: \n \n 10g tank \n CO2 [diffuser]( that I fill once a day, \n under-cabinet light left over from kitchen rennovation (full spectrum as far as I know) \n heater (temp kept at about 73-74F) \n API Leaf Zone given once a week \n 1 male [Halfmoon Betta]( \n 7-9 ghost shrimp \n 6 cory cats \n 2 amazon swords, 1 anubis, 3 tiny clumps of micro sword \n \n Unfortunately I don't remember the test results when I ran the tests earlier this week. I'll run them again when I get home if you guys want. But I do remember that pH, NO3, NO2, and Ammonia were ok. my GH and KH were very high. \n Here's my issue: I'm getting lots of brown algae growth. It appeared almost overnight. Prior to the problem, the swords were healthy, growing steadily, no algae problems. But about a week ago, there was a bloom in algae and the swords started loosing leaves. I wen tout and bought water tests so see what it was, thinking it was Nitrates/Nitrites. However, it turned out to be the GH and KH, which makes sense with the tap water I've been using. I've been treating it with de-chlorinator, but obviously that's not enough. What do you guys suggest? Is there another water treatment I can use to get the GH down?","Summary: whats a good pellet litter that I can easily scoop poop out on a regular basis?\n\nPost: Hey guys! \n Ive run into a slight problem with cat litter recently and im hoping reddit can help. \n I live in a small apartment with a single bathroom, which is where I keep the litter box. I was using fresh step multi-cat clumping litter because my cat, Sage, requires that I scoop the pee and poop out at least every other day. However, the cats were dragging the litter around the bathroom and hallway and it got super annoying. So, I switched to Yesterday's News pellet litter. It helped with the tracking issue (and the smell actually), but its very difficult to scoop the poo out. \n Sage has pooped outside the litter box twice now, even after I completely scooped it. (Took me a half hour, too!) Its gross to walk into the bathroom and see her poo on their litter mat, which, thankfully, she goes instead of the floor. \n What other pellet-like litter do you guys suggest? I dont think Sage likes Yesterday's News, and I certainly am not a fan.","Summary: A store abuses their fish. How do I approach management about it, and is there a third party I can contact as well?\n\nPost: So, I tried rescuing a betta last night from a well known store that I won't publicly name. Unfortunately the betta didnt even make it through the night. I was only able to rescue one, but there are still several sitting at the store in nasty, unkept water. I also watched as a small group of larger fish killed an Angel fish in one of their holding tanks. There were two other dead angel fish in the tank. \n I was at the store around 12:30am (0030), so the tanks had already been \"cleaned\" for the night. \n My question to you guys is how do I approach management about this? I know this isnt the first time their fish have been abused. Is there an agency or organization that I can contact as well? Im just a semi-timid college student, why should they listen to me? But a large agency or organization, they hold more weight.","Summary: I have shitty roommates and need someone to take their place in Jan or Feb. Rent is $420/month. Lease ends in May.\n\nPost: So, long long story short, my roommate wants to skip out on me suddenly for reasons that have not become clear. (She's jumping from blaming the cost* to wanting a dog, to disliking me, to claiming I dislike her boyfriend.) \n Anyways, I'm stuck in a bind. I find myself looking for a new roommate. Apartment is off Wildcat Ct (by the University horse lab farm). Its a 2 bedroom apartment that will end up costing about $420 a month. This includes internet (no cable, we don't use it) and electric (which is the varying part. current roommates insist on having heat up to 75F, which I'm more than willing to negotiate. I'm used to 71F day and 68F night). It should also decrease when two of the three fish tanks leave as well as the heated blanket one roommate uses every night. \n I prefer a female roommate, but I'm getting desperate. Anyone looking or know someone who's looking? Lease ends in May. \n *We've had a third roommate the last 3 months, she just graduated and is moving, thus the sudden increase in rent.","Summary: Major algae problem, affecting aesthetics and plant growth. Help/suggestions needed.\n\nPost: So I have a 10g tank with some live plants in it (forget all the varieties, but there are 7-8 plants plus Java moss). I also have a few cory catfish, a male betta, and over a dozen shrimp (I raised several from eggs, so exciting to watch!) \n Anyways. I've been fighting a loosing battle with algae. I don't even know what kind it is. I thought it was brown algae, but recently I'm second guessing that. Here are some pictures of the tank: tank . Left half , [plants]( [plants]( bonus potato [photo]( of baby shrimp. \n Any suggestions/help would be appreciated. I do a 20% water change on wednesdays, when I also use API Leaf Zone (per the bottle's instructions). I've been adding a drop of iodine 2-3 times a week to help the shrimp's shedding. My GH has been high, but not alarmingly so. Nitrates, nitrites, pH, and ammonia are all in the ok zone. The only other thing that goes into the tank is two pellets of food for the betta every morning."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Hybridization is quite common in nature without humans doing anything.\\n\\nPost: That's not to say that they aren't natural. There are tons of species that hybridize in nature without the interference of humans. Silver and Red maples, for example, hybridize quite readily. There's a theory that Bur and White oaks are starting to hybridize as well. There are two species of wild cherry that are native here that are hybridizing so well taxonomists might put them into a single species. \\n It's all very similar to dog breeds. You can have a purebred german shepard and a purebred husky, but you can also have a mix. (Granted, they're all the same (sub)species Canus lupus familiaris , but it's a similar idea).\",\n \"Summary: sealant is turning models cloudy. Help??\\n\\nPost: Hey guys. We have having some MAJOR issues with our sealant. we've been using armory matte clear sealant for a while now, but recently our models have turned cloudy immediately after sealing. When sprayed on cardboard, you can tell its the sealant. We've tried clearing the line after each session, even tried clearing the line between each individual spray. Nothing it working. This is a fairly new can of sealant, as our last one went bad and started melting the paint off the models.\",\n \"Summary: I need a wireless mouse that has a scroll wheel and a center programmable button, not a DPI adjustment one. Back/Forward buttons also a must.\\n\\nPost: I currently own a Logitech Anywhere MX wireless mouse. I absolutely love the thing, but it has a loose wire or something and double clicks majority of the time. Very annoying when I'm working in Sketchup or Excel or even gaming. I am having an incredibly hard time finding a good replacement. I'm hoping you can help. \\n I'd like it to have a back/forward button as well as a scroll wheel that has some resistance. I'd also like a button bu the scroll bar that is programmable, not a DPI adjuster. I usually use it for opening a link in a new window or adjusting the viewing pane in sketchup. \\n Any ideas guys?\",\n \"Summary: New city, bad tap water, conditioner not working as well as I thought. Suggestions on conditioner or other additives? Fish suggestions to replace the ones I lost?\\n\\nPost: A few months ago, I moved from River Falls, WI to Fargo, ND. I brought along my 10 gallon fish tank. After setting it up, I let it cycle for a week or so with the new water. I had transported the substrate damp, driftwood and live plants were transported with the fish in a 5 gallon bucket filled with original tank water. I placed the driftwood, substrate, and plants into the tank and let that cycle for a while. All should be well, yes? \\n After I checked water parameters (which were good. pH was a bit high, but I added some pH down and it calmed down), I added the rest of the original tank water and the fish. All was well for about 2 months. I did bi-weekly water changes (I know, I should do more), and added water conditioner every time I added water. Recently, however, I have lost 3 fish and a snail. Two of the fish were purchased and added since moving here, the third was a guppy I had purchased in River Falls. So, I did a more thorough check of water parameters (Had just been using test strips). Turns out my ammonia was a bit high (0.5ppm the weekend after loosing the fish. Closer to 0.25ppm right now, two weeks later). \\n This weekend, I finally have time to look into the issue more. Turns out my tap water is SUPER high in ammonia (no surprise), but the water conditioner I was using wasn't fully working. \\n Is there a better way to get ammonia out of the tap before adding it to the tank? I added a terracotta pot to the tank today, hoping it will help increase the bacteria population. What's the \\\"best\\\" water conditioner? Is API's ammo lock worth the money? What fish are a bit more tolerant to slightly higher ammonia?\",\n \"Summary: picky eater pukes up food. Too much grain? Other factors explained above.\\n\\nPost: So one of my cats, Sage, is turning into a very picky eater. Her \\\"foster\\\" (not allowed to have pets where I'm staying, so cats are with the in-laws) says she often pukes up her food shortly after eating. \\n She gets fed 4 times a day, an 1/8 of a cup each time. She weighs approximately 8 pounds (I'll get an updated weight at the vet. For her size, 8-9lbs is a good weight) and she hasn't noticeably lost weight. She's currently on science diet. Usually it's the indoor long haired cat food, but I have purchased the light before because her \\\"sister\\\" is a few pounds over weight. \\n One theory the in-laws have is that she eats too fast. Any suggestions on that front? \\n I wonder if she should be eating a grain free diet. Any thoughts? \\n She's a very active cat, but can be quite the drama queen. She has a nasty habit of pooping outside her litter box. No pattern on that has been established yet. She's about 4 years old (rescue) and has been living with the in-laws for 6 months. Before that she was with me and I had very little problems. \\n In-laws only give her hairball control treats, whereas I gave her greenies and anything I got in the KitNip boxes. Maybe they're giving her too many? I gave them on occasion, I think she gets one every night now. \\n Like I said, I'll be taking her to the vet soon for her vaccinations. (Scheduling app tomorrow). Any help/advice/ideas?\",\n \"Summary: Collected Siberian Elm, good idea or bad? How about ones that are continually mowed over but still have a 3\\\" height? Other tips on collecting in general?\\n\\nPost: I work at an arboretum in North Dakota. Many years ago, someone thought it would be a fantastic idea to plant Siberian Elm ( Ulmus pumila ) as a wind break. As a result, we have THOUSANDS of seedlings scarrered everywhere on the property. We've been just cutting them down and dosing them with dicamba (round up). Recently, however I got the idea that some of them might make good trial bonsai. \\n I am new to bonsai, so I'm still learning. Any tips for collecting? None of them have even started turning into fall colors, so they shouldn't be too inactive yet I would think. I can collect any size, really. But the thinker the trunk, the taller the tree at this point. With one exception. We have hundreds of the effers in the grass. The \\\"trunk\\\" would be less than 3\\\" tall since that's the mowing height. Think they're worth it?\",\n \"Summary: switching from a 10 gal to a 20gal, any tips?\\n\\nPost: I resently purchased a 20gal tall (with stand and light) that I would like to set up. However, my roommates have requested I keep it down to one tank. So, I'm thinking of moving everything from the 10 into the 20. I know I'll need more substrate and a few more plants and such. But my filter should work, since it was originally in a 20gal (I got it from my father in law when his tank broke). Same with the heater. \\n Is there any pointers or tips you guys can give me? Is there a certain order I should move things over? I'm thinking I'll hold the fish in a 5gal with an air pump (actually the one I moved them in) until the tank finishes cycling. If I use majority of the water from the 10 gal (minus what I put in the 5gal bucket), use the same subtrate, driftwood, filter, plants, etc, about how long should it take to cycle?\",\n \"Summary: need help figuring out four digit ID numbers from The Source in Roseville, MN\\n\\nPost: The other day, my buddies and I went to The Source Comics in Roseville, MN. I was looking at miniatures they had in their display case. I was trying to remember a bunch that I liked, so I wrote down the numbers they had written on the bases. Here's the problem. Now I can't find them anywhere online. \\n Here's a sample of the numbers I wrote: 1168, 1179, 7442, 4102, 3105, 1122, 2108 \\n That's all the info stupid me wrote down. I thought I would be able to go onto ReaperMini and find them, but none of the number match up. One set of numbers was for a female druid weilding a spear/pole arm. When I did the mini finder, I couldn't find anything in those paremeters that I liked, which means reapermini doesn't even carry the ones I was looking at.\",\n \"Summary: Roommate/classmate and I need to design an experiment based around aquatic plants. Fertilizer suggestions? Substrate suggestions? Other pointers?\\n\\nPost: My roommate and I are in a Crop Physiology class this spring semester and need to come up with a pretty detailed experiment to propose, conduct, and report on. Because of my recent interest in planted tanks, she and I thought it would be a good idea to merge that with this class. Our professor is on board so long as we can figure out what we want to do. \\n We spoke to the greenhouse manager, who is also a fish keeper himself, and he has graciously said he'd donate a few 10 gallon tanks. Another friend of ours said she might have a few 10 gallons as well. So, I think we'll have five 10 gallon tanks to work with. \\n Here are our current hang ups: \\n \\n There's maybe $20-$30 in the school budget for each project, and that's pushing it. \\n \\n We think we want to run an experiment on fertilizer doses. What fertilizers do you guys suggest? \\n \\n Which plants does everyone suggest? We would like something that would grow fairly well with minimal maintenance and fairly quick (we have about 2.5 months for the experiment). \\n \\n What should we use for substrate? The greenhouse has access to most types of standard potting media, including sand. Getting river rock would be fairly easy as well. I've heard of people using soil, but I'm not sure what that means or how I could translate that. \\n \\n \\n Any and all resources you guys could point me to, we'd be eternally grateful.\",\n \"Summary: I'm breeding magnolias this summer and am looking for research and articles relating to them.\\n\\nPost: Hey all! For my last undergrad program, I might be able to work with Magnolia breeding up here in the WI/MN/ND area. I was wondering if anyone around here knew where I could get some more information that's different from the stuff coming out of Green Bay. This May I will be traveling with Dr Todd West (NDSU), and Dr David Zlesak (UWRF) to visit Dennis Ledvina at the Green Bay Botanical Garden and breed magnolias for a day or two. I will then be working with Dr West at Absaraka, NSDU's research botanical garden. The more I know going into the projects the better. I know next to nothing about Magnolia, so the more the merrier!\",\n \"Summary: tap water is too hard for my tank. What can I do to lower it?\\n\\nPost: Hello all! I'm a fairly new tank owner and have been trying my hand at a planted tank. Here's the specs: \\n \\n 10g tank \\n CO2 [diffuser]( that I fill once a day, \\n under-cabinet light left over from kitchen rennovation (full spectrum as far as I know) \\n heater (temp kept at about 73-74F) \\n API Leaf Zone given once a week \\n 1 male [Halfmoon Betta]( \\n 7-9 ghost shrimp \\n 6 cory cats \\n 2 amazon swords, 1 anubis, 3 tiny clumps of micro sword \\n \\n Unfortunately I don't remember the test results when I ran the tests earlier this week. I'll run them again when I get home if you guys want. But I do remember that pH, NO3, NO2, and Ammonia were ok. my GH and KH were very high. \\n Here's my issue: I'm getting lots of brown algae growth. It appeared almost overnight. Prior to the problem, the swords were healthy, growing steadily, no algae problems. But about a week ago, there was a bloom in algae and the swords started loosing leaves. I wen tout and bought water tests so see what it was, thinking it was Nitrates/Nitrites. However, it turned out to be the GH and KH, which makes sense with the tap water I've been using. I've been treating it with de-chlorinator, but obviously that's not enough. What do you guys suggest? Is there another water treatment I can use to get the GH down?\",\n \"Summary: whats a good pellet litter that I can easily scoop poop out on a regular basis?\\n\\nPost: Hey guys! \\n Ive run into a slight problem with cat litter recently and im hoping reddit can help. \\n I live in a small apartment with a single bathroom, which is where I keep the litter box. I was using fresh step multi-cat clumping litter because my cat, Sage, requires that I scoop the pee and poop out at least every other day. However, the cats were dragging the litter around the bathroom and hallway and it got super annoying. So, I switched to Yesterday's News pellet litter. It helped with the tracking issue (and the smell actually), but its very difficult to scoop the poo out. \\n Sage has pooped outside the litter box twice now, even after I completely scooped it. (Took me a half hour, too!) Its gross to walk into the bathroom and see her poo on their litter mat, which, thankfully, she goes instead of the floor. \\n What other pellet-like litter do you guys suggest? I dont think Sage likes Yesterday's News, and I certainly am not a fan.\",\n \"Summary: A store abuses their fish. How do I approach management about it, and is there a third party I can contact as well?\\n\\nPost: So, I tried rescuing a betta last night from a well known store that I won't publicly name. Unfortunately the betta didnt even make it through the night. I was only able to rescue one, but there are still several sitting at the store in nasty, unkept water. I also watched as a small group of larger fish killed an Angel fish in one of their holding tanks. There were two other dead angel fish in the tank. \\n I was at the store around 12:30am (0030), so the tanks had already been \\\"cleaned\\\" for the night. \\n My question to you guys is how do I approach management about this? I know this isnt the first time their fish have been abused. Is there an agency or organization that I can contact as well? Im just a semi-timid college student, why should they listen to me? But a large agency or organization, they hold more weight.\",\n \"Summary: I have shitty roommates and need someone to take their place in Jan or Feb. Rent is $420/month. Lease ends in May.\\n\\nPost: So, long long story short, my roommate wants to skip out on me suddenly for reasons that have not become clear. (She's jumping from blaming the cost* to wanting a dog, to disliking me, to claiming I dislike her boyfriend.) \\n Anyways, I'm stuck in a bind. I find myself looking for a new roommate. Apartment is off Wildcat Ct (by the University horse lab farm). Its a 2 bedroom apartment that will end up costing about $420 a month. This includes internet (no cable, we don't use it) and electric (which is the varying part. current roommates insist on having heat up to 75F, which I'm more than willing to negotiate. I'm used to 71F day and 68F night). It should also decrease when two of the three fish tanks leave as well as the heated blanket one roommate uses every night. \\n I prefer a female roommate, but I'm getting desperate. Anyone looking or know someone who's looking? Lease ends in May. \\n *We've had a third roommate the last 3 months, she just graduated and is moving, thus the sudden increase in rent.\",\n \"Summary: Major algae problem, affecting aesthetics and plant growth. Help/suggestions needed.\\n\\nPost: So I have a 10g tank with some live plants in it (forget all the varieties, but there are 7-8 plants plus Java moss). I also have a few cory catfish, a male betta, and over a dozen shrimp (I raised several from eggs, so exciting to watch!) \\n Anyways. I've been fighting a loosing battle with algae. I don't even know what kind it is. I thought it was brown algae, but recently I'm second guessing that. Here are some pictures of the tank: tank . Left half , [plants]( [plants]( bonus potato [photo]( of baby shrimp. \\n Any suggestions/help would be appreciated. I do a 20% water change on wednesdays, when I also use API Leaf Zone (per the bottle's instructions). I've been adding a drop of iodine 2-3 times a week to help the shrimp's shedding. My GH has been high, but not alarmingly so. Nitrates, nitrites, pH, and ammonia are all in the ok zone. The only other thing that goes into the tank is two pellets of food for the betta every morning.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":15,"string":"15"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2988,"string":"2,988"}}},{"rowIdx":2989,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"cfsg"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Get some sleep. Enjoy your video games."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I know the feel, bro. All too well. \n That said, I don't accept your premise, that you're pathetic. There's nothing pathetic about playing video games, and there's nothing pathetic about being good at video games. I don't believe you're not good at anything else. I do believe you haven't tried many other things more than once or twice before assuming that they weren't for you. And even if you are the one person in 7 billion who genuinely isn't good at anything (which I know you're not because you're good at video games), there's nothing pathetic about that. \n \"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.\" –Albert Motherfucking Einstein \n I agree that it sucks pretty hard that you can't communicate very well with your parents. That is the only part of your story that managed to illicit much of any pathos in me. Sorry. \n I'm not going to sit here and tell you to go out and meet people, because I know that that's much easier said than done. The only thing I'm going to specifically recommend is that you get more sleep, or to sleep on a better schedule. I have no proof that you're underslept, but in my experience, ugly thoughts like this tend to bubble up when I'm not getting any sleep or sunlight. I know it seems trivial, but it's not. \n Also, it's a really bad idea to be with someone who makes you feel this much like shit without trying or even knowing. I'm no relationship expert (hey I'm on r/FA too), but I don't think any relationship should start with this much pretense. A relationship should be with someone who's easy to be with. Granted, no matter what anybody says, you'll probably obsess over this facebook girl for a while longer, but it will get better with time."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I know the feel, bro. All too well. \n That said, I don't accept your premise, that you're pathetic. There's nothing pathetic about playing video games, and there's nothing pathetic about being good at video games. I don't believe you're not good at anything else. I do believe you haven't tried many other things more than once or twice before assuming that they weren't for you. And even if you are the one person in 7 billion who genuinely isn't good at anything (which I know you're not because you're good at video games), there's nothing pathetic about that. \n \"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.\" –Albert Motherfucking Einstein \n I agree that it sucks pretty hard that you can't communicate very well with your parents. That is the only part of your story that managed to illicit much of any pathos in me. Sorry. \n I'm not going to sit here and tell you to go out and meet people, because I know that that's much easier said than done. The only thing I'm going to specifically recommend is that you get more sleep, or to sleep on a better schedule. I have no proof that you're underslept, but in my experience, ugly thoughts like this tend to bubble up when I'm not getting any sleep or sunlight. I know it seems trivial, but it's not. \n Also, it's a really bad idea to be with someone who makes you feel this much like shit without trying or even knowing. I'm no relationship expert (hey I'm on r/FA too), but I don't think any relationship should start with this much pretense. A relationship should be with someone who's easy to be with. Granted, no matter what anybody says, you'll probably obsess over this facebook girl for a while longer, but it will get better with time."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: go fuck yourself\n\nPost: I wonder if this is a result of some bizarre miscommunication. On Google Maps it does indeed 100% say \"Not A Road\" where that road is.. but as we can see [in this image here]( and then in [these images here]( the road is clearly labeled Winterwood Lane, because it is home to Winterwood Farm. So the town of Lyman, Maine, clearly has a name for this... \n I just wonder where the miscommunication started. Maybe California Google Hotshots being unable to decipher the thick brogue of a Mainer. Who knows. I don't.","Summary: Eat meat once a day, absolute tops. Starch should be accompanied by fiber. Dark green vegetables are cheap and healthy. It's not as hard as people want you to think to eat healthily and cheaply. \n Edit: what I can spell shut up\n\nPost: Disclaimer: I'm assuming you're in the US. Partly because that's where I am and about where I'm best educated, and partly because almost every other country educated their children about how to eat better than the US does. \n Throughout history, there have been three major cheap foods, and they have a lot in common. Rice, bread, and potatoes. They are cheap, and they are full of starch and not much else. If one subsists entirely on these, the risks and health concerns are plentiful and obvious (points in case, the ramen/college student cliché, the Irish potato famine, and the fact that Europe's and America's life expectancies have always trailed behind Japan's). \n From a nutritional standpoint, it's useful to look at how humans evolved. When we consumed starch, we did so along with a lot of insoluble fiber, or junk we couldn't really digest, like rice bran or potato skin. So white rice and white mashed potatoes aren't conducive to a healthy or happy human. We evolved to digest starch alongside fiber. Brown rice, wheat berries, and oatmeal are excellent examples. \n I strongly recommend getting into wheat berries. They're the things that, if ground, would produce whole wheat flour. Try boiling them for about 20 minutes (taste for tenderness, wheat berries always remain a bit chewy), straining, cooling, and tossing with whatever vegetables and dressing you like (I like roasted red peppers, red onions, and a tahini/soy sauce/sherry vinegar dressing). I've seen places that'll happily bag up wheat berries for a dollar a pound, so they're definitely cheap if you buy local. \n There's a big wild card in food today, and that's cheap chicken and eggs. Americans eat way too much protein. Meat at every meal is preposterous. Again, look at how we evolved. Until we invented the bow & arrow, we weren't really killing any animals. We'd occasionally find a corpse or a nest, and we'd feast then, but we didn't evolve with a Sausage McMuffin for breakfast, a McChicken for lunch, and a Big Mac for dinner. Our stomachs can't digest that much amino acid, and our stomach become extremely acidic when we try to (I read a study of stomach acidity by country a while ago, and it concluded that the Western diet leads to a dangerously acidic stomach. I couldn't find said study tonight, unfortunately). \n So don't eat meat at every meal. Have one or two protein-heavy meals a day. Not only is that easy on the wallet, but having eggs in the morning is nice and energizing. \n Finally, you'd probably be surprised at how cheap dark leafy greens are at your local farmers market of supermarket. That shit is healthy is dick. Eat a ton of it. Collard greens, mustard greens, kale, rapini, the list goes on. It's healthy and tasty. Cooked with garlic, olive oil, and mushrooms, and served over stewed wheat berries , you've got yourself a stupidly healthy and delicious meal. I've got recipes up the wazoo if you like my wordstuffs.","Summary: David Bowie is best human. I'd really like it if you read my whole lament, though.\n\nPost: I was once listening to the album that this song concludes ( The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ) toward the end of a long road trip. It was around 1AM and I was about 20 minutes from my destination in southern California. There was almost no one else on the 5-lane road when this song came on. \n I was on my way back to my parents' house from visiting a friend a few hours north. I hadn't seen this friend in years, and seeing her again made me realize how much more profound my friendships used to be. I got to thinking on the drive back, about how I was bound to fly back to my home in Boston, only to be met by a life that seemed icy and distant by comparison. A few friends, a nice apartment, and a cool job at the time. I had such a nice life, that I wouldn't let myself actually be upset. \n I was in this kind of dirty rotten headspace when I put on Bowie's TRaFoZSatSfM . The album is in itself and emotional journey, and Bowie and I took it together. When this song finally came on, and he screams at me \"You're not alone,\" tears filled my eyes and my heart leapt into my throat. My skin crawled and my hair stood on end. The second time he shouts it my hands shake and I can barely see the road for the tears in my eyes. \n The song ended just as I took my exit off the freeway. I wondered why I responded like that, as I've listened to that album many times before, and while Rock n Roll Suicide (and a few other songs on the album) always gave me frisson, I hadn't experienced it like that before. It occurred to me why as I sat in the now quiet car. I was coming to terms with the fact that I very well may never again make as close a friend as I did with the friend I had just visited, but I share my emotional reaction with everyone else since 1972 who has ever put on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and taken that emotional journey. For the same reason that a painting can leave you breathless or an excellent pulled pork sandwich can make you laugh inexplicably. While my reaction is very much my own, I share the experience with everyone else who has had their own reaction. Now when I hear this song, I don't think about how shallow my friendships are and how disappointing my life is, I think of the connection I share with everyone in the world who loves music. And you know, love, I'm not alone. \n A lot of Reddit seems to mock art students and artists, and I've seen a lot of talk about scientists and engineers being the most important and people in society. I don't buy it. Art can connect people in a way that science can't. I love science and scientific advancement, but the intellect is only one small part of the human brain. I will always support artists and art education because I believe that even if we never go back to the moon (which would be absolutely tragic, don't get me wrong), our society can still be rich and successful by virtue of these kinds of connections.","Summary: My personal logical explanation for what others might dismiss as \"nostalgia.\"\n\nPost: Gen 1. Not the remakes, Red and Blue. Here's why. \n You know how in Diamond, you see Dialga do his roar of time and you watch that shockwave thing pass over all of Sinnoh? (And then you know how you've seen pretty much the same cutscene in 10 other JRPGs?) And then you have a \"climactic\" battle with it after \"reading\" a few pages of text, all about saving the world and the space-time continuum or whatever. When you see Dialga, the creators have clearly tried to build it up. Synth-heavy music presides, and a towering steel-plated dragon belt out its cry. And nary a goosebump or gasp to be seen. \n You know why? Because nothing feels special about it. It's an inevitable point in the game, one which everybody who plays reaches. You see Dialga on the cover of the game and in all of the promotional materials (it's even worse with Reshiram and Zekrom). Despite the fact that these are \"legendary Pokemon,\" they are all. over. the. place. They are easy to catch and everybody gets them. They even have a higher catch rate than most legendaries. The GTS is littered with them, because they are merely tokens of completion that would otherwise sit in the PC box, indefinitely at level 47. There's nothing mysterious about them, or the world in which they exist. \n Kanto, however, was different. The only thing that was given to you was the knowledge of the appearance of a fully evolved starter, and you didn't even know when you were going to get it. The screwy battle system added to the effect. Nothing was perfectly calculable. 100-accuracy moves could miss. Critical hits were based on speed. Psychic was good against fucking everything. There was none of this happy-go-lucky \"everyone can play\" attitude. Gen 1 was unforgiving. You picked Charmander? Good luck against Brock, 'cause you aren't getting Metal Claw or a Mankey, brother. You're toughing it out because that's the way the world is. Unfair. And when you get to the bottom of Seafoam Island, you see a generic bird icon, and you say to yourself: \"what the fuck is that thing?\" because you don't already know. Then you find out that it's a legendary bird, with awesome stats and awesome moves, and you can't just get one off the GTS for a level 40 Graveler. If you can't catch it, too bad, because the only other conventionally available legendaries have the same catch rate, and there are only 3 of them. \n Red and Blue are the ultimate RPGs because they insist almost nothing upon your character. You can give him your own name, you can imagine your own dialogue, and you can completely invent the story, with zero handholding from the game. This is what lead to so many theories about the protagonist's personality, father, and backstory with minimal circumstantial evidence provided in the game. In later generations, you are told about your father, your friends, and from where you came. In Red, maybe your character wasn't the type of guy who would be friends with Cheren or Bianca. Maybe he would've smacked them upside the head. That's totally fine, and it was your decision.","Summary: Strip T's in Watertown is definitely worth the trip!! Also any Ken Oringer or Michael Schlow restaurant will be expensive, but still good & satisfying.\n\nPost: Strip T's in Watertown. Really amazing dinner menu. Most people don't know about it, probably because for the last ~20 years, it's just been a mediocre sandwich place. But the owner's son, who was a Sous chef at Momofuku for 5 years, just moved home and reinvented the restaurant. Truly great food, good price, tiny hole-in-the-wall place. You'd never expect it to be so good. \n Ken Oringer's kind of celebrity chef around here, along with his executive chef Jamie Bissonette. Their restaurants are: \n KO Prime, a modern steakhouse \n Copa, a tiny Italian place \n Toro, a tapas place, and one of my favorites in the city \n And Clio, a ritzy place at Comm & Mass ave. \n All of those ones are going to be more expensive, but they're super-trendy and critics tend to love them. I do too, but again they're pricey, and sometimes loud. You'll need a reservation. Except I think Copa still doesn't take reservations, so get there early. \n Another celebrity chef is Michael Schlow. He's got Radius, Via Matta, and Tico in Boston, and Alta Strada in Wellesley. I like Radius, and it's awesomely located right downtown, but Tico in Back Bay might be my favorite of his. It's like super high-end Tex-Mex. These places are pricey too, though.","Summary: A young fool laments over his nearly lifelong love.\n\nPost: Well, I think a large amount of the problem was that the original 151 were designed by a small handful of people. \n To me at least, in Pokemon Red/Blue, seeing a Nidoking was exciting, because he's fucking huge and spiky and terrifying, even though he's only 4'7\". It has a lot more to do with the fact that Nidorino and Raichu and Mr. Mime aren't big and spiky and terrifying at all. \n I think once more and more designers started submitting their designs, they stopped thinking about that Pokemon's niche in the game, and focused only on the feeling they were trying to evoke with it. Without context, it's hard, if not impossible, to make something feel as staggering as Nidoking was without bulking them up and piling on the spikes and fangs and claws, hence Zekrom, Rayquaza, Giratina, et al. See, those guys are legendaries. Nidoking is just the evolution of one of the most common Pokemon in the game. \n And then there's Mewtwo. One of only 5 legendary Pokemon in the first generation. Now, talk about exciting. Talk about heart-racing-blood-pumping-breath-slowing adrenaline. I can still remember seeing Mewtwo in Pokemon Blue. I remember him standing on his little island in Cerulean cave, motionless. He doesn't jump out of the screen at you like Giratina does in Platinum. He doesn't need to. You go to him. I can still see him slide across the top of the screen when you encounter him, and then his cry, and the simple \"Wild Mewtwo appeared!\" I remember getting goosebumps then, and I remember getting goosebumps seeing how much damage his Psychic did to my Blastoise. See, Mewtwo is powerful. \n In my honest opinion, legendary Pokemon have been going steadily downhill, with a slight upturn in Gen 5. I mean, sure, I damn near pissed my pants whenever I saw Entei in the wild in Gold, but fighting Ho-oh was no big deal because he was on the freakin' cover of the game. Groudon may have seemed larger-than-life briefly, but if you catch him, he sits in your box like a paperweight; a mere token of completion. And by the time I was done watching the 2-minute cutscene of Dialga's Roar of Time passing over Unova, the battle itself just felt like a formality. In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're not required to even encounter a legendary Pokemon. In Black and White, you literally can't beat the game without catching the dragon du jour. So, the feeling of having caught Reshiram is no greater than the feeling of acquiring HM01. It's just a point in the game. \n That's why I like Generation 1.","Summary: Consider West Newton and East Boston.\n\nPost: If you have a car and don't need public transportation, West Newton is a great spot. Affordable, comparatively friendly, loads of parking, and still plenty of stuff to do. It might be a bit harder to find an apartment there, just because it's mostly houses and families, but it's still doable. West Newton is also nice because it's near I-95 and the Mass Pike. Also, Blue Ribbon Barbecue in West Newton is the best barbecue I've had in the area (since Uncle Pete's closed). It's Carolina style, not Texas, but there's almost no other barbecue that's much of any good around here, I'm sorry to say. \n Much of the same could be said about Watertown, though Watertown has pretty good bus access. As does Brighton (where I live now), though it's somewhat more pricey. \n Waltham is very affordable and has a good selection on shops and restaurants, but rather far from Boston, and some parts of it can be sketchy at night, et wot. \n As TheRainbowConnection said, East Boston is another good option. I lived there for about 10 years. It's on the up-and-up, as when I first moved there (2000ish) it was pretty sketch. Now it's got lots of young kids and community arts programs and stuff. It was really cool to watch it grow how it did.","Summary: The French method, Fraissage, is the best way to yield an even flake, blind baking is crucial, and lard makes a great pie crust.\n\nPost: Well, that's the easy Martha Homemaker way to do it, and it is good and reliable, but I propose there's a better way. \n What makes pie crust flaky? \n Layers of dough are separated by butter, which stays solid while the dough cooks. The cooking prevents said layers from sticking to each other as the proteins in the flour denature and coagulate. When the butter melts, it leaves behind air pockets between the dough, thus, flakes (it seems to be a common misconception that steam created when the butter melts also creates flakes. While the small amount of water in butter will create steam, pie dough isn't glutinous enough to capture much if any of that leavening). This is also why it's always best to use the coldest fat possible: the colder it is when it starts cooking, the longer it'll take to melt, allowing minimal dough merging. \n So the problem with recipes that call for the butter to be cubed is that you have some spots of amazing flakage and some of mealy crust. Even grated butter has that problem, since the strands of butter will create caverns rather than consistent flakes. \n My method of choice is a French technique called Fraissage. It is done by creating a mound of flour on a workbench or counter and sprinkling on cut cold butter. You then smoosh the butter into big, flat sheets against the counter with the heel of your hand, repeating until all of the butter is sheeted and all of the flour is incorporated. Only then is a small amount of cold water (or vodka, but that's a whole different story) added and just incorporated. This creates an even flake, and doesn't even dirty any unnecessary dishes. \n Most serious flaky pie crust recipes already require what's called blind baking. Blind baking is cooking the crust without any filling for a bit, docked and weighted down slightly. This is just to prevent the bottom layer of crust from sogging out. \n The last recommendation I have for pie is lard. Lard has a significantly higher melting point than butter, allowing that crust to cook more before the fat melts away, leaving those air pockets. Granted, some lard does have some not-so-pie-friendly flavors, so I'd generally cut it and say half butter, half lard. A lard pie crust is a really special thing though.","Summary: I doubt the ancient Egyptians sliced their bread. Their bread was tough and crusty and their knives were insufficient to the task.\n\nPost: Objection. \n The bread eaten by the Egyptians was very glutinous, because wheat that grows in hotter climates develops more protein (certain kinds of which make gluten) as opposed to starch, the other major component of wheat endosperm. That's the difference between bread flour, made from hard summer wheat, and cake flour, made from soft winter wheat (all-purpose flour is just a blend of the two). Since it's pretty much always hot in Egypt, the difference is slight, and all of their wheat comes out like bread flour wheat, which means all of their bread comes out tough. In addition, their baking was done in ceramic, which has a high heat capacity, encouraging a very tough crust. \n In addition, the ancient Egyptians didn't have the sharp, serrated, steel bread knives that we know and love today, their tools were made from ceramic, wood, or one of the few metals to which they had access (based on preliminary research, it looks like gold, copper, bronze, iron, and tin). Copper and iron likely make a hard enough knife, but if you've ever tried to cut crust bread with a chef's knife, you know that it's not easy. You need serrations, or you need to get your knife extremely sharp. I get the sneaking suspicion that the Egyptians just ripped their bread with their hands, since any crude serrations they could've made would've torn it just as violently, so it wouldn't've been worth the trouble.","Summary: Light oils, interchangeable for high-heat cooking. Extra Virgin olive oil is best for finishing dishes, doesn't respond to heat or agitation well. Rendered animal fats are tasty and can stand pretty high heat. Butter is awesome. Don't use shortening ever ever ever. \n Oh, there's so much more I could say, about coconut oil and cocoa butter, but I digress.\n\nPost: Light oils, including but not limited to canola, vegetable, soybean (though oil marked \"vegetable\" is usually soybean oil), corn, and peanut, are best suited for high-heat cooking and deep-frying. They have high smoke points, meaning they won't smoke up and burn until they've been over a flame for a good few minutes, so don't let them. Peanut oil generally has the highest smoke point, so it's great for extreme heat applications like wok and tandoor cooking. Granted, a bit of smoking won't hurt, if you've got good ventilation. All in all, clear oils are virtually interchangeable. \n Extra Virgin Olive Oil and other flavorful oils (walnut, toasted sesame, pistachio, etc) don't stand up particularly well to heat. They have low smoke points and a lot of flavor stands to be wasted by cooking. If you are to cook with them, make it brief, like blanched vegetables finished in a pan with some EVOO, or use them for a very low-heat application, like confit. Sesame oil it somewhat of an exception, it can take some more heat. \n An important note about olive oil. First, there's not much point to buying non-virgin olive oil. It's more expensive than light oil, and really won't improve the product cooked in them notably (so hereafter, when I refer to olive oil, I'm talking about extra virgin). Also, olive oil has a lot of tannins in it. Tannins are a large class of flavorful plant compounds that react to oxygen (they're also an integral part of leather making, hence to \"tan one's hide\"). Sometimes, oxidizing tannins is a good thing, like when you pierce an orange peel and the whole room starts to smell like Oxy Clean. That's the tannins in the orange peel oxidizing and being released into the air (if you sniff an unpeeled orange, you won't get the same effect). However the tannins in olive oil don't oxidize well at all. They just turn bitter and extremely astringent. If you put a little olive oil in a blender, or just whisk the shit out of it, then taste it, you will be able to tell the difference, as your oil will be bitter. I wouldn't recommend olive oil for any task that involved heavy physical agitation, like making mayonnaise. \n Animal fats, such as duck fat, schmaltz, lard, or beef suet, are widely used for their flavor, but also have rather high smoke points. They're great for roasting meats or potatoes and sautéing. Lard also remains solid up to relatively high temperatures, so it's amazing in pie crust and tamales. Cured pork fat, often called lardo , is so amazing you can moosh it on bread and be content. \n And butter. Butter's good for anything that's not too high-heat. And of course baked goods. For making chocolate chip cookies, try lightly browning the butter first, then bring it back to room temp before creaming. It bumps up flavor like wow. You pretty much can't go wrong with butter. \n Never ever ever ever ever use shortening or margarine. Not only are they less healthy than the butter that they ironically were meant to replace, but they're more solid at room temperature than butter, so in baked goods they can leave a greasy film in the mouth.","Summary: Don't buy \"dark\" cocoa powder. Add flavors if you want to, but don't call it just a chocolate cake if it's got other major flavors in it.\n\nPost: So this thread seems to be rich (no pun intended) with recommendations for two things: complimentary flavor and \"dark\" cocoa powder. Well I'm here to tell you that that's a bunch of hooey. \n Nothing wrong with complimentary flavor, but if you add coffee to a chocolate cake, you have a mocha cake, not a chocolate cake. I'm a huge coffee snob, and I would be able to tell the difference. \n Cocoa powder is just the starch from chocolate. That's it. When you see a chocolate bar, the darkness is determined by the ratio of chocolate to sugar, or potentially to milk. Cocoa powder by definition does not have any sugar or milk in it, so where, pray tell, do a darker cocoa come from? The roast. Much in the same way that coffee is roasted to various degrees. If you roast chocolate until it's pitch black, you'll definitely have a stronger flavor, but it won't necessarily be a good one. It'll taste like roast, not like chocolate (you'll hear the exact same defense for lighter coffee roasts). \n There are tons of different kinds of chocolate in the world, each with their own tasting notes. I've had chocolate from Madagascar that tasted like raspberries and red wine, and chocolate from Sri Lanka that tasted like toasted nuts and caramel. But if you roast them to the point that big-name manufacturers do (Ghirardeli, Lindt, Hershey's), any subtle characteristics of the cacao will be destroyed by heat. A darker cocoa powder just means a darker roast, which just means more roast flavor, not more chocolate flavor. \n What does my snobbery have to do with your cake, you ask. Well here's the big secret: the more chocolate, the more chocolate flavor. If you recipe calls for butter, replace it with cocoa butter. If you recipe calls for confectioner's sugar, replace some of it with cocoa powder. If your recipe can't deliver the chocolate taste you want, find a new recipe. It's just. That. Simple. \n P.S. By and large, melted chocolate will deilver more flavor than just cocoa powder. Cocoa fat has tons of flavor too!","Summary: Science\n\nPost: Buttermilk originally was the milk left over from churning butter, and was therefore pretty skim. Nowadays, it's just acidulated milk, but even so, it's on the skimmer side of things. \n Coconut milk is what happens when you put coconut meat in a juicer (an industrial strength juicer, mind you, as coconut meat is rather hard and woody). There's none of that coconut water in it. The part that floats to the top of that coconut milk is almost entirely coconut fat, with maybe 15-20% water trapped in tiny colloids. Coconut milk contains no lecithin or any other effective surfactant, so the fat and water separate when left to their own devices. \n The reason your cupcakes turned out with a finer crumb is because fat shortens gluten strands (which is where shortening got its name) and inhibits their development (in glutenous rich doughs like brioche, the fat is added after there's already significant gluten development). \n The other thing is that coconut fat is a dense, saturated fat, that's solid at room temperature. In a baked good, this lends unctuousness and melt-in-your-mouthiness (that's why in many commercial baked goods, you'll find palm kernel oil, another solid fat). Butter is also solid, yet much softer, than coconut fat at room temperature, but can taste too rich to use in high quantities. Hydrogenated vegetable fats are too firm at room temperature, and leave a greasy film on the mouth. Extra Virgin Coconut Oil has a mild coconut flavor, but makes Goldilocks pretty happy. \n Other options for solid fats include animal fats, but those would all taste pretty weird in cupcakes. Maybe a chocolate bacon cupcake with lard or something, but definitely not a catch-all for a good cupcake. Egg yolks are mostly fat, and when cooked can be solid at room temperature. Maybe give that a try. The problem is adding eggs fucks with leavening, even just yolks. \n I would play around with replacing some of the flour in the recipe with almond flour or some other tree nut. Less wheat flour means less gluten, means finer crumb. At the end of the day, the exact cupcakes you got will never be the same without that coconut fat. But you can definitely mimic your favorite qualities of it by taking the recipe apart and tinkering. Add fat. Subtract gluten. Sneeze on a horse. Wait for Venus to enter the Second House. Experiment. Science.","Summary: you're not being frugal, you're being an ignoramus.\n\nPost: That's a really terrible way to think about food. Looking into the ethics and farming practices that go into providing you with $2/pound chicken, the real choice is obvious. Plus, the quality is incomparable. To paraphrase Mark Bittman, the sustainable and ethical choice is always the tastiest one, too. \n That said, Whole Foods' chicken isn't particularly ethically or sustainably raised, usually. It's usually the same breast-heavy 6-week-old chicken, maybe raised without antibiotics and let outside for the last 2 weeks of their life, earning them the title \"free range.\" Few chickens in such situations take that option, since all the food and stuff is inside. \n Edit: these things I said are also very true for tomatoes, cheese, and to a lesser extent, spices. The ethics behind tomatoes are really shocking. Practically slave labor, right in Florida and California. And those cheap tomatoes? They taste cheap, too. \n The reason that good cheese tends to be expensive is that cheesemaking (especially for Parmigiano Reggiano) is inherently an expensive, time- and space-consuming process. Also, with no given quantity of cheese, any dollar amount has virtually no meaning.","Summary: Dodrio has the best 1st gen movepool and the most extreme stats, with high attack and speed. \n Source: [Dodrio]( [Fearow]( and [Pidgeot](\n\nPost: Dodrio. Here's why. \n Pidgeot has the highest base stat total, at 469. Unfortunately, he doesn't learn drill peck, which is IMO the best in-game physical flying attack (taking recoil damage from Brave Bird is fine competitively, since you'll only be taking it from a few pokemon, but going through a whole route of trainers takes its toll). Also, he has the lowest Attack and Speed of the three. \n Fearow's stat distribution is a bit more useful. Having the lowest stat total of the three, coming in at 442. Fearow's attack and speed are both higher than Pidgeot's, however his defensive stats (HP, Defense, and Sp. Defense) are much lower. These stats aren't that important for Fearow; we'll talk more about that shortly. \n Dodrio's base stats total 460, with a heavy emphasis on attack and speed, and his defenses are lower still than Fearow's. But, again, those stats don't really matter, because with either Fearow or Dodrio, you'll be using them as a \"sweeper,\" meaning you'll be trying to take out opponent pokemon before they can land an attack anyway. This is especially easy in-game, in which case you often have level advantage, and many trainers and wild pokemon start out with focus energy or leer, giving you two turns to KO them. \n Return is the best STAB normal move for any of these (110 base attack with no ill-effects). In Gen 1, when the move didn't exist, Dodrio still wins, learning Tri Attack, which means you don't have to use any TMs on him. \n Their modern move pools are very similar, and all very limited in terms of type coverage, with normal, flying, and dark being the main attacking type options (Fearow and Pidgeot learn U-Turn, but that's not great in-game). None of these birds have particularly good abilities, the best in-game option probably being Keen Eye, which both Fearow and Pidgeot can have.","Summary: Mr. Mime is like pork tenderloin or foie gras, Kangaskhan is like pork butt or shortrib, Dewgong bacon, and Pinsir stir-fry (Pinstirfry?).\n\nPost: I think Mr. Mime would be quite tender, but not in the slow cooked, pulled pork kind of way. Those types of meat are always full of collagen, which converts to gelatin in the presence of heat and water. The important thing about these collagen-rich muscles, like pork butt or beef shortrib, is that they're always hard-working muscles. Mr. Mime doesn't look like much of an athlete. The only muscles that might do a good amount of work are his legs, and those look thin and sinewy. If I were to cook Mr. Mime, I'd take a very fatty cut and sear it fairly rare, or maybe a fattened liver could be foie gras-esque. A tender, collagen-rich, meat might be found in Kangaskhan or Marowak, however (aside from the obvious choices of Tauros, Miltank, Grumpig, and other Pokemon based on animals we already eat commonly). \n The other thing is muscles that are too strong and lean can be unpleasantly gamey. If you've ever had horse or ostrich meat, you can attest to that. So something like Machamp might be inedible. Also, there's a timeless adage in cookery: fat is flavor and flavor is your friend. Snorlax seems like a good candidate, but many anthropologists have stated with certainty that bear meat is repugnant, and Snorlax is based on a bear. The families of Seel and Spheal would almost definitely be delicious fatty meat, comparable to pork belly, with interesting and complex flavors. Picture it: Dewgong Bacon. \n I'd be willing to bet that many bug types would be quite delicious. When eating bugs IRL, there's an interesting gradient from the crunchy exoskeleton to the moist, flavorful meat inside. With a really thick, meaty bug like Pinsir, you'd get a huge amount of meat and a relatively small tough shell.","Summary: Fire Fang, Return, Overheat, Yawn/Wish/Rest\n\nPost: Fire Fang's probably a go. Return's probably a good idea. \n Consider Overheat. Flareon's and ideal candidate for the move: mainly a physical attacker, but with base 95 special attack, he/she can slam a physical wall with STAB fire once or twice if needed. \n Wish is a good idea, but you could do the ol' rest/lum berry thing as well, giving you only one heal per battle (otherwise, Life Orb's probably your best bet). If you're willing to breed again, I'd personally go with Yawn instead. But you're right. Flareon wasn't built for competitive battling, and probably won't be the star of your team.","Summary: Marinate after or during cooking. Pre-cooking marinades can't penetrate more than a few millimeters.\n\nPost: Truth be told: marinades don't accomplish very much. It's unlikely that they'd penetrate more than a few millimeters unless they're seriously acidic or seriously salty, either case would add some harsh flavors. You'd either pickle you meat or brine it (either have its own merits). So if you want to season 2-3 millimeters into your chicken, then by all means marinate 12-24 hours in advance. \n The problem with marinades is that muscle tissue is naturally resistant to them. If marinades worked the way 1950's advertisements would have you believe, all meat would be juicy and taste like blood. Muscle tissue is immersed in liquid the whole time the animal's alive, after all. \n The word \"marinate\" comes from the Italian \"nata mari,\" or \"born of the sea.\" By this definition, French cooks in the Nouvelle era of cooking (pretty much the 19th century), inferred that a piece of meat should be \"born\" from a sauce before it is cooked. But as far back as the ancient Romans, the Italians were marinating meat after it had been cooked. There were no restaurants in ancient Rome, so there was really no rush to cook. The formal cooking would happen when a rich person would hold a banquet with dozens of guests. The servants/slaves/cooks in these wealthy households knew that there was no way they could have 30+ pieces of meat done at the same time, and they knew flies would get to them if they cooked them hours in advance. So they popped the meat, after it was cooked, in broth or vinegar. The result was surprisingly juicy meat. And the science behind it is sound. \n When meat is cooked, the myofibrils (the protein structures that make overcooked meat \"stringy\") shrink and the water pours out (if you cook a flat piece of meat without flipping it, you'll notice beads of water collect on the surface). Now, if you've ever read any cookbook or watched any Food Network show, you'll know that all chefs unanimously recommend to let meat sit for a while after cooking and before cutting. That's because those myofibrils stay tightly seized up for a while, and pockets of juice remain interspersed throughout the meat. If you cut it immediately, those pockets will be punctured before the meat has time to reabsorb them, resulting in dry, stringy meat and a puddle of chicken juice on your cutting board. \n So marinating doesn't do much. Anything water-soluble (most ingredients are) will rush out with the juice that rushes out during cooking. But after cooking, the meat has tons of dead space in it left by the emigration of water. If put in a liquid after cooking, the myofibrils in the meat will relax while they're surrounded by liquid, creating pockets of said liquid. If that liquid happens to be sriracha, you now have some delicious sriracha chicken. \n The same principle can be applied during cooking. Braising a chicken breast seems counterintuitive, as a braise is usually a multi-hour cooking method, and overcooked chicken is like chewing sand. But a short braise might just be the answer. Try searing the chicken in a hot pan, on both sides, until it's about 60% cooked. Then add a mixture of soy sauce, sriracha, a touch of sugar, and lime juice to the hot pan. You'll see a plume of steam. Cover the pan immediately. Finish cooking that way, and I bet you'll have spicy chicken with a readymade pan sauce glaze ready to go in no time."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: go fuck yourself\\n\\nPost: I wonder if this is a result of some bizarre miscommunication. On Google Maps it does indeed 100% say \\\"Not A Road\\\" where that road is.. but as we can see [in this image here]( and then in [these images here]( the road is clearly labeled Winterwood Lane, because it is home to Winterwood Farm. So the town of Lyman, Maine, clearly has a name for this... \\n I just wonder where the miscommunication started. Maybe California Google Hotshots being unable to decipher the thick brogue of a Mainer. Who knows. I don't.\",\n \"Summary: Eat meat once a day, absolute tops. Starch should be accompanied by fiber. Dark green vegetables are cheap and healthy. It's not as hard as people want you to think to eat healthily and cheaply. \\n Edit: what I can spell shut up\\n\\nPost: Disclaimer: I'm assuming you're in the US. Partly because that's where I am and about where I'm best educated, and partly because almost every other country educated their children about how to eat better than the US does. \\n Throughout history, there have been three major cheap foods, and they have a lot in common. Rice, bread, and potatoes. They are cheap, and they are full of starch and not much else. If one subsists entirely on these, the risks and health concerns are plentiful and obvious (points in case, the ramen/college student cliché, the Irish potato famine, and the fact that Europe's and America's life expectancies have always trailed behind Japan's). \\n From a nutritional standpoint, it's useful to look at how humans evolved. When we consumed starch, we did so along with a lot of insoluble fiber, or junk we couldn't really digest, like rice bran or potato skin. So white rice and white mashed potatoes aren't conducive to a healthy or happy human. We evolved to digest starch alongside fiber. Brown rice, wheat berries, and oatmeal are excellent examples. \\n I strongly recommend getting into wheat berries. They're the things that, if ground, would produce whole wheat flour. Try boiling them for about 20 minutes (taste for tenderness, wheat berries always remain a bit chewy), straining, cooling, and tossing with whatever vegetables and dressing you like (I like roasted red peppers, red onions, and a tahini/soy sauce/sherry vinegar dressing). I've seen places that'll happily bag up wheat berries for a dollar a pound, so they're definitely cheap if you buy local. \\n There's a big wild card in food today, and that's cheap chicken and eggs. Americans eat way too much protein. Meat at every meal is preposterous. Again, look at how we evolved. Until we invented the bow & arrow, we weren't really killing any animals. We'd occasionally find a corpse or a nest, and we'd feast then, but we didn't evolve with a Sausage McMuffin for breakfast, a McChicken for lunch, and a Big Mac for dinner. Our stomachs can't digest that much amino acid, and our stomach become extremely acidic when we try to (I read a study of stomach acidity by country a while ago, and it concluded that the Western diet leads to a dangerously acidic stomach. I couldn't find said study tonight, unfortunately). \\n So don't eat meat at every meal. Have one or two protein-heavy meals a day. Not only is that easy on the wallet, but having eggs in the morning is nice and energizing. \\n Finally, you'd probably be surprised at how cheap dark leafy greens are at your local farmers market of supermarket. That shit is healthy is dick. Eat a ton of it. Collard greens, mustard greens, kale, rapini, the list goes on. It's healthy and tasty. Cooked with garlic, olive oil, and mushrooms, and served over stewed wheat berries , you've got yourself a stupidly healthy and delicious meal. I've got recipes up the wazoo if you like my wordstuffs.\",\n \"Summary: David Bowie is best human. I'd really like it if you read my whole lament, though.\\n\\nPost: I was once listening to the album that this song concludes ( The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ) toward the end of a long road trip. It was around 1AM and I was about 20 minutes from my destination in southern California. There was almost no one else on the 5-lane road when this song came on. \\n I was on my way back to my parents' house from visiting a friend a few hours north. I hadn't seen this friend in years, and seeing her again made me realize how much more profound my friendships used to be. I got to thinking on the drive back, about how I was bound to fly back to my home in Boston, only to be met by a life that seemed icy and distant by comparison. A few friends, a nice apartment, and a cool job at the time. I had such a nice life, that I wouldn't let myself actually be upset. \\n I was in this kind of dirty rotten headspace when I put on Bowie's TRaFoZSatSfM . The album is in itself and emotional journey, and Bowie and I took it together. When this song finally came on, and he screams at me \\\"You're not alone,\\\" tears filled my eyes and my heart leapt into my throat. My skin crawled and my hair stood on end. The second time he shouts it my hands shake and I can barely see the road for the tears in my eyes. \\n The song ended just as I took my exit off the freeway. I wondered why I responded like that, as I've listened to that album many times before, and while Rock n Roll Suicide (and a few other songs on the album) always gave me frisson, I hadn't experienced it like that before. It occurred to me why as I sat in the now quiet car. I was coming to terms with the fact that I very well may never again make as close a friend as I did with the friend I had just visited, but I share my emotional reaction with everyone else since 1972 who has ever put on The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and taken that emotional journey. For the same reason that a painting can leave you breathless or an excellent pulled pork sandwich can make you laugh inexplicably. While my reaction is very much my own, I share the experience with everyone else who has had their own reaction. Now when I hear this song, I don't think about how shallow my friendships are and how disappointing my life is, I think of the connection I share with everyone in the world who loves music. And you know, love, I'm not alone. \\n A lot of Reddit seems to mock art students and artists, and I've seen a lot of talk about scientists and engineers being the most important and people in society. I don't buy it. Art can connect people in a way that science can't. I love science and scientific advancement, but the intellect is only one small part of the human brain. I will always support artists and art education because I believe that even if we never go back to the moon (which would be absolutely tragic, don't get me wrong), our society can still be rich and successful by virtue of these kinds of connections.\",\n \"Summary: My personal logical explanation for what others might dismiss as \\\"nostalgia.\\\"\\n\\nPost: Gen 1. Not the remakes, Red and Blue. Here's why. \\n You know how in Diamond, you see Dialga do his roar of time and you watch that shockwave thing pass over all of Sinnoh? (And then you know how you've seen pretty much the same cutscene in 10 other JRPGs?) And then you have a \\\"climactic\\\" battle with it after \\\"reading\\\" a few pages of text, all about saving the world and the space-time continuum or whatever. When you see Dialga, the creators have clearly tried to build it up. Synth-heavy music presides, and a towering steel-plated dragon belt out its cry. And nary a goosebump or gasp to be seen. \\n You know why? Because nothing feels special about it. It's an inevitable point in the game, one which everybody who plays reaches. You see Dialga on the cover of the game and in all of the promotional materials (it's even worse with Reshiram and Zekrom). Despite the fact that these are \\\"legendary Pokemon,\\\" they are all. over. the. place. They are easy to catch and everybody gets them. They even have a higher catch rate than most legendaries. The GTS is littered with them, because they are merely tokens of completion that would otherwise sit in the PC box, indefinitely at level 47. There's nothing mysterious about them, or the world in which they exist. \\n Kanto, however, was different. The only thing that was given to you was the knowledge of the appearance of a fully evolved starter, and you didn't even know when you were going to get it. The screwy battle system added to the effect. Nothing was perfectly calculable. 100-accuracy moves could miss. Critical hits were based on speed. Psychic was good against fucking everything. There was none of this happy-go-lucky \\\"everyone can play\\\" attitude. Gen 1 was unforgiving. You picked Charmander? Good luck against Brock, 'cause you aren't getting Metal Claw or a Mankey, brother. You're toughing it out because that's the way the world is. Unfair. And when you get to the bottom of Seafoam Island, you see a generic bird icon, and you say to yourself: \\\"what the fuck is that thing?\\\" because you don't already know. Then you find out that it's a legendary bird, with awesome stats and awesome moves, and you can't just get one off the GTS for a level 40 Graveler. If you can't catch it, too bad, because the only other conventionally available legendaries have the same catch rate, and there are only 3 of them. \\n Red and Blue are the ultimate RPGs because they insist almost nothing upon your character. You can give him your own name, you can imagine your own dialogue, and you can completely invent the story, with zero handholding from the game. This is what lead to so many theories about the protagonist's personality, father, and backstory with minimal circumstantial evidence provided in the game. In later generations, you are told about your father, your friends, and from where you came. In Red, maybe your character wasn't the type of guy who would be friends with Cheren or Bianca. Maybe he would've smacked them upside the head. That's totally fine, and it was your decision.\",\n \"Summary: Strip T's in Watertown is definitely worth the trip!! Also any Ken Oringer or Michael Schlow restaurant will be expensive, but still good & satisfying.\\n\\nPost: Strip T's in Watertown. Really amazing dinner menu. Most people don't know about it, probably because for the last ~20 years, it's just been a mediocre sandwich place. But the owner's son, who was a Sous chef at Momofuku for 5 years, just moved home and reinvented the restaurant. Truly great food, good price, tiny hole-in-the-wall place. You'd never expect it to be so good. \\n Ken Oringer's kind of celebrity chef around here, along with his executive chef Jamie Bissonette. Their restaurants are: \\n KO Prime, a modern steakhouse \\n Copa, a tiny Italian place \\n Toro, a tapas place, and one of my favorites in the city \\n And Clio, a ritzy place at Comm & Mass ave. \\n All of those ones are going to be more expensive, but they're super-trendy and critics tend to love them. I do too, but again they're pricey, and sometimes loud. You'll need a reservation. Except I think Copa still doesn't take reservations, so get there early. \\n Another celebrity chef is Michael Schlow. He's got Radius, Via Matta, and Tico in Boston, and Alta Strada in Wellesley. I like Radius, and it's awesomely located right downtown, but Tico in Back Bay might be my favorite of his. It's like super high-end Tex-Mex. These places are pricey too, though.\",\n \"Summary: A young fool laments over his nearly lifelong love.\\n\\nPost: Well, I think a large amount of the problem was that the original 151 were designed by a small handful of people. \\n To me at least, in Pokemon Red/Blue, seeing a Nidoking was exciting, because he's fucking huge and spiky and terrifying, even though he's only 4'7\\\". It has a lot more to do with the fact that Nidorino and Raichu and Mr. Mime aren't big and spiky and terrifying at all. \\n I think once more and more designers started submitting their designs, they stopped thinking about that Pokemon's niche in the game, and focused only on the feeling they were trying to evoke with it. Without context, it's hard, if not impossible, to make something feel as staggering as Nidoking was without bulking them up and piling on the spikes and fangs and claws, hence Zekrom, Rayquaza, Giratina, et al. See, those guys are legendaries. Nidoking is just the evolution of one of the most common Pokemon in the game. \\n And then there's Mewtwo. One of only 5 legendary Pokemon in the first generation. Now, talk about exciting. Talk about heart-racing-blood-pumping-breath-slowing adrenaline. I can still remember seeing Mewtwo in Pokemon Blue. I remember him standing on his little island in Cerulean cave, motionless. He doesn't jump out of the screen at you like Giratina does in Platinum. He doesn't need to. You go to him. I can still see him slide across the top of the screen when you encounter him, and then his cry, and the simple \\\"Wild Mewtwo appeared!\\\" I remember getting goosebumps then, and I remember getting goosebumps seeing how much damage his Psychic did to my Blastoise. See, Mewtwo is powerful. \\n In my honest opinion, legendary Pokemon have been going steadily downhill, with a slight upturn in Gen 5. I mean, sure, I damn near pissed my pants whenever I saw Entei in the wild in Gold, but fighting Ho-oh was no big deal because he was on the freakin' cover of the game. Groudon may have seemed larger-than-life briefly, but if you catch him, he sits in your box like a paperweight; a mere token of completion. And by the time I was done watching the 2-minute cutscene of Dialga's Roar of Time passing over Unova, the battle itself just felt like a formality. In Pokemon Red and Blue, you're not required to even encounter a legendary Pokemon. In Black and White, you literally can't beat the game without catching the dragon du jour. So, the feeling of having caught Reshiram is no greater than the feeling of acquiring HM01. It's just a point in the game. \\n That's why I like Generation 1.\",\n \"Summary: Consider West Newton and East Boston.\\n\\nPost: If you have a car and don't need public transportation, West Newton is a great spot. Affordable, comparatively friendly, loads of parking, and still plenty of stuff to do. It might be a bit harder to find an apartment there, just because it's mostly houses and families, but it's still doable. West Newton is also nice because it's near I-95 and the Mass Pike. Also, Blue Ribbon Barbecue in West Newton is the best barbecue I've had in the area (since Uncle Pete's closed). It's Carolina style, not Texas, but there's almost no other barbecue that's much of any good around here, I'm sorry to say. \\n Much of the same could be said about Watertown, though Watertown has pretty good bus access. As does Brighton (where I live now), though it's somewhat more pricey. \\n Waltham is very affordable and has a good selection on shops and restaurants, but rather far from Boston, and some parts of it can be sketchy at night, et wot. \\n As TheRainbowConnection said, East Boston is another good option. I lived there for about 10 years. It's on the up-and-up, as when I first moved there (2000ish) it was pretty sketch. Now it's got lots of young kids and community arts programs and stuff. It was really cool to watch it grow how it did.\",\n \"Summary: The French method, Fraissage, is the best way to yield an even flake, blind baking is crucial, and lard makes a great pie crust.\\n\\nPost: Well, that's the easy Martha Homemaker way to do it, and it is good and reliable, but I propose there's a better way. \\n What makes pie crust flaky? \\n Layers of dough are separated by butter, which stays solid while the dough cooks. The cooking prevents said layers from sticking to each other as the proteins in the flour denature and coagulate. When the butter melts, it leaves behind air pockets between the dough, thus, flakes (it seems to be a common misconception that steam created when the butter melts also creates flakes. While the small amount of water in butter will create steam, pie dough isn't glutinous enough to capture much if any of that leavening). This is also why it's always best to use the coldest fat possible: the colder it is when it starts cooking, the longer it'll take to melt, allowing minimal dough merging. \\n So the problem with recipes that call for the butter to be cubed is that you have some spots of amazing flakage and some of mealy crust. Even grated butter has that problem, since the strands of butter will create caverns rather than consistent flakes. \\n My method of choice is a French technique called Fraissage. It is done by creating a mound of flour on a workbench or counter and sprinkling on cut cold butter. You then smoosh the butter into big, flat sheets against the counter with the heel of your hand, repeating until all of the butter is sheeted and all of the flour is incorporated. Only then is a small amount of cold water (or vodka, but that's a whole different story) added and just incorporated. This creates an even flake, and doesn't even dirty any unnecessary dishes. \\n Most serious flaky pie crust recipes already require what's called blind baking. Blind baking is cooking the crust without any filling for a bit, docked and weighted down slightly. This is just to prevent the bottom layer of crust from sogging out. \\n The last recommendation I have for pie is lard. Lard has a significantly higher melting point than butter, allowing that crust to cook more before the fat melts away, leaving those air pockets. Granted, some lard does have some not-so-pie-friendly flavors, so I'd generally cut it and say half butter, half lard. A lard pie crust is a really special thing though.\",\n \"Summary: I doubt the ancient Egyptians sliced their bread. Their bread was tough and crusty and their knives were insufficient to the task.\\n\\nPost: Objection. \\n The bread eaten by the Egyptians was very glutinous, because wheat that grows in hotter climates develops more protein (certain kinds of which make gluten) as opposed to starch, the other major component of wheat endosperm. That's the difference between bread flour, made from hard summer wheat, and cake flour, made from soft winter wheat (all-purpose flour is just a blend of the two). Since it's pretty much always hot in Egypt, the difference is slight, and all of their wheat comes out like bread flour wheat, which means all of their bread comes out tough. In addition, their baking was done in ceramic, which has a high heat capacity, encouraging a very tough crust. \\n In addition, the ancient Egyptians didn't have the sharp, serrated, steel bread knives that we know and love today, their tools were made from ceramic, wood, or one of the few metals to which they had access (based on preliminary research, it looks like gold, copper, bronze, iron, and tin). Copper and iron likely make a hard enough knife, but if you've ever tried to cut crust bread with a chef's knife, you know that it's not easy. You need serrations, or you need to get your knife extremely sharp. I get the sneaking suspicion that the Egyptians just ripped their bread with their hands, since any crude serrations they could've made would've torn it just as violently, so it wouldn't've been worth the trouble.\",\n \"Summary: Light oils, interchangeable for high-heat cooking. Extra Virgin olive oil is best for finishing dishes, doesn't respond to heat or agitation well. Rendered animal fats are tasty and can stand pretty high heat. Butter is awesome. Don't use shortening ever ever ever. \\n Oh, there's so much more I could say, about coconut oil and cocoa butter, but I digress.\\n\\nPost: Light oils, including but not limited to canola, vegetable, soybean (though oil marked \\\"vegetable\\\" is usually soybean oil), corn, and peanut, are best suited for high-heat cooking and deep-frying. They have high smoke points, meaning they won't smoke up and burn until they've been over a flame for a good few minutes, so don't let them. Peanut oil generally has the highest smoke point, so it's great for extreme heat applications like wok and tandoor cooking. Granted, a bit of smoking won't hurt, if you've got good ventilation. All in all, clear oils are virtually interchangeable. \\n Extra Virgin Olive Oil and other flavorful oils (walnut, toasted sesame, pistachio, etc) don't stand up particularly well to heat. They have low smoke points and a lot of flavor stands to be wasted by cooking. If you are to cook with them, make it brief, like blanched vegetables finished in a pan with some EVOO, or use them for a very low-heat application, like confit. Sesame oil it somewhat of an exception, it can take some more heat. \\n An important note about olive oil. First, there's not much point to buying non-virgin olive oil. It's more expensive than light oil, and really won't improve the product cooked in them notably (so hereafter, when I refer to olive oil, I'm talking about extra virgin). Also, olive oil has a lot of tannins in it. Tannins are a large class of flavorful plant compounds that react to oxygen (they're also an integral part of leather making, hence to \\\"tan one's hide\\\"). Sometimes, oxidizing tannins is a good thing, like when you pierce an orange peel and the whole room starts to smell like Oxy Clean. That's the tannins in the orange peel oxidizing and being released into the air (if you sniff an unpeeled orange, you won't get the same effect). However the tannins in olive oil don't oxidize well at all. They just turn bitter and extremely astringent. If you put a little olive oil in a blender, or just whisk the shit out of it, then taste it, you will be able to tell the difference, as your oil will be bitter. I wouldn't recommend olive oil for any task that involved heavy physical agitation, like making mayonnaise. \\n Animal fats, such as duck fat, schmaltz, lard, or beef suet, are widely used for their flavor, but also have rather high smoke points. They're great for roasting meats or potatoes and sautéing. Lard also remains solid up to relatively high temperatures, so it's amazing in pie crust and tamales. Cured pork fat, often called lardo , is so amazing you can moosh it on bread and be content. \\n And butter. Butter's good for anything that's not too high-heat. And of course baked goods. For making chocolate chip cookies, try lightly browning the butter first, then bring it back to room temp before creaming. It bumps up flavor like wow. You pretty much can't go wrong with butter. \\n Never ever ever ever ever use shortening or margarine. Not only are they less healthy than the butter that they ironically were meant to replace, but they're more solid at room temperature than butter, so in baked goods they can leave a greasy film in the mouth.\",\n \"Summary: Don't buy \\\"dark\\\" cocoa powder. Add flavors if you want to, but don't call it just a chocolate cake if it's got other major flavors in it.\\n\\nPost: So this thread seems to be rich (no pun intended) with recommendations for two things: complimentary flavor and \\\"dark\\\" cocoa powder. Well I'm here to tell you that that's a bunch of hooey. \\n Nothing wrong with complimentary flavor, but if you add coffee to a chocolate cake, you have a mocha cake, not a chocolate cake. I'm a huge coffee snob, and I would be able to tell the difference. \\n Cocoa powder is just the starch from chocolate. That's it. When you see a chocolate bar, the darkness is determined by the ratio of chocolate to sugar, or potentially to milk. Cocoa powder by definition does not have any sugar or milk in it, so where, pray tell, do a darker cocoa come from? The roast. Much in the same way that coffee is roasted to various degrees. If you roast chocolate until it's pitch black, you'll definitely have a stronger flavor, but it won't necessarily be a good one. It'll taste like roast, not like chocolate (you'll hear the exact same defense for lighter coffee roasts). \\n There are tons of different kinds of chocolate in the world, each with their own tasting notes. I've had chocolate from Madagascar that tasted like raspberries and red wine, and chocolate from Sri Lanka that tasted like toasted nuts and caramel. But if you roast them to the point that big-name manufacturers do (Ghirardeli, Lindt, Hershey's), any subtle characteristics of the cacao will be destroyed by heat. A darker cocoa powder just means a darker roast, which just means more roast flavor, not more chocolate flavor. \\n What does my snobbery have to do with your cake, you ask. Well here's the big secret: the more chocolate, the more chocolate flavor. If you recipe calls for butter, replace it with cocoa butter. If you recipe calls for confectioner's sugar, replace some of it with cocoa powder. If your recipe can't deliver the chocolate taste you want, find a new recipe. It's just. That. Simple. \\n P.S. By and large, melted chocolate will deilver more flavor than just cocoa powder. Cocoa fat has tons of flavor too!\",\n \"Summary: Science\\n\\nPost: Buttermilk originally was the milk left over from churning butter, and was therefore pretty skim. Nowadays, it's just acidulated milk, but even so, it's on the skimmer side of things. \\n Coconut milk is what happens when you put coconut meat in a juicer (an industrial strength juicer, mind you, as coconut meat is rather hard and woody). There's none of that coconut water in it. The part that floats to the top of that coconut milk is almost entirely coconut fat, with maybe 15-20% water trapped in tiny colloids. Coconut milk contains no lecithin or any other effective surfactant, so the fat and water separate when left to their own devices. \\n The reason your cupcakes turned out with a finer crumb is because fat shortens gluten strands (which is where shortening got its name) and inhibits their development (in glutenous rich doughs like brioche, the fat is added after there's already significant gluten development). \\n The other thing is that coconut fat is a dense, saturated fat, that's solid at room temperature. In a baked good, this lends unctuousness and melt-in-your-mouthiness (that's why in many commercial baked goods, you'll find palm kernel oil, another solid fat). Butter is also solid, yet much softer, than coconut fat at room temperature, but can taste too rich to use in high quantities. Hydrogenated vegetable fats are too firm at room temperature, and leave a greasy film on the mouth. Extra Virgin Coconut Oil has a mild coconut flavor, but makes Goldilocks pretty happy. \\n Other options for solid fats include animal fats, but those would all taste pretty weird in cupcakes. Maybe a chocolate bacon cupcake with lard or something, but definitely not a catch-all for a good cupcake. Egg yolks are mostly fat, and when cooked can be solid at room temperature. Maybe give that a try. The problem is adding eggs fucks with leavening, even just yolks. \\n I would play around with replacing some of the flour in the recipe with almond flour or some other tree nut. Less wheat flour means less gluten, means finer crumb. At the end of the day, the exact cupcakes you got will never be the same without that coconut fat. But you can definitely mimic your favorite qualities of it by taking the recipe apart and tinkering. Add fat. Subtract gluten. Sneeze on a horse. Wait for Venus to enter the Second House. Experiment. Science.\",\n \"Summary: you're not being frugal, you're being an ignoramus.\\n\\nPost: That's a really terrible way to think about food. Looking into the ethics and farming practices that go into providing you with $2/pound chicken, the real choice is obvious. Plus, the quality is incomparable. To paraphrase Mark Bittman, the sustainable and ethical choice is always the tastiest one, too. \\n That said, Whole Foods' chicken isn't particularly ethically or sustainably raised, usually. It's usually the same breast-heavy 6-week-old chicken, maybe raised without antibiotics and let outside for the last 2 weeks of their life, earning them the title \\\"free range.\\\" Few chickens in such situations take that option, since all the food and stuff is inside. \\n Edit: these things I said are also very true for tomatoes, cheese, and to a lesser extent, spices. The ethics behind tomatoes are really shocking. Practically slave labor, right in Florida and California. And those cheap tomatoes? They taste cheap, too. \\n The reason that good cheese tends to be expensive is that cheesemaking (especially for Parmigiano Reggiano) is inherently an expensive, time- and space-consuming process. Also, with no given quantity of cheese, any dollar amount has virtually no meaning.\",\n \"Summary: Dodrio has the best 1st gen movepool and the most extreme stats, with high attack and speed. \\n Source: [Dodrio]( [Fearow]( and [Pidgeot](\\n\\nPost: Dodrio. Here's why. \\n Pidgeot has the highest base stat total, at 469. Unfortunately, he doesn't learn drill peck, which is IMO the best in-game physical flying attack (taking recoil damage from Brave Bird is fine competitively, since you'll only be taking it from a few pokemon, but going through a whole route of trainers takes its toll). Also, he has the lowest Attack and Speed of the three. \\n Fearow's stat distribution is a bit more useful. Having the lowest stat total of the three, coming in at 442. Fearow's attack and speed are both higher than Pidgeot's, however his defensive stats (HP, Defense, and Sp. Defense) are much lower. These stats aren't that important for Fearow; we'll talk more about that shortly. \\n Dodrio's base stats total 460, with a heavy emphasis on attack and speed, and his defenses are lower still than Fearow's. But, again, those stats don't really matter, because with either Fearow or Dodrio, you'll be using them as a \\\"sweeper,\\\" meaning you'll be trying to take out opponent pokemon before they can land an attack anyway. This is especially easy in-game, in which case you often have level advantage, and many trainers and wild pokemon start out with focus energy or leer, giving you two turns to KO them. \\n Return is the best STAB normal move for any of these (110 base attack with no ill-effects). In Gen 1, when the move didn't exist, Dodrio still wins, learning Tri Attack, which means you don't have to use any TMs on him. \\n Their modern move pools are very similar, and all very limited in terms of type coverage, with normal, flying, and dark being the main attacking type options (Fearow and Pidgeot learn U-Turn, but that's not great in-game). None of these birds have particularly good abilities, the best in-game option probably being Keen Eye, which both Fearow and Pidgeot can have.\",\n \"Summary: Mr. Mime is like pork tenderloin or foie gras, Kangaskhan is like pork butt or shortrib, Dewgong bacon, and Pinsir stir-fry (Pinstirfry?).\\n\\nPost: I think Mr. Mime would be quite tender, but not in the slow cooked, pulled pork kind of way. Those types of meat are always full of collagen, which converts to gelatin in the presence of heat and water. The important thing about these collagen-rich muscles, like pork butt or beef shortrib, is that they're always hard-working muscles. Mr. Mime doesn't look like much of an athlete. The only muscles that might do a good amount of work are his legs, and those look thin and sinewy. If I were to cook Mr. Mime, I'd take a very fatty cut and sear it fairly rare, or maybe a fattened liver could be foie gras-esque. A tender, collagen-rich, meat might be found in Kangaskhan or Marowak, however (aside from the obvious choices of Tauros, Miltank, Grumpig, and other Pokemon based on animals we already eat commonly). \\n The other thing is muscles that are too strong and lean can be unpleasantly gamey. If you've ever had horse or ostrich meat, you can attest to that. So something like Machamp might be inedible. Also, there's a timeless adage in cookery: fat is flavor and flavor is your friend. Snorlax seems like a good candidate, but many anthropologists have stated with certainty that bear meat is repugnant, and Snorlax is based on a bear. The families of Seel and Spheal would almost definitely be delicious fatty meat, comparable to pork belly, with interesting and complex flavors. Picture it: Dewgong Bacon. \\n I'd be willing to bet that many bug types would be quite delicious. When eating bugs IRL, there's an interesting gradient from the crunchy exoskeleton to the moist, flavorful meat inside. With a really thick, meaty bug like Pinsir, you'd get a huge amount of meat and a relatively small tough shell.\",\n \"Summary: Fire Fang, Return, Overheat, Yawn/Wish/Rest\\n\\nPost: Fire Fang's probably a go. Return's probably a good idea. \\n Consider Overheat. Flareon's and ideal candidate for the move: mainly a physical attacker, but with base 95 special attack, he/she can slam a physical wall with STAB fire once or twice if needed. \\n Wish is a good idea, but you could do the ol' rest/lum berry thing as well, giving you only one heal per battle (otherwise, Life Orb's probably your best bet). If you're willing to breed again, I'd personally go with Yawn instead. But you're right. Flareon wasn't built for competitive battling, and probably won't be the star of your team.\",\n \"Summary: Marinate after or during cooking. Pre-cooking marinades can't penetrate more than a few millimeters.\\n\\nPost: Truth be told: marinades don't accomplish very much. It's unlikely that they'd penetrate more than a few millimeters unless they're seriously acidic or seriously salty, either case would add some harsh flavors. You'd either pickle you meat or brine it (either have its own merits). So if you want to season 2-3 millimeters into your chicken, then by all means marinate 12-24 hours in advance. \\n The problem with marinades is that muscle tissue is naturally resistant to them. If marinades worked the way 1950's advertisements would have you believe, all meat would be juicy and taste like blood. Muscle tissue is immersed in liquid the whole time the animal's alive, after all. \\n The word \\\"marinate\\\" comes from the Italian \\\"nata mari,\\\" or \\\"born of the sea.\\\" By this definition, French cooks in the Nouvelle era of cooking (pretty much the 19th century), inferred that a piece of meat should be \\\"born\\\" from a sauce before it is cooked. But as far back as the ancient Romans, the Italians were marinating meat after it had been cooked. There were no restaurants in ancient Rome, so there was really no rush to cook. The formal cooking would happen when a rich person would hold a banquet with dozens of guests. The servants/slaves/cooks in these wealthy households knew that there was no way they could have 30+ pieces of meat done at the same time, and they knew flies would get to them if they cooked them hours in advance. So they popped the meat, after it was cooked, in broth or vinegar. The result was surprisingly juicy meat. And the science behind it is sound. \\n When meat is cooked, the myofibrils (the protein structures that make overcooked meat \\\"stringy\\\") shrink and the water pours out (if you cook a flat piece of meat without flipping it, you'll notice beads of water collect on the surface). Now, if you've ever read any cookbook or watched any Food Network show, you'll know that all chefs unanimously recommend to let meat sit for a while after cooking and before cutting. That's because those myofibrils stay tightly seized up for a while, and pockets of juice remain interspersed throughout the meat. If you cut it immediately, those pockets will be punctured before the meat has time to reabsorb them, resulting in dry, stringy meat and a puddle of chicken juice on your cutting board. \\n So marinating doesn't do much. Anything water-soluble (most ingredients are) will rush out with the juice that rushes out during cooking. But after cooking, the meat has tons of dead space in it left by the emigration of water. If put in a liquid after cooking, the myofibrils in the meat will relax while they're surrounded by liquid, creating pockets of said liquid. If that liquid happens to be sriracha, you now have some delicious sriracha chicken. \\n The same principle can be applied during cooking. Braising a chicken breast seems counterintuitive, as a braise is usually a multi-hour cooking method, and overcooked chicken is like chewing sand. But a short braise might just be the answer. Try searing the chicken in a hot pan, on both sides, until it's about 60% cooked. Then add a mixture of soy sauce, sriracha, a touch of sugar, and lime juice to the hot pan. You'll see a plume of steam. Cover the pan immediately. Finish cooking that way, and I bet you'll have spicy chicken with a readymade pan sauce glaze ready to go in no time.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":17,"string":"17"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2989,"string":"2,989"}}},{"rowIdx":2990,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Nihilate"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post my maths may be shoddy (it's been a while) and maths doesn't work well with language. \n edit: formatting. \n double edit: I just got what you're talking about, whoops :S. It seems we're looking at it from different angles >_>"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Are H and A separateable in this instance? Is the variable HA or are there two separate variables making up HA (being H and A)? \n Using less confusing variable names we have two options: \n \n Using x in exchange for HA as one variable becomes x^4 . x^4 != 4x (unless x is equal to 2 2/3, which makes no sense given the context). \n \n Using x y in exchange for H A becomes (x y) ^ 4 = x^4 y^4 = x x x x y y y y. If I remember my maths there are [no possible values for H and A that can make x^4 y^4 = 4 (x y).]("},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Are H and A separateable in this instance? Is the variable HA or are there two separate variables making up HA (being H and A)? \n Using less confusing variable names we have two options: \n \n Using x in exchange for HA as one variable becomes x^4 . x^4 != 4x (unless x is equal to 2 2/3, which makes no sense given the context). \n \n Using x y in exchange for H A becomes (x y) ^ 4 = x^4 y^4 = x x x x y y y y. If I remember my maths there are [no possible values for H and A that can make x^4 y^4 = 4 (x y).]("},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Yes, Batwing Brume is both black and white.\n\nPost: The best way to tell is to look at its casting cost. A card counts as being every colour that's included in its casting cost, regardless of how it was cast. This is subject to some exceptions (usually cards with a CMC of zero or nothing), where the card colour is explicitly mentioned or indicated on the card (e.g. the black-green dot on Garruk Relentless's back side or Ghostfire or where it's changed by spells like [Moonlace]( \n On a related (but almost useless) tangent, this means that cards with off-colour ability costs are just the colours of their casting cost. [Bant Battlemage]( for example, is solely a white creature, despite having a colour identity of green-white-blue.","Summary: White shouldn't need precedence to tap, since the act is defensive (even if used aggressively). White should need precedence to fight, since the act is aggressive.\n\nPost: I've got to disagree, but I see which angle you're coming from (I'm focussing more on fight, you're looking at it more as a tapper). \n Tapping is definitely very white and if that was all this card did I'd agree with you completely. Given that fight is inherently aggressive (in terms of flavour and function) I still maintain that white needs to have precedence before being able to. This card isn't an ideal example of \"white fight\" since (as a 0 power creature) fight is essentially irrelevant for it 90% of the time (0 power + fight isn't a combination I'd personally use). \n If it were me, \"white fight\" would end up something like this: \n >Battlefield Skirmisher \n>Creature - Human Soldier (U) \n > , : ~ fights target attacking or blocking creature. \n >1/3","Summary: Redirecting Cancel to Redirect will make Cancel fizzle (unless I'm reading it wrong).\n\nPost: From Gatherer: \n \"If you cast Redirect targeting a spell that targets a spell on the stack (like Cancel does, for example), you can't change that spell's target to itself. You can, however, change that spell's target to Redirect. If you do, that spell will be countered when it tries to resolve because Redirect will have left the stack by then.\"","Summary: Active Player's ability resolves after the Nonactive Player's. \n Edit: formatting\n\nPost: If you need a rule to quote, quote 603.3b. \n >If multiple abilities have triggered since the last time a player received priority, each player, in APNAP order, puts triggered abilities he or she controls on the stack in any order he or she chooses. (See rule 101.4.) Then the game once again checks for and resolves state-based actions until none are performed, then abilities that triggered during this process go on the stack. This process repeats until no new state-based actions are performed and no abilities trigger. Then the appropriate player gets priority.","Summary: seemed irrelevant when I posted it in essence at the start :P\n\nPost: It depends on the fruit and the type of fruit juice. \n Apples and pears of any form are right out due to the natural fructose content for example, but most berries are fine. For juices the general rule is that the more processed it is the less likely it's going to agree with me. Freshly squeezed stuff seems to be alright (given the base fruit is fine), but fruit juice concentrates and cordials often aren't clear exactly how they're sweetened (and a lot of them have apple juice as a base, which is never good). \n Edit: the","Summary: Elbrus will transform into Withengar. The legend rule will not trigger. The new Withengar will not get counters put on it. \n Edit: If you're interested, the numbers are references to the relevant comprehensive rule.\n\nPost: The list of events will look like this: \n \n Withengar attacks (510.1) \n Withengar deals lethal combat damage to a creature with deathtouch. The creature deals lethal combat damage to Withengar. Using trample, Withengar deals legal damage to that creature's controller (510.2 + the rules for deathtouch, trample and whatnot (you should know them already)) \n Elbrus's ability triggers and is put onto the stack (510.3/603.3) \n State-based actions are checked (704.3): your opponent loses (704.5a) and Withengar dies (704.5h) \n The active player (you) gains priority (510.4) \n Once all other spells/abilities on the stack have resolved, Elbrus's ability will resolve, transforming it. \n State-based actions are checked again the next time a player would gain priority (i.e. after Elbrus transforms). The newly transformed Withengar will then check to see if any other legendary permanents share its name (704.5k): none will exist.","Summary: Morph is a static ability which lets you cast a creature as a generic 2/2 creature spell.\n\nPost: That's a good question and you got it right (it's a spell). \n Morph itself is what's called a static ability in that it grants a continuous effect to a card. It doesn't have to be activated or triggered, it's just simply a true statement. Think of it like flying or trample; it changes how the card works, but you don't have to \"turn it on.\" \n Looking at the reminder text, morph allows you to \"cast this card as a 2/2 face-down creature... by paying {3} rather than paying its mana cost.\" You're still moving the card to the stack to resolve, but by paying the morph cost it lets you put it there upside down as a generic 2/2. Also note the word \"cast\" in the reminder text; casting is something only associated with spells.","Summary: Morph is an activated ability that turns a creature face-up. The creature is still considered the same creature and has all the same effects and things attached to it (it doesn't re-enter the battlefield). Turning it face up may cause a triggered ability to trigger.\n\nPost: All good, happy to help haha. \n All the morph ability does to Chromeshell Crab is turn it face up; it's still the exact same creature. It will have the same auras and equipment attached to it, the same +1/+1 counters, the same effects on it. Turning it face up, in turn, will makes its \"When Chromeshell Crab is turned face up...\" ability trigger. \n The morph ability of Chromeshell Crab (pay 4U to turn it face up) is considered an activated ability (it has a cost you need to pay before it happens), while the act of turning it face up is a triggered ability (triggered abilities always start with \"when,\" \"whenever,\" or \"at\" and wait for a specific event to happen first).","Summary: We're screwed as a species.\n\nPost: It's a reflection of our consumption of excessive amounts of resources as a species. The bald guy represents the Earth and the members of the boyband are representative of the human race (note the racial diversity). We're happy to prance about fancy-free until the Earth has had enough, then it will shoot lasers at us. \n No clue as to what the disembodied head is about. Probably the sun or something (it will destroy everything eventually).","Summary: this challenge is about practical Magic design, where the overall winner should be the card that has the best chance of actually being printed by Wizards as part of its set.\n\nPost: It does come across a little vague, my apologies. \n I'd like to think of the challenge as being practical Magic design, rather than 'cool' Magic design (although cool cards are definitely welcome). Many of the cards designed here are done so in a vacuum, without any external context. My goal is to get people to think about how real-world cards work as part of a whole, with flavour, rarity, art and mechanics included. \n As such, the card chosen will hopefully be the one which the previous winner thinks has the best chance of actually being printed by Wizards as part of its set. It might not be as glamorous a challenge as TWitJ, but hopefully it has its place. \n The following criteria need to be taken into consideration: \n \n Appropriate use of art: the art for [Lightning Bolt]( isn't appropriate for a creature, but [Apostle's Blessing]( could go either way. \n Appropriate rarity: an Eldrazi lord shouldn't be a common and Phantasmal Bear shouldn't be a rare (although it could be uncommon). It's important to keep in mind how complex the card is. For more examples of inappropriate use of Rarity, visit /r/clopclop (warning - NSFW). \n Appropriate mechanics: keep in mind the block AND set of the card. A white creature with battle cry isn't appropriate for Scars of Mirrodin (since battle cry wasn't introduced until Mirrodin Besieged), but a blue infect creature in SoM is up for debate (blue didn't expand into infect until later in the block). \n Appropriate use of colour: understanding the colour pie and how each colour fits is something most people understand pretty well, but it's important to keep in mind how its represented within its block. \n Appropriate flavour: mentioning slivers in Alara may be cool, but it's may not be entirely appropriate. \n \n Rethinking it and looking at the current submissions, I'm thinking that having the same collector number does more harm than good, and I'd like to see how the next challenge goes without it as a requirement. \n [Lykideus's submission]( raises an interesting point about reprints. Finding a reprint appropriate to the set that also fits with the given art is a skill worth having, but since this is a design subreddit I think designing a new card is probably more appropriate. If people disagree, then it can always be changed around. \n I'll make an addendum to the main post, let me know if I haven't covered what you wanted to know.","Summary: We'd need to identify and analyse the theme first, then find mechanics to convey that theme through gameplay.\n\nPost: Not a clue haha. I think we'd need to identify what makes it compelling as a theme, then how to best show that theme through mechanics. If we were to try to stick mechanics on things haphazardly it would undermine the theme. \n For example, Innistrad works with the tribal theme because there are many types of monsters people can identify with. It also reinforces the idea of humans as victims, outnumbered against the monsters. Undying works to reinforce the plight of the humans against an unending, unrelenting horde and his the graveyard theme that flashback used. Fateful Hour also reinforces this theme.","Summary: Clone\" Eldrazi don't get shuffled back into the library when they die. \n \n Relevant Rules: \n 603.6c: \n ... An ability that triggers when a card is put into a certain zone \"from anywhere\" is never treated as a leaves-the-battlefield ability, even if an object is put into that zone from the battlefield.\n\nPost: Interesting question. For normal leaves-the-battlefield triggers, this would be true. When the event triggers, the clone will enter the graveyard, turn back into itself and \"look back in time\" to see if it had the appropriate characteristics. \n The \"anti-reanimator\" ability (\"When X is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.\") is a special case of leaves-the-battlefield trigger, in that it's not considered one at all (see 603.6c). As such, they won't trigger off a cloned object, since the clones don't get a chance to \"look back in time\" when they hit the graveyard. These kinds of abilities only trigger from the zone they're in. \n Kind of unintuitive if you ask me.","Summary: New Reddit bot. \n Links anime/manga info when you call it. \n Has a terrible Bakemogatari pun for a name. \n {Curly braces} for anime, <pointed braces> for manga. \n Single sets of braces give normal information (max 10 per comment). Double sets of braces give expanded information (max 1 per comment). \n Normal requests and expanded requests are mutually exclusive - you can only have one type in a single comment. \n Any set of braces and !stats will give you a reply with super cool statistics. \n Replying direct to the bot won't trigger a request! \n \n \n Edit: It's like 5am and I've got to get some sleep - thank you very much for the warm welcome! If anything crashes or goes wrong please send me a PM or make a thread over on /r/Roboragi.\n\nPost: Hey guys! I've fairly recently developed a Reddit bot which allows you to easily link anime/manga my using the appropriate symbols in specific subreddits seen it on /r/anime a few days ago before it was taken down for them to discuss whether they wanted it around. \n At any rate, it's pretty easy to use and I hope you like it. One thing I am concerned about is causing clutter, and while there are request limits in place please let me know if they're too strict/lenient - I'm happy to talk things over with the mods if it becomes an issue. \n How do I use it? \n /u/Roboragi can only be called in specific subreddits . There are two types of request too: normal, which uses a single set of braces (i.e. {} or <>), and expanded, which uses a double set of braces (i.e. {{}} or <<>>). Normal requests are more compact, but display less information, while expanded requests show more, but take up significantly more screen space. \n For the sake of avoiding clutter, you can have up to 10 normal requests in a comment or a single expanded request (not both). \n Something I threw in because it's cool is the ability to track a bunch of stats like the most requested anime/manga and the most frequent requesters for the subreddit you're in. This can be called using any set of braces and the phrase \"!stats\" (e.g. <<!stats>>). \n Also important to note: the bot won't ever respond to people replying to it directly. This is to protect against infinite looping. \n To break it down: \n \n {animename} will make a normal request for an anime series (max 10/post) \n {{animename}} will make an expanded request for an anime series (max 1/post) \n <manganame> will make a normal request for an manga series (max 10/post) \n <<manganame>> will make an expanded request for an manga series (max 1/post) \n Any set of braces + !stats will give you a post that has a bunch of cool statistics in it \n \n What do the replies look like? \n Normal request: \n > Nisekoi - ([MAL]( [ANI]( \n >^(Status: Publishing | Genres: Comedy, Romance, Shounen) \n Expanded request: \n > Berserk - ([MAL]( [ANI]( \n >^^ベルセルク \n >^( Status: Publishing | Genres: Action, Adventure, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Horror \n Stats: 1 requests across 1 subreddits - 33.33% of all requests) \n >Guts, known as the Black Swordsman, seeks sanctuary from the demonic forces that pursue him and his woman, and also vengeance against the man who branded him as an unholy sacrifice. Aided only by his titanic strength, skill, and sword, Guts must struggle against his bleak destiny, all the while fighting with a rage that might strip him of his humanity. Berserk is a dark and brooding story of outrageous swordplay and ominous fate, in the theme of Shakespeare's Macbeth. \n \n Anyway, I hope the bot proves useful and that it doesn't collapse terribly in the next few days. Feel free to look through the Wiki . If you see a bug or some incorrect information, or you want to leave some feedback, please head over to /r/Roboragi/ and make a post.","Summary: New Reddit bot. \n Links anime/manga info when you call it. \n Has a terrible Bakemogatari pun for a name. \n {Curly braces} for anime, &lt;pointed braces&gt; for manga. \n Single sets of braces give normal information (max 10 per comment). Double sets of braces give expanded information (max 1 per comment). \n Normal requests and expanded requests are mutually exclusive - you can only have one type in a single comment. \n Any set of braces and !stats will give you a reply with super cool statistics. \n Replying direct to the bot won't trigger a request! \n \n \n Edit: It's like 5am and I've got to get some sleep - thank you very much for the warm welcome! If anything crashes or goes wrong please send me a PM or make a thread over on /r/Roboragi.\n\nPost: Hey guys! I've fairly recently developed a Reddit bot which allows you to easily link anime/manga my using the appropriate symbols in specific subreddits seen it on /r/anime a few days ago before it was taken down for the mods to discuss whether they wanted it around. \n At any rate, it's pretty easy to use and I hope you like it. The main thing I'm concerned about is cluttering the subreddit (which is especially relevant here where it has the potential to be used a lot) and while there are request limits in place I'll be keeping an eye on it. If the /r/animesuggest mods feel that it's too much I'm happy to scale it back, make some changes to what/how much it links or take the subreddit off the list entirely. \n How do I use it? \n /u/Roboragi can only be called in specific subreddits . There are two types of request too: normal, which uses a single set of braces (i.e. {} or <>), and expanded, which uses a double set of braces (i.e. {{}} or <<>>). Normal requests are more compact, but display less information, while expanded requests show more, but take up significantly more screen space. \n For the sake of avoiding clutter, you can have up to 10 normal requests in a comment or a single expanded request (not both). \n Something I threw in because it's cool is the ability to track a bunch of stats like the most requested anime/manga and the most frequent requesters for the subreddit you're in. This can be called using any set of braces and the phrase \"!stats\" (e.g. {!stats}). \n Also important to note: the bot won't ever respond to people replying to it directly. This is to protect against infinite looping. \n To break it down: \n \n {animename} will make a normal request for an anime series (max 10/post) \n {{animename}} will make an expanded request for an anime series (max 1/post) \n <manganame> will make a normal request for an manga series (max 10/post) \n <<manganame>> will make an expanded request for an manga series (max 1/post) \n Any set of braces + !stats will give you a post that has a bunch of cool statistics in it \n \n What do the replies look like? \n Normal request: \n > Bakemonogatari - ([MAL]( [HB]( [ANI]( \n >^(Status: Finished Airing | Episodes: 15 | Genres: Mystery, Romance, Supernatural, Vampire) \n Expanded request:\n>\n> Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou - ([MAL]( [HB]( [ANI]( \n >^^モンスター娘のいる日常 \n >^( Status: Currently Airing | Episodes: 12 | Genres: Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Seinen \n Stats: 2 requests across 1 subreddits - 22.22% of all requests) \n >^(Episode 4 airs in 1 days, 2 hours, 15 minutes) \n >Monsters—they're real, and they want to date us! Three years ago, the world learned that harpies, centaurs, catgirls, and all manners of fabulous creatures are not merely fiction; they are flesh and blood—not to mention scale, feather, horn, and fang. Thanks to the \"Cultural Exchange Between Species Act,\" these once-mythical creatures have assimilated into society, or at least, they're trying. \n \n Anyway, I hope the bot proves useful and that it doesn't collapse terribly in the next few days. Feel free to look through the Wiki . If you see a bug or some incorrect information, or you want to leave some feedback, please head over to /r/Roboragi/ and make a post.","Summary: u/YugiohLinkBot is having a siesta for a few days. He should be back with a vengeance early next week.\n\nPost: Hey guys, \n It looks like the hosting instance for /u/YugiohLinkBot has been terminated by Amazon due to some \"degradation of the underlying hardware.\" What that actually means is beyond me, but the upshot is that the server is down and the bot is currently out of action. \n The good news: \n \n Nothing of value was lost. If it was important it's already been backed up. \n I have a Raspberry Pi ready and waiting to be loading up (I have another bot in development that I'm planning on deploying there too). \n \n The bad news: \n \n I'm really swamped with work and will be until at least Monday Australia time (as of posting this it's 7pm Saturday). I'm not going to be able to get the bot up and running until everything else is in order. \n \n My apologies for any inconvenience this causes. The timing was pretty poor in terms of my schedule, I hope I can get the bot up and running again ASAP."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Yes, Batwing Brume is both black and white.\\n\\nPost: The best way to tell is to look at its casting cost. A card counts as being every colour that's included in its casting cost, regardless of how it was cast. This is subject to some exceptions (usually cards with a CMC of zero or nothing), where the card colour is explicitly mentioned or indicated on the card (e.g. the black-green dot on Garruk Relentless's back side or Ghostfire or where it's changed by spells like [Moonlace]( \\n On a related (but almost useless) tangent, this means that cards with off-colour ability costs are just the colours of their casting cost. [Bant Battlemage]( for example, is solely a white creature, despite having a colour identity of green-white-blue.\",\n \"Summary: White shouldn't need precedence to tap, since the act is defensive (even if used aggressively). White should need precedence to fight, since the act is aggressive.\\n\\nPost: I've got to disagree, but I see which angle you're coming from (I'm focussing more on fight, you're looking at it more as a tapper). \\n Tapping is definitely very white and if that was all this card did I'd agree with you completely. Given that fight is inherently aggressive (in terms of flavour and function) I still maintain that white needs to have precedence before being able to. This card isn't an ideal example of \\\"white fight\\\" since (as a 0 power creature) fight is essentially irrelevant for it 90% of the time (0 power + fight isn't a combination I'd personally use). \\n If it were me, \\\"white fight\\\" would end up something like this: \\n >Battlefield Skirmisher \\n>Creature - Human Soldier (U) \\n > , : ~ fights target attacking or blocking creature. \\n >1/3\",\n \"Summary: Redirecting Cancel to Redirect will make Cancel fizzle (unless I'm reading it wrong).\\n\\nPost: From Gatherer: \\n \\\"If you cast Redirect targeting a spell that targets a spell on the stack (like Cancel does, for example), you can't change that spell's target to itself. You can, however, change that spell's target to Redirect. If you do, that spell will be countered when it tries to resolve because Redirect will have left the stack by then.\\\"\",\n \"Summary: Active Player's ability resolves after the Nonactive Player's. \\n Edit: formatting\\n\\nPost: If you need a rule to quote, quote 603.3b. \\n >If multiple abilities have triggered since the last time a player received priority, each player, in APNAP order, puts triggered abilities he or she controls on the stack in any order he or she chooses. (See rule 101.4.) Then the game once again checks for and resolves state-based actions until none are performed, then abilities that triggered during this process go on the stack. This process repeats until no new state-based actions are performed and no abilities trigger. Then the appropriate player gets priority.\",\n \"Summary: seemed irrelevant when I posted it in essence at the start :P\\n\\nPost: It depends on the fruit and the type of fruit juice. \\n Apples and pears of any form are right out due to the natural fructose content for example, but most berries are fine. For juices the general rule is that the more processed it is the less likely it's going to agree with me. Freshly squeezed stuff seems to be alright (given the base fruit is fine), but fruit juice concentrates and cordials often aren't clear exactly how they're sweetened (and a lot of them have apple juice as a base, which is never good). \\n Edit: the\",\n \"Summary: Elbrus will transform into Withengar. The legend rule will not trigger. The new Withengar will not get counters put on it. \\n Edit: If you're interested, the numbers are references to the relevant comprehensive rule.\\n\\nPost: The list of events will look like this: \\n \\n Withengar attacks (510.1) \\n Withengar deals lethal combat damage to a creature with deathtouch. The creature deals lethal combat damage to Withengar. Using trample, Withengar deals legal damage to that creature's controller (510.2 + the rules for deathtouch, trample and whatnot (you should know them already)) \\n Elbrus's ability triggers and is put onto the stack (510.3/603.3) \\n State-based actions are checked (704.3): your opponent loses (704.5a) and Withengar dies (704.5h) \\n The active player (you) gains priority (510.4) \\n Once all other spells/abilities on the stack have resolved, Elbrus's ability will resolve, transforming it. \\n State-based actions are checked again the next time a player would gain priority (i.e. after Elbrus transforms). The newly transformed Withengar will then check to see if any other legendary permanents share its name (704.5k): none will exist.\",\n \"Summary: Morph is a static ability which lets you cast a creature as a generic 2/2 creature spell.\\n\\nPost: That's a good question and you got it right (it's a spell). \\n Morph itself is what's called a static ability in that it grants a continuous effect to a card. It doesn't have to be activated or triggered, it's just simply a true statement. Think of it like flying or trample; it changes how the card works, but you don't have to \\\"turn it on.\\\" \\n Looking at the reminder text, morph allows you to \\\"cast this card as a 2/2 face-down creature... by paying {3} rather than paying its mana cost.\\\" You're still moving the card to the stack to resolve, but by paying the morph cost it lets you put it there upside down as a generic 2/2. Also note the word \\\"cast\\\" in the reminder text; casting is something only associated with spells.\",\n \"Summary: Morph is an activated ability that turns a creature face-up. The creature is still considered the same creature and has all the same effects and things attached to it (it doesn't re-enter the battlefield). Turning it face up may cause a triggered ability to trigger.\\n\\nPost: All good, happy to help haha. \\n All the morph ability does to Chromeshell Crab is turn it face up; it's still the exact same creature. It will have the same auras and equipment attached to it, the same +1/+1 counters, the same effects on it. Turning it face up, in turn, will makes its \\\"When Chromeshell Crab is turned face up...\\\" ability trigger. \\n The morph ability of Chromeshell Crab (pay 4U to turn it face up) is considered an activated ability (it has a cost you need to pay before it happens), while the act of turning it face up is a triggered ability (triggered abilities always start with \\\"when,\\\" \\\"whenever,\\\" or \\\"at\\\" and wait for a specific event to happen first).\",\n \"Summary: We're screwed as a species.\\n\\nPost: It's a reflection of our consumption of excessive amounts of resources as a species. The bald guy represents the Earth and the members of the boyband are representative of the human race (note the racial diversity). We're happy to prance about fancy-free until the Earth has had enough, then it will shoot lasers at us. \\n No clue as to what the disembodied head is about. Probably the sun or something (it will destroy everything eventually).\",\n \"Summary: this challenge is about practical Magic design, where the overall winner should be the card that has the best chance of actually being printed by Wizards as part of its set.\\n\\nPost: It does come across a little vague, my apologies. \\n I'd like to think of the challenge as being practical Magic design, rather than 'cool' Magic design (although cool cards are definitely welcome). Many of the cards designed here are done so in a vacuum, without any external context. My goal is to get people to think about how real-world cards work as part of a whole, with flavour, rarity, art and mechanics included. \\n As such, the card chosen will hopefully be the one which the previous winner thinks has the best chance of actually being printed by Wizards as part of its set. It might not be as glamorous a challenge as TWitJ, but hopefully it has its place. \\n The following criteria need to be taken into consideration: \\n \\n Appropriate use of art: the art for [Lightning Bolt]( isn't appropriate for a creature, but [Apostle's Blessing]( could go either way. \\n Appropriate rarity: an Eldrazi lord shouldn't be a common and Phantasmal Bear shouldn't be a rare (although it could be uncommon). It's important to keep in mind how complex the card is. For more examples of inappropriate use of Rarity, visit /r/clopclop (warning - NSFW). \\n Appropriate mechanics: keep in mind the block AND set of the card. A white creature with battle cry isn't appropriate for Scars of Mirrodin (since battle cry wasn't introduced until Mirrodin Besieged), but a blue infect creature in SoM is up for debate (blue didn't expand into infect until later in the block). \\n Appropriate use of colour: understanding the colour pie and how each colour fits is something most people understand pretty well, but it's important to keep in mind how its represented within its block. \\n Appropriate flavour: mentioning slivers in Alara may be cool, but it's may not be entirely appropriate. \\n \\n Rethinking it and looking at the current submissions, I'm thinking that having the same collector number does more harm than good, and I'd like to see how the next challenge goes without it as a requirement. \\n [Lykideus's submission]( raises an interesting point about reprints. Finding a reprint appropriate to the set that also fits with the given art is a skill worth having, but since this is a design subreddit I think designing a new card is probably more appropriate. If people disagree, then it can always be changed around. \\n I'll make an addendum to the main post, let me know if I haven't covered what you wanted to know.\",\n \"Summary: We'd need to identify and analyse the theme first, then find mechanics to convey that theme through gameplay.\\n\\nPost: Not a clue haha. I think we'd need to identify what makes it compelling as a theme, then how to best show that theme through mechanics. If we were to try to stick mechanics on things haphazardly it would undermine the theme. \\n For example, Innistrad works with the tribal theme because there are many types of monsters people can identify with. It also reinforces the idea of humans as victims, outnumbered against the monsters. Undying works to reinforce the plight of the humans against an unending, unrelenting horde and his the graveyard theme that flashback used. Fateful Hour also reinforces this theme.\",\n \"Summary: Clone\\\" Eldrazi don't get shuffled back into the library when they die. \\n \\n Relevant Rules: \\n 603.6c: \\n ... An ability that triggers when a card is put into a certain zone \\\"from anywhere\\\" is never treated as a leaves-the-battlefield ability, even if an object is put into that zone from the battlefield.\\n\\nPost: Interesting question. For normal leaves-the-battlefield triggers, this would be true. When the event triggers, the clone will enter the graveyard, turn back into itself and \\\"look back in time\\\" to see if it had the appropriate characteristics. \\n The \\\"anti-reanimator\\\" ability (\\\"When X is put into a graveyard from anywhere, its owner shuffles his or her graveyard into his or her library.\\\") is a special case of leaves-the-battlefield trigger, in that it's not considered one at all (see 603.6c). As such, they won't trigger off a cloned object, since the clones don't get a chance to \\\"look back in time\\\" when they hit the graveyard. These kinds of abilities only trigger from the zone they're in. \\n Kind of unintuitive if you ask me.\",\n \"Summary: New Reddit bot. \\n Links anime/manga info when you call it. \\n Has a terrible Bakemogatari pun for a name. \\n {Curly braces} for anime, <pointed braces> for manga. \\n Single sets of braces give normal information (max 10 per comment). Double sets of braces give expanded information (max 1 per comment). \\n Normal requests and expanded requests are mutually exclusive - you can only have one type in a single comment. \\n Any set of braces and !stats will give you a reply with super cool statistics. \\n Replying direct to the bot won't trigger a request! \\n \\n \\n Edit: It's like 5am and I've got to get some sleep - thank you very much for the warm welcome! If anything crashes or goes wrong please send me a PM or make a thread over on /r/Roboragi.\\n\\nPost: Hey guys! I've fairly recently developed a Reddit bot which allows you to easily link anime/manga my using the appropriate symbols in specific subreddits seen it on /r/anime a few days ago before it was taken down for them to discuss whether they wanted it around. \\n At any rate, it's pretty easy to use and I hope you like it. One thing I am concerned about is causing clutter, and while there are request limits in place please let me know if they're too strict/lenient - I'm happy to talk things over with the mods if it becomes an issue. \\n How do I use it? \\n /u/Roboragi can only be called in specific subreddits . There are two types of request too: normal, which uses a single set of braces (i.e. {} or <>), and expanded, which uses a double set of braces (i.e. {{}} or <<>>). Normal requests are more compact, but display less information, while expanded requests show more, but take up significantly more screen space. \\n For the sake of avoiding clutter, you can have up to 10 normal requests in a comment or a single expanded request (not both). \\n Something I threw in because it's cool is the ability to track a bunch of stats like the most requested anime/manga and the most frequent requesters for the subreddit you're in. This can be called using any set of braces and the phrase \\\"!stats\\\" (e.g. <<!stats>>). \\n Also important to note: the bot won't ever respond to people replying to it directly. This is to protect against infinite looping. \\n To break it down: \\n \\n {animename} will make a normal request for an anime series (max 10/post) \\n {{animename}} will make an expanded request for an anime series (max 1/post) \\n <manganame> will make a normal request for an manga series (max 10/post) \\n <<manganame>> will make an expanded request for an manga series (max 1/post) \\n Any set of braces + !stats will give you a post that has a bunch of cool statistics in it \\n \\n What do the replies look like? \\n Normal request: \\n > Nisekoi - ([MAL]( [ANI]( \\n >^(Status: Publishing | Genres: Comedy, Romance, Shounen) \\n Expanded request: \\n > Berserk - ([MAL]( [ANI]( \\n >^^ベルセルク \\n >^( Status: Publishing | Genres: Action, Adventure, Demons, Drama, Fantasy, Horror \\n Stats: 1 requests across 1 subreddits - 33.33% of all requests) \\n >Guts, known as the Black Swordsman, seeks sanctuary from the demonic forces that pursue him and his woman, and also vengeance against the man who branded him as an unholy sacrifice. Aided only by his titanic strength, skill, and sword, Guts must struggle against his bleak destiny, all the while fighting with a rage that might strip him of his humanity. Berserk is a dark and brooding story of outrageous swordplay and ominous fate, in the theme of Shakespeare's Macbeth. \\n \\n Anyway, I hope the bot proves useful and that it doesn't collapse terribly in the next few days. Feel free to look through the Wiki . If you see a bug or some incorrect information, or you want to leave some feedback, please head over to /r/Roboragi/ and make a post.\",\n \"Summary: New Reddit bot. \\n Links anime/manga info when you call it. \\n Has a terrible Bakemogatari pun for a name. \\n {Curly braces} for anime, &lt;pointed braces&gt; for manga. \\n Single sets of braces give normal information (max 10 per comment). Double sets of braces give expanded information (max 1 per comment). \\n Normal requests and expanded requests are mutually exclusive - you can only have one type in a single comment. \\n Any set of braces and !stats will give you a reply with super cool statistics. \\n Replying direct to the bot won't trigger a request! \\n \\n \\n Edit: It's like 5am and I've got to get some sleep - thank you very much for the warm welcome! If anything crashes or goes wrong please send me a PM or make a thread over on /r/Roboragi.\\n\\nPost: Hey guys! I've fairly recently developed a Reddit bot which allows you to easily link anime/manga my using the appropriate symbols in specific subreddits seen it on /r/anime a few days ago before it was taken down for the mods to discuss whether they wanted it around. \\n At any rate, it's pretty easy to use and I hope you like it. The main thing I'm concerned about is cluttering the subreddit (which is especially relevant here where it has the potential to be used a lot) and while there are request limits in place I'll be keeping an eye on it. If the /r/animesuggest mods feel that it's too much I'm happy to scale it back, make some changes to what/how much it links or take the subreddit off the list entirely. \\n How do I use it? \\n /u/Roboragi can only be called in specific subreddits . There are two types of request too: normal, which uses a single set of braces (i.e. {} or <>), and expanded, which uses a double set of braces (i.e. {{}} or <<>>). Normal requests are more compact, but display less information, while expanded requests show more, but take up significantly more screen space. \\n For the sake of avoiding clutter, you can have up to 10 normal requests in a comment or a single expanded request (not both). \\n Something I threw in because it's cool is the ability to track a bunch of stats like the most requested anime/manga and the most frequent requesters for the subreddit you're in. This can be called using any set of braces and the phrase \\\"!stats\\\" (e.g. {!stats}). \\n Also important to note: the bot won't ever respond to people replying to it directly. This is to protect against infinite looping. \\n To break it down: \\n \\n {animename} will make a normal request for an anime series (max 10/post) \\n {{animename}} will make an expanded request for an anime series (max 1/post) \\n <manganame> will make a normal request for an manga series (max 10/post) \\n <<manganame>> will make an expanded request for an manga series (max 1/post) \\n Any set of braces + !stats will give you a post that has a bunch of cool statistics in it \\n \\n What do the replies look like? \\n Normal request: \\n > Bakemonogatari - ([MAL]( [HB]( [ANI]( \\n >^(Status: Finished Airing | Episodes: 15 | Genres: Mystery, Romance, Supernatural, Vampire) \\n Expanded request:\\n>\\n> Monster Musume no Iru Nichijou - ([MAL]( [HB]( [ANI]( \\n >^^モンスター娘のいる日常 \\n >^( Status: Currently Airing | Episodes: 12 | Genres: Comedy, Ecchi, Fantasy, Harem, Romance, Seinen \\n Stats: 2 requests across 1 subreddits - 22.22% of all requests) \\n >^(Episode 4 airs in 1 days, 2 hours, 15 minutes) \\n >Monsters—they're real, and they want to date us! Three years ago, the world learned that harpies, centaurs, catgirls, and all manners of fabulous creatures are not merely fiction; they are flesh and blood—not to mention scale, feather, horn, and fang. Thanks to the \\\"Cultural Exchange Between Species Act,\\\" these once-mythical creatures have assimilated into society, or at least, they're trying. \\n \\n Anyway, I hope the bot proves useful and that it doesn't collapse terribly in the next few days. Feel free to look through the Wiki . If you see a bug or some incorrect information, or you want to leave some feedback, please head over to /r/Roboragi/ and make a post.\",\n \"Summary: u/YugiohLinkBot is having a siesta for a few days. He should be back with a vengeance early next week.\\n\\nPost: Hey guys, \\n It looks like the hosting instance for /u/YugiohLinkBot has been terminated by Amazon due to some \\\"degradation of the underlying hardware.\\\" What that actually means is beyond me, but the upshot is that the server is down and the bot is currently out of action. \\n The good news: \\n \\n Nothing of value was lost. If it was important it's already been backed up. \\n I have a Raspberry Pi ready and waiting to be loading up (I have another bot in development that I'm planning on deploying there too). \\n \\n The bad news: \\n \\n I'm really swamped with work and will be until at least Monday Australia time (as of posting this it's 7pm Saturday). I'm not going to be able to get the bot up and running until everything else is in order. \\n \\n My apologies for any inconvenience this causes. The timing was pretty poor in terms of my schedule, I hope I can get the bot up and running again ASAP.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":15,"string":"15"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2990,"string":"2,990"}}},{"rowIdx":2991,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"vh1atomicpunk"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Intel has a better product, AMD is less expensive for close to the same performance."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"It really depends on what you are doing with the computer, and what kinds of chips you're comparing. \n [Tom's CPU Charts]( can be a good reference point. You'll notice that all the higher end CPU's from both companies perform pretty well when paired with high-end graphics cards if you're gaming. \n The AMD 'modules' are really like 1.5 'cores', whereas AMD markets them as two. So here's how it works: On Intel CPU's, one core has a large array of dedicated processing hardware. Each core is complete and individual, linked via the large shared cache. AMD's CPU's are formed by what they call 'modules', each module consisting of two cores. Each core can also work independently, however each pair of cores in a 'module' share resources to do [floating point math.]( This is significant because when two cores are in use, one may have to wait for the other to finish with that [FPU]( before doing it's own work. Floating point math is a pretty significant portion of the CPU's workload for gaming, as well as many other tasks. In most cases sharing the processing resources isn't a problem. \n Another thing to consider is this - The higher end Intel chips run cooler and are more power efficient than the higher end AMD chips, [by quite a bit.]( The 3570K uses a full 50W less at load than an FX8350 at stock speeds. If you overclock, both use a lot of juice but the AMD chip sucks up in excess of 300W in the review I linked. \n If you can afford it, a fast Intel quad-core like the i5 [4430]( is a very good choice. For $50-$60 less you can get an [FX-6350]( from AMD with +/-90% the same performance all around, while not being super hot or power hungry. \n Finally, a direct result of buying from either vendor will be that you will be using one of their chipsets. The newer AMD chipsets like the 970, 980, and 990, all have SATA3, USB2.0, and PCIe2.0. Most of the newer boards with these chipsets will also have a separate chips for USB3.0, if that matters to you. Their older ones (that are still being used on some newer motherboards) like the 760G (also sold as a '960G'), will have SATA2, USB2.0, and PCIe2.0. If you use a solid state drive (SSD), the reduced SATA speeds can be an issue. In general, all these chipsets support overclocking, as do any of the FX CPU's, although you'll want to buy a quality motherboard if you plan to do that (cheap ones won't handle it). \n For Intel you're looking at the 8 series chipsets to use their newer 4xxx processors (LGA1150). You can still get motherboards with 7 series chipsets if you're planning on using a 3xxx series processor (LGA1155). Both chipsets support SATA3, USB3.0, and PCIe3.0. The lower end of either chipset will have a mix of SATA2 and SATA3 ports, with only the higher end Z87 featuring SATA3 exclusively. You'll also need a Zxx chipset (7 or 8) in order to do overclocking with Intel chips, in addition to buying one of their 'unlocked' K-series processors. \n One more note on motherboard selection - not all boards support all CPU's. You can by an AM3 board with a 970 chipset that does not support something like an FX-8350 CPU because it is not designed to handle the power requirements of that chip, so be sure to do your homework when selecting a board+cpu. With Intel boards, even the cheapest LGA1150 socket board . \n I've owned and built both, one other point I can tell you is that if you use the stock cooler, the AMD reference cooler will be the louder of the two, hands down. Overall my experiences with Intel hardware have been a little better, but also a little more expensive."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"It really depends on what you are doing with the computer, and what kinds of chips you're comparing. \n [Tom's CPU Charts]( can be a good reference point. You'll notice that all the higher end CPU's from both companies perform pretty well when paired with high-end graphics cards if you're gaming. \n The AMD 'modules' are really like 1.5 'cores', whereas AMD markets them as two. So here's how it works: On Intel CPU's, one core has a large array of dedicated processing hardware. Each core is complete and individual, linked via the large shared cache. AMD's CPU's are formed by what they call 'modules', each module consisting of two cores. Each core can also work independently, however each pair of cores in a 'module' share resources to do [floating point math.]( This is significant because when two cores are in use, one may have to wait for the other to finish with that [FPU]( before doing it's own work. Floating point math is a pretty significant portion of the CPU's workload for gaming, as well as many other tasks. In most cases sharing the processing resources isn't a problem. \n Another thing to consider is this - The higher end Intel chips run cooler and are more power efficient than the higher end AMD chips, [by quite a bit.]( The 3570K uses a full 50W less at load than an FX8350 at stock speeds. If you overclock, both use a lot of juice but the AMD chip sucks up in excess of 300W in the review I linked. \n If you can afford it, a fast Intel quad-core like the i5 [4430]( is a very good choice. For $50-$60 less you can get an [FX-6350]( from AMD with +/-90% the same performance all around, while not being super hot or power hungry. \n Finally, a direct result of buying from either vendor will be that you will be using one of their chipsets. The newer AMD chipsets like the 970, 980, and 990, all have SATA3, USB2.0, and PCIe2.0. Most of the newer boards with these chipsets will also have a separate chips for USB3.0, if that matters to you. Their older ones (that are still being used on some newer motherboards) like the 760G (also sold as a '960G'), will have SATA2, USB2.0, and PCIe2.0. If you use a solid state drive (SSD), the reduced SATA speeds can be an issue. In general, all these chipsets support overclocking, as do any of the FX CPU's, although you'll want to buy a quality motherboard if you plan to do that (cheap ones won't handle it). \n For Intel you're looking at the 8 series chipsets to use their newer 4xxx processors (LGA1150). You can still get motherboards with 7 series chipsets if you're planning on using a 3xxx series processor (LGA1155). Both chipsets support SATA3, USB3.0, and PCIe3.0. The lower end of either chipset will have a mix of SATA2 and SATA3 ports, with only the higher end Z87 featuring SATA3 exclusively. You'll also need a Zxx chipset (7 or 8) in order to do overclocking with Intel chips, in addition to buying one of their 'unlocked' K-series processors. \n One more note on motherboard selection - not all boards support all CPU's. You can by an AM3 board with a 970 chipset that does not support something like an FX-8350 CPU because it is not designed to handle the power requirements of that chip, so be sure to do your homework when selecting a board+cpu. With Intel boards, even the cheapest LGA1150 socket board . \n I've owned and built both, one other point I can tell you is that if you use the stock cooler, the AMD reference cooler will be the louder of the two, hands down. Overall my experiences with Intel hardware have been a little better, but also a little more expensive."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Yes for most things.\n\nPost: Yes for great prices on those things they sell that are authentic. Many Innokin products including MVP's, many Aspire products, many Kanger products. \n No on Kanthal, cotton, silica, etc. Go to Amazon for this. Same or better prices, better quality, faster delivery. \n No on internal batteries (18650, 18350, etc.) because they will be in customs forever. Another item for Amazon or possibly eBay. \n Yes on small accessories like tweezers/cutters/jigs/rods/bottles, etc. \n No on juice. I'd rather smoke again than risk chinese juices. \n Yes on clones! Do your homework before you buy a clone - some are very, very good, most are garbage. A higher priced clone isn't always the better version, either. \n /u/vapenewer's tips are top notch \n If it's an option at checkout time, choose China ePacket as your preferred shipping method. With luck your order will be in San Francisco in under a week. I've had 3 out of 5 orders spend more time in customs in San Fran than time getting out of China and across the Pacific. These guys are actually fast when it comes to international shipping from across the globe - it's U.S., Hong Kong, and Malaysian customs that cause the big delays.","Summary: guy smokes weed at work every day, nobody cares because they either buy from him or like him too much.\n\nPost: Smoking pot on shift, on company property, on a daily basis w/the full knowledge of at least six of the staff. Why did he continue to get away with it? Otherwise very good employee, and was also selling weed to quite a few of the people there. I knew as well, personally I didn't care as long as he kept it during breaks and didn't wreck anything.","Summary: RAM kit prices are mostly set along the lines of who they are being marketed to, as well as overall quality and raw performance.\n\nPost: Maybe one is a special 'gamer' or 'overclocker' kit that is priced into a different market. Pick up the most affordable DDR3-1600 CL9 kit you can get, and if you can afford it CL8 would be better. You'll notice that the DDR3-xxxx rating reflects the RAM's clock rate, while the CL/CAS number reflects how many cycles of the clock rate the RAM takes to perform different funtions like reading, writing, refreshing, etc. I don't know enough of the inner workings of RAM to give you detailed a overview, but in general once you have enough bandwidth (aka clock speed) to satisfy your usage scenario, you'll gain more performance from lower timings (effectively less latency) than you will by adding more bandwidth. [Wikipedia]( gives a good explanation of the details and even has a table comparing real latencies of different RAM standards vs. their clock rate and timings.","Summary: Variable Wattage feature can be used to keep the vape experience the same across head changes or tank changes. Play with it and see what you enjoy the most.\n\nPost: Here's how the volts vs. watts thing works. The wattage is the total amount of energy you're putting through the coil. A higher wattage will generally equally higher a temperature. \n So let's say you set your iTaste at 3.8 volts and the coil (or head) you're using from Kanger ]( we can see that total power will be just above 6 Watts, and your batter will be supplying that 3.8v at about 1.6Amps (the higher the amperage, the higher the drain on the battery). \n Making sense so far? So let's say the next day you pop in a new Kanger head, but this one only has a 1.8Ohm resistance because that's what your local shop had available. At the same 3.8v setting, you'll be vaping at just over 8 Watts total power, with about a 2.1Amp draw on the battery. Same voltage setting, but a warmer vape with higher battery drain. \n Let's say that you really like the experience of your vape at 8 Watts (I like mine from about 8-10). Instead of adjusting voltage when you change out coils (or if you attach a different tank), you can set a constant wattage instead. Set the device for 8w, and it will auto-detect the resistance of whatever you've got attached to it, and adjust the voltage accordingly to give you a vape at 8w.","Summary: When you catch the consumer, you're also often catching a supplier, or at the very least getting a solid lead on a supplier.\n\nPost: They are very often one in the same. These people find common grounds, share information on where to get kiddie porn, and very often have their own personal stuff they will share or sell as well. \n So let's say you arrest one or two guys on the east coast of the U.S. as a result of using a program like this. Search warrants are issued, online histories are obtained, any digital storage found as a result of the search are gone through forensically. As a result you're going to be very likely to find those places that they've been obtaining child porn, who is providing it, and contact information for other predators. This is a definitely a group where the term 'birds of a feather' is applicable - a molester could act alone and only molest those they are local to, but more than likely if they have any kind of digital footprint in this sick endeavor, they will be having some kind of contact with other pedos. Busting a couple of guys could lead to dozens of others being caught as well. \n This idea is not so dissimilar from how law enforcement agencies use informants to help bust drug rings or other crime organizations, only in this case the pedo's computer(s) become the informants, and perhaps the abusers themselves as well. In some cases the FBI has even taken over the online identity of abusers they have already arrested, and made it appear as those things were proceeding normally within the kiddie porn ring the criminals were participating in, and by doing so are able obtain many, many more arrests.","Summary: cigs are super addictive for multiple reasons, you will still have some withdrawals and it will take time to adjust.\n\nPost: There is a second addictive substance in tobacco that e-liquids do not have - MAOI's. \n [\"Nicotine, a substance frequently implicated in tobacco addiction, has been shown to have \"relatively weak\" addictive properties when administered alone. The addictive potential increases dramatically after co-administration of an MAOI, which specifically causes sensitization of the locomotor response in rats, a measure of addictive potential. This may be reflected in the difficulty of smoking cessation, as tobacco contains naturally-occurring MAOI compounds in addition to the nicotine.\"]( \n Essentially the smoking experience is much more rewarding to the brain because of these chemicals, making it hard to quit. It took me two years to break the smoking habit, even after taking up vaping. To do it I slowly lowered my intake of cigarettes, and supplemented with some snus pouches when it was really bad. After about four months of this, I'm two weeks smoke free and two days without a pouch. I'm having some mild withdrawals, but nothing that a few vapes won't handle.","Summary: temperate climates are better for producing large amounts of grains, and producing large amounts of grains allowed for more advanced and complex societies.\n\nPost: Grain production \n \n \n \n Seafaring technology and road construction, developed out of necessity to trade commodities, originally grains. \n \n \n \n Financial systems developed to facilitate the trade of commodities via seafaring and roads. \n \n \n \n At the origin of civilization is grain production, the domestication of grasses such as wheat, rice, and barley to be used for food during droughts or harsh winters. Early accounting and record keeping systems were first developed in Sumeria in order to keep track of harvests, storage, and distribution. Grains can provide quite a bit of energy per unit as they are dense in carbohydrates, they can also help to sustain a larger more densely concentrated population. In addition to this, most of our domestic food animals can be fed grain as well. This abundance of 'easy food' compared to pre-agricultural societes allows for people to have time to start specializing in providing particular services, rather than on getting sustenance, leading to greater technological innovations. Eventually the majority of your people are not living in tribes and migrating across the land to follow herds of herbivores and digging for tubers - instead they are living in cities with grain storage and a regular food supply. They are spending their time making things , writing things down, and trading with other cities. As trade increases so does that societies mobility. People start making maps and ships and roads from one place to another. Labor becomes more subdivided until most people aren't even involved in food production, having a profession becomes the norm. The development of money and centralized financial systems allows people to assign a relative value not only to objects but to their labors, until money itself becomes the de-facto commodity. It also allows people to live easily by buying their food only , further removing most from the burden of survival. Once this happens an even wider range of professions crop up, people start paying for convenience , and that need for convenience spurs the development of new technologies. New technologies that almost completely remove the basic survival aspect of human living and introduce the ability to produce on an even greater scale, to travel farther and faster than before, and to almost completely shape our surroundings for comfort.","Summary: China batteries are 3rd tier in quality for the most part. Buy Japanese or Korean if you need more than 20A continuous reliably. \n Second Edit - The MNKE's I have were bought through Amazon. They're working very well at .4ohms, don't get hot and last as long as expected. I'm not a battery expert, just educated myself via google before jumping into mechs.\n\nPost: Efest seems to list either continuous/burst (32A/64A), or just burst. I bought some of the 26650 '30A/60A' 3500mah MNKE's, only to find out that they had been bought out by Efest a while back, meaning I either have Efests with MNKE branding, or very old MNKE's. In reality these are 20A continuous cells (going by MNKE's spec sheet), and I build around that. Many of the Chinese batteries overstate their amp output as well as mah rating, especially any 'X'fire brands. The Korean manufacturers (LG and Samsung) appear more trustworthy in their ratings, and of course the Japanese (Sony, Panasonic) have always had top-tier batteries. Sony's are drying up, Panasonic doesn't seem to make anything over 10A continuous (that you can actually buy as a single consumer, anyhow), leaving the Koreans and Chinese to corner the market. Shout out to Panasonic NCR18650PF by the way for being awesome in lower power regulated devices. You might wonder why the Chinese batteries generally don't perform to spec, and the reason is that the Chinese (and manufacturer's from many other regions) are building their batteries from overstock and/or B grade cells from the only companies that actually make them (usually Sony or Panasonic). In other words, the China batteries are hit and miss - you may get a top quality unit, you may get nothing but Sony factory rejects that don't output what the new seller (Efest, 'X'fire, 'X'power, MXJO etc.) claims they should because they base the spec on what A grade cells would be able to do.","Summary: ESD is real, and it pays to be aware and educated about it. Wrist straps are cheap, processors, RAM, and motherboards are not.\n\nPost: u/ztherion is correct. It seems to me that 90% of people that 'know about computers' and discount ESD as a problem to actively avoid may or may not 'know about computers', but they definitely don't know what they are talking about when it comes to electricity and IC's. \n JEDEC, which is mostly a RAM specification standards committee and whose member companies include [this giant list]( also has some dense, but [factual ESD guidelines]( set for it's members. Besides the fact that just about every manufacturer of electronics/IC's/microchips is a JEDEC member and takes care when it comes to ESD issues, you don't have to look any farther than the graphite colored, translucent plastic 'anti-static' bags that almost all PCB's come shipped in. They are shipped with ESD precautions in mind for a reason, because static can and does destroy electronics equipment.","Summary: Laptop is too old, need [new WiFi adapter.](\n\nPost: What he's meaning to say is - many of the first generation of 802.11B/G devices do not have WPA or WPA2 encryption capabilities. Your WiFi network is probably setup using WPA2 encryption, which the WiFi adapter in the old notebook cannot understand. You have two choices - you can configure your router to use the older and less secure WEP encryption, assuming it supports that, or you can use a newer USB WiFi adapter with your laptop that supports WPA2.","Summary: Both consoles are mid-range PC's at best.\n\nPost: The video hardware was roughly equivalent to mid-range video cards at launch, with the CPU's being 8 core versions of what AMD has developed for tablets and low-powered notebooks . You'll notice the very low clock speeds of these chips, which is a significant limiting factor. Seeing as the hardware in both consoles is extremely similar, and that very similar hardware was already well known on PC's, there isn't a 'learning curve' to program for these machines as there was for PS3 or Xbox 360. There is also very little specialized/custom hardware in these machines like there was in say the PS2. \n Besides these factors, both M$ and Sony opted for integrated on-die graphics and a single shared memory pool. Sony opted to to use the same kind of memory that's used on most PC video cards, GDDR5. GDDR5 is very much based on DDR3, but trades latency for higher clock speed in order to provide greater bandwidth. This does help alleviate the problem of sharing the same memory space and bandwidth between an 8-core CPU and the graphics cores, but it is still sub-optimal for graphics rendering. M$ opted to use standard DDR3, which should be better for CPU tasks, and they also used a larg-ish amount of embedded RAM (eDRAM) on the chip to help keep the graphics cores fed. At the end of the day, both approaches are aren't horrible, but neither is very good compared to both the CPU and GPU having dedicated memory pools and memory bandwidth.","Summary: Yeah, OP is right. Buying Innokin is like buying Intel or IBM in the tech world - you can't really go wrong.\n\nPost: MVP2 and SVD2 user here - MVP has been with me a year next month. Probably the best investment out there for a beginner vaper, wish I had skipped the normal ego kit and went straight to it. So durable, accurate, stylish, easy to use, etc. Included tank needs an upgrade, but the device itself is great for any normal tank setups. Powers a Nautilus at 9w all day long no prob. Fairly fast to charge too. \n SVD2 is a slightly different story. It's bigger than I'd like, but not Vamo/SVD1 big. Build quality is again top notch. This thing has fallen to the sidewalk three times now, only one small scratch. Power output is kinda low for rebuildables, but it's enough for some basic stuff. Great for a Squape/Kayfun style (married to a Squape R clone) or similar rebuildable tank or single coil atty. All the new DNA features besides temp control. Battery requirements aren't too stiff and battery life is again very good. 510 connection is excellent, ego connection is available if for some bizarre reason you're still using something with cone threading. \n iClear 30S tanks got me through my first 8 months of vaping, and were what I used for the first 4 months I was off the cigs. Not bad, but not competitive with the Nautilus or rebuildables. Vaped them forward to mom, she likes them better than the Vivi Novas they replaced for her. \n I'm hoping that pricing on the MVP3 is in my range - seems like an easy buy if my MVP2 wears out, would look forward to having more power available than the SVD2 can provide as well. Kinda look at the MVP20 and 30 as non-starter for me, they'd just replace the SVD2 which I don't need to do. \n I'm curious about the upcoming Gladius X as well - if it's better than the Nautilus at the same price (or less based on past Innokin tanks) I'd gladly invest in one.","Summary: spend your downtime staying educated and learning to utilize new tools.\n\nPost: Having downtime is actually a good thing when doing tech work (when you have a fixed clientel)- it means you're doing your job well. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. \n I find there are three pretty good sources for tech information (for hardware and gadgets) that I read daily to both entertain myself and stay abreast of developments in technology: \n [ArsTechnica]( \n [Tom's Hardware]( \n [AnandTech]( \n Another thing that you can do is spend down time experimenting with different tools and software, things like checking out alternate AV packages from whatever your standard is, multimedia tools your customers may need periodically (codecs, flash, acrobat, format conversions, etc.). Experimenting with different network setups and/or file sharing across multiple operating systems. Set up some VM's and dual boot machines (if you have spares) to play with as well. \n Assuming you're working with Windows based machines, [Microsoft's TechNet]( can be a good place to get information on things as well.","Summary: Yes I would try it.\n\nPost: I smoked them on the regular for almost 7 years - if they made the best vaping products I'd not have a problem going with them over existing brands. That said /u/stillhasmuchness brings up a good point. I'd be pretty pissed if Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds simply became a duopoly in vaping by underhanded tactics. On the flip side, we might (pray to the Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven!) get really good quality control, even easier access to vaping products, and perhaps even lower prices overall if/when they step into the game. More than likely however, they'll produce a slightly better cig-a-like than what's available currently, they will still suck for the most part, and vaping as we know it will continue to exist.","Summary: Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are all siblings that hate each other.\n\nPost: East asians have all hated each other for a long as their histories reach back. Koreans are clearly descendents of Manchurians, and Japanese are clearly descendents of Koreans. Ask any of the three though, and they'll all swear that they are singular and superior. Japan's xenophobic and ethnocentric culture norms have persisted into the present day. Look no further than North Korea to see that historically Koreans largely felt the same. China has grown to a point that they can now start to assert their rightful place among nations, being the middle kingdom, the most 'civilized' asian country and all.","Summary: Don't rob yourself at $40 a machine, manage the time more effectively and bill what is justified.\n\nPost: Consider charging by the hour, or flat rating a standard 'clean up' service that is fair to yourself and affordable to your customers. My standard is $65 for a cleanup if they deliver the machine to me, it's $65/hour with an hour minimum if they want me on site. For home users I'll generally cap that at 3hrs. regardless of real time spent so I'm not gouging and can still make them happy. You can usually feel out what someone can reasonably afford, and if they really can't afford your hourly rate then convince them to let you take the machine. The trick is to have 4-5 machines going on your workbench at the same time to keep your $ per hour spent high enough to warrant doing the work. In this situation it's also fair to yourself to set an expectation for the customer that it may take 2-3 days until the job is complete as you may get a call for a 'critical' problem that is more time sensitive than someone's home machine. If it's a professional office or business and they want on site, they're paying for every minute spent, double time on holidays or any 'emergencies' that require over night.","Summary: Need links to 'W' style deck for Ehpro Squape Reloaded clone.\n\nPost: Today I received a Squape Reloaded clone ('Zquape R' by Ehpro) from Eccigity. I'll tell you its awesome, really, really, awesome. As Squapes and their clones go, there are three available decks - a curved 'C' deck, a normal 'S' deck, and a wide-channel 'W' deck. The only drawback to purchasing this particular clone is that you receive only one of the available decks - the 'S'. It works great, don't get me wrong, but I was fortunate enough to snag a well priced SVD 2.0 that is on the way, and I'm going to want to do a little sub-ohming on this baby, which I'm thinking will go best with MOAR COTTON. As you can see, this means I'll be needing the 'W' style deck to juice this bad boy up. So far, I've been unable to find anyone that carries spare decks. Can anyone help feed my addiction and point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.","Summary: Need links to 'W' style deck for Ehpro Squape Reloaded clone.\n\nPost: Today I received a Squape Reloaded clone ('Zquape R' by Ehpro) from Eccigity. I'll tell you its awesome, really, really, awesome. As Squapes and their clones go, there are three available decks - a curved 'C' deck, a normal 'S' deck, and a wide-channel 'W' deck. The only drawback to purchasing this particular clone is that you receive only one of the available decks - the 'S'. It works great, don't get me wrong, but I was fortunate enough to snag a well priced SVD 2.0 that is on the way, and I'm going to want to do a little sub-ohming on this baby, which I'm thinking will go best with MOAR COTTON. As you can see, this means I'll be needing the 'W' style deck to juice this bad boy up. So far, I've been unable to find anyone that carries spare decks. Can anyone help feed my addiction and point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Yes for most things.\\n\\nPost: Yes for great prices on those things they sell that are authentic. Many Innokin products including MVP's, many Aspire products, many Kanger products. \\n No on Kanthal, cotton, silica, etc. Go to Amazon for this. Same or better prices, better quality, faster delivery. \\n No on internal batteries (18650, 18350, etc.) because they will be in customs forever. Another item for Amazon or possibly eBay. \\n Yes on small accessories like tweezers/cutters/jigs/rods/bottles, etc. \\n No on juice. I'd rather smoke again than risk chinese juices. \\n Yes on clones! Do your homework before you buy a clone - some are very, very good, most are garbage. A higher priced clone isn't always the better version, either. \\n /u/vapenewer's tips are top notch \\n If it's an option at checkout time, choose China ePacket as your preferred shipping method. With luck your order will be in San Francisco in under a week. I've had 3 out of 5 orders spend more time in customs in San Fran than time getting out of China and across the Pacific. These guys are actually fast when it comes to international shipping from across the globe - it's U.S., Hong Kong, and Malaysian customs that cause the big delays.\",\n \"Summary: guy smokes weed at work every day, nobody cares because they either buy from him or like him too much.\\n\\nPost: Smoking pot on shift, on company property, on a daily basis w/the full knowledge of at least six of the staff. Why did he continue to get away with it? Otherwise very good employee, and was also selling weed to quite a few of the people there. I knew as well, personally I didn't care as long as he kept it during breaks and didn't wreck anything.\",\n \"Summary: RAM kit prices are mostly set along the lines of who they are being marketed to, as well as overall quality and raw performance.\\n\\nPost: Maybe one is a special 'gamer' or 'overclocker' kit that is priced into a different market. Pick up the most affordable DDR3-1600 CL9 kit you can get, and if you can afford it CL8 would be better. You'll notice that the DDR3-xxxx rating reflects the RAM's clock rate, while the CL/CAS number reflects how many cycles of the clock rate the RAM takes to perform different funtions like reading, writing, refreshing, etc. I don't know enough of the inner workings of RAM to give you detailed a overview, but in general once you have enough bandwidth (aka clock speed) to satisfy your usage scenario, you'll gain more performance from lower timings (effectively less latency) than you will by adding more bandwidth. [Wikipedia]( gives a good explanation of the details and even has a table comparing real latencies of different RAM standards vs. their clock rate and timings.\",\n \"Summary: Variable Wattage feature can be used to keep the vape experience the same across head changes or tank changes. Play with it and see what you enjoy the most.\\n\\nPost: Here's how the volts vs. watts thing works. The wattage is the total amount of energy you're putting through the coil. A higher wattage will generally equally higher a temperature. \\n So let's say you set your iTaste at 3.8 volts and the coil (or head) you're using from Kanger ]( we can see that total power will be just above 6 Watts, and your batter will be supplying that 3.8v at about 1.6Amps (the higher the amperage, the higher the drain on the battery). \\n Making sense so far? So let's say the next day you pop in a new Kanger head, but this one only has a 1.8Ohm resistance because that's what your local shop had available. At the same 3.8v setting, you'll be vaping at just over 8 Watts total power, with about a 2.1Amp draw on the battery. Same voltage setting, but a warmer vape with higher battery drain. \\n Let's say that you really like the experience of your vape at 8 Watts (I like mine from about 8-10). Instead of adjusting voltage when you change out coils (or if you attach a different tank), you can set a constant wattage instead. Set the device for 8w, and it will auto-detect the resistance of whatever you've got attached to it, and adjust the voltage accordingly to give you a vape at 8w.\",\n \"Summary: When you catch the consumer, you're also often catching a supplier, or at the very least getting a solid lead on a supplier.\\n\\nPost: They are very often one in the same. These people find common grounds, share information on where to get kiddie porn, and very often have their own personal stuff they will share or sell as well. \\n So let's say you arrest one or two guys on the east coast of the U.S. as a result of using a program like this. Search warrants are issued, online histories are obtained, any digital storage found as a result of the search are gone through forensically. As a result you're going to be very likely to find those places that they've been obtaining child porn, who is providing it, and contact information for other predators. This is a definitely a group where the term 'birds of a feather' is applicable - a molester could act alone and only molest those they are local to, but more than likely if they have any kind of digital footprint in this sick endeavor, they will be having some kind of contact with other pedos. Busting a couple of guys could lead to dozens of others being caught as well. \\n This idea is not so dissimilar from how law enforcement agencies use informants to help bust drug rings or other crime organizations, only in this case the pedo's computer(s) become the informants, and perhaps the abusers themselves as well. In some cases the FBI has even taken over the online identity of abusers they have already arrested, and made it appear as those things were proceeding normally within the kiddie porn ring the criminals were participating in, and by doing so are able obtain many, many more arrests.\",\n \"Summary: cigs are super addictive for multiple reasons, you will still have some withdrawals and it will take time to adjust.\\n\\nPost: There is a second addictive substance in tobacco that e-liquids do not have - MAOI's. \\n [\\\"Nicotine, a substance frequently implicated in tobacco addiction, has been shown to have \\\"relatively weak\\\" addictive properties when administered alone. The addictive potential increases dramatically after co-administration of an MAOI, which specifically causes sensitization of the locomotor response in rats, a measure of addictive potential. This may be reflected in the difficulty of smoking cessation, as tobacco contains naturally-occurring MAOI compounds in addition to the nicotine.\\\"]( \\n Essentially the smoking experience is much more rewarding to the brain because of these chemicals, making it hard to quit. It took me two years to break the smoking habit, even after taking up vaping. To do it I slowly lowered my intake of cigarettes, and supplemented with some snus pouches when it was really bad. After about four months of this, I'm two weeks smoke free and two days without a pouch. I'm having some mild withdrawals, but nothing that a few vapes won't handle.\",\n \"Summary: temperate climates are better for producing large amounts of grains, and producing large amounts of grains allowed for more advanced and complex societies.\\n\\nPost: Grain production \\n \\n \\n \\n Seafaring technology and road construction, developed out of necessity to trade commodities, originally grains. \\n \\n \\n \\n Financial systems developed to facilitate the trade of commodities via seafaring and roads. \\n \\n \\n \\n At the origin of civilization is grain production, the domestication of grasses such as wheat, rice, and barley to be used for food during droughts or harsh winters. Early accounting and record keeping systems were first developed in Sumeria in order to keep track of harvests, storage, and distribution. Grains can provide quite a bit of energy per unit as they are dense in carbohydrates, they can also help to sustain a larger more densely concentrated population. In addition to this, most of our domestic food animals can be fed grain as well. This abundance of 'easy food' compared to pre-agricultural societes allows for people to have time to start specializing in providing particular services, rather than on getting sustenance, leading to greater technological innovations. Eventually the majority of your people are not living in tribes and migrating across the land to follow herds of herbivores and digging for tubers - instead they are living in cities with grain storage and a regular food supply. They are spending their time making things , writing things down, and trading with other cities. As trade increases so does that societies mobility. People start making maps and ships and roads from one place to another. Labor becomes more subdivided until most people aren't even involved in food production, having a profession becomes the norm. The development of money and centralized financial systems allows people to assign a relative value not only to objects but to their labors, until money itself becomes the de-facto commodity. It also allows people to live easily by buying their food only , further removing most from the burden of survival. Once this happens an even wider range of professions crop up, people start paying for convenience , and that need for convenience spurs the development of new technologies. New technologies that almost completely remove the basic survival aspect of human living and introduce the ability to produce on an even greater scale, to travel farther and faster than before, and to almost completely shape our surroundings for comfort.\",\n \"Summary: China batteries are 3rd tier in quality for the most part. Buy Japanese or Korean if you need more than 20A continuous reliably. \\n Second Edit - The MNKE's I have were bought through Amazon. They're working very well at .4ohms, don't get hot and last as long as expected. I'm not a battery expert, just educated myself via google before jumping into mechs.\\n\\nPost: Efest seems to list either continuous/burst (32A/64A), or just burst. I bought some of the 26650 '30A/60A' 3500mah MNKE's, only to find out that they had been bought out by Efest a while back, meaning I either have Efests with MNKE branding, or very old MNKE's. In reality these are 20A continuous cells (going by MNKE's spec sheet), and I build around that. Many of the Chinese batteries overstate their amp output as well as mah rating, especially any 'X'fire brands. The Korean manufacturers (LG and Samsung) appear more trustworthy in their ratings, and of course the Japanese (Sony, Panasonic) have always had top-tier batteries. Sony's are drying up, Panasonic doesn't seem to make anything over 10A continuous (that you can actually buy as a single consumer, anyhow), leaving the Koreans and Chinese to corner the market. Shout out to Panasonic NCR18650PF by the way for being awesome in lower power regulated devices. You might wonder why the Chinese batteries generally don't perform to spec, and the reason is that the Chinese (and manufacturer's from many other regions) are building their batteries from overstock and/or B grade cells from the only companies that actually make them (usually Sony or Panasonic). In other words, the China batteries are hit and miss - you may get a top quality unit, you may get nothing but Sony factory rejects that don't output what the new seller (Efest, 'X'fire, 'X'power, MXJO etc.) claims they should because they base the spec on what A grade cells would be able to do.\",\n \"Summary: ESD is real, and it pays to be aware and educated about it. Wrist straps are cheap, processors, RAM, and motherboards are not.\\n\\nPost: u/ztherion is correct. It seems to me that 90% of people that 'know about computers' and discount ESD as a problem to actively avoid may or may not 'know about computers', but they definitely don't know what they are talking about when it comes to electricity and IC's. \\n JEDEC, which is mostly a RAM specification standards committee and whose member companies include [this giant list]( also has some dense, but [factual ESD guidelines]( set for it's members. Besides the fact that just about every manufacturer of electronics/IC's/microchips is a JEDEC member and takes care when it comes to ESD issues, you don't have to look any farther than the graphite colored, translucent plastic 'anti-static' bags that almost all PCB's come shipped in. They are shipped with ESD precautions in mind for a reason, because static can and does destroy electronics equipment.\",\n \"Summary: Laptop is too old, need [new WiFi adapter.](\\n\\nPost: What he's meaning to say is - many of the first generation of 802.11B/G devices do not have WPA or WPA2 encryption capabilities. Your WiFi network is probably setup using WPA2 encryption, which the WiFi adapter in the old notebook cannot understand. You have two choices - you can configure your router to use the older and less secure WEP encryption, assuming it supports that, or you can use a newer USB WiFi adapter with your laptop that supports WPA2.\",\n \"Summary: Both consoles are mid-range PC's at best.\\n\\nPost: The video hardware was roughly equivalent to mid-range video cards at launch, with the CPU's being 8 core versions of what AMD has developed for tablets and low-powered notebooks . You'll notice the very low clock speeds of these chips, which is a significant limiting factor. Seeing as the hardware in both consoles is extremely similar, and that very similar hardware was already well known on PC's, there isn't a 'learning curve' to program for these machines as there was for PS3 or Xbox 360. There is also very little specialized/custom hardware in these machines like there was in say the PS2. \\n Besides these factors, both M$ and Sony opted for integrated on-die graphics and a single shared memory pool. Sony opted to to use the same kind of memory that's used on most PC video cards, GDDR5. GDDR5 is very much based on DDR3, but trades latency for higher clock speed in order to provide greater bandwidth. This does help alleviate the problem of sharing the same memory space and bandwidth between an 8-core CPU and the graphics cores, but it is still sub-optimal for graphics rendering. M$ opted to use standard DDR3, which should be better for CPU tasks, and they also used a larg-ish amount of embedded RAM (eDRAM) on the chip to help keep the graphics cores fed. At the end of the day, both approaches are aren't horrible, but neither is very good compared to both the CPU and GPU having dedicated memory pools and memory bandwidth.\",\n \"Summary: Yeah, OP is right. Buying Innokin is like buying Intel or IBM in the tech world - you can't really go wrong.\\n\\nPost: MVP2 and SVD2 user here - MVP has been with me a year next month. Probably the best investment out there for a beginner vaper, wish I had skipped the normal ego kit and went straight to it. So durable, accurate, stylish, easy to use, etc. Included tank needs an upgrade, but the device itself is great for any normal tank setups. Powers a Nautilus at 9w all day long no prob. Fairly fast to charge too. \\n SVD2 is a slightly different story. It's bigger than I'd like, but not Vamo/SVD1 big. Build quality is again top notch. This thing has fallen to the sidewalk three times now, only one small scratch. Power output is kinda low for rebuildables, but it's enough for some basic stuff. Great for a Squape/Kayfun style (married to a Squape R clone) or similar rebuildable tank or single coil atty. All the new DNA features besides temp control. Battery requirements aren't too stiff and battery life is again very good. 510 connection is excellent, ego connection is available if for some bizarre reason you're still using something with cone threading. \\n iClear 30S tanks got me through my first 8 months of vaping, and were what I used for the first 4 months I was off the cigs. Not bad, but not competitive with the Nautilus or rebuildables. Vaped them forward to mom, she likes them better than the Vivi Novas they replaced for her. \\n I'm hoping that pricing on the MVP3 is in my range - seems like an easy buy if my MVP2 wears out, would look forward to having more power available than the SVD2 can provide as well. Kinda look at the MVP20 and 30 as non-starter for me, they'd just replace the SVD2 which I don't need to do. \\n I'm curious about the upcoming Gladius X as well - if it's better than the Nautilus at the same price (or less based on past Innokin tanks) I'd gladly invest in one.\",\n \"Summary: spend your downtime staying educated and learning to utilize new tools.\\n\\nPost: Having downtime is actually a good thing when doing tech work (when you have a fixed clientel)- it means you're doing your job well. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. \\n I find there are three pretty good sources for tech information (for hardware and gadgets) that I read daily to both entertain myself and stay abreast of developments in technology: \\n [ArsTechnica]( \\n [Tom's Hardware]( \\n [AnandTech]( \\n Another thing that you can do is spend down time experimenting with different tools and software, things like checking out alternate AV packages from whatever your standard is, multimedia tools your customers may need periodically (codecs, flash, acrobat, format conversions, etc.). Experimenting with different network setups and/or file sharing across multiple operating systems. Set up some VM's and dual boot machines (if you have spares) to play with as well. \\n Assuming you're working with Windows based machines, [Microsoft's TechNet]( can be a good place to get information on things as well.\",\n \"Summary: Yes I would try it.\\n\\nPost: I smoked them on the regular for almost 7 years - if they made the best vaping products I'd not have a problem going with them over existing brands. That said /u/stillhasmuchness brings up a good point. I'd be pretty pissed if Phillip Morris and RJ Reynolds simply became a duopoly in vaping by underhanded tactics. On the flip side, we might (pray to the Lord Jesus Christ in Heaven!) get really good quality control, even easier access to vaping products, and perhaps even lower prices overall if/when they step into the game. More than likely however, they'll produce a slightly better cig-a-like than what's available currently, they will still suck for the most part, and vaping as we know it will continue to exist.\",\n \"Summary: Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are all siblings that hate each other.\\n\\nPost: East asians have all hated each other for a long as their histories reach back. Koreans are clearly descendents of Manchurians, and Japanese are clearly descendents of Koreans. Ask any of the three though, and they'll all swear that they are singular and superior. Japan's xenophobic and ethnocentric culture norms have persisted into the present day. Look no further than North Korea to see that historically Koreans largely felt the same. China has grown to a point that they can now start to assert their rightful place among nations, being the middle kingdom, the most 'civilized' asian country and all.\",\n \"Summary: Don't rob yourself at $40 a machine, manage the time more effectively and bill what is justified.\\n\\nPost: Consider charging by the hour, or flat rating a standard 'clean up' service that is fair to yourself and affordable to your customers. My standard is $65 for a cleanup if they deliver the machine to me, it's $65/hour with an hour minimum if they want me on site. For home users I'll generally cap that at 3hrs. regardless of real time spent so I'm not gouging and can still make them happy. You can usually feel out what someone can reasonably afford, and if they really can't afford your hourly rate then convince them to let you take the machine. The trick is to have 4-5 machines going on your workbench at the same time to keep your $ per hour spent high enough to warrant doing the work. In this situation it's also fair to yourself to set an expectation for the customer that it may take 2-3 days until the job is complete as you may get a call for a 'critical' problem that is more time sensitive than someone's home machine. If it's a professional office or business and they want on site, they're paying for every minute spent, double time on holidays or any 'emergencies' that require over night.\",\n \"Summary: Need links to 'W' style deck for Ehpro Squape Reloaded clone.\\n\\nPost: Today I received a Squape Reloaded clone ('Zquape R' by Ehpro) from Eccigity. I'll tell you its awesome, really, really, awesome. As Squapes and their clones go, there are three available decks - a curved 'C' deck, a normal 'S' deck, and a wide-channel 'W' deck. The only drawback to purchasing this particular clone is that you receive only one of the available decks - the 'S'. It works great, don't get me wrong, but I was fortunate enough to snag a well priced SVD 2.0 that is on the way, and I'm going to want to do a little sub-ohming on this baby, which I'm thinking will go best with MOAR COTTON. As you can see, this means I'll be needing the 'W' style deck to juice this bad boy up. So far, I've been unable to find anyone that carries spare decks. Can anyone help feed my addiction and point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.\",\n \"Summary: Need links to 'W' style deck for Ehpro Squape Reloaded clone.\\n\\nPost: Today I received a Squape Reloaded clone ('Zquape R' by Ehpro) from Eccigity. I'll tell you its awesome, really, really, awesome. As Squapes and their clones go, there are three available decks - a curved 'C' deck, a normal 'S' deck, and a wide-channel 'W' deck. The only drawback to purchasing this particular clone is that you receive only one of the available decks - the 'S'. It works great, don't get me wrong, but I was fortunate enough to snag a well priced SVD 2.0 that is on the way, and I'm going to want to do a little sub-ohming on this baby, which I'm thinking will go best with MOAR COTTON. As you can see, this means I'll be needing the 'W' style deck to juice this bad boy up. So far, I've been unable to find anyone that carries spare decks. Can anyone help feed my addiction and point me in the right direction? Thanks in advance.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":18,"string":"18"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2991,"string":"2,991"}}},{"rowIdx":2992,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"spenceast"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post I have started and then given up on many different stories. One of my biggest personal goals is to complete and publish my own novel. What can I do to achieve this?"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"As an English major, I read and write frequently. I fill notebooks up with story ideas. I love writing a lot. Problem is, I get started writing one story and then...get bored of it and switch to the next story idea I have. At one point, I had six different documents open, each with a different idea. I was excited about each one when I started writing them, but then that excitement trailed off and went to who knows where. \n I think that's the only thing holding me back, the fact that I've never actually finished writing my own novel. I just want to finish one - even if it's just a novella, 150-200 pages - that way I'll know that I can do it. Hopefully then I can turn it into something. It's become a very therapeutic process for me, I just wish I could actually complete a novel! Seeing all the unfinished work on my desktop gives me anxiety. \n I write about many different things. I like to explore different genres. Currently, I'm working on a collection of short stories which range from comedy, to horror, to thriller, to romance - all involving the same characters and how their different stories interact and intertwine with one another's. I have begun a political thriller/mystery novels, which is set in the 1970's revolving around a sting operation involving the mafia and human organ trafficking. I'm writing a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future where the government controls all human emotion through mandatory chemical injections, and I have started one horror novel - a ghost story - about a well known celebrity who is haunted by the presence of his best friend, an international rock star, who convinces him to learn the truth about his murder, leading him to discover a political coverup that receives national attention.\nI am interested in writing things that deal with \"human nature\". I started writing (today) a story told from two different POV's: One, from that of a successful dentist who has a growing urge to kill, just to know what it's like. and the other from the perspective of a man recently found innocent of rape and murder charges after 14 years in prison, who now lives on the streets and is considered the scum of the city. I want to explore how people look down on the homeless man, who is actually a good person at heart and how they adore and almost worship the successful \"celebrity-status\" dentist, who is actually a monster. \n I have so many because, as I said, I start writing one story and then that leads me to new ideas which I get really excited to start working on. Several of my stories bleed into each other. For example, the one set in the 1970's and the ghost story both have characters and plot lines that I created for the one story, but then decided worked better as part of the other. \n I have had a close friend of mine read a few of my writings. Her exact quote after reading the dystopian sci-fi piece was, \"Who is the father? Who is this Deb character? PLEASE send me more, I need to KNOW!!\" \n That was encouraging because I realized that maybe somebody would like to read my work someday. I believe that I mainly write for myself, but I do have a desire to add value to my readers' lives - to help them enjoy reading, like I do. I really want to complete something. I need the motivation/encouragement/discipline to do it. What are your tips? What can I do to achieve this personal goal?\n(sorry for the long, almost rambling, post. Like I said, I love to write)."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"As an English major, I read and write frequently. I fill notebooks up with story ideas. I love writing a lot. Problem is, I get started writing one story and then...get bored of it and switch to the next story idea I have. At one point, I had six different documents open, each with a different idea. I was excited about each one when I started writing them, but then that excitement trailed off and went to who knows where. \n I think that's the only thing holding me back, the fact that I've never actually finished writing my own novel. I just want to finish one - even if it's just a novella, 150-200 pages - that way I'll know that I can do it. Hopefully then I can turn it into something. It's become a very therapeutic process for me, I just wish I could actually complete a novel! Seeing all the unfinished work on my desktop gives me anxiety. \n I write about many different things. I like to explore different genres. Currently, I'm working on a collection of short stories which range from comedy, to horror, to thriller, to romance - all involving the same characters and how their different stories interact and intertwine with one another's. I have begun a political thriller/mystery novels, which is set in the 1970's revolving around a sting operation involving the mafia and human organ trafficking. I'm writing a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future where the government controls all human emotion through mandatory chemical injections, and I have started one horror novel - a ghost story - about a well known celebrity who is haunted by the presence of his best friend, an international rock star, who convinces him to learn the truth about his murder, leading him to discover a political coverup that receives national attention.\nI am interested in writing things that deal with \"human nature\". I started writing (today) a story told from two different POV's: One, from that of a successful dentist who has a growing urge to kill, just to know what it's like. and the other from the perspective of a man recently found innocent of rape and murder charges after 14 years in prison, who now lives on the streets and is considered the scum of the city. I want to explore how people look down on the homeless man, who is actually a good person at heart and how they adore and almost worship the successful \"celebrity-status\" dentist, who is actually a monster. \n I have so many because, as I said, I start writing one story and then that leads me to new ideas which I get really excited to start working on. Several of my stories bleed into each other. For example, the one set in the 1970's and the ghost story both have characters and plot lines that I created for the one story, but then decided worked better as part of the other. \n I have had a close friend of mine read a few of my writings. Her exact quote after reading the dystopian sci-fi piece was, \"Who is the father? Who is this Deb character? PLEASE send me more, I need to KNOW!!\" \n That was encouraging because I realized that maybe somebody would like to read my work someday. I believe that I mainly write for myself, but I do have a desire to add value to my readers' lives - to help them enjoy reading, like I do. I really want to complete something. I need the motivation/encouragement/discipline to do it. What are your tips? What can I do to achieve this personal goal?\n(sorry for the long, almost rambling, post. Like I said, I love to write)."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Showed up for what I thought would be a date, turns out, she hired me to be her son's babysitter.\n\nPost: Was at a café meeting some friends and saw a really pretty woman at the counter. Started chatting with her and it turns out she's a single parent too, so I ended up getting her number, which she gave to me on a napkin before she walked out. \n Anyway, I call the girl up and schedule a date for that weekend. I show up to her place with my young son and a nice bottle of wine, looking forward to a nice evening out, while we leave the kids to have a play date with the babysitter. When I arrive, she's got her jacket and keys in hand and says, \"I'll be home around 11:00\" then, looking at the bottle of wine I had brought for us, says, \"I don't mind if you drink, but only after you put the kids to bed\".","Summary: I guess conflict and saying \"NO\" to people make me uncomfortable.\n\nPost: I work in retail and it always makes me uncomfortable when a customer is upset and decides to take it out on me, when it was clearly something out of my control. \n Or when we're out of something, or there's some problem, and I have to tell the customer \"no\" and they flip out at me for no reason.","Summary: Had a horrible diarrhea explosion on a hot bus in Brazil, everyone knew it was me who did it, an old lady almost had a heart attack.\n\nPost: I just got back from living in Brazil for two years... \n When I got to São Paulo, a good friend of mine told me, \"If you don't shit yourself on a bus here at least once, you didn't get the full experience.\" \n So I spent the next two years crossing my fingers (or my asshole, I don't know) in hopes that I don't shit myself on a city bus. \n Flash-forward to September of this year, about a month and a half before I'm set to go back home. I had just left a friend's family's house after lunch and as I sat waiting on the bus stop, my stomach churned. It was hot and melty and I just knew that there was a volcanic eruption ready to take place. I had few options to choose from, and taking a dump at the local bar was NOT one of them. Those things are sketchy. \n So, the bus arrives and I awkwardly and nervously climb aboard; I was with my friend and he was unaware of my situation. As I pass through the turnstile, the bus roars up and flies down the avenue. Full of people, I am squeezing my way through the crowd when the bus driver slams on the brakes and I fall forward, my hands flailing. I grab an older lady who is seated in front of me for support and as I do, my butt releases a horrible sound and one of the foulest odors I have ever had the misfortune of smelling. Hot diarrhea explodes out of me and drips down my pant legs, spilling out on the floor. The lady who I grabbed stood up and started screeching and shaking and I figured her heart had stopped and she was going to die.\nAnd for those of you who know, a Brazilian bus already smells pretty questionable, so this just made it worse.","Summary: My best friend banged the girl I was in love with while I babysat his 5-year-old sister, then they came downstairs and ate the Muddy Buddies I had made with so much love.\n\nPost: Another one: \n About three or four years ago I was hanging out with two of my best friends, one guy and the other a girl. I was 17 and they were both 16. I was in love with this girl and the guy knew this very well. \n So the girl and I go over to his house to wait for him to finish babysitting his five year old sister so we could go see a movie together. (We saw Toy Story 3 and THAT is another awkward situation story). \n Anyway, the three of us are talking in the kitchen while I make Muddy Buddies. My buddy asks for the girl to run up to his room with him to grab his record player so we could listen to some classic vinyls. I stayed down in the kitchen finishing up the muddy buddies and making sure his little sister doesn't kill herself or something... \n Ten minutes go by, and they don't come downstairs. Fifteen minutes, still nothing...Twenty minutes go by and I decide to go up to his room and see what's taking so long. In my \"innocent\" little mind, I had no idea that anything would have been happening. \n I get upstairs to see the two of them naked on his couch, with my best friend pounding it into the girl I'm in love with. She started moaning and I quietly snuck away...to this day they don't know that I saw them. \n anyway,","Summary: Brazil is a crazy place, people die, Christians sometimes curse protesters, homeless men get into some deep shit, and probably you should stay away from buses and bus stops.\n\nPost: I lived in Brazil from 2011-2013. I saw some crazy stuff there, stuff I had never imagined I would see. Some scary things I remember: \n -May 2013: I saw a guy down an alley on his knees get shot in the head execution style. \n -October 2012: I was visiting a man and sitting in his front room when the front door opened, and another man came running through his house carrying a black backpack under one arm and a pistol in his free hand. He rushed out the back door, passing right in front of the three of us (who were sitting on the couch). The man we were visiting cleared his throat and said, \"Please excuse me\". I assumed he was standing up to go close the front and back doors but no, he pulled a pistol from his waistband and walked out the back door. My friend and I heard three distinct gunshots. Then our host returned after a moment holding the black backpack. He closed the back door, closed the front door, and sat down. He said, \"You may go on\" and crossed his legs like nothing had happened. \n -Easter 2013: A protester in front of a Catholic church with a sign that said, \"God Hates Christians; Loves The Jews\" was screaming and raging at the priests inside during their services (the chapel doors were open). I was across the street waiting for a bus and watching this guy. Slowly, one of the priests walked out of the chapel and right up to the protester who was just outside the gates. He spoke quietly and calmly with him, made the sign of the cross, then returned to participate in the services. The protester stopped screaming, lowered the sign down, then slowly backed up into the street. I looked at my friend who was next to me and said something, taking my eyes off the protester. Suddenly, I hear this SCREECH and a scream and just remember seeing the protester get smashed by a speeding city bus. I can still clearly see the blood squirt out of his chest as he was impaled by one of the bike racks and I can hear the scream and the crunching of his bones as his legs were shattered under it. It was over in seconds. All that was left of it was his sign, which fell to the ground. Ominously, the chapel doors shut immediately after. The scary part was that everyone around us (the two white Americans looking very out of place) continued about like nothing had happened. \n -July 2013: I saw a homeless man taking a shit behind a bus stop. He dropped his pants, propped himself up against the bus stop bench and exclaimed loudly from the satisfaction of dumping what was one of the biggest shits I have ever seen. The man was clearly drunk, from the smell coming off of him and the amount of bottles of \"cachaça\" (a popular Brazilian alcohol) around him. There was a white cement wall opposite the bench he was leaning against and I see this other man, shirtless, hop over the wall, grab a bottle of cachaça, proceed to pour it all over the drunk man taking a shit, and then drop a lit match on him. He erupted in flames and started screaming while the shirtless man ran off laughing hysterically. \n -August 2012: I was sitting on a public bus looking at some photos on my cell phone when I felt a sharp sting in my right shoulder blade. A man was behind me and spoke very sharply into my ear, saying, \"Give me some money\" or something like that. He poked a knife into my shoulder again when I hesitated. I reached into my wallet and gave him a 20R$ (reais) note. He walked off and I had to clean my bloody white shirt afterwards. It was scary cause that was the first time it had happened to me (and something similar happened three more times before I returned home).","Summary: Got set up with a girl I barely knew and had a good time. Would like to see her again, but she lives two hours away. Want to keep in contact and see if it can turn into anything more. Need advice! \n How can I judge her interest level? What can I do/say to keep conversations going (which will mainly be over texts) so that I can keep any potential interest and be able to have room to pursue it? Any general tips/advice you can give me?\n\nPost: So, over the weekend, I attended a wedding with one of my close friends and her boyfriend. Unbeknownst to me, she invited her best friend (whom I had met previously, but never really spent any time with) and we were each others \"dates\". We had a great time at the reception and then spent the rest of the weekend hanging out. It was great because we prevented each other from \"third-wheeling\" it with my close friend and her boyfriend. \n Several times we kinda cuddled and talked and got to know each other a little better. We flirted a bit, but I was kind of shy around her and not really acting like myself, because I was unaware of how \"interested\" she was in me. I really enjoyed spending time with her and would love to continue pursuing and see where it could go. \n We ended up driving home together and had a good time, she gave me a big hug after I dropped her off at her car and I told her to text me when she got home to let me know she arrived safely. She just did and then mentioned that she had a wonderful time this weekend and she really enjoyed my company. She also said that we should plan a trip together (something we had talked about in passing over the weekend) because it would be really fun. I am all for it and I hope that works out! \n I want to see her again so I can kind of open up more and be more myself, cause I realized I was kind of shut off and awkward, because of the reception and the situations we were in where there was a couple right by us and we were just kind of set up with each other. \n I need some advice because, she lives about two hours away from my city. I'd love to get together with her again and I want to stay in contact. I don't know how often I should text her or talk to her or what...","Summary: My girlfriend and I have been disagreeing on several important issues and it's gotten to the point where I think it might be time to call things off, rather than waste any of our time arguing over issues that we cannot seem to resolve.\n\nPost: As my girlfriend and I have been dating, our conversations have turned towards marriage and what it would be like raising kids and where. With this, we have tried to be very open, honest, and respectful with each other while at the same time avoiding conflicts and arguments. \n some background information before I get into a few of the more specific issues : My girlfriend comes from a very conservative, all-natural/holistic/organically inclined family. I lean left, am all for healthy eating/holistic treatments, but it's not something I am very adamant about. \n I am about to graduate university and head into law school, most likely in New York City. \n The issues that we are having trouble with : \n -Children: she wants children, as do I, but I get the feeling that she wants them right away. She is not very social and, knowing that we will be moving for law school, would probably like to have a child to take care of and spend time with while I am away. However, I do not want to have children while I am attending law school. The added financial responsibilities do not entice me and I am worried about not having the time to help raise a child while I'm in school. We have disagreed about this. \n -Pets: I am not interested in having pets, but I know she is. We discussed it at length and we reached a compromise on getting a small dog (she wants a pomsky and I agreed but said that that is all I want). However, now, she is thinking she can use that to encourage me to get more pets. I am allergic to cats and have said no to one repeatedly. My mother and I both have a damaging fear of snakes and I have refused that, although my girlfriend is very adamant about pushing for some sort of snake or reptile...I do not feel comfortable having that in my house and we have had several disagreements and arguments because of this. \n -Vaccinations: this comes with the children argument. Once, I mentioned that I was going to get a flu shot and she got very upset with me, saying, \"Those are so bad for you!\" I got one regardless and explained that I have always gotten one every year and never had any problems. She argued that she has never gotten one and has already been fine and then bluntly said, \"Okay, you do what you want. But just so you know, my children will not be getting vaccinated\". I am completely against that--I was vaccinated as a child and I am very pro-vaccination. I want my children to be vaccinated. \n -Where to live: I want to live, and work, in a bigger city. She doesn't want to. She is even very worried and vocal about how much she would hate living in New York City, where I want to go to law school and have dreamt of going for years. \n -Social events: I am a very social guy, always looking forward to going out and networking, talking with people, and honestly, being the center of attention. She does not like that and, when we go out to social events, she is not talkative, avoidant, and often times seems very cold to people, even our friends. I have had several people ask me about her and call me out on it, and we have had several arguments because of it. \n -Guns: I am not anti-gun, but I just don't care for them. I don't want one in my house and I don't see it as a hobby that I care to pursue. She has been raised to think that we all need to have guns for a variety of reasons, all of which I think boils down to personal preference and we have disagreed on this. \n -Gay rights: We discussed one time what would happen if we had a homosexual child. I said that I would love them and respect them and allow them to live their life in a way that they feel comfortable and loved. She thinks that that approach is wrong and that we should enforce heterosexual tendencies and choices on them. That's not right and we got in a big fight with that. Basically, she thinks homosexuality is a choice and I think it is something a person is born with. \n We are members of the same religion and attend church together so that is not a problem. The only issue with religion is that she claims that because of my faith, I ought to be a Republican and not support certain issues that the majority of Democrats support, but most members of my religion are against. I disagree, claiming that my religion teaches love and respect for all and that Democratic values are more in line with my religious beliefs. We tend to avoid having political arguments, but our differences underlying feelings are clear. \n What do I do? Is it possible to continue to push forward and work things out? Or should I just stop wasting both of our time and break things off?","Summary: Broke up with my girlfriend last week, felt good about it. Now, she comes back with a letter explaining that she has changed her mind on a few significant issues we disagreed on and I am now second-guessing myself and feeling manipulated. I don't know what to do, and it's affecting my other relationships and the other aspects of my life. I need some help.\n\nPost: I've posted two other threads about this. Read them if you want some more background info on this: \n Anyway, I mustered the courage to do what I felt was right and I broke up with her last week. Thursday night was when it happened and it was the longest, roughest break-up conversation that I've ever had. She didnt want to let go. She was reaching for anything she could to get me to stay with her. \n We didn't talk after that. And I was fine...I felt good about the break-up. I was sad, sure, I missed her from time to time. But overall, it was an easier \"moving on\" process...(remember, it has only been a week)....I felt confident in my decision. \n TODAY, however, she texted me and said, \"Ive done some thinking, some soul-searching, and I feel like there are some things I need to tell you. Can we get together to talk sometime?\" \n I said \"No, I don't think that's a good idea.\" She kept pestering me until finally I said, \"Text me what you want to say if you really need to, but I don't want to get together with you.\" She never responded. \n This afternoon, she showed up at my work. She was already crying when she walked into my office. She said she wrote me a letter and that she wanted me to read it because it explained some things....basically, the letter said that in the time we have spent apart (a week!) she had thought a lot about our conversation, about the things we disagreed on, and she decided that she had changed. She decided that she had been heavily influenced by her family (especially on the issue of the vaccinations) and that she had researched it and thought about it for herself and came to her own conclusions. She said that she \"knows personally that we can get through anything, but we have to do it together\". She said that she can't picture the rest of her life with anybody else and that she wants us to make it work. She said that she'll support me and do anything to make me happy and to make us work. \n I was doing fine, I was doing great. I was trying to move on. And now I just feel sad . I can't stop thinking about her. I can't stop second-guessing my original decision to break-up with her. I don't know what to do, I don't know what's right. I wish she had never talked to me about this. People in my life are telling me to stick to my guns and not do anything about it; other people I trust are telling me that the big letter she wrote me was honest and sweet and that I should give her another chance. \n I don't know. I just want it all to end. I want to be happy, I don't want this. I don't want to feel manipulated. I don't want to feel like I did the wrong thing. Help...","Summary: Broke up with my girlfriend last week, felt good about it. Now, she comes back with a letter explaining that she has changed her mind on a few significant issues we disagreed on and I am now second-guessing myself and feeling manipulated. I don't know what to do, and it's affecting my other relationships and the other aspects of my life. I need some help.\n\nPost: I've posted two other threads about this. Read them if you want some more background info on this: \n Anyway, I mustered the courage to do what I felt was right and I broke up with her last week. Thursday night was when it happened and it was the longest, roughest break-up conversation that I've ever had. She didnt want to let go. She was reaching for anything she could to get me to stay with her. \n We didn't talk after that. And I was fine...I felt good about the break-up. I was sad, sure, I missed her from time to time. But overall, it was an easier \"moving on\" process...(remember, it has only been a week)....I felt confident in my decision. \n TODAY, however, she texted me and said, \"Ive done some thinking, some soul-searching, and I feel like there are some things I need to tell you. Can we get together to talk sometime?\" \n I said \"No, I don't think that's a good idea.\" She kept pestering me until finally I said, \"Text me what you want to say if you really need to, but I don't want to get together with you.\" She never responded. \n This afternoon, she showed up at my work. She was already crying when she walked into my office. She said she wrote me a letter and that she wanted me to read it because it explained some things....basically, the letter said that in the time we have spent apart (a week!) she had thought a lot about our conversation, about the things we disagreed on, and she decided that she had changed. She decided that she had been heavily influenced by her family (especially on the issue of the vaccinations) and that she had researched it and thought about it for herself and came to her own conclusions. She said that she \"knows personally that we can get through anything, but we have to do it together\". She said that she can't picture the rest of her life with anybody else and that she wants us to make it work. She said that she'll support me and do anything to make me happy and to make us work. \n I was doing fine, I was doing great. I was trying to move on. And now I just feel sad . I can't stop thinking about her. I can't stop second-guessing my original decision to break-up with her. I don't know what to do, I don't know what's right. I wish she had never talked to me about this. People in my life are telling me to stick to my guns and not do anything about it; other people I trust are telling me that the big letter she wrote me was honest and sweet and that I should give her another chance. \n I don't know. I just want it all to end. I want to be happy, I don't want this. I don't want to feel manipulated. I don't want to feel like I did the wrong thing. Help...","Summary: I don't want to hurt her anymore than is necessary, but also I don't want to prolong a relationship that I feel will not last, especially through an engagement or marriage. I still care a lot for her, but with the disagreements and arguments we have been having, I don't want to be leading her on and I think the smartest thing to do is break up. But I am scared and nervous and need advice.\n\nPost: See previous /r/relationships thread to read more about the incompatibility issues that have recently been driving a wedge between us : \n Disclaimer: this post will probably be all over the place as I try to organize my thoughts...sorry. \n We have been dating for several months and the possibility of marriage has come up (she always brings it up and initiates those conversations)...however, after taking some time to think about \"us\", and weighing the options...I think it's time for me to end things...but I'm nervous to do so. I care about her, I want her to be happy, but I just think that with the direction our lives are going, she won't be. \n We recently got into an argument because she doesn't seem interested in moving to New York City, where I will be going to law school next year. She is trying to convince me to move somewhere else, or to stay where we are...which, is an option, but it has always been my goal and dream to move to NYC and live there--well before she and even met or started dating. This \"argument' happened over text and I told her that we needed to stop texting and talk about it in person, because this is not the only issue we are disagreeing on...several others ( see thread above ) will come up when we talk in person. \n Overall, the resounding \"difference\" between us it that I feel she is very resistant and controlling...we do have fun, happy times, but there are lots of times (almost daily it seems) where I feel like I can't be myself around her, where I feel like I am just disappointing her, because she gets annoyed over little things that I do...things I do normally and that are just part of my personality....things that are inherent to me and I can't exactly change... \n I think she knows that this \"talk\" is going to \"make us or break us\". She is so emotionally invested and dependent on me that I am worried that breaking things off with her will destroy her, and I don't want that. It's going to hurt, I know, but I want to be gentle and respectful towards her. We have invested lots of time and emotion into this relationship, and to throw it all away is a difficult thing for me to do. But I just think that if we can't agree and are continually arguing and disagreeing now, there's no reason to get engaged, let alone married, because it will just continue or get worse.","Summary: I don't want to hurt her anymore than is necessary, but also I don't want to prolong a relationship that I feel will not last, especially through an engagement or marriage. I still care a lot for her, but with the disagreements and arguments we have been having, I don't want to be leading her on and I think the smartest thing to do is break up. But I am scared and nervous and need advice.\n\nPost: See previous /r/relationships thread to read more about the incompatibility issues that have recently been driving a wedge between us : \n Disclaimer: this post will probably be all over the place as I try to organize my thoughts...sorry. \n We have been dating for several months and the possibility of marriage has come up (she always brings it up and initiates those conversations)...however, after taking some time to think about \"us\", and weighing the options...I think it's time for me to end things...but I'm nervous to do so. I care about her, I want her to be happy, but I just think that with the direction our lives are going, she won't be. \n We recently got into an argument because she doesn't seem interested in moving to New York City, where I will be going to law school next year. She is trying to convince me to move somewhere else, or to stay where we are...which, is an option, but it has always been my goal and dream to move to NYC and live there--well before she and even met or started dating. This \"argument' happened over text and I told her that we needed to stop texting and talk about it in person, because this is not the only issue we are disagreeing on...several others ( see thread above ) will come up when we talk in person. \n Overall, the resounding \"difference\" between us it that I feel she is very resistant and controlling...we do have fun, happy times, but there are lots of times (almost daily it seems) where I feel like I can't be myself around her, where I feel like I am just disappointing her, because she gets annoyed over little things that I do...things I do normally and that are just part of my personality....things that are inherent to me and I can't exactly change... \n I am scared...I'm afraid she'll turn around and change and be that \"perfectly compatible girl\"...and that fear is what's causing me to put off this break up...I know she won't change...but also, I fear that when I try to break up with her, she's going to claim that she will change...that she will try harder to be compatible with me...and I fear that that will lead to her \"putting on a show\" until we get engaged or married and then she'll feel like she's \"locked me down\" and then can take control and try to change me... \n I fear that during our conversation, or in the midst of the breakup, she will call me out and say that I am being unfair or not being considerate of her own goals and plans and dreams...I know that that is what her family is telling her. \n But the thing is: she has no idea what she is doing with her schooling or career...I do...I have had this plan and these goals for years, years before I met her even...I don't think it is fair for her to be asking me to give that up or put it off, especially when she doesn't have a plan or goals laid out like me... (Outside of having twelve children that she doesn't want to vaccinate...) \n I think she knows that this \"talk\" is going to \"make us or break us\". She is so emotionally invested and dependent on me that I am worried that breaking things off with her will destroy her, and I don't want that. It's going to hurt, I know, but I want to be gentle and respectful towards her. We have invested lots of time and emotion into this relationship, and to throw it all away is a difficult thing for me to do. But I just think that if we can't agree and are continually arguing and disagreeing now, there's no reason to get engaged, let alone married, because it will just continue or get worse.","Summary: Broke up with a girl because we couldn't communicate well and I felt like she treated me poorly. Now, I can't stop thinking about her and I miss her and I need any help or advice on what I can do to stop it and get over her. Please?\n\nPost: For context, here's another thread I posted in this sub, detailing some of the difficulties I'd been experiencing with her over the past few weeks/months: \n Other than the issues listed in that thread, she was not good at communicating with me at all. She would let things that bother her fester and boil, until she lashed out or got upset and frustrated with me. Whenever I disagreed with her (on politics, on religion, on activities, on refusing to think about other people with unfair judgment) she would criticize me and make me feel like I wasn't good enough. \n If I made mistakes, which I did, and will surely continue to do, she would never let me live it down. She'd keep a running record in the back of her mind of all the times I messed up and hold it over my head. I always talked about trying to do better, but she'd never explain to me what bothered her, or what I could actually do to \"do better\". \n It was really hard to stay happy with her when she focused on the negative aspects of life all the time. When she refused to do things, or was lazy and irresponsible most of the time. It was hard to stay happy when I felt like I was never \"good enough\" for her, just because I do things differently, or think differently, or was raised differently, or have different beliefs and different opinions. The way she treated me when we disagreed or when our differences were brought to the surface made me feel like I'm just not good enough because I'm not living up to what she expected out of a boyfriend. It hurt to feel like that--to feel like I had to censor every word that came out of my mouth for fear of her challenging me on my opinion or beliefs or of her criticizing me for doing something differently than she would. \n Anyway. We broke up. It took three and a half hours because she wouldn't talk to me. She wouldn't give me her thoughts, her feelings, she wouldn't provide any feedback. It felt like I was talking to a wall the whole time, until finally I told her that I was breaking up with her. And now? I can't stop thinking about her. I miss her, I want to be with her and talk to her. But at the same time, I think it's for the best that we broke up. Still, I need help getting over her and I need help to stop thinking about her. Ideas? Advice?","Summary: Girlfriend hurts my feelings, takes me for granted, makes me feel like I don't matter or like I can't do anything right...then, when I try to talk to her about it, she brushes it off, says \"I don't know\" and changes the subject. It is very frustrating, because there always seems to be something wrong, and she refuses to communicate about it in any other way besides belittling and criticizing me. What can I do?\n\nPost: I'm having a lot of trouble with my girlfriend. She seems to negative all the time, and I am the opposite. I try to be optimistic and positive and I try to look on the bright side of things, as often as I can. I believe that there is enough negativity in the world and that I should not add to it. \n She thinks that I am insensitive and unrealistic and that I don't listen to her. But I am the kind of person who, if you share a problem you are having with me, I will offer a solution. I will look at the positives of the situation and try to find a way to help. I listen, I think about it, I offer ways to solve problems. \n She gets upset with that. Because she says I make the problem worse by doing that. And all I'm trying to do is help. I don't feel like I can share my own problems with her because all it will do it add to her burden, to her negativity. That makes it hard on me too. \n I don't feel important to her. I feel like I can't do anything right. Anything I say or do will somehow make her angry or hurt her feelings or she will take it the wrong way. I frequently feel like I am \"not good enough for her\". For example, next week I am taking my sister to see a Beyonce concert and my girlfriend is upset with me going because \"Beyonce doesn't wear enough clothes and promotes negative body images to young girls. She doesn't respect herself and doesn't help girls respect their bodies either.\" I don't think that at all, and I'm just going cause I want to go to a fun concert with my sister! \n My girlfriend makes me feel bad about having my own opinion, about liking the things that I like. She judges me and criticizes me and makes fun of me in very condescending ways that she describes as \"just teasing\" but I actually find quite hurtful. When I brought it up to her once she said, \"It's just because you're already feeling sad and so you're receiving my teasing in a negative way.\" I don't think that at all! If anything, I'm feeling sad because of the way she is treating me. \n Whenever I try to communicate with her or talk to her about our relationship or the way she hurts me, she either responds to me with silence or with \"I don't know\". I feel like we can't have a real conversation, because she doesn't open up to me. She just criticizes me and spins whatever concerns I have to make it look like I'M the bad guy. I don't feel comfortable with that. And when she DOES feel like talking, she refuses to do so because she says that my \"tone is really mean\". But she misconstrues anything I say in text messages to mean something rude or offensive or negative about her, when in reality it's not intended in that way at all. In person, she misconstrues my serious voice as being a \"mean or rude tone\". It hurts my feelings that she treats me like this. \n This has been a very difficult situation for the past few weeks and it's just stressing me out and making me feel sad. Plus, I'm preparing to move across the country in August and I think I'd be better off without all this added stress and anxiety and guilt that comes from her criticisms and lack of communication skills. \n It makes me feel like I'm being taken for granted, like I'm not appreciated or valued, and that I can't do anything right or say anything right and all I do is mess up. I don't feel great being around her. My mom asked me the other day, \"Would you miss her if you broke up?\" Sure, I'd miss the kissing and physical part. But I couldn't think of any other reasons and if that's the only thing keeping us together, what's the point anymore?","Summary: Recently, one of my closest friends has been seeming to flirt with me, to be dropping sort of subtle hints that she is into me...I'm attracted to her and like her a lot, but she is in a long-distance relationship with another guy and I don't really know how to proceed or what to do. Any advice?\n\nPost: I recently got out of a relationship that was not at all healthy for me. I am relieved, happier, and ready to just live my life and hopefully find the right girl to have the right relationship with. \n One of my close friends started dating a guy around the same time I began my relationship with my ex...I ended things, my friend is still \"dating\" (long-distance, mind you) her boyfriend. \n After I broke up with my girlfriend, I was in a rough place, trying to move on and trying to grieve a bit. I am better now, but since then, as I've spent more time with this friend of mine, I have begun to notice how pretty I think she is, how great we get along, how I think about her throughout the day and wish I could ask her out...but there's that big issue of her being \"in a long-distance relationship\" with this other guy. At some points, she makes it sound like she is really into him. At others, she talks about how she is nervous to pursue things with him (he is joining the Air Force and she isn't super interested in going down that path). \n I've noticed that she has been starting to flirt with me a little bit (and some of our other friends have noticed that as well. They have said things like, \"Dude, she's been getting a little more flirty with you lately\" or \"let her sit in the back of the car with spenceast, she's been wanting to get closer to him all day\"). We (my group of closest friends, three girls, three guys) were all talking once about what would happen in a situation where we were stranded on an island and ended up hooking up. Almost immediately she said, \"I would totally hook up with spenceast and he and I would be the best sexual partners\". She mentions that still from time to time. Earlier tonight we were all sitting in the basement together trying to plan for our group Christmas activity and we were just kind of spread out: some on the couch, a few on the floor, she was on her bed next to her sister. We're all joking and laughing and she looks at me and says, \"spenceast, come up here and snuggle with me, I'm cold!' \n Anyway, long story short, all these things (coupled with my attraction to her) have been making me think that maybe, perhaps, possibly we could get together sometime? I am unsure of how to proceed though. Should I take those things as signs that she could be into me? Should I try to drop some hints and give off some signs too? Or should I just back off and stay back, since she's in this long-distance relationship? I haven't mentioned anything to any of my close friends, because I don't want them to overreact or tell her or anything just yet. I'm just looking for some clarity and some advice on this issue. \n Can anyone talk with me and offer me some help?","Summary: Recently, one of my closest friends has been seeming to flirt with me, to be dropping sort of subtle hints that she is into me...I'm attracted to her and like her a lot, but she is in a long-distance relationship with another guy and I don't really know how to proceed or what to do. Any advice?\n\nPost: I recently got out of a relationship that was not at all healthy for me. I am relieved, happier, and ready to just live my life and hopefully find the right girl to have the right relationship with. \n One of my close friends started dating a guy around the same time I began my relationship with my ex...I ended things, my friend is still \"dating\" (long-distance, mind you) her boyfriend. \n After I broke up with my girlfriend, I was in a rough place, trying to move on and trying to grieve a bit. I am better now, but since then, as I've spent more time with this friend of mine, I have begun to notice how pretty I think she is, how great we get along, how I think about her throughout the day and wish I could ask her out...but there's that big issue of her being \"in a long-distance relationship\" with this other guy. At some points, she makes it sound like she is really into him. At others, she talks about how she is nervous to pursue things with him (he is joining the Air Force and she isn't super interested in going down that path). \n I've noticed that she has been starting to flirt with me a little bit (and some of our other friends have noticed that as well. They have said things like, \"Dude, she's been getting a little more flirty with you lately\" or \"let her sit in the back of the car with spenceast, she's been wanting to get closer to him all day\"). We (my group of closest friends, three girls, three guys) were all talking once about what would happen in a situation where we were stranded on an island and ended up hooking up. Almost immediately she said, \"I would totally hook up with spenceast and he and I would be the best sexual partners\". She mentions that still from time to time. Earlier tonight we were all sitting in the basement together trying to plan for our group Christmas activity and we were just kind of spread out: some on the couch, a few on the floor, she was on her bed next to her sister. We're all joking and laughing and she looks at me and says, \"spenceast, come up here and snuggle with me, I'm cold!' \n Anyway, long story short, all these things (coupled with my attraction to her) have been making me think that maybe, perhaps, possibly we could get together sometime? I am unsure of how to proceed though. Should I take those things as signs that she could be into me? Should I try to drop some hints and give off some signs too? Or should I just back off and stay back, since she's in this long-distance relationship? I haven't mentioned anything to any of my close friends, because I don't want them to overreact or tell her or anything just yet. I'm just looking for some clarity and some advice on this issue. \n Can anyone talk with me and offer me some help?","Summary: Recently, one of my closest friends has been seeming to flirt with me, to be dropping sort of subtle hints that she is into me...I'm attracted to her and like her a lot, but she is in a long-distance relationship with another guy and I don't really know how to proceed or what to do. Any advice?\n\nPost: I recently got out of a relationship that was not at all healthy for me. I am relieved, happier, and ready to just live my life and hopefully find the right girl to have the right relationship with. \n One of my close friends started dating a guy around the same time I began my relationship with my ex...I ended things, my friend is still \"dating\" (long-distance, mind you) her boyfriend. \n After I broke up with my girlfriend, I was in a rough place, trying to move on and trying to grieve a bit. I am better now, but since then, as I've spent more time with this friend of mine, I have begun to notice how pretty I think she is, how great we get along, how I think about her throughout the day and wish I could ask her out...but there's that big issue of her being \"in a long-distance relationship\" with this other guy. At some points, she makes it sound like she is really into him. At others, she talks about how she is nervous to pursue things with him (he is joining the Air Force and she isn't super interested in going down that path). \n I've noticed that she has been starting to flirt with me a little bit (and some of our other friends have noticed that as well. They have said things like, \"Dude, she's been getting a little more flirty with you lately\" or \"let her sit in the back of the car with spenceast, she's been wanting to get closer to him all day\"). We (my group of closest friends, three girls, three guys) were all talking once about what would happen in a situation where we were stranded on an island and ended up hooking up. Almost immediately she said, \"I would totally hook up with spenceast and he and I would be the best sexual partners\". She mentions that still from time to time. Earlier tonight we were all sitting in the basement together trying to plan for our group Christmas activity and we were just kind of spread out: some on the couch, a few on the floor, she was on her bed next to her sister. We're all joking and laughing and she looks at me and says, \"spenceast, come up here and snuggle with me, I'm cold!' \n Anyway, long story short, all these things (coupled with my attraction to her) have been making me think that maybe, perhaps, possibly we could get together sometime? I am unsure of how to proceed though. Should I take those things as signs that she could be into me? Should I try to drop some hints and give off some signs too? Or should I just back off and stay back, since she's in this long-distance relationship? I haven't mentioned anything to any of my close friends, because I don't want them to overreact or tell her or anything just yet. I'm just looking for some clarity and some advice on this issue. \n Can anyone talk with me and offer me some help?","Summary: I have started and then given up on many different stories. One of my biggest personal goals is to complete and publish my own novel. What can I do to achieve this?\n\nPost: As an English major, I read and write frequently. I fill notebooks up with story ideas. I love writing a lot. Problem is, I get started writing one story and then...get bored of it and switch to the next story idea I have. At one point, I had six different documents open, each with a different idea. I was excited about each one when I started writing them, but then that excitement trailed off and went to who knows where. \n I think that's the only thing holding me back, the fact that I've never actually finished writing my own novel. I just want to finish one - even if it's just a novella, 150-200 pages - that way I'll know that I can do it. Hopefully then I can turn it into something. It's become a very therapeutic process for me, I just wish I could actually complete a novel! Seeing all the unfinished work on my desktop gives me anxiety. \n I write about many different things. I like to explore different genres. Currently, I'm working on a collection of short stories which range from comedy, to horror, to thriller, to romance - all involving the same characters and how their different stories interact and intertwine with one another's. I have begun a political thriller/mystery novels, which is set in the 1970's revolving around a sting operation involving the mafia and human organ trafficking. I'm writing a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future where the government controls all human emotion through mandatory chemical injections, and I have started one horror novel - a ghost story - about a well known celebrity who is haunted by the presence of his best friend, an international rock star, who convinces him to learn the truth about his murder, leading him to discover a political coverup that receives national attention.\nI am interested in writing things that deal with \"human nature\". I started writing (today) a story told from two different POV's: One, from that of a successful dentist who has a growing urge to kill, just to know what it's like. and the other from the perspective of a man recently found innocent of rape and murder charges after 14 years in prison, who now lives on the streets and is considered the scum of the city. I want to explore how people look down on the homeless man, who is actually a good person at heart and how they adore and almost worship the successful \"celebrity-status\" dentist, who is actually a monster. \n I have so many because, as I said, I start writing one story and then that leads me to new ideas which I get really excited to start working on. Several of my stories bleed into each other. For example, the one set in the 1970's and the ghost story both have characters and plot lines that I created for the one story, but then decided worked better as part of the other. \n I have had a close friend of mine read a few of my writings. Her exact quote after reading the dystopian sci-fi piece was, \"Who is the father? Who is this Deb character? PLEASE send me more, I need to KNOW!!\" \n That was encouraging because I realized that maybe somebody would like to read my work someday. I believe that I mainly write for myself, but I do have a desire to add value to my readers' lives - to help them enjoy reading, like I do. I really want to complete something. I need the motivation/encouragement/discipline to do it. What are your tips? What can I do to achieve this personal goal?\n(sorry for the long, almost rambling, post. Like I said, I love to write).","Summary: I have started and then given up on many different stories. One of my biggest personal goals is to complete and publish my own novel. What can I do to achieve this?\n\nPost: As an English major, I read and write frequently. I fill notebooks up with story ideas. I love writing a lot. Problem is, I get started writing one story and then...get bored of it and switch to the next story idea I have. At one point, I had six different documents open, each with a different idea. I was excited about each one when I started writing them, but then that excitement trailed off and went to who knows where. \n I think that's the only thing holding me back, the fact that I've never actually finished writing my own novel. I just want to finish one - even if it's just a novella, 150-200 pages - that way I'll know that I can do it. Hopefully then I can turn it into something. It's become a very therapeutic process for me, I just wish I could actually complete a novel! Seeing all the unfinished work on my desktop gives me anxiety. \n I write about many different things. I like to explore different genres. Currently, I'm working on a collection of short stories which range from comedy, to horror, to thriller, to romance - all involving the same characters and how their different stories interact and intertwine with one another's. I have begun a political thriller/mystery novels, which is set in the 1970's revolving around a sting operation involving the mafia and human organ trafficking. I'm writing a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future where the government controls all human emotion through mandatory chemical injections, and I have started one horror novel - a ghost story - about a well known celebrity who is haunted by the presence of his best friend, an international rock star, who convinces him to learn the truth about his murder, leading him to discover a political coverup that receives national attention.\nI am interested in writing things that deal with \"human nature\". I started writing (today) a story told from two different POV's: One, from that of a successful dentist who has a growing urge to kill, just to know what it's like. and the other from the perspective of a man recently found innocent of rape and murder charges after 14 years in prison, who now lives on the streets and is considered the scum of the city. I want to explore how people look down on the homeless man, who is actually a good person at heart and how they adore and almost worship the successful \"celebrity-status\" dentist, who is actually a monster. \n I have so many because, as I said, I start writing one story and then that leads me to new ideas which I get really excited to start working on. Several of my stories bleed into each other. For example, the one set in the 1970's and the ghost story both have characters and plot lines that I created for the one story, but then decided worked better as part of the other. \n I have had a close friend of mine read a few of my writings. Her exact quote after reading the dystopian sci-fi piece was, \"Who is the father? Who is this Deb character? PLEASE send me more, I need to KNOW!!\" \n That was encouraging because I realized that maybe somebody would like to read my work someday. I believe that I mainly write for myself, but I do have a desire to add value to my readers' lives - to help them enjoy reading, like I do. I really want to complete something. I need the motivation/encouragement/discipline to do it. What are your tips? What can I do to achieve this personal goal?\n(sorry for the long, almost rambling, post. Like I said, I love to write).","Summary: I have started and then given up on many different stories. One of my biggest personal goals is to complete and publish my own novel. What can I do to achieve this?\n\nPost: As an English major, I read and write frequently. I fill notebooks up with story ideas. I love writing a lot. Problem is, I get started writing one story and then...get bored of it and switch to the next story idea I have. At one point, I had six different documents open, each with a different idea. I was excited about each one when I started writing them, but then that excitement trailed off and went to who knows where. \n I think that's the only thing holding me back, the fact that I've never actually finished writing my own novel. I just want to finish one - even if it's just a novella, 150-200 pages - that way I'll know that I can do it. Hopefully then I can turn it into something. It's become a very therapeutic process for me, I just wish I could actually complete a novel! Seeing all the unfinished work on my desktop gives me anxiety. \n I write about many different things. I like to explore different genres. Currently, I'm working on a collection of short stories which range from comedy, to horror, to thriller, to romance - all involving the same characters and how their different stories interact and intertwine with one another's. I have begun a political thriller/mystery novels, which is set in the 1970's revolving around a sting operation involving the mafia and human organ trafficking. I'm writing a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future where the government controls all human emotion through mandatory chemical injections, and I have started one horror novel - a ghost story - about a well known celebrity who is haunted by the presence of his best friend, an international rock star, who convinces him to learn the truth about his murder, leading him to discover a political coverup that receives national attention.\nI am interested in writing things that deal with \"human nature\". I started writing (today) a story told from two different POV's: One, from that of a successful dentist who has a growing urge to kill, just to know what it's like. and the other from the perspective of a man recently found innocent of rape and murder charges after 14 years in prison, who now lives on the streets and is considered the scum of the city. I want to explore how people look down on the homeless man, who is actually a good person at heart and how they adore and almost worship the successful \"celebrity-status\" dentist, who is actually a monster. \n I have so many because, as I said, I start writing one story and then that leads me to new ideas which I get really excited to start working on. Several of my stories bleed into each other. For example, the one set in the 1970's and the ghost story both have characters and plot lines that I created for the one story, but then decided worked better as part of the other. \n I have had a close friend of mine read a few of my writings. Her exact quote after reading the dystopian sci-fi piece was, \"Who is the father? Who is this Deb character? PLEASE send me more, I need to KNOW!!\" \n That was encouraging because I realized that maybe somebody would like to read my work someday. I believe that I mainly write for myself, but I do have a desire to add value to my readers' lives - to help them enjoy reading, like I do. I really want to complete something. I need the motivation/encouragement/discipline to do it. What are your tips? What can I do to achieve this personal goal?\n(sorry for the long, almost rambling, post. Like I said, I love to write).","Summary: took my first diagnostic, got a 141. I want to shoot for at least a 170 on the actual exam. I am feeling discouraged and frustrated with myself and want to know what I can do to prepare better and see improvement.\n\nPost: So I took my first diagnostic this morning (June 2007 exam) and I scored 141 . That was a lot lower than I was expecting. I felt pretty good while taking the exam. Several thoughts went through my head: \n Logic Games: \"Man, I need to learn to diagram better\" -- I got the first question of each logic game correct (generally, the question that asks something like, 'If x is in the last position, where would y logically be?'\"), but the following questions that are variations on the ordering/positioning I didn't do as well on. \n Logical Reasoning: \"I need to pay more attention to the question stems\" -- I did pretty well on the first LR section (my best section, actually), but I totally bombed the second LR section and that greatly affected my overall score. I think it was because both Section 2 and 3 were LR and my mind was exhausted between the two. Because of this, I rushed through the second LR section and it reflected poorly in my score. \n Reading Comprehension: \"These passages are so long and boring...\" -- My problem here was focus . I got 80% of the questions correct on the first two passages, on the second two, I only got one or two answers correct. I stopped paying attention and need to focus more. \n \n Anyway, I come here posting this because I am extremely discouraged . I recognize that it is the first practice exam I took, but I am scared and worried about my preparation. i am planning on taking the OCT 2015 exam and I am worried that I won't be able to improve my score by then. I want to shoot for at least a 170 minimum. \n What can I do to better focus my studies and improve my score gradually as I continue preparing? I think my two biggest problem areas are: Logic Games (specifically diagramming ) and Paying Attention/Staying Focused and Alert . \n Can anyone offer me any help?","Summary: Got set up with a girl I barely knew and had a good time. Would like to see her again, but she lives two hours away. Want to keep in contact and see if it can turn into anything more. Need advice! \n How can I judge her interest level? What can I do/say to keep conversations going (which will mainly be over texts) so that I can keep any potential interest and be able to have room to pursue it? Any general tips/advice you can give me?\n\nPost: So, over the weekend, I attended a wedding with one of my close friends and her boyfriend. Unbeknownst to me, she invited her best friend (whom I had met previously, but never really spent any time with) and we were each others \"dates\". We had a great time at the reception and then spent the rest of the weekend hanging out. It was great because we prevented each other from \"third-wheeling\" it with my close friend and her boyfriend. \n Several times we kinda cuddled and talked and got to know each other a little better. We flirted a bit, but I was kind of shy around her and not really acting like myself, because I was unaware of how \"interested\" she was in me. I really enjoyed spending time with her and would love to continue pursuing and see where it could go. \n We ended up driving home together and had a good time, she gave me a big hug after I dropped her off at her car and I told her to text me when she got home to let me know she arrived safely. She just did and then mentioned that she had a wonderful time this weekend and she really enjoyed my company. She also said that we should plan a trip together (something we had talked about in passing over the weekend) because it would be really fun. I am all for it and I hope that works out! \n I want to see her again so I can kind of open up more and be more myself, cause I realized I was kind of shut off and awkward, because of the reception and the situations we were in where there was a couple right by us and we were just kind of set up with each other. \n I need some advice because, she lives about two hours away from my city. I'd love to get together with her again and I want to stay in contact. I don't know how often I should text her or talk to her or what...","Summary: I am moving to Kentucky in August and don't know where my girlfriend stands on our future, nor do I want to pressure her more than she already is about it. If she doesn't want to pursue our relationship further, knowing that I am going to be moving, I want to know sooner than later so I can save us both from further heartbreak and make it a little easier for me to move. Advice?\n\nPost: We've been dating for a while, we have fun together, and I enjoy being with her. I try hard to focus on the good, and avoid fixating on the bad in our relationship (though, there isn't much). I like her a lot, although she doesn't have much relationship experience, so sometimes she can act a little immature, and sometimes she doesn't like to have serious conversations about our future together. \n As I said in the title, I am moving to Kentucky (from Utah) this fall. She knows this, her family knows this, and our friends know this. Constantly, our friends are asking us \"what are you gonna do?\" Or \"is she going to move to Kentucky with you?\". I am used to these kinds of questions and this behavior from past relationships I have had, but she is not and I believe that she is feeling pressured by all this. \n Sometimes, we jokingly talk about getting married and moving to Kentucky together. Other times, she emphasizes the fact that I am moving to Kentucky and that she is going to move somewhere closer to her college (only about twenty minutes from where we are now) in the fall. Once she mentioned that she probably wouldn't follow me wherever I go in life, but other times she acts very attached and like she doesn't want to let me go. \n I am getting mixed signals from her and I don't know what to do. I like her a lot, but I am not sure if we are close enough to stay together and make the move to Kentucky. I do not want to do long distance, especially across the country like it would be, and especially since I wouldn't able to come home to visit. I know that she feels like she's too young to get married, and that she worries about her schooling here and how moving would interrupt that. \n At the same time, I feel like I can't have a serious conversation about this with her because I don't want to be a source of stress, or pressure, or anxiety for her (since everyone else in our social circle pressures us about marriage or moving to Kentucky or our future). But I want to find out what she is thinking about and if she sees a future with us (and if that future involves her being willing to move to Kentucky with me)....i'd like to find that out sooner rather than later, because if the answer is NO, I want to save us both some heartbreak and save myself from wasting time and money and to prevent making a challenging move across the country even harder right before I start law school. \n Any thoughts? Suggestions? Advice?","Summary: I am moving to Kentucky in August and don't know where my girlfriend stands on our future, nor do I want to pressure her more than she already is about it. If she doesn't want to pursue our relationship further, knowing that I am going to be moving, I want to know sooner than later so I can save us both from further heartbreak and make it a little easier for me to move. Advice?\n\nPost: We've been dating for a while, we have fun together, and I enjoy being with her. I try hard to focus on the good, and avoid fixating on the bad in our relationship (though, there isn't much). I like her a lot, although she doesn't have much relationship experience, so sometimes she can act a little immature, and sometimes she doesn't like to have serious conversations about our future together. \n As I said in the title, I am moving to Kentucky (from Utah) this fall. She knows this, her family knows this, and our friends know this. Constantly, our friends are asking us \"what are you gonna do?\" Or \"is she going to move to Kentucky with you?\". I am used to these kinds of questions and this behavior from past relationships I have had, but she is not and I believe that she is feeling pressured by all this. \n Sometimes, we jokingly talk about getting married and moving to Kentucky together. Other times, she emphasizes the fact that I am moving to Kentucky and that she is going to move somewhere closer to her college (only about twenty minutes from where we are now) in the fall. Once she mentioned that she probably wouldn't follow me wherever I go in life, but other times she acts very attached and like she doesn't want to let me go. \n I am getting mixed signals from her and I don't know what to do. I like her a lot, but I am not sure if we are close enough to stay together and make the move to Kentucky. I do not want to do long distance, especially across the country like it would be, and especially since I wouldn't able to come home to visit. I know that she feels like she's too young to get married, and that she worries about her schooling here and how moving would interrupt that. \n At the same time, I feel like I can't have a serious conversation about this with her because I don't want to be a source of stress, or pressure, or anxiety for her (since everyone else in our social circle pressures us about marriage or moving to Kentucky or our future). But I want to find out what she is thinking about and if she sees a future with us (and if that future involves her being willing to move to Kentucky with me)....i'd like to find that out sooner rather than later, because if the answer is NO, I want to save us both some heartbreak and save myself from wasting time and money and to prevent making a challenging move across the country even harder right before I start law school. \n Any thoughts? Suggestions? Advice?","Summary: Girlfriend and I broke up a week ago over three issues (1) Communication problems on her end, (2) not feeling accepted or validated by her, and (3) I'm moving across the country in August. When we broke up, she didn't communicate much of anything to me and feels like she still has lots of questions and things she wants to say (though I did give her plenty of opportunities to say them during that conversation!) She has written me a letter (to help organize and project her thoughts, since she clearly can't do that while talking in person) and asked if I'd be willing to read it with her in person and respond to it with her. \n Need help.\n\nPost: It's been a week. We broke up because of several issues, namely: \n 1) Communication : she had lots of trouble communicating with me openly and honestly. Every time we tried to have a serious conversation, it turned into her saying \"I don't know\" anytime I'd ask her about her feelings, thoughts, or opinions on the matter. Or she'd just turn the question back on me: \"Well, what do YOU think?\" It was not healthy and did not work. I told her about it many times and expressed my frustrations, and she admitted that she had troubles communicating (because of how she was raised, and familial issues where no one communicates with one another). Still, she never showed any desire to improve or try to communicate with me. \n In fact, before we officially broke up, we had a talk and went on a break for a week. During that 'talk' it was clear that no communication was happening. So i suggested the break and that it would give us time to think and organize our thoughts and feelings while apart. The week after that, she was the one who wanted to talk first, and still, there was no communication from her. She gave me nothing. So, I talked about my feelings and ended up making a decision with the facts I had - which were mainly my side of things, since she wouldn't tell me hers. The decision I made was to break-up. \n 2) I did not feel like I made her happy, or that she really accepted my uniqueness/differences : never did I feel validated in the nice things I did for her. I understand that this isn't the most important thing in a relationship, but it is nice to know that your SO recognizes the good things you are trying to do for them. Oftentimes, she would hold onto mistakes I made and use them against me in arguments where they had no reason to be brought up in. She would challenge me and confront me on our differences, including our opinions. She would make me feel judged and criticized and it just made me feel bad. All of this combined with the no-communication thing made me feel like I just annoyed/frustrated her and that she'd be better off without me. While I was trying to break up with me, she expressed that that was no the case and that I make her so happy. Her older sister (who i am somewhat close with) also expressed the same thing, telling me that after the break-up, my ex had so many things she wished she had told me, but didn't. These are the things which she has written in the letter, supposedly. \n 3) I am moving across the country to attend law school in August: because of that, I don't think that the relationship will work. There's just not enough time. Not enough time to fix those issues presented earlier. Not enough time. I feel like that's the case, and I feel like no matter what she has written in this 'communicative letter', the fact that I am moving is not going to change. She is younger than me, she doesn't have as much life experience (she's still in college, doesn't know what she wants to do with her education, and has never lived outside her home with her family). I feel like it would be better for her to gain some more experience (read: grow up a little more). Sure, we could be the right ones for each other, but I don't know if it's the right time right now. During my first year of law school (the most important year), I plan on doing nothing but study law. People who have never been to law school aren't going to understand how important that will be for me: They'll say things like, \"Aw no, it's not that bad. You can handle juggling law school and a long distance relationship/girlfriend too.\" I don't feel the same way. \n Her sister has argued that, while there are issues that need to be addressed in our relationship, these issues need to be taken care of and resolved together , not apart. So telling her that we need to work on these issues while I'm away at law school and then maybe after my first year, I could come home to visit and we might work out then is not the best move. I agree with that: I don't expect my ex to wait for me, nor would I really hope for that to happen. \n Still, the fact remains that I do miss her and this past week has been very hard for me. \n I need some help, some advice, some thoughts from people who are not invested emotionally in this situation. I come to you /r/relationships ."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Showed up for what I thought would be a date, turns out, she hired me to be her son's babysitter.\\n\\nPost: Was at a café meeting some friends and saw a really pretty woman at the counter. Started chatting with her and it turns out she's a single parent too, so I ended up getting her number, which she gave to me on a napkin before she walked out. \\n Anyway, I call the girl up and schedule a date for that weekend. I show up to her place with my young son and a nice bottle of wine, looking forward to a nice evening out, while we leave the kids to have a play date with the babysitter. When I arrive, she's got her jacket and keys in hand and says, \\\"I'll be home around 11:00\\\" then, looking at the bottle of wine I had brought for us, says, \\\"I don't mind if you drink, but only after you put the kids to bed\\\".\",\n \"Summary: I guess conflict and saying \\\"NO\\\" to people make me uncomfortable.\\n\\nPost: I work in retail and it always makes me uncomfortable when a customer is upset and decides to take it out on me, when it was clearly something out of my control. \\n Or when we're out of something, or there's some problem, and I have to tell the customer \\\"no\\\" and they flip out at me for no reason.\",\n \"Summary: Had a horrible diarrhea explosion on a hot bus in Brazil, everyone knew it was me who did it, an old lady almost had a heart attack.\\n\\nPost: I just got back from living in Brazil for two years... \\n When I got to São Paulo, a good friend of mine told me, \\\"If you don't shit yourself on a bus here at least once, you didn't get the full experience.\\\" \\n So I spent the next two years crossing my fingers (or my asshole, I don't know) in hopes that I don't shit myself on a city bus. \\n Flash-forward to September of this year, about a month and a half before I'm set to go back home. I had just left a friend's family's house after lunch and as I sat waiting on the bus stop, my stomach churned. It was hot and melty and I just knew that there was a volcanic eruption ready to take place. I had few options to choose from, and taking a dump at the local bar was NOT one of them. Those things are sketchy. \\n So, the bus arrives and I awkwardly and nervously climb aboard; I was with my friend and he was unaware of my situation. As I pass through the turnstile, the bus roars up and flies down the avenue. Full of people, I am squeezing my way through the crowd when the bus driver slams on the brakes and I fall forward, my hands flailing. I grab an older lady who is seated in front of me for support and as I do, my butt releases a horrible sound and one of the foulest odors I have ever had the misfortune of smelling. Hot diarrhea explodes out of me and drips down my pant legs, spilling out on the floor. The lady who I grabbed stood up and started screeching and shaking and I figured her heart had stopped and she was going to die.\\nAnd for those of you who know, a Brazilian bus already smells pretty questionable, so this just made it worse.\",\n \"Summary: My best friend banged the girl I was in love with while I babysat his 5-year-old sister, then they came downstairs and ate the Muddy Buddies I had made with so much love.\\n\\nPost: Another one: \\n About three or four years ago I was hanging out with two of my best friends, one guy and the other a girl. I was 17 and they were both 16. I was in love with this girl and the guy knew this very well. \\n So the girl and I go over to his house to wait for him to finish babysitting his five year old sister so we could go see a movie together. (We saw Toy Story 3 and THAT is another awkward situation story). \\n Anyway, the three of us are talking in the kitchen while I make Muddy Buddies. My buddy asks for the girl to run up to his room with him to grab his record player so we could listen to some classic vinyls. I stayed down in the kitchen finishing up the muddy buddies and making sure his little sister doesn't kill herself or something... \\n Ten minutes go by, and they don't come downstairs. Fifteen minutes, still nothing...Twenty minutes go by and I decide to go up to his room and see what's taking so long. In my \\\"innocent\\\" little mind, I had no idea that anything would have been happening. \\n I get upstairs to see the two of them naked on his couch, with my best friend pounding it into the girl I'm in love with. She started moaning and I quietly snuck away...to this day they don't know that I saw them. \\n anyway,\",\n \"Summary: Brazil is a crazy place, people die, Christians sometimes curse protesters, homeless men get into some deep shit, and probably you should stay away from buses and bus stops.\\n\\nPost: I lived in Brazil from 2011-2013. I saw some crazy stuff there, stuff I had never imagined I would see. Some scary things I remember: \\n -May 2013: I saw a guy down an alley on his knees get shot in the head execution style. \\n -October 2012: I was visiting a man and sitting in his front room when the front door opened, and another man came running through his house carrying a black backpack under one arm and a pistol in his free hand. He rushed out the back door, passing right in front of the three of us (who were sitting on the couch). The man we were visiting cleared his throat and said, \\\"Please excuse me\\\". I assumed he was standing up to go close the front and back doors but no, he pulled a pistol from his waistband and walked out the back door. My friend and I heard three distinct gunshots. Then our host returned after a moment holding the black backpack. He closed the back door, closed the front door, and sat down. He said, \\\"You may go on\\\" and crossed his legs like nothing had happened. \\n -Easter 2013: A protester in front of a Catholic church with a sign that said, \\\"God Hates Christians; Loves The Jews\\\" was screaming and raging at the priests inside during their services (the chapel doors were open). I was across the street waiting for a bus and watching this guy. Slowly, one of the priests walked out of the chapel and right up to the protester who was just outside the gates. He spoke quietly and calmly with him, made the sign of the cross, then returned to participate in the services. The protester stopped screaming, lowered the sign down, then slowly backed up into the street. I looked at my friend who was next to me and said something, taking my eyes off the protester. Suddenly, I hear this SCREECH and a scream and just remember seeing the protester get smashed by a speeding city bus. I can still clearly see the blood squirt out of his chest as he was impaled by one of the bike racks and I can hear the scream and the crunching of his bones as his legs were shattered under it. It was over in seconds. All that was left of it was his sign, which fell to the ground. Ominously, the chapel doors shut immediately after. The scary part was that everyone around us (the two white Americans looking very out of place) continued about like nothing had happened. \\n -July 2013: I saw a homeless man taking a shit behind a bus stop. He dropped his pants, propped himself up against the bus stop bench and exclaimed loudly from the satisfaction of dumping what was one of the biggest shits I have ever seen. The man was clearly drunk, from the smell coming off of him and the amount of bottles of \\\"cachaça\\\" (a popular Brazilian alcohol) around him. There was a white cement wall opposite the bench he was leaning against and I see this other man, shirtless, hop over the wall, grab a bottle of cachaça, proceed to pour it all over the drunk man taking a shit, and then drop a lit match on him. He erupted in flames and started screaming while the shirtless man ran off laughing hysterically. \\n -August 2012: I was sitting on a public bus looking at some photos on my cell phone when I felt a sharp sting in my right shoulder blade. A man was behind me and spoke very sharply into my ear, saying, \\\"Give me some money\\\" or something like that. He poked a knife into my shoulder again when I hesitated. I reached into my wallet and gave him a 20R$ (reais) note. He walked off and I had to clean my bloody white shirt afterwards. It was scary cause that was the first time it had happened to me (and something similar happened three more times before I returned home).\",\n \"Summary: Got set up with a girl I barely knew and had a good time. Would like to see her again, but she lives two hours away. Want to keep in contact and see if it can turn into anything more. Need advice! \\n How can I judge her interest level? What can I do/say to keep conversations going (which will mainly be over texts) so that I can keep any potential interest and be able to have room to pursue it? Any general tips/advice you can give me?\\n\\nPost: So, over the weekend, I attended a wedding with one of my close friends and her boyfriend. Unbeknownst to me, she invited her best friend (whom I had met previously, but never really spent any time with) and we were each others \\\"dates\\\". We had a great time at the reception and then spent the rest of the weekend hanging out. It was great because we prevented each other from \\\"third-wheeling\\\" it with my close friend and her boyfriend. \\n Several times we kinda cuddled and talked and got to know each other a little better. We flirted a bit, but I was kind of shy around her and not really acting like myself, because I was unaware of how \\\"interested\\\" she was in me. I really enjoyed spending time with her and would love to continue pursuing and see where it could go. \\n We ended up driving home together and had a good time, she gave me a big hug after I dropped her off at her car and I told her to text me when she got home to let me know she arrived safely. She just did and then mentioned that she had a wonderful time this weekend and she really enjoyed my company. She also said that we should plan a trip together (something we had talked about in passing over the weekend) because it would be really fun. I am all for it and I hope that works out! \\n I want to see her again so I can kind of open up more and be more myself, cause I realized I was kind of shut off and awkward, because of the reception and the situations we were in where there was a couple right by us and we were just kind of set up with each other. \\n I need some advice because, she lives about two hours away from my city. I'd love to get together with her again and I want to stay in contact. I don't know how often I should text her or talk to her or what...\",\n \"Summary: My girlfriend and I have been disagreeing on several important issues and it's gotten to the point where I think it might be time to call things off, rather than waste any of our time arguing over issues that we cannot seem to resolve.\\n\\nPost: As my girlfriend and I have been dating, our conversations have turned towards marriage and what it would be like raising kids and where. With this, we have tried to be very open, honest, and respectful with each other while at the same time avoiding conflicts and arguments. \\n some background information before I get into a few of the more specific issues : My girlfriend comes from a very conservative, all-natural/holistic/organically inclined family. I lean left, am all for healthy eating/holistic treatments, but it's not something I am very adamant about. \\n I am about to graduate university and head into law school, most likely in New York City. \\n The issues that we are having trouble with : \\n -Children: she wants children, as do I, but I get the feeling that she wants them right away. She is not very social and, knowing that we will be moving for law school, would probably like to have a child to take care of and spend time with while I am away. However, I do not want to have children while I am attending law school. The added financial responsibilities do not entice me and I am worried about not having the time to help raise a child while I'm in school. We have disagreed about this. \\n -Pets: I am not interested in having pets, but I know she is. We discussed it at length and we reached a compromise on getting a small dog (she wants a pomsky and I agreed but said that that is all I want). However, now, she is thinking she can use that to encourage me to get more pets. I am allergic to cats and have said no to one repeatedly. My mother and I both have a damaging fear of snakes and I have refused that, although my girlfriend is very adamant about pushing for some sort of snake or reptile...I do not feel comfortable having that in my house and we have had several disagreements and arguments because of this. \\n -Vaccinations: this comes with the children argument. Once, I mentioned that I was going to get a flu shot and she got very upset with me, saying, \\\"Those are so bad for you!\\\" I got one regardless and explained that I have always gotten one every year and never had any problems. She argued that she has never gotten one and has already been fine and then bluntly said, \\\"Okay, you do what you want. But just so you know, my children will not be getting vaccinated\\\". I am completely against that--I was vaccinated as a child and I am very pro-vaccination. I want my children to be vaccinated. \\n -Where to live: I want to live, and work, in a bigger city. She doesn't want to. She is even very worried and vocal about how much she would hate living in New York City, where I want to go to law school and have dreamt of going for years. \\n -Social events: I am a very social guy, always looking forward to going out and networking, talking with people, and honestly, being the center of attention. She does not like that and, when we go out to social events, she is not talkative, avoidant, and often times seems very cold to people, even our friends. I have had several people ask me about her and call me out on it, and we have had several arguments because of it. \\n -Guns: I am not anti-gun, but I just don't care for them. I don't want one in my house and I don't see it as a hobby that I care to pursue. She has been raised to think that we all need to have guns for a variety of reasons, all of which I think boils down to personal preference and we have disagreed on this. \\n -Gay rights: We discussed one time what would happen if we had a homosexual child. I said that I would love them and respect them and allow them to live their life in a way that they feel comfortable and loved. She thinks that that approach is wrong and that we should enforce heterosexual tendencies and choices on them. That's not right and we got in a big fight with that. Basically, she thinks homosexuality is a choice and I think it is something a person is born with. \\n We are members of the same religion and attend church together so that is not a problem. The only issue with religion is that she claims that because of my faith, I ought to be a Republican and not support certain issues that the majority of Democrats support, but most members of my religion are against. I disagree, claiming that my religion teaches love and respect for all and that Democratic values are more in line with my religious beliefs. We tend to avoid having political arguments, but our differences underlying feelings are clear. \\n What do I do? Is it possible to continue to push forward and work things out? Or should I just stop wasting both of our time and break things off?\",\n \"Summary: Broke up with my girlfriend last week, felt good about it. Now, she comes back with a letter explaining that she has changed her mind on a few significant issues we disagreed on and I am now second-guessing myself and feeling manipulated. I don't know what to do, and it's affecting my other relationships and the other aspects of my life. I need some help.\\n\\nPost: I've posted two other threads about this. Read them if you want some more background info on this: \\n Anyway, I mustered the courage to do what I felt was right and I broke up with her last week. Thursday night was when it happened and it was the longest, roughest break-up conversation that I've ever had. She didnt want to let go. She was reaching for anything she could to get me to stay with her. \\n We didn't talk after that. And I was fine...I felt good about the break-up. I was sad, sure, I missed her from time to time. But overall, it was an easier \\\"moving on\\\" process...(remember, it has only been a week)....I felt confident in my decision. \\n TODAY, however, she texted me and said, \\\"Ive done some thinking, some soul-searching, and I feel like there are some things I need to tell you. Can we get together to talk sometime?\\\" \\n I said \\\"No, I don't think that's a good idea.\\\" She kept pestering me until finally I said, \\\"Text me what you want to say if you really need to, but I don't want to get together with you.\\\" She never responded. \\n This afternoon, she showed up at my work. She was already crying when she walked into my office. She said she wrote me a letter and that she wanted me to read it because it explained some things....basically, the letter said that in the time we have spent apart (a week!) she had thought a lot about our conversation, about the things we disagreed on, and she decided that she had changed. She decided that she had been heavily influenced by her family (especially on the issue of the vaccinations) and that she had researched it and thought about it for herself and came to her own conclusions. She said that she \\\"knows personally that we can get through anything, but we have to do it together\\\". She said that she can't picture the rest of her life with anybody else and that she wants us to make it work. She said that she'll support me and do anything to make me happy and to make us work. \\n I was doing fine, I was doing great. I was trying to move on. And now I just feel sad . I can't stop thinking about her. I can't stop second-guessing my original decision to break-up with her. I don't know what to do, I don't know what's right. I wish she had never talked to me about this. People in my life are telling me to stick to my guns and not do anything about it; other people I trust are telling me that the big letter she wrote me was honest and sweet and that I should give her another chance. \\n I don't know. I just want it all to end. I want to be happy, I don't want this. I don't want to feel manipulated. I don't want to feel like I did the wrong thing. Help...\",\n \"Summary: Broke up with my girlfriend last week, felt good about it. Now, she comes back with a letter explaining that she has changed her mind on a few significant issues we disagreed on and I am now second-guessing myself and feeling manipulated. I don't know what to do, and it's affecting my other relationships and the other aspects of my life. I need some help.\\n\\nPost: I've posted two other threads about this. Read them if you want some more background info on this: \\n Anyway, I mustered the courage to do what I felt was right and I broke up with her last week. Thursday night was when it happened and it was the longest, roughest break-up conversation that I've ever had. She didnt want to let go. She was reaching for anything she could to get me to stay with her. \\n We didn't talk after that. And I was fine...I felt good about the break-up. I was sad, sure, I missed her from time to time. But overall, it was an easier \\\"moving on\\\" process...(remember, it has only been a week)....I felt confident in my decision. \\n TODAY, however, she texted me and said, \\\"Ive done some thinking, some soul-searching, and I feel like there are some things I need to tell you. Can we get together to talk sometime?\\\" \\n I said \\\"No, I don't think that's a good idea.\\\" She kept pestering me until finally I said, \\\"Text me what you want to say if you really need to, but I don't want to get together with you.\\\" She never responded. \\n This afternoon, she showed up at my work. She was already crying when she walked into my office. She said she wrote me a letter and that she wanted me to read it because it explained some things....basically, the letter said that in the time we have spent apart (a week!) she had thought a lot about our conversation, about the things we disagreed on, and she decided that she had changed. She decided that she had been heavily influenced by her family (especially on the issue of the vaccinations) and that she had researched it and thought about it for herself and came to her own conclusions. She said that she \\\"knows personally that we can get through anything, but we have to do it together\\\". She said that she can't picture the rest of her life with anybody else and that she wants us to make it work. She said that she'll support me and do anything to make me happy and to make us work. \\n I was doing fine, I was doing great. I was trying to move on. And now I just feel sad . I can't stop thinking about her. I can't stop second-guessing my original decision to break-up with her. I don't know what to do, I don't know what's right. I wish she had never talked to me about this. People in my life are telling me to stick to my guns and not do anything about it; other people I trust are telling me that the big letter she wrote me was honest and sweet and that I should give her another chance. \\n I don't know. I just want it all to end. I want to be happy, I don't want this. I don't want to feel manipulated. I don't want to feel like I did the wrong thing. Help...\",\n \"Summary: I don't want to hurt her anymore than is necessary, but also I don't want to prolong a relationship that I feel will not last, especially through an engagement or marriage. I still care a lot for her, but with the disagreements and arguments we have been having, I don't want to be leading her on and I think the smartest thing to do is break up. But I am scared and nervous and need advice.\\n\\nPost: See previous /r/relationships thread to read more about the incompatibility issues that have recently been driving a wedge between us : \\n Disclaimer: this post will probably be all over the place as I try to organize my thoughts...sorry. \\n We have been dating for several months and the possibility of marriage has come up (she always brings it up and initiates those conversations)...however, after taking some time to think about \\\"us\\\", and weighing the options...I think it's time for me to end things...but I'm nervous to do so. I care about her, I want her to be happy, but I just think that with the direction our lives are going, she won't be. \\n We recently got into an argument because she doesn't seem interested in moving to New York City, where I will be going to law school next year. She is trying to convince me to move somewhere else, or to stay where we are...which, is an option, but it has always been my goal and dream to move to NYC and live there--well before she and even met or started dating. This \\\"argument' happened over text and I told her that we needed to stop texting and talk about it in person, because this is not the only issue we are disagreeing on...several others ( see thread above ) will come up when we talk in person. \\n Overall, the resounding \\\"difference\\\" between us it that I feel she is very resistant and controlling...we do have fun, happy times, but there are lots of times (almost daily it seems) where I feel like I can't be myself around her, where I feel like I am just disappointing her, because she gets annoyed over little things that I do...things I do normally and that are just part of my personality....things that are inherent to me and I can't exactly change... \\n I think she knows that this \\\"talk\\\" is going to \\\"make us or break us\\\". She is so emotionally invested and dependent on me that I am worried that breaking things off with her will destroy her, and I don't want that. It's going to hurt, I know, but I want to be gentle and respectful towards her. We have invested lots of time and emotion into this relationship, and to throw it all away is a difficult thing for me to do. But I just think that if we can't agree and are continually arguing and disagreeing now, there's no reason to get engaged, let alone married, because it will just continue or get worse.\",\n \"Summary: I don't want to hurt her anymore than is necessary, but also I don't want to prolong a relationship that I feel will not last, especially through an engagement or marriage. I still care a lot for her, but with the disagreements and arguments we have been having, I don't want to be leading her on and I think the smartest thing to do is break up. But I am scared and nervous and need advice.\\n\\nPost: See previous /r/relationships thread to read more about the incompatibility issues that have recently been driving a wedge between us : \\n Disclaimer: this post will probably be all over the place as I try to organize my thoughts...sorry. \\n We have been dating for several months and the possibility of marriage has come up (she always brings it up and initiates those conversations)...however, after taking some time to think about \\\"us\\\", and weighing the options...I think it's time for me to end things...but I'm nervous to do so. I care about her, I want her to be happy, but I just think that with the direction our lives are going, she won't be. \\n We recently got into an argument because she doesn't seem interested in moving to New York City, where I will be going to law school next year. She is trying to convince me to move somewhere else, or to stay where we are...which, is an option, but it has always been my goal and dream to move to NYC and live there--well before she and even met or started dating. This \\\"argument' happened over text and I told her that we needed to stop texting and talk about it in person, because this is not the only issue we are disagreeing on...several others ( see thread above ) will come up when we talk in person. \\n Overall, the resounding \\\"difference\\\" between us it that I feel she is very resistant and controlling...we do have fun, happy times, but there are lots of times (almost daily it seems) where I feel like I can't be myself around her, where I feel like I am just disappointing her, because she gets annoyed over little things that I do...things I do normally and that are just part of my personality....things that are inherent to me and I can't exactly change... \\n I am scared...I'm afraid she'll turn around and change and be that \\\"perfectly compatible girl\\\"...and that fear is what's causing me to put off this break up...I know she won't change...but also, I fear that when I try to break up with her, she's going to claim that she will change...that she will try harder to be compatible with me...and I fear that that will lead to her \\\"putting on a show\\\" until we get engaged or married and then she'll feel like she's \\\"locked me down\\\" and then can take control and try to change me... \\n I fear that during our conversation, or in the midst of the breakup, she will call me out and say that I am being unfair or not being considerate of her own goals and plans and dreams...I know that that is what her family is telling her. \\n But the thing is: she has no idea what she is doing with her schooling or career...I do...I have had this plan and these goals for years, years before I met her even...I don't think it is fair for her to be asking me to give that up or put it off, especially when she doesn't have a plan or goals laid out like me... (Outside of having twelve children that she doesn't want to vaccinate...) \\n I think she knows that this \\\"talk\\\" is going to \\\"make us or break us\\\". She is so emotionally invested and dependent on me that I am worried that breaking things off with her will destroy her, and I don't want that. It's going to hurt, I know, but I want to be gentle and respectful towards her. We have invested lots of time and emotion into this relationship, and to throw it all away is a difficult thing for me to do. But I just think that if we can't agree and are continually arguing and disagreeing now, there's no reason to get engaged, let alone married, because it will just continue or get worse.\",\n \"Summary: Broke up with a girl because we couldn't communicate well and I felt like she treated me poorly. Now, I can't stop thinking about her and I miss her and I need any help or advice on what I can do to stop it and get over her. Please?\\n\\nPost: For context, here's another thread I posted in this sub, detailing some of the difficulties I'd been experiencing with her over the past few weeks/months: \\n Other than the issues listed in that thread, she was not good at communicating with me at all. She would let things that bother her fester and boil, until she lashed out or got upset and frustrated with me. Whenever I disagreed with her (on politics, on religion, on activities, on refusing to think about other people with unfair judgment) she would criticize me and make me feel like I wasn't good enough. \\n If I made mistakes, which I did, and will surely continue to do, she would never let me live it down. She'd keep a running record in the back of her mind of all the times I messed up and hold it over my head. I always talked about trying to do better, but she'd never explain to me what bothered her, or what I could actually do to \\\"do better\\\". \\n It was really hard to stay happy with her when she focused on the negative aspects of life all the time. When she refused to do things, or was lazy and irresponsible most of the time. It was hard to stay happy when I felt like I was never \\\"good enough\\\" for her, just because I do things differently, or think differently, or was raised differently, or have different beliefs and different opinions. The way she treated me when we disagreed or when our differences were brought to the surface made me feel like I'm just not good enough because I'm not living up to what she expected out of a boyfriend. It hurt to feel like that--to feel like I had to censor every word that came out of my mouth for fear of her challenging me on my opinion or beliefs or of her criticizing me for doing something differently than she would. \\n Anyway. We broke up. It took three and a half hours because she wouldn't talk to me. She wouldn't give me her thoughts, her feelings, she wouldn't provide any feedback. It felt like I was talking to a wall the whole time, until finally I told her that I was breaking up with her. And now? I can't stop thinking about her. I miss her, I want to be with her and talk to her. But at the same time, I think it's for the best that we broke up. Still, I need help getting over her and I need help to stop thinking about her. Ideas? Advice?\",\n \"Summary: Girlfriend hurts my feelings, takes me for granted, makes me feel like I don't matter or like I can't do anything right...then, when I try to talk to her about it, she brushes it off, says \\\"I don't know\\\" and changes the subject. It is very frustrating, because there always seems to be something wrong, and she refuses to communicate about it in any other way besides belittling and criticizing me. What can I do?\\n\\nPost: I'm having a lot of trouble with my girlfriend. She seems to negative all the time, and I am the opposite. I try to be optimistic and positive and I try to look on the bright side of things, as often as I can. I believe that there is enough negativity in the world and that I should not add to it. \\n She thinks that I am insensitive and unrealistic and that I don't listen to her. But I am the kind of person who, if you share a problem you are having with me, I will offer a solution. I will look at the positives of the situation and try to find a way to help. I listen, I think about it, I offer ways to solve problems. \\n She gets upset with that. Because she says I make the problem worse by doing that. And all I'm trying to do is help. I don't feel like I can share my own problems with her because all it will do it add to her burden, to her negativity. That makes it hard on me too. \\n I don't feel important to her. I feel like I can't do anything right. Anything I say or do will somehow make her angry or hurt her feelings or she will take it the wrong way. I frequently feel like I am \\\"not good enough for her\\\". For example, next week I am taking my sister to see a Beyonce concert and my girlfriend is upset with me going because \\\"Beyonce doesn't wear enough clothes and promotes negative body images to young girls. She doesn't respect herself and doesn't help girls respect their bodies either.\\\" I don't think that at all, and I'm just going cause I want to go to a fun concert with my sister! \\n My girlfriend makes me feel bad about having my own opinion, about liking the things that I like. She judges me and criticizes me and makes fun of me in very condescending ways that she describes as \\\"just teasing\\\" but I actually find quite hurtful. When I brought it up to her once she said, \\\"It's just because you're already feeling sad and so you're receiving my teasing in a negative way.\\\" I don't think that at all! If anything, I'm feeling sad because of the way she is treating me. \\n Whenever I try to communicate with her or talk to her about our relationship or the way she hurts me, she either responds to me with silence or with \\\"I don't know\\\". I feel like we can't have a real conversation, because she doesn't open up to me. She just criticizes me and spins whatever concerns I have to make it look like I'M the bad guy. I don't feel comfortable with that. And when she DOES feel like talking, she refuses to do so because she says that my \\\"tone is really mean\\\". But she misconstrues anything I say in text messages to mean something rude or offensive or negative about her, when in reality it's not intended in that way at all. In person, she misconstrues my serious voice as being a \\\"mean or rude tone\\\". It hurts my feelings that she treats me like this. \\n This has been a very difficult situation for the past few weeks and it's just stressing me out and making me feel sad. Plus, I'm preparing to move across the country in August and I think I'd be better off without all this added stress and anxiety and guilt that comes from her criticisms and lack of communication skills. \\n It makes me feel like I'm being taken for granted, like I'm not appreciated or valued, and that I can't do anything right or say anything right and all I do is mess up. I don't feel great being around her. My mom asked me the other day, \\\"Would you miss her if you broke up?\\\" Sure, I'd miss the kissing and physical part. But I couldn't think of any other reasons and if that's the only thing keeping us together, what's the point anymore?\",\n \"Summary: Recently, one of my closest friends has been seeming to flirt with me, to be dropping sort of subtle hints that she is into me...I'm attracted to her and like her a lot, but she is in a long-distance relationship with another guy and I don't really know how to proceed or what to do. Any advice?\\n\\nPost: I recently got out of a relationship that was not at all healthy for me. I am relieved, happier, and ready to just live my life and hopefully find the right girl to have the right relationship with. \\n One of my close friends started dating a guy around the same time I began my relationship with my ex...I ended things, my friend is still \\\"dating\\\" (long-distance, mind you) her boyfriend. \\n After I broke up with my girlfriend, I was in a rough place, trying to move on and trying to grieve a bit. I am better now, but since then, as I've spent more time with this friend of mine, I have begun to notice how pretty I think she is, how great we get along, how I think about her throughout the day and wish I could ask her out...but there's that big issue of her being \\\"in a long-distance relationship\\\" with this other guy. At some points, she makes it sound like she is really into him. At others, she talks about how she is nervous to pursue things with him (he is joining the Air Force and she isn't super interested in going down that path). \\n I've noticed that she has been starting to flirt with me a little bit (and some of our other friends have noticed that as well. They have said things like, \\\"Dude, she's been getting a little more flirty with you lately\\\" or \\\"let her sit in the back of the car with spenceast, she's been wanting to get closer to him all day\\\"). We (my group of closest friends, three girls, three guys) were all talking once about what would happen in a situation where we were stranded on an island and ended up hooking up. Almost immediately she said, \\\"I would totally hook up with spenceast and he and I would be the best sexual partners\\\". She mentions that still from time to time. Earlier tonight we were all sitting in the basement together trying to plan for our group Christmas activity and we were just kind of spread out: some on the couch, a few on the floor, she was on her bed next to her sister. We're all joking and laughing and she looks at me and says, \\\"spenceast, come up here and snuggle with me, I'm cold!' \\n Anyway, long story short, all these things (coupled with my attraction to her) have been making me think that maybe, perhaps, possibly we could get together sometime? I am unsure of how to proceed though. Should I take those things as signs that she could be into me? Should I try to drop some hints and give off some signs too? Or should I just back off and stay back, since she's in this long-distance relationship? I haven't mentioned anything to any of my close friends, because I don't want them to overreact or tell her or anything just yet. I'm just looking for some clarity and some advice on this issue. \\n Can anyone talk with me and offer me some help?\",\n \"Summary: Recently, one of my closest friends has been seeming to flirt with me, to be dropping sort of subtle hints that she is into me...I'm attracted to her and like her a lot, but she is in a long-distance relationship with another guy and I don't really know how to proceed or what to do. Any advice?\\n\\nPost: I recently got out of a relationship that was not at all healthy for me. I am relieved, happier, and ready to just live my life and hopefully find the right girl to have the right relationship with. \\n One of my close friends started dating a guy around the same time I began my relationship with my ex...I ended things, my friend is still \\\"dating\\\" (long-distance, mind you) her boyfriend. \\n After I broke up with my girlfriend, I was in a rough place, trying to move on and trying to grieve a bit. I am better now, but since then, as I've spent more time with this friend of mine, I have begun to notice how pretty I think she is, how great we get along, how I think about her throughout the day and wish I could ask her out...but there's that big issue of her being \\\"in a long-distance relationship\\\" with this other guy. At some points, she makes it sound like she is really into him. At others, she talks about how she is nervous to pursue things with him (he is joining the Air Force and she isn't super interested in going down that path). \\n I've noticed that she has been starting to flirt with me a little bit (and some of our other friends have noticed that as well. They have said things like, \\\"Dude, she's been getting a little more flirty with you lately\\\" or \\\"let her sit in the back of the car with spenceast, she's been wanting to get closer to him all day\\\"). We (my group of closest friends, three girls, three guys) were all talking once about what would happen in a situation where we were stranded on an island and ended up hooking up. Almost immediately she said, \\\"I would totally hook up with spenceast and he and I would be the best sexual partners\\\". She mentions that still from time to time. Earlier tonight we were all sitting in the basement together trying to plan for our group Christmas activity and we were just kind of spread out: some on the couch, a few on the floor, she was on her bed next to her sister. We're all joking and laughing and she looks at me and says, \\\"spenceast, come up here and snuggle with me, I'm cold!' \\n Anyway, long story short, all these things (coupled with my attraction to her) have been making me think that maybe, perhaps, possibly we could get together sometime? I am unsure of how to proceed though. Should I take those things as signs that she could be into me? Should I try to drop some hints and give off some signs too? Or should I just back off and stay back, since she's in this long-distance relationship? I haven't mentioned anything to any of my close friends, because I don't want them to overreact or tell her or anything just yet. I'm just looking for some clarity and some advice on this issue. \\n Can anyone talk with me and offer me some help?\",\n \"Summary: Recently, one of my closest friends has been seeming to flirt with me, to be dropping sort of subtle hints that she is into me...I'm attracted to her and like her a lot, but she is in a long-distance relationship with another guy and I don't really know how to proceed or what to do. Any advice?\\n\\nPost: I recently got out of a relationship that was not at all healthy for me. I am relieved, happier, and ready to just live my life and hopefully find the right girl to have the right relationship with. \\n One of my close friends started dating a guy around the same time I began my relationship with my ex...I ended things, my friend is still \\\"dating\\\" (long-distance, mind you) her boyfriend. \\n After I broke up with my girlfriend, I was in a rough place, trying to move on and trying to grieve a bit. I am better now, but since then, as I've spent more time with this friend of mine, I have begun to notice how pretty I think she is, how great we get along, how I think about her throughout the day and wish I could ask her out...but there's that big issue of her being \\\"in a long-distance relationship\\\" with this other guy. At some points, she makes it sound like she is really into him. At others, she talks about how she is nervous to pursue things with him (he is joining the Air Force and she isn't super interested in going down that path). \\n I've noticed that she has been starting to flirt with me a little bit (and some of our other friends have noticed that as well. They have said things like, \\\"Dude, she's been getting a little more flirty with you lately\\\" or \\\"let her sit in the back of the car with spenceast, she's been wanting to get closer to him all day\\\"). We (my group of closest friends, three girls, three guys) were all talking once about what would happen in a situation where we were stranded on an island and ended up hooking up. Almost immediately she said, \\\"I would totally hook up with spenceast and he and I would be the best sexual partners\\\". She mentions that still from time to time. Earlier tonight we were all sitting in the basement together trying to plan for our group Christmas activity and we were just kind of spread out: some on the couch, a few on the floor, she was on her bed next to her sister. We're all joking and laughing and she looks at me and says, \\\"spenceast, come up here and snuggle with me, I'm cold!' \\n Anyway, long story short, all these things (coupled with my attraction to her) have been making me think that maybe, perhaps, possibly we could get together sometime? I am unsure of how to proceed though. Should I take those things as signs that she could be into me? Should I try to drop some hints and give off some signs too? Or should I just back off and stay back, since she's in this long-distance relationship? I haven't mentioned anything to any of my close friends, because I don't want them to overreact or tell her or anything just yet. I'm just looking for some clarity and some advice on this issue. \\n Can anyone talk with me and offer me some help?\",\n \"Summary: I have started and then given up on many different stories. One of my biggest personal goals is to complete and publish my own novel. What can I do to achieve this?\\n\\nPost: As an English major, I read and write frequently. I fill notebooks up with story ideas. I love writing a lot. Problem is, I get started writing one story and then...get bored of it and switch to the next story idea I have. At one point, I had six different documents open, each with a different idea. I was excited about each one when I started writing them, but then that excitement trailed off and went to who knows where. \\n I think that's the only thing holding me back, the fact that I've never actually finished writing my own novel. I just want to finish one - even if it's just a novella, 150-200 pages - that way I'll know that I can do it. Hopefully then I can turn it into something. It's become a very therapeutic process for me, I just wish I could actually complete a novel! Seeing all the unfinished work on my desktop gives me anxiety. \\n I write about many different things. I like to explore different genres. Currently, I'm working on a collection of short stories which range from comedy, to horror, to thriller, to romance - all involving the same characters and how their different stories interact and intertwine with one another's. I have begun a political thriller/mystery novels, which is set in the 1970's revolving around a sting operation involving the mafia and human organ trafficking. I'm writing a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future where the government controls all human emotion through mandatory chemical injections, and I have started one horror novel - a ghost story - about a well known celebrity who is haunted by the presence of his best friend, an international rock star, who convinces him to learn the truth about his murder, leading him to discover a political coverup that receives national attention.\\nI am interested in writing things that deal with \\\"human nature\\\". I started writing (today) a story told from two different POV's: One, from that of a successful dentist who has a growing urge to kill, just to know what it's like. and the other from the perspective of a man recently found innocent of rape and murder charges after 14 years in prison, who now lives on the streets and is considered the scum of the city. I want to explore how people look down on the homeless man, who is actually a good person at heart and how they adore and almost worship the successful \\\"celebrity-status\\\" dentist, who is actually a monster. \\n I have so many because, as I said, I start writing one story and then that leads me to new ideas which I get really excited to start working on. Several of my stories bleed into each other. For example, the one set in the 1970's and the ghost story both have characters and plot lines that I created for the one story, but then decided worked better as part of the other. \\n I have had a close friend of mine read a few of my writings. Her exact quote after reading the dystopian sci-fi piece was, \\\"Who is the father? Who is this Deb character? PLEASE send me more, I need to KNOW!!\\\" \\n That was encouraging because I realized that maybe somebody would like to read my work someday. I believe that I mainly write for myself, but I do have a desire to add value to my readers' lives - to help them enjoy reading, like I do. I really want to complete something. I need the motivation/encouragement/discipline to do it. What are your tips? What can I do to achieve this personal goal?\\n(sorry for the long, almost rambling, post. Like I said, I love to write).\",\n \"Summary: I have started and then given up on many different stories. One of my biggest personal goals is to complete and publish my own novel. What can I do to achieve this?\\n\\nPost: As an English major, I read and write frequently. I fill notebooks up with story ideas. I love writing a lot. Problem is, I get started writing one story and then...get bored of it and switch to the next story idea I have. At one point, I had six different documents open, each with a different idea. I was excited about each one when I started writing them, but then that excitement trailed off and went to who knows where. \\n I think that's the only thing holding me back, the fact that I've never actually finished writing my own novel. I just want to finish one - even if it's just a novella, 150-200 pages - that way I'll know that I can do it. Hopefully then I can turn it into something. It's become a very therapeutic process for me, I just wish I could actually complete a novel! Seeing all the unfinished work on my desktop gives me anxiety. \\n I write about many different things. I like to explore different genres. Currently, I'm working on a collection of short stories which range from comedy, to horror, to thriller, to romance - all involving the same characters and how their different stories interact and intertwine with one another's. I have begun a political thriller/mystery novels, which is set in the 1970's revolving around a sting operation involving the mafia and human organ trafficking. I'm writing a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future where the government controls all human emotion through mandatory chemical injections, and I have started one horror novel - a ghost story - about a well known celebrity who is haunted by the presence of his best friend, an international rock star, who convinces him to learn the truth about his murder, leading him to discover a political coverup that receives national attention.\\nI am interested in writing things that deal with \\\"human nature\\\". I started writing (today) a story told from two different POV's: One, from that of a successful dentist who has a growing urge to kill, just to know what it's like. and the other from the perspective of a man recently found innocent of rape and murder charges after 14 years in prison, who now lives on the streets and is considered the scum of the city. I want to explore how people look down on the homeless man, who is actually a good person at heart and how they adore and almost worship the successful \\\"celebrity-status\\\" dentist, who is actually a monster. \\n I have so many because, as I said, I start writing one story and then that leads me to new ideas which I get really excited to start working on. Several of my stories bleed into each other. For example, the one set in the 1970's and the ghost story both have characters and plot lines that I created for the one story, but then decided worked better as part of the other. \\n I have had a close friend of mine read a few of my writings. Her exact quote after reading the dystopian sci-fi piece was, \\\"Who is the father? Who is this Deb character? PLEASE send me more, I need to KNOW!!\\\" \\n That was encouraging because I realized that maybe somebody would like to read my work someday. I believe that I mainly write for myself, but I do have a desire to add value to my readers' lives - to help them enjoy reading, like I do. I really want to complete something. I need the motivation/encouragement/discipline to do it. What are your tips? What can I do to achieve this personal goal?\\n(sorry for the long, almost rambling, post. Like I said, I love to write).\",\n \"Summary: I have started and then given up on many different stories. One of my biggest personal goals is to complete and publish my own novel. What can I do to achieve this?\\n\\nPost: As an English major, I read and write frequently. I fill notebooks up with story ideas. I love writing a lot. Problem is, I get started writing one story and then...get bored of it and switch to the next story idea I have. At one point, I had six different documents open, each with a different idea. I was excited about each one when I started writing them, but then that excitement trailed off and went to who knows where. \\n I think that's the only thing holding me back, the fact that I've never actually finished writing my own novel. I just want to finish one - even if it's just a novella, 150-200 pages - that way I'll know that I can do it. Hopefully then I can turn it into something. It's become a very therapeutic process for me, I just wish I could actually complete a novel! Seeing all the unfinished work on my desktop gives me anxiety. \\n I write about many different things. I like to explore different genres. Currently, I'm working on a collection of short stories which range from comedy, to horror, to thriller, to romance - all involving the same characters and how their different stories interact and intertwine with one another's. I have begun a political thriller/mystery novels, which is set in the 1970's revolving around a sting operation involving the mafia and human organ trafficking. I'm writing a science fiction novel set in a dystopian future where the government controls all human emotion through mandatory chemical injections, and I have started one horror novel - a ghost story - about a well known celebrity who is haunted by the presence of his best friend, an international rock star, who convinces him to learn the truth about his murder, leading him to discover a political coverup that receives national attention.\\nI am interested in writing things that deal with \\\"human nature\\\". I started writing (today) a story told from two different POV's: One, from that of a successful dentist who has a growing urge to kill, just to know what it's like. and the other from the perspective of a man recently found innocent of rape and murder charges after 14 years in prison, who now lives on the streets and is considered the scum of the city. I want to explore how people look down on the homeless man, who is actually a good person at heart and how they adore and almost worship the successful \\\"celebrity-status\\\" dentist, who is actually a monster. \\n I have so many because, as I said, I start writing one story and then that leads me to new ideas which I get really excited to start working on. Several of my stories bleed into each other. For example, the one set in the 1970's and the ghost story both have characters and plot lines that I created for the one story, but then decided worked better as part of the other. \\n I have had a close friend of mine read a few of my writings. Her exact quote after reading the dystopian sci-fi piece was, \\\"Who is the father? Who is this Deb character? PLEASE send me more, I need to KNOW!!\\\" \\n That was encouraging because I realized that maybe somebody would like to read my work someday. I believe that I mainly write for myself, but I do have a desire to add value to my readers' lives - to help them enjoy reading, like I do. I really want to complete something. I need the motivation/encouragement/discipline to do it. What are your tips? What can I do to achieve this personal goal?\\n(sorry for the long, almost rambling, post. Like I said, I love to write).\",\n \"Summary: took my first diagnostic, got a 141. I want to shoot for at least a 170 on the actual exam. I am feeling discouraged and frustrated with myself and want to know what I can do to prepare better and see improvement.\\n\\nPost: So I took my first diagnostic this morning (June 2007 exam) and I scored 141 . That was a lot lower than I was expecting. I felt pretty good while taking the exam. Several thoughts went through my head: \\n Logic Games: \\\"Man, I need to learn to diagram better\\\" -- I got the first question of each logic game correct (generally, the question that asks something like, 'If x is in the last position, where would y logically be?'\\\"), but the following questions that are variations on the ordering/positioning I didn't do as well on. \\n Logical Reasoning: \\\"I need to pay more attention to the question stems\\\" -- I did pretty well on the first LR section (my best section, actually), but I totally bombed the second LR section and that greatly affected my overall score. I think it was because both Section 2 and 3 were LR and my mind was exhausted between the two. Because of this, I rushed through the second LR section and it reflected poorly in my score. \\n Reading Comprehension: \\\"These passages are so long and boring...\\\" -- My problem here was focus . I got 80% of the questions correct on the first two passages, on the second two, I only got one or two answers correct. I stopped paying attention and need to focus more. \\n \\n Anyway, I come here posting this because I am extremely discouraged . I recognize that it is the first practice exam I took, but I am scared and worried about my preparation. i am planning on taking the OCT 2015 exam and I am worried that I won't be able to improve my score by then. I want to shoot for at least a 170 minimum. \\n What can I do to better focus my studies and improve my score gradually as I continue preparing? I think my two biggest problem areas are: Logic Games (specifically diagramming ) and Paying Attention/Staying Focused and Alert . \\n Can anyone offer me any help?\",\n \"Summary: Got set up with a girl I barely knew and had a good time. Would like to see her again, but she lives two hours away. Want to keep in contact and see if it can turn into anything more. Need advice! \\n How can I judge her interest level? What can I do/say to keep conversations going (which will mainly be over texts) so that I can keep any potential interest and be able to have room to pursue it? Any general tips/advice you can give me?\\n\\nPost: So, over the weekend, I attended a wedding with one of my close friends and her boyfriend. Unbeknownst to me, she invited her best friend (whom I had met previously, but never really spent any time with) and we were each others \\\"dates\\\". We had a great time at the reception and then spent the rest of the weekend hanging out. It was great because we prevented each other from \\\"third-wheeling\\\" it with my close friend and her boyfriend. \\n Several times we kinda cuddled and talked and got to know each other a little better. We flirted a bit, but I was kind of shy around her and not really acting like myself, because I was unaware of how \\\"interested\\\" she was in me. I really enjoyed spending time with her and would love to continue pursuing and see where it could go. \\n We ended up driving home together and had a good time, she gave me a big hug after I dropped her off at her car and I told her to text me when she got home to let me know she arrived safely. She just did and then mentioned that she had a wonderful time this weekend and she really enjoyed my company. She also said that we should plan a trip together (something we had talked about in passing over the weekend) because it would be really fun. I am all for it and I hope that works out! \\n I want to see her again so I can kind of open up more and be more myself, cause I realized I was kind of shut off and awkward, because of the reception and the situations we were in where there was a couple right by us and we were just kind of set up with each other. \\n I need some advice because, she lives about two hours away from my city. I'd love to get together with her again and I want to stay in contact. I don't know how often I should text her or talk to her or what...\",\n \"Summary: I am moving to Kentucky in August and don't know where my girlfriend stands on our future, nor do I want to pressure her more than she already is about it. If she doesn't want to pursue our relationship further, knowing that I am going to be moving, I want to know sooner than later so I can save us both from further heartbreak and make it a little easier for me to move. Advice?\\n\\nPost: We've been dating for a while, we have fun together, and I enjoy being with her. I try hard to focus on the good, and avoid fixating on the bad in our relationship (though, there isn't much). I like her a lot, although she doesn't have much relationship experience, so sometimes she can act a little immature, and sometimes she doesn't like to have serious conversations about our future together. \\n As I said in the title, I am moving to Kentucky (from Utah) this fall. She knows this, her family knows this, and our friends know this. Constantly, our friends are asking us \\\"what are you gonna do?\\\" Or \\\"is she going to move to Kentucky with you?\\\". I am used to these kinds of questions and this behavior from past relationships I have had, but she is not and I believe that she is feeling pressured by all this. \\n Sometimes, we jokingly talk about getting married and moving to Kentucky together. Other times, she emphasizes the fact that I am moving to Kentucky and that she is going to move somewhere closer to her college (only about twenty minutes from where we are now) in the fall. Once she mentioned that she probably wouldn't follow me wherever I go in life, but other times she acts very attached and like she doesn't want to let me go. \\n I am getting mixed signals from her and I don't know what to do. I like her a lot, but I am not sure if we are close enough to stay together and make the move to Kentucky. I do not want to do long distance, especially across the country like it would be, and especially since I wouldn't able to come home to visit. I know that she feels like she's too young to get married, and that she worries about her schooling here and how moving would interrupt that. \\n At the same time, I feel like I can't have a serious conversation about this with her because I don't want to be a source of stress, or pressure, or anxiety for her (since everyone else in our social circle pressures us about marriage or moving to Kentucky or our future). But I want to find out what she is thinking about and if she sees a future with us (and if that future involves her being willing to move to Kentucky with me)....i'd like to find that out sooner rather than later, because if the answer is NO, I want to save us both some heartbreak and save myself from wasting time and money and to prevent making a challenging move across the country even harder right before I start law school. \\n Any thoughts? Suggestions? Advice?\",\n \"Summary: I am moving to Kentucky in August and don't know where my girlfriend stands on our future, nor do I want to pressure her more than she already is about it. If she doesn't want to pursue our relationship further, knowing that I am going to be moving, I want to know sooner than later so I can save us both from further heartbreak and make it a little easier for me to move. Advice?\\n\\nPost: We've been dating for a while, we have fun together, and I enjoy being with her. I try hard to focus on the good, and avoid fixating on the bad in our relationship (though, there isn't much). I like her a lot, although she doesn't have much relationship experience, so sometimes she can act a little immature, and sometimes she doesn't like to have serious conversations about our future together. \\n As I said in the title, I am moving to Kentucky (from Utah) this fall. She knows this, her family knows this, and our friends know this. Constantly, our friends are asking us \\\"what are you gonna do?\\\" Or \\\"is she going to move to Kentucky with you?\\\". I am used to these kinds of questions and this behavior from past relationships I have had, but she is not and I believe that she is feeling pressured by all this. \\n Sometimes, we jokingly talk about getting married and moving to Kentucky together. Other times, she emphasizes the fact that I am moving to Kentucky and that she is going to move somewhere closer to her college (only about twenty minutes from where we are now) in the fall. Once she mentioned that she probably wouldn't follow me wherever I go in life, but other times she acts very attached and like she doesn't want to let me go. \\n I am getting mixed signals from her and I don't know what to do. I like her a lot, but I am not sure if we are close enough to stay together and make the move to Kentucky. I do not want to do long distance, especially across the country like it would be, and especially since I wouldn't able to come home to visit. I know that she feels like she's too young to get married, and that she worries about her schooling here and how moving would interrupt that. \\n At the same time, I feel like I can't have a serious conversation about this with her because I don't want to be a source of stress, or pressure, or anxiety for her (since everyone else in our social circle pressures us about marriage or moving to Kentucky or our future). But I want to find out what she is thinking about and if she sees a future with us (and if that future involves her being willing to move to Kentucky with me)....i'd like to find that out sooner rather than later, because if the answer is NO, I want to save us both some heartbreak and save myself from wasting time and money and to prevent making a challenging move across the country even harder right before I start law school. \\n Any thoughts? Suggestions? Advice?\",\n \"Summary: Girlfriend and I broke up a week ago over three issues (1) Communication problems on her end, (2) not feeling accepted or validated by her, and (3) I'm moving across the country in August. When we broke up, she didn't communicate much of anything to me and feels like she still has lots of questions and things she wants to say (though I did give her plenty of opportunities to say them during that conversation!) She has written me a letter (to help organize and project her thoughts, since she clearly can't do that while talking in person) and asked if I'd be willing to read it with her in person and respond to it with her. \\n Need help.\\n\\nPost: It's been a week. We broke up because of several issues, namely: \\n 1) Communication : she had lots of trouble communicating with me openly and honestly. Every time we tried to have a serious conversation, it turned into her saying \\\"I don't know\\\" anytime I'd ask her about her feelings, thoughts, or opinions on the matter. Or she'd just turn the question back on me: \\\"Well, what do YOU think?\\\" It was not healthy and did not work. I told her about it many times and expressed my frustrations, and she admitted that she had troubles communicating (because of how she was raised, and familial issues where no one communicates with one another). Still, she never showed any desire to improve or try to communicate with me. \\n In fact, before we officially broke up, we had a talk and went on a break for a week. During that 'talk' it was clear that no communication was happening. So i suggested the break and that it would give us time to think and organize our thoughts and feelings while apart. The week after that, she was the one who wanted to talk first, and still, there was no communication from her. She gave me nothing. So, I talked about my feelings and ended up making a decision with the facts I had - which were mainly my side of things, since she wouldn't tell me hers. The decision I made was to break-up. \\n 2) I did not feel like I made her happy, or that she really accepted my uniqueness/differences : never did I feel validated in the nice things I did for her. I understand that this isn't the most important thing in a relationship, but it is nice to know that your SO recognizes the good things you are trying to do for them. Oftentimes, she would hold onto mistakes I made and use them against me in arguments where they had no reason to be brought up in. She would challenge me and confront me on our differences, including our opinions. She would make me feel judged and criticized and it just made me feel bad. All of this combined with the no-communication thing made me feel like I just annoyed/frustrated her and that she'd be better off without me. While I was trying to break up with me, she expressed that that was no the case and that I make her so happy. Her older sister (who i am somewhat close with) also expressed the same thing, telling me that after the break-up, my ex had so many things she wished she had told me, but didn't. These are the things which she has written in the letter, supposedly. \\n 3) I am moving across the country to attend law school in August: because of that, I don't think that the relationship will work. There's just not enough time. Not enough time to fix those issues presented earlier. Not enough time. I feel like that's the case, and I feel like no matter what she has written in this 'communicative letter', the fact that I am moving is not going to change. She is younger than me, she doesn't have as much life experience (she's still in college, doesn't know what she wants to do with her education, and has never lived outside her home with her family). I feel like it would be better for her to gain some more experience (read: grow up a little more). Sure, we could be the right ones for each other, but I don't know if it's the right time right now. During my first year of law school (the most important year), I plan on doing nothing but study law. People who have never been to law school aren't going to understand how important that will be for me: They'll say things like, \\\"Aw no, it's not that bad. You can handle juggling law school and a long distance relationship/girlfriend too.\\\" I don't feel the same way. \\n Her sister has argued that, while there are issues that need to be addressed in our relationship, these issues need to be taken care of and resolved together , not apart. So telling her that we need to work on these issues while I'm away at law school and then maybe after my first year, I could come home to visit and we might work out then is not the best move. I agree with that: I don't expect my ex to wait for me, nor would I really hope for that to happen. \\n Still, the fact remains that I do miss her and this past week has been very hard for me. \\n I need some help, some advice, some thoughts from people who are not invested emotionally in this situation. I come to you /r/relationships .\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":24,"string":"24"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2992,"string":"2,992"}}},{"rowIdx":2993,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Buster-The-Nanobot"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post Valve will strengthen the 25% of players of the 100% who play comp to get even better (IMO that is a load of shit) and as a result, the other 75% who don't play competitively will be turned off from the game when every single fucking server, valve hosted or otherwise, becomes a pub stomping play ground for all the 1337 players and as a long term result, TF2 will turn into a game where only the most hard core seasoned veterans who specialize in FPS games will be able to get by without being absolutely slaughtered and in the end, will loose most of its casual fanbase, I.E. the people who fund this game."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Everyone who has a brain that doesn't play comp will get fed up and stop playing when all the peaceful-light hearted valve pubs become overflown with comp tryhard players which result in F2P Gibusvisions essentially becoming fish in a barrel for them to shoot. In otherwords, by competetive TF2 becoming a thing, sure valve is catering to an certain audience of players and they will no doubt get better at the game by playing comp (even though I personally think that is a load of bullshit) but everyone (the vast majority of new players) who aren't interested in comp and just play to have fun, I.E. the players who basically fuel valve with micro transactions that keep this game alive, will get so sick of not being able to join just a regular old valve pub without the fear of instantly getting dominated and pub stomped by half the enemy team."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Everyone who has a brain that doesn't play comp will get fed up and stop playing when all the peaceful-light hearted valve pubs become overflown with comp tryhard players which result in F2P Gibusvisions essentially becoming fish in a barrel for them to shoot. In otherwords, by competetive TF2 becoming a thing, sure valve is catering to an certain audience of players and they will no doubt get better at the game by playing comp (even though I personally think that is a load of bullshit) but everyone (the vast majority of new players) who aren't interested in comp and just play to have fun, I.E. the players who basically fuel valve with micro transactions that keep this game alive, will get so sick of not being able to join just a regular old valve pub without the fear of instantly getting dominated and pub stomped by half the enemy team."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Welcome to Hat Fortress 2. Buy cosmetics and dress up 9 insane mercenaries and do a little bit of killing on the side.\n\nPost: Important things you should note: \n TF2 has a very interesting economy because of its trading system. Like in CS:GO with gun quality and skins and such, TF2 has things like Gun quality, Kill streak effects which are shiny particle effects that make your weapon glow slightly. You earn the items to make killstreak weapons from playing/beating missions in Mann Versus Machine (it's a game mode) but before you do that, LOOK UP SOME GUIDES ON THE MVM META. People really hate it when you join a round of mann up (0.99 cents per mission but the rewards are incredible) and end up wasting their time. (this is also TF2's \"competitive\" if you will, its you and 5 people versus thousands of AI robots that have insanely unfair advantages whilst you and your team have upgrades that make you and your weapons stronger.) \n Hats are 50% of the game (or at least they are now a days) Trading is 25% and the other 25% is actual gameplay. Hats and other cosmetics have no gameplay effective attributes what so ever aside from making your head slightly weirder to aim for when enemy snipers are gunning for you, ya mongrell! (thats a sniper quote btw) \n AVOID THESE PLAYERS AT ALL COSTS UNTIL YOUR FAMILIAR WITH THE GAME AND HOW TO KILL PEOPLE EFFICIENTLY AT ALL COSTS! \n If you see a player with a cosmetic that has some sort of particle effect affixed to it and they're on the enemy team, run for your goddamn life. They will obliterate you (99% of the time) \n If you see a player with a gun that appears to be made of solid gold on the enemy team, run for your goddamn life. They will obliterate you (99% of the time) \n If you see a player that has lightning, smoke, fire or some other form of particle effect spraying out of their eyeballs on the enemy team, run for your goddamn life. They will obliterate you (99% of the time) \n If you see a player that has painted their cosmetics the colors neon green and neon pink, it is advised to go out of your way and heavily insult them. Especially if the painted cosmetics are being worn by a scout. These are the biggest douche bags and ass hats in the TF2 community (generally. I say this because I've yet to meet one on a pub that doesn't spam binds) \n ITEM QUALITY (aside from unusual) CHANGES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT THE ITEM GAMEPLAY WISE \n Qualities: \n Stock (color is gray) the weapons you start with \n Unique (color is yellow) Normal items you either crafted using metal and other items or randomly found from playing the game \n Vintage (color is blue) if an item is vintage, it means that specific item has been around for years ever since trading became a feature in the game. \n Genuine (color is dark green) This means the weapon is awarded to players who participate in a promotional event (usually buy pre-ordering a specific game on steam) that awards the buyer with the promotional weapon in genuine quality which also means it cannot be obtained in any other way shape or form aside from waiting several months for the item to become normal and be added to the drop/craft/trade system \n Strange (color is orange) Keeps track of your kills with that specific weapons. Strange cosmetic items keep track of points earned on the servers scoreboard which can be view by holding TAB. \n Collectors (color is red) this item was fabricated from a specific collectors kit which are items that are rarely, and I mean RARELY randomly dropped by the game. The fabricators will ask you for TWO HUNDRED of a specific weapon or hat which once input into the fabricator will yield a collectors qulaity varient of the item. Aside from having a red name tag, and the word collector in it's name, these items have nothing else special about them other than that. Like I said, this game s 50% about hats and cosmetics. \n Self Made: (color is bright green) The is usually only one self made item per item that exists. Self made is a quality awarded to people who submit weapons and hat models to the community workshop that later get added into the game as part of updates. The creator(s) of the item are awarded self made quality variants. These items also have a slightly glossier texture and have the community sparkle particle effect applied to them. \n Community: (same color as self made) These weapons are granted by valve to specific people who have done something outstanding or remarkable within the TF2 community to help better it in some way shape or form that can effect and benefit all members greatly. These items also have a slightly glossier texture and have the community sparkle particle effect applied to them. \n Haunted: (color is turquoise) these are special items that are obtained by an alternate means besides random drops or from special unboxed crates during the yearly halloween event know as \"Scream Fortress\" Aside from having a turquoise name tag, and the word haunted in it's name, these items have nothing else special about them other than that. \n Unusual: (color is purple) Unusuals are the big ticket items in TF2. They can both represent a players skill level or their wealth in game. It's usually the second thing. They are brought into the game by unboxing Mann.co Supply crates of ANY variation with a 1% chance to receive a totally random hat with a totally random effect from a selection of about 20-30 or so different particle effects. Some effects can only be gotten out of specific crates. Typically the lower the crates number (below 30) contain better unusual effects. Crate 58 which contains robot hats (THEE worst hats in the game because of how awful they look compared to their normal variations) contain special robotic themed unusual effects and all crates during halloween have the chance of rewarding special halloween themed effects. If you play CS:GO, unusuals are like Knifes. Super rare, super expensive, totally fucking awesome to have. there are a select few unusuals that are famous because of their insane rarity. Any unusual with the \"Burning flames\" Effect is like the mother of all knives in CS:GO (generally) Sun beams is the runner up, those two being the most rare effects in the game. Hats that have those effects can be sold off to other players for upwards of 100-200-300-400-500------all the way up to nearly 20 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN REAL LIFE MONEY. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. Look up \"burning team captain\" or \"burning killer exclusive\" and you'll see what I mean. \n Australium (color is orange. Australium it self is not an actual item quality. More of a sub or side quality if that makes any sense.) Reskins of normal weapons that appear to be made of solid gold (Australium. TF2's knock off version of gold). All australium weapons are strange. The price range for australium weapons depending on the weapon itrself can range from \n$20-$120. Even more if they have killstreak kits applied to them. There is one australium weapon how ever, the price of which is around 3-4 THOUSAND DOLLARS. I speak of the golden frying pan. A TRUE all class melee weapon (meaning unlike ALL other all class weapons, it can be used by the spy and engineer who normally never get to use all class weapons). Aside from being a true all class melee weapon, it has a special ability only one other true all class melee weapon has and that ability is to turn the people you melee to death with it into lifeless, semi-motionless statues of solid gold. This is, AGAIN, purely cosmetic. This is why the weapon is so expensive. The odds of earning one from playing mann versus machine mode are even lower than unboxing an unusual hat. Odds are 0.06% last I checked... I mentioned another weapon that does the same thing as the G.F.P. and is also a true all class melee weapon and that weapon is the Saxxy. A small golden statuette of one of the games characters, Saxton Hale. It is awarded to member of the TF2 community who make ground breaking short films using the source filmmaker 3D animation software which is the same thing valve used to make all of the \"meet the class videos\" (all of which BTW, you NEED to go watch) and submit them to valve during the years annual SFM contest, The Saxxies, during September. The Saxxy, unlike the golden frying pan isn't tradable, meaning you cannot sell it. Thats why the golden pan is so valuable. It gives people who have a lot of money and no talent to animate in SFM the privilege of ultimately humiliate your victims in TF2. \n anyways, with that, I leave. I'll leave you with your new soon to be favorite phrase by Gabe Newell \n Welcome to Team (Hat) Fortress 2. After 9 years in development, Hopefully, It was worth the wait... \n The worlds number one Hat themed, war based simulator ever conceived! \n Thanks, and have fun! \n Also don't mention the phrase or ask what \"BONUS DUCKS\" means. You will be insulted until you leave the server you're currently playing on if you mention those two words together... Also don't ask what EoTL is either... It's better you don't learn about that mistake of an update...","Summary: Read the entire thing or don't absorb the full detail and continue to get kicked from mvm when you wanna play spaps.\n\nPost: Spy replaces demo or scout, there are four ways to play spy in mvm. \n Style Number 1: Easy going, money collection, sap n' stab support. Easy as it sounds. You take the scouts place on the server but there is still a demoman dealing with medics whilst your off getting money. Your upgrades are all dumped into mobility, stab speed, health on kill and sapper power. \n Style 2: Medic and giant elimination. You barley focus on the money unless the scout is dead. As the eliminator, your taking the demo's place. Your upgrades go into sapper power, armor penetration, stab speed, and health on kill. \n Style 3: for advanced Spaps only! Your acting as both a scout and demo except you don't bother the giants all that much. Your upgrades go into movement, stab speed, health on kill, and armor pen. So long as your killing the medic bots and getting the A+, your team can deal with the giants and any real threats that come their way. This allows a \"seventh\" class to participate. Normally your gonna want a good backburner pyro who is melting all the robots on the front lines whilst the medic pockets him and the pootis keeps the heavy alive and well. Just make sure the pyro knows what he is doing and does not try and kill anything your going for. Let me say this now: Never have repeat classes in mvm. So no second heavy. Pyro is the way to go since even with the back burner, reflecting is a breeze so long as you dispenser camp. Pyro can also keep sentry busters at bay so the medic can get charge off them. \n Style 4: The Snyper Spyper Wombo Combo: You'll need a sniper who knows what he is doing. You effectively replace the scout and the sniper effectively replaces the demo. Basically style 1 except both classes are able to deal with the giants efficiently. The sniper is basically the main damage output like the demo would be with explosive headshots and your just the clean up crew, UNLIKE the scout. you pick up where the sniper leaves off and finish off any stragglers explosive headshot didn't take out or help bring down giants. Giant heavy medic combos are reduced to smoldering piles of scrap metal within seconds of a sniper and a spy both going at them. \n Onto the loadouts: \n Spy: Diamond back: You'll be up to your hat in free crits from all the backstabs, Dead ringer: Only because the stock inviswatch is useless since robots are smart enough to keep shooting you whilst invisible with the stock or CaD. With the dead ringer, you stay invisible for a short time after being shot no matter what, unless set on fire. Also, disguise as fast as possible. The way the robots AI works when it comes to cloaking and disguising is as follows: They don't care if you hid behind a buillding, disguised and came back out, they'll shoot you. You have to wait at least 3-5 seconds after disguising AND hiding or cloaking. At that point once the time has passed, the robots AI will tell them to stop looking for you. the big earner is the best knife since all it takes is two backstabs to regain full deadringer charge. You just have to be more nimble and concerned with your health since, tho it may not seem like much, -25 max HP is a lot of health you are now with out. one stray rocket or grenade could kill you... As for sappers, it literally does not matter as they all do the same thing so just pick which ever one you think looks nicer be it stock, the red tape or Wheatly. \n The sniper should use the machina, sydney sleeper (because it can still deal explosive headshots and with the constant minicrits, the soldier (if there is one) can use a different banner like the back up to give everyone CRIT IMMUNITY), or the hitmans heatmaker. The heat maker is good for quick target elimination, the machina excels at taking down giants, and the sleeper is good in both areas since with all the combined fire power on one robot being blasted whilst it's drenched in piss... that robot ain't gonna last long. \n So yea thats how you play spy in mvm. I've been doing it for my last 150+ tours out of 200+. Have fun.","Summary: Stock Scatter gun > Gunslinger in overpowered-ness.\nFuck scout mains. I'd rather deal with a spy or sniper main or even a god awful hellspawn Pyro main because those classes all have counters. The scout has non.\n\nPost: you want to make the stock scatter gun deal MORE DAMAGE? are you fucking insane? \n For all of you saying scout is a balanced class... RANT INCOMING! \n The stock scattergun is one of THEE most overpowered gun in the entire game. Way to much damage, it's bullet spread is virtually nonexistent, It's clip is way too big... the list goes on and on and on... Any gun that can 2-shot 7/9 classes from mid range and isn't an explosive weapon is insanely over powered. The gunslinger is more balanced than the stock scatter gun. Not to mention you've got such an over powered weapon on the quickest class and the hardest to hit because of heavily distorted hit boxes as a result of how fast the scout moves + server latency, good ping or otherwise. Here is how valve can make the stock scatter gun less ludicrously over powered. \n The scout has flimsy little arms so as a result of moving, why not have his gun sway ever so slightly from side to side if the scout straifs to heavily in order to downplay the guns over-accuracy, reduce it's clipsize to 4 like the other 2 scatter guns that only have 4 shots in them and like the lock n load no longer being able to one shot 125 HP classes, nerf the damage so it takes at least 3 shots to kill every class from point blank range. that way if your playing a low HP class you at least have time to try and react once your health is all ready 1/3rds of the way gone instead of 1/2 being gone by the time you react. \n Scout: The most annoying class in FPS game history.","Summary: You don't need absurdly over powered crit combo's to be a good pyro.\n\nPost: I don't see how you can even say pyro is the weakest class with a straight face when he can do the following without use of any broken and over powered crit combo techniques: \n First let us ask ourself: what makes a good pyro? Here's what: \n Airblasting projectiles to protect your team, Spy checking, Putting out burning team mates, Denying uber charges by keeping the patient and his medic at bay with M2. \n Air blast: You shouldn't be in comp unless you can airblast a good 90% of the projectiles coming at you back at the sender. Alone, if you are able to do this efficiently, you've just turned 2 and if you're really good, 3 (huntsman sniper) into weapons against the enemy team. These projectiles are also minicrit buffed so there is your precious damage bonus. \n M1: M1 on the stock flame thrower is more powerful than you think. Ever wonder how those pyro bots burn you so quickly in MVM man up? turns out, they don't have a damage bonus of any kind as people often thought. They just know how to get as much fire on you as possible. Learn to do the same and by that I mean, learn how to make sure every last fire particle you shoot hits your target when you use M1 and you'll reduces classes like heavy and over healed targets to burning mush in about 1-2 seconds. Scouts? Jumpy Scouts? Just M2 their ass and shot gun them before they hit the ground. Heavies? Heavies that are good at tracking? Ambush them, M1-them for about 0.8 - 1.5 seconds then M2 them and get under them and behind them and circle around them. Snipers? Sweaty comp tryhard snipers? Well... I doubt you'd be able to land to consecutive flare shots on one of those fuckers without getting quickscoped... Spies? M1 is your friend. Medic's? Medic's healing/pocketing someone? Ambush or wait until they're distracted with something else or they've been hit by something that even a little puff of M1 could send them both packing. \n Stock Shotty: 6 shots, balanced damage, no broken extra ramp up damage bonus (looking at you, scattergun!) and can easily chip off the last few points of health a fleeing enemy has that afterburner wont do on it's own.","Summary: is there some kind of legal mod that vac wont ban me for using that makes the head hitbox of other players visible (not visible through walls of course) and said hitbox changes color when I mouse over it whilst scoped in as sniper indicating that if I were to fire a shot, it'd be a headshot?\n\nPost: Since there is a whole bunch of piss throwing australians in the room, I think this would be the best time to ask something like this: \n Does there exist some form of mod/skin/idkwtftocallit/thing that exists, that places like a giant target on the enemy teams heads (one that doesn't show through walls, obviously) or in otherwords, makes the head hitbox visible and at the same time, when your cross hair is over this now visible hitbox of sorts or what ever, the hitbox changes colors so you know when to fire a shot? In short picture this: \n Here stands a soldier with a large translucent box place over his head or just say the head hitbox is now visible, and when I mouse over this hitbox while scoped in as a sniper, the hitbox will change color indicating that if I were to fire a shot, It'd be a headshot. \n I don't see this as a hack or anything of the sort, I see this as a practice tool I'd like to use in basic pubs because aiming for real targets is a lot better for practice than bots that run in a straight line on TR_walkway or what ever it's called and it can also help those who are having trouble getting headshots because of how bad the servers ping is.","Summary: Heavy sniper rifle minigun that deals more damage the further away from your target you are but you have even less mobility when firing than what the brass beast gives you to work with. It's something we've yet to see in game, a minigun centered around long range and if the heavy's target is in close range, if he wants to deal virtually any damage at all, he'll have to have a shotgun or be good with his melee.\n\nPost: Heres an idea. It's essentially the brass beast 2.0 \n Visually it would be a smaller version of [this]( and [that]( \n Stats \n +All those awesome visual effects from that... flaming... bullet ray beam... thing. \n +65% damage bonus \n +90% tighter bullet spread radius \n +100% ammo capacity \n Ignites targets that have been exposed to fire for more than 2 or more continuous seconds \n Damage fall off functions in reverse. Point blank does -99% damage, mid range is -40%, long range is - 0%. These values are applied after the base damage has the +65% bonus applied. \n Cannot be critically charged, crit boosted, or receive random crits. \n +5 second longer spin up time \n +3 second longer spin down time \n +80% slower weapon switch speed on wearer \n -90% heal rate from mediguns \n When ubered by a medic, the charge is depleted two times faster than normal. \n Ammo is consumed while spinning up and down. \n +50% quicker ammo consumption rate \n Ammo can only be collected from dispensers and resupply lockers. \n Movement speed decreases at a rate of 15% per second while spinning down until the user cannot move at all aside from aiming \n The longer you fire the harder it becomes to aim (after about 3 seconds of firing, its like trying to steer a demoknight with the booties or boot leggar equipped.) \n You cannot turn more than 90 degrease from your current standing position once you begin firing. \n This may sound like one of the most rediculos weapons ever, its purpose is to encourage heavy snipers. Give the class that has no true defense from snipers something to combat them with, and also makes the point blank obliterate enemies recive from heavies normally, next to non existant.","Summary: if itemsets are re-introduced WITH their gameplay effects in tact, non of this tomb stone bullshit, it will cause the hats from the sets to go up in value, rarity, supply and demand. All of that will cause the hats to become crafted rather than traded for I.E. a metal sink that will always be constant.\n\nPost: Re-adding itemset bonuses would do the follow: \n Give people a reason to craft specific hats (METAL SINK ANYONE) \n If the effect was worth it. I.E. return the gameplay changing effects so people would actually have a reason to craft these hats because they all have specific recipes that require not 3 but 4 ref. Not to mention if itemsets are re-introduced with their old effects, it will cause all of the currently in game hats like the fez or the old snaggle to do up in value and go up in supply and demand making them even harder to get and in the end most people will end up using metal to craft them.","Summary: Thanks for the advice but one class just isn't enough to satisfy me. That and I felt if I mained a class I'd only be getting 1/9th of the gaming experience TF2 has to offer and with the amount of money I've dumped into all the classes for fancy weapons and cosmetics, you can bet your ass I'm gonan be a jack of all trades. (Try not to take that last bit as \"rude\" it's just me being charismatic in type.)\n\nPost: The only class I'm remotely inadequate at is actually scoring headshots as sniper. Put a Sleeper or a huntsman in my hands and I'm good to go. I Wouldn't want to only play one class for hours simply because of the extreme neglect of weapon choices offered to us per class meaning less stuff to play with. I guess you could say my goal is to over time become the \"grandmaster-jack-of-all-trades\" or at least become sufficiently skilled with all of the classes there for giving me the ability to use ALL the weapons the game has to offer efficiently. So far I've got just about everything down other than getting headshots but I blame my inability to do this simply because of how screwed up TF2's hitboxes CAN BE (emphisis on can be meaning not always but you should know how wonky they can get) + my horrendous excuse for a computer which gives me 20-30 fps at best at the lowest video settings.","Summary: The phlog now returns ammo upon dealing fire damage similar to the widow maker does with metal for the engineer, You start with 100 ammo, you need 200 ammo to activate a phlog charge, phlog charge ends when you drop back down to 100 ammo. Ammo consumption is increased whilst critically charged, you cannot get ammo from any other source besides dealing fire damage.\n\nPost: How to nerf the phlog: \n Remove the \"Mmmph\" meter \n You now start with 100 instead of 200 \n You gain ammo by dealing fire damage similar to how the widow maker gives back metal to the engineer \n Critical fire damage does not return ammo, how ever after burn will always return ammo. \n you must have 200 points of ammo in reserve to use the crit/health boost. \n All ammo packs now give -75% less ammo when picked up for your secondary weapon. \n Ammo packs do not give you primary weapon ammo. \n Cannot pick up fallen weapons as a source of ammo \n Cannot receive ammo from dispensers \n When critically charged, the phlog drains ammo at a rate of 6 per second weather or not you are firing it. \n The phlog will consume the normal amount of ammo whilst firing ontop of the additional 6. \n The crit charge runs out once your ammo drops belows 100 \n If you run out of ammo you'll have to rely on your flaregun or (get ready for this) your sharpened volcano fragment. (yes this nerf would give this weapon a legit use) to deal burn damage to restore ammo. otherwise, you'll have to go back to a resupply cabinet \n All burn damage dealt returns 3 ammo per tick of burn damage inflicted to an enemy. THIS DOES NOT STACK PER ENEMY. You could light the entire enemy team on fire and you'd still only get 3 back but so long as someone IS one fire, you'll be receiving ammo. \n Killing someone returns 10 points of ammo. \n Dealing fire damage as in from the phlog it self and not after burn, returns 1.5 the amount of ammo consumed. This means you'll have to get up close and personal to the person you want to M1 in order to get back more ammo than you spend, which is really dangerous as pyro, especially considering you have no airblast. \n Upon activating the phlog charge, the user will deal critical damage and receive a self ubercharge half as strong as that of the quickfix and constantly regenerate health instead of just gaining full health instantly. The phlog pyro also becomes immune to knockback once they initiate the taunt to charge themselves so the pyro using the phlog cant taunt, be hit by a stray explosive and then finish the taunt early and go on a rampage. \n WHY THIS NERF WORKS: \n Like with the huo-long-heater, it makes the player be cautious of their ammo. If the pyro using the phlog just spams W+M1 whilst running at someone, they'll most likely run out of ammo before they can use a charge. This way, the phlog can still be used as the weapon is it, the ultimate W+M1 flame thrower but you have to be mindful of how and when you M1.","Summary: After 4500 hours I still suck at TF2 and constantly get my ass handed to me on any/all servers and I need help because I can't afford to lose TF2, I.E. The very thing that is my waking life since of 2011.\n\nPost: After 4500+ Hours of TF2, Invested literally thousands of dollars into it, tonight was the last straw for me. I am extending an arm of plead in search for a hand of help. I cannot play TF2 for the sake of having fun any more. I cannot remember the last time I ever played \"just to have fun\" Every night it always ends with me rage quitting because my team keeps failing and I keep fucking up. \n Have I just been playing so long I've turned into a perfectionist and expect nothing but absolute perfection from every server I join? I honestly don't know what I should do at this point. No amount of practice I've put in has done me any good. I don't main a class and I know I can't. I would never. If I mained a class then I would end up sucking even more at all other 8 classes. I refuse to join competitive because I don't feel like putting a shotgun to my head out of frustration. \n To you people TF2 might just be a game, for me, ever since I picked it up back in 2011, this game has been nothing short of my life. Aside from a recent girlfriend I started seeing who lives on the other side of the planet (long distance Skype relationship for the moment), I honestly have nothing else in life and I can't lose TF2, lose to TF2 or in TF2. If I do any of those three things I would have absolutely nothing and I don't want to lose. I can't lose or that'd be the end of me. \n Enough of my ramblings, I ask the question again: How do I have fun in TF2? How do I not take every death seriously or treat every lost game like it's a reason I should bash my head into a wall? How do any of you not do things like this who have as many or more hours than I do? \n Answers I don't want to hear because I've heard them a million times before: \n \"Just don't take everything so seriously\" after 4500 hours, HOW CAN I NOT?!?! \n \"Take a vacation and come back to TF2 when you feel ready\" If I stop playing for as little as 36 hours I come back even worse than when I left \n \"Try some other games\" There isn't a game on this earth that could fill the void if I quit TF2. \n \"Give competitive a try, players are much better there\" I will never be joining competitive for a number of reasons: My computer sucks, I suck, my team will most likely suck, and at the end of the day I'll most likely feel like jumping off a cliff after getting steam rolled by a bunch of people who haven't even played the game for 1/4th the amount of time I have. \n \"lol noob git good m8, git shreked m8, lol you fuckin noob scrub lord ur just mad cuz bad cuz salt\" Fuck you. \n \"dude, you need mental help if a video game is causing you this much stress in life\" And say I quit the game and move onto something else in life? for a person like me, I've got absolutely nothing unless I got a free plane ticket to Australia so I can see the one I love, Aside from that, I've got absolutely nothing in life where I am atm besides TF2 and I cannot lose it. I don't want to lose what I now call \"my life\". \n I'm most likely going to end up removing this post once it gets bombarded with negative responses since thats all I ever seem to get from this subreddit so lets see what you all are going to say this time. Will you beat the dying person into the ground or help them up to their feet?","Summary: I need a texture mod of some sort that will make all of my bullet tracers look like machina tracer rounds and ONLY my shots. If others peoples shot are visible in this way, it'd be considered cheating and VAC would jump all over me.\n\nPost: I am looking for a mod (not even sure if such a mod exists or not) that makes all of MY hitscan shots in TF2 use the machina's tracer rounds. I understand if I made anyone elses rounds more visible than normal, it'd be cheating, I only want my shots to be visible so I can get better with hitscan weapons. I request this because the bullet tracers, those little yellow streaks that run across your screen when you fire a hitscan weapon, don't actually mean jackshit in regards to timing and distance. The machina's tracer round actually represents whats happening with the fired shot being a line drawn between the shooter and the target being an infinite line of acceleration that anything in between the shooter and the wall for the fraction of a nano second after clicking the mouse is accurate unlike the normal little yellow tracers. Even with the immense speed those little yellow tracers have, if you stood someone up hundreds of miles away in game if it were possible, fired a pistol round straight at them, they'd take damage LONG before the little yellow tracer hit them.","Summary: Anything possible in the game could happen. Think the dead sea scroll but with literally anything thats possible within the game instead of a random space bar item. \n EDIT: Okay... thanks for all the \"feed back\" I guess. Since no one really likes this idea because of how insane it could be, how about this: \n D∞ is a ball with the ∞ symbol printed on it. It will cause 1 or more effects from any dice type item or any dice room, It can spawn random enemies and monsters or treasure and pick ups into the current room, restart of end the floor, or swap out your character for anyone (except maybe the lost) or teleport you to any random room in the entire run. It cannot be recharge without the use of batteries. It has an infinite charge so the habit would be useless so unless you have a surplus for 48 hour energy pills, good luck trying to spam it. \n Sounds less ridiculous?\n\nPost: recharge is infinite meaning 1 use only without finding batteries. \n Upon using it. Literally anything could happen. \n A boss could appear in the room your in \n A single coin could spawn \n the floor could restart or end \n you could die \n your character could be swapped out \n the lamb could be in the next room! \n Mega satan could be the boss of the current floor \n death could be a garnered boss in Womb I or Utero I instead of conquest \n you could unlock an achievement, \n Literally anything thats possible in the game could happen. And I'm not just talking about extra dice room effects. I mean something as crazy as \"you get teleported for the necropolis II with a completely rerolled character and all the rooms are full of gurglings, horfs and ultra prides whilst the music plays backwards and all curse effects are applied at once. \n I understand that would require an insane amount of coding but what if they had it so the game randomly decides a random number of possible things that could happen between 1 and 8 or something (cause 8 sideways is ∞) and the 1-8 things that could happen are things the game is all ready capable of doing like spawning stuff into the room your in or altering rooms near you and items in said rooms or your items. \n Thoughts?","Summary: I need a loan of 3 buds, I have a rare glitched item worth roughly 3 buds, I'll buy the 3 buds to pay you back with before we even make the trade as proof you'll be getting repayment the following week in exchange for my item back. The item is a clean/tradebale/strange horseman's head (the hat, not the ax). You'll receive 3 keys as an insensitive to help me out upon re-payment. \n I won't be accepting anything other than pure and anything lower than 3 buds pure. Private profile or level 1 & 0 profiles will be immediately blocked under suspicion of you being a phisher/scammer. Lastly, check my rep. I'm no scammer. I'm looking for a legit loan here.\nAdd me here if you wish to help me out and make the deal Thanks!\n\nPost: Because of valves stupid new \"wait 1 week\" policy before you can trade anything you buy from mann.co or the community market. I need these buds for a very nice unusual someone is selling for a ridiculously low price and the thing is clean as a whistle. I have more than enough money to re-pay the buds in exchange for my collateral back. \n The collateral in question is a CLEAN - TRADE-ABLE - STRANGE Horseless Headless Horseman's Head. Not the ax, the pumpkin head hat thing. it's a rare glitched item and is going for around 3 buds on the comm market atm. \n I plan on paying who ever gives me the loan back in full 1 week after the trade has been made. I am NOT selling this item. I want it back once the 3 buds I buy before we even make the trade become trade-able. As in for proof I will pay you back, contact me, we'll make the agreement, I'll buy 3 buds immediately then show them to you and then we can make the deal then 1 week later you'll receive repayment in full in exchange for my HHHH back. \n I have but a few hours to make this trade otherwise the guy with the quick-sell is gonna for someone else offering more than I am.\nI'll be removing this post later today if I get no offers for help. As an intensive to encourage people, You'll get 3 keys bonus upon repayment.","Summary: someone needs to make a compilation of all the slowed down and speed up music tracks you hear when you enter a room and broken stop watch's effect takes place and put it on YouTube for god sake!\n\nPost: I love getting the broken stop watch as an item because some of the songs in BoI:r when slowed down/sped up sound twice as good as they do normally. Basement or Diptera Sonata Sounds fucking awesome when it's sped up in the specific way it is in rebirth. I first heard what that sounded like today when I gave the BASE MENT seed a go. I can't seem to recreate any of them to sound exactly like they do in BoI:r and I'm wondering if anyone has/can. I'd assume it'd be as easy as getting the broken stop watch then waiting until you go into a sped up and slowed down room, clear it, then just sit and wait fore the music to loop once or twice. Only problem is the sped up versions are super rare and to get them on the basement without a seed is even rarer. Hopefully someone will give this a go because if you haven't heard most of the OST modified by the broken stopwatch and you love the OST as it sounds now, man you ain't heard nothing yet. My favorite is probably Everlasting Hymn or for those of you who don't know, the music from the cathedral when slowed down. Its fucking epic. Boss trap rooms are also amazing when slowed.","Summary: We'll be getting new weapons, BI-YEARLY as in one year we wont get anything, possibly not even reskins, the next year, we'll get around 8 - 9 new weapons that have their own unique stats. Facts to back this idea up are how we got lots of weapon updates in 2011 and years before, we got very few in 2012, 2013 we got absolutely nothing other than Australium reskins, 2014 we got even less than 2012 which gives reason to think 2015 may not even bring reskins.\n\nPost: So lets look back. How often does TF2 get weapon updates? A fraction of the time in comparison to cosmetics and un-gameplay effecting updates that still add content (crates. Which contain more cosmetics...). so lets jump all the way back to the pyro mania update of 2012. This is when weapon updates started becoming so rare. During the Pyromania update TF2 received 6 new weapons. \n These being The Scorchshot, Baby Faces Blaster, Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol, Beggars Bazooka, Hitman's Heatmaker, and the Cleaner's Carbine. \n It wasn't until late december of 2012 we got another weapons update included as part of the Mecha-Engineer which added 3 more new weapons. These being The Vaccinator, The Loose cannon, and the Rescue Ranger. \n Though the Triad Pack of August did in fact add more new weapons, these being the Huo-Long Heater, Neon Annihilator, Flying Guillotine, and the Red-Tape Recorder. This update, although it added weapons should not be treated as a real weapon update because these weapons at first were all promotional and at the time, only available through the promotion. \n Then throughout 2013, we saw absolutely 0 new weapons other than reskins/rebalances here and there. We didn't even get a single new genuine weapon reskin... Thats how bad 2013 was for weapons and the golden frying pan is just a tradable reskin of the Saxxy so no help there either. \n 2014 is now behind us, and with it, came the same deal as 2012. a weapon update in the summer, and a weapon update in the winter. We got 6 new weapons during the pyromania update and 3 in the winter time during the unveiling of operation Mecha-Engine. I am leaving out the Triad Pack update of 2012 out of this because that update and it's weapons were 100% promotional. 2014 brought many new promo weapons, all of which we're reskins, non of which had any form of new stats. It's gotten to the point where it would seem new genuine reskins are now Bi-yearly as well. It hasn't been since August of 2012 (Triad Pack) that we saw new promotional weapons that had new stats. 2011 was bursting with those. \n From 2014 came the following new weapons with their own unique stats \n From The love and war update came 5 new weapons. These of course being The Tide Turner, Back Scatter, Classic, B.A.S.E. Jumper and the Air Strike. Then recently, During the Smissmas Update of 2014, we received 3 new weapons. These being The Iron Bomber, Quickie Launcher, and The Panic Attack. \n One can only assumed based of that past history, during the year of 2015 which comes after what would now seem to be the annual \"Bi-Yearly\" weapons update year which come in the forms of years ending in even numbers (Remember, the weapon scarcity became a thing after 2011 which beforehand and during we got new weapons with unique stats during virtually every content update). Years ending with odd Numbers, Example: 2013, which got Literally 0 new weapons other than reskins, Non of which we're even promotional (Genuine) like 2015 which is the year we're now beginning to enter could be considered a \"Dry Year\" for weapon updates of any kind. We may not even see reskins of any kind this year... \n One thing is for sure however. We will receive roughly 150+ - 200+ new cosmetics this year. We'll be lucky to get the new long await Salvaged crate 70 which is now about a year behind schedule from when it should of been added to the list of other salvaged crates. \n WARNING---- This is kind of where the post goes off the deep end and I get really syndical and it becomes more of a rant. Continue reading down with caution. The following sentances may contain personal opinions... You have been warned. \n And for those of you who say \"Oh but valve is busy working on Source 2! and the TF2 Team has like what? 3 people working on it these days?\" Thats still 3 people working on it. From what we've been told the reason why it takes so long to make new weapons and add them to the game, according to valve, \"It takes time for us to properly test them\". No shit. It takes a hell of a long time to properly balance weapons. Just slapping \"No Random Crits\" on a weapon that has some ridiculous stat on it doesn't automatically balance it out. I get that, but it's insane to think it's just 3 or 4 or 5 people working on TF2 whom also are the same people who test new weapon stats. They most likely have an isolated group of people who test any new weapons they think of but clearly however many they have isn't enough to put out new weapons at an adequate rate. (For me, an adequate rate would be the rate at which we receive new weapons during the years of 2010-2011) maybe I'm wrong and it is just the 3-5 TF2 devs testing them out on each other. Regardless of what Valve's Current method is, Clearly it needs a serious re-thinking. \n You'd think by now what with all this new beta crap valve is shoving down out throats IE new beta maps and even a new beta game mode, of all the things in beta they still won't let us test are new weapons. Yeah sure, let us mess around in insanely ridiculous game-mode betas where things are just as ludicrous as they'd be if people we're beta testing new weapon stats instead. Yeah don't give us (people who are sick of cosmetic updates out weighing weapon updates [About 3/4ths of the TF2 community].) beta testing of new weapons, that sure would be pointless. Sure would be pointless to give the community that's still absolutely drooling for new weapons the ability to beta test them and make them part of the game faster unlike new maps which people seem to care a lot less about. Pointlessness Intensifies... \n Valve works in overly Mysterious ways I guess.. But hey, what can we do as a community? Absolutely nothing thats what. You know why? Valve never listens to us... Last I checked, I heard more people complaining over the Gunslinger and BFB than the Lock N Load. \n HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!! \n Edit:"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Welcome to Hat Fortress 2. Buy cosmetics and dress up 9 insane mercenaries and do a little bit of killing on the side.\\n\\nPost: Important things you should note: \\n TF2 has a very interesting economy because of its trading system. Like in CS:GO with gun quality and skins and such, TF2 has things like Gun quality, Kill streak effects which are shiny particle effects that make your weapon glow slightly. You earn the items to make killstreak weapons from playing/beating missions in Mann Versus Machine (it's a game mode) but before you do that, LOOK UP SOME GUIDES ON THE MVM META. People really hate it when you join a round of mann up (0.99 cents per mission but the rewards are incredible) and end up wasting their time. (this is also TF2's \\\"competitive\\\" if you will, its you and 5 people versus thousands of AI robots that have insanely unfair advantages whilst you and your team have upgrades that make you and your weapons stronger.) \\n Hats are 50% of the game (or at least they are now a days) Trading is 25% and the other 25% is actual gameplay. Hats and other cosmetics have no gameplay effective attributes what so ever aside from making your head slightly weirder to aim for when enemy snipers are gunning for you, ya mongrell! (thats a sniper quote btw) \\n AVOID THESE PLAYERS AT ALL COSTS UNTIL YOUR FAMILIAR WITH THE GAME AND HOW TO KILL PEOPLE EFFICIENTLY AT ALL COSTS! \\n If you see a player with a cosmetic that has some sort of particle effect affixed to it and they're on the enemy team, run for your goddamn life. They will obliterate you (99% of the time) \\n If you see a player with a gun that appears to be made of solid gold on the enemy team, run for your goddamn life. They will obliterate you (99% of the time) \\n If you see a player that has lightning, smoke, fire or some other form of particle effect spraying out of their eyeballs on the enemy team, run for your goddamn life. They will obliterate you (99% of the time) \\n If you see a player that has painted their cosmetics the colors neon green and neon pink, it is advised to go out of your way and heavily insult them. Especially if the painted cosmetics are being worn by a scout. These are the biggest douche bags and ass hats in the TF2 community (generally. I say this because I've yet to meet one on a pub that doesn't spam binds) \\n ITEM QUALITY (aside from unusual) CHANGES ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT THE ITEM GAMEPLAY WISE \\n Qualities: \\n Stock (color is gray) the weapons you start with \\n Unique (color is yellow) Normal items you either crafted using metal and other items or randomly found from playing the game \\n Vintage (color is blue) if an item is vintage, it means that specific item has been around for years ever since trading became a feature in the game. \\n Genuine (color is dark green) This means the weapon is awarded to players who participate in a promotional event (usually buy pre-ordering a specific game on steam) that awards the buyer with the promotional weapon in genuine quality which also means it cannot be obtained in any other way shape or form aside from waiting several months for the item to become normal and be added to the drop/craft/trade system \\n Strange (color is orange) Keeps track of your kills with that specific weapons. Strange cosmetic items keep track of points earned on the servers scoreboard which can be view by holding TAB. \\n Collectors (color is red) this item was fabricated from a specific collectors kit which are items that are rarely, and I mean RARELY randomly dropped by the game. The fabricators will ask you for TWO HUNDRED of a specific weapon or hat which once input into the fabricator will yield a collectors qulaity varient of the item. Aside from having a red name tag, and the word collector in it's name, these items have nothing else special about them other than that. Like I said, this game s 50% about hats and cosmetics. \\n Self Made: (color is bright green) The is usually only one self made item per item that exists. Self made is a quality awarded to people who submit weapons and hat models to the community workshop that later get added into the game as part of updates. The creator(s) of the item are awarded self made quality variants. These items also have a slightly glossier texture and have the community sparkle particle effect applied to them. \\n Community: (same color as self made) These weapons are granted by valve to specific people who have done something outstanding or remarkable within the TF2 community to help better it in some way shape or form that can effect and benefit all members greatly. These items also have a slightly glossier texture and have the community sparkle particle effect applied to them. \\n Haunted: (color is turquoise) these are special items that are obtained by an alternate means besides random drops or from special unboxed crates during the yearly halloween event know as \\\"Scream Fortress\\\" Aside from having a turquoise name tag, and the word haunted in it's name, these items have nothing else special about them other than that. \\n Unusual: (color is purple) Unusuals are the big ticket items in TF2. They can both represent a players skill level or their wealth in game. It's usually the second thing. They are brought into the game by unboxing Mann.co Supply crates of ANY variation with a 1% chance to receive a totally random hat with a totally random effect from a selection of about 20-30 or so different particle effects. Some effects can only be gotten out of specific crates. Typically the lower the crates number (below 30) contain better unusual effects. Crate 58 which contains robot hats (THEE worst hats in the game because of how awful they look compared to their normal variations) contain special robotic themed unusual effects and all crates during halloween have the chance of rewarding special halloween themed effects. If you play CS:GO, unusuals are like Knifes. Super rare, super expensive, totally fucking awesome to have. there are a select few unusuals that are famous because of their insane rarity. Any unusual with the \\\"Burning flames\\\" Effect is like the mother of all knives in CS:GO (generally) Sun beams is the runner up, those two being the most rare effects in the game. Hats that have those effects can be sold off to other players for upwards of 100-200-300-400-500------all the way up to nearly 20 THOUSAND DOLLARS IN REAL LIFE MONEY. THIS IS NOT A JOKE. Look up \\\"burning team captain\\\" or \\\"burning killer exclusive\\\" and you'll see what I mean. \\n Australium (color is orange. Australium it self is not an actual item quality. More of a sub or side quality if that makes any sense.) Reskins of normal weapons that appear to be made of solid gold (Australium. TF2's knock off version of gold). All australium weapons are strange. The price range for australium weapons depending on the weapon itrself can range from \\n$20-$120. Even more if they have killstreak kits applied to them. There is one australium weapon how ever, the price of which is around 3-4 THOUSAND DOLLARS. I speak of the golden frying pan. A TRUE all class melee weapon (meaning unlike ALL other all class weapons, it can be used by the spy and engineer who normally never get to use all class weapons). Aside from being a true all class melee weapon, it has a special ability only one other true all class melee weapon has and that ability is to turn the people you melee to death with it into lifeless, semi-motionless statues of solid gold. This is, AGAIN, purely cosmetic. This is why the weapon is so expensive. The odds of earning one from playing mann versus machine mode are even lower than unboxing an unusual hat. Odds are 0.06% last I checked... I mentioned another weapon that does the same thing as the G.F.P. and is also a true all class melee weapon and that weapon is the Saxxy. A small golden statuette of one of the games characters, Saxton Hale. It is awarded to member of the TF2 community who make ground breaking short films using the source filmmaker 3D animation software which is the same thing valve used to make all of the \\\"meet the class videos\\\" (all of which BTW, you NEED to go watch) and submit them to valve during the years annual SFM contest, The Saxxies, during September. The Saxxy, unlike the golden frying pan isn't tradable, meaning you cannot sell it. Thats why the golden pan is so valuable. It gives people who have a lot of money and no talent to animate in SFM the privilege of ultimately humiliate your victims in TF2. \\n anyways, with that, I leave. I'll leave you with your new soon to be favorite phrase by Gabe Newell \\n Welcome to Team (Hat) Fortress 2. After 9 years in development, Hopefully, It was worth the wait... \\n The worlds number one Hat themed, war based simulator ever conceived! \\n Thanks, and have fun! \\n Also don't mention the phrase or ask what \\\"BONUS DUCKS\\\" means. You will be insulted until you leave the server you're currently playing on if you mention those two words together... Also don't ask what EoTL is either... It's better you don't learn about that mistake of an update...\",\n \"Summary: Read the entire thing or don't absorb the full detail and continue to get kicked from mvm when you wanna play spaps.\\n\\nPost: Spy replaces demo or scout, there are four ways to play spy in mvm. \\n Style Number 1: Easy going, money collection, sap n' stab support. Easy as it sounds. You take the scouts place on the server but there is still a demoman dealing with medics whilst your off getting money. Your upgrades are all dumped into mobility, stab speed, health on kill and sapper power. \\n Style 2: Medic and giant elimination. You barley focus on the money unless the scout is dead. As the eliminator, your taking the demo's place. Your upgrades go into sapper power, armor penetration, stab speed, and health on kill. \\n Style 3: for advanced Spaps only! Your acting as both a scout and demo except you don't bother the giants all that much. Your upgrades go into movement, stab speed, health on kill, and armor pen. So long as your killing the medic bots and getting the A+, your team can deal with the giants and any real threats that come their way. This allows a \\\"seventh\\\" class to participate. Normally your gonna want a good backburner pyro who is melting all the robots on the front lines whilst the medic pockets him and the pootis keeps the heavy alive and well. Just make sure the pyro knows what he is doing and does not try and kill anything your going for. Let me say this now: Never have repeat classes in mvm. So no second heavy. Pyro is the way to go since even with the back burner, reflecting is a breeze so long as you dispenser camp. Pyro can also keep sentry busters at bay so the medic can get charge off them. \\n Style 4: The Snyper Spyper Wombo Combo: You'll need a sniper who knows what he is doing. You effectively replace the scout and the sniper effectively replaces the demo. Basically style 1 except both classes are able to deal with the giants efficiently. The sniper is basically the main damage output like the demo would be with explosive headshots and your just the clean up crew, UNLIKE the scout. you pick up where the sniper leaves off and finish off any stragglers explosive headshot didn't take out or help bring down giants. Giant heavy medic combos are reduced to smoldering piles of scrap metal within seconds of a sniper and a spy both going at them. \\n Onto the loadouts: \\n Spy: Diamond back: You'll be up to your hat in free crits from all the backstabs, Dead ringer: Only because the stock inviswatch is useless since robots are smart enough to keep shooting you whilst invisible with the stock or CaD. With the dead ringer, you stay invisible for a short time after being shot no matter what, unless set on fire. Also, disguise as fast as possible. The way the robots AI works when it comes to cloaking and disguising is as follows: They don't care if you hid behind a buillding, disguised and came back out, they'll shoot you. You have to wait at least 3-5 seconds after disguising AND hiding or cloaking. At that point once the time has passed, the robots AI will tell them to stop looking for you. the big earner is the best knife since all it takes is two backstabs to regain full deadringer charge. You just have to be more nimble and concerned with your health since, tho it may not seem like much, -25 max HP is a lot of health you are now with out. one stray rocket or grenade could kill you... As for sappers, it literally does not matter as they all do the same thing so just pick which ever one you think looks nicer be it stock, the red tape or Wheatly. \\n The sniper should use the machina, sydney sleeper (because it can still deal explosive headshots and with the constant minicrits, the soldier (if there is one) can use a different banner like the back up to give everyone CRIT IMMUNITY), or the hitmans heatmaker. The heat maker is good for quick target elimination, the machina excels at taking down giants, and the sleeper is good in both areas since with all the combined fire power on one robot being blasted whilst it's drenched in piss... that robot ain't gonna last long. \\n So yea thats how you play spy in mvm. I've been doing it for my last 150+ tours out of 200+. Have fun.\",\n \"Summary: Stock Scatter gun > Gunslinger in overpowered-ness.\\nFuck scout mains. I'd rather deal with a spy or sniper main or even a god awful hellspawn Pyro main because those classes all have counters. The scout has non.\\n\\nPost: you want to make the stock scatter gun deal MORE DAMAGE? are you fucking insane? \\n For all of you saying scout is a balanced class... RANT INCOMING! \\n The stock scattergun is one of THEE most overpowered gun in the entire game. Way to much damage, it's bullet spread is virtually nonexistent, It's clip is way too big... the list goes on and on and on... Any gun that can 2-shot 7/9 classes from mid range and isn't an explosive weapon is insanely over powered. The gunslinger is more balanced than the stock scatter gun. Not to mention you've got such an over powered weapon on the quickest class and the hardest to hit because of heavily distorted hit boxes as a result of how fast the scout moves + server latency, good ping or otherwise. Here is how valve can make the stock scatter gun less ludicrously over powered. \\n The scout has flimsy little arms so as a result of moving, why not have his gun sway ever so slightly from side to side if the scout straifs to heavily in order to downplay the guns over-accuracy, reduce it's clipsize to 4 like the other 2 scatter guns that only have 4 shots in them and like the lock n load no longer being able to one shot 125 HP classes, nerf the damage so it takes at least 3 shots to kill every class from point blank range. that way if your playing a low HP class you at least have time to try and react once your health is all ready 1/3rds of the way gone instead of 1/2 being gone by the time you react. \\n Scout: The most annoying class in FPS game history.\",\n \"Summary: You don't need absurdly over powered crit combo's to be a good pyro.\\n\\nPost: I don't see how you can even say pyro is the weakest class with a straight face when he can do the following without use of any broken and over powered crit combo techniques: \\n First let us ask ourself: what makes a good pyro? Here's what: \\n Airblasting projectiles to protect your team, Spy checking, Putting out burning team mates, Denying uber charges by keeping the patient and his medic at bay with M2. \\n Air blast: You shouldn't be in comp unless you can airblast a good 90% of the projectiles coming at you back at the sender. Alone, if you are able to do this efficiently, you've just turned 2 and if you're really good, 3 (huntsman sniper) into weapons against the enemy team. These projectiles are also minicrit buffed so there is your precious damage bonus. \\n M1: M1 on the stock flame thrower is more powerful than you think. Ever wonder how those pyro bots burn you so quickly in MVM man up? turns out, they don't have a damage bonus of any kind as people often thought. They just know how to get as much fire on you as possible. Learn to do the same and by that I mean, learn how to make sure every last fire particle you shoot hits your target when you use M1 and you'll reduces classes like heavy and over healed targets to burning mush in about 1-2 seconds. Scouts? Jumpy Scouts? Just M2 their ass and shot gun them before they hit the ground. Heavies? Heavies that are good at tracking? Ambush them, M1-them for about 0.8 - 1.5 seconds then M2 them and get under them and behind them and circle around them. Snipers? Sweaty comp tryhard snipers? Well... I doubt you'd be able to land to consecutive flare shots on one of those fuckers without getting quickscoped... Spies? M1 is your friend. Medic's? Medic's healing/pocketing someone? Ambush or wait until they're distracted with something else or they've been hit by something that even a little puff of M1 could send them both packing. \\n Stock Shotty: 6 shots, balanced damage, no broken extra ramp up damage bonus (looking at you, scattergun!) and can easily chip off the last few points of health a fleeing enemy has that afterburner wont do on it's own.\",\n \"Summary: is there some kind of legal mod that vac wont ban me for using that makes the head hitbox of other players visible (not visible through walls of course) and said hitbox changes color when I mouse over it whilst scoped in as sniper indicating that if I were to fire a shot, it'd be a headshot?\\n\\nPost: Since there is a whole bunch of piss throwing australians in the room, I think this would be the best time to ask something like this: \\n Does there exist some form of mod/skin/idkwtftocallit/thing that exists, that places like a giant target on the enemy teams heads (one that doesn't show through walls, obviously) or in otherwords, makes the head hitbox visible and at the same time, when your cross hair is over this now visible hitbox of sorts or what ever, the hitbox changes colors so you know when to fire a shot? In short picture this: \\n Here stands a soldier with a large translucent box place over his head or just say the head hitbox is now visible, and when I mouse over this hitbox while scoped in as a sniper, the hitbox will change color indicating that if I were to fire a shot, It'd be a headshot. \\n I don't see this as a hack or anything of the sort, I see this as a practice tool I'd like to use in basic pubs because aiming for real targets is a lot better for practice than bots that run in a straight line on TR_walkway or what ever it's called and it can also help those who are having trouble getting headshots because of how bad the servers ping is.\",\n \"Summary: Heavy sniper rifle minigun that deals more damage the further away from your target you are but you have even less mobility when firing than what the brass beast gives you to work with. It's something we've yet to see in game, a minigun centered around long range and if the heavy's target is in close range, if he wants to deal virtually any damage at all, he'll have to have a shotgun or be good with his melee.\\n\\nPost: Heres an idea. It's essentially the brass beast 2.0 \\n Visually it would be a smaller version of [this]( and [that]( \\n Stats \\n +All those awesome visual effects from that... flaming... bullet ray beam... thing. \\n +65% damage bonus \\n +90% tighter bullet spread radius \\n +100% ammo capacity \\n Ignites targets that have been exposed to fire for more than 2 or more continuous seconds \\n Damage fall off functions in reverse. Point blank does -99% damage, mid range is -40%, long range is - 0%. These values are applied after the base damage has the +65% bonus applied. \\n Cannot be critically charged, crit boosted, or receive random crits. \\n +5 second longer spin up time \\n +3 second longer spin down time \\n +80% slower weapon switch speed on wearer \\n -90% heal rate from mediguns \\n When ubered by a medic, the charge is depleted two times faster than normal. \\n Ammo is consumed while spinning up and down. \\n +50% quicker ammo consumption rate \\n Ammo can only be collected from dispensers and resupply lockers. \\n Movement speed decreases at a rate of 15% per second while spinning down until the user cannot move at all aside from aiming \\n The longer you fire the harder it becomes to aim (after about 3 seconds of firing, its like trying to steer a demoknight with the booties or boot leggar equipped.) \\n You cannot turn more than 90 degrease from your current standing position once you begin firing. \\n This may sound like one of the most rediculos weapons ever, its purpose is to encourage heavy snipers. Give the class that has no true defense from snipers something to combat them with, and also makes the point blank obliterate enemies recive from heavies normally, next to non existant.\",\n \"Summary: if itemsets are re-introduced WITH their gameplay effects in tact, non of this tomb stone bullshit, it will cause the hats from the sets to go up in value, rarity, supply and demand. All of that will cause the hats to become crafted rather than traded for I.E. a metal sink that will always be constant.\\n\\nPost: Re-adding itemset bonuses would do the follow: \\n Give people a reason to craft specific hats (METAL SINK ANYONE) \\n If the effect was worth it. I.E. return the gameplay changing effects so people would actually have a reason to craft these hats because they all have specific recipes that require not 3 but 4 ref. Not to mention if itemsets are re-introduced with their old effects, it will cause all of the currently in game hats like the fez or the old snaggle to do up in value and go up in supply and demand making them even harder to get and in the end most people will end up using metal to craft them.\",\n \"Summary: Thanks for the advice but one class just isn't enough to satisfy me. That and I felt if I mained a class I'd only be getting 1/9th of the gaming experience TF2 has to offer and with the amount of money I've dumped into all the classes for fancy weapons and cosmetics, you can bet your ass I'm gonan be a jack of all trades. (Try not to take that last bit as \\\"rude\\\" it's just me being charismatic in type.)\\n\\nPost: The only class I'm remotely inadequate at is actually scoring headshots as sniper. Put a Sleeper or a huntsman in my hands and I'm good to go. I Wouldn't want to only play one class for hours simply because of the extreme neglect of weapon choices offered to us per class meaning less stuff to play with. I guess you could say my goal is to over time become the \\\"grandmaster-jack-of-all-trades\\\" or at least become sufficiently skilled with all of the classes there for giving me the ability to use ALL the weapons the game has to offer efficiently. So far I've got just about everything down other than getting headshots but I blame my inability to do this simply because of how screwed up TF2's hitboxes CAN BE (emphisis on can be meaning not always but you should know how wonky they can get) + my horrendous excuse for a computer which gives me 20-30 fps at best at the lowest video settings.\",\n \"Summary: The phlog now returns ammo upon dealing fire damage similar to the widow maker does with metal for the engineer, You start with 100 ammo, you need 200 ammo to activate a phlog charge, phlog charge ends when you drop back down to 100 ammo. Ammo consumption is increased whilst critically charged, you cannot get ammo from any other source besides dealing fire damage.\\n\\nPost: How to nerf the phlog: \\n Remove the \\\"Mmmph\\\" meter \\n You now start with 100 instead of 200 \\n You gain ammo by dealing fire damage similar to how the widow maker gives back metal to the engineer \\n Critical fire damage does not return ammo, how ever after burn will always return ammo. \\n you must have 200 points of ammo in reserve to use the crit/health boost. \\n All ammo packs now give -75% less ammo when picked up for your secondary weapon. \\n Ammo packs do not give you primary weapon ammo. \\n Cannot pick up fallen weapons as a source of ammo \\n Cannot receive ammo from dispensers \\n When critically charged, the phlog drains ammo at a rate of 6 per second weather or not you are firing it. \\n The phlog will consume the normal amount of ammo whilst firing ontop of the additional 6. \\n The crit charge runs out once your ammo drops belows 100 \\n If you run out of ammo you'll have to rely on your flaregun or (get ready for this) your sharpened volcano fragment. (yes this nerf would give this weapon a legit use) to deal burn damage to restore ammo. otherwise, you'll have to go back to a resupply cabinet \\n All burn damage dealt returns 3 ammo per tick of burn damage inflicted to an enemy. THIS DOES NOT STACK PER ENEMY. You could light the entire enemy team on fire and you'd still only get 3 back but so long as someone IS one fire, you'll be receiving ammo. \\n Killing someone returns 10 points of ammo. \\n Dealing fire damage as in from the phlog it self and not after burn, returns 1.5 the amount of ammo consumed. This means you'll have to get up close and personal to the person you want to M1 in order to get back more ammo than you spend, which is really dangerous as pyro, especially considering you have no airblast. \\n Upon activating the phlog charge, the user will deal critical damage and receive a self ubercharge half as strong as that of the quickfix and constantly regenerate health instead of just gaining full health instantly. The phlog pyro also becomes immune to knockback once they initiate the taunt to charge themselves so the pyro using the phlog cant taunt, be hit by a stray explosive and then finish the taunt early and go on a rampage. \\n WHY THIS NERF WORKS: \\n Like with the huo-long-heater, it makes the player be cautious of their ammo. If the pyro using the phlog just spams W+M1 whilst running at someone, they'll most likely run out of ammo before they can use a charge. This way, the phlog can still be used as the weapon is it, the ultimate W+M1 flame thrower but you have to be mindful of how and when you M1.\",\n \"Summary: After 4500 hours I still suck at TF2 and constantly get my ass handed to me on any/all servers and I need help because I can't afford to lose TF2, I.E. The very thing that is my waking life since of 2011.\\n\\nPost: After 4500+ Hours of TF2, Invested literally thousands of dollars into it, tonight was the last straw for me. I am extending an arm of plead in search for a hand of help. I cannot play TF2 for the sake of having fun any more. I cannot remember the last time I ever played \\\"just to have fun\\\" Every night it always ends with me rage quitting because my team keeps failing and I keep fucking up. \\n Have I just been playing so long I've turned into a perfectionist and expect nothing but absolute perfection from every server I join? I honestly don't know what I should do at this point. No amount of practice I've put in has done me any good. I don't main a class and I know I can't. I would never. If I mained a class then I would end up sucking even more at all other 8 classes. I refuse to join competitive because I don't feel like putting a shotgun to my head out of frustration. \\n To you people TF2 might just be a game, for me, ever since I picked it up back in 2011, this game has been nothing short of my life. Aside from a recent girlfriend I started seeing who lives on the other side of the planet (long distance Skype relationship for the moment), I honestly have nothing else in life and I can't lose TF2, lose to TF2 or in TF2. If I do any of those three things I would have absolutely nothing and I don't want to lose. I can't lose or that'd be the end of me. \\n Enough of my ramblings, I ask the question again: How do I have fun in TF2? How do I not take every death seriously or treat every lost game like it's a reason I should bash my head into a wall? How do any of you not do things like this who have as many or more hours than I do? \\n Answers I don't want to hear because I've heard them a million times before: \\n \\\"Just don't take everything so seriously\\\" after 4500 hours, HOW CAN I NOT?!?! \\n \\\"Take a vacation and come back to TF2 when you feel ready\\\" If I stop playing for as little as 36 hours I come back even worse than when I left \\n \\\"Try some other games\\\" There isn't a game on this earth that could fill the void if I quit TF2. \\n \\\"Give competitive a try, players are much better there\\\" I will never be joining competitive for a number of reasons: My computer sucks, I suck, my team will most likely suck, and at the end of the day I'll most likely feel like jumping off a cliff after getting steam rolled by a bunch of people who haven't even played the game for 1/4th the amount of time I have. \\n \\\"lol noob git good m8, git shreked m8, lol you fuckin noob scrub lord ur just mad cuz bad cuz salt\\\" Fuck you. \\n \\\"dude, you need mental help if a video game is causing you this much stress in life\\\" And say I quit the game and move onto something else in life? for a person like me, I've got absolutely nothing unless I got a free plane ticket to Australia so I can see the one I love, Aside from that, I've got absolutely nothing in life where I am atm besides TF2 and I cannot lose it. I don't want to lose what I now call \\\"my life\\\". \\n I'm most likely going to end up removing this post once it gets bombarded with negative responses since thats all I ever seem to get from this subreddit so lets see what you all are going to say this time. Will you beat the dying person into the ground or help them up to their feet?\",\n \"Summary: I need a texture mod of some sort that will make all of my bullet tracers look like machina tracer rounds and ONLY my shots. If others peoples shot are visible in this way, it'd be considered cheating and VAC would jump all over me.\\n\\nPost: I am looking for a mod (not even sure if such a mod exists or not) that makes all of MY hitscan shots in TF2 use the machina's tracer rounds. I understand if I made anyone elses rounds more visible than normal, it'd be cheating, I only want my shots to be visible so I can get better with hitscan weapons. I request this because the bullet tracers, those little yellow streaks that run across your screen when you fire a hitscan weapon, don't actually mean jackshit in regards to timing and distance. The machina's tracer round actually represents whats happening with the fired shot being a line drawn between the shooter and the target being an infinite line of acceleration that anything in between the shooter and the wall for the fraction of a nano second after clicking the mouse is accurate unlike the normal little yellow tracers. Even with the immense speed those little yellow tracers have, if you stood someone up hundreds of miles away in game if it were possible, fired a pistol round straight at them, they'd take damage LONG before the little yellow tracer hit them.\",\n \"Summary: Anything possible in the game could happen. Think the dead sea scroll but with literally anything thats possible within the game instead of a random space bar item. \\n EDIT: Okay... thanks for all the \\\"feed back\\\" I guess. Since no one really likes this idea because of how insane it could be, how about this: \\n D∞ is a ball with the ∞ symbol printed on it. It will cause 1 or more effects from any dice type item or any dice room, It can spawn random enemies and monsters or treasure and pick ups into the current room, restart of end the floor, or swap out your character for anyone (except maybe the lost) or teleport you to any random room in the entire run. It cannot be recharge without the use of batteries. It has an infinite charge so the habit would be useless so unless you have a surplus for 48 hour energy pills, good luck trying to spam it. \\n Sounds less ridiculous?\\n\\nPost: recharge is infinite meaning 1 use only without finding batteries. \\n Upon using it. Literally anything could happen. \\n A boss could appear in the room your in \\n A single coin could spawn \\n the floor could restart or end \\n you could die \\n your character could be swapped out \\n the lamb could be in the next room! \\n Mega satan could be the boss of the current floor \\n death could be a garnered boss in Womb I or Utero I instead of conquest \\n you could unlock an achievement, \\n Literally anything thats possible in the game could happen. And I'm not just talking about extra dice room effects. I mean something as crazy as \\\"you get teleported for the necropolis II with a completely rerolled character and all the rooms are full of gurglings, horfs and ultra prides whilst the music plays backwards and all curse effects are applied at once. \\n I understand that would require an insane amount of coding but what if they had it so the game randomly decides a random number of possible things that could happen between 1 and 8 or something (cause 8 sideways is ∞) and the 1-8 things that could happen are things the game is all ready capable of doing like spawning stuff into the room your in or altering rooms near you and items in said rooms or your items. \\n Thoughts?\",\n \"Summary: I need a loan of 3 buds, I have a rare glitched item worth roughly 3 buds, I'll buy the 3 buds to pay you back with before we even make the trade as proof you'll be getting repayment the following week in exchange for my item back. The item is a clean/tradebale/strange horseman's head (the hat, not the ax). You'll receive 3 keys as an insensitive to help me out upon re-payment. \\n I won't be accepting anything other than pure and anything lower than 3 buds pure. Private profile or level 1 & 0 profiles will be immediately blocked under suspicion of you being a phisher/scammer. Lastly, check my rep. I'm no scammer. I'm looking for a legit loan here.\\nAdd me here if you wish to help me out and make the deal Thanks!\\n\\nPost: Because of valves stupid new \\\"wait 1 week\\\" policy before you can trade anything you buy from mann.co or the community market. I need these buds for a very nice unusual someone is selling for a ridiculously low price and the thing is clean as a whistle. I have more than enough money to re-pay the buds in exchange for my collateral back. \\n The collateral in question is a CLEAN - TRADE-ABLE - STRANGE Horseless Headless Horseman's Head. Not the ax, the pumpkin head hat thing. it's a rare glitched item and is going for around 3 buds on the comm market atm. \\n I plan on paying who ever gives me the loan back in full 1 week after the trade has been made. I am NOT selling this item. I want it back once the 3 buds I buy before we even make the trade become trade-able. As in for proof I will pay you back, contact me, we'll make the agreement, I'll buy 3 buds immediately then show them to you and then we can make the deal then 1 week later you'll receive repayment in full in exchange for my HHHH back. \\n I have but a few hours to make this trade otherwise the guy with the quick-sell is gonna for someone else offering more than I am.\\nI'll be removing this post later today if I get no offers for help. As an intensive to encourage people, You'll get 3 keys bonus upon repayment.\",\n \"Summary: someone needs to make a compilation of all the slowed down and speed up music tracks you hear when you enter a room and broken stop watch's effect takes place and put it on YouTube for god sake!\\n\\nPost: I love getting the broken stop watch as an item because some of the songs in BoI:r when slowed down/sped up sound twice as good as they do normally. Basement or Diptera Sonata Sounds fucking awesome when it's sped up in the specific way it is in rebirth. I first heard what that sounded like today when I gave the BASE MENT seed a go. I can't seem to recreate any of them to sound exactly like they do in BoI:r and I'm wondering if anyone has/can. I'd assume it'd be as easy as getting the broken stop watch then waiting until you go into a sped up and slowed down room, clear it, then just sit and wait fore the music to loop once or twice. Only problem is the sped up versions are super rare and to get them on the basement without a seed is even rarer. Hopefully someone will give this a go because if you haven't heard most of the OST modified by the broken stopwatch and you love the OST as it sounds now, man you ain't heard nothing yet. My favorite is probably Everlasting Hymn or for those of you who don't know, the music from the cathedral when slowed down. Its fucking epic. Boss trap rooms are also amazing when slowed.\",\n \"Summary: We'll be getting new weapons, BI-YEARLY as in one year we wont get anything, possibly not even reskins, the next year, we'll get around 8 - 9 new weapons that have their own unique stats. Facts to back this idea up are how we got lots of weapon updates in 2011 and years before, we got very few in 2012, 2013 we got absolutely nothing other than Australium reskins, 2014 we got even less than 2012 which gives reason to think 2015 may not even bring reskins.\\n\\nPost: So lets look back. How often does TF2 get weapon updates? A fraction of the time in comparison to cosmetics and un-gameplay effecting updates that still add content (crates. Which contain more cosmetics...). so lets jump all the way back to the pyro mania update of 2012. This is when weapon updates started becoming so rare. During the Pyromania update TF2 received 6 new weapons. \\n These being The Scorchshot, Baby Faces Blaster, Pretty Boy's Pocket Pistol, Beggars Bazooka, Hitman's Heatmaker, and the Cleaner's Carbine. \\n It wasn't until late december of 2012 we got another weapons update included as part of the Mecha-Engineer which added 3 more new weapons. These being The Vaccinator, The Loose cannon, and the Rescue Ranger. \\n Though the Triad Pack of August did in fact add more new weapons, these being the Huo-Long Heater, Neon Annihilator, Flying Guillotine, and the Red-Tape Recorder. This update, although it added weapons should not be treated as a real weapon update because these weapons at first were all promotional and at the time, only available through the promotion. \\n Then throughout 2013, we saw absolutely 0 new weapons other than reskins/rebalances here and there. We didn't even get a single new genuine weapon reskin... Thats how bad 2013 was for weapons and the golden frying pan is just a tradable reskin of the Saxxy so no help there either. \\n 2014 is now behind us, and with it, came the same deal as 2012. a weapon update in the summer, and a weapon update in the winter. We got 6 new weapons during the pyromania update and 3 in the winter time during the unveiling of operation Mecha-Engine. I am leaving out the Triad Pack update of 2012 out of this because that update and it's weapons were 100% promotional. 2014 brought many new promo weapons, all of which we're reskins, non of which had any form of new stats. It's gotten to the point where it would seem new genuine reskins are now Bi-yearly as well. It hasn't been since August of 2012 (Triad Pack) that we saw new promotional weapons that had new stats. 2011 was bursting with those. \\n From 2014 came the following new weapons with their own unique stats \\n From The love and war update came 5 new weapons. These of course being The Tide Turner, Back Scatter, Classic, B.A.S.E. Jumper and the Air Strike. Then recently, During the Smissmas Update of 2014, we received 3 new weapons. These being The Iron Bomber, Quickie Launcher, and The Panic Attack. \\n One can only assumed based of that past history, during the year of 2015 which comes after what would now seem to be the annual \\\"Bi-Yearly\\\" weapons update year which come in the forms of years ending in even numbers (Remember, the weapon scarcity became a thing after 2011 which beforehand and during we got new weapons with unique stats during virtually every content update). Years ending with odd Numbers, Example: 2013, which got Literally 0 new weapons other than reskins, Non of which we're even promotional (Genuine) like 2015 which is the year we're now beginning to enter could be considered a \\\"Dry Year\\\" for weapon updates of any kind. We may not even see reskins of any kind this year... \\n One thing is for sure however. We will receive roughly 150+ - 200+ new cosmetics this year. We'll be lucky to get the new long await Salvaged crate 70 which is now about a year behind schedule from when it should of been added to the list of other salvaged crates. \\n WARNING---- This is kind of where the post goes off the deep end and I get really syndical and it becomes more of a rant. Continue reading down with caution. The following sentances may contain personal opinions... You have been warned. \\n And for those of you who say \\\"Oh but valve is busy working on Source 2! and the TF2 Team has like what? 3 people working on it these days?\\\" Thats still 3 people working on it. From what we've been told the reason why it takes so long to make new weapons and add them to the game, according to valve, \\\"It takes time for us to properly test them\\\". No shit. It takes a hell of a long time to properly balance weapons. Just slapping \\\"No Random Crits\\\" on a weapon that has some ridiculous stat on it doesn't automatically balance it out. I get that, but it's insane to think it's just 3 or 4 or 5 people working on TF2 whom also are the same people who test new weapon stats. They most likely have an isolated group of people who test any new weapons they think of but clearly however many they have isn't enough to put out new weapons at an adequate rate. (For me, an adequate rate would be the rate at which we receive new weapons during the years of 2010-2011) maybe I'm wrong and it is just the 3-5 TF2 devs testing them out on each other. Regardless of what Valve's Current method is, Clearly it needs a serious re-thinking. \\n You'd think by now what with all this new beta crap valve is shoving down out throats IE new beta maps and even a new beta game mode, of all the things in beta they still won't let us test are new weapons. Yeah sure, let us mess around in insanely ridiculous game-mode betas where things are just as ludicrous as they'd be if people we're beta testing new weapon stats instead. Yeah don't give us (people who are sick of cosmetic updates out weighing weapon updates [About 3/4ths of the TF2 community].) beta testing of new weapons, that sure would be pointless. Sure would be pointless to give the community that's still absolutely drooling for new weapons the ability to beta test them and make them part of the game faster unlike new maps which people seem to care a lot less about. Pointlessness Intensifies... \\n Valve works in overly Mysterious ways I guess.. But hey, what can we do as a community? Absolutely nothing thats what. You know why? Valve never listens to us... Last I checked, I heard more people complaining over the Gunslinger and BFB than the Lock N Load. \\n HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!!! \\n Edit:\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":15,"string":"15"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2993,"string":"2,993"}}},{"rowIdx":2994,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"CRoswell"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post I want good players that aren’t elitist douches or fail players to fuck shit up in Cata. Post your info below. \n edit 1 - Wow. Awesome to see so many replies! I'll be sorting through these over the next week or so."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Fellow redditors... We’ve grown lazy, apathetic, and un-motivated. To that I say... NO MORE!! It is time to descend into the fiery depths. Into the disgusting underbelly of the world and slay the denizens that jeopardize our way of life! To take back the underground taverns for the Dwarves, the lingerie stores for the Night Elves, the pig farms for the humans, and the limbo contests for the Gnomes! \n A new scourge has entered our fair land, and I call upon you t-- Ahh fuck it. \n It is almost time for us to call a close to the epic raiding that was Wrath of the Lich King. We’ve had a good run. I’ve grown from a know-nothing ICC noob to a raid leader with 2 (hopefully 3 after this week) Kingslayers under my belt. We’ve laughed, we’ve made Lonepine cry, we’ve listened to Orange’s amazing Karaoke. We’ve made some good friends. Some of them are non-fail enough that we decided to put a new raid group together. This is your chance to join Team SAWBS. Team Super Awesome Wrecking Ball Squad! \n You want to raid in Cata? You want to kick the shit out of the new content? You want to do it with the single best raid group <reddit> has ever known? (maybe I’m biased...) Then read below and if you’re good enough, if you’re quick enough, if you’re awesome enough... You can come spend some money on repair bills and get shiny purpz! \n Raid time: 7pm - 10pm Server Time (CST), Tuesday & Thursdays. \n Raid Goals: Shiny, shiny loots. Learning fights, then clearing hard mode content. We want to take on everything Cataclysm has to offer. \n What I expect: \n \n Your ass is ON TIME AND READY TO PULL at 7pm Server Time (CST.) Have flasks. Have gold for repairs. Have your head not up your ass. BEFORE we start. Not 5 minutes after... \n \n You understand basic mechanics. Fire is not a buff. If you get hit by malleable goo regularly, I don’t want you along. I don’t want excuses, I want you to pay attention and dodge that shit. \n \n You play your class well. You don’t have to be a spreadsheet nerd, but you have to be able to put up the numbers we’ll need to do progression content. \n \n You gem / enchant your gear \n You are a team player. \n BE. READY. TO. WIPE. This is part of clearing content. Get used to it. \n Read the forums. Read the forums. Read the fucking forums. \n Don’t be an elitist douche. There is a nice way to discuss something, and there is a douchey way to discuss something. Pick the nice way. \n No BITCHING. Frustration is expected. Constructive comments are welcome. QQing is not. \n Read the motherfucking forums. (When they’re done.) \n If you can't make it, let us know. \n \n What I’m going to offer / What you can expect: \n \n Laid back atmosphere - I enjoy running a crew that requires little “leading.” I discuss the strat, call things out, and make sure people aren’t being tards. I expect a “game face” when we’re killing things. Other than that, we’re a fun group to roll with. \n Content clearing - We’re going to kick ass. I want to clear as much as possible in our 3 hours per night. Everything is about that goal. \n My digits - I will give my cell phone and email for people to text if they’re going to be late. People get stuck in traffic, they have a work emergency, or a family emergency. I don’t get along with flakes and time wasters. You fuck 9 people by no-showing. Shit comes up, people get stuck at work, people go on vacations, that is all good. I have no problem with that. If you can’t make it, all I ask is that you let me know as soon as you know about it. \n Fair loot distribution - We use a sort of loot council. I don’t intend to overlap more than absolutely necessary. I won’t give a healer staff to a mage. I won’t give a rogue dagger to a hunter. I do require you to know your class well enough to know the difference though. Largest net benefit to the raid is key here folks. \n Breaks - I run on a ‘flask break’ timeframe. Every time we re-flask, we take a 2-3 minute break for a bio break, grabbing water, etc. \n Fairness - I’m not some power trip ZOMG WE DO IT MY WAY asshole. I view all raid members as intelligent enough to make suggestions. I may disagree with you, but I will listen to your suggestions. \n \n I'm going to be picky. We need great players, not average players. If I don't invite you, I don't hate you. I know all sorts of awesome people that aren't the caliber of player I'm looking for. If you want a slot, show me you want it. If I don't know you, I may ask you to show me what you've got in an ICC run. \n Tanks: \n MT: \n OT: \n Heals \n H1: \n H2: \n H3 / OS Dps: \n Deeps \n Dps 1: \n Dps 2: \n Dps 3: \n Dps 4: \n Dps 5: \n Still interested??? Post the following below (Even if I already know you, just post it again you lazy SOBs.): \n \n Character name \n \n Class / Spec \n \n Raid experience (vanilla, BC, and WotLK)"},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Fellow redditors... We’ve grown lazy, apathetic, and un-motivated. To that I say... NO MORE!! It is time to descend into the fiery depths. Into the disgusting underbelly of the world and slay the denizens that jeopardize our way of life! To take back the underground taverns for the Dwarves, the lingerie stores for the Night Elves, the pig farms for the humans, and the limbo contests for the Gnomes! \n A new scourge has entered our fair land, and I call upon you t-- Ahh fuck it. \n It is almost time for us to call a close to the epic raiding that was Wrath of the Lich King. We’ve had a good run. I’ve grown from a know-nothing ICC noob to a raid leader with 2 (hopefully 3 after this week) Kingslayers under my belt. We’ve laughed, we’ve made Lonepine cry, we’ve listened to Orange’s amazing Karaoke. We’ve made some good friends. Some of them are non-fail enough that we decided to put a new raid group together. This is your chance to join Team SAWBS. Team Super Awesome Wrecking Ball Squad! \n You want to raid in Cata? You want to kick the shit out of the new content? You want to do it with the single best raid group <reddit> has ever known? (maybe I’m biased...) Then read below and if you’re good enough, if you’re quick enough, if you’re awesome enough... You can come spend some money on repair bills and get shiny purpz! \n Raid time: 7pm - 10pm Server Time (CST), Tuesday & Thursdays. \n Raid Goals: Shiny, shiny loots. Learning fights, then clearing hard mode content. We want to take on everything Cataclysm has to offer. \n What I expect: \n \n Your ass is ON TIME AND READY TO PULL at 7pm Server Time (CST.) Have flasks. Have gold for repairs. Have your head not up your ass. BEFORE we start. Not 5 minutes after... \n \n You understand basic mechanics. Fire is not a buff. If you get hit by malleable goo regularly, I don’t want you along. I don’t want excuses, I want you to pay attention and dodge that shit. \n \n You play your class well. You don’t have to be a spreadsheet nerd, but you have to be able to put up the numbers we’ll need to do progression content. \n \n You gem / enchant your gear \n You are a team player. \n BE. READY. TO. WIPE. This is part of clearing content. Get used to it. \n Read the forums. Read the forums. Read the fucking forums. \n Don’t be an elitist douche. There is a nice way to discuss something, and there is a douchey way to discuss something. Pick the nice way. \n No BITCHING. Frustration is expected. Constructive comments are welcome. QQing is not. \n Read the motherfucking forums. (When they’re done.) \n If you can't make it, let us know. \n \n What I’m going to offer / What you can expect: \n \n Laid back atmosphere - I enjoy running a crew that requires little “leading.” I discuss the strat, call things out, and make sure people aren’t being tards. I expect a “game face” when we’re killing things. Other than that, we’re a fun group to roll with. \n Content clearing - We’re going to kick ass. I want to clear as much as possible in our 3 hours per night. Everything is about that goal. \n My digits - I will give my cell phone and email for people to text if they’re going to be late. People get stuck in traffic, they have a work emergency, or a family emergency. I don’t get along with flakes and time wasters. You fuck 9 people by no-showing. Shit comes up, people get stuck at work, people go on vacations, that is all good. I have no problem with that. If you can’t make it, all I ask is that you let me know as soon as you know about it. \n Fair loot distribution - We use a sort of loot council. I don’t intend to overlap more than absolutely necessary. I won’t give a healer staff to a mage. I won’t give a rogue dagger to a hunter. I do require you to know your class well enough to know the difference though. Largest net benefit to the raid is key here folks. \n Breaks - I run on a ‘flask break’ timeframe. Every time we re-flask, we take a 2-3 minute break for a bio break, grabbing water, etc. \n Fairness - I’m not some power trip ZOMG WE DO IT MY WAY asshole. I view all raid members as intelligent enough to make suggestions. I may disagree with you, but I will listen to your suggestions. \n \n I'm going to be picky. We need great players, not average players. If I don't invite you, I don't hate you. I know all sorts of awesome people that aren't the caliber of player I'm looking for. If you want a slot, show me you want it. If I don't know you, I may ask you to show me what you've got in an ICC run. \n Tanks: \n MT: \n OT: \n Heals \n H1: \n H2: \n H3 / OS Dps: \n Deeps \n Dps 1: \n Dps 2: \n Dps 3: \n Dps 4: \n Dps 5: \n Still interested??? Post the following below (Even if I already know you, just post it again you lazy SOBs.): \n \n Character name \n \n Class / Spec \n \n Raid experience (vanilla, BC, and WotLK)"},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: The amount of training and person-specific adjustment that goes into accurately shooting a bow makes it ridiculous to put into DayZ. Stick with the Xbow, add a quiver.\n\nPost: You are comparing apples to oranges though. At 25 yards, most people with very little practice could hit center mass on a man-shaped target with a rifle. 15 yards with a pistol. Even a pistol shooter with 200-250 rounds under their belt would be hard pressed to put a full mag in center mass at farther than that without some training. \n At 25 yards with a bow with minimal training most people would be hard pressed to hit a target. That is before you factor in how person-specific a bow is. A 6'4\" person firing a bow designed for a 5'10\" person would be hard pressed to perform well. Rifles and pistols are for the most part one size fits all.","Summary: Find some existing 80s that are excited to raid and work with them to gear them out for next week. \n edit - I'm not dead-set against non-redditors, but I know some are. It is a big draw for most folk that people get the memes and such.\n\nPost: The easiest solution is to recruit, even if that means recruiting from Sargeras. \n I respectfully disagree. If we spend a couple nights chaining heroics / running the ICC 5mans to get the \"warm bodies\" gear, we would have had our 25 last night. \n Rather than recruiting fresh souls for the fire, why not talk to the new-80s or the people in their high 70s and say \"hey, we'll put some time in to you if you are genuinely interested in raiding with us and are willing to work hard in a raid.\" In 2 weeks we could have additional geared 80s in our pool of people to draw from. Instead everyone is chugging away on their alts (me included!) to have options and have a more diverse skill set to draw from. \n In my case, I wanted to have HAWT Deeps as well as the healer, so I'm giving my mage most of my free time. I could instead be healing Orange or Eresh running the ICC 5 mans and pimping some new-80s out. \n My complaint is that everyone complains about the lack of people. We have people. We had 80s online. They just need to rock a little more DPS or heals, and gear is half the battle. I'm giving them credit that they know how to play their class, which is a mistake in some cases, but for the most part gear is the big hurdle. \n My $0.02.","Summary: Get a fish.\n\nPost: Abso-fucking-lutely Not. (Depending on the type of pet, but assuming you mean a cat or dog.) \n Dogs are great. I love dogs. I have 2 dogs myself. They're fun and docile and awesome. There are even some dogs that are AMAZING with kids. Lassie style amazing. Until the kid falls off the couch onto the dog while it is sleeping, until the kid steps on his tail, or screams in his ear just a certain way. \n Then the perfectly docile \"HE WOULD ONLY LICK YOU TO DEATH LAWL\" dog tears that kid's face off. It is documented. It has happened. Don't kid yourself. Dogs get old, dogs get crabby. Kids startle dogs. Dogs freak out sometimes. If you startle a dog or it senses something is wrong, dogs get on edge. If they feel threatened they will defend themselves. \n It is a lawsuit of epic proportions waiting to happen, and there is no way in hell you will find insurance.","Summary: Cousin was being a dick so I made him stop.\n\nPost: We were at Thanksgiving. A cousin of mine had just started Tae Kwon Do and wanted to show me what he learned. No big deal. Then after he showed me I went to sit down with my GF and he kept kicking at us. I told him to stop. He didn't. \n He kicked again and hit my hand (that was resting on my knee.) I lunged forward grabbed his hand, and twisted it behind his back. Before I even touched him he started wailing, and I was having none of his acting bs. Applied a bit of pressure and bent him over onto the ground and held him there for about 30 seconds while he was doing his fake scream the entire time. Most of my family saw what he was doing and only his parents were pissy with me.","Summary: We have more than enough admins to deal with all of the problems at current. If we get swamped, we'll add more. This guild is a self-operating machine for the most part.\n\nPost: Here is where I don't agree with you. I don't think we need more administrators. We don't have problems that I'm aware of. If other admins are dealing with 20 problems a day, that is news to me. I can only think of 2 problems in the last 2 weeks that the officers even got involved with. Other than the growing pains associated with the rush of new members, the guild is set up to run itself for the most part. \n Honestly, we are approaching 100 posts on a topic of an alt guild. If figuring this out is the guild's biggest problem, we're doing pretty damn well. \n You're claiming that LB is mad with power for some reason or another, but what has he done? He doesn't \"claim\" certain people for this group or that. He doesn't tell people what to do. He isn't looting the gbank. \n All he has done in the past 3 months has been to move to Mumble (which is free and most people I talk to prefer it over vent once they've gotten used to it) and promoted myself and Lisa to the officer role after I bitched at him about there never seeming to be any officers on. He is a lazy bastard that makes rambling posts, takes the feedback, and makes decisions.","Summary: You are a steamshovel.\n\nPost: There is a story I know. It is about a steamshovel that dug itself into a hole. It was so caught up in digging it accidentally dug out the ramp as well. \n Then everyone on reddit was completely useless and the steamshovel got punted the fuck out of it's job and landed in the unemployment line.","Summary: In a guild this size, players run the gamut. I'd like to think because of the community we see more capable players than not since we try to be helpful and welcoming to newbies overall.\n\nPost: I'll speak to the quality of skill. I've been here for about 8 months, and raiding or raid-leading for most of them. There are some really good, amazingly skilled players that I would take along with me to any raid in a heartbeat. There are also some people that can't handle basic mechanics and shouldn't be in a raid. \n We have a ton of people. Some are theorycrafting stat junkies, some are casuals that click their skills. The majority is in the upper portion. Most people can learn mechanics and bring reasonable skill to groups.","Summary: Why as a group should we consider dropping hundreds of dollars on new books and stuff?\n\nPost: Maybe this isn't the right thread for this, but why would I choose 5e instead of another one? \n I've got a group of older gamers that I play with. We play 2e and 3e because that is what they have the books for. I personally prefer 3e, but as long as I get to play I'm a happy camper. Aside from the couple posts around here regarding 5e, I don't know much about it. Can anyone give me a","Summary: If you haven't tried it, you have no idea what you're talking about. \n edit - [Relevant](\n\nPost: sigh. I don't know why I waste my time... \n My muscles were used to being all whacked out around the shoulder. Adjustments allows those muscles to go back where they belong. Like any muscle, they need to be worked in. So just like any work out program in the world, those muscles need to gain strength. As I see results the Doc & I agree to lower the frequency of visits. I started 3x per week, then went to 2x per week, then 1x per week, and now I'm at one visit every 2 weeks. Soon I will go to once every 3 weeks, etc. It just happened for me that each tier took about 2 weeks. I'm fairly young, so I recovered quickly. \n If you blow out your knee, do you go to PT for 1 week and suddenly you're back in the game 100%? No, of course not. It takes a bit of time to regain strength. \n I felt the same way you did. Didn't understand it, so I thought it was a crock. My wife made me go once, and I did a complete 180. \n If you have a nagging pain, give it a shot. Most places do free consults and X-rays. If they don't do X-rays and explain what is going on with you before adjusting, find a different Chiro. There are some 'old school' docs out there that are absolutely terrible. Much like an old out of touch general practitioner.","Summary: My time is valuable enough that it is worth MORE to me than the interest I would earn.\n\nPost: Exactly this. I get a refund on purpose. Sure, that $10 or $20 a paycheck would be the \"smarter\" choice, but it would get absorbed into something. We would go out once more, we might throw it at the mortgage. Instead, we get a check for some cash and use it for home improvement projects. Last year it took a bit off the roof we needed. This year it is going towards the siding on the house. Next year probably some flooring to replace our nasty carpet. \n We're pretty set financially. We're not loaded, but we don't carry a CC balance. Our only loans are the mortgage, my car, and her student loans. So yes, I could make .0000001% or something on that money, but we wouldn't do it. \n It makes more sense for us personally. We lack the nitpicky nazi discipline that would allow us to benefit from the couple bucks per paycheck.","Summary: Let. Them. Die. (when they deserve it.)\n\nPost: One caveat to this: There are certain areas where there is AoE damage that is not their fault. \n If dps is standing in shit or pulling threat, let them die. Redditors or not, Dps has to play smart or they will drain your mana too fast and then everyone dies.","Summary: There is damn good money to be made in insurance if you get in young. The timing was right.\n\nPost: I went to college for 6 years and earned a CS degree with a minor in business. I programmed for about a year before I was sick of it. I figured if I was going to work 70 hours a week why not do it in a field that I get paid for my time. My programmer's salary was good if I was working 40-45 hours a week, but that was it. \n Just so happened around that time my family's insurance agency was looking for a new producer. I came out of my shell and became a people person in college, so the people aspect was appealing.. I'm on track to own the agency (mainly due to family ties) some day in the distant future. In the mean time I make as much money as I did programming (after 2 years of busting my ass!!!) and will make more each year if I keep working and adding new clients to my book.","Summary: Get 3 1/2\" shells. They give you an extra 10 yards of \"poke.\"\n[Proof](\n\nPost: How did the hunt turn out? \n We got pretty drunk Wednesday night (up until 1am) and slept in. Hiked up to my blind around 9am. I took off my hat and gloves because the hill made me hot and sweaty. Propped my gun on the wall behind me. \n A little Henner walks out into the field in front of me. I'm trying to quietly and quickly get my gloves and hat back on. She starts purring and putting... 4 Jakes come out of the woods behind her. My gun? Still on the wall behind me. \n I slowly get the gun up, and try to see if one of them is bigger than the others. They were all about the same, so I draw bead and blast one. I apparently missed (he flew off) while the other 3 started running. Racked another shell, took aim, and down one went.","Summary: Pony up the extra cash and get a 2 stage. You will not regret it.\n\nPost: From the opinion of a Wisconsinite: Those both suck. \n Single stage can't bust through anything worthwhile. It can't throw stuff far enough to make it your neighbor's problem. \n Get a 2 stage, then you can take care of the frozen piles at the end of the driveway that the plows push in, you can chop through 3' drifts, hell... you can grind up the frozen carcass of the neighbor's cat like it was nothing.","Summary: Keep it civil. Learn, grow, STOP BEING FUCKHEADS. \n \n Made one more ninja edit.\n\nPost: Edit: My comment is mainly in reference to the people that caused this comment that the OP made above: \n > Guild chat then devolved into the predictable circle-jerk about intolerance, free speech, and politically correctness. \n You all read the code of conduct. You all agree to it by your continued presence in this guild. The CoC was discussed at length by guild members before being made policy, and then edited to reflect the reasonable . It is a policy made by members, for members. If you don't like it, there is the door. I won't miss you. \n IMO, as a fellow member (want to clarify that this is not an \"official\" admin stance) if you're trolling gchat, you're probably a douche anyway. Go troll 4chan. At least it is hard to do over there. Gchat is not your personal \"hmmm, I feel like being a fuckstick\" playground. Gchat is where the GUILD comes together to talk about interesting and fun things. If it was up to me personally, I'd gkick every troll in this guild and ban them from the subreddit.\nI'm old school though. I remember when 99% of the people in guild liked one another and raided together. Seeing this sort of shit in Gchat makes me a sad pandaren. \n That being said: As always, discussions, even arguments are fine and encouraged by all counts (and encouraged by admins. If an admin or mod is stifling a discussion, PLEASE screenshot it and submit it to me or another admin. Without screenshots, you're wasting your time because it becomes a he said, she said situation.) As long as you argue like adults and don't resort to the school yard style (or political reporter style) \"well then you're a faggot and your opinion is fucking stupid\" style rants.","Summary: Platform: PC \n Maps: Vanilla + All DLC \n Modes: Obliteration, Domination, CTF, and some Conquest Small \n Drinking: Very yes\n\nPost: Anyone looking for a drinking server tonight? If so, we are the server for you. We rent a 32 player server, on PC, and play pretty much on Friday nights exclusively. [Check it out.]( We run a little bit of everything, including all DLCs. \n Rules? Just one. Drink. \n We kick you if you're obviously sober. This server is for the inebriated only. Yes, we even kick our own \"clan\" members. Clan is in quotes because we're not some super serious bunch. We're just friends that drink together and share a tag. \n \"But how do you know if I'm sober?\" Well, it can be pretty obvious, if you're playing excellently and have an incredible KDR, you risk being kicked to give you time to go make a drink. Then on a second offense, temp-banned (10-15min) to go do a couple shots. If you come back and fuck us all up, we will permaban you. Sorry! Plenty of warnings, though. \n Maplist: (Also added Locker and Zavod for ConquestSmall) \n We run a votemap plugin, and the maps that populate the vote choices are the least-played-maps-so-far, chosen out of the maplist. \n Like to drink and play BF4 on a Friday night? Get the fuck in here! \n -Croswell","Summary: Where do I go to learn the basics? Suggestions for a newbie? \n (did a quick ninja edit for clarity.)\n\nPost: I'm a total newb. I just bought a 550d off ebay within the last hour with the 18mm-55mm lens. My primary subjects will be our kid (arriving in October) and my saltwater fish tank. I want to get some basic practice in before the kid arrives since upon arrival I will be nothing but tired and probably won't feel much like learning in my free time. At the same time, I'm sick to death of my P&S slow firing camera. \n Is it worth it paying to take an online photo class to get better pictures? Or am I better off just finding something to learn from on photo.net? [example.]( \n I've read here and there about basic things like the rule of thirds and extremely basic concepts like that, but that is about it.","Summary: Get off your ass.\n\nPost: I've tried all sorts of things. I have a fan on, no lights, and I almost always read for 15-60 minutes before bed each night. \n Tylenol PM and Nyquil wires me up. I got desperate enough to try Ambien, didn't do a thing except me wake up ever hour or two. Slept worse on it. \n Then I was given some low dose anti-anxiety medicine. I actually bored myself awake due to the dreams I was having. Making the most boring sandwich in the world, sanding a board, etc. Terrible. Woke up every hour on the hour on that stuff. \n I tried chamomile tea, it kinda helps. I also started working out. I drag my ass our of bed at 5:30am 4 days a week. Last night I was in bed by 8:30, asleep by 9:30 no problem.","Summary: Stop making excuses for poor life choices. Personal responsibility is how you become not fat-assed.\n\nPost: According to pizza rolls, 1 serving is 6 pizza rolls. I have never seen anyone eat 6 pizza rolls and be full. \n I'm talking real deli meat, not that pre-packaged pressed meat wanna be crap. Mayo/mustard and such are pennies per serving. Deli meat can be frozen, bread can be frozen, soon to be spent lettuce can be used in a salad \n I'm not some health food nazi. I eat pizza roll sometimes. I have one of those french bread pizzas in the freezer at work if I forget my lunch. \n I just can't stand it when people claim that unhealthy food is the only shit they can afford. Rice and Beans are another cheap and easy alternative that is better for you than shitty food in a package.","Summary: Ban gasoline.\n\nPost: Ok, remove all guns from the equation. No more guns for anyone for any reason. No pistols, no shotguns, no rifles. \n Guy (who we can all safely assume is mentally ill whether it be a chemical imbalance, depression, severe schizophrenia, whatever) wants to harm people. He drinks a case of beer, fills the bottles with gas and rags, rolls into the school with that and a lighter. Now you've got kids that are being burned to death with gasoline. Probably more deaths in that case. \n If someone is mentally unstable enough to do this. To kill children FFS, the weapon they use won't matter to them.","Summary: Stop furthering stupid posts with no sources to back them up.\n\nPost: I don't think either party gives preservation enough attention. What I'm saying is that for the OP to toss up some random image with nothing resembling facts to back up the statement is complete and utter bullshit. \n It does nothing but further muddy the already disgusting political landscape. Providing even a little bit of proof through articles and things (that are quite easy to find, especially with the deer Czar's on record comments) would better serve the recall efforts.","Summary: There is a cheevo to get, but guild repairs would diminish the amount of gold on hand in short order. It. Is. Not. Feasible to leave on guild repairs indefinitely unless it is such a small amount no one would notice it.\n\nPost: I think a few things should be made clear, so let me put on my Jfred cap for a moment: \n 1) We are taking in anywhere from 200g - 350g per day from the guild perk. \n 2) Repairs for 800 characters at 5g per day would be 4,000g. That would be a very high estimate on a per day cost and it assumes everyone logs in and repairs every day. We have 400 - 500 unique accounts. So if you'll forgive the \"assumption\" math, lets say we have 250 people at 5g per day. That throws out 1,250g per day spent, and ~ 300g per day taken in. So again, forgive the assumption / rounding (I bet Jfred is cringing as he reads this!) we're losing 1000g per day. Not bad overall. 100 days would just about wipe us out assuming zero other expenses. \n 3) There is a guild repair achievement for 50,000g and 100,000g of repairs. \n Short term, we could turn repairs on, expend some gold, then disable them for a month and rebuild some funds.","Summary: Fuck it, give it a shot.\n\nPost: Check out \"My Drunk Kitchen\" \n Honestly, there is almost no real content on the show. It is all about the creative editing that she does. She is a semi-attractive girl that basically wanders around the kitchen while shitfaced. She relates to the common man by talking how cute cows are and how ugly turkeys are. \n Then she drops shit, cuts to a random shot of herself thinking really hard (as only drunks can do) and then she wraps it up with sage advice. \n I love the show and have shared them with many friends that now also love the show.","Summary: I'd rather gear alts, but I am a frost badge SLUT. I can use more of them on any toon, so I'm down with whatever.\n\nPost: With Cata coming, I had one goal. Down the LK. We did that and it was awesome and the people I did it with are an amazing team. \n A Heroic LK kill would be nice... I just don't think I have it in me to beat my head against the wall that hard anymore. I'm burned out on healing. We've been working our asses off for the last couple weeks, and I'm tired. I would never quit on Team Bacon though. (Assuming we stop raiding 2 nights in a row!!) \n I didn't really want to heal in the first place, but it got me a raid slot so I figured I would give it a go. I'm glad I did because I had fun with it (way more than I expected!) and I got to see some awesome content with a great bunch of people, but I guess I'm looking at gearing some alts or spending some time leveling those alts instead of continuing with a healer in Cata. I don't want to spend much more time gearing a toon I hope to semi-retire. (Although I could always use some badges for my off-off-off spec...) \n So I'm down with whatever the group wants, but my vote is gearing alts. The Sanctified Gear from 10M Heroic isn't worth the extra effort (and repair bills) IMO. \n [Blue confirming that Heroic ICC Gear will most likely be replaced by the time you hit lvl 85 regular dungeons](\nFTA: There are some epic and legendary items from Wrath of the Lich King raid content which may take a while to replace, but chances are most of your gear will be replaced by the time you start running level-85 normal 5-player dungeons. \n All that being said. I'm Bacon 4 life. If everyone else decides \"lets progress\" I'm down for that too, and I'll be there busting my ass every night with my Mage parked outside in case we decide to do it regular mode and no one else wants to sub in a toon. \n My major issue right now is raiding times. IMO that is problem #1. \n Question for Luna & Faust - If we raid from say, 6:30 - 10pm (server time) would that work out better during the week for you? I just want to clarify if you don't want to raid more than 1 week night due to how late the raid goes, or if it is just the fact that it is a week night. \n edit:","Summary: Play whatever, make it known you want to raid, and when groups form, show that you're a decent player and you'll get a spot. Or form your own group!!\n\nPost: We get this question quite a bit. The usual reply is \"Play what you'll have fun playing.\" \n In a guild this size, we don't really NEED any one thing. We have multiple people of every class. Tanks and healers are always more in demand for raiding, but other than that, the altaholics take care of most things. Priests are very flavor of the monthy right now.","Summary: Bacon + tin foil = super easy campfire cooking. Bacon heats up and the grease prevents burning. Plus, bacon flavor!\n\nPost: Take a chicken breast, hit it with some BBQ sauce, wrap it completely in bacon. Throw a little onion or season-all or something in there. Double wrap it in tin foil, toss it next to the coals for 30-45 minutes, rotating it every 5-10 or so. Or you can put it on the tripod for awhile. \n If you are paranoid about over cooking, you can put a little butter on it too. Helps keep it moist, but TBH chicken has enough natural moisture I've never had a problem. \n Side dish: \nSmear butter on tin foil, put some bacon on it, thinly slice a couple potatoes, lay them in there, salt/pepper/season-all, couple onion slices, top with more bacon. Put another butter smeared tin foil on top. Cook for 45 minutes, flipping every 5-10.","Summary: I can't decide if you lack basic reading comprehension skills, or if you are trolling.\n\nPost: You are still somehow missing the basic concept even though it was pointed out (a couple times if I'm not mistaken.) I said \"Murglesnout and trash fish.\" You apparently read that as \"Anything I can't use for my raiding toons.\" It is neat how you keep designing grandiose evil plans and putting words in my mouth trying to back up your bullshit rage though. \n Go look at wowhead's entry for Murglesnout once. There is no use for it in the game. Technically a Murglesnout is not a grey item, so I guess I'll have to miss out on that blowjob. \n We have the first 2 tabs for leveling and non-85 maxed out profession things. Do you feel that 3 stacks of Scrolls of Intellect II is a worthwhile use of those slots? Trash is trash, I don't care what level you are. How about 4 scorpid leather bracer patterns? They're worth a whopping 4 silver and the entire set can be farmed in about an hour in Tanaris. Shit, lets stock up and save our newbies that!!! \n People dump useless shit in the gbank that no one wants because it gives them some sense of \"helping.\" They don't stop to think \"hmmm, will someone actually use this?? Is it valuable to anyone else?\" It sits there for a week, then a mod has to sort through it all. Why not just skip the crap and put in useful mats or items that for people will actually use?","Summary: Roll with the punches, or lose yo damn mind. More about raising kids than marriage IMO. Adults can normally adhere to a basic plan. Kids see a plan as a challenge.\n\nPost: I think he used too many new lines to have a coherent thought. \n “If you go into marriage with a program you will find that it won’t work.\nSuccessful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, and non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.” \n There. Much better. Now I can read the damn thing. The overall theory seems sound.","Summary: Apply Whiskey.\n\nPost: Exactly this. \n I ran into a local shop manager at the Rotary golf outing. Turns out he plays WoW, so we got to talking about nerdy stuff. Turns out he also likes to drink. So we get drunk every now and then, I started playing D&D with his group of friends, we get along great. I even got him into disc golf.","Summary: I BEAT WOW LULZ!\n\nPost: It has been fun folks, but I'm pretty burned out. My WoW enjoyment usually peaks after 9 or so months (isn't it sad that I've quit / returned enough times to know that?) I'm about a year into my latest stint, and after checking out the Rift Open Beta last weekend with Infest I figure I will give it a go. It has some similarities to WoW, but felt more mature. Some no pressure gaming sounds good... A new graphics card is on the way and everything. \n I may be back in a week. I may be back in a month. I may never be back. In the meantime I leave you in Cuddy's capable (and oh so soft and gentle...) hands. \n Most of you are pretty cool people, and I've had some good times with you. I'll probably be lurking around here and calling people morons from time to time as necessary. Old habits die hard... \n I wish you the best <reddit> \n -Cros out.","Summary: A middle level in the forums would give a sense of inclusion to members who cannot commit to a full role in a company and promote a stronger community.\n\nPost: This came about as a result of discussing the new forums setup in IRC today. I was asked to bring it up for discussion. Obviously we are at the early stages of the game. Open Beta, release, and Community Warfare will see big changes that we as a clan will have to react to. \n Right now we have 2 tiers of access in the forums, Public forums and Company forums. The need for Public forums are pretty straight forward. Site suggestions/problem, general talk for allies to schedule scrims/matches, places our allies can come and hang out, etc. \n Then we have the Company forums. Obviously the company forums need to stay private. Especially when Community warfare and competitive gaming happens. Having a private area for strat discussion and to some extent AARs / video recordings is a huge part of being competitive. \n These two tiers include anyone that is in a company, but it seems that it leaves out a subgroup of cReddit members. Members that want to have a regular group of people to play with, but can't make it to a set schedule of practice due to college, social obligations, family life, or just an overall inability to commit to anything for more than 4 minutes. \n I propose that we move to a 3-tier system of forums. Public, Reserves, and Companies. \n A Reserves group would give members like me a home. Somewhere we can discuss strategies for pub-stomping with fellow clan mates. Somewhere to develop some default winning strategies for the maps as a clan. A place to talk about some interesting builds, or the merits of different weapons / drop organizations. Somewhere for new members to say hello and learn the basics of how we operate. A place to ask some noob questions about our SOP without giving it away to anyone that wanders by. Somewhere to build a sense of community with my fellow clanmates. Down the line, this would be a place to co-ordinate our Community Warfare as a clan so we can all work towards a unified goal. \n Right now there isn't anything that gives someone in my shoes a reason to consider myself a member of cReddit. The forums and IRC are the same as if I was a visiting member of another clan. I can come into mumble, hang out for a night, then go to fight for another clan in a match the next night. I'd like that to change. Having somewhere to chat with other cReddit members would be a step in the right direction towards building a strong community.","Summary: Orange, Para, Butch, and I got really drunk this weekend. Twice. Bunch of cool fellas. \n Edit 2: \nButch reminded me that I forgot the most epic part of the weekend. As I mentioned, Para brought his PC and 4 XBox controllers to run an emulator for Mario Kart. In order to get the fourth one recognized, he shorted out the battery with a piece of tin foil. \n Then we had an Xbox controller plugged into the USB port of my Ps3 for power, 3 Xbox controllers wirelessly connected to his PC, to play an Emulator of an N64. \n Yo dawg I heard you like video games, so we took your Nintendo 64 video game and emulated it on a PC that you can play with your Xbox controller that you plug into your PS3. \n edit 1 - \nTo show all pics on page: Copy / paste this in your address bar: \n javascript:%20var%20x=%20$(\".content\").find(\"a\").each(function(){var%20href=$(this).attr(\"href\");if((!$(this).hasClass(\"drowsapMorphed\"))%20&&%20($(this).next(\".drowsapMorphed\").length==0)%20&&%20href%20&&%20(href.indexOf('imgur')>=0%20||%20href.indexOf('jpeg')>=0%20||%20href.indexOf('jpg')>=0%20||%20href.indexOf('png')>=0)){var%20ext%20=(href.indexOf('imgur')>=0%20&&%20href.indexOf('jpg')<0%20&&%20href.indexOf('png')<0)%20?%20'.jpg'%20:'';%20var%20img%20=%20$(\"<a%20class='drowsapMorphed'%20href='\"+href+\"'%20target='blank'%20style='display:block'><img%20style='display:block;max-width:780px;'%20src='\"+href+%20ext+\"'%20/></a>\");$(this).after(img);}});\n\nPost: Butch and Orange made the run from St Louis up to Wisconsin on Friday. Para came on over as well, his sexy beast of a PC in tow. We had a good old fashioned Wisconsin [Friday Night Fish Fry.]( \n I've got a few pictures to share. Also... An amazing video. I apologize if they're a bit blurry. I was a bit shitfaced. \n [Para giving Butch the look of dissapproval]( \n Orange trying to [count the number of beers he has had...]( Then [adding to that count.]( This was a common occurrence. We burned through quite a bit of Spotted Cow, Jack, Korbel, and miscellaneous shots of the delicious variety... \n These guys drank so much my lovely wife (Eaowyyn) had to give me a hand \n Orange is [still trying to count...]( Then he comes up with something. He has [two hands!]( \n Orange gives up on counting and [decided to break into song]( about the delicious fish we had eaten. Para was on backup vocals. They were so amazing, we asked for [an encore.]( I believe we all joined in for my family's traditional [\"Ode to delicious Fish.\"]( It is also an ode to \"we've been drinking too damn much tonight.\" Long standing family tradition. \n Apparently Orange has a similar tradition. He called to talk to his wife and when he said that we may have been singing at some point her reply was \"Oh... You were that drunk.\" \n Orange was [telling a story.]( Butch was listening. He is as quiet in person as he is in mumble. Para apparently imagined something uncomfortable... \n The [night went on]( [And on...]( \n Then magically it was morning(errr, early afternoon??) Who drank [all this]( beer [anyway?]( \n Oh. Right. [These guys]( From left to right, Cros, Para, Butch, and Orange. Gratuitous [Dog picture.]( \n Day 2. After nursing our hangovers and learning some AH tips and tricks from Orange we headed down to the \"Cheese Haus\" to give Orange and Butch a real taste of Wisconsin. I didn't take nearly as many pictures on day 2 because I was hung the fuck over. \n A local WoW playing foodie I know came by and cooked up some [delicious food]( - Lamb chops, venison / lamb meatballs, asparagus, cole slaw, cheesey bacon-ey potatoes. We ate like kings. Very hungover kings, but it was damn tasty. \n After dinner my wife fled the scene. Something about \"had enough of you drunk fuckers for one weekend.\" Leaving us fellas to fend for ourselves. So... We started drinking again! Para brought along 4 controllers and some emulators on his PC. We played some Mario Kart and tried out Goldeneye. It was awesome. Later on we busted out [Guitar Hero.]( As you can see from the extreme concentration on Para's face. It was [Srs Bznss.]( \n Without further ado, I give you the world debut of Para performing Smashing Pumpkins.","Summary: Don't be a fucking asshole. \n Edit - As pointed out by /u/iQueQq this was probably coming from the commo rose. TIL. Typing out a please wouldn't hurt (obviously if you are in the air this gets a bit unrealistic...) and spamming it is still a pretty dick move. Much like not tapping it is a dick move if you are using the transport as a taxi.\n\nPost: Last night I spawned into an attack chopper at the gunner position. No big deal, my buddies were in a tank so I was just trying to be helpful. A second after I spawn I see someone start spamming Teamchat: \n GET OUT \n GET OUT \n GET OUT \n GET OUT \n I look down and sure enough, it is my pilot. So of course I sit there and do nothing out of spite. This continues for about 20 seconds until the enemy choppers come at us, when Mr Manners decides to gain some altitude and ram the incoming enemies. Of course this sends us splashing into the ocean. It was a glorious offering to the salt gods. \n So that is the bad way to get a team mate to work with you. \n Let us suppose for a second that my esteemed team mate was not a raging fucktard and instead had said \"Hey Croswell, my buddy wants to gun for me, mind bailing?\" I would have bailed out no problem. Sure, I would have had to jump down and grab a jeep or a jet ski, but I game with people too. Friends playing together is almost always more effective than 2 random pugs! \n Win-win!","Summary: We band together to beat SOPA, but now people are out there paying for SOPA 2. Why?!?! \n edit - grammatical stuff.\n\nPost: I think Avengers is the best example of this. Not even 6 months after uniting against SOPA redditors went to the theaters in droves, and they put their hard earned money into the companies that pay the lobbyists that they \"hate.\" \n Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always read that theaters make their money on snacks. So I think it is safe to assume that the ticket proceeds get sent back to the studios. Those studios spend that money on getting more controls and anti-piracy internet filtering bullshit enacted into law. \n Seriously, it boggles my mind. Why not just redbox the movie in a couple months? The movie won't be any less awesome and instead of $8-$12, the studios will only get a buck or two! If Redditors really want to enact change in the world, start showing your support with your wallets, not with internet blackouts and e-petitions that do very little long-term.","Summary: I kick ass.\n\nPost: I was playing WSG over the holiday weekend to get some honor and some XP. After losing game after game we are up 2-0. I'm holding the flag at the top of the fort overlooking the flag room while my team is trying to get our flag back. ~ 2 minutes left in the game. \n I have a 76 resto druid guarding me. There were 2 DKs, a lock, and a priest that kept trickling in every few minutes to try to take me down. \n They finally group up and come in 4 at a time and I kite them around the flower planter up on the top a couple times. Through some miracle (Resto Druids being OP) I manage to down one of the DKs and the priest without being destroyed. My water elemental is actually in LoS of the lock so I deep-freeze him and shatter him down quickly with ice lance spam. I finish the other DK just as my teammates drop the Enemy FC and return our flag. \n I hit slow fall and dive off the roof towards our flag. I land on the flag, win the game (3-0,) and ding 80. Fuck. Yea. \n One of those times I really wish I had fraps..."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: The amount of training and person-specific adjustment that goes into accurately shooting a bow makes it ridiculous to put into DayZ. Stick with the Xbow, add a quiver.\\n\\nPost: You are comparing apples to oranges though. At 25 yards, most people with very little practice could hit center mass on a man-shaped target with a rifle. 15 yards with a pistol. Even a pistol shooter with 200-250 rounds under their belt would be hard pressed to put a full mag in center mass at farther than that without some training. \\n At 25 yards with a bow with minimal training most people would be hard pressed to hit a target. That is before you factor in how person-specific a bow is. A 6'4\\\" person firing a bow designed for a 5'10\\\" person would be hard pressed to perform well. Rifles and pistols are for the most part one size fits all.\",\n \"Summary: Find some existing 80s that are excited to raid and work with them to gear them out for next week. \\n edit - I'm not dead-set against non-redditors, but I know some are. It is a big draw for most folk that people get the memes and such.\\n\\nPost: The easiest solution is to recruit, even if that means recruiting from Sargeras. \\n I respectfully disagree. If we spend a couple nights chaining heroics / running the ICC 5mans to get the \\\"warm bodies\\\" gear, we would have had our 25 last night. \\n Rather than recruiting fresh souls for the fire, why not talk to the new-80s or the people in their high 70s and say \\\"hey, we'll put some time in to you if you are genuinely interested in raiding with us and are willing to work hard in a raid.\\\" In 2 weeks we could have additional geared 80s in our pool of people to draw from. Instead everyone is chugging away on their alts (me included!) to have options and have a more diverse skill set to draw from. \\n In my case, I wanted to have HAWT Deeps as well as the healer, so I'm giving my mage most of my free time. I could instead be healing Orange or Eresh running the ICC 5 mans and pimping some new-80s out. \\n My complaint is that everyone complains about the lack of people. We have people. We had 80s online. They just need to rock a little more DPS or heals, and gear is half the battle. I'm giving them credit that they know how to play their class, which is a mistake in some cases, but for the most part gear is the big hurdle. \\n My $0.02.\",\n \"Summary: Get a fish.\\n\\nPost: Abso-fucking-lutely Not. (Depending on the type of pet, but assuming you mean a cat or dog.) \\n Dogs are great. I love dogs. I have 2 dogs myself. They're fun and docile and awesome. There are even some dogs that are AMAZING with kids. Lassie style amazing. Until the kid falls off the couch onto the dog while it is sleeping, until the kid steps on his tail, or screams in his ear just a certain way. \\n Then the perfectly docile \\\"HE WOULD ONLY LICK YOU TO DEATH LAWL\\\" dog tears that kid's face off. It is documented. It has happened. Don't kid yourself. Dogs get old, dogs get crabby. Kids startle dogs. Dogs freak out sometimes. If you startle a dog or it senses something is wrong, dogs get on edge. If they feel threatened they will defend themselves. \\n It is a lawsuit of epic proportions waiting to happen, and there is no way in hell you will find insurance.\",\n \"Summary: Cousin was being a dick so I made him stop.\\n\\nPost: We were at Thanksgiving. A cousin of mine had just started Tae Kwon Do and wanted to show me what he learned. No big deal. Then after he showed me I went to sit down with my GF and he kept kicking at us. I told him to stop. He didn't. \\n He kicked again and hit my hand (that was resting on my knee.) I lunged forward grabbed his hand, and twisted it behind his back. Before I even touched him he started wailing, and I was having none of his acting bs. Applied a bit of pressure and bent him over onto the ground and held him there for about 30 seconds while he was doing his fake scream the entire time. Most of my family saw what he was doing and only his parents were pissy with me.\",\n \"Summary: We have more than enough admins to deal with all of the problems at current. If we get swamped, we'll add more. This guild is a self-operating machine for the most part.\\n\\nPost: Here is where I don't agree with you. I don't think we need more administrators. We don't have problems that I'm aware of. If other admins are dealing with 20 problems a day, that is news to me. I can only think of 2 problems in the last 2 weeks that the officers even got involved with. Other than the growing pains associated with the rush of new members, the guild is set up to run itself for the most part. \\n Honestly, we are approaching 100 posts on a topic of an alt guild. If figuring this out is the guild's biggest problem, we're doing pretty damn well. \\n You're claiming that LB is mad with power for some reason or another, but what has he done? He doesn't \\\"claim\\\" certain people for this group or that. He doesn't tell people what to do. He isn't looting the gbank. \\n All he has done in the past 3 months has been to move to Mumble (which is free and most people I talk to prefer it over vent once they've gotten used to it) and promoted myself and Lisa to the officer role after I bitched at him about there never seeming to be any officers on. He is a lazy bastard that makes rambling posts, takes the feedback, and makes decisions.\",\n \"Summary: You are a steamshovel.\\n\\nPost: There is a story I know. It is about a steamshovel that dug itself into a hole. It was so caught up in digging it accidentally dug out the ramp as well. \\n Then everyone on reddit was completely useless and the steamshovel got punted the fuck out of it's job and landed in the unemployment line.\",\n \"Summary: In a guild this size, players run the gamut. I'd like to think because of the community we see more capable players than not since we try to be helpful and welcoming to newbies overall.\\n\\nPost: I'll speak to the quality of skill. I've been here for about 8 months, and raiding or raid-leading for most of them. There are some really good, amazingly skilled players that I would take along with me to any raid in a heartbeat. There are also some people that can't handle basic mechanics and shouldn't be in a raid. \\n We have a ton of people. Some are theorycrafting stat junkies, some are casuals that click their skills. The majority is in the upper portion. Most people can learn mechanics and bring reasonable skill to groups.\",\n \"Summary: Why as a group should we consider dropping hundreds of dollars on new books and stuff?\\n\\nPost: Maybe this isn't the right thread for this, but why would I choose 5e instead of another one? \\n I've got a group of older gamers that I play with. We play 2e and 3e because that is what they have the books for. I personally prefer 3e, but as long as I get to play I'm a happy camper. Aside from the couple posts around here regarding 5e, I don't know much about it. Can anyone give me a\",\n \"Summary: If you haven't tried it, you have no idea what you're talking about. \\n edit - [Relevant](\\n\\nPost: sigh. I don't know why I waste my time... \\n My muscles were used to being all whacked out around the shoulder. Adjustments allows those muscles to go back where they belong. Like any muscle, they need to be worked in. So just like any work out program in the world, those muscles need to gain strength. As I see results the Doc & I agree to lower the frequency of visits. I started 3x per week, then went to 2x per week, then 1x per week, and now I'm at one visit every 2 weeks. Soon I will go to once every 3 weeks, etc. It just happened for me that each tier took about 2 weeks. I'm fairly young, so I recovered quickly. \\n If you blow out your knee, do you go to PT for 1 week and suddenly you're back in the game 100%? No, of course not. It takes a bit of time to regain strength. \\n I felt the same way you did. Didn't understand it, so I thought it was a crock. My wife made me go once, and I did a complete 180. \\n If you have a nagging pain, give it a shot. Most places do free consults and X-rays. If they don't do X-rays and explain what is going on with you before adjusting, find a different Chiro. There are some 'old school' docs out there that are absolutely terrible. Much like an old out of touch general practitioner.\",\n \"Summary: My time is valuable enough that it is worth MORE to me than the interest I would earn.\\n\\nPost: Exactly this. I get a refund on purpose. Sure, that $10 or $20 a paycheck would be the \\\"smarter\\\" choice, but it would get absorbed into something. We would go out once more, we might throw it at the mortgage. Instead, we get a check for some cash and use it for home improvement projects. Last year it took a bit off the roof we needed. This year it is going towards the siding on the house. Next year probably some flooring to replace our nasty carpet. \\n We're pretty set financially. We're not loaded, but we don't carry a CC balance. Our only loans are the mortgage, my car, and her student loans. So yes, I could make .0000001% or something on that money, but we wouldn't do it. \\n It makes more sense for us personally. We lack the nitpicky nazi discipline that would allow us to benefit from the couple bucks per paycheck.\",\n \"Summary: Let. Them. Die. (when they deserve it.)\\n\\nPost: One caveat to this: There are certain areas where there is AoE damage that is not their fault. \\n If dps is standing in shit or pulling threat, let them die. Redditors or not, Dps has to play smart or they will drain your mana too fast and then everyone dies.\",\n \"Summary: There is damn good money to be made in insurance if you get in young. The timing was right.\\n\\nPost: I went to college for 6 years and earned a CS degree with a minor in business. I programmed for about a year before I was sick of it. I figured if I was going to work 70 hours a week why not do it in a field that I get paid for my time. My programmer's salary was good if I was working 40-45 hours a week, but that was it. \\n Just so happened around that time my family's insurance agency was looking for a new producer. I came out of my shell and became a people person in college, so the people aspect was appealing.. I'm on track to own the agency (mainly due to family ties) some day in the distant future. In the mean time I make as much money as I did programming (after 2 years of busting my ass!!!) and will make more each year if I keep working and adding new clients to my book.\",\n \"Summary: Get 3 1/2\\\" shells. They give you an extra 10 yards of \\\"poke.\\\"\\n[Proof](\\n\\nPost: How did the hunt turn out? \\n We got pretty drunk Wednesday night (up until 1am) and slept in. Hiked up to my blind around 9am. I took off my hat and gloves because the hill made me hot and sweaty. Propped my gun on the wall behind me. \\n A little Henner walks out into the field in front of me. I'm trying to quietly and quickly get my gloves and hat back on. She starts purring and putting... 4 Jakes come out of the woods behind her. My gun? Still on the wall behind me. \\n I slowly get the gun up, and try to see if one of them is bigger than the others. They were all about the same, so I draw bead and blast one. I apparently missed (he flew off) while the other 3 started running. Racked another shell, took aim, and down one went.\",\n \"Summary: Pony up the extra cash and get a 2 stage. You will not regret it.\\n\\nPost: From the opinion of a Wisconsinite: Those both suck. \\n Single stage can't bust through anything worthwhile. It can't throw stuff far enough to make it your neighbor's problem. \\n Get a 2 stage, then you can take care of the frozen piles at the end of the driveway that the plows push in, you can chop through 3' drifts, hell... you can grind up the frozen carcass of the neighbor's cat like it was nothing.\",\n \"Summary: Keep it civil. Learn, grow, STOP BEING FUCKHEADS. \\n \\n Made one more ninja edit.\\n\\nPost: Edit: My comment is mainly in reference to the people that caused this comment that the OP made above: \\n > Guild chat then devolved into the predictable circle-jerk about intolerance, free speech, and politically correctness. \\n You all read the code of conduct. You all agree to it by your continued presence in this guild. The CoC was discussed at length by guild members before being made policy, and then edited to reflect the reasonable . It is a policy made by members, for members. If you don't like it, there is the door. I won't miss you. \\n IMO, as a fellow member (want to clarify that this is not an \\\"official\\\" admin stance) if you're trolling gchat, you're probably a douche anyway. Go troll 4chan. At least it is hard to do over there. Gchat is not your personal \\\"hmmm, I feel like being a fuckstick\\\" playground. Gchat is where the GUILD comes together to talk about interesting and fun things. If it was up to me personally, I'd gkick every troll in this guild and ban them from the subreddit.\\nI'm old school though. I remember when 99% of the people in guild liked one another and raided together. Seeing this sort of shit in Gchat makes me a sad pandaren. \\n That being said: As always, discussions, even arguments are fine and encouraged by all counts (and encouraged by admins. If an admin or mod is stifling a discussion, PLEASE screenshot it and submit it to me or another admin. Without screenshots, you're wasting your time because it becomes a he said, she said situation.) As long as you argue like adults and don't resort to the school yard style (or political reporter style) \\\"well then you're a faggot and your opinion is fucking stupid\\\" style rants.\",\n \"Summary: Platform: PC \\n Maps: Vanilla + All DLC \\n Modes: Obliteration, Domination, CTF, and some Conquest Small \\n Drinking: Very yes\\n\\nPost: Anyone looking for a drinking server tonight? If so, we are the server for you. We rent a 32 player server, on PC, and play pretty much on Friday nights exclusively. [Check it out.]( We run a little bit of everything, including all DLCs. \\n Rules? Just one. Drink. \\n We kick you if you're obviously sober. This server is for the inebriated only. Yes, we even kick our own \\\"clan\\\" members. Clan is in quotes because we're not some super serious bunch. We're just friends that drink together and share a tag. \\n \\\"But how do you know if I'm sober?\\\" Well, it can be pretty obvious, if you're playing excellently and have an incredible KDR, you risk being kicked to give you time to go make a drink. Then on a second offense, temp-banned (10-15min) to go do a couple shots. If you come back and fuck us all up, we will permaban you. Sorry! Plenty of warnings, though. \\n Maplist: (Also added Locker and Zavod for ConquestSmall) \\n We run a votemap plugin, and the maps that populate the vote choices are the least-played-maps-so-far, chosen out of the maplist. \\n Like to drink and play BF4 on a Friday night? Get the fuck in here! \\n -Croswell\",\n \"Summary: Where do I go to learn the basics? Suggestions for a newbie? \\n (did a quick ninja edit for clarity.)\\n\\nPost: I'm a total newb. I just bought a 550d off ebay within the last hour with the 18mm-55mm lens. My primary subjects will be our kid (arriving in October) and my saltwater fish tank. I want to get some basic practice in before the kid arrives since upon arrival I will be nothing but tired and probably won't feel much like learning in my free time. At the same time, I'm sick to death of my P&S slow firing camera. \\n Is it worth it paying to take an online photo class to get better pictures? Or am I better off just finding something to learn from on photo.net? [example.]( \\n I've read here and there about basic things like the rule of thirds and extremely basic concepts like that, but that is about it.\",\n \"Summary: Get off your ass.\\n\\nPost: I've tried all sorts of things. I have a fan on, no lights, and I almost always read for 15-60 minutes before bed each night. \\n Tylenol PM and Nyquil wires me up. I got desperate enough to try Ambien, didn't do a thing except me wake up ever hour or two. Slept worse on it. \\n Then I was given some low dose anti-anxiety medicine. I actually bored myself awake due to the dreams I was having. Making the most boring sandwich in the world, sanding a board, etc. Terrible. Woke up every hour on the hour on that stuff. \\n I tried chamomile tea, it kinda helps. I also started working out. I drag my ass our of bed at 5:30am 4 days a week. Last night I was in bed by 8:30, asleep by 9:30 no problem.\",\n \"Summary: Stop making excuses for poor life choices. Personal responsibility is how you become not fat-assed.\\n\\nPost: According to pizza rolls, 1 serving is 6 pizza rolls. I have never seen anyone eat 6 pizza rolls and be full. \\n I'm talking real deli meat, not that pre-packaged pressed meat wanna be crap. Mayo/mustard and such are pennies per serving. Deli meat can be frozen, bread can be frozen, soon to be spent lettuce can be used in a salad \\n I'm not some health food nazi. I eat pizza roll sometimes. I have one of those french bread pizzas in the freezer at work if I forget my lunch. \\n I just can't stand it when people claim that unhealthy food is the only shit they can afford. Rice and Beans are another cheap and easy alternative that is better for you than shitty food in a package.\",\n \"Summary: Ban gasoline.\\n\\nPost: Ok, remove all guns from the equation. No more guns for anyone for any reason. No pistols, no shotguns, no rifles. \\n Guy (who we can all safely assume is mentally ill whether it be a chemical imbalance, depression, severe schizophrenia, whatever) wants to harm people. He drinks a case of beer, fills the bottles with gas and rags, rolls into the school with that and a lighter. Now you've got kids that are being burned to death with gasoline. Probably more deaths in that case. \\n If someone is mentally unstable enough to do this. To kill children FFS, the weapon they use won't matter to them.\",\n \"Summary: Stop furthering stupid posts with no sources to back them up.\\n\\nPost: I don't think either party gives preservation enough attention. What I'm saying is that for the OP to toss up some random image with nothing resembling facts to back up the statement is complete and utter bullshit. \\n It does nothing but further muddy the already disgusting political landscape. Providing even a little bit of proof through articles and things (that are quite easy to find, especially with the deer Czar's on record comments) would better serve the recall efforts.\",\n \"Summary: There is a cheevo to get, but guild repairs would diminish the amount of gold on hand in short order. It. Is. Not. Feasible to leave on guild repairs indefinitely unless it is such a small amount no one would notice it.\\n\\nPost: I think a few things should be made clear, so let me put on my Jfred cap for a moment: \\n 1) We are taking in anywhere from 200g - 350g per day from the guild perk. \\n 2) Repairs for 800 characters at 5g per day would be 4,000g. That would be a very high estimate on a per day cost and it assumes everyone logs in and repairs every day. We have 400 - 500 unique accounts. So if you'll forgive the \\\"assumption\\\" math, lets say we have 250 people at 5g per day. That throws out 1,250g per day spent, and ~ 300g per day taken in. So again, forgive the assumption / rounding (I bet Jfred is cringing as he reads this!) we're losing 1000g per day. Not bad overall. 100 days would just about wipe us out assuming zero other expenses. \\n 3) There is a guild repair achievement for 50,000g and 100,000g of repairs. \\n Short term, we could turn repairs on, expend some gold, then disable them for a month and rebuild some funds.\",\n \"Summary: Fuck it, give it a shot.\\n\\nPost: Check out \\\"My Drunk Kitchen\\\" \\n Honestly, there is almost no real content on the show. It is all about the creative editing that she does. She is a semi-attractive girl that basically wanders around the kitchen while shitfaced. She relates to the common man by talking how cute cows are and how ugly turkeys are. \\n Then she drops shit, cuts to a random shot of herself thinking really hard (as only drunks can do) and then she wraps it up with sage advice. \\n I love the show and have shared them with many friends that now also love the show.\",\n \"Summary: I'd rather gear alts, but I am a frost badge SLUT. I can use more of them on any toon, so I'm down with whatever.\\n\\nPost: With Cata coming, I had one goal. Down the LK. We did that and it was awesome and the people I did it with are an amazing team. \\n A Heroic LK kill would be nice... I just don't think I have it in me to beat my head against the wall that hard anymore. I'm burned out on healing. We've been working our asses off for the last couple weeks, and I'm tired. I would never quit on Team Bacon though. (Assuming we stop raiding 2 nights in a row!!) \\n I didn't really want to heal in the first place, but it got me a raid slot so I figured I would give it a go. I'm glad I did because I had fun with it (way more than I expected!) and I got to see some awesome content with a great bunch of people, but I guess I'm looking at gearing some alts or spending some time leveling those alts instead of continuing with a healer in Cata. I don't want to spend much more time gearing a toon I hope to semi-retire. (Although I could always use some badges for my off-off-off spec...) \\n So I'm down with whatever the group wants, but my vote is gearing alts. The Sanctified Gear from 10M Heroic isn't worth the extra effort (and repair bills) IMO. \\n [Blue confirming that Heroic ICC Gear will most likely be replaced by the time you hit lvl 85 regular dungeons](\\nFTA: There are some epic and legendary items from Wrath of the Lich King raid content which may take a while to replace, but chances are most of your gear will be replaced by the time you start running level-85 normal 5-player dungeons. \\n All that being said. I'm Bacon 4 life. If everyone else decides \\\"lets progress\\\" I'm down for that too, and I'll be there busting my ass every night with my Mage parked outside in case we decide to do it regular mode and no one else wants to sub in a toon. \\n My major issue right now is raiding times. IMO that is problem #1. \\n Question for Luna & Faust - If we raid from say, 6:30 - 10pm (server time) would that work out better during the week for you? I just want to clarify if you don't want to raid more than 1 week night due to how late the raid goes, or if it is just the fact that it is a week night. \\n edit:\",\n \"Summary: Play whatever, make it known you want to raid, and when groups form, show that you're a decent player and you'll get a spot. Or form your own group!!\\n\\nPost: We get this question quite a bit. The usual reply is \\\"Play what you'll have fun playing.\\\" \\n In a guild this size, we don't really NEED any one thing. We have multiple people of every class. Tanks and healers are always more in demand for raiding, but other than that, the altaholics take care of most things. Priests are very flavor of the monthy right now.\",\n \"Summary: Bacon + tin foil = super easy campfire cooking. Bacon heats up and the grease prevents burning. Plus, bacon flavor!\\n\\nPost: Take a chicken breast, hit it with some BBQ sauce, wrap it completely in bacon. Throw a little onion or season-all or something in there. Double wrap it in tin foil, toss it next to the coals for 30-45 minutes, rotating it every 5-10 or so. Or you can put it on the tripod for awhile. \\n If you are paranoid about over cooking, you can put a little butter on it too. Helps keep it moist, but TBH chicken has enough natural moisture I've never had a problem. \\n Side dish: \\nSmear butter on tin foil, put some bacon on it, thinly slice a couple potatoes, lay them in there, salt/pepper/season-all, couple onion slices, top with more bacon. Put another butter smeared tin foil on top. Cook for 45 minutes, flipping every 5-10.\",\n \"Summary: I can't decide if you lack basic reading comprehension skills, or if you are trolling.\\n\\nPost: You are still somehow missing the basic concept even though it was pointed out (a couple times if I'm not mistaken.) I said \\\"Murglesnout and trash fish.\\\" You apparently read that as \\\"Anything I can't use for my raiding toons.\\\" It is neat how you keep designing grandiose evil plans and putting words in my mouth trying to back up your bullshit rage though. \\n Go look at wowhead's entry for Murglesnout once. There is no use for it in the game. Technically a Murglesnout is not a grey item, so I guess I'll have to miss out on that blowjob. \\n We have the first 2 tabs for leveling and non-85 maxed out profession things. Do you feel that 3 stacks of Scrolls of Intellect II is a worthwhile use of those slots? Trash is trash, I don't care what level you are. How about 4 scorpid leather bracer patterns? They're worth a whopping 4 silver and the entire set can be farmed in about an hour in Tanaris. Shit, lets stock up and save our newbies that!!! \\n People dump useless shit in the gbank that no one wants because it gives them some sense of \\\"helping.\\\" They don't stop to think \\\"hmmm, will someone actually use this?? Is it valuable to anyone else?\\\" It sits there for a week, then a mod has to sort through it all. Why not just skip the crap and put in useful mats or items that for people will actually use?\",\n \"Summary: Roll with the punches, or lose yo damn mind. More about raising kids than marriage IMO. Adults can normally adhere to a basic plan. Kids see a plan as a challenge.\\n\\nPost: I think he used too many new lines to have a coherent thought. \\n “If you go into marriage with a program you will find that it won’t work.\\nSuccessful marriage is leading innovative lives together, being open, and non-programmed. It’s a free fall: how you handle each new thing as it comes along. As a drop of oil on the sea, you must float using intellect and compassion to ride the waves.” \\n There. Much better. Now I can read the damn thing. The overall theory seems sound.\",\n \"Summary: Apply Whiskey.\\n\\nPost: Exactly this. \\n I ran into a local shop manager at the Rotary golf outing. Turns out he plays WoW, so we got to talking about nerdy stuff. Turns out he also likes to drink. So we get drunk every now and then, I started playing D&D with his group of friends, we get along great. I even got him into disc golf.\",\n \"Summary: I BEAT WOW LULZ!\\n\\nPost: It has been fun folks, but I'm pretty burned out. My WoW enjoyment usually peaks after 9 or so months (isn't it sad that I've quit / returned enough times to know that?) I'm about a year into my latest stint, and after checking out the Rift Open Beta last weekend with Infest I figure I will give it a go. It has some similarities to WoW, but felt more mature. Some no pressure gaming sounds good... A new graphics card is on the way and everything. \\n I may be back in a week. I may be back in a month. I may never be back. In the meantime I leave you in Cuddy's capable (and oh so soft and gentle...) hands. \\n Most of you are pretty cool people, and I've had some good times with you. I'll probably be lurking around here and calling people morons from time to time as necessary. Old habits die hard... \\n I wish you the best <reddit> \\n -Cros out.\",\n \"Summary: A middle level in the forums would give a sense of inclusion to members who cannot commit to a full role in a company and promote a stronger community.\\n\\nPost: This came about as a result of discussing the new forums setup in IRC today. I was asked to bring it up for discussion. Obviously we are at the early stages of the game. Open Beta, release, and Community Warfare will see big changes that we as a clan will have to react to. \\n Right now we have 2 tiers of access in the forums, Public forums and Company forums. The need for Public forums are pretty straight forward. Site suggestions/problem, general talk for allies to schedule scrims/matches, places our allies can come and hang out, etc. \\n Then we have the Company forums. Obviously the company forums need to stay private. Especially when Community warfare and competitive gaming happens. Having a private area for strat discussion and to some extent AARs / video recordings is a huge part of being competitive. \\n These two tiers include anyone that is in a company, but it seems that it leaves out a subgroup of cReddit members. Members that want to have a regular group of people to play with, but can't make it to a set schedule of practice due to college, social obligations, family life, or just an overall inability to commit to anything for more than 4 minutes. \\n I propose that we move to a 3-tier system of forums. Public, Reserves, and Companies. \\n A Reserves group would give members like me a home. Somewhere we can discuss strategies for pub-stomping with fellow clan mates. Somewhere to develop some default winning strategies for the maps as a clan. A place to talk about some interesting builds, or the merits of different weapons / drop organizations. Somewhere for new members to say hello and learn the basics of how we operate. A place to ask some noob questions about our SOP without giving it away to anyone that wanders by. Somewhere to build a sense of community with my fellow clanmates. Down the line, this would be a place to co-ordinate our Community Warfare as a clan so we can all work towards a unified goal. \\n Right now there isn't anything that gives someone in my shoes a reason to consider myself a member of cReddit. The forums and IRC are the same as if I was a visiting member of another clan. I can come into mumble, hang out for a night, then go to fight for another clan in a match the next night. I'd like that to change. Having somewhere to chat with other cReddit members would be a step in the right direction towards building a strong community.\",\n \"Summary: Orange, Para, Butch, and I got really drunk this weekend. Twice. Bunch of cool fellas. \\n Edit 2: \\nButch reminded me that I forgot the most epic part of the weekend. As I mentioned, Para brought his PC and 4 XBox controllers to run an emulator for Mario Kart. In order to get the fourth one recognized, he shorted out the battery with a piece of tin foil. \\n Then we had an Xbox controller plugged into the USB port of my Ps3 for power, 3 Xbox controllers wirelessly connected to his PC, to play an Emulator of an N64. \\n Yo dawg I heard you like video games, so we took your Nintendo 64 video game and emulated it on a PC that you can play with your Xbox controller that you plug into your PS3. \\n edit 1 - \\nTo show all pics on page: Copy / paste this in your address bar: \\n javascript:%20var%20x=%20$(\\\".content\\\").find(\\\"a\\\").each(function(){var%20href=$(this).attr(\\\"href\\\");if((!$(this).hasClass(\\\"drowsapMorphed\\\"))%20&&%20($(this).next(\\\".drowsapMorphed\\\").length==0)%20&&%20href%20&&%20(href.indexOf('imgur')>=0%20||%20href.indexOf('jpeg')>=0%20||%20href.indexOf('jpg')>=0%20||%20href.indexOf('png')>=0)){var%20ext%20=(href.indexOf('imgur')>=0%20&&%20href.indexOf('jpg')<0%20&&%20href.indexOf('png')<0)%20?%20'.jpg'%20:'';%20var%20img%20=%20$(\\\"<a%20class='drowsapMorphed'%20href='\\\"+href+\\\"'%20target='blank'%20style='display:block'><img%20style='display:block;max-width:780px;'%20src='\\\"+href+%20ext+\\\"'%20/></a>\\\");$(this).after(img);}});\\n\\nPost: Butch and Orange made the run from St Louis up to Wisconsin on Friday. Para came on over as well, his sexy beast of a PC in tow. We had a good old fashioned Wisconsin [Friday Night Fish Fry.]( \\n I've got a few pictures to share. Also... An amazing video. I apologize if they're a bit blurry. I was a bit shitfaced. \\n [Para giving Butch the look of dissapproval]( \\n Orange trying to [count the number of beers he has had...]( Then [adding to that count.]( This was a common occurrence. We burned through quite a bit of Spotted Cow, Jack, Korbel, and miscellaneous shots of the delicious variety... \\n These guys drank so much my lovely wife (Eaowyyn) had to give me a hand \\n Orange is [still trying to count...]( Then he comes up with something. He has [two hands!]( \\n Orange gives up on counting and [decided to break into song]( about the delicious fish we had eaten. Para was on backup vocals. They were so amazing, we asked for [an encore.]( I believe we all joined in for my family's traditional [\\\"Ode to delicious Fish.\\\"]( It is also an ode to \\\"we've been drinking too damn much tonight.\\\" Long standing family tradition. \\n Apparently Orange has a similar tradition. He called to talk to his wife and when he said that we may have been singing at some point her reply was \\\"Oh... You were that drunk.\\\" \\n Orange was [telling a story.]( Butch was listening. He is as quiet in person as he is in mumble. Para apparently imagined something uncomfortable... \\n The [night went on]( [And on...]( \\n Then magically it was morning(errr, early afternoon??) Who drank [all this]( beer [anyway?]( \\n Oh. Right. [These guys]( From left to right, Cros, Para, Butch, and Orange. Gratuitous [Dog picture.]( \\n Day 2. After nursing our hangovers and learning some AH tips and tricks from Orange we headed down to the \\\"Cheese Haus\\\" to give Orange and Butch a real taste of Wisconsin. I didn't take nearly as many pictures on day 2 because I was hung the fuck over. \\n A local WoW playing foodie I know came by and cooked up some [delicious food]( - Lamb chops, venison / lamb meatballs, asparagus, cole slaw, cheesey bacon-ey potatoes. We ate like kings. Very hungover kings, but it was damn tasty. \\n After dinner my wife fled the scene. Something about \\\"had enough of you drunk fuckers for one weekend.\\\" Leaving us fellas to fend for ourselves. So... We started drinking again! Para brought along 4 controllers and some emulators on his PC. We played some Mario Kart and tried out Goldeneye. It was awesome. Later on we busted out [Guitar Hero.]( As you can see from the extreme concentration on Para's face. It was [Srs Bznss.]( \\n Without further ado, I give you the world debut of Para performing Smashing Pumpkins.\",\n \"Summary: Don't be a fucking asshole. \\n Edit - As pointed out by /u/iQueQq this was probably coming from the commo rose. TIL. Typing out a please wouldn't hurt (obviously if you are in the air this gets a bit unrealistic...) and spamming it is still a pretty dick move. Much like not tapping it is a dick move if you are using the transport as a taxi.\\n\\nPost: Last night I spawned into an attack chopper at the gunner position. No big deal, my buddies were in a tank so I was just trying to be helpful. A second after I spawn I see someone start spamming Teamchat: \\n GET OUT \\n GET OUT \\n GET OUT \\n GET OUT \\n I look down and sure enough, it is my pilot. So of course I sit there and do nothing out of spite. This continues for about 20 seconds until the enemy choppers come at us, when Mr Manners decides to gain some altitude and ram the incoming enemies. Of course this sends us splashing into the ocean. It was a glorious offering to the salt gods. \\n So that is the bad way to get a team mate to work with you. \\n Let us suppose for a second that my esteemed team mate was not a raging fucktard and instead had said \\\"Hey Croswell, my buddy wants to gun for me, mind bailing?\\\" I would have bailed out no problem. Sure, I would have had to jump down and grab a jeep or a jet ski, but I game with people too. Friends playing together is almost always more effective than 2 random pugs! \\n Win-win!\",\n \"Summary: We band together to beat SOPA, but now people are out there paying for SOPA 2. Why?!?! \\n edit - grammatical stuff.\\n\\nPost: I think Avengers is the best example of this. Not even 6 months after uniting against SOPA redditors went to the theaters in droves, and they put their hard earned money into the companies that pay the lobbyists that they \\\"hate.\\\" \\n Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always read that theaters make their money on snacks. So I think it is safe to assume that the ticket proceeds get sent back to the studios. Those studios spend that money on getting more controls and anti-piracy internet filtering bullshit enacted into law. \\n Seriously, it boggles my mind. Why not just redbox the movie in a couple months? The movie won't be any less awesome and instead of $8-$12, the studios will only get a buck or two! If Redditors really want to enact change in the world, start showing your support with your wallets, not with internet blackouts and e-petitions that do very little long-term.\",\n \"Summary: I kick ass.\\n\\nPost: I was playing WSG over the holiday weekend to get some honor and some XP. After losing game after game we are up 2-0. I'm holding the flag at the top of the fort overlooking the flag room while my team is trying to get our flag back. ~ 2 minutes left in the game. \\n I have a 76 resto druid guarding me. There were 2 DKs, a lock, and a priest that kept trickling in every few minutes to try to take me down. \\n They finally group up and come in 4 at a time and I kite them around the flower planter up on the top a couple times. Through some miracle (Resto Druids being OP) I manage to down one of the DKs and the priest without being destroyed. My water elemental is actually in LoS of the lock so I deep-freeze him and shatter him down quickly with ice lance spam. I finish the other DK just as my teammates drop the Enemy FC and return our flag. \\n I hit slow fall and dive off the roof towards our flag. I land on the flag, win the game (3-0,) and ding 80. Fuck. Yea. \\n One of those times I really wish I had fraps...\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":35,"string":"35"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2994,"string":"2,994"}}},{"rowIdx":2995,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"L1eutenantDan"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post optimism runs abound, but the impact of this draft won't be felt immediately outside of probably Sankey."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Taylor Lewan has been playing guard in the absence of Andy Levitre (appendix got taken out, he's back for today's scrimmage against Atlanta) and has had some trouble adjusting to the position which isn't unexpected for a guy who's about 6'8\" and has spent his entire career protecting his QB's blindside. he's been getting a little too upright in his stance and it's allowed players like Jurrell Casey to just manhandle him, also not unexpected because Jurrell Casey is an instrument of war who manhandles everyone. I expect he'll slot in pretty seamlessly at right tackle if Oher struggles at all, but it isn't unreasonable to think that he might not get much playing time this year. physically, he looks like a Terminator. completely ripped at nearly 7 feet and 300+ pounds. he's got the look of a good player, but that pick was kind of bungled IMO. in any case, he looks like he could be a part of the next great Titans offensive line and a perfect replacement for Michael Roos, it's just a shame we probably won't get to see much of him this year. \n Bishop Sankey looks like a complete back. he's been catching the ball and attacking the hole which is such a refreshing change of pace. I loved Chris Johnson and the excitement that he brought to the team, but it'll be really, really nice to see a back who can take what he's given. just kind of an aside: the Titans have drafted some really unbelievably exciting skill players in the past few years, Kendall Wright, Justin Hunter, and Sankey all look like they've got what it takes to form a very solid core to a high-flying offense. \n Da'Quan Jones and Marqueston Huff are kind of getting buried at two of our deeper positions. the defensive line has a bonafide star in Casey and a whole slew of good supporting players. I think Jones would do well to continue to develop his skills as a 3-4 nose tackle. Huff is going to be hard pressed to get any playing time behind Bernard Pollard, Michael Griffin, and George Wilson. I'm not sure how interchangeable he is at the SS, but regardless, safety is deep. This might be a question better suited to these guys a couple of years down the road, they don't appear to be impact rookies. it seems to me that our GM Ruston Webster really likes to stack depth on the line and in the secondary in the middle and later rounds of the draft. \n Avery Williamson has been really, really impressive, and I'm not talking about just for a 5th rounder. he's already taking some reps ahead of one-time starters, Moises Foku and Colin McCarthy and has been calling plays in defensive huddles more often than he hasn't been. \n finally, Zach Mettenberger has been predictably raw, but his arm strength is off the charts and he's made some good throws that show you why he was hyped up as a 2nd or 3rd rounder who slipped because of a serious injury and some questionable decisions. he won't start the season higher than 3rd on the depth chart, but I think that's more to do with the fact that Whitehurst knows Ken Whisenhunt's system like the back of his hand. once Mettenberger gets more comfortable in the offense, I think he'll supplant Clipboard Jesus as the main backup. this looks like a total steal so far, especially if things don't work out with Locker in the long run."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Taylor Lewan has been playing guard in the absence of Andy Levitre (appendix got taken out, he's back for today's scrimmage against Atlanta) and has had some trouble adjusting to the position which isn't unexpected for a guy who's about 6'8\" and has spent his entire career protecting his QB's blindside. he's been getting a little too upright in his stance and it's allowed players like Jurrell Casey to just manhandle him, also not unexpected because Jurrell Casey is an instrument of war who manhandles everyone. I expect he'll slot in pretty seamlessly at right tackle if Oher struggles at all, but it isn't unreasonable to think that he might not get much playing time this year. physically, he looks like a Terminator. completely ripped at nearly 7 feet and 300+ pounds. he's got the look of a good player, but that pick was kind of bungled IMO. in any case, he looks like he could be a part of the next great Titans offensive line and a perfect replacement for Michael Roos, it's just a shame we probably won't get to see much of him this year. \n Bishop Sankey looks like a complete back. he's been catching the ball and attacking the hole which is such a refreshing change of pace. I loved Chris Johnson and the excitement that he brought to the team, but it'll be really, really nice to see a back who can take what he's given. just kind of an aside: the Titans have drafted some really unbelievably exciting skill players in the past few years, Kendall Wright, Justin Hunter, and Sankey all look like they've got what it takes to form a very solid core to a high-flying offense. \n Da'Quan Jones and Marqueston Huff are kind of getting buried at two of our deeper positions. the defensive line has a bonafide star in Casey and a whole slew of good supporting players. I think Jones would do well to continue to develop his skills as a 3-4 nose tackle. Huff is going to be hard pressed to get any playing time behind Bernard Pollard, Michael Griffin, and George Wilson. I'm not sure how interchangeable he is at the SS, but regardless, safety is deep. This might be a question better suited to these guys a couple of years down the road, they don't appear to be impact rookies. it seems to me that our GM Ruston Webster really likes to stack depth on the line and in the secondary in the middle and later rounds of the draft. \n Avery Williamson has been really, really impressive, and I'm not talking about just for a 5th rounder. he's already taking some reps ahead of one-time starters, Moises Foku and Colin McCarthy and has been calling plays in defensive huddles more often than he hasn't been. \n finally, Zach Mettenberger has been predictably raw, but his arm strength is off the charts and he's made some good throws that show you why he was hyped up as a 2nd or 3rd rounder who slipped because of a serious injury and some questionable decisions. he won't start the season higher than 3rd on the depth chart, but I think that's more to do with the fact that Whitehurst knows Ken Whisenhunt's system like the back of his hand. once Mettenberger gets more comfortable in the offense, I think he'll supplant Clipboard Jesus as the main backup. this looks like a total steal so far, especially if things don't work out with Locker in the long run."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Gucci is fun and hype, sometimes that's all that matters, and he still got better wordplay than Chief Keef cause yo is at the bottom.\n\nPost: oh he's not super technical or anything, but he still puts out music you can enjoy when you're cruising, when you're at the club, when you wanna get ignant, whatever, Gucci's got you. but I won't tell myself he's something special with the verses. he's a fun rapper and I've probably got about 25-30 of his tracks on my iPod but he's not an awesome rapper as far as flow and technical skill go. doesn't mean I don't enjoy him, just means the backpackers get salty whenever his shit gets played. \n edit:","Summary: at some point we'll come back to this draft class in a few years, but for now let's just make some fun guesses and not worry too much about it because no pre-draft coverage would suck.\n\nPost: because people want to know right now what the consensus is on this particular group of players. these guys are paid to watch players and make the best possible judgement on what their careers will end up looking like. at the end of the day, it's still kind of a crapshoot, but people gotta know man. \n the reason we love players like that is because nobody sees shit like Tom Brady or Arian Foster or Vontaze Burfict coming because either they get a lot better really quickly or because something they did in college makes them overlooked (Brady couldn't hold down a starting job against Henson or Stanton or whoever it was, Foster wasn't terribly productive his final year and had a fumbling problem, Burfict just sucked for his entire senior year and on top of that showed some serious immaturity). it's not just the guys everyone seems to quick to discredit as \"experts\" (in quotes so we get the sarcasm), legitimate NFL scouts and front offices miss on these players too.","Summary: would rather do nothing than do something stupid.\n\nPost: Baltimore sports fans can be the goddamn worst. \n I can't tell you how many times I've had a conversation about the offseason with people and it just ends up with them yelling \"SIGN ANYONE, JUST DO SOMETHING!\" sure there were some lower level contracts I would have like to have seen us pursue, but with big extensions on the horizon for the nucleus and an underwhelming (Rodney, Cruz, Morales, etc.) and/or insanely expensive (Tanaka, Cano, Choo) what did you REALLY expect? Bringing in Burnett would be a neat gamble and I'd be on board and almost a little disappointed if he goes elsewhere but I'm not sure he offers us a ton and definitely not more than he gave the Pirates. Ditto Cruz, if he's not on a 1-2 year deal, I don't want him.","Summary: players shouldn't be allowed to physically engage fans but fans shouldn't be able to antagonize players in such a way that provokes a physical response either.\n\nPost: I'm not really sure what the answer here is. On one hand, I think Smart overreacted, on another, it's not ok to throw around \"he's just a fan\" as if that completely absolves this guy assuming what he said was that offensive. fans are assholes, players aren't robots, and I think that just because they showed up to watch some hoops doesn't mean they can't catch these hands if they say something completely out of line, that ticket in your hand doesn't buy you the right to be a dick to the opposing team. Smart should be punished because it was against the rules but I hardly blame him, again, if what the guy said was legitimately really shitty. \n if this had gone down in a bar between two normal guys the reaction would be completely different ASSUMING the fan said something really disgusting in the first place. \n Concerning \"certain words\", I think we can all agree there's a line you simply do not cross.","Summary: I get guys who cause drama off the field, beat their wives, drink and drive, etc., but I find it hard to hate guys who are generally positively motivated and clubhouse goofs, if he performs, we'll all like him.\n\nPost: ok question then: if Nick Swisher were a Diamondback, how aware would we even be of his existence? I have a feeling he would pretty much just look like a statline, like he did in Oakland and in Chicago. no one thought twice about signing him before he was a Yankee because personality just doesn't matter that much to these players like it does to us. they interact with each other a lot more than we ever will and probably get a much more sound grip on a guy's character. so far, not one teammate - actually not one player has spoken out and said that they don't like Swisher as far as I know. usually you can pick up rumblings (ex: players hate Pierzynski, are vocal about it) about clubhouse impact or whatever, there's really none of that surrounding him. seriously, all of his ex-teammates seem to love the guy. throw in the fact that he hits the cover off the ball? he's basically a fun J.D. Drew. plus, it's not like none of these guys have ever met Swisher because he played in a different uniform, between his days in Oakland, Chicago, NY, and various All-Star games, he's made the rounds and produced at a level to warrant the label of some kind of \"semi-star\", I'd imagine that at the very least guys like Ayala who played with him in New York know what's up and that he's probably pretty well known on some kind of personal level by most of the regulars. \n random aside: I can't really think of any differences between Swisher and Millar personality-wise, tbh, and everyone in baseball freakin' loved Millar. Damon, too.","Summary: adderall.\n\nPost: I don't find this to be at all erroneous. \n I did some quick googling because it's finals week and I'm sort of just waiting to die anyway. \n Derek Carr and Andrew Luck's teams, Clements and Strarford, did indeed meet in the 2007 Class 5A Division 2 State playoffs in Texas. I'm not able to find a box score anywhere, but the final was 31-27 in favor of Carr's squad, so the closeness of the game checks out. I also just googled \"Clements Stratford football 2007\" and found this on a forum; \n \"I have to give credit to Derek Carr. He made nothing but good decisions all day, put the ball where it needed to be, and made one of the key plays of the game with his scramble to convert a third-and-long late in the game. He's a winner.\" \n could be the play OP was referring to. \n it also doesn't seem to me like he gave any kind of ridiculously memorable speech that no one else in the history of ever had ever given, it was just some classic high school QB field general rhetoric to get his boys going. I may be jaded because I played with a damn fine QB in high school and when we needed it, he spoke up and everybody listened to what he had to say, even if it was just yelling at a lineman to get his head out of his ass, point being, I don't think it's that outrageous that a QB playing at the top, dare I say the elite, level would have enough respect from his peers to be able to just lay down the law like that. plus, his brother was the former number one overall pick for God's sake, he's learning from someone whose NFL career might not have panned out, but who knows his shit. \n it's not at all inconceivable that this happened, why would it be?","Summary: baseball is not a game where you can establish unquestioned supremacy in a matter of two or three games, you need a whole bunch.\n\nPost: baseball is a sport in which there are competitive games between split-squad MLB teams and community colleges. it's not always the case of the better team winning the game. so much of each individual game is luck. remember when the Netherlands beat the Dominican Republic twice in the same WBC? everyone knows the DR is a vastly superior team, but because they got outplayed twice they go down as choke artists. we're also clearly not fielding our best team. Eric Hosmer is clearly not the best US born first baseman, but he decided he wanted to play and Prince didn't.","Summary: I like our guys, this team makes me giddy.\n\nPost: I'm not certain of this, but I'm pretty sure their ERA since June is one of the best in the majors (edit: just checked, 3.18 since June 9, arbitrary endpoint for sure, but starting pitching has been a strength for most of this season when most thought it would be an Achilles heel.). it's not a group of world beaters, but it's a starting 5 with no obvious drop offs since Jimenez was demoted to the bullpen and that counts for something. it's easy to point to FIP to undermine them, but I think that does a huge dis-service to one of the best defenses in the game. the Orioles are, objectively, an outstanding defensive team. \n plus, the back end of the bullpen is just absolutely lights out. when Andrew Miller is your third best option late in games, you've got a stacked pen. O'Day doesn't have big strikeout numbers but man is he good. an ERA under 1 and an ERA+ of 405 (basically, he's pitching 305% better than average) is good no matter how you slice it. he's quietly one of he best relievers of 2014 and has been rock solid since he showed up here. Britton has been 2012 Jim Johnson good, maybe better. I like our odds against anyone when innings 7-9 are as solid as they look right now and the rotation is humming along at a ridiculous rate. \n I agree that we don't have a rotation that's Nats caliber, but our offense is deadly and I think our bullpen is going to be a massive X factor down the stretch and into October.","Summary: best day of my life. \n edit: didn't get a picture with Buck or the players but here's some tentative \"proof\" in the form of a [press pass](\n\nPost: TRUE STORY: \n I once got Buck Showalter to smile. I had an internship with the deputy sports editor at The Sun this year and on one day my assignment took me to the clubhouse and Buck's press conferences. of course, this was the first day of Gausmas (aka Yankees game, right before the Toronto road trip where he made his first start), so I wanted to dress snappy as fuck. because I was feeling over the top, I wore [these]( bad boys. \n a little out there for my usual outfits but fuck it, you're meeting the goddamn Baltimore Orioles, make an impression dude. so we're sitting in the press conference after the game is over and after the official questions are over I was just sort of standing off to the side with the reporters I was shadowing for the day (Childs Walker, Dan Connoly, and Peter Schmuck). anyways, Buck steps off the podium, looks down, notices the footwear, kind of grins, looks at me and says in that stoic, rough voice that makes the entire city of Baltimore just melt, \"nice shoes.\" this led to me getting an actual conversation started with him and I got to hang out with the coolest dude in town for a solid 7 or 8 minutes before me and the reporters had to go back to the clubhouse.","Summary: it felt like the whole \"post-acid\" mindset was some sort of secret club and that felt very wrong to me. \n life changing? yeah I can see it in the sense that it was an incredible experience and ended up being one of the best nights ever. but as for how much it affects my day-to-day life and my interactions with other people? don't really see it. I think it must be personality difference.\n\nPost: haha no need to be the \"cite your sources\" guy, it was an expression, figure of speech that is popularly used around here to describe the activity of being on acid, sorry for the confusion. it's derived from the allegation that the stuff stays in your spinal column forever. if anyone is confused, that's not true, \"frying your spine\" is just a funny way to say \"tripping balls\". \n this isn't a commentary on you personally, far be it for me to call you out having never met you, I just never got the hype with the \"drugs changed my life\" thing. everyone had always built LSD up as something that will make you a better person and empathize more and that always made me really sad because it was almost like \"you can't be as good of a person as me until you've been on acid\". like, goddammit, I feel like I'm a pretty empathetic guy, now it turns out I'm not until I sit and trip for a few hours.","Summary: don't follow my path, think it out and don't get something because it's easy and/or just because you love the idea of a tattoo. just because I don't regret mine doesn't mean you won't regret yours, I got incredibly lucky that I didn't attempt to make something crappy look good. good luck!\n\nPost: my first one ever was just my dad's signature on my left pec. kind of a cliche around these parts and honestly I wish I had looked at the more artistic side of tattoos before I'd gotten it done but I haven't regretted it for a second. \n the inspiration just was in the fact that I really, really wanted one, I knew I wanted something for my dad, and I didn't want to spend very much (terrible advice lol) or go too big as far as size went. his signature just instantly popped into my head as something that would be inexpensive and easy to do (really short, maybe 25 minute session).","Summary: seems to be \"not that good, no point in rebuilding through free agency.\"\n\nPost: they went after Carlos Quentin not long ago when he was still putting up an OPS above .800 consistently. they had some pretty intriguing youth at the time, too (Gyorko, Cashner, Alonso, maybe Latos was still around? point being, there were some pieces in place) so maybe they were just hoping that one big veteran signing could help bolster a strong youth movement. unfortunately, it hasn't worked out the way they figured it would and now they're trying to reload. \n I don't follow the Padres very much, admittedly, so maybe I'm 100% off on that but the","Summary: I don't know why exactly I empathize so heavily with the OP, but something about our stories just makes me feel as though we've felt some of the same things over the past few days and that, in turn, makes me feel better.\n\nPost: his third update is much more encouraging, reading this man's story made my heart ache and tears well up and I don't know why. I suppose I've been through something somewhat similar lately, I walked in on my best friend with my ex-girlfriend, this passage \n >I don't want to kill Harry anymore. I told him to be more careful next time. He said he blames himself and hes so sorry. He can fuck off but I don't want to kill him. He’s a good guy. He fucked up. \n really reverberates with me. I felt the same exact thing just a couple of days ago. you feel like it's getting better, you see something or hear something that reminds you of the problem and all of a sudden you're just blinded with rage all over again. I think it's gotten to the point where I'm more or less over it. I mean, I'm hurt and I don't care to associate myself ever again with either of them, but the crazy depression/mania/anger death spiral has more or less passed.","Summary: I don't think Rasmus is going to live up to his potential, would rather have Markakis.\n\nPost: I'm not projecting him off of that 07/08 season, I'm just saying that it might be worth investigating if we think his 2013 will be closer to that stretch or his 10/11, years in which I thought we were seeing the serious decline of a once great player. last year was a great year for Markakis, and while it's a comparatively smaller sample size than we'd like to see, he posted his highest ISO and SLG since that 07/08 stretch while BABIP-ing at a lower rate than he has over his career, so basically having a one of his best years while still being a little unlucky. I don't know if last year was an aberration, but he was definitely one of the better hitting outfielders in the division last season and has shown that type of production before. I think it's worth speculating if that could continue as he continues to progress through the prime of his career because, as I mentioned, players do not develop on a bell-curve, there are peaks and valleys along the way and we might have seen the start of a peak last year. \n as an aside: I wouldn't use Rasmus' 09/10, we know what happened there, his BABIP came crashing back down to where it should be for a guy who isn't that great of a hitter and his one base skills never developed. Markakis just stopped hitting for power, I honestly can't explain why. \n >which he put up at a far younger age than Markakis' strong seasons \n untrue. Markakis was 24 when he put up his best season and had a 4.3 WAR season at age 23. Rasmus' best year was 2010, his age 23 season. \n you have me on defense, I get that argument, but I also am wary of defensive metrics. there's just too much uncertainty surrounding them for my taste. I know that Markakis isn't the best right fielder in baseball as his Gold Glove from 2011 might suggest, but I think he's also pretty league-average just based on the eye-test alone. pretty unspectacular proof, but it's just how I feel. \n I guess the main points of this argument are as follows: Colby Rasmus had one six week hot streak and hit like a pitcher for the rest of the year over 480-something PA (193/.260/.316) and struck out more than a quarter of the time. per FanGraphs in September of 2012: \"Over the last two calendar years, Rasmus has the 13th-lowest wOBA, 14th-lowest wRC+, and 18th-lowest WAR out of the 115 qualified players.\" somehow I don't really see him reaching that potential that he had in St. Louis, at least not in Toronto. Markakis has been solid, if unspectacular at the plate for most of his career, you know you're getting a good contact hitter with a decent walk rate and (depending on who you ask I guess) passable defense at a non-premium position, there's also potential for power resurgence like we saw last season when he posted the second highest ISO of his career one year removed from his worst offensive season at the plate.","Summary: Orioles pitchers had success in a very small sample size, we don't know what we have in any of these guys. for all I know, our best pitcher in 2013 could be Zach Britton.\n\nPost: I thought it just meant that, in general, the rotation was kind of assembled with rubber bands and chewing gum. I mean, Miguel Gonzalez had shaky peripherals all year. maybe he continues to defy the odds and hovers around a mid 4 FIP with a mid 3 ERA, but I doubt it. as long as we're not leaning on him as a crutch, like a 2 starter, I think we'll be alright in that regard. he pitched like a true pro in a few games (that game against NY to cut the division lead to 2 games sticks out in my mind, he had ice in his veins that night) and flashed a legitimate major league changeup. perfectly acceptable as a back end starter, but very dangerous to lean on like anything much more than a 3. \n think about who the ace was all season: in April/May we had Hammel and Chen pitching lights out. Hammel had all kinds of fun data that would seem to indicate that he was a whole new pitcher, but we can't be sure given he only pitched about 3/4 of a season and suffered a pretty nasty knee injury. Chen really faded as he got overworked. without those first great couple of months his rookie season looks much different. I'm really hoping the team doesn't expect that he's going to be much more than the three. I hope for the best with him because his stuff looked downright nasty at times and maybe as he grows more accustomed to pitching longer seasons that he'll get better, but teams do not win championships with Wei Yin Chen, at least his 2012 manifestation, as their ace. \n then you have Chris Tillman. what the hell do we make of Chris Tillman? he was downright awful in his first few stints at the major league level. the fastball just wasn't there. straight as an arrow (to be fair, he had always had kind of a flat fastball), but the really disturbing thing was he was hovering in the low 90's and high 80's. you can't get guys out as a righty with a high 80's fastball which is the reason I'm so wary of Steve Johnson going forward too. seriously, how the hell does a righty with that kind of velocity turn in those kinds of k numbers? bizarre indeed. moving back to Tillman, the secondary stuff flashed great potential at times, especially that hammer of a curveball, but he just couldn't keep that meatball pitch low in the zone enough to warrant any kind of good result. then he worked for awhile with Rick Petersen and he came back up with a more repeatable motion, and flashed some improved velocity and performed well all across the board, peripherals, traditional, anything you want, but then the velo dipped right back down, seemingly in a sequential fashion. he was still getting results, though, so I'm very interested to see what he can bring to the table. if he can repeat last season's performance he'll have a long and prosperous MLB career. hard to believe he's still only 24. \n I don't think Wada is going to be much of a factor as a starter to be honest. I love the additional investment in the international market, but you can't hit on all of them. I'd love to be wrong about him, I was a big fan of his before the surgery.","Summary: shit was awful but not as bad as I would've thought.\n\nPost: after reading this thread, I feel like a total pussy even though I've been shot in the leg. disclaimer: it was a ricochet, but even so, fuck you guys, I've been shot and reddit still makes me feel like a complete wimp. \n we were cleaning out my uncle's .22 in a field and decided to pop off a couple rounds. I guess it hit a piece of old scrap metal or something but it came back with a vengeance and hit me right in the shin. I didn't really feel anything until I looked down and registered what had happened. after that it was a pretty shitty feeling, like everyone else has said it was a burning feeling (understandable, there's now a piece of hot lead inside me when before there wasn't) and a throbbing pain not unlike when you have a shitty splinter and the pressure has built up, but multiplied by about 100 if that makes sense. \n don't remember much of the hospital, I do know they pulled out the bullet (as it was partially exposed) and wrapped it in gauze.","Summary: snapping isn't easy but it won't land you any offers either. you're basically screwed if you want to go to college for free.\n\nPost: I guess when you put it that way, but even so, it's not like any old fat guy you happen to pluck off of the offensive line is immediately capable of doing it, it takes a lot of practice. \n that's also kind of the nature of the position. lots of snappers, if not all of them, are walk ons, you don't generally recruit a long snapper, they play an important part of special teams and have tough jobs, but they don't see the field enough to warrant using a scholarship on. warning: anecdotal evidence ahead. on my high school team our snapper was courted by a lot of schools (small D1/D1-AA programs like East Carolina, Temple, Towson, Villanova, etc.) but was never offered a scholarship. this is generally the case for \"special teams only\" guys like snappers, punters, and kickers. not that it doesn't happen, but more often than not (save for the top D1 programs) they don't bother wasting a scholarship that could be offered to a skill player or a lineman. \n chances are that most players on a team like Northern Alabama are, it's a D2 school meaning fewer scholarships. he could've been a preferred walk on like I will be this year, basically you're not getting a scholarship because you're not good enough compared to other players in your recruiting class, but the coach still wants you to play for the team. \n in any case,","Summary: I remembered Vince more fondly than maybe I should because of that one Rose Bowl.\n\nPost: I'm kinda torn, I always just kind of remembered Vince as an awesome player, then I looked at his numbers. Great year, not sure I can put him up there as one of the best CFB players ever. maybe the best big-game performance I've ever seen, but he wasn't really \"staggeringly good\" like Tebow, Newton, and Manziel have been. those three, especially the latter two, put their programs on their backs in a way that players just shouldn't. If JFF has another season even remotely like the one he just had (5000 yards of offense! 47 friggin touchdowns!) he's going to be a college icon for as long as we still talk about sports. \n Now I don't really know any of the details about the offense that Vince ran at Texas but I'd be intrigued to see him in a scheme like the one Oregon runs for Mariota and A&M uses for Manziel.","Summary: errors are mainly subjective and kind of a bad way to show who's a good fielder and who's not.\n\nPost: errors are not a good indication of fielding prowess. Wright's range is vastly superior to Chipper's thus he gets to more balls and has more chances to try and make difficult plays. sometimes he isn't able to make those (whereas Chipper wouldn't have even come close to being in position to even attempt to make the play) and the stadium scorer rules it an error.","Summary: not too torn up about how B-Rob went out, he was a fixture on the teams of my childhood and I'll remember him fondly.\n\nPost: not a chance he gets booed, at least not from me. I don't believe in booing former players in the first place unless they've said or done some really shitty things. who even knows if the Orioles expressed any interest at all in bringing him back this offseason? who's to say the Yankees weren't the only team who were going to give him a major league deal or any deal at all for that matter? I'm sure this is information that I could find if I felt like digging around at 2 in the morning but you get the idea. this doesn't feel like a \"screw you guys, I'm going home\" situation, it feels like a mutual break-up that was all but locked in (barring some kind of miracle comeback) the moment he suffered his third debilitating injury in as many years. sure you can take the whole not giving an exit interview thing as sour grapes, but as Matt put it, that's just kind of what baseball players do. \n it's pretty hard to blame a guy for collecting his paycheck while being hurt, imo, what's he supposed to do, refuse the money and put his livelihood on the backburner because fans aren't happy that he's a sunk cost now? way I see it is he wanted to keep playing, the Yankees gave him a chance to do that with the inevitability that they weren't gonna re-sign Cano and he saw an opportunity to maybe get a solid chunk of playing time for a (probably) pretty good team. \n all in all, he likely wasn't helping the O's win in 2014, second base is clogged with options (mediocre ones, but Roberts himself is pretty mediocre at this point in his career, too) that offer either youth and upside (Schoop), great defense (Flaherty), or baserunning abilities (Weeks). all of those options are also all incredibly affordable. it wasn't a good fit and just wasn't going to happen.","Summary: O's overachieved so I'm not expecting a repeat, anything between 95-75 wins would be totally unsurprising to me, Boston has a lot of holes and players who break often so I don't expect much from them either, the Yankees still might be worse than both.\n\nPost: depends on which Bucholz or Lester you think is gonna show up. I think they're about on par with Wei-Yin, both totally capable of dominating a game but will end the year with something in the low 4's, high 3's as far as ERA goes. I think Hammel might be for real, Tillman is bound to take a step backwards with that crazy low BABIP that he flashed last year, Britton is still wide open. no idea where that kid's career is headed but if he can flash that 95 MPH turbo-sinker again he's gonna do big things. \n Lackey pitching to league average is indeed bold. I don't think he's cut out for it, he hasn't pitched effectively in four seasons. depends on who you think is overachieving. Miguel Gonzalez? probably. Chris Tillman? also probably. Wei-Yin Chen and Hammel? I think we've seen what they are, though I'd like to see Chen make it through another ML season. what's great about a Duquette-run team (much like those 95 Red Sox) is that he doesn't tolerate bullshit like Tommy Hunter and Brian Matusz getting shelled when there are players producing in the minors. when you have nothing to lose like he did last year, you just keep the bus to Norfolk running and have whoever's got the hot hand start the next game. that second half of the season for the O's was no joke though, they legitimately played like the best team in baseball down the stretch, whether you measure that by RD or by W/L. \n as far as hitters, I think Jones had a big time year but I don't expect him to step back too far. No one else stands out in my mind as particularly \"overachieving\". Wieters gonna Wiet as a middling bat (but excellent for his position), Davis is probably gonna slug something around .490 while never taking a walk, Markakis is going to be a solid, if unspectacular, contact hitter, Hardy will fail to reach base but hit home runs at a rate that makes it acceptable, the real x-factors here are Reimold and Machado. if Reimold could just not be made of glass for once he could be a behemoth at the plate. I'm not expecting too much out of a 20 year old third baseman, but his bat was compared favorably to A-Rod's for a reason.","Summary: you can assemble a ballin' bullpen for peanuts, don't spend big money on relievers because they're volatile and unpredictable.\n\nPost: I think I have PTSD from the Kevin Gregg/Mike Gonzalez deals from a few years ago. \n I think the point I was trying to make was that it isn't that difficult to construct a lights-out bullpen by ballin' on a budget. \n 5 best bullpens in terms of ERA (yes I know, not an all encompassing stat but bear with me cause I'm busy today) this year were Atlanta, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Texas, and Milwaukee. \n Atlanta pays one reliever more than 1 million, that would be Scott Downs, and he was actually traded mid-season IIRC. he also has a WHIP near 2, which sucks. \n Kansas City has two expensive pen guys until you realize that one was turned into a serviceable starter over a small sample size (Bruce Chen) and one is too bad to start, but too expensive to do anything else with (Luke Hochevar). other than that, they are all, with the exception of Aaron Crow (1,280,000) making less than a million. \n Pittsburgh has two guys that make over a million: Jason Grilli and Kyle Farnsworth. Grilli is one of the better closers in the game and makes a measly 2.5 mil, Farnsworth is the second-highest paid reliever on the team and he stunk on ice this year. \n Texas breaks the mold here in true \"big market\" fashion because they pay Joe Nathan and Joakin Soria a combined 10 mil (with Nathan making up 8 of that 10, just 1.5 less than what Yu will make this year!). \n Milwaukee kind of threw me for a loop as well, they have Mike Gonzalez (who still manages to absolutely rake it in despite being \"good\" against just lefties) and Tom Gorzellany who is probably more famous for looking like Sloth from The Goonies than he is for pitching. he is also a former starter which makes his salary more understandable given his ability to not shit the bed in spot starts.","Summary: if you're not on Twitter don't bother trying to understand, it's not worth your time.\n\nPost: you search for different topics on Twitter by putting something next to a hashtag and clicking on it or by clicking on someone else's hashtag. for instance, if I wanted to see who was tweeting about the Super Bowl, I would tweet something like \"watching the #SuperBowl\" (stupid but bear with me, it's an example), by clicking on \"#SuperBowl\", you would be brought to a page where you can every tweet that has that hashtag included in it.","Summary: thank god Angelos is such a traitor for not giving a player more than he was worth.\n\nPost: yeah, can you imagine how good our team would be now with Tex and Roberts in the lineup everyday instead of those bums Davis and (ok poor example) Schoop??? \n he \"low balled\" Brian Roberts? that implies he had a say in who Duquette wanted to bring back so much that he could force a professional general manager with no sense of sentiment to sign a player whose production could be pretty simply replaced with existing interior options. Roberts was pretty crappy last year and simply cannot be counted on to play a full season. at least Tex and Mussina were productive when we pursued them, Roberts flat out sucked and would have brought nothing to this team. \n fuck the Anti-Angelos circle-jerk, he doled out 50 mil on two players this offseason, it's been time to give this one a rest for awhile now. \n consider what having a monster Tex deal on the payroll right now would mean for extension negotiations to any number of players we've locked up or are trying to?. No way both Jones and Hardy are here, Davis extension at the end of the year? Davis at all? I doubt it.","Summary: comfort and feeling safe are key.\n\nPost: sure thing, I tripped most recently on Friday evening with a couple of friends of mine with a derivative of LSD called 25i-nBOME which I believe is designed to produce more visuals than average. \n I live in Maryland and one of my buddies lives out on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. not a very big house, very cozy first floor with a lot of natural light and dimmers for the artificial ones. we put the tabs in at around 6:30 and started tripping at around 7:15, so the sun was just starting to go down. we went outside and it was a nice brisk evening, probably 65 degrees, we sat on the dock, smoked a couple of newports, and waited for it to really kick in. after about 15 more minutes I could feel it coming on strong so we headed back inside for a little bit. we dimmed the lights, got comfy on some couches, and put on some music (Boards of Canada to be exact). \n after a few minutes of just shooting the shit we went back outside to watch the moon rise from the dock. the visuals were nothing short of breathtaking, all the lights from passing boats, dock lights, buoys, whatever, all of it looked incredible, and on a clear starry night it was just ideal. we probably sat on the dock watching the waves and the stars for a hour or two before heading back up to the house to chill in the hot tub for a few minutes. if you've never seen a hot tub light show, it's basically a light that shifts colors through the ROYGBIV cycle continuously and makes for some great experiences. by this point it was maybe 11 o'clock and the drug is starting to wear off a little. we're still tripping but not as hard. we decide just to sit on the porch and watch the bay for awhile, just relax and have some really cool conversations about life, our futures, girls, whatever came to mind really. just enjoying the cool night breeze that was coming in off the water and having a good time with one of my best friends in the world. after it was over we just grilled up some burgers, had a beer, and hit the hay. \n just some general tips for those who may want to know: \n \n make sure you have no obligations. that means no texts from parents (if you're still living with them/under their supervision, you know what I mean), no emails from the bossman, no stressful late night conversations with the girlfriend about your feelings, these things stress you out which is literally the last thing you need when you're in the middle of a psychedelic experience. I usually just turn off my phone and leave it somewhere where it won't bother me. \n comfort and a feeling of security is key. I trip with people I know well and people who I know understand the drug well. as a rule, I make it a rule that there will be no authority figures around during the trip. \n just some general tips to make things better, if you can get a dimmer for your artificial lights inside (if you're going to be inside), make sure you do it, harsh artificial light detracts from the experience in my opinion. be somewhere that's comfy, my uniform usually consists of sweatpants and a t-shirt, maybe a hoodie for later on in the evening, but something that I'm just going to be comfortable in. \n a \"babysitter\" is recommended, but honestly I've felt pretty safe around people who are all tripping so long as at least one of us knows the experience well enough to handle any issues that might come up. I honestly wouldn't recommend that course of action, it's never a bad idea to have someone around who isn't on drugs to make sure you're being safe.","Summary: I think there's lots of risk involved when betting on the Yanks to put together a rotation that can match up against Boston or Tampa.\n\nPost: the numbers last year will not tell the story of this year's Rays rotation, IMO. \n Price is the ace here and he's probably not going to struggle like he did to open the season in 2013. he came on just as strong as ever after a rough start and posted some pretty great numbers. \n Matt Moore has another year of experience under his belt, as does Chris Archer who maintained an ERA + of 118 in his first full season while cutting his walk rate down by 1.3/9. \n Alex Cobb was quietly an absolute stud after his first two years were solid but not eye catching. he might not be a sub-3.00 ERA pitcher, but when your 4th starter is coming off a season in which he was roughly 40% better than league average, you have a staff that is fully capable of baffling some really great lineups 4 nights in a row. \n of course, the young pitchers could take a step back, I'd need to look harder at some of the peripherals but as far as I can tell, there aren't a ton of huge regression candidates in the bunch and all have been very highly regarded for awhile now. what separates the Yankees and Rays for me is that the Rays at least have a shot at staying even or getting better, and they already dazzle 1-4 and will be getting Hellickson back around June, whereas I expect that if the Yanks don't get big time resurgences from Sabathia (who was sitting at around 88 with his fastball last time I saw him pitch, it's been awhile and perhaps you can correct me on this one) and Pineda and hit absolutely no injury scares, and Kuroda doesn't completely fall apart at the end of the year again, they might have a shot at being a pretty good rotation. \n I believe in Nova to be pretty good for the year, Kuroda to be pretty good for most of it, and Tanaka to have some major ups and downs. I wouldn't count on him balancing out a rotation, as good as he is, just because we really don't know how well he'll handle MLB pitching, specially since he pitches almost a third of his games in tinder boxes like Camden, Fenway, and Yankee Stadium against some seriously dangerous lineups that he's never seen before.","Summary: all the publics or large privates we played thought they were hot shit, were really just pounding the snot out of some really terrible teams back home. \n edit: I should probably say that my post comes off as discrediting a lot of public school teams, and while the best teams we played were always privates (Don Bosco, Good Counsel, Archbishop Moeller), there were some good publics like Oscar Smith out there.\n\nPost: oh this is fun. I played at a very small private school in Baltimore, maybe 400 kids in the entire place, but we has a really freakin good team (top 20 nationally all three years I was on the team, lots of D1 players, the works). each year we'd play one big out of state team, sophomore year was from Denver, junior year was a team from Virginia Beach, senior year was a team from Charlotte. they'd come in thinking they were hot shit, like greatest thing since sliced bread. all because they ran over some chumps from whatever 2A division or whatever they were playing back home."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Gucci is fun and hype, sometimes that's all that matters, and he still got better wordplay than Chief Keef cause yo is at the bottom.\\n\\nPost: oh he's not super technical or anything, but he still puts out music you can enjoy when you're cruising, when you're at the club, when you wanna get ignant, whatever, Gucci's got you. but I won't tell myself he's something special with the verses. he's a fun rapper and I've probably got about 25-30 of his tracks on my iPod but he's not an awesome rapper as far as flow and technical skill go. doesn't mean I don't enjoy him, just means the backpackers get salty whenever his shit gets played. \\n edit:\",\n \"Summary: at some point we'll come back to this draft class in a few years, but for now let's just make some fun guesses and not worry too much about it because no pre-draft coverage would suck.\\n\\nPost: because people want to know right now what the consensus is on this particular group of players. these guys are paid to watch players and make the best possible judgement on what their careers will end up looking like. at the end of the day, it's still kind of a crapshoot, but people gotta know man. \\n the reason we love players like that is because nobody sees shit like Tom Brady or Arian Foster or Vontaze Burfict coming because either they get a lot better really quickly or because something they did in college makes them overlooked (Brady couldn't hold down a starting job against Henson or Stanton or whoever it was, Foster wasn't terribly productive his final year and had a fumbling problem, Burfict just sucked for his entire senior year and on top of that showed some serious immaturity). it's not just the guys everyone seems to quick to discredit as \\\"experts\\\" (in quotes so we get the sarcasm), legitimate NFL scouts and front offices miss on these players too.\",\n \"Summary: would rather do nothing than do something stupid.\\n\\nPost: Baltimore sports fans can be the goddamn worst. \\n I can't tell you how many times I've had a conversation about the offseason with people and it just ends up with them yelling \\\"SIGN ANYONE, JUST DO SOMETHING!\\\" sure there were some lower level contracts I would have like to have seen us pursue, but with big extensions on the horizon for the nucleus and an underwhelming (Rodney, Cruz, Morales, etc.) and/or insanely expensive (Tanaka, Cano, Choo) what did you REALLY expect? Bringing in Burnett would be a neat gamble and I'd be on board and almost a little disappointed if he goes elsewhere but I'm not sure he offers us a ton and definitely not more than he gave the Pirates. Ditto Cruz, if he's not on a 1-2 year deal, I don't want him.\",\n \"Summary: players shouldn't be allowed to physically engage fans but fans shouldn't be able to antagonize players in such a way that provokes a physical response either.\\n\\nPost: I'm not really sure what the answer here is. On one hand, I think Smart overreacted, on another, it's not ok to throw around \\\"he's just a fan\\\" as if that completely absolves this guy assuming what he said was that offensive. fans are assholes, players aren't robots, and I think that just because they showed up to watch some hoops doesn't mean they can't catch these hands if they say something completely out of line, that ticket in your hand doesn't buy you the right to be a dick to the opposing team. Smart should be punished because it was against the rules but I hardly blame him, again, if what the guy said was legitimately really shitty. \\n if this had gone down in a bar between two normal guys the reaction would be completely different ASSUMING the fan said something really disgusting in the first place. \\n Concerning \\\"certain words\\\", I think we can all agree there's a line you simply do not cross.\",\n \"Summary: I get guys who cause drama off the field, beat their wives, drink and drive, etc., but I find it hard to hate guys who are generally positively motivated and clubhouse goofs, if he performs, we'll all like him.\\n\\nPost: ok question then: if Nick Swisher were a Diamondback, how aware would we even be of his existence? I have a feeling he would pretty much just look like a statline, like he did in Oakland and in Chicago. no one thought twice about signing him before he was a Yankee because personality just doesn't matter that much to these players like it does to us. they interact with each other a lot more than we ever will and probably get a much more sound grip on a guy's character. so far, not one teammate - actually not one player has spoken out and said that they don't like Swisher as far as I know. usually you can pick up rumblings (ex: players hate Pierzynski, are vocal about it) about clubhouse impact or whatever, there's really none of that surrounding him. seriously, all of his ex-teammates seem to love the guy. throw in the fact that he hits the cover off the ball? he's basically a fun J.D. Drew. plus, it's not like none of these guys have ever met Swisher because he played in a different uniform, between his days in Oakland, Chicago, NY, and various All-Star games, he's made the rounds and produced at a level to warrant the label of some kind of \\\"semi-star\\\", I'd imagine that at the very least guys like Ayala who played with him in New York know what's up and that he's probably pretty well known on some kind of personal level by most of the regulars. \\n random aside: I can't really think of any differences between Swisher and Millar personality-wise, tbh, and everyone in baseball freakin' loved Millar. Damon, too.\",\n \"Summary: adderall.\\n\\nPost: I don't find this to be at all erroneous. \\n I did some quick googling because it's finals week and I'm sort of just waiting to die anyway. \\n Derek Carr and Andrew Luck's teams, Clements and Strarford, did indeed meet in the 2007 Class 5A Division 2 State playoffs in Texas. I'm not able to find a box score anywhere, but the final was 31-27 in favor of Carr's squad, so the closeness of the game checks out. I also just googled \\\"Clements Stratford football 2007\\\" and found this on a forum; \\n \\\"I have to give credit to Derek Carr. He made nothing but good decisions all day, put the ball where it needed to be, and made one of the key plays of the game with his scramble to convert a third-and-long late in the game. He's a winner.\\\" \\n could be the play OP was referring to. \\n it also doesn't seem to me like he gave any kind of ridiculously memorable speech that no one else in the history of ever had ever given, it was just some classic high school QB field general rhetoric to get his boys going. I may be jaded because I played with a damn fine QB in high school and when we needed it, he spoke up and everybody listened to what he had to say, even if it was just yelling at a lineman to get his head out of his ass, point being, I don't think it's that outrageous that a QB playing at the top, dare I say the elite, level would have enough respect from his peers to be able to just lay down the law like that. plus, his brother was the former number one overall pick for God's sake, he's learning from someone whose NFL career might not have panned out, but who knows his shit. \\n it's not at all inconceivable that this happened, why would it be?\",\n \"Summary: baseball is not a game where you can establish unquestioned supremacy in a matter of two or three games, you need a whole bunch.\\n\\nPost: baseball is a sport in which there are competitive games between split-squad MLB teams and community colleges. it's not always the case of the better team winning the game. so much of each individual game is luck. remember when the Netherlands beat the Dominican Republic twice in the same WBC? everyone knows the DR is a vastly superior team, but because they got outplayed twice they go down as choke artists. we're also clearly not fielding our best team. Eric Hosmer is clearly not the best US born first baseman, but he decided he wanted to play and Prince didn't.\",\n \"Summary: I like our guys, this team makes me giddy.\\n\\nPost: I'm not certain of this, but I'm pretty sure their ERA since June is one of the best in the majors (edit: just checked, 3.18 since June 9, arbitrary endpoint for sure, but starting pitching has been a strength for most of this season when most thought it would be an Achilles heel.). it's not a group of world beaters, but it's a starting 5 with no obvious drop offs since Jimenez was demoted to the bullpen and that counts for something. it's easy to point to FIP to undermine them, but I think that does a huge dis-service to one of the best defenses in the game. the Orioles are, objectively, an outstanding defensive team. \\n plus, the back end of the bullpen is just absolutely lights out. when Andrew Miller is your third best option late in games, you've got a stacked pen. O'Day doesn't have big strikeout numbers but man is he good. an ERA under 1 and an ERA+ of 405 (basically, he's pitching 305% better than average) is good no matter how you slice it. he's quietly one of he best relievers of 2014 and has been rock solid since he showed up here. Britton has been 2012 Jim Johnson good, maybe better. I like our odds against anyone when innings 7-9 are as solid as they look right now and the rotation is humming along at a ridiculous rate. \\n I agree that we don't have a rotation that's Nats caliber, but our offense is deadly and I think our bullpen is going to be a massive X factor down the stretch and into October.\",\n \"Summary: best day of my life. \\n edit: didn't get a picture with Buck or the players but here's some tentative \\\"proof\\\" in the form of a [press pass](\\n\\nPost: TRUE STORY: \\n I once got Buck Showalter to smile. I had an internship with the deputy sports editor at The Sun this year and on one day my assignment took me to the clubhouse and Buck's press conferences. of course, this was the first day of Gausmas (aka Yankees game, right before the Toronto road trip where he made his first start), so I wanted to dress snappy as fuck. because I was feeling over the top, I wore [these]( bad boys. \\n a little out there for my usual outfits but fuck it, you're meeting the goddamn Baltimore Orioles, make an impression dude. so we're sitting in the press conference after the game is over and after the official questions are over I was just sort of standing off to the side with the reporters I was shadowing for the day (Childs Walker, Dan Connoly, and Peter Schmuck). anyways, Buck steps off the podium, looks down, notices the footwear, kind of grins, looks at me and says in that stoic, rough voice that makes the entire city of Baltimore just melt, \\\"nice shoes.\\\" this led to me getting an actual conversation started with him and I got to hang out with the coolest dude in town for a solid 7 or 8 minutes before me and the reporters had to go back to the clubhouse.\",\n \"Summary: it felt like the whole \\\"post-acid\\\" mindset was some sort of secret club and that felt very wrong to me. \\n life changing? yeah I can see it in the sense that it was an incredible experience and ended up being one of the best nights ever. but as for how much it affects my day-to-day life and my interactions with other people? don't really see it. I think it must be personality difference.\\n\\nPost: haha no need to be the \\\"cite your sources\\\" guy, it was an expression, figure of speech that is popularly used around here to describe the activity of being on acid, sorry for the confusion. it's derived from the allegation that the stuff stays in your spinal column forever. if anyone is confused, that's not true, \\\"frying your spine\\\" is just a funny way to say \\\"tripping balls\\\". \\n this isn't a commentary on you personally, far be it for me to call you out having never met you, I just never got the hype with the \\\"drugs changed my life\\\" thing. everyone had always built LSD up as something that will make you a better person and empathize more and that always made me really sad because it was almost like \\\"you can't be as good of a person as me until you've been on acid\\\". like, goddammit, I feel like I'm a pretty empathetic guy, now it turns out I'm not until I sit and trip for a few hours.\",\n \"Summary: don't follow my path, think it out and don't get something because it's easy and/or just because you love the idea of a tattoo. just because I don't regret mine doesn't mean you won't regret yours, I got incredibly lucky that I didn't attempt to make something crappy look good. good luck!\\n\\nPost: my first one ever was just my dad's signature on my left pec. kind of a cliche around these parts and honestly I wish I had looked at the more artistic side of tattoos before I'd gotten it done but I haven't regretted it for a second. \\n the inspiration just was in the fact that I really, really wanted one, I knew I wanted something for my dad, and I didn't want to spend very much (terrible advice lol) or go too big as far as size went. his signature just instantly popped into my head as something that would be inexpensive and easy to do (really short, maybe 25 minute session).\",\n \"Summary: seems to be \\\"not that good, no point in rebuilding through free agency.\\\"\\n\\nPost: they went after Carlos Quentin not long ago when he was still putting up an OPS above .800 consistently. they had some pretty intriguing youth at the time, too (Gyorko, Cashner, Alonso, maybe Latos was still around? point being, there were some pieces in place) so maybe they were just hoping that one big veteran signing could help bolster a strong youth movement. unfortunately, it hasn't worked out the way they figured it would and now they're trying to reload. \\n I don't follow the Padres very much, admittedly, so maybe I'm 100% off on that but the\",\n \"Summary: I don't know why exactly I empathize so heavily with the OP, but something about our stories just makes me feel as though we've felt some of the same things over the past few days and that, in turn, makes me feel better.\\n\\nPost: his third update is much more encouraging, reading this man's story made my heart ache and tears well up and I don't know why. I suppose I've been through something somewhat similar lately, I walked in on my best friend with my ex-girlfriend, this passage \\n >I don't want to kill Harry anymore. I told him to be more careful next time. He said he blames himself and hes so sorry. He can fuck off but I don't want to kill him. He’s a good guy. He fucked up. \\n really reverberates with me. I felt the same exact thing just a couple of days ago. you feel like it's getting better, you see something or hear something that reminds you of the problem and all of a sudden you're just blinded with rage all over again. I think it's gotten to the point where I'm more or less over it. I mean, I'm hurt and I don't care to associate myself ever again with either of them, but the crazy depression/mania/anger death spiral has more or less passed.\",\n \"Summary: I don't think Rasmus is going to live up to his potential, would rather have Markakis.\\n\\nPost: I'm not projecting him off of that 07/08 season, I'm just saying that it might be worth investigating if we think his 2013 will be closer to that stretch or his 10/11, years in which I thought we were seeing the serious decline of a once great player. last year was a great year for Markakis, and while it's a comparatively smaller sample size than we'd like to see, he posted his highest ISO and SLG since that 07/08 stretch while BABIP-ing at a lower rate than he has over his career, so basically having a one of his best years while still being a little unlucky. I don't know if last year was an aberration, but he was definitely one of the better hitting outfielders in the division last season and has shown that type of production before. I think it's worth speculating if that could continue as he continues to progress through the prime of his career because, as I mentioned, players do not develop on a bell-curve, there are peaks and valleys along the way and we might have seen the start of a peak last year. \\n as an aside: I wouldn't use Rasmus' 09/10, we know what happened there, his BABIP came crashing back down to where it should be for a guy who isn't that great of a hitter and his one base skills never developed. Markakis just stopped hitting for power, I honestly can't explain why. \\n >which he put up at a far younger age than Markakis' strong seasons \\n untrue. Markakis was 24 when he put up his best season and had a 4.3 WAR season at age 23. Rasmus' best year was 2010, his age 23 season. \\n you have me on defense, I get that argument, but I also am wary of defensive metrics. there's just too much uncertainty surrounding them for my taste. I know that Markakis isn't the best right fielder in baseball as his Gold Glove from 2011 might suggest, but I think he's also pretty league-average just based on the eye-test alone. pretty unspectacular proof, but it's just how I feel. \\n I guess the main points of this argument are as follows: Colby Rasmus had one six week hot streak and hit like a pitcher for the rest of the year over 480-something PA (193/.260/.316) and struck out more than a quarter of the time. per FanGraphs in September of 2012: \\\"Over the last two calendar years, Rasmus has the 13th-lowest wOBA, 14th-lowest wRC+, and 18th-lowest WAR out of the 115 qualified players.\\\" somehow I don't really see him reaching that potential that he had in St. Louis, at least not in Toronto. Markakis has been solid, if unspectacular at the plate for most of his career, you know you're getting a good contact hitter with a decent walk rate and (depending on who you ask I guess) passable defense at a non-premium position, there's also potential for power resurgence like we saw last season when he posted the second highest ISO of his career one year removed from his worst offensive season at the plate.\",\n \"Summary: Orioles pitchers had success in a very small sample size, we don't know what we have in any of these guys. for all I know, our best pitcher in 2013 could be Zach Britton.\\n\\nPost: I thought it just meant that, in general, the rotation was kind of assembled with rubber bands and chewing gum. I mean, Miguel Gonzalez had shaky peripherals all year. maybe he continues to defy the odds and hovers around a mid 4 FIP with a mid 3 ERA, but I doubt it. as long as we're not leaning on him as a crutch, like a 2 starter, I think we'll be alright in that regard. he pitched like a true pro in a few games (that game against NY to cut the division lead to 2 games sticks out in my mind, he had ice in his veins that night) and flashed a legitimate major league changeup. perfectly acceptable as a back end starter, but very dangerous to lean on like anything much more than a 3. \\n think about who the ace was all season: in April/May we had Hammel and Chen pitching lights out. Hammel had all kinds of fun data that would seem to indicate that he was a whole new pitcher, but we can't be sure given he only pitched about 3/4 of a season and suffered a pretty nasty knee injury. Chen really faded as he got overworked. without those first great couple of months his rookie season looks much different. I'm really hoping the team doesn't expect that he's going to be much more than the three. I hope for the best with him because his stuff looked downright nasty at times and maybe as he grows more accustomed to pitching longer seasons that he'll get better, but teams do not win championships with Wei Yin Chen, at least his 2012 manifestation, as their ace. \\n then you have Chris Tillman. what the hell do we make of Chris Tillman? he was downright awful in his first few stints at the major league level. the fastball just wasn't there. straight as an arrow (to be fair, he had always had kind of a flat fastball), but the really disturbing thing was he was hovering in the low 90's and high 80's. you can't get guys out as a righty with a high 80's fastball which is the reason I'm so wary of Steve Johnson going forward too. seriously, how the hell does a righty with that kind of velocity turn in those kinds of k numbers? bizarre indeed. moving back to Tillman, the secondary stuff flashed great potential at times, especially that hammer of a curveball, but he just couldn't keep that meatball pitch low in the zone enough to warrant any kind of good result. then he worked for awhile with Rick Petersen and he came back up with a more repeatable motion, and flashed some improved velocity and performed well all across the board, peripherals, traditional, anything you want, but then the velo dipped right back down, seemingly in a sequential fashion. he was still getting results, though, so I'm very interested to see what he can bring to the table. if he can repeat last season's performance he'll have a long and prosperous MLB career. hard to believe he's still only 24. \\n I don't think Wada is going to be much of a factor as a starter to be honest. I love the additional investment in the international market, but you can't hit on all of them. I'd love to be wrong about him, I was a big fan of his before the surgery.\",\n \"Summary: shit was awful but not as bad as I would've thought.\\n\\nPost: after reading this thread, I feel like a total pussy even though I've been shot in the leg. disclaimer: it was a ricochet, but even so, fuck you guys, I've been shot and reddit still makes me feel like a complete wimp. \\n we were cleaning out my uncle's .22 in a field and decided to pop off a couple rounds. I guess it hit a piece of old scrap metal or something but it came back with a vengeance and hit me right in the shin. I didn't really feel anything until I looked down and registered what had happened. after that it was a pretty shitty feeling, like everyone else has said it was a burning feeling (understandable, there's now a piece of hot lead inside me when before there wasn't) and a throbbing pain not unlike when you have a shitty splinter and the pressure has built up, but multiplied by about 100 if that makes sense. \\n don't remember much of the hospital, I do know they pulled out the bullet (as it was partially exposed) and wrapped it in gauze.\",\n \"Summary: snapping isn't easy but it won't land you any offers either. you're basically screwed if you want to go to college for free.\\n\\nPost: I guess when you put it that way, but even so, it's not like any old fat guy you happen to pluck off of the offensive line is immediately capable of doing it, it takes a lot of practice. \\n that's also kind of the nature of the position. lots of snappers, if not all of them, are walk ons, you don't generally recruit a long snapper, they play an important part of special teams and have tough jobs, but they don't see the field enough to warrant using a scholarship on. warning: anecdotal evidence ahead. on my high school team our snapper was courted by a lot of schools (small D1/D1-AA programs like East Carolina, Temple, Towson, Villanova, etc.) but was never offered a scholarship. this is generally the case for \\\"special teams only\\\" guys like snappers, punters, and kickers. not that it doesn't happen, but more often than not (save for the top D1 programs) they don't bother wasting a scholarship that could be offered to a skill player or a lineman. \\n chances are that most players on a team like Northern Alabama are, it's a D2 school meaning fewer scholarships. he could've been a preferred walk on like I will be this year, basically you're not getting a scholarship because you're not good enough compared to other players in your recruiting class, but the coach still wants you to play for the team. \\n in any case,\",\n \"Summary: I remembered Vince more fondly than maybe I should because of that one Rose Bowl.\\n\\nPost: I'm kinda torn, I always just kind of remembered Vince as an awesome player, then I looked at his numbers. Great year, not sure I can put him up there as one of the best CFB players ever. maybe the best big-game performance I've ever seen, but he wasn't really \\\"staggeringly good\\\" like Tebow, Newton, and Manziel have been. those three, especially the latter two, put their programs on their backs in a way that players just shouldn't. If JFF has another season even remotely like the one he just had (5000 yards of offense! 47 friggin touchdowns!) he's going to be a college icon for as long as we still talk about sports. \\n Now I don't really know any of the details about the offense that Vince ran at Texas but I'd be intrigued to see him in a scheme like the one Oregon runs for Mariota and A&M uses for Manziel.\",\n \"Summary: errors are mainly subjective and kind of a bad way to show who's a good fielder and who's not.\\n\\nPost: errors are not a good indication of fielding prowess. Wright's range is vastly superior to Chipper's thus he gets to more balls and has more chances to try and make difficult plays. sometimes he isn't able to make those (whereas Chipper wouldn't have even come close to being in position to even attempt to make the play) and the stadium scorer rules it an error.\",\n \"Summary: not too torn up about how B-Rob went out, he was a fixture on the teams of my childhood and I'll remember him fondly.\\n\\nPost: not a chance he gets booed, at least not from me. I don't believe in booing former players in the first place unless they've said or done some really shitty things. who even knows if the Orioles expressed any interest at all in bringing him back this offseason? who's to say the Yankees weren't the only team who were going to give him a major league deal or any deal at all for that matter? I'm sure this is information that I could find if I felt like digging around at 2 in the morning but you get the idea. this doesn't feel like a \\\"screw you guys, I'm going home\\\" situation, it feels like a mutual break-up that was all but locked in (barring some kind of miracle comeback) the moment he suffered his third debilitating injury in as many years. sure you can take the whole not giving an exit interview thing as sour grapes, but as Matt put it, that's just kind of what baseball players do. \\n it's pretty hard to blame a guy for collecting his paycheck while being hurt, imo, what's he supposed to do, refuse the money and put his livelihood on the backburner because fans aren't happy that he's a sunk cost now? way I see it is he wanted to keep playing, the Yankees gave him a chance to do that with the inevitability that they weren't gonna re-sign Cano and he saw an opportunity to maybe get a solid chunk of playing time for a (probably) pretty good team. \\n all in all, he likely wasn't helping the O's win in 2014, second base is clogged with options (mediocre ones, but Roberts himself is pretty mediocre at this point in his career, too) that offer either youth and upside (Schoop), great defense (Flaherty), or baserunning abilities (Weeks). all of those options are also all incredibly affordable. it wasn't a good fit and just wasn't going to happen.\",\n \"Summary: O's overachieved so I'm not expecting a repeat, anything between 95-75 wins would be totally unsurprising to me, Boston has a lot of holes and players who break often so I don't expect much from them either, the Yankees still might be worse than both.\\n\\nPost: depends on which Bucholz or Lester you think is gonna show up. I think they're about on par with Wei-Yin, both totally capable of dominating a game but will end the year with something in the low 4's, high 3's as far as ERA goes. I think Hammel might be for real, Tillman is bound to take a step backwards with that crazy low BABIP that he flashed last year, Britton is still wide open. no idea where that kid's career is headed but if he can flash that 95 MPH turbo-sinker again he's gonna do big things. \\n Lackey pitching to league average is indeed bold. I don't think he's cut out for it, he hasn't pitched effectively in four seasons. depends on who you think is overachieving. Miguel Gonzalez? probably. Chris Tillman? also probably. Wei-Yin Chen and Hammel? I think we've seen what they are, though I'd like to see Chen make it through another ML season. what's great about a Duquette-run team (much like those 95 Red Sox) is that he doesn't tolerate bullshit like Tommy Hunter and Brian Matusz getting shelled when there are players producing in the minors. when you have nothing to lose like he did last year, you just keep the bus to Norfolk running and have whoever's got the hot hand start the next game. that second half of the season for the O's was no joke though, they legitimately played like the best team in baseball down the stretch, whether you measure that by RD or by W/L. \\n as far as hitters, I think Jones had a big time year but I don't expect him to step back too far. No one else stands out in my mind as particularly \\\"overachieving\\\". Wieters gonna Wiet as a middling bat (but excellent for his position), Davis is probably gonna slug something around .490 while never taking a walk, Markakis is going to be a solid, if unspectacular, contact hitter, Hardy will fail to reach base but hit home runs at a rate that makes it acceptable, the real x-factors here are Reimold and Machado. if Reimold could just not be made of glass for once he could be a behemoth at the plate. I'm not expecting too much out of a 20 year old third baseman, but his bat was compared favorably to A-Rod's for a reason.\",\n \"Summary: you can assemble a ballin' bullpen for peanuts, don't spend big money on relievers because they're volatile and unpredictable.\\n\\nPost: I think I have PTSD from the Kevin Gregg/Mike Gonzalez deals from a few years ago. \\n I think the point I was trying to make was that it isn't that difficult to construct a lights-out bullpen by ballin' on a budget. \\n 5 best bullpens in terms of ERA (yes I know, not an all encompassing stat but bear with me cause I'm busy today) this year were Atlanta, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, Texas, and Milwaukee. \\n Atlanta pays one reliever more than 1 million, that would be Scott Downs, and he was actually traded mid-season IIRC. he also has a WHIP near 2, which sucks. \\n Kansas City has two expensive pen guys until you realize that one was turned into a serviceable starter over a small sample size (Bruce Chen) and one is too bad to start, but too expensive to do anything else with (Luke Hochevar). other than that, they are all, with the exception of Aaron Crow (1,280,000) making less than a million. \\n Pittsburgh has two guys that make over a million: Jason Grilli and Kyle Farnsworth. Grilli is one of the better closers in the game and makes a measly 2.5 mil, Farnsworth is the second-highest paid reliever on the team and he stunk on ice this year. \\n Texas breaks the mold here in true \\\"big market\\\" fashion because they pay Joe Nathan and Joakin Soria a combined 10 mil (with Nathan making up 8 of that 10, just 1.5 less than what Yu will make this year!). \\n Milwaukee kind of threw me for a loop as well, they have Mike Gonzalez (who still manages to absolutely rake it in despite being \\\"good\\\" against just lefties) and Tom Gorzellany who is probably more famous for looking like Sloth from The Goonies than he is for pitching. he is also a former starter which makes his salary more understandable given his ability to not shit the bed in spot starts.\",\n \"Summary: if you're not on Twitter don't bother trying to understand, it's not worth your time.\\n\\nPost: you search for different topics on Twitter by putting something next to a hashtag and clicking on it or by clicking on someone else's hashtag. for instance, if I wanted to see who was tweeting about the Super Bowl, I would tweet something like \\\"watching the #SuperBowl\\\" (stupid but bear with me, it's an example), by clicking on \\\"#SuperBowl\\\", you would be brought to a page where you can every tweet that has that hashtag included in it.\",\n \"Summary: thank god Angelos is such a traitor for not giving a player more than he was worth.\\n\\nPost: yeah, can you imagine how good our team would be now with Tex and Roberts in the lineup everyday instead of those bums Davis and (ok poor example) Schoop??? \\n he \\\"low balled\\\" Brian Roberts? that implies he had a say in who Duquette wanted to bring back so much that he could force a professional general manager with no sense of sentiment to sign a player whose production could be pretty simply replaced with existing interior options. Roberts was pretty crappy last year and simply cannot be counted on to play a full season. at least Tex and Mussina were productive when we pursued them, Roberts flat out sucked and would have brought nothing to this team. \\n fuck the Anti-Angelos circle-jerk, he doled out 50 mil on two players this offseason, it's been time to give this one a rest for awhile now. \\n consider what having a monster Tex deal on the payroll right now would mean for extension negotiations to any number of players we've locked up or are trying to?. No way both Jones and Hardy are here, Davis extension at the end of the year? Davis at all? I doubt it.\",\n \"Summary: comfort and feeling safe are key.\\n\\nPost: sure thing, I tripped most recently on Friday evening with a couple of friends of mine with a derivative of LSD called 25i-nBOME which I believe is designed to produce more visuals than average. \\n I live in Maryland and one of my buddies lives out on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. not a very big house, very cozy first floor with a lot of natural light and dimmers for the artificial ones. we put the tabs in at around 6:30 and started tripping at around 7:15, so the sun was just starting to go down. we went outside and it was a nice brisk evening, probably 65 degrees, we sat on the dock, smoked a couple of newports, and waited for it to really kick in. after about 15 more minutes I could feel it coming on strong so we headed back inside for a little bit. we dimmed the lights, got comfy on some couches, and put on some music (Boards of Canada to be exact). \\n after a few minutes of just shooting the shit we went back outside to watch the moon rise from the dock. the visuals were nothing short of breathtaking, all the lights from passing boats, dock lights, buoys, whatever, all of it looked incredible, and on a clear starry night it was just ideal. we probably sat on the dock watching the waves and the stars for a hour or two before heading back up to the house to chill in the hot tub for a few minutes. if you've never seen a hot tub light show, it's basically a light that shifts colors through the ROYGBIV cycle continuously and makes for some great experiences. by this point it was maybe 11 o'clock and the drug is starting to wear off a little. we're still tripping but not as hard. we decide just to sit on the porch and watch the bay for awhile, just relax and have some really cool conversations about life, our futures, girls, whatever came to mind really. just enjoying the cool night breeze that was coming in off the water and having a good time with one of my best friends in the world. after it was over we just grilled up some burgers, had a beer, and hit the hay. \\n just some general tips for those who may want to know: \\n \\n make sure you have no obligations. that means no texts from parents (if you're still living with them/under their supervision, you know what I mean), no emails from the bossman, no stressful late night conversations with the girlfriend about your feelings, these things stress you out which is literally the last thing you need when you're in the middle of a psychedelic experience. I usually just turn off my phone and leave it somewhere where it won't bother me. \\n comfort and a feeling of security is key. I trip with people I know well and people who I know understand the drug well. as a rule, I make it a rule that there will be no authority figures around during the trip. \\n just some general tips to make things better, if you can get a dimmer for your artificial lights inside (if you're going to be inside), make sure you do it, harsh artificial light detracts from the experience in my opinion. be somewhere that's comfy, my uniform usually consists of sweatpants and a t-shirt, maybe a hoodie for later on in the evening, but something that I'm just going to be comfortable in. \\n a \\\"babysitter\\\" is recommended, but honestly I've felt pretty safe around people who are all tripping so long as at least one of us knows the experience well enough to handle any issues that might come up. I honestly wouldn't recommend that course of action, it's never a bad idea to have someone around who isn't on drugs to make sure you're being safe.\",\n \"Summary: I think there's lots of risk involved when betting on the Yanks to put together a rotation that can match up against Boston or Tampa.\\n\\nPost: the numbers last year will not tell the story of this year's Rays rotation, IMO. \\n Price is the ace here and he's probably not going to struggle like he did to open the season in 2013. he came on just as strong as ever after a rough start and posted some pretty great numbers. \\n Matt Moore has another year of experience under his belt, as does Chris Archer who maintained an ERA + of 118 in his first full season while cutting his walk rate down by 1.3/9. \\n Alex Cobb was quietly an absolute stud after his first two years were solid but not eye catching. he might not be a sub-3.00 ERA pitcher, but when your 4th starter is coming off a season in which he was roughly 40% better than league average, you have a staff that is fully capable of baffling some really great lineups 4 nights in a row. \\n of course, the young pitchers could take a step back, I'd need to look harder at some of the peripherals but as far as I can tell, there aren't a ton of huge regression candidates in the bunch and all have been very highly regarded for awhile now. what separates the Yankees and Rays for me is that the Rays at least have a shot at staying even or getting better, and they already dazzle 1-4 and will be getting Hellickson back around June, whereas I expect that if the Yanks don't get big time resurgences from Sabathia (who was sitting at around 88 with his fastball last time I saw him pitch, it's been awhile and perhaps you can correct me on this one) and Pineda and hit absolutely no injury scares, and Kuroda doesn't completely fall apart at the end of the year again, they might have a shot at being a pretty good rotation. \\n I believe in Nova to be pretty good for the year, Kuroda to be pretty good for most of it, and Tanaka to have some major ups and downs. I wouldn't count on him balancing out a rotation, as good as he is, just because we really don't know how well he'll handle MLB pitching, specially since he pitches almost a third of his games in tinder boxes like Camden, Fenway, and Yankee Stadium against some seriously dangerous lineups that he's never seen before.\",\n \"Summary: all the publics or large privates we played thought they were hot shit, were really just pounding the snot out of some really terrible teams back home. \\n edit: I should probably say that my post comes off as discrediting a lot of public school teams, and while the best teams we played were always privates (Don Bosco, Good Counsel, Archbishop Moeller), there were some good publics like Oscar Smith out there.\\n\\nPost: oh this is fun. I played at a very small private school in Baltimore, maybe 400 kids in the entire place, but we has a really freakin good team (top 20 nationally all three years I was on the team, lots of D1 players, the works). each year we'd play one big out of state team, sophomore year was from Denver, junior year was a team from Virginia Beach, senior year was a team from Charlotte. they'd come in thinking they were hot shit, like greatest thing since sliced bread. all because they ran over some chumps from whatever 2A division or whatever they were playing back home.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":27,"string":"27"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2995,"string":"2,995"}}},{"rowIdx":2996,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Jesus_marley"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post If you want to get to Heaven, Jesus is the way to get there. If you don't give a shit, that's ok too. Either way, don't be a fucking fuck."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I look at like this. Jesus said to love everybody. Period. He also said the only way to get to Heaven is to believe he is the Son of God. If you don't believe in the Divinity of Jesus, that's cool. Since you don't believe in heaven either. No harm, no foul. That in no way detracts from the original statement to love everybody."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I look at like this. Jesus said to love everybody. Period. He also said the only way to get to Heaven is to believe he is the Son of God. If you don't believe in the Divinity of Jesus, that's cool. Since you don't believe in heaven either. No harm, no foul. That in no way detracts from the original statement to love everybody."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: i would rather live in a sytem that cannot punish the guilty if the alternative is one that will punish the innocent.\n\nPost: Vigilantism is not justice. Any system that allows for the citizenry to apply summary judgement upon a person without evidence based solely upon feelings is anathema to justice. even a system where no crime was punished would be preferable to mob inflicted violence upon the innocent. but as bad as Detroit may be, and as crippled as the sytem is, it is still a sytem that is attempting to fulfill its role.","Summary: No one can define your masculinity but you. Don't let anyone question it based on the choices you make.\n\nPost: Men are generally seen in society as sexually motivated. Basically, we are supposed to always want sex, we think of sex xx times a day, anything with a hole in it is an acceptable mating partner, etc, etc, etc. When men behave outside of this expected narrative, their masculinity becomes suspect. It is assumed that men who do not follow the expected norm, must be gay, or immature, or afraid of commitment. It can never be because men do not want sex, either in general or just from x person. There HAS to be a reason and the default is to fall back to the most common and erroneous assumption that refusing sex with a girl = gay. One of the main quests of the MRM is to detach the notion of masculinity from the expectations of society. Essentially, what defines you or me as a man has nothing to do with our sexuality, our preferences, our actions or our emotions but with ourselves and what we decide it means as individuals, to be men. If you like dudes, fine. If you want to cry, go right ahead. Don't want to fight in a war, that's OK too.","Summary: the evidence strongly supports Wilsons version of events. He acted in a manner consistent with self defence against an attacker. He has met the burden of proof that you demanded.\n\nPost: Wilsons gun had Brown's DNA on it. His blood was on Wilsons pants, supporting Wilsons account that Brown attacked Wilson and tried to take his gun. \n Brown was shot 6 times in total. 3 shots were grazing wounds. The final shot, the one that killed Brown entered the top of his head which again is consistant with Wilsons account that he was being charged at by Brown. Wilson already had a physical dealing with Brown. He knew Browns strength and size. Given the fact that wilson's shot pattern was all over the place, it supports his report of fearing for his life. Calm people simply do not fire so poorly.","Summary: yeah they were dicks but they didn't do most of what you accused them of doing even if what they did do was dickish.\n\nPost: While I appreciate the sentiment of your letter I feel it necessary to point out a few flaws in you logic. \n 1) Tipping is indeed complimentary. While many servers do indeed rely upon them to top up their meager wage, it is by no means a requirement for customers to provide a gratuity. It is generally frowned upon to not do so unless there are exigent circumstances such as poor service, but even then, failure to provide a tip is still only seen a social faux pas. \n 2) We only know that the server was gay because we were told by the OP. There is no reasonable expectation that the customer in this instance would know the sexual orientation of their server unless perhaps they were informed at the time of service. I myself find that to be highly unlikely. \n I do not agree with the actions that the customer took. While I understand their desire to proselytize, it does not mean they must deny a gratuity for good service to do so. It is indeed a dick move. That said, they still have a right to communicate their beliefs, even if you may disagree with them as you have the same right to communicate yours to them.","Summary: ask yourself what you would do if he was hitting her?\n\nPost: The next time your roommate starts to physically abuse her boyfriend, if you decide to call the police, be sure to specify that SHE is beating HIM. It might make a difference, but it's likely that he'll be going to jail if you do call. Your roommate is committing assault and you have a moral responsibility to, at the least, alert the authorities. Regardless of the excuses she offers as to why she hits him, there is NO excuse. Abuse is abuse and he does not deserve to be mistreated that way.","Summary: Came up with an elaborate plan involving titanium, rubies and a toy pony to ask my then GF to marry me. It worked.\n\nPost: I originally decided to ask my SO about 6 or 7 weeks prior to actually doing so and I was originally planning to do it on Valentines day. I know it's cheesy and all but since I am not normally a romantic I figured it would take her by surprise. We had danced around the topic here and there over the last few months and through those conversations, I was able to find out what she liked in terms of rings and stones but more on this later. \n Since she is such a My Little Pony fan, I decided I wanted to incorporate this into my plan. I started Googling Custom My Little Pony and found someone who, after I explained my idea, agreed to do up a custom job for me despite the fact that she was already full up on orders and the deadline was incredibly short. (Wendy, I offer you a MILLION thanks!) \n Next up was the ring... and the snag... \n I knew that she didn't like diamonds (too plain) or yellow gold and that she liked red so I chose to go with a ruby. I had toyed with the idea of white gold until a co-worker pointed me in the direction of a non-traditional metal, Titanium. I checked out the website and went to place my order only to find out that I couldn't... at least not right away as I was lacking some vital details and I couldn't get a ruby. Fortunately, the setting I had chosen (tension setting) would accept a ruby; the company simply didn't have any and neither did I. So the order was on hold for now. \n The Stone... a relatively painless endeavour \n I was visiting my friend James* in Vancouver when I told him of my plan. He immediately became an accomplice in my scheme and helped me find a broker in the downtown area that sold loose rubies. I made an appointment for that afternoon and off we went on an adventure. when we got there, I was shown a number of stones that matched my requirements. I made my decision and got the stone I needed. \n The ring part 2-- the hard part and a missed deadline \n Now that I had the stone and the design I wanted, I needed to get my SO's ring size which I had no idea how to get. She doesn't normally wear jewellry so the easy way to figure out the size (borrow a ring and size it) was out and I couldn't just ask her since that would give it away. That's when James steps in and saves my bacon. He comes over for my birthday and spins a yarn about wanting to buy a graduation ring for his roommate who is completing her PHD. He wants it to be a surprise so he asks my SO to help him since her hands are about the same size as his roommates. They go off to a local jewellry shop and she gets sized. Ring size acquired. \n I place the order for the ring, complete with all pertinent details, and send the stone off to be set. Unfortunately, due to my delay in placing the order a Valentines day surprise was out of the question. All I had left to do was wait. \n Delays and stupid mail. \n Valentines day comes and goes. Due to slow mail, the pony was also delayed and didn't arrive until Monday, Feb 16. Since the ring was not ready yet I wasn't too concerned. I still had the surprise and that was the important part. The fact that Valentines was a dud just played into my plan. I would reschedule for the following week. So I continue to wait, expecting to receive the ring on the 20th. And it arrives. and I was asleep when FedEx knocked on my door, so I missed the delivery. So I had to wait 2 more days. Heck, I've waited this long whats two more days? let me tell you... they were VERY LONG DAYS! \n The question and the answer. \n Monday rolls around and Mr. FedEx shows up. I was awake this time so I got my package, but by the time it showed up, my SO had gone to bed as she works nights. So I had to wait... again. When she finally woke up I told her I had a surprise for her. I got her to close her eyes and placed the pony on the desk in front of her. When she saw it she saw a pony with her name on it. That alone made her go \"squee\". Then she picked it up and saw the other side. On the hoof was a rendering of the exact ring I had custom made and the words \"Will you marry me?\" on the other side. She was oddly silent.... for about 3.5 seconds. Then she said yes.","Summary: both women and men are responsible for rape and are both responsible for reducing it through awareness of consent and personal responsibility.\n\nPost: I think you're taking some things out of context, and just looking at a small piece, and not the whole puzzle. \n I am well aware of the rest of the puzzle. My issue is with this \"piece\" if you will. \n >What the argument is trying to communicate is that we need to teach what rape is. \n We already know what rape is. Sex without consent. Full stop. \n >I think feminists would be better trying to say \"We need to teach what rape is, not she shouldn't have walked alone at night.\" \n Feminists would be better off saying \"We need to teach what rape is and that people need to be smart and take responsibility to reduce their risk.\" I had another conversation where a person asked how in the context of an orientation you can teach people not to rape. I responded with, \"Before we start this orientation, This is a message for anybody in the audience, male or female, it really doesn't matter, who thinks they don't need the consent of the other person to have sex. You are wrong. Sex without consent is rape. don't do it. For the rest of you, it's a good idea to take reasonable precautions to protect yourself. Don't assume that you can behave irresponsibly and it won't have negative consequences that may be out of your control. Be smart.\" The feminist model of teaching \"Raper, no raping!\" is simply childish and stupid. \n >And I agree with you-- there's a big difference between \"She shouldn't have walked alone at night\" (victim blaming, referring to the past) and \"don't walk alone at night\" (advice, referring to the future). \n You are literally the first person to actually admit this point to me. Seriously. Every other reaction I have received is that I am victim blaming and a rape apologist. I sincerely wish to thank you for being reasonable. \n >Because really, feminism and MRM should align perfectly, and how it doesn't boggles my mind (don't we both want equality?) \n It is my experience that actual equality is very low on the list of feminist goals. \n >And I'm all for sensible risk reduction strategies, but I'm aiming more for societal risk reduction... \n I fully agree that teaching people about consent and the need to have it is a positive way of reducing sexual assaults but the current narrative that any push beyond this rquals victim blaming is beyond frustrating. By focusing on the \"don't rape\" and ignoring \"be careful\" it creates a false narrative that people can act irresponsibly without negative consequence. \n >But you are naive to think rape will never be eliminated... They don't have 'rape' in their vocabulary the way we do (not to say it doesn't happen there, though. It's just a very low instance). \n You contradicted your own argument. My point is exactly this, you can never reduce the chance to zero. It will always be there. that is why you need to teach awareness and caution alongside each other.","Summary: Go ahead and defend yourself. you'll suffer worse for doing so. Hopefully you won't get killed in the process.\n\nPost: Men should of course be able to defend themselves from violence. This is a given. The issue arises when men actually try to do so. As soon as a man attempts to defend himself from female aggression, he is often arrested for assault, accosted by bystanders screaming \"Never hit a girl!\", lambasted in the media, both social and mainstream, or any combination of the above consequences.","Summary: Mouthwash and hand sanitizer are the Krokodil of alcohol.\n\nPost: Having dealt with a number of homeless individuals in my day, Mouthwash is a common go to drink for those who are desperate to obtain alcohol but do not have the money to afford actual liquor. In addition to a relatively high ethanol content (16 - 26%) depending on brand, it is generally much cheaper than liquor or more importantly, more easy to steal as it can be found in just about any retailer. Another product that also lands on this list is hand sanitizer. It, too is a common target of desperate alcoholics. It was a daily battle to keep the large bottles of hand sanitizer in the hospitals from being stolen by vagrants and drug addicts who would wander in looking for a quick fix. It is definitely hard on the system for anyone who drinks it but for those desperate enough to do so, the long term damage imposed by consuming it is less of a consideration than the immediate fix from consumption.","Summary: Your arguments are bad and you should feel bad.\n\nPost: If the 4 men called the police, the assumption would be made that they attacked her. This goes back to primary aggressor policy in arrests. I have already pointed out where you are logically wrong and have answered all of the counterpoints you have raised while you have simply have chosen to not accept that you are wrong. I am no longer going to continue this conversation.","Summary: you can hate whoever you want to. Just don't do it here as that isn't what we are about and do not support you.\n\nPost: You can do whatever the hell you like. You can paint yourself with nutella and dance on a nest of fire ants if you want to. I won't stop you and you can freely hate whoever you want as well. The rest of us don't want to hear it, nor is that kind of ridiculousness welcome here.","Summary: Establishing limits on how much a person is able to use you for their own needs is not \"not being a nice guy\".\n\nPost: This is fundamentally untrue. If I see a person in need and I assist them, I am being a nice guy. I am under no obligation to render said assistance, and it is not conditional upon receiving reciprocation as other wise an agreement for reciprocation would have to be established prior to rendering assistance. That being said, an expectation of voluntary reciprocation for my being a nice guy is not unreasonable. \n Person A helps persons B because they ask or need it. \n Person A then would like help from person B but does not receive it. \n Person A then chooses to not help B again. This does not alter the original act of helping B, nor the reasons for it. It merely establishes a limit at which Person A is willing to assist without a voluntary reciprocation from B.","Summary: I am bothered I didn't have a choice, but I like what I have since I don't remeber having anything different.\n\nPost: I'll be honest. I don't remember my circumcision. When I think about it now, not knowing what I lost, I really can't say I'm angry. That said, I would have preferred to have been given the choice (as an adult) as to whether to have it done or not. I don't believe in it, and I think it is wrong to inflict such a thing on an infant. But in the end, like I said, I don't know what I had so I cannot lament the difference. As it stands, my peen works just fine as it is.","Summary: She most certainly CAN go out with hairy legs and face. She just needs to accept that not everyone is going to look favourably upon that choice and that is OK.\n\nPost: She is more than welcome to walk outside with a hairy face. I don't recall there being a law that states that women shall remain clean shaven at all times. That said, I am fully aware that many people do not find my facial hair or rather hirsuteness to be attractive, and that is OK. I am not doing it for them nor do I expect them to like it.","Summary: it doesnt matter who uses it the most. it is important that everyone feels welcome to use it.\n\nPost: if you make an effort to single out one specific group over all of the others who could equally benefit from a policy you are implicitly excluding all other groups even if they would be free to take advantage. It creates a situation wherein groups not specifically mentioned must then ask which creates a sense of grudging allowance rather than simple acceptance from the outset as would be the case with double-happiness` example.","Summary: The male birth control pill is for HIS benefit, not yours. If you are really that worried about him using it, use your own and STFU.\n\nPost: I've heard comments from feminists in discussions on this topic that are both for it and against it. The most common argument that I have heard is that \"men cannot be trusted to take it\". Setting aside for a moment the fact that such a comment is misandrist in the extreme, that is not the primary reason I dislike this argument. This argument makes the completely unwarranted assumption that by providing men with a new birth control option it somehow relieves women of their own obligation to their reproductive health. Somehow by giving a man access to a pill the onus then falls entirely on him. NEWSFLASH! - The male birth control pill is for HIM. It gives men the capacity to regulate their own sexual and reproductive freedom completely separate from women. If women want to be sure not to get pregnant, they have their own forms of BC to use. There is no law in place (as far as I know) that dictates that if one person has BC than the other person is obligated to trust them to use it properly.\nHere's a completely radical idea. Worry about your own damn self. Once the male birth control pill (or other more promising BC such as RISUG) becomes readily available, if you don't want to become pregnant use your own birth control. That way you don't have to worry about whether the other person is lying to you about theirs.","Summary: Your safety is more important than \"causing a scene\".\n\nPost: Option #1: I can try to remove myself: What if he pulls me back? He's stronger than I am and can do this easily. What if he interprets it as playing hard to get and we get into what he sees a playful wrestling match? \n The short answer is you then escalate the situation. you can escalate to option 2 or you can skip right to option 3 and cause a scene. \n >Option #2: I quietly say I don't appreciate being touched: Well, the night's shot now. You'll trash me to your friends in order to salvage your ego and probably say that I was leading you on. How far is this gossip going to spread and who's going to believe it? I don't know. Great, I get to worry about that now. \n Being direct is a surprisingly easy way of conveying ones thoughts and feelings. People can be socially blind to hints and it requires being direct sometimes. Also, why do you fucking care if John boy trashes you to his friends? You've already written him off, so all is fair if he does the same to you. \n >Option #3: I can cause a scene: Now I look like a bitch to everyone who wasn't paying attention and get to feel bad about that. Your friends think all you wanted was to talk to a girl and the crazy bitch called you a creeper. And then I seethe inside; I didn't want to be fucking touched at all and said it! \n You won't look like a bitch. What will happen is every guy within earshot will likely rush to your defense. Consider the case of Soner Yasa. He was a cabbie. He kicked 4 girls out of his cab for smoking and they refused to pay what they owed in cab fare. The 4 of them called out to a group of complete strangers and accused him of sexually assaulting them. The reaction was immediate. They mobbed him and fearing for his safety he called the police. No one stopped to question the girls. No one stopped to think about how a single guy driving a car could possibly assault 4 girls. No. they reacted and attacked him because the girls caused a scene and even after the video evidence was presented that showed the girls were lying, no one cared. \n >Option #4: Or I can just sit there and deal with it: Many, if not most, young women will select this option, and I have to admit it might happen to me too. I would have been too surprised at first to react, and then I would have run through my list of extremely unappealing options, and very unhappily settled on #4. That's not because I actually like #4, but it won't pit me physically against someone who can overcome me easily, and it's the most drama-free option I can take, but I would have resolved inwardly NEVER to be around you again. \n Then that is your choice, but don't for a second think that this is your only option, or that you will suffer any serious degree of social censure for choosing any of the other 3. \n In truth, it appears to me that in each and every scenario you have listed here, your only concern is to cast yourself as the victim when you clearly have options to get yourself out of an unwanted situation either under your own power or by enlisting proxy violence from the surrounding people. Quite frankly, if you find yourself in a situation where you feel threatened, or more importantly are threatened, why do you give a shit what people think of you? especially the person you feel threatened by? It makes absolutely zero sense. You are telling me that you would rather cling to the status of victim than display any agency of your own as if you have no personal responsibility to see to your own safety. If a person violates your boundaries, that is entirely on them but you still have a responsibility to react protectively as you are able.","Summary: As a dad with a small child, I agree with OP.\n\nPost: Children need to be exposed to age appropriate social functions. Bringing a baby or young child to a movie theatre is simply rude and disrespectful of the other people who also paid to see the film and who have a reasonable expectation to see it without significant distraction. \n Unless the movie is geared specifically for a family experience, babies and small children should not be taken to a theatre. As an example, The first time I took my daughter to a theatre, she was 3.5 years old. we went to see an afternoon matinee of Despicable Me 2 (one of her favourite movies). In the theatre were parents with children. some were loud, some were not, there was talking, there were children of all ages. I did not go there expecting anything other than what we got. I would not take my daughter to a movie where she would be expected to remain quiet (even though she did) because I realize that she is 3 years old with the attention span of a 3 year old. She does not have the patience to sit through an entire movie quietly, she will ask questions, she will want to do other things, she will in short, be a small child in an environment not appropriate to her age. It would not be fair for me to expect her to behave in such an environment or to subject other patrons to that level of arrogance on my part. It is better to expose her to the nuances of social interactions and the expectations involved in small doses rather than throw her into unfamiliar surroundings and expect her to know how to behave.","Summary: I agree.\n\nPost: It makes perfect sense though. The idea that a doctor is obligated to take on a patient who won't see to their own well being is ridiculous in the extreme. The primary person responsible for your health is you. If you are unwilling to take responsibility for that, how can you honestly expect anybody else to do it for you? I wish more doctors would do this.","Summary: Regardless of whether they exercise the choice or not, women always have the choice so they cannot be left vulnerable.\n\nPost: whether she is against them is irrelevant. The fact that she chooses not to exercise whatever options she has available to her for whatever reason is entirely her choice. It's no different than having a verbal agreement stating \"don't worry, I'm on the pill\" or \"I'll have an abortion if I get knocked up.\" and then changing her mind and leaving the guy on the hook for 18 years.","Summary: power didn't change me. It changed the relationship.\n\nPost: From my perspective, it isn't about being changed by power, it is about not being able to let friendship interfere with responsibility. When I was a grunt like the rest of the guys, yeah we were all friends. we'd laugh, joke, take the piss out of each other, you get the idea. Then I got promoted to supervisor. Now I'm in charge of performance evaluations, discipline, work assignments. The relationship has changed. I haven't. I would love to be able to laugh and joke like I used to with the team. but I can't do that anymore. I'm the one who's in charge, so I have to be in charge. I can't let my friendship with the team undermine my responsibilities as the boss.","Summary: It is the [Chick Tract]( for modern Feminist Ideological Thought.\n\nPost: It's the height of passive aggressive \"justice\". They hand you the card and thus feel vindicated in \"calling out\" whatever deadly sin you committed, yet do not have to exert any actual effort in explaining why or how they reached whatever conclusions they arrived at concerning your offensive behaviour. It is a simple tool of a closed, bigoted mind incapable of rational reasoning or civil discourse.","Summary: Choice and and nothing else determines the difference regarding average wages calculated between men and women.\n\nPost: Women already enjoy the same pay for the same job. Factoring in field of work, hours worked, experience, tenure, etc. women make the same or more than their male counterparts. The so called \"wage gap\" only exists due to the various choices with regard to the types of jobs that women choose, the fields they enter into and the hours they work."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: i would rather live in a sytem that cannot punish the guilty if the alternative is one that will punish the innocent.\\n\\nPost: Vigilantism is not justice. Any system that allows for the citizenry to apply summary judgement upon a person without evidence based solely upon feelings is anathema to justice. even a system where no crime was punished would be preferable to mob inflicted violence upon the innocent. but as bad as Detroit may be, and as crippled as the sytem is, it is still a sytem that is attempting to fulfill its role.\",\n \"Summary: No one can define your masculinity but you. Don't let anyone question it based on the choices you make.\\n\\nPost: Men are generally seen in society as sexually motivated. Basically, we are supposed to always want sex, we think of sex xx times a day, anything with a hole in it is an acceptable mating partner, etc, etc, etc. When men behave outside of this expected narrative, their masculinity becomes suspect. It is assumed that men who do not follow the expected norm, must be gay, or immature, or afraid of commitment. It can never be because men do not want sex, either in general or just from x person. There HAS to be a reason and the default is to fall back to the most common and erroneous assumption that refusing sex with a girl = gay. One of the main quests of the MRM is to detach the notion of masculinity from the expectations of society. Essentially, what defines you or me as a man has nothing to do with our sexuality, our preferences, our actions or our emotions but with ourselves and what we decide it means as individuals, to be men. If you like dudes, fine. If you want to cry, go right ahead. Don't want to fight in a war, that's OK too.\",\n \"Summary: the evidence strongly supports Wilsons version of events. He acted in a manner consistent with self defence against an attacker. He has met the burden of proof that you demanded.\\n\\nPost: Wilsons gun had Brown's DNA on it. His blood was on Wilsons pants, supporting Wilsons account that Brown attacked Wilson and tried to take his gun. \\n Brown was shot 6 times in total. 3 shots were grazing wounds. The final shot, the one that killed Brown entered the top of his head which again is consistant with Wilsons account that he was being charged at by Brown. Wilson already had a physical dealing with Brown. He knew Browns strength and size. Given the fact that wilson's shot pattern was all over the place, it supports his report of fearing for his life. Calm people simply do not fire so poorly.\",\n \"Summary: yeah they were dicks but they didn't do most of what you accused them of doing even if what they did do was dickish.\\n\\nPost: While I appreciate the sentiment of your letter I feel it necessary to point out a few flaws in you logic. \\n 1) Tipping is indeed complimentary. While many servers do indeed rely upon them to top up their meager wage, it is by no means a requirement for customers to provide a gratuity. It is generally frowned upon to not do so unless there are exigent circumstances such as poor service, but even then, failure to provide a tip is still only seen a social faux pas. \\n 2) We only know that the server was gay because we were told by the OP. There is no reasonable expectation that the customer in this instance would know the sexual orientation of their server unless perhaps they were informed at the time of service. I myself find that to be highly unlikely. \\n I do not agree with the actions that the customer took. While I understand their desire to proselytize, it does not mean they must deny a gratuity for good service to do so. It is indeed a dick move. That said, they still have a right to communicate their beliefs, even if you may disagree with them as you have the same right to communicate yours to them.\",\n \"Summary: ask yourself what you would do if he was hitting her?\\n\\nPost: The next time your roommate starts to physically abuse her boyfriend, if you decide to call the police, be sure to specify that SHE is beating HIM. It might make a difference, but it's likely that he'll be going to jail if you do call. Your roommate is committing assault and you have a moral responsibility to, at the least, alert the authorities. Regardless of the excuses she offers as to why she hits him, there is NO excuse. Abuse is abuse and he does not deserve to be mistreated that way.\",\n \"Summary: Came up with an elaborate plan involving titanium, rubies and a toy pony to ask my then GF to marry me. It worked.\\n\\nPost: I originally decided to ask my SO about 6 or 7 weeks prior to actually doing so and I was originally planning to do it on Valentines day. I know it's cheesy and all but since I am not normally a romantic I figured it would take her by surprise. We had danced around the topic here and there over the last few months and through those conversations, I was able to find out what she liked in terms of rings and stones but more on this later. \\n Since she is such a My Little Pony fan, I decided I wanted to incorporate this into my plan. I started Googling Custom My Little Pony and found someone who, after I explained my idea, agreed to do up a custom job for me despite the fact that she was already full up on orders and the deadline was incredibly short. (Wendy, I offer you a MILLION thanks!) \\n Next up was the ring... and the snag... \\n I knew that she didn't like diamonds (too plain) or yellow gold and that she liked red so I chose to go with a ruby. I had toyed with the idea of white gold until a co-worker pointed me in the direction of a non-traditional metal, Titanium. I checked out the website and went to place my order only to find out that I couldn't... at least not right away as I was lacking some vital details and I couldn't get a ruby. Fortunately, the setting I had chosen (tension setting) would accept a ruby; the company simply didn't have any and neither did I. So the order was on hold for now. \\n The Stone... a relatively painless endeavour \\n I was visiting my friend James* in Vancouver when I told him of my plan. He immediately became an accomplice in my scheme and helped me find a broker in the downtown area that sold loose rubies. I made an appointment for that afternoon and off we went on an adventure. when we got there, I was shown a number of stones that matched my requirements. I made my decision and got the stone I needed. \\n The ring part 2-- the hard part and a missed deadline \\n Now that I had the stone and the design I wanted, I needed to get my SO's ring size which I had no idea how to get. She doesn't normally wear jewellry so the easy way to figure out the size (borrow a ring and size it) was out and I couldn't just ask her since that would give it away. That's when James steps in and saves my bacon. He comes over for my birthday and spins a yarn about wanting to buy a graduation ring for his roommate who is completing her PHD. He wants it to be a surprise so he asks my SO to help him since her hands are about the same size as his roommates. They go off to a local jewellry shop and she gets sized. Ring size acquired. \\n I place the order for the ring, complete with all pertinent details, and send the stone off to be set. Unfortunately, due to my delay in placing the order a Valentines day surprise was out of the question. All I had left to do was wait. \\n Delays and stupid mail. \\n Valentines day comes and goes. Due to slow mail, the pony was also delayed and didn't arrive until Monday, Feb 16. Since the ring was not ready yet I wasn't too concerned. I still had the surprise and that was the important part. The fact that Valentines was a dud just played into my plan. I would reschedule for the following week. So I continue to wait, expecting to receive the ring on the 20th. And it arrives. and I was asleep when FedEx knocked on my door, so I missed the delivery. So I had to wait 2 more days. Heck, I've waited this long whats two more days? let me tell you... they were VERY LONG DAYS! \\n The question and the answer. \\n Monday rolls around and Mr. FedEx shows up. I was awake this time so I got my package, but by the time it showed up, my SO had gone to bed as she works nights. So I had to wait... again. When she finally woke up I told her I had a surprise for her. I got her to close her eyes and placed the pony on the desk in front of her. When she saw it she saw a pony with her name on it. That alone made her go \\\"squee\\\". Then she picked it up and saw the other side. On the hoof was a rendering of the exact ring I had custom made and the words \\\"Will you marry me?\\\" on the other side. She was oddly silent.... for about 3.5 seconds. Then she said yes.\",\n \"Summary: both women and men are responsible for rape and are both responsible for reducing it through awareness of consent and personal responsibility.\\n\\nPost: I think you're taking some things out of context, and just looking at a small piece, and not the whole puzzle. \\n I am well aware of the rest of the puzzle. My issue is with this \\\"piece\\\" if you will. \\n >What the argument is trying to communicate is that we need to teach what rape is. \\n We already know what rape is. Sex without consent. Full stop. \\n >I think feminists would be better trying to say \\\"We need to teach what rape is, not she shouldn't have walked alone at night.\\\" \\n Feminists would be better off saying \\\"We need to teach what rape is and that people need to be smart and take responsibility to reduce their risk.\\\" I had another conversation where a person asked how in the context of an orientation you can teach people not to rape. I responded with, \\\"Before we start this orientation, This is a message for anybody in the audience, male or female, it really doesn't matter, who thinks they don't need the consent of the other person to have sex. You are wrong. Sex without consent is rape. don't do it. For the rest of you, it's a good idea to take reasonable precautions to protect yourself. Don't assume that you can behave irresponsibly and it won't have negative consequences that may be out of your control. Be smart.\\\" The feminist model of teaching \\\"Raper, no raping!\\\" is simply childish and stupid. \\n >And I agree with you-- there's a big difference between \\\"She shouldn't have walked alone at night\\\" (victim blaming, referring to the past) and \\\"don't walk alone at night\\\" (advice, referring to the future). \\n You are literally the first person to actually admit this point to me. Seriously. Every other reaction I have received is that I am victim blaming and a rape apologist. I sincerely wish to thank you for being reasonable. \\n >Because really, feminism and MRM should align perfectly, and how it doesn't boggles my mind (don't we both want equality?) \\n It is my experience that actual equality is very low on the list of feminist goals. \\n >And I'm all for sensible risk reduction strategies, but I'm aiming more for societal risk reduction... \\n I fully agree that teaching people about consent and the need to have it is a positive way of reducing sexual assaults but the current narrative that any push beyond this rquals victim blaming is beyond frustrating. By focusing on the \\\"don't rape\\\" and ignoring \\\"be careful\\\" it creates a false narrative that people can act irresponsibly without negative consequence. \\n >But you are naive to think rape will never be eliminated... They don't have 'rape' in their vocabulary the way we do (not to say it doesn't happen there, though. It's just a very low instance). \\n You contradicted your own argument. My point is exactly this, you can never reduce the chance to zero. It will always be there. that is why you need to teach awareness and caution alongside each other.\",\n \"Summary: Go ahead and defend yourself. you'll suffer worse for doing so. Hopefully you won't get killed in the process.\\n\\nPost: Men should of course be able to defend themselves from violence. This is a given. The issue arises when men actually try to do so. As soon as a man attempts to defend himself from female aggression, he is often arrested for assault, accosted by bystanders screaming \\\"Never hit a girl!\\\", lambasted in the media, both social and mainstream, or any combination of the above consequences.\",\n \"Summary: Mouthwash and hand sanitizer are the Krokodil of alcohol.\\n\\nPost: Having dealt with a number of homeless individuals in my day, Mouthwash is a common go to drink for those who are desperate to obtain alcohol but do not have the money to afford actual liquor. In addition to a relatively high ethanol content (16 - 26%) depending on brand, it is generally much cheaper than liquor or more importantly, more easy to steal as it can be found in just about any retailer. Another product that also lands on this list is hand sanitizer. It, too is a common target of desperate alcoholics. It was a daily battle to keep the large bottles of hand sanitizer in the hospitals from being stolen by vagrants and drug addicts who would wander in looking for a quick fix. It is definitely hard on the system for anyone who drinks it but for those desperate enough to do so, the long term damage imposed by consuming it is less of a consideration than the immediate fix from consumption.\",\n \"Summary: Your arguments are bad and you should feel bad.\\n\\nPost: If the 4 men called the police, the assumption would be made that they attacked her. This goes back to primary aggressor policy in arrests. I have already pointed out where you are logically wrong and have answered all of the counterpoints you have raised while you have simply have chosen to not accept that you are wrong. I am no longer going to continue this conversation.\",\n \"Summary: you can hate whoever you want to. Just don't do it here as that isn't what we are about and do not support you.\\n\\nPost: You can do whatever the hell you like. You can paint yourself with nutella and dance on a nest of fire ants if you want to. I won't stop you and you can freely hate whoever you want as well. The rest of us don't want to hear it, nor is that kind of ridiculousness welcome here.\",\n \"Summary: Establishing limits on how much a person is able to use you for their own needs is not \\\"not being a nice guy\\\".\\n\\nPost: This is fundamentally untrue. If I see a person in need and I assist them, I am being a nice guy. I am under no obligation to render said assistance, and it is not conditional upon receiving reciprocation as other wise an agreement for reciprocation would have to be established prior to rendering assistance. That being said, an expectation of voluntary reciprocation for my being a nice guy is not unreasonable. \\n Person A helps persons B because they ask or need it. \\n Person A then would like help from person B but does not receive it. \\n Person A then chooses to not help B again. This does not alter the original act of helping B, nor the reasons for it. It merely establishes a limit at which Person A is willing to assist without a voluntary reciprocation from B.\",\n \"Summary: I am bothered I didn't have a choice, but I like what I have since I don't remeber having anything different.\\n\\nPost: I'll be honest. I don't remember my circumcision. When I think about it now, not knowing what I lost, I really can't say I'm angry. That said, I would have preferred to have been given the choice (as an adult) as to whether to have it done or not. I don't believe in it, and I think it is wrong to inflict such a thing on an infant. But in the end, like I said, I don't know what I had so I cannot lament the difference. As it stands, my peen works just fine as it is.\",\n \"Summary: She most certainly CAN go out with hairy legs and face. She just needs to accept that not everyone is going to look favourably upon that choice and that is OK.\\n\\nPost: She is more than welcome to walk outside with a hairy face. I don't recall there being a law that states that women shall remain clean shaven at all times. That said, I am fully aware that many people do not find my facial hair or rather hirsuteness to be attractive, and that is OK. I am not doing it for them nor do I expect them to like it.\",\n \"Summary: it doesnt matter who uses it the most. it is important that everyone feels welcome to use it.\\n\\nPost: if you make an effort to single out one specific group over all of the others who could equally benefit from a policy you are implicitly excluding all other groups even if they would be free to take advantage. It creates a situation wherein groups not specifically mentioned must then ask which creates a sense of grudging allowance rather than simple acceptance from the outset as would be the case with double-happiness` example.\",\n \"Summary: The male birth control pill is for HIS benefit, not yours. If you are really that worried about him using it, use your own and STFU.\\n\\nPost: I've heard comments from feminists in discussions on this topic that are both for it and against it. The most common argument that I have heard is that \\\"men cannot be trusted to take it\\\". Setting aside for a moment the fact that such a comment is misandrist in the extreme, that is not the primary reason I dislike this argument. This argument makes the completely unwarranted assumption that by providing men with a new birth control option it somehow relieves women of their own obligation to their reproductive health. Somehow by giving a man access to a pill the onus then falls entirely on him. NEWSFLASH! - The male birth control pill is for HIM. It gives men the capacity to regulate their own sexual and reproductive freedom completely separate from women. If women want to be sure not to get pregnant, they have their own forms of BC to use. There is no law in place (as far as I know) that dictates that if one person has BC than the other person is obligated to trust them to use it properly.\\nHere's a completely radical idea. Worry about your own damn self. Once the male birth control pill (or other more promising BC such as RISUG) becomes readily available, if you don't want to become pregnant use your own birth control. That way you don't have to worry about whether the other person is lying to you about theirs.\",\n \"Summary: Your safety is more important than \\\"causing a scene\\\".\\n\\nPost: Option #1: I can try to remove myself: What if he pulls me back? He's stronger than I am and can do this easily. What if he interprets it as playing hard to get and we get into what he sees a playful wrestling match? \\n The short answer is you then escalate the situation. you can escalate to option 2 or you can skip right to option 3 and cause a scene. \\n >Option #2: I quietly say I don't appreciate being touched: Well, the night's shot now. You'll trash me to your friends in order to salvage your ego and probably say that I was leading you on. How far is this gossip going to spread and who's going to believe it? I don't know. Great, I get to worry about that now. \\n Being direct is a surprisingly easy way of conveying ones thoughts and feelings. People can be socially blind to hints and it requires being direct sometimes. Also, why do you fucking care if John boy trashes you to his friends? You've already written him off, so all is fair if he does the same to you. \\n >Option #3: I can cause a scene: Now I look like a bitch to everyone who wasn't paying attention and get to feel bad about that. Your friends think all you wanted was to talk to a girl and the crazy bitch called you a creeper. And then I seethe inside; I didn't want to be fucking touched at all and said it! \\n You won't look like a bitch. What will happen is every guy within earshot will likely rush to your defense. Consider the case of Soner Yasa. He was a cabbie. He kicked 4 girls out of his cab for smoking and they refused to pay what they owed in cab fare. The 4 of them called out to a group of complete strangers and accused him of sexually assaulting them. The reaction was immediate. They mobbed him and fearing for his safety he called the police. No one stopped to question the girls. No one stopped to think about how a single guy driving a car could possibly assault 4 girls. No. they reacted and attacked him because the girls caused a scene and even after the video evidence was presented that showed the girls were lying, no one cared. \\n >Option #4: Or I can just sit there and deal with it: Many, if not most, young women will select this option, and I have to admit it might happen to me too. I would have been too surprised at first to react, and then I would have run through my list of extremely unappealing options, and very unhappily settled on #4. That's not because I actually like #4, but it won't pit me physically against someone who can overcome me easily, and it's the most drama-free option I can take, but I would have resolved inwardly NEVER to be around you again. \\n Then that is your choice, but don't for a second think that this is your only option, or that you will suffer any serious degree of social censure for choosing any of the other 3. \\n In truth, it appears to me that in each and every scenario you have listed here, your only concern is to cast yourself as the victim when you clearly have options to get yourself out of an unwanted situation either under your own power or by enlisting proxy violence from the surrounding people. Quite frankly, if you find yourself in a situation where you feel threatened, or more importantly are threatened, why do you give a shit what people think of you? especially the person you feel threatened by? It makes absolutely zero sense. You are telling me that you would rather cling to the status of victim than display any agency of your own as if you have no personal responsibility to see to your own safety. If a person violates your boundaries, that is entirely on them but you still have a responsibility to react protectively as you are able.\",\n \"Summary: As a dad with a small child, I agree with OP.\\n\\nPost: Children need to be exposed to age appropriate social functions. Bringing a baby or young child to a movie theatre is simply rude and disrespectful of the other people who also paid to see the film and who have a reasonable expectation to see it without significant distraction. \\n Unless the movie is geared specifically for a family experience, babies and small children should not be taken to a theatre. As an example, The first time I took my daughter to a theatre, she was 3.5 years old. we went to see an afternoon matinee of Despicable Me 2 (one of her favourite movies). In the theatre were parents with children. some were loud, some were not, there was talking, there were children of all ages. I did not go there expecting anything other than what we got. I would not take my daughter to a movie where she would be expected to remain quiet (even though she did) because I realize that she is 3 years old with the attention span of a 3 year old. She does not have the patience to sit through an entire movie quietly, she will ask questions, she will want to do other things, she will in short, be a small child in an environment not appropriate to her age. It would not be fair for me to expect her to behave in such an environment or to subject other patrons to that level of arrogance on my part. It is better to expose her to the nuances of social interactions and the expectations involved in small doses rather than throw her into unfamiliar surroundings and expect her to know how to behave.\",\n \"Summary: I agree.\\n\\nPost: It makes perfect sense though. The idea that a doctor is obligated to take on a patient who won't see to their own well being is ridiculous in the extreme. The primary person responsible for your health is you. If you are unwilling to take responsibility for that, how can you honestly expect anybody else to do it for you? I wish more doctors would do this.\",\n \"Summary: Regardless of whether they exercise the choice or not, women always have the choice so they cannot be left vulnerable.\\n\\nPost: whether she is against them is irrelevant. The fact that she chooses not to exercise whatever options she has available to her for whatever reason is entirely her choice. It's no different than having a verbal agreement stating \\\"don't worry, I'm on the pill\\\" or \\\"I'll have an abortion if I get knocked up.\\\" and then changing her mind and leaving the guy on the hook for 18 years.\",\n \"Summary: power didn't change me. It changed the relationship.\\n\\nPost: From my perspective, it isn't about being changed by power, it is about not being able to let friendship interfere with responsibility. When I was a grunt like the rest of the guys, yeah we were all friends. we'd laugh, joke, take the piss out of each other, you get the idea. Then I got promoted to supervisor. Now I'm in charge of performance evaluations, discipline, work assignments. The relationship has changed. I haven't. I would love to be able to laugh and joke like I used to with the team. but I can't do that anymore. I'm the one who's in charge, so I have to be in charge. I can't let my friendship with the team undermine my responsibilities as the boss.\",\n \"Summary: It is the [Chick Tract]( for modern Feminist Ideological Thought.\\n\\nPost: It's the height of passive aggressive \\\"justice\\\". They hand you the card and thus feel vindicated in \\\"calling out\\\" whatever deadly sin you committed, yet do not have to exert any actual effort in explaining why or how they reached whatever conclusions they arrived at concerning your offensive behaviour. It is a simple tool of a closed, bigoted mind incapable of rational reasoning or civil discourse.\",\n \"Summary: Choice and and nothing else determines the difference regarding average wages calculated between men and women.\\n\\nPost: Women already enjoy the same pay for the same job. Factoring in field of work, hours worked, experience, tenure, etc. women make the same or more than their male counterparts. The so called \\\"wage gap\\\" only exists due to the various choices with regard to the types of jobs that women choose, the fields they enter into and the hours they work.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":23,"string":"23"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2996,"string":"2,996"}}},{"rowIdx":2997,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"doppelbach"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post confirmation bias (they want to find reasons to dislike it)"},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I think some people have the notion that feminism is pointless, since women can legally vote, run for office, have a job, drive a car, etc (in the US at least). So from the perspective of these people, feminists are whining for no reason. Then to complete the picture, these people might filter out stories or facts which show that feminism does have a place in modern society (e.g. Why does the average woman earn less? Why has there never been a female president? Why are the overwhelming majority of CEOs male?). Instead, they focus on anecdotes showing feminism has 'gone too far' (e.g. \"I held the door for this woman and she made a big deal because she can open doors for herself!\"). \n Note: I don't actually know a lot about feminism. But you can observe this behavior in a many situations. For instance, certain people I know are completely against helping the environment. They will ignore the 99% of scientific research showing evidence of climate change, and instead focus on the 1 report showing some glacier somewhere is actually gaining mass. And they will cite some study showing that recycling plastic jugs isn't as useful as everyone thinks, but they are completely unaware that recycling aluminum saves 90% of the energy required to process new aluminum."},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"I think some people have the notion that feminism is pointless, since women can legally vote, run for office, have a job, drive a car, etc (in the US at least). So from the perspective of these people, feminists are whining for no reason. Then to complete the picture, these people might filter out stories or facts which show that feminism does have a place in modern society (e.g. Why does the average woman earn less? Why has there never been a female president? Why are the overwhelming majority of CEOs male?). Instead, they focus on anecdotes showing feminism has 'gone too far' (e.g. \"I held the door for this woman and she made a big deal because she can open doors for herself!\"). \n Note: I don't actually know a lot about feminism. But you can observe this behavior in a many situations. For instance, certain people I know are completely against helping the environment. They will ignore the 99% of scientific research showing evidence of climate change, and instead focus on the 1 report showing some glacier somewhere is actually gaining mass. And they will cite some study showing that recycling plastic jugs isn't as useful as everyone thinks, but they are completely unaware that recycling aluminum saves 90% of the energy required to process new aluminum."},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Latin is dead because it's not changing anymore \n Edit to more directly address the question: even though Latin doesn't change anymore, it can still be used to name new things with creative use of the existing words.\n\nPost: Living languages like English differ from dead languages like Latin in two major ways: \n \n No one speaks Latin conversationally anymore (everyone else has mentioned this) \n \n The language has ceased to evolve (as a result of #1). For example, English is constantly adding new words from other languages, or inventing new words from other English words (e.g. gifting). Even the grammar changes slowly over time. For instance, many modern speakers don't correctly distinguish between 'that' and 'which', and 'less' and 'fewer'. In a few hundred years, it's likely that the 'correct' form of English will have made these distinctions obsolete, just like the pronoun 'thou' is obsolete in modern English.","Summary: Credit cards are great for building credit, but might be hard to get without a history. If you get one, set some rules for yourself on how much you can afford to charge to it.\n\nPost: From my own experience, getting a credit card helped my credit immensely. No, they aren't the devil, but they can be dangerous. Make sure you set some rules regarding its use and stick to them 100%. \n Personally, I never charge more than I can pay off immediately if I needed to. This is the safest way to use a credit card. \n But some people use it to make larger purchases and pay it off over time. And sometimes you have no choice (e.g. medical emergencies). If you decide to do this, please make absolute sure that you at least pay off the interest every month. If you don't do this, the debt can grow very quickly. Sometimes this comes as a shock because no one will warn you when this is happening. So I would advise against using it this way. \n Bottom line: credit cards are great for building credit, but make it your responsibility to avoid an insurmountable debt. \n Having said that, credit cards are pretty hard to come by these days for someone without a history. I'm in grad school right now and I didn't get my first credit card until a few years ago (and that was only after being rejected several times). I think applying and being rejected can actually hurt your credit score, so it might be best to either 1. get a co-signer (parents/relatives/etc.) or 2. get a secured credit card to increase your chances of getting approved. \n A secured credit card is this: you put down a certain amount of money, and that's your credit limit. But it's a good way to build credit and you don't need a co-signer. (I was able to get a real credit card after about 6 months with a secured card.) You would have to check with your bank to see if they offer a secured credit card. I ended up switching from Chase to Wells Fargo in order to get one.","Summary: Calories are not a physical thing; they don't go anywhere. Instead, the potential energy gained when you break down your food is used to build other molecules (among other things).\n\nPost: Asking \"where do they calories go when your body burns them?\" is like asking \"where do the miles per hour go when a car crashes into something?\" \n Calories are not physical objects, but a measurement system made up by humans. You body can change the molecules that you eat (e.g. glucose) into other molecules (e.g. carbon dioxide and water). When this happens, food molecules lose a certain amount of chemical potential energy. We measure that amount in kilo-calories (Cal, which is actually 1000 cal). \n Now what happens to the potential energy released when your cells \"burn\" the food molecules? Some of it turns into heat, and some of it is used to transform other molecules. For instance, your cells use proteins to do all sorts of stuff. Each large protein is built from many small amino acids. Building proteins from amino acids requires energy.","Summary: Keeping your feet together has a scientific basis\n\nPost: My dad used to inspect power substations. The supervisors would warn him against taking large steps, since you could shock yourself. \n I'm not sure if they were just screwing with him, but it's theoretically possible. When a certain spot on the ground has a much higher electric potential than another spot (e.g. 5 feet from a lightning strike and 8 feet from a lightning strike), current will want to flow from high to low potential. If you take a large step you are giving it an easy shortcut.","Summary: was too trusting, acting on my suspicions would have prevented me from getting mugged \n Edit: Sorry I should make this clear. If you are ever mugged, don't try to fight it, just give them what you have. But that doesn't mean you need to blindly walk into their clutches. If you step outside a store at night and feel uncomfortable with someone waiting outside the door, just go back inside and wait for them to leave. If someone is approaching you on the sidewalk and you feel uncomfortable, cross to the other side of the street.\n\nPost: I grew up in a west coast suburb and recently moved to west Philly. One evening I was walking to the subway and this black guy approached me, asking for the time. \n I pulled out my phone to check the time (thereby showing him I had a smart phone). At this point I had no idea anything was wrong. I was about to put it back in my pocket, but he started asking other questions about the phone. I started to get a little suspicious at this point. A part of me whispered that I was only suspicious because he was black, and that he deserves my trust just as much as a little old white lady curious about my phone. \n So I wanted to glance around nervously but I refrained. I wanted to slowly edge backwards, but I refrained. I didn't want to give him the impression that I distrusted him because he was black. Don't get me wrong, I was getting worried, and I put my phone back in my pocket, but I kept responding to his questions with \"Oh, I'm sorry, I really need to get to the subway now.\" instead of just turning and running. \n Because I spent those extra few seconds talking to him once I felt something was wrong, his friend was able to sneak behind me. If I had been nervously glancing around, I would have seen this. If I had just run when I first felt uncomfortable, I knew I could make it to the station ahead of them. But I wanted to believe they were innocent, and so I trusted them. \n \n Now I trust my gut feeling over anything else. I know it's completely unfair to others. Just a week after I was mugged I was approached by a black guy who needed directions. I spun around to make sure no one was approaching behind me, then kept my eyes on him while crossing to the other side of the street. The look in his eyes as he watched me back away was really upsetting. I could see how much it hurt to be judged like that. And I knew there was like a 99.9% chance he was an honest guy needing directions. But I wasn't going to risk getting robbed twice in two weeks. \n So my message to others out there is this: Trust your gut. You will hurt others feelings, and you'll have to live with that. But unless you have also been mugged, you have no right to tell me what I'm doing is wrong.","Summary: Drones (potentially) make for less accountability in war\n\nPost: I agree for the most part, but I would like to add one thing. \n Some people assert that drones allow for much less accountability in warfare. To quote Robert E. Lee: \n > It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. \n I think there is a concern that drones make war too clean and convenient on our end. \n \n Keeping human pilots out of danger is an obvious one. Pilots getting killed or captured makes for a mess, and would likely lead to stronger anti-war sentiment. \n \n \n For some reason, drone warfare seemed to fly under the radar of US media. Most Americans aren't aware that the US has been striking targets inside Pakistan using drones. If there were more awareness, the administration would have to justify its position. But as things stand, they don't have to explain themselves, because no one gives a shit. \n \n So basically, the argument goes that drones make increase public awareness and apathy relative to conventional warfare. I don't know if I buy it 100%, but I think there are some valid points to be made. If we are going to continue functioning as a democracy, then the government needs to be accountable to the public for all its actions, especially those resulting in the deaths of others. If the warfare is justifiable, then they should justify it.","Summary: Sending spacecraft perpendicular to the planets' orbits takes way more fuel than sending it in the same orbit. \n Edit: TIL that the solar system is considerably slanted compared to the galactic plane. Therefore, to get a better picture of the Milky Way, it makes more sense to send a probe out in the plane of our solar system, just like Voyager. My last point still stands though: it would take an insane amount of time to get far enough away to get a view.\n\nPost: All our spacecraft which have gone to the outer planets have used multiple gravity slingshots to get up enough speed. A gravity slingshot works by 'stealing' angular momentum from the planet and giving it to the spacecraft. So you can really only boost in the same-ish plane as the planets. \n There's also the Oberth effect, which is where your burns are more effective when you are moving faster, i.e. at closest approach to a planet. The angular momentum of the planet doesn't matter here, so I guess you could still make use of the Oberth effect to boost your orbit perpendicular to the planets'. But it would be much rarer to intercept planets from a perpendicular orbit, since there are really only two points where the orbits could cross, and it's unlikely you will be there at the same time as the a planet. \n Finally, it's pretty difficult to change the plane of your orbit (it takes a lot of fuel). Any spacecraft 'escaping' earth's gravity will still have nearly the same orbit around the sun as the earth does. For instance, the earth orbits around the sun at 107,000 kph. If you want to have the same size orbit, but perpendicular, you need to be moving 'upwards' at 107,000 kph instead. This means you need to accelerate by 151,000 kph after escaping earth's gravity. We don't have any spaceship with capabilities remotely close to that. (For an easier example, imagine a tire swing. If you are swinging north and south, it's easy enough to swing faster or slower in the same direction. But switching to east and west will take quite a bit of pushing.) \n Finally, if you could send a probe out 'perpendicular' to our solar system, it would still have to go much further than any previous spacecraft to get any sort of a view of the galaxy. Google tells me the Milky Way is about 1000 light years thick. So if we could send a Voyager-style probe 'above' the solar system in order to get a better view of the Milky Way, it would be sort of like an ant on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel standing on its hind legs to try and get a better view of the whole thing. \n I know that was super long, sorry. I find this stuff pretty interesting haha.","Summary: Plants/ripping the C off of CO2: plausible but wrong. They currently produce O2 through other reactions or ship it directly. \n Edit: I'm not smart enough to figure out how to embed links with parentheses, so I didn't.\n\nPost: At this risk of sounding like a gigantic ass: it doesn't help the OP at all to make up answers. \n True, CO2 can be reacted to produce O2. Plants produce O2 as a side effect of fixing CO2 into sugars. So yes, it seems plausible that they could have plants or 'recycle' the CO2 directly. But the efficiency of photosynthesis is around 1%, and a lot of this is due to the difficulty of reducing CO2. \n See, carbon likes to be oxidized. That's why organic matter burns so well. It's hard to make it go the other direction. It turns out to be much easier to produce oxygen from other reactions (e.g. [electrolysis of water]( or [sodium chlorate and iron]( or even to send tanks of oxygen to the space station. \n NASA even says that a fully regenerative life support system would only be cost-effective for something like a lunar outpost or mars transit: \n So basically, plants and direct reduction of CO2 could work, but it's not the most efficient method for the ISS. The third link talks about a completely closed-loop system which would become effective for long-term missions which aren't 'easily' accessible for resupply missions.","Summary: sex has always been a part of music, but does music rely more on sex to sell now?\n\nPost: This is absolutely true and was my first thought when reading the post. I think it's incorrect to assume there's more sex in music than 30 years ago. \n BUT, I think there's a still a good point here: \n > I just find it sad that so many artists need to go so low as to use sex as a way to garner attention for videos and their music. \n Maybe I'm too young as well, but has there really been a period where artists relied so heavily on sex to sell? AC DC had 'You shook me all night long', but I wouldn't claim they are using sex to sell music. Madonna definitely used sex to get attention, but she was also talented (unlike Miley Cyrus, for instance). Is it possible that artists are relying more on sex as a selling point than in the past?","Summary: z-score can still give you unrealistic results\n\nPost: I said this already, but I'm not convinced that would solve the problem: \n > For instance, if I have Test A with an average of 50/100 and SD of 10, and Test B with an average of 95/100 and SD of 2, I can say the equivalent of a 80/100 on Test A is 101/100 on Test B, even though it's not a feasible score. \n I think the only way to compare scores and get a meaningful result would be to use percentiles, as [u/polit1337]( pointed out.","Summary: Dry ice snow in Antarctica is impossible for the same reason liquid water evaporates below its boiling point.\n\nPost: Again, no way. \n > This already happens \n I think this is a stretch. After searching a bit, all I found was a mention that, on one particular day, the temperature at Vostok station was forecast to drop below the sublimation point of CO2. People were speculating that CO2 would condense. I found nothing to show anyone observed 'CO2 snow', and even if it happened, it could hardly be called a regular occurrence. \n But there's another problem: CO2 isn't guaranteed to condense just because the temperature is below the sublimation point. \n Think about a glass of water. It's well below the boiling point, but it still evaporates. This is because, at any temperature, there is a certain pressure which would be in equilibrium with a solid or liquid. For water at room temperature, that pressure is 0.03 atm. If the partial pressure of water vapor in the room is less than 0.03 atm, liquid water will evaporate even though it is below the boiling point. \n Back to CO2: the sublimation point you are thinking of (there are infinitely many sublimation points) is -108 F / 195 K. This is the sublimation point at 1 atm, meaning the vapor pressure of dry ice at 195 K is 1 atm. Since the partial pressure of CO2 is much lower than 1 atm, the rate of sublimation will exceed the rate of condensation, resulting in net sublimation. So not only will you not get 'CO2 snow' under those conditions, but even if you had dry ice, it would still sublime away.","Summary: You can argue either way, but I think \"God\" is not a name. Good question btw.\n\nPost: Isn't \"God\" also just a name aswell though? \n It's sort of complicated, but I would say no it isn't a name. For instance, when talking about polytheistic systems, we talk about gods. If god/God were a name, then it wouldn't make sense to say something like \"a Hindu god\". \n On the other hand, if it were a descriptor, it should always follow an article (e.g. a God, the God), but sometimes you hear people just saying \"God\" by itself. Part of the reason for this is that, in a monotheistic system, there is only one god. So the indefinite/definite distinction is irrelevant (i.e. you don't need to specify a god vs. the god).","Summary: cells are small, but not that small\n\nPost: One thing to remember is that cells actually aren't that small, in terms of our current fabrication methods. For example, computer chips are made with features only 22 nm apart (linewidth), while cells are anywhere from 1 micron (bacteria) to 1 mm (some egg cells). So the linewidth on human-made computer chips are 45 to 45,000 times smaller than a cell.","Summary: Never said Russia was worse than the US.\n\nPost: Where are you getting this from? I made no judgement about the US in Iraq or about Russia in Ukraine. I only said two things: \n \n Crimea has been annexed, not made into a satellite state \n \n \n Iraq has not been made into a satellite state (to the best of my knowledge) \n \n Both points were in response to u/Anomaline. I said nothing about Russia's actions being worse than the US's. But I will now: \n In terms of long-term stability, we will have to see, but I'm confident Crimea will fair better than Iraq. Iraq has been getting worse for a long time and I don't see that changing soon. Yes, it was a shitty war. \n In terms of motivation, I think they are about equal. Now I know this is very controversial. Personally, I thought the Iraq war was a mistake from day one. But you have to remember this happened ~1.5 years after 9-11. A small group of terrorists had managed to kill thousands. It turns out they were funded by the Taliban, which governed Afghanistan at that point. So the government is worried about more state-sponsored terrorism. Next, there's intel that Iraq's government has WMDs. Now this intel was, at best, wrong, and at worst, fabricated. But there was pretty strong support for the war at first in the US government. Even Bill Clinton has said he would have gone to war had he seen the same intel. None of this is to say that the war was justified, or that we should be forgiven. It was wrong and it was inexcusable. But you have a government with 9-11 fresh on their minds, looking at intel showing an unfriendly government has WMDs, so do you sort of understand their motivations a little better? \n Contrast that with Crimea. What's the motivation? Natural resources? No. Strategic importance? No. (Don't tell me about the Black Sea fleet. It's symbolic more than anything else.) In fact, it's almost a strategic liability in that it currently depends on mainland Ukraine for utilities. Was Russia threatened by Ukraine? No. (Again, neither was the US by Iraq, but it wasn't known at the time.) The only motivation for Russia to annex Crimea is to bolster Russian nationalism, and that's a very dangerous game. \n Here's the kicker: the UN repeatedly warned Saddam Hussein. Of course they got upset when the US invaded, and rightly so. But the point is the the international consensus was that Saddam was being a dick. Now look at Crimea. The international consensus was that Russia was being a dick. At a meeting of the security counsel, even China came out against Russia. What does that tell you?","Summary: osmosis is definitely not the right term, diffusion is good enough but I have a small problem with it\n\nPost: It's more than just the absence of a membrane. Osmosis is associated with solutions, and requires a gradient in the solute concentration. So there's many reasons osmosis is not the correct phenomenon. \n Also, I don't think I would use the word diffusion either. Diffusion results from Brownian motion, which involves molecules bumping against each other. In this situation, the density of gas molecules would quickly become so low that Brownian motion isn't really applicable anymore, as the mean free path extends to macroscopic length scales. This regime is called rarefied gas dynamics . For these reasons, I would prefer to call it expansion of a gas rather than diffusion. \n A little perspective: you can call this diffusion and no one (other than me) will even mention it. It perfectly describes what we see happening here (i.e. movement of molecules from a region of high concentration to low concentration). \n I'm only making the distinction between 'familiar' gas dynamics and rarefied gas dynamics because I work with high vacuum systems. There's a lot of non-intuitive behavior going on at super low pressure. For instance, the pressure in one part of a vacuum chamber can be significantly different than a point several inches away. \n Anyway, I hope that didn't sound too argumentative. I think the behavior of gasses at low pressure is pretty interesting, and I thought I would share a little.","Summary: All objects fall at the same rate if we mean falling relative to a stationary reference frame. Heavier objects fall slightly faster if we mean falling relative to the earth.\n\nPost: I remember reading that the greater force of attraction and greater resistance 'balance out', so any two different masses would thus fall towards a third mass at the same rate. \n This is correct. You've probably heard that every action has an equal and opposing reaction . So when the earth pulls down on an object, that object pulls up on the earth with equal force. \n So from a reference frame on earth, a heavier object will fall slightly faster because it pulls the earth upwards a bit faster than a lighter object. But if you could watch the same thing from a stationary reference frame (not on the object or the earth), you would see that the light object and the heavy object accelerate at the same rate. The only difference is that the earth will accelerate more quickly towards the heavy object than the light object, closing the distance quicker and giving the impression that the object is falling slightly faster.","Summary: If you are familiar with any classical pieces, go listen to versions conducted by different conductors. Sometimes they have a pretty distinct feel.\n\nPost: I used to think it didn't matter. But once you listen to classical music enough (especially listening to the same piece but with different conductors) you can definitely tell a difference. Even though tempo and dynamics are written into the score, the conductor still has some leeway to influence the speed and volume of each section as they see fit. And while it probably doesn't make a huge difference in terms of the actual beats per minute and the actual decibels, it's surprising how different a piece can feel from one conductor to the next.","Summary: Catalysts often change at a molecular or electronic level, but these changes are reversed in later steps, so there are no macroscopic changes.\n\nPost: Yay a catalysis question! (I'm doing a PhD in this field) \n There are many different types of catalysts, so the answer depends on what we are talking about. \n For instance, in an acid-catalyzed reaction, the acid molecule (or acid group of a solid acid) will actually react with the reactant. Another molecule of acid is generated at a later step. So technically, the acid molecules are being destroyed during the reaction, but equal amounts are produced, so there are no macroscopic changes. \n Another example would be Pt-catalyzed hydrogenation. A molecule with a C=C double bond can adsorb onto a platinum surface. The electrons in the '2nd' bond can interact with the d-orbitals of the platinum atoms in a way that weakens the double bond. This makes it easier for a the two hydrogen atoms to react with the molecule. So in this case, the electron orbitals of the platinum catalyst are temporarily changed while the molecule is adsorbed. After the molecule desorbs everything will revert to how it was. \n Another heterogeneous catalysis example: redox catalysts. Reducible oxide catalysts can work like an 'oxygen reservoir' to accelerate redox reactions. Instead of one reactant directly oxidizing the second, the catalyst can oxidize it. Then the first reactant can dump its oxygen to fill the vacancy on the catalyst. (This is one of the processes that happens in the catalytic converter on your car in order to oxide the CO and unburnt fuel.) So in this case, the catalyst is also changing at a molecular level, but for every oxygen atom lost to the reductant, it will gain one from the oxidant, so it's just small fluctuations rather than a long-term change. \n Final example: photocatalysis. Some materials (such as TiO2), can excite an electron by absorbing a photon. This high-energy electron can be used to reduce one reactant, while the hole (vacancy left behind by the excited electron) can oxidize the other reactant. It loses the high-energy electron by reducing the 1st reactant, but it gains another electron by oxidizing the 2nd one. Once again, the catalyst is changing at an electronic level, but the changes will cancel out. \n Hopefully these examples are somewhat interesting. Everyone learns in high school chemistry that catalysts accelerate reactions, but the mechanisms by which this happens is pretty cool I think (but of course I would).","Summary: Very rough estimation shows ~1,000,000 times more energy released by 1 kg of uranium than is required to get 1 kg of waste into space. So I feel like I was justified asking for a calculation to back up [u/UncleMeat's]( claim that the opposite was true.\n\nPost: These are really good points, but still no calculations. \n Edit: to those who are downvoting me, I have two clarifications: \n \n I don't think it's a good idea to send nuclear waste into the sun. I was merely responding to [u/UncleMeat's]( comment which very clearly stated that sending nuclear waste into space would consume more energy than is released by that nuclear fuel in the first place. Here's the text of that comment: \n \n > It takes enormously more energy to shoot the waste into space than what was produced in the reactor making that waste. \n \n Instead of asking for someone else to do the calculations, I did a quick estimate myself. The energy density . Do you really think air resistance can make up for those 6 orders of magnitude ? (Of course, this doesn't mean we should fire nuclear waste into the sun, I am only responding to u/UncleMeat's comment.)","Summary: In terms of steering a ship: P is steering harder the further off course you are, I is steering into the wind to counteract a drift, and D is slowing the turn as you approach your course\n\nPost: Another chemical engineer here. But I once saw it explained in terms of a captain steering a ship, so I will try to retell that as well as I can. \n First of all, a controller is a device meant to keep a process variable (e.g. temperature in a reactor) at a set point. Now for the ship analogy: the process variable is the current heading of the ship, and the set point is the heading you want. The captain/helmsman is the controller. \n Now how does the captain know how to steer? First, they might look at how far off of course they are. If they are little to the left, then might steer slightly to the right. If they are further to the left, they would steer strongly to the right. This is basically what the proportional part of a PID controller does. \n Next, assume there is some sort of cross-current. So even though the captain is steering the ship in the direction they want to go, the current is pushing them more and more to the left. The captain wouldn't notice this at first. Instead, they would steer just according to \"proportional\" control. Then, if they notice they keep getting pushed further and further to one side, they might purposely steer a little in the other direction to counteract this force. This is similar to what the integral part does. It looks for things that are continuously pushing the process variable away from the set point, and acts to compensate. \n Finally, an experienced captain/helmsman would know to start straightening out the rudder before the turn was finished, since the ship has a lot of momentum. If you are steering hard to the right and then suddenly straighten the rudder as soon as you hit your heading, you will overshoot and end up going too far to the right. The derivative aspect of a PID works like this. It is used to slow down the correction when the PV approaches the SP in order to prevent an overshoot. \n I hope that makes sense.","Summary: I think people aren't stupid, they just put their brains on power-save mode after they get off work.\n\nPost: I think the problem isn't that people aren't intelligent but that they don't use their intelligence most of the time. This explains why I had to help my med-student neighbors troubleshoot their TV (it wasn't plugged in) or why my labmate asks me to sit at the computer terminal and shout out readings while he adjusts equipment until I suggested he just turn the monitor around so he can see it himself.","Summary: The NSA has spied on people they feel threatened by (e.g. MLK), not just people threatening the USA (e.g. terrorists).\n\nPost: To further this point, saying \"I have nothing to hide\" assumes you know what they are looking for. Here . But lets just assume it was motivated only by the anti-war thing. \n If so, you have a government which has decided to start and sustain an unpopular war. Then when public figures speak out against it, they draw the attention of the government agency responsible for national security. So basically you have citizens peacefully and democratically participating in a democracy, and the government takes issue with that.","Summary: The program keeps track of what type of data is represented by each byte.\n\nPost: Computer memory is divided into 8-bit chunks called bytes. When a program is running, it keeps track of all the memory chunks it is using, as well as what type of data each chunk represents. \n So for instance, if a certain chunk has a value of 65 (in binary) and the program says it's a character variable, it will read it as 'a'. But instead if the program says it's a short integer, it will read it as 65. \n This is why old-school programming languages like C++ force you to declare variables by their type: \n int x = 65;\nchar c = 'a';\n \n In this situation, the memory chunks storing the values for x and c will have the same value (65 in binary).","Summary: I think it will decrease the total power consumption, but it will increase the percentage of that power which is wasted.\n\nPost: I don't actually know how these types of dimmers work, but if the variable resistor is in series with the light, we can figure it out. \n 120 V = V[resistor] + V[light] = I (R[r] + R[l])\n\n\nI = 120 V / (R[r] + R[l])\n\n\nP = I^2 R = (120 V)^2 / (R[r] + R[l])\n \n So if these dimmers use a variable resistor in series with the light, and if the resistance of the light doesn't change appreciably with current, then increasing the resistance of the 'dimmer' will actually decrease the total power consumed by the circuit. (Although it will obviously increase the percent of power wasted by the dimmer.)","Summary: Fahrenheit has no advantage over Celsius, but for everyday use, Celsius has nearly no advantage over Fahrenheit either.\n\nPost: That that 100 degrees Fahrenheit \"feels really hot\" is a more objective, factual statement? \n No, that's not my point, and I have no idea why you think that's my point. I never even implied anything about Fahrenheit being more objective. \n I'm not talking about which scale is more objective. I'm talking about how their definitions impact everyday use. Obviously Celsius' being based on the properties of water make it more objective in a scientific sense . But I'm arguing that this objectivity is lost in everyday use. \n If I am cooking and need to boil water, I don't need to know that the boiling point of water is 100 C, or 212 F. When I am cooking, the boiling point is when the water is starts bubbling. Similarly, if I am making frozen margaritas, I know my ice-cube trays have ice in them, because my freezer is below the melting point. In other words, knowing water freezes exactly at 0 C / 32 F isn't really helpful, because (a) you don't need to set the temperature on your freezer, and (b) setting it to exactly 0 C would be terrible for making ice anyway. \n The only example when knowing the exact freezing point of water might be helpful is in determining the weather. But as I tried to explain in my previous comment, it's not very helpful there either. \n Finally, it's not like Celsius is magically well-suited for everything. The only thing that 'makes more sense' (whatever that means) in Celsius is the properties of pure water. Normal body temperature doesn't 'make more sense' in Celsius, nor does the temperature needed to safely cook chicken, nor does the temperature where it's warm enough to go out without a coat. The only edge that Celsius holds is making the boiling and freezing points of water easier to remember. So the issue really boils down to having to memorize two numbers. \n To reiterate: I am not arguing that Fahrenheit is more objective than Celsius. Obviously it isn't. But I am arguing that, for everyday use, Celsius is just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit.","Summary: Lucas had no constructive criticism in the prequels, tried to make them too kid-friendly, and shifted the focus from story and characters to cgi and funny aliens.\n\nPost: Now I didn't enjoy the prequels, but I think people go overboard with the hate. It's like Justin Bieber. Yeah he's a little turd but who cares? \n Anyway, to answer your question: \n People have mentioned special effects and jar jar and all that. And that's all true. But in my mind there's an even bigger issue here. Not many people actually believed in Lucas while he was making the original trilogy. People questioned his ideas, and the criticism made for a better finished product. \n For instance: I've heard that when Leia tells Han she loves him, Harrison Ford was supposed to say he loved her too, but instead he said \"I know\". And in my opinion it fits his character much better. Harrison Ford knew that. And I think it makes the scene more powerful, not just a 1-dimensional cliche. \n Fast-forward to 1-3, and you have a bunch of actors (many of them young) who are working with Lucas the Legend. No one questioned him. And it shows. I'm not saying he has never had a good idea. But in 4-6 he was surrounded by people who questioned everything and served as a good-idea-filter, while in 1-3 he surrounded himself by people who would never dream of arguing with him. (I'm not making this up, there's interviews with people who were there.) \n Two more things: \n Since the original release of 4-6, Lucas has sought to make the whole franchise more kid-friendly. For example, I'm sure you've heard about Han shooting Greedo first in the original release. Then at some point Lucas went back and edited it (terribly) so that Greedo shoots first and Han is forced to shoot in self defense. Now I understand that Lucas doesn't want kids seeing this 'shoot first, ask questions later' man as a hero, but that's part of what made him such a great character. Han's reappearance at the end of 4 to save Luke, when he could have taken the money and run, shows a huge transformation in Han's selflessness/loyalty/ideals. But I think this transformation is even more powerful when he starts as the guy that shoots first. But enough of that. My point is that the original trilogy was gritty and dark at times. And to many that's more appealing and meaningful than the airbrushed, candy-coated prequels. \n Finally, the original trilogy was very unique for sci-fi. They stayed away from trying to explain the science behind anything, and focus on the story and characters instead (now contrast that with midichlorians). Much of the story and characters were inspired by movies that Lucas grew up watching (e.g. Seven Samurai). And episode 4 is basically the hero's journey. So Lucas took these great characters and great story and stuck it in space, and people loved it. To me at least, the prequels feel like Lucas forgot about his inspiration. He gave us space and space battles and lightsaber battles, but the characters are boring and there story is uninspiring. \n Well that turned out much longer than I was aiming for.","Summary: Check the KSP wiki to find out the highest elevation on each planet, then use the radar altimeter to check the distance to the surface whenever you are below that elevation.\n\nPost: Yeah, I've been there before. \n > Guess that means that the Mun has 2k meters above sea level? \n It varies. There's mountains and valleys and whatnot. If you look at the [KSP wiki page]( for the different planets and moons, it will tell you the highest elevation. For the Mun, the highest elevation is 7060 m. So I always set up an orbit above that altitude. \n Short side note: there's no sea level on the Mun (or most other bodies in KSP). Instead, they choose an arbitrary elevation to be zero meters. (I think in KSP they always choose the lowest elevation to be the reference level, so that you never have negative elevation.) \n Now when you are landing on the Mun, it's sometimes a little hard to judge the distance to the surface. When you get close, you can normally watch your shadow (so always land on the day-side!). But sometimes it can get a little nerve-wracking waiting for your shadow to appear, so here's one more trick: the cockpits always have a radar altimeter. The radar altimeter shows your height above the surface, not your altitude. \n To see the radar altimeter, you can install a mod, or you can just switch to cockpit-view/IVA. The radar altimeter is the one that looks like [this]( I usually switch to IVA while landing just to get a sense of high above the surface I am, then quickly switch back to normal view for the actual landing. \n One more thing: on Minmus it's much easier to identify the 'sea level'. When in orbit, you can see a lot of flat areas that look like dry lake beds. Those are all at 0 m, so if you can aim your landing in one of those areas, you don't need to check the radar altimeter at all, since it will give you the same reading as the altitude.","Summary: In general, you can't estimate density from molar mass.\n\nPost: In a way, you are approaching this as if it's an ideal gas. \n To get from molar mass (g / mol) to mass-density (g / cc), you need to include the molar -density (mol / cc). All ideal gasses have the same molar-density (= 1 mol / 22.4 L). So for ideal gasses, the (mass) density is proportional to the molar mass. \n But for liquids (or just about anything else), the molar-density is not constant, therefore you can't estimate the mass-density from the molecular weight. \n In this example, octane has a higher molar mass than water, but water has a much higher molar-density (there are more water molecules in a given volume). The result is that the mass-density (molar mass * molar-density) is higher for water."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Latin is dead because it's not changing anymore \\n Edit to more directly address the question: even though Latin doesn't change anymore, it can still be used to name new things with creative use of the existing words.\\n\\nPost: Living languages like English differ from dead languages like Latin in two major ways: \\n \\n No one speaks Latin conversationally anymore (everyone else has mentioned this) \\n \\n The language has ceased to evolve (as a result of #1). For example, English is constantly adding new words from other languages, or inventing new words from other English words (e.g. gifting). Even the grammar changes slowly over time. For instance, many modern speakers don't correctly distinguish between 'that' and 'which', and 'less' and 'fewer'. In a few hundred years, it's likely that the 'correct' form of English will have made these distinctions obsolete, just like the pronoun 'thou' is obsolete in modern English.\",\n \"Summary: Credit cards are great for building credit, but might be hard to get without a history. If you get one, set some rules for yourself on how much you can afford to charge to it.\\n\\nPost: From my own experience, getting a credit card helped my credit immensely. No, they aren't the devil, but they can be dangerous. Make sure you set some rules regarding its use and stick to them 100%. \\n Personally, I never charge more than I can pay off immediately if I needed to. This is the safest way to use a credit card. \\n But some people use it to make larger purchases and pay it off over time. And sometimes you have no choice (e.g. medical emergencies). If you decide to do this, please make absolute sure that you at least pay off the interest every month. If you don't do this, the debt can grow very quickly. Sometimes this comes as a shock because no one will warn you when this is happening. So I would advise against using it this way. \\n Bottom line: credit cards are great for building credit, but make it your responsibility to avoid an insurmountable debt. \\n Having said that, credit cards are pretty hard to come by these days for someone without a history. I'm in grad school right now and I didn't get my first credit card until a few years ago (and that was only after being rejected several times). I think applying and being rejected can actually hurt your credit score, so it might be best to either 1. get a co-signer (parents/relatives/etc.) or 2. get a secured credit card to increase your chances of getting approved. \\n A secured credit card is this: you put down a certain amount of money, and that's your credit limit. But it's a good way to build credit and you don't need a co-signer. (I was able to get a real credit card after about 6 months with a secured card.) You would have to check with your bank to see if they offer a secured credit card. I ended up switching from Chase to Wells Fargo in order to get one.\",\n \"Summary: Calories are not a physical thing; they don't go anywhere. Instead, the potential energy gained when you break down your food is used to build other molecules (among other things).\\n\\nPost: Asking \\\"where do they calories go when your body burns them?\\\" is like asking \\\"where do the miles per hour go when a car crashes into something?\\\" \\n Calories are not physical objects, but a measurement system made up by humans. You body can change the molecules that you eat (e.g. glucose) into other molecules (e.g. carbon dioxide and water). When this happens, food molecules lose a certain amount of chemical potential energy. We measure that amount in kilo-calories (Cal, which is actually 1000 cal). \\n Now what happens to the potential energy released when your cells \\\"burn\\\" the food molecules? Some of it turns into heat, and some of it is used to transform other molecules. For instance, your cells use proteins to do all sorts of stuff. Each large protein is built from many small amino acids. Building proteins from amino acids requires energy.\",\n \"Summary: Keeping your feet together has a scientific basis\\n\\nPost: My dad used to inspect power substations. The supervisors would warn him against taking large steps, since you could shock yourself. \\n I'm not sure if they were just screwing with him, but it's theoretically possible. When a certain spot on the ground has a much higher electric potential than another spot (e.g. 5 feet from a lightning strike and 8 feet from a lightning strike), current will want to flow from high to low potential. If you take a large step you are giving it an easy shortcut.\",\n \"Summary: was too trusting, acting on my suspicions would have prevented me from getting mugged \\n Edit: Sorry I should make this clear. If you are ever mugged, don't try to fight it, just give them what you have. But that doesn't mean you need to blindly walk into their clutches. If you step outside a store at night and feel uncomfortable with someone waiting outside the door, just go back inside and wait for them to leave. If someone is approaching you on the sidewalk and you feel uncomfortable, cross to the other side of the street.\\n\\nPost: I grew up in a west coast suburb and recently moved to west Philly. One evening I was walking to the subway and this black guy approached me, asking for the time. \\n I pulled out my phone to check the time (thereby showing him I had a smart phone). At this point I had no idea anything was wrong. I was about to put it back in my pocket, but he started asking other questions about the phone. I started to get a little suspicious at this point. A part of me whispered that I was only suspicious because he was black, and that he deserves my trust just as much as a little old white lady curious about my phone. \\n So I wanted to glance around nervously but I refrained. I wanted to slowly edge backwards, but I refrained. I didn't want to give him the impression that I distrusted him because he was black. Don't get me wrong, I was getting worried, and I put my phone back in my pocket, but I kept responding to his questions with \\\"Oh, I'm sorry, I really need to get to the subway now.\\\" instead of just turning and running. \\n Because I spent those extra few seconds talking to him once I felt something was wrong, his friend was able to sneak behind me. If I had been nervously glancing around, I would have seen this. If I had just run when I first felt uncomfortable, I knew I could make it to the station ahead of them. But I wanted to believe they were innocent, and so I trusted them. \\n \\n Now I trust my gut feeling over anything else. I know it's completely unfair to others. Just a week after I was mugged I was approached by a black guy who needed directions. I spun around to make sure no one was approaching behind me, then kept my eyes on him while crossing to the other side of the street. The look in his eyes as he watched me back away was really upsetting. I could see how much it hurt to be judged like that. And I knew there was like a 99.9% chance he was an honest guy needing directions. But I wasn't going to risk getting robbed twice in two weeks. \\n So my message to others out there is this: Trust your gut. You will hurt others feelings, and you'll have to live with that. But unless you have also been mugged, you have no right to tell me what I'm doing is wrong.\",\n \"Summary: Drones (potentially) make for less accountability in war\\n\\nPost: I agree for the most part, but I would like to add one thing. \\n Some people assert that drones allow for much less accountability in warfare. To quote Robert E. Lee: \\n > It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. \\n I think there is a concern that drones make war too clean and convenient on our end. \\n \\n Keeping human pilots out of danger is an obvious one. Pilots getting killed or captured makes for a mess, and would likely lead to stronger anti-war sentiment. \\n \\n \\n For some reason, drone warfare seemed to fly under the radar of US media. Most Americans aren't aware that the US has been striking targets inside Pakistan using drones. If there were more awareness, the administration would have to justify its position. But as things stand, they don't have to explain themselves, because no one gives a shit. \\n \\n So basically, the argument goes that drones make increase public awareness and apathy relative to conventional warfare. I don't know if I buy it 100%, but I think there are some valid points to be made. If we are going to continue functioning as a democracy, then the government needs to be accountable to the public for all its actions, especially those resulting in the deaths of others. If the warfare is justifiable, then they should justify it.\",\n \"Summary: Sending spacecraft perpendicular to the planets' orbits takes way more fuel than sending it in the same orbit. \\n Edit: TIL that the solar system is considerably slanted compared to the galactic plane. Therefore, to get a better picture of the Milky Way, it makes more sense to send a probe out in the plane of our solar system, just like Voyager. My last point still stands though: it would take an insane amount of time to get far enough away to get a view.\\n\\nPost: All our spacecraft which have gone to the outer planets have used multiple gravity slingshots to get up enough speed. A gravity slingshot works by 'stealing' angular momentum from the planet and giving it to the spacecraft. So you can really only boost in the same-ish plane as the planets. \\n There's also the Oberth effect, which is where your burns are more effective when you are moving faster, i.e. at closest approach to a planet. The angular momentum of the planet doesn't matter here, so I guess you could still make use of the Oberth effect to boost your orbit perpendicular to the planets'. But it would be much rarer to intercept planets from a perpendicular orbit, since there are really only two points where the orbits could cross, and it's unlikely you will be there at the same time as the a planet. \\n Finally, it's pretty difficult to change the plane of your orbit (it takes a lot of fuel). Any spacecraft 'escaping' earth's gravity will still have nearly the same orbit around the sun as the earth does. For instance, the earth orbits around the sun at 107,000 kph. If you want to have the same size orbit, but perpendicular, you need to be moving 'upwards' at 107,000 kph instead. This means you need to accelerate by 151,000 kph after escaping earth's gravity. We don't have any spaceship with capabilities remotely close to that. (For an easier example, imagine a tire swing. If you are swinging north and south, it's easy enough to swing faster or slower in the same direction. But switching to east and west will take quite a bit of pushing.) \\n Finally, if you could send a probe out 'perpendicular' to our solar system, it would still have to go much further than any previous spacecraft to get any sort of a view of the galaxy. Google tells me the Milky Way is about 1000 light years thick. So if we could send a Voyager-style probe 'above' the solar system in order to get a better view of the Milky Way, it would be sort of like an ant on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel standing on its hind legs to try and get a better view of the whole thing. \\n I know that was super long, sorry. I find this stuff pretty interesting haha.\",\n \"Summary: Plants/ripping the C off of CO2: plausible but wrong. They currently produce O2 through other reactions or ship it directly. \\n Edit: I'm not smart enough to figure out how to embed links with parentheses, so I didn't.\\n\\nPost: At this risk of sounding like a gigantic ass: it doesn't help the OP at all to make up answers. \\n True, CO2 can be reacted to produce O2. Plants produce O2 as a side effect of fixing CO2 into sugars. So yes, it seems plausible that they could have plants or 'recycle' the CO2 directly. But the efficiency of photosynthesis is around 1%, and a lot of this is due to the difficulty of reducing CO2. \\n See, carbon likes to be oxidized. That's why organic matter burns so well. It's hard to make it go the other direction. It turns out to be much easier to produce oxygen from other reactions (e.g. [electrolysis of water]( or [sodium chlorate and iron]( or even to send tanks of oxygen to the space station. \\n NASA even says that a fully regenerative life support system would only be cost-effective for something like a lunar outpost or mars transit: \\n So basically, plants and direct reduction of CO2 could work, but it's not the most efficient method for the ISS. The third link talks about a completely closed-loop system which would become effective for long-term missions which aren't 'easily' accessible for resupply missions.\",\n \"Summary: sex has always been a part of music, but does music rely more on sex to sell now?\\n\\nPost: This is absolutely true and was my first thought when reading the post. I think it's incorrect to assume there's more sex in music than 30 years ago. \\n BUT, I think there's a still a good point here: \\n > I just find it sad that so many artists need to go so low as to use sex as a way to garner attention for videos and their music. \\n Maybe I'm too young as well, but has there really been a period where artists relied so heavily on sex to sell? AC DC had 'You shook me all night long', but I wouldn't claim they are using sex to sell music. Madonna definitely used sex to get attention, but she was also talented (unlike Miley Cyrus, for instance). Is it possible that artists are relying more on sex as a selling point than in the past?\",\n \"Summary: z-score can still give you unrealistic results\\n\\nPost: I said this already, but I'm not convinced that would solve the problem: \\n > For instance, if I have Test A with an average of 50/100 and SD of 10, and Test B with an average of 95/100 and SD of 2, I can say the equivalent of a 80/100 on Test A is 101/100 on Test B, even though it's not a feasible score. \\n I think the only way to compare scores and get a meaningful result would be to use percentiles, as [u/polit1337]( pointed out.\",\n \"Summary: Dry ice snow in Antarctica is impossible for the same reason liquid water evaporates below its boiling point.\\n\\nPost: Again, no way. \\n > This already happens \\n I think this is a stretch. After searching a bit, all I found was a mention that, on one particular day, the temperature at Vostok station was forecast to drop below the sublimation point of CO2. People were speculating that CO2 would condense. I found nothing to show anyone observed 'CO2 snow', and even if it happened, it could hardly be called a regular occurrence. \\n But there's another problem: CO2 isn't guaranteed to condense just because the temperature is below the sublimation point. \\n Think about a glass of water. It's well below the boiling point, but it still evaporates. This is because, at any temperature, there is a certain pressure which would be in equilibrium with a solid or liquid. For water at room temperature, that pressure is 0.03 atm. If the partial pressure of water vapor in the room is less than 0.03 atm, liquid water will evaporate even though it is below the boiling point. \\n Back to CO2: the sublimation point you are thinking of (there are infinitely many sublimation points) is -108 F / 195 K. This is the sublimation point at 1 atm, meaning the vapor pressure of dry ice at 195 K is 1 atm. Since the partial pressure of CO2 is much lower than 1 atm, the rate of sublimation will exceed the rate of condensation, resulting in net sublimation. So not only will you not get 'CO2 snow' under those conditions, but even if you had dry ice, it would still sublime away.\",\n \"Summary: You can argue either way, but I think \\\"God\\\" is not a name. Good question btw.\\n\\nPost: Isn't \\\"God\\\" also just a name aswell though? \\n It's sort of complicated, but I would say no it isn't a name. For instance, when talking about polytheistic systems, we talk about gods. If god/God were a name, then it wouldn't make sense to say something like \\\"a Hindu god\\\". \\n On the other hand, if it were a descriptor, it should always follow an article (e.g. a God, the God), but sometimes you hear people just saying \\\"God\\\" by itself. Part of the reason for this is that, in a monotheistic system, there is only one god. So the indefinite/definite distinction is irrelevant (i.e. you don't need to specify a god vs. the god).\",\n \"Summary: cells are small, but not that small\\n\\nPost: One thing to remember is that cells actually aren't that small, in terms of our current fabrication methods. For example, computer chips are made with features only 22 nm apart (linewidth), while cells are anywhere from 1 micron (bacteria) to 1 mm (some egg cells). So the linewidth on human-made computer chips are 45 to 45,000 times smaller than a cell.\",\n \"Summary: Never said Russia was worse than the US.\\n\\nPost: Where are you getting this from? I made no judgement about the US in Iraq or about Russia in Ukraine. I only said two things: \\n \\n Crimea has been annexed, not made into a satellite state \\n \\n \\n Iraq has not been made into a satellite state (to the best of my knowledge) \\n \\n Both points were in response to u/Anomaline. I said nothing about Russia's actions being worse than the US's. But I will now: \\n In terms of long-term stability, we will have to see, but I'm confident Crimea will fair better than Iraq. Iraq has been getting worse for a long time and I don't see that changing soon. Yes, it was a shitty war. \\n In terms of motivation, I think they are about equal. Now I know this is very controversial. Personally, I thought the Iraq war was a mistake from day one. But you have to remember this happened ~1.5 years after 9-11. A small group of terrorists had managed to kill thousands. It turns out they were funded by the Taliban, which governed Afghanistan at that point. So the government is worried about more state-sponsored terrorism. Next, there's intel that Iraq's government has WMDs. Now this intel was, at best, wrong, and at worst, fabricated. But there was pretty strong support for the war at first in the US government. Even Bill Clinton has said he would have gone to war had he seen the same intel. None of this is to say that the war was justified, or that we should be forgiven. It was wrong and it was inexcusable. But you have a government with 9-11 fresh on their minds, looking at intel showing an unfriendly government has WMDs, so do you sort of understand their motivations a little better? \\n Contrast that with Crimea. What's the motivation? Natural resources? No. Strategic importance? No. (Don't tell me about the Black Sea fleet. It's symbolic more than anything else.) In fact, it's almost a strategic liability in that it currently depends on mainland Ukraine for utilities. Was Russia threatened by Ukraine? No. (Again, neither was the US by Iraq, but it wasn't known at the time.) The only motivation for Russia to annex Crimea is to bolster Russian nationalism, and that's a very dangerous game. \\n Here's the kicker: the UN repeatedly warned Saddam Hussein. Of course they got upset when the US invaded, and rightly so. But the point is the the international consensus was that Saddam was being a dick. Now look at Crimea. The international consensus was that Russia was being a dick. At a meeting of the security counsel, even China came out against Russia. What does that tell you?\",\n \"Summary: osmosis is definitely not the right term, diffusion is good enough but I have a small problem with it\\n\\nPost: It's more than just the absence of a membrane. Osmosis is associated with solutions, and requires a gradient in the solute concentration. So there's many reasons osmosis is not the correct phenomenon. \\n Also, I don't think I would use the word diffusion either. Diffusion results from Brownian motion, which involves molecules bumping against each other. In this situation, the density of gas molecules would quickly become so low that Brownian motion isn't really applicable anymore, as the mean free path extends to macroscopic length scales. This regime is called rarefied gas dynamics . For these reasons, I would prefer to call it expansion of a gas rather than diffusion. \\n A little perspective: you can call this diffusion and no one (other than me) will even mention it. It perfectly describes what we see happening here (i.e. movement of molecules from a region of high concentration to low concentration). \\n I'm only making the distinction between 'familiar' gas dynamics and rarefied gas dynamics because I work with high vacuum systems. There's a lot of non-intuitive behavior going on at super low pressure. For instance, the pressure in one part of a vacuum chamber can be significantly different than a point several inches away. \\n Anyway, I hope that didn't sound too argumentative. I think the behavior of gasses at low pressure is pretty interesting, and I thought I would share a little.\",\n \"Summary: All objects fall at the same rate if we mean falling relative to a stationary reference frame. Heavier objects fall slightly faster if we mean falling relative to the earth.\\n\\nPost: I remember reading that the greater force of attraction and greater resistance 'balance out', so any two different masses would thus fall towards a third mass at the same rate. \\n This is correct. You've probably heard that every action has an equal and opposing reaction . So when the earth pulls down on an object, that object pulls up on the earth with equal force. \\n So from a reference frame on earth, a heavier object will fall slightly faster because it pulls the earth upwards a bit faster than a lighter object. But if you could watch the same thing from a stationary reference frame (not on the object or the earth), you would see that the light object and the heavy object accelerate at the same rate. The only difference is that the earth will accelerate more quickly towards the heavy object than the light object, closing the distance quicker and giving the impression that the object is falling slightly faster.\",\n \"Summary: If you are familiar with any classical pieces, go listen to versions conducted by different conductors. Sometimes they have a pretty distinct feel.\\n\\nPost: I used to think it didn't matter. But once you listen to classical music enough (especially listening to the same piece but with different conductors) you can definitely tell a difference. Even though tempo and dynamics are written into the score, the conductor still has some leeway to influence the speed and volume of each section as they see fit. And while it probably doesn't make a huge difference in terms of the actual beats per minute and the actual decibels, it's surprising how different a piece can feel from one conductor to the next.\",\n \"Summary: Catalysts often change at a molecular or electronic level, but these changes are reversed in later steps, so there are no macroscopic changes.\\n\\nPost: Yay a catalysis question! (I'm doing a PhD in this field) \\n There are many different types of catalysts, so the answer depends on what we are talking about. \\n For instance, in an acid-catalyzed reaction, the acid molecule (or acid group of a solid acid) will actually react with the reactant. Another molecule of acid is generated at a later step. So technically, the acid molecules are being destroyed during the reaction, but equal amounts are produced, so there are no macroscopic changes. \\n Another example would be Pt-catalyzed hydrogenation. A molecule with a C=C double bond can adsorb onto a platinum surface. The electrons in the '2nd' bond can interact with the d-orbitals of the platinum atoms in a way that weakens the double bond. This makes it easier for a the two hydrogen atoms to react with the molecule. So in this case, the electron orbitals of the platinum catalyst are temporarily changed while the molecule is adsorbed. After the molecule desorbs everything will revert to how it was. \\n Another heterogeneous catalysis example: redox catalysts. Reducible oxide catalysts can work like an 'oxygen reservoir' to accelerate redox reactions. Instead of one reactant directly oxidizing the second, the catalyst can oxidize it. Then the first reactant can dump its oxygen to fill the vacancy on the catalyst. (This is one of the processes that happens in the catalytic converter on your car in order to oxide the CO and unburnt fuel.) So in this case, the catalyst is also changing at a molecular level, but for every oxygen atom lost to the reductant, it will gain one from the oxidant, so it's just small fluctuations rather than a long-term change. \\n Final example: photocatalysis. Some materials (such as TiO2), can excite an electron by absorbing a photon. This high-energy electron can be used to reduce one reactant, while the hole (vacancy left behind by the excited electron) can oxidize the other reactant. It loses the high-energy electron by reducing the 1st reactant, but it gains another electron by oxidizing the 2nd one. Once again, the catalyst is changing at an electronic level, but the changes will cancel out. \\n Hopefully these examples are somewhat interesting. Everyone learns in high school chemistry that catalysts accelerate reactions, but the mechanisms by which this happens is pretty cool I think (but of course I would).\",\n \"Summary: Very rough estimation shows ~1,000,000 times more energy released by 1 kg of uranium than is required to get 1 kg of waste into space. So I feel like I was justified asking for a calculation to back up [u/UncleMeat's]( claim that the opposite was true.\\n\\nPost: These are really good points, but still no calculations. \\n Edit: to those who are downvoting me, I have two clarifications: \\n \\n I don't think it's a good idea to send nuclear waste into the sun. I was merely responding to [u/UncleMeat's]( comment which very clearly stated that sending nuclear waste into space would consume more energy than is released by that nuclear fuel in the first place. Here's the text of that comment: \\n \\n > It takes enormously more energy to shoot the waste into space than what was produced in the reactor making that waste. \\n \\n Instead of asking for someone else to do the calculations, I did a quick estimate myself. The energy density . Do you really think air resistance can make up for those 6 orders of magnitude ? (Of course, this doesn't mean we should fire nuclear waste into the sun, I am only responding to u/UncleMeat's comment.)\",\n \"Summary: In terms of steering a ship: P is steering harder the further off course you are, I is steering into the wind to counteract a drift, and D is slowing the turn as you approach your course\\n\\nPost: Another chemical engineer here. But I once saw it explained in terms of a captain steering a ship, so I will try to retell that as well as I can. \\n First of all, a controller is a device meant to keep a process variable (e.g. temperature in a reactor) at a set point. Now for the ship analogy: the process variable is the current heading of the ship, and the set point is the heading you want. The captain/helmsman is the controller. \\n Now how does the captain know how to steer? First, they might look at how far off of course they are. If they are little to the left, then might steer slightly to the right. If they are further to the left, they would steer strongly to the right. This is basically what the proportional part of a PID controller does. \\n Next, assume there is some sort of cross-current. So even though the captain is steering the ship in the direction they want to go, the current is pushing them more and more to the left. The captain wouldn't notice this at first. Instead, they would steer just according to \\\"proportional\\\" control. Then, if they notice they keep getting pushed further and further to one side, they might purposely steer a little in the other direction to counteract this force. This is similar to what the integral part does. It looks for things that are continuously pushing the process variable away from the set point, and acts to compensate. \\n Finally, an experienced captain/helmsman would know to start straightening out the rudder before the turn was finished, since the ship has a lot of momentum. If you are steering hard to the right and then suddenly straighten the rudder as soon as you hit your heading, you will overshoot and end up going too far to the right. The derivative aspect of a PID works like this. It is used to slow down the correction when the PV approaches the SP in order to prevent an overshoot. \\n I hope that makes sense.\",\n \"Summary: I think people aren't stupid, they just put their brains on power-save mode after they get off work.\\n\\nPost: I think the problem isn't that people aren't intelligent but that they don't use their intelligence most of the time. This explains why I had to help my med-student neighbors troubleshoot their TV (it wasn't plugged in) or why my labmate asks me to sit at the computer terminal and shout out readings while he adjusts equipment until I suggested he just turn the monitor around so he can see it himself.\",\n \"Summary: The NSA has spied on people they feel threatened by (e.g. MLK), not just people threatening the USA (e.g. terrorists).\\n\\nPost: To further this point, saying \\\"I have nothing to hide\\\" assumes you know what they are looking for. Here . But lets just assume it was motivated only by the anti-war thing. \\n If so, you have a government which has decided to start and sustain an unpopular war. Then when public figures speak out against it, they draw the attention of the government agency responsible for national security. So basically you have citizens peacefully and democratically participating in a democracy, and the government takes issue with that.\",\n \"Summary: The program keeps track of what type of data is represented by each byte.\\n\\nPost: Computer memory is divided into 8-bit chunks called bytes. When a program is running, it keeps track of all the memory chunks it is using, as well as what type of data each chunk represents. \\n So for instance, if a certain chunk has a value of 65 (in binary) and the program says it's a character variable, it will read it as 'a'. But instead if the program says it's a short integer, it will read it as 65. \\n This is why old-school programming languages like C++ force you to declare variables by their type: \\n int x = 65;\\nchar c = 'a';\\n \\n In this situation, the memory chunks storing the values for x and c will have the same value (65 in binary).\",\n \"Summary: I think it will decrease the total power consumption, but it will increase the percentage of that power which is wasted.\\n\\nPost: I don't actually know how these types of dimmers work, but if the variable resistor is in series with the light, we can figure it out. \\n 120 V = V[resistor] + V[light] = I (R[r] + R[l])\\n\\n\\nI = 120 V / (R[r] + R[l])\\n\\n\\nP = I^2 R = (120 V)^2 / (R[r] + R[l])\\n \\n So if these dimmers use a variable resistor in series with the light, and if the resistance of the light doesn't change appreciably with current, then increasing the resistance of the 'dimmer' will actually decrease the total power consumed by the circuit. (Although it will obviously increase the percent of power wasted by the dimmer.)\",\n \"Summary: Fahrenheit has no advantage over Celsius, but for everyday use, Celsius has nearly no advantage over Fahrenheit either.\\n\\nPost: That that 100 degrees Fahrenheit \\\"feels really hot\\\" is a more objective, factual statement? \\n No, that's not my point, and I have no idea why you think that's my point. I never even implied anything about Fahrenheit being more objective. \\n I'm not talking about which scale is more objective. I'm talking about how their definitions impact everyday use. Obviously Celsius' being based on the properties of water make it more objective in a scientific sense . But I'm arguing that this objectivity is lost in everyday use. \\n If I am cooking and need to boil water, I don't need to know that the boiling point of water is 100 C, or 212 F. When I am cooking, the boiling point is when the water is starts bubbling. Similarly, if I am making frozen margaritas, I know my ice-cube trays have ice in them, because my freezer is below the melting point. In other words, knowing water freezes exactly at 0 C / 32 F isn't really helpful, because (a) you don't need to set the temperature on your freezer, and (b) setting it to exactly 0 C would be terrible for making ice anyway. \\n The only example when knowing the exact freezing point of water might be helpful is in determining the weather. But as I tried to explain in my previous comment, it's not very helpful there either. \\n Finally, it's not like Celsius is magically well-suited for everything. The only thing that 'makes more sense' (whatever that means) in Celsius is the properties of pure water. Normal body temperature doesn't 'make more sense' in Celsius, nor does the temperature needed to safely cook chicken, nor does the temperature where it's warm enough to go out without a coat. The only edge that Celsius holds is making the boiling and freezing points of water easier to remember. So the issue really boils down to having to memorize two numbers. \\n To reiterate: I am not arguing that Fahrenheit is more objective than Celsius. Obviously it isn't. But I am arguing that, for everyday use, Celsius is just as arbitrary as Fahrenheit.\",\n \"Summary: Lucas had no constructive criticism in the prequels, tried to make them too kid-friendly, and shifted the focus from story and characters to cgi and funny aliens.\\n\\nPost: Now I didn't enjoy the prequels, but I think people go overboard with the hate. It's like Justin Bieber. Yeah he's a little turd but who cares? \\n Anyway, to answer your question: \\n People have mentioned special effects and jar jar and all that. And that's all true. But in my mind there's an even bigger issue here. Not many people actually believed in Lucas while he was making the original trilogy. People questioned his ideas, and the criticism made for a better finished product. \\n For instance: I've heard that when Leia tells Han she loves him, Harrison Ford was supposed to say he loved her too, but instead he said \\\"I know\\\". And in my opinion it fits his character much better. Harrison Ford knew that. And I think it makes the scene more powerful, not just a 1-dimensional cliche. \\n Fast-forward to 1-3, and you have a bunch of actors (many of them young) who are working with Lucas the Legend. No one questioned him. And it shows. I'm not saying he has never had a good idea. But in 4-6 he was surrounded by people who questioned everything and served as a good-idea-filter, while in 1-3 he surrounded himself by people who would never dream of arguing with him. (I'm not making this up, there's interviews with people who were there.) \\n Two more things: \\n Since the original release of 4-6, Lucas has sought to make the whole franchise more kid-friendly. For example, I'm sure you've heard about Han shooting Greedo first in the original release. Then at some point Lucas went back and edited it (terribly) so that Greedo shoots first and Han is forced to shoot in self defense. Now I understand that Lucas doesn't want kids seeing this 'shoot first, ask questions later' man as a hero, but that's part of what made him such a great character. Han's reappearance at the end of 4 to save Luke, when he could have taken the money and run, shows a huge transformation in Han's selflessness/loyalty/ideals. But I think this transformation is even more powerful when he starts as the guy that shoots first. But enough of that. My point is that the original trilogy was gritty and dark at times. And to many that's more appealing and meaningful than the airbrushed, candy-coated prequels. \\n Finally, the original trilogy was very unique for sci-fi. They stayed away from trying to explain the science behind anything, and focus on the story and characters instead (now contrast that with midichlorians). Much of the story and characters were inspired by movies that Lucas grew up watching (e.g. Seven Samurai). And episode 4 is basically the hero's journey. So Lucas took these great characters and great story and stuck it in space, and people loved it. To me at least, the prequels feel like Lucas forgot about his inspiration. He gave us space and space battles and lightsaber battles, but the characters are boring and there story is uninspiring. \\n Well that turned out much longer than I was aiming for.\",\n \"Summary: Check the KSP wiki to find out the highest elevation on each planet, then use the radar altimeter to check the distance to the surface whenever you are below that elevation.\\n\\nPost: Yeah, I've been there before. \\n > Guess that means that the Mun has 2k meters above sea level? \\n It varies. There's mountains and valleys and whatnot. If you look at the [KSP wiki page]( for the different planets and moons, it will tell you the highest elevation. For the Mun, the highest elevation is 7060 m. So I always set up an orbit above that altitude. \\n Short side note: there's no sea level on the Mun (or most other bodies in KSP). Instead, they choose an arbitrary elevation to be zero meters. (I think in KSP they always choose the lowest elevation to be the reference level, so that you never have negative elevation.) \\n Now when you are landing on the Mun, it's sometimes a little hard to judge the distance to the surface. When you get close, you can normally watch your shadow (so always land on the day-side!). But sometimes it can get a little nerve-wracking waiting for your shadow to appear, so here's one more trick: the cockpits always have a radar altimeter. The radar altimeter shows your height above the surface, not your altitude. \\n To see the radar altimeter, you can install a mod, or you can just switch to cockpit-view/IVA. The radar altimeter is the one that looks like [this]( I usually switch to IVA while landing just to get a sense of high above the surface I am, then quickly switch back to normal view for the actual landing. \\n One more thing: on Minmus it's much easier to identify the 'sea level'. When in orbit, you can see a lot of flat areas that look like dry lake beds. Those are all at 0 m, so if you can aim your landing in one of those areas, you don't need to check the radar altimeter at all, since it will give you the same reading as the altitude.\",\n \"Summary: In general, you can't estimate density from molar mass.\\n\\nPost: In a way, you are approaching this as if it's an ideal gas. \\n To get from molar mass (g / mol) to mass-density (g / cc), you need to include the molar -density (mol / cc). All ideal gasses have the same molar-density (= 1 mol / 22.4 L). So for ideal gasses, the (mass) density is proportional to the molar mass. \\n But for liquids (or just about anything else), the molar-density is not constant, therefore you can't estimate the mass-density from the molecular weight. \\n In this example, octane has a higher molar mass than water, but water has a much higher molar-density (there are more water molecules in a given volume). The result is that the mass-density (molar mass * molar-density) is higher for water.\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":28,"string":"28"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2997,"string":"2,997"}}},{"rowIdx":2998,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"autieab"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post is: no real children, just roleplay, harmless kink (unless you count diaper rash :P), enjoyed and needed by those who have it."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"so I stumbled upon your subreddit by accident \n Ain't askreddit threads about kink great? :) (assuming that's the 'by accident'). We almost always get linked in those threads. \n Anyway, to answer, some people think it's just fucking weird (to quote the askreddit post \"Acting like a child, wearing diapers and pissing yourself.\") but the better descriptor is shedding off adult responsibility, relaxing and letting our inner selves and inner most desires free, just for a while. Diapers are a symbol and a tool for that. \n Be assured that the vast majority of us have relatively normal boring adult lives with responsibilities, jobs, demands and stresses just like everybody else. It's just that rather than (or as well as) playing games, listening to music, watching TV, smoking a bowl, having a beer, etc, etc, to relax, we like to wear and (mostly) use a diaper too. \n Some are interested only in the diaper and the sensations it offers (which are really quite sublime if you like that kind of thing), some are also (or exclusively) interested in roleplaying, be it mentally, physically, alone or with others, as a younger age (aka 'ageplay'). \n For some it's mostly sexual (a pure object = arousal fetish), for some it's less so (blurry), for others, it's a deep, complex, hard to understand need that isn't sexual at all. Most of us kinda float around and can't easily be pigeon-holed into those categories. \n We're all different. Ask a thousand people to describe what makes their diaper/ageplay/fetish/lifestyle side tick and you'll get a thousand different answers (heck some forego the diapers entirely) so these are just generalisations but the"},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"so I stumbled upon your subreddit by accident \n Ain't askreddit threads about kink great? :) (assuming that's the 'by accident'). We almost always get linked in those threads. \n Anyway, to answer, some people think it's just fucking weird (to quote the askreddit post \"Acting like a child, wearing diapers and pissing yourself.\") but the better descriptor is shedding off adult responsibility, relaxing and letting our inner selves and inner most desires free, just for a while. Diapers are a symbol and a tool for that. \n Be assured that the vast majority of us have relatively normal boring adult lives with responsibilities, jobs, demands and stresses just like everybody else. It's just that rather than (or as well as) playing games, listening to music, watching TV, smoking a bowl, having a beer, etc, etc, to relax, we like to wear and (mostly) use a diaper too. \n Some are interested only in the diaper and the sensations it offers (which are really quite sublime if you like that kind of thing), some are also (or exclusively) interested in roleplaying, be it mentally, physically, alone or with others, as a younger age (aka 'ageplay'). \n For some it's mostly sexual (a pure object = arousal fetish), for some it's less so (blurry), for others, it's a deep, complex, hard to understand need that isn't sexual at all. Most of us kinda float around and can't easily be pigeon-holed into those categories. \n We're all different. Ask a thousand people to describe what makes their diaper/ageplay/fetish/lifestyle side tick and you'll get a thousand different answers (heck some forego the diapers entirely) so these are just generalisations but the"},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: So long as the plane isn't crammed to bursting, most airlines will allow diapers to be carried even above your usual 1+personal allowance so long as you're not obviously taking the piss.\n\nPost: FWIW, everybody can take that 'personal item' on as their second carry on, a laptop bag, diaper bag, large purse, etc... You can stow one normal carry-on in the overhead bin and the 'personal item' just has to be able to fit under the seat in front of you. \n Now if you want to actually identify a small diaper bag when boarding as containing 'medical supplies', most will let you take that on as a third carry on bag. You probably wouldn't be able to stuff that bag with other belongings, though, just diaper change stuff or they'll probably tell you to quit pushing your luck :P \n For example, American: \n Allow one regular, one personal and any of the items in a bullet list which includes \"Diaper bag for lap or ticketed child\" (you can certainly read 'child' as 'passenger', they're not going to quibble that it's for an adult) as well as \"Assistive devices for passengers\". \n Likewise Delta allow medical supplies to be carried in addition to the usual carry on rules:","Summary: Sometimes it's convenient to be diapered. Sometimes it's really not. \n \n \n The longest I've gone 24/7 was about a week to ten days and I really enjoyed it. But that's about my limit before other factors start to detract from the fun.\n\nPost: For me, I would if it were all up to me but there are a few other factors: \n \n Teenage stepkids in the house. It's easy to hide my diapers when there's at most maybe a case and a bit around and when I'm only throwing away maybe 3 to 4 diapers a week. 24/7/365 would be a lot more logistics. More boxes of diapers to put away in a room with limited storage, lots more trash, etc. I simply don't want them to find out. \n \n My wife wouldn't like it. Marriage is about satisfying both of us and me going 24/7 would be a bit selfish, I think (because she isn't into it at all). \n \n They're inconvenient sometimes. For example, last week, I found myself in a dentist waiting room while my wife was getting some work done. I suddenly became aware that my diaper smelled. It was unexpected, I hadn't been in it long and I wasn't that wet but none the less, it smelled. I needed rid of it because if I can smell it, so can everybody else. Small dentist office, single restroom with tiny trash can, handful of other clients around. Oh, yeah, and it's an AwwSoCute. Big blue teddybears all over it. What do? Yikes? For the first time I can remember, I really wished I wasn't diapered. I made a break for McD's to get rid of it, bathroom closed for cleaning. Join the line to order a soda, hoping she'll be done quickly. People form a line behind me, guy in front is being slow. SUPER self-concious of the smell now. Leave, go to Walmart up the street, finally dispose of diaper in their restroom trash. Get hassle from my wife because in the middle of all of this, which probably took maybe 15 minutes, she's done and is waiting for me with a half-numb, ballooned face, wondering why the hell I left.","Summary: Business, not feelings. Money talks.\n\nPost: Also, call me cynical but Kimberly-Clark (makers of Goodnites) don't actually give a crap about what kids feel about their products, they care what parents feel about their products since they're the ones with the money in their pocket and who make the final decision to buy them. \n From a product design point of view, they probably do care about the children's feelings because if the child hates them, there's less chance the parents will buy them (hence the superhero characters, etc) but as for placement in the store, they just want them to be visible and where parents expect them to be. \n From a parents point of view, it's exactly as you said, parents expect them to be in the baby aisle because there's a natural progression: diapers -> pull-ups -> Goodnites (etc) -> wooo-hooo dry! I'm sure they instill/promote that line of progression (with their brands) in the packaging somehow. \n Diaper manufacturers have long sought to maximise the time that parents use their products because by their very nature, it's a limited time use - Huggies & Pampers have to suck as much custom out of the parents as they can because anywhere from 2+ years down the line, they're not going to be customers any more (why else do you think Pampers size 7 came into being?). So they use promotional materials and 'information' (read: advertising) on the packaging to promote products that extend that diaper-buying timeframe as far as they possibly can and then they make sure that prospective purchasers see them for several years ahead of time as they wander down the diaper aisle. Parents who have been walking past the Goodnites for 3 or 4 years already are going to be more aware of their existence than they would be if they were secreted away in some other part of the store. \n Further, parents wouldn't expect to find Goodnites in the incontinence section because most people associate those products with older folks or at least adults rather than children.","Summary: If I were you, I'd discourage her sending him to a therapist unless he wants to and would not disclose my own kink to him.\n\nPost: In a sentence, I think your sister needs to leave him alone and not say a word. \n I totally understand your point about being confused and wishing you had somebody to answer your questions but would you really have wanted to talk to your mom or uncle about it? Or a therapist under instruction? (it's one thing to voluntarily talk about it with your therapist, it's another to take your child to a therapist and make them discuss it). If some relative of mine had come up to me when I was fifteen and asked me if I wanted to discuss this thing I had for diapers, I'd have curled up into a ball and hoped to be smited by lightning or something. It would be massively awkward for all concerned. \n As others have said, one pack of goodnites, an ABDL does not make so to avoid (a) embarrasing the living hell out of the poor boy, (b) disclosing something about yourself that can never be undisclosed, (c) potentially very awkward situations that could arise because he's a minor, if I were you I would ask her that she doesn't tell him about your own kink. \n Kids these days have better access to information about kink than we ever had. The internet is rife with information. While teenagers are often not welcome to participate, obviously they read it and lurk and in terms of self-education and acceptance, that's a good thing.","Summary: Having a kink isn't really something you can 'get rid' of. You have to learn to live with it, either by yourself or with proper help if you need it. \n [edit] Also, you may have seen it but have a read of this outstanding post:\n\nPost: u/50doctorwho is about right. There really isn't any 'deleting' a kink or fetish from your brain, it will always be there to some extent. Trying to ignore it and pretend you're just a normal vanilla guy only leads to a life of misery and self-loathing and is not a wise path to go down. \n However, you can come to terms with it and learn to both manage your desires so they're not so intrusive and be more accepting that it's just part of you and nothing 'wrong'. It may take you months or even years but it's worth the effort to be happy. \n On the matter of ABDL desires \"invading\" your thoughts and dreams, there's probably two things going on here. First is probably out of control hormone levels. There's not a lot you can do about that really, everybody goes through those wild years but things do settle down eventually. Secondly, I think most of us would agree that the the quickest way to make ABDL desires get stronger and stronger and stronger is to try and ignore them. It's not like 'withdrawal' where you stay 'clean' for a while and the desires diminish some. The easiest way to deal with that is to jump right in and follow your heart's desires. \n We've all been where you are now and most of us went through a process of coming to terms with having a kink and learning to be OK with it (and enjoy it, it's fun!). Some would probably say that process doesn't really have an end but it does have a beginning which is probably right now for you (otherwise you wouldn't have posted...) \n Now that all being said, if you're finding your feelings to be disruptive to your everyday life or you're worried about becoming caught up in things that you shouldn't be caught up in, it may be time to seek some proper help. \n You might want to research the laws for your area governing what therapists can tell their client's parents because it varies from place to place. You could also contact a therapist with a view to setting up an appointment and ask how they work when a patient doesn't want their parents to know what was discussed. Of course if you have parents who respect your privacy, it may not be an issue at all. \n There's nothing wrong with asking for help from a therapist or psychologist to come to terms with your kink but that being said, you shouldn't expect them to try and help you 'get over' it or make it go away because any therapist worth their salt will already know that's not the way it works.","Summary: It's less 'change of ownership' more like 'some of the people in charge left'. It happened back in the summer but the changes are only becoming obvious now.\n\nPost: Ok, so I did a bit of digging on this and found a DD thread that's been slow burning for a few months now and started when somebody who normally does in-person pick up of their ABU orders turned up and found the warehouse deserted in October: \n Back in August, the company registration for ABU was changed and the people lately who have been fortunate enough to actually receive their orders (some didn't) have reported that the D/B/A name and the return address on the packages have also changed and that they're now operating out of a different warehouse in a nearby city. \n The general supposition appears to be that one or more of the people who used to make up ABU as a company have left (backed up by DD who has contacts is normally on the button with these kinds of things) and that may have included the person who had the know-how and access to run their website. That would explain why it has taken this long to recover and update/redirect the site. Those who are left are seemingly shipping orders and have been for a while although there seem to be people who have fallen into the void and their orders were never fulfilled. It looks like whoever is left is at least trying to make a go of it, for the time being at least. \n That said, those shipping prices suggest that they're either desperately trying to recover some costs or (more likely), they lost their contract with their shipper in the process of changing and are now paying the horrible rates that small-volume shippers get stuck with.","Summary: Told two, one knows the absolute truth, the other doesn't. A few people might have discovered my secret over the years but nobody has ever said anything to me.\n\nPost: Aside from The Internet, I've deliberately told two living souls that I wear diapers, and one of those two knows the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. \n My first serious GF knew I wore them and sort of knew I kinda enjoyed them (it's hard to hide sometimes, ya know?) but because I was young, stupid and cowardly, I allowed her to continue to believe that I needed them when she assumed it. A lie by omission, as it were. That relationship was always doomed though, and not because of that (although it doubtless didn't help). \n With my second serious girlfriend, I vowed to be less of a wimp and fess up fully to see if it was something that she'd accept. I did so about 3 weeks in (when I was starting to realise it was going to be a long-term relationship) over a lengthy email exchange. The whole, entire truth came out although I suspect she chooses not to remember some things I said. She told me she accepted it was part of me and knew it was something I needed to do and I never felt more pleased, relieved and empowered in my life. Big gamble, paid off in spades. She doesn't really participate beyond the odd diapered butt swat/rub (which I love) and extremely rarely a diaper change but I'm fine with that... She's now my wife of nearly 3 years :D \n Now the number of people who know I wear diapers could be slightly higher than two. The first girl's non-verbal autistic son ran up to me one day and pantsed me. He didn't really speak in articulated thoughts until about a year after that and I honestly don't know if he remembered what he saw or ever said anything later on after I'd gone... Also, I think I was sufficiently discreet around my housemates when I was at uni that they never saw an actual diaper either on me or in storage but but at least once, the Parcelforce guy came when I was out of the house and my package of diapers was left on the kitchen table for me. They didn't open the box but the company name on the return address would have left no doubt what the contents were. Nothing was ever said though so either they didn't notice or they were decent enough to pretend they didn't.","Summary: is that there are more than two binary outcomes to a disclosure conversation. There are a whole range of middle ground scenarios too and it's possible to be happy in those circumstances with a little acceptance on both sides.\n\nPost: I've told this story before but the York Notes version is that we both realised very early on in our relationship that This Was Serious and that it was looking like being a marriage & happily ever after relationship (which it still is, almost a decade on :D). \n So we'd been a thing for a few weeks but were separated by 4000 miles of ocean and 5 hours which changed things - face to face was out, for starters and at the time, regular voice was something we didn't have the luxury of so I did it by email. I kinda think of that as cowardly sometimes but it was what was easiest for both of us both for practical and emotional reasons so whatever, it got it out there in the open, which was the most important bit. \n She accepted it, as somebody who really loves you should, and is OK with me doing what I need to do to keep myself sane and happy. She's not into it, though (as in, it's an active turn off ) which is something I've had to learn to respect. Pee is close to being a limit for her and anything more than pee absolutely is a hard limit so I've had to learn and accept that a dreamy paradise ageplay relationship is not in my future if I want to be with my wife (which I do, totally above and beyond any ABDL desires). That said, she accepts my needs for what they are and respects my right and need to pursue them. She has no problem with me being diapered - and using my diapers - around her and I have no expectation (although I admit, I have desire) for her to engage in it with me. That said, poop, as a hard limit for her, is something that out of respect for her and in accordance with my own modesty, I save for when I'm completely alone and at no risk of violating her hard limits. \n I suppose the...","Summary: An otherwise functioning ABDL is not covered under the definitions of sexual disorders in the DSM-5.\n\nPost: Paraphilia is still in the DSM but not in the sense you think. \n Basically: \n \n Atypical sexual behaviour: Not a disorder. \n Atypical sexual behaviour that impairs your own or other's mental health or wellbeing: A disorder. \n \n Which: \n > is a subtle but crucial difference that makes it possible for an individual to engage in consensual atypical sexual behavior without inappropriately being labeled with a mental disorder. With this revision, DSM-5 clearly distinguishes between atypical sexual interests and mental disorders involving these desires or behaviors.","Summary: Nobody cares what your underwear is - wear what you need to feel confident and don't sweat it.\n\nPost: Assuming you're not a Hooters girl (i.e. your underwear isn't your uniform) and it doesn't interfere with your ability to perform your job, then what you wear under your pants is absolutely none of your employer's business. \n No sensible employer faced with 'finding' one of their employees is in diapers would ever make a big deal of the matter for fear of being on the wrong end of a discrimination lawsuit. If it ever comes up, say, \"It's a private medical matter that doesn't interfere with me performing my functions here\" and that should (will!) be the end of the conversation. \n Also remember that (1) most people will never be able to tell if you wear clothes that don't advertise it especially a pull-up and (2) in the unlikely event that they do, the vast, vast majority of people see a diaper and think 'medical problem' (not 'fetishist' or anything like that) and so common decency will tell them to shut the hell up and keep it to themselves.","Summary: Downvotes and upvotes as displayed to users are fuzzed. The score is what's important and is displayed honestly. The precise number of down and upvotes displayed is not actually correct.\n\nPost: This is why it appears to have downvotes]( \n At the moment, this post appears to me as having 38 points,\n45 upvotes and 7 downvotes. That means it has: \n \n At least 38 upvotes but maybe as many as 45. \n At most 7 downvotes but maybe as few as none. \n \n It could be +38, -0 or +45, -7 or any combination in between that balances out at 38. There is no way to tell what the precise numbers are.","Summary: Anybody who wants them should make damn sure they tell Gary at XP, Bambino and anybody else who'll listen because they're not going to import them without knowing there's demand.\n\nPost: Well if it's from Gary, that's the horse's mouth. \n That said, XP are one of the biggest non-ABDL supporters of plastic-backed diapers over cloth. They alone actually managed to convince Abena to continue manufacturing plastic-back M4s specifically for the American market (sorry Europe!) a couple of years ago which is the only reason they're still available over here. \n Tena's European diapers are relatively new to the US, the plastic-back Slip Maxi having only been readily available here for two years or so at most, despite years and years of clamouring from people everywhere (admittedly probably mostly ABDLs). If the cloth-back version of the Slip turns out to be good, it'll probably need similar pressure to get them over here so they know it'll be profitable for them.","Summary: how often, where and when you wear diapers is your choice and your responsibility. Nobody elses. Cover up, be discreet, keep the ageplay/AB aspects to appropriate times and places and it's all good.\n\nPost: um wat? \n 1) Wearing diapers in public isn't going to get you turned away from retailers, restaurants or anywhere else assuming you don't make a scene or a horrible smell. If you do either of those things, you can expect to be kicked out, obviously. It's inappropriate. \n 2) Being in diapers all the time and being an 'adult baby' are not the same thing. Typically 'adult baby' refers to folks who like to go further than just wearing a diaper and to roleplay as a younger age, normally with 'props' like pacifiers, blankets, cute clothes, smells that are associated with babyhood, etc. \n Basically how often and where you wear your diapers is your choice and your choice alone. There could be consequences to unreasonably exposing yourself but those are under your control and are your responsibility. For example, if you turn up at work in baby bloomers, a huge diaper and sucking a pacifier, expect a stern conversation with your boss. If you drop a deuce in a busy supermarket and wander around other people, expect to be stared at, for people to be displeased and maybe to be asked to leave, because it's simply not cool to expose random strangers to that.","Summary: It's great but if sheer absorbency is your thing, go for Dry 24/7 instead.\n\nPost: I've always enjoyed writing reviews of diapers from time to time so I figured I'd have a go at Bambino's latest. I just wish they'd give it a name so I could refer to it as something better than \"New Diaper\"...... \n \n Photos \n All of the diapers in these photos were fully unpacked - they show their folded thickness after being out of the package for some time. The Dry24/7 and the Cushie have been out of the pack for months, the Bambino at least a week (if not longer). \n [Imgur album]( \n \n The Good \n \n Really cute pattern. I don't know about everybody else and I know the Classico is popular but it's always seemed too in your face for me. I've long wanted a diaper with a cutesy pattern rather than something that screams BABY. This is it. I love the pattern. It also matches my paci really well :) \n \n Absorbency. These diapers hold a lot. Really, a lot. Now they're not up there with Dry24/7 but they are more absorbent than the rest of Bambino's line and almost certainly surpass the Abena M4 too. The SAP swells up a lot when it's wet and the diaper gets quite squishy. Wicking is about average and, like most diapers, could be better. When it reached the point where I felt like it was going to leak, I put down a bed pad and let rip another pee but only a very small wet spot (about an inch across) leaked out. Most other diapers would have left a puddle. There always seems to be a lot of YMMV for diaper absorbency and loads of different day to day factors affect how much each diaper will hold on each wearing but it is good ... The second diaper in the sample pack held a similar amount. \n \n The padding in the wings. It extends out a long way, especially at the back and further than most other diapers do these days. Many manufacturers seem to be cutting costs by removing padding from the front and rear but Bambino haven't done it with this diaper and that's good. \n \n Tapes. These are the standard Bambino tapes, not the Teddy variety. I was concerned when I saw the photos from Bambino on Facebook because they looked like they might have the little stretchy bit that caused problems with the Teddy but it's not, they're regular Bambino tapes and they hold firm as ever. The landing zone is the glossy type that Classico and Bianco have, not the softer one that the Teddy tapes tend to not quite stick to. I refastened them a couple of times throughout the day and they were still gripping tight when I took it off. No sign of the tapes pulling away from their attachments to the side panels either. After about 8 hours of wear, one tape did pop when I sat down awkwardly I was able to stick it straight back down and it stayed stuck from then on. \n \n \n \n The not so good \n \n The outer plastic. It's just not quite as nice as I remember Bambino diapers feeling in the past - it has a slightly rougher texture. They used to be smoother and I hope they go back to the outer plastic they used previously. When I got the samples out of the pack, there seemed to be some SAP crystals pressing against the plastic, particularly near the leg gathers. That can be a precursor to pinhole leaks and is normally caused by the factory packing the diapers too tight but I didn't experience any with these two diapers. \n \n Sizing. This isn't an issue for me but I suspect it will be for some. I'm almost sure these run smaller than most other diapers, even other Bambinos. They have the same quoted size range but the tapes land further apart on me than I'm used to. I have a skinny waist and hips (30\" W, 32\" H) and the tapes on medium diapers normally come quite close to meeting in the middle on me. In fact, the top tapes on Abena and Dry24/7 and Abena mediums do meet in the middle on me. Wearing the New Diaper, despite the fact that I'm actually below the bottom end of their quoted size range, the tapes are an inch or two further out towards my sides and I wonder if somebody who is at the upper end of the 31-42\" medium range would have trouble making it fit correctly. I'd say that buying a sample pack first would be very wise to avoid potential disapointment... \n \n Price. They're quite a bit more expensive than Bambino's other products. You can see where that money is going in terms of the increased absorbency but they don't compare favourably with Dry24/7's pricing (all prices for mediums, including shipping): \n Diaper|Case Qty|Cost per diaper\n:---|---:|---:\nBambino \"New Diaper\"|48|$1.89\nDry24/7 @ XPMedical|36 (half case)|$1.67\nAbena M4 @ XPMedical|42|$1.42\nBambino Classico/Bianco|48|$1.37 \n \n \n $1.89/unit is getting quite close to pushing the limits of what is an acceptable price for a diaper, even a specialist diaper. \n Considering that Bambino are clearly going for the ultra-thick, ultra-thirsty diaper market that Dry24/7 have claimed for their own in the past 18 months or so, being almost a quarter more per diaper while having a lower capacity is kind of a problem and you're left essentially paying the premium for the design. As a result, I'm thinking that I'm going to be more likely to buy a bag of the new Bambinos and wear them very occasionally as a special treat or when I really want to feel little. If the price was more comparable to other higher end diapers, I'd be more likely to wear them much more often. \n \n Summing up \n This is a really good diaper. It's extremely cute and holds a lot . Although Dry 24/7 are more absorbent, they are not without their own problems (mostly variable quality control, especially pinhole leaks). The Bambino \"New Diaper\" fits into the same \"top-end diaper\" category as the Dry 24/7 in my mind. Having a tape landing zone is an advantage of the Bambino - as an extended-wear diaper it's important to be able to adjust the tapes easily and multiple times. Pay attention to the prices when you're deciding which you get, though. If it's just capacity you're after, you can save yourself a few cents by going for Dry24/7 instead. On the other hand, if cuteness is what you're after, you just can't beat the Bambino. \n \n One last thing... \n I've heard some speculation on DD that this might be the same diaper as ABU's Fabine. If that's the case, we can finally put the rumours of insanly high absorbency from that diaper to rest - it's good, but it's not that good & it can't hold anywhere near a gallon of pee. Apparently ABU are shipping out some Fabine diapers now. If anybody happens to have both the Fabine and this New Diaper on hand, I'd really appreciate a detailed look at whether they're the same diaper or not.","Summary: If you like plastic-backed Abena diapers, stock up now because it looks like their days might be numbered.\n\nPost: Rumours that Abena are killing off the plastic-backed diaper have been whispered about for years now but it's never come to anything. Lately, though, they've been picking up pace with talk of January 2012 being the time that they stop making them. \n It started with a newsletter that AirOliver (large German supplier of every diaper you can possibly imagine) sent out, suggesting they would be discontinued. From there, a a lengthy thread grew on ADISC within which, people have received varying replies from different companies and Abena national offices but the general consensus is that it is happening and will probably take affect from January. \n If you don't want to pick through an ADISC thread, the nuggets I came across were that Abena Denmark and Germany have both said that the decision has been made and the date is set. Abena UK (who I've always found to be out of touch on goings on in the company, to be honest) said that no decision has been made yet but that it's being considered. Gary Evans (of XPMedical fame) has apparently had a sit-down with Abena to discuss the matter and they said they'd get back to him soon. Gary does have clout with Abena - he has convinced them to make a special production run of a discontinued product for his store in the past. \n [AirOliver/SaveExpress]( are running a banner on their website stating: \n > Abena change all products to CottonFeel from Jan.2012 ! \n Now assuming this happens, I'd guess that the major suppliers will have a fair amount of stock on hand and that it'll take a while for the supply to dwindle but if you're a fan of plastic-backed Abena diapers, you might want to start building up a bit of a supply..."],"string":"[\n \"Summary: So long as the plane isn't crammed to bursting, most airlines will allow diapers to be carried even above your usual 1+personal allowance so long as you're not obviously taking the piss.\\n\\nPost: FWIW, everybody can take that 'personal item' on as their second carry on, a laptop bag, diaper bag, large purse, etc... You can stow one normal carry-on in the overhead bin and the 'personal item' just has to be able to fit under the seat in front of you. \\n Now if you want to actually identify a small diaper bag when boarding as containing 'medical supplies', most will let you take that on as a third carry on bag. You probably wouldn't be able to stuff that bag with other belongings, though, just diaper change stuff or they'll probably tell you to quit pushing your luck :P \\n For example, American: \\n Allow one regular, one personal and any of the items in a bullet list which includes \\\"Diaper bag for lap or ticketed child\\\" (you can certainly read 'child' as 'passenger', they're not going to quibble that it's for an adult) as well as \\\"Assistive devices for passengers\\\". \\n Likewise Delta allow medical supplies to be carried in addition to the usual carry on rules:\",\n \"Summary: Sometimes it's convenient to be diapered. Sometimes it's really not. \\n \\n \\n The longest I've gone 24/7 was about a week to ten days and I really enjoyed it. But that's about my limit before other factors start to detract from the fun.\\n\\nPost: For me, I would if it were all up to me but there are a few other factors: \\n \\n Teenage stepkids in the house. It's easy to hide my diapers when there's at most maybe a case and a bit around and when I'm only throwing away maybe 3 to 4 diapers a week. 24/7/365 would be a lot more logistics. More boxes of diapers to put away in a room with limited storage, lots more trash, etc. I simply don't want them to find out. \\n \\n My wife wouldn't like it. Marriage is about satisfying both of us and me going 24/7 would be a bit selfish, I think (because she isn't into it at all). \\n \\n They're inconvenient sometimes. For example, last week, I found myself in a dentist waiting room while my wife was getting some work done. I suddenly became aware that my diaper smelled. It was unexpected, I hadn't been in it long and I wasn't that wet but none the less, it smelled. I needed rid of it because if I can smell it, so can everybody else. Small dentist office, single restroom with tiny trash can, handful of other clients around. Oh, yeah, and it's an AwwSoCute. Big blue teddybears all over it. What do? Yikes? For the first time I can remember, I really wished I wasn't diapered. I made a break for McD's to get rid of it, bathroom closed for cleaning. Join the line to order a soda, hoping she'll be done quickly. People form a line behind me, guy in front is being slow. SUPER self-concious of the smell now. Leave, go to Walmart up the street, finally dispose of diaper in their restroom trash. Get hassle from my wife because in the middle of all of this, which probably took maybe 15 minutes, she's done and is waiting for me with a half-numb, ballooned face, wondering why the hell I left.\",\n \"Summary: Business, not feelings. Money talks.\\n\\nPost: Also, call me cynical but Kimberly-Clark (makers of Goodnites) don't actually give a crap about what kids feel about their products, they care what parents feel about their products since they're the ones with the money in their pocket and who make the final decision to buy them. \\n From a product design point of view, they probably do care about the children's feelings because if the child hates them, there's less chance the parents will buy them (hence the superhero characters, etc) but as for placement in the store, they just want them to be visible and where parents expect them to be. \\n From a parents point of view, it's exactly as you said, parents expect them to be in the baby aisle because there's a natural progression: diapers -> pull-ups -> Goodnites (etc) -> wooo-hooo dry! I'm sure they instill/promote that line of progression (with their brands) in the packaging somehow. \\n Diaper manufacturers have long sought to maximise the time that parents use their products because by their very nature, it's a limited time use - Huggies & Pampers have to suck as much custom out of the parents as they can because anywhere from 2+ years down the line, they're not going to be customers any more (why else do you think Pampers size 7 came into being?). So they use promotional materials and 'information' (read: advertising) on the packaging to promote products that extend that diaper-buying timeframe as far as they possibly can and then they make sure that prospective purchasers see them for several years ahead of time as they wander down the diaper aisle. Parents who have been walking past the Goodnites for 3 or 4 years already are going to be more aware of their existence than they would be if they were secreted away in some other part of the store. \\n Further, parents wouldn't expect to find Goodnites in the incontinence section because most people associate those products with older folks or at least adults rather than children.\",\n \"Summary: If I were you, I'd discourage her sending him to a therapist unless he wants to and would not disclose my own kink to him.\\n\\nPost: In a sentence, I think your sister needs to leave him alone and not say a word. \\n I totally understand your point about being confused and wishing you had somebody to answer your questions but would you really have wanted to talk to your mom or uncle about it? Or a therapist under instruction? (it's one thing to voluntarily talk about it with your therapist, it's another to take your child to a therapist and make them discuss it). If some relative of mine had come up to me when I was fifteen and asked me if I wanted to discuss this thing I had for diapers, I'd have curled up into a ball and hoped to be smited by lightning or something. It would be massively awkward for all concerned. \\n As others have said, one pack of goodnites, an ABDL does not make so to avoid (a) embarrasing the living hell out of the poor boy, (b) disclosing something about yourself that can never be undisclosed, (c) potentially very awkward situations that could arise because he's a minor, if I were you I would ask her that she doesn't tell him about your own kink. \\n Kids these days have better access to information about kink than we ever had. The internet is rife with information. While teenagers are often not welcome to participate, obviously they read it and lurk and in terms of self-education and acceptance, that's a good thing.\",\n \"Summary: Having a kink isn't really something you can 'get rid' of. You have to learn to live with it, either by yourself or with proper help if you need it. \\n [edit] Also, you may have seen it but have a read of this outstanding post:\\n\\nPost: u/50doctorwho is about right. There really isn't any 'deleting' a kink or fetish from your brain, it will always be there to some extent. Trying to ignore it and pretend you're just a normal vanilla guy only leads to a life of misery and self-loathing and is not a wise path to go down. \\n However, you can come to terms with it and learn to both manage your desires so they're not so intrusive and be more accepting that it's just part of you and nothing 'wrong'. It may take you months or even years but it's worth the effort to be happy. \\n On the matter of ABDL desires \\\"invading\\\" your thoughts and dreams, there's probably two things going on here. First is probably out of control hormone levels. There's not a lot you can do about that really, everybody goes through those wild years but things do settle down eventually. Secondly, I think most of us would agree that the the quickest way to make ABDL desires get stronger and stronger and stronger is to try and ignore them. It's not like 'withdrawal' where you stay 'clean' for a while and the desires diminish some. The easiest way to deal with that is to jump right in and follow your heart's desires. \\n We've all been where you are now and most of us went through a process of coming to terms with having a kink and learning to be OK with it (and enjoy it, it's fun!). Some would probably say that process doesn't really have an end but it does have a beginning which is probably right now for you (otherwise you wouldn't have posted...) \\n Now that all being said, if you're finding your feelings to be disruptive to your everyday life or you're worried about becoming caught up in things that you shouldn't be caught up in, it may be time to seek some proper help. \\n You might want to research the laws for your area governing what therapists can tell their client's parents because it varies from place to place. You could also contact a therapist with a view to setting up an appointment and ask how they work when a patient doesn't want their parents to know what was discussed. Of course if you have parents who respect your privacy, it may not be an issue at all. \\n There's nothing wrong with asking for help from a therapist or psychologist to come to terms with your kink but that being said, you shouldn't expect them to try and help you 'get over' it or make it go away because any therapist worth their salt will already know that's not the way it works.\",\n \"Summary: It's less 'change of ownership' more like 'some of the people in charge left'. It happened back in the summer but the changes are only becoming obvious now.\\n\\nPost: Ok, so I did a bit of digging on this and found a DD thread that's been slow burning for a few months now and started when somebody who normally does in-person pick up of their ABU orders turned up and found the warehouse deserted in October: \\n Back in August, the company registration for ABU was changed and the people lately who have been fortunate enough to actually receive their orders (some didn't) have reported that the D/B/A name and the return address on the packages have also changed and that they're now operating out of a different warehouse in a nearby city. \\n The general supposition appears to be that one or more of the people who used to make up ABU as a company have left (backed up by DD who has contacts is normally on the button with these kinds of things) and that may have included the person who had the know-how and access to run their website. That would explain why it has taken this long to recover and update/redirect the site. Those who are left are seemingly shipping orders and have been for a while although there seem to be people who have fallen into the void and their orders were never fulfilled. It looks like whoever is left is at least trying to make a go of it, for the time being at least. \\n That said, those shipping prices suggest that they're either desperately trying to recover some costs or (more likely), they lost their contract with their shipper in the process of changing and are now paying the horrible rates that small-volume shippers get stuck with.\",\n \"Summary: Told two, one knows the absolute truth, the other doesn't. A few people might have discovered my secret over the years but nobody has ever said anything to me.\\n\\nPost: Aside from The Internet, I've deliberately told two living souls that I wear diapers, and one of those two knows the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. \\n My first serious GF knew I wore them and sort of knew I kinda enjoyed them (it's hard to hide sometimes, ya know?) but because I was young, stupid and cowardly, I allowed her to continue to believe that I needed them when she assumed it. A lie by omission, as it were. That relationship was always doomed though, and not because of that (although it doubtless didn't help). \\n With my second serious girlfriend, I vowed to be less of a wimp and fess up fully to see if it was something that she'd accept. I did so about 3 weeks in (when I was starting to realise it was going to be a long-term relationship) over a lengthy email exchange. The whole, entire truth came out although I suspect she chooses not to remember some things I said. She told me she accepted it was part of me and knew it was something I needed to do and I never felt more pleased, relieved and empowered in my life. Big gamble, paid off in spades. She doesn't really participate beyond the odd diapered butt swat/rub (which I love) and extremely rarely a diaper change but I'm fine with that... She's now my wife of nearly 3 years :D \\n Now the number of people who know I wear diapers could be slightly higher than two. The first girl's non-verbal autistic son ran up to me one day and pantsed me. He didn't really speak in articulated thoughts until about a year after that and I honestly don't know if he remembered what he saw or ever said anything later on after I'd gone... Also, I think I was sufficiently discreet around my housemates when I was at uni that they never saw an actual diaper either on me or in storage but but at least once, the Parcelforce guy came when I was out of the house and my package of diapers was left on the kitchen table for me. They didn't open the box but the company name on the return address would have left no doubt what the contents were. Nothing was ever said though so either they didn't notice or they were decent enough to pretend they didn't.\",\n \"Summary: is that there are more than two binary outcomes to a disclosure conversation. There are a whole range of middle ground scenarios too and it's possible to be happy in those circumstances with a little acceptance on both sides.\\n\\nPost: I've told this story before but the York Notes version is that we both realised very early on in our relationship that This Was Serious and that it was looking like being a marriage & happily ever after relationship (which it still is, almost a decade on :D). \\n So we'd been a thing for a few weeks but were separated by 4000 miles of ocean and 5 hours which changed things - face to face was out, for starters and at the time, regular voice was something we didn't have the luxury of so I did it by email. I kinda think of that as cowardly sometimes but it was what was easiest for both of us both for practical and emotional reasons so whatever, it got it out there in the open, which was the most important bit. \\n She accepted it, as somebody who really loves you should, and is OK with me doing what I need to do to keep myself sane and happy. She's not into it, though (as in, it's an active turn off ) which is something I've had to learn to respect. Pee is close to being a limit for her and anything more than pee absolutely is a hard limit so I've had to learn and accept that a dreamy paradise ageplay relationship is not in my future if I want to be with my wife (which I do, totally above and beyond any ABDL desires). That said, she accepts my needs for what they are and respects my right and need to pursue them. She has no problem with me being diapered - and using my diapers - around her and I have no expectation (although I admit, I have desire) for her to engage in it with me. That said, poop, as a hard limit for her, is something that out of respect for her and in accordance with my own modesty, I save for when I'm completely alone and at no risk of violating her hard limits. \\n I suppose the...\",\n \"Summary: An otherwise functioning ABDL is not covered under the definitions of sexual disorders in the DSM-5.\\n\\nPost: Paraphilia is still in the DSM but not in the sense you think. \\n Basically: \\n \\n Atypical sexual behaviour: Not a disorder. \\n Atypical sexual behaviour that impairs your own or other's mental health or wellbeing: A disorder. \\n \\n Which: \\n > is a subtle but crucial difference that makes it possible for an individual to engage in consensual atypical sexual behavior without inappropriately being labeled with a mental disorder. With this revision, DSM-5 clearly distinguishes between atypical sexual interests and mental disorders involving these desires or behaviors.\",\n \"Summary: Nobody cares what your underwear is - wear what you need to feel confident and don't sweat it.\\n\\nPost: Assuming you're not a Hooters girl (i.e. your underwear isn't your uniform) and it doesn't interfere with your ability to perform your job, then what you wear under your pants is absolutely none of your employer's business. \\n No sensible employer faced with 'finding' one of their employees is in diapers would ever make a big deal of the matter for fear of being on the wrong end of a discrimination lawsuit. If it ever comes up, say, \\\"It's a private medical matter that doesn't interfere with me performing my functions here\\\" and that should (will!) be the end of the conversation. \\n Also remember that (1) most people will never be able to tell if you wear clothes that don't advertise it especially a pull-up and (2) in the unlikely event that they do, the vast, vast majority of people see a diaper and think 'medical problem' (not 'fetishist' or anything like that) and so common decency will tell them to shut the hell up and keep it to themselves.\",\n \"Summary: Downvotes and upvotes as displayed to users are fuzzed. The score is what's important and is displayed honestly. The precise number of down and upvotes displayed is not actually correct.\\n\\nPost: This is why it appears to have downvotes]( \\n At the moment, this post appears to me as having 38 points,\\n45 upvotes and 7 downvotes. That means it has: \\n \\n At least 38 upvotes but maybe as many as 45. \\n At most 7 downvotes but maybe as few as none. \\n \\n It could be +38, -0 or +45, -7 or any combination in between that balances out at 38. There is no way to tell what the precise numbers are.\",\n \"Summary: Anybody who wants them should make damn sure they tell Gary at XP, Bambino and anybody else who'll listen because they're not going to import them without knowing there's demand.\\n\\nPost: Well if it's from Gary, that's the horse's mouth. \\n That said, XP are one of the biggest non-ABDL supporters of plastic-backed diapers over cloth. They alone actually managed to convince Abena to continue manufacturing plastic-back M4s specifically for the American market (sorry Europe!) a couple of years ago which is the only reason they're still available over here. \\n Tena's European diapers are relatively new to the US, the plastic-back Slip Maxi having only been readily available here for two years or so at most, despite years and years of clamouring from people everywhere (admittedly probably mostly ABDLs). If the cloth-back version of the Slip turns out to be good, it'll probably need similar pressure to get them over here so they know it'll be profitable for them.\",\n \"Summary: how often, where and when you wear diapers is your choice and your responsibility. Nobody elses. Cover up, be discreet, keep the ageplay/AB aspects to appropriate times and places and it's all good.\\n\\nPost: um wat? \\n 1) Wearing diapers in public isn't going to get you turned away from retailers, restaurants or anywhere else assuming you don't make a scene or a horrible smell. If you do either of those things, you can expect to be kicked out, obviously. It's inappropriate. \\n 2) Being in diapers all the time and being an 'adult baby' are not the same thing. Typically 'adult baby' refers to folks who like to go further than just wearing a diaper and to roleplay as a younger age, normally with 'props' like pacifiers, blankets, cute clothes, smells that are associated with babyhood, etc. \\n Basically how often and where you wear your diapers is your choice and your choice alone. There could be consequences to unreasonably exposing yourself but those are under your control and are your responsibility. For example, if you turn up at work in baby bloomers, a huge diaper and sucking a pacifier, expect a stern conversation with your boss. If you drop a deuce in a busy supermarket and wander around other people, expect to be stared at, for people to be displeased and maybe to be asked to leave, because it's simply not cool to expose random strangers to that.\",\n \"Summary: It's great but if sheer absorbency is your thing, go for Dry 24/7 instead.\\n\\nPost: I've always enjoyed writing reviews of diapers from time to time so I figured I'd have a go at Bambino's latest. I just wish they'd give it a name so I could refer to it as something better than \\\"New Diaper\\\"...... \\n \\n Photos \\n All of the diapers in these photos were fully unpacked - they show their folded thickness after being out of the package for some time. The Dry24/7 and the Cushie have been out of the pack for months, the Bambino at least a week (if not longer). \\n [Imgur album]( \\n \\n The Good \\n \\n Really cute pattern. I don't know about everybody else and I know the Classico is popular but it's always seemed too in your face for me. I've long wanted a diaper with a cutesy pattern rather than something that screams BABY. This is it. I love the pattern. It also matches my paci really well :) \\n \\n Absorbency. These diapers hold a lot. Really, a lot. Now they're not up there with Dry24/7 but they are more absorbent than the rest of Bambino's line and almost certainly surpass the Abena M4 too. The SAP swells up a lot when it's wet and the diaper gets quite squishy. Wicking is about average and, like most diapers, could be better. When it reached the point where I felt like it was going to leak, I put down a bed pad and let rip another pee but only a very small wet spot (about an inch across) leaked out. Most other diapers would have left a puddle. There always seems to be a lot of YMMV for diaper absorbency and loads of different day to day factors affect how much each diaper will hold on each wearing but it is good ... The second diaper in the sample pack held a similar amount. \\n \\n The padding in the wings. It extends out a long way, especially at the back and further than most other diapers do these days. Many manufacturers seem to be cutting costs by removing padding from the front and rear but Bambino haven't done it with this diaper and that's good. \\n \\n Tapes. These are the standard Bambino tapes, not the Teddy variety. I was concerned when I saw the photos from Bambino on Facebook because they looked like they might have the little stretchy bit that caused problems with the Teddy but it's not, they're regular Bambino tapes and they hold firm as ever. The landing zone is the glossy type that Classico and Bianco have, not the softer one that the Teddy tapes tend to not quite stick to. I refastened them a couple of times throughout the day and they were still gripping tight when I took it off. No sign of the tapes pulling away from their attachments to the side panels either. After about 8 hours of wear, one tape did pop when I sat down awkwardly I was able to stick it straight back down and it stayed stuck from then on. \\n \\n \\n \\n The not so good \\n \\n The outer plastic. It's just not quite as nice as I remember Bambino diapers feeling in the past - it has a slightly rougher texture. They used to be smoother and I hope they go back to the outer plastic they used previously. When I got the samples out of the pack, there seemed to be some SAP crystals pressing against the plastic, particularly near the leg gathers. That can be a precursor to pinhole leaks and is normally caused by the factory packing the diapers too tight but I didn't experience any with these two diapers. \\n \\n Sizing. This isn't an issue for me but I suspect it will be for some. I'm almost sure these run smaller than most other diapers, even other Bambinos. They have the same quoted size range but the tapes land further apart on me than I'm used to. I have a skinny waist and hips (30\\\" W, 32\\\" H) and the tapes on medium diapers normally come quite close to meeting in the middle on me. In fact, the top tapes on Abena and Dry24/7 and Abena mediums do meet in the middle on me. Wearing the New Diaper, despite the fact that I'm actually below the bottom end of their quoted size range, the tapes are an inch or two further out towards my sides and I wonder if somebody who is at the upper end of the 31-42\\\" medium range would have trouble making it fit correctly. I'd say that buying a sample pack first would be very wise to avoid potential disapointment... \\n \\n Price. They're quite a bit more expensive than Bambino's other products. You can see where that money is going in terms of the increased absorbency but they don't compare favourably with Dry24/7's pricing (all prices for mediums, including shipping): \\n Diaper|Case Qty|Cost per diaper\\n:---|---:|---:\\nBambino \\\"New Diaper\\\"|48|$1.89\\nDry24/7 @ XPMedical|36 (half case)|$1.67\\nAbena M4 @ XPMedical|42|$1.42\\nBambino Classico/Bianco|48|$1.37 \\n \\n \\n $1.89/unit is getting quite close to pushing the limits of what is an acceptable price for a diaper, even a specialist diaper. \\n Considering that Bambino are clearly going for the ultra-thick, ultra-thirsty diaper market that Dry24/7 have claimed for their own in the past 18 months or so, being almost a quarter more per diaper while having a lower capacity is kind of a problem and you're left essentially paying the premium for the design. As a result, I'm thinking that I'm going to be more likely to buy a bag of the new Bambinos and wear them very occasionally as a special treat or when I really want to feel little. If the price was more comparable to other higher end diapers, I'd be more likely to wear them much more often. \\n \\n Summing up \\n This is a really good diaper. It's extremely cute and holds a lot . Although Dry 24/7 are more absorbent, they are not without their own problems (mostly variable quality control, especially pinhole leaks). The Bambino \\\"New Diaper\\\" fits into the same \\\"top-end diaper\\\" category as the Dry 24/7 in my mind. Having a tape landing zone is an advantage of the Bambino - as an extended-wear diaper it's important to be able to adjust the tapes easily and multiple times. Pay attention to the prices when you're deciding which you get, though. If it's just capacity you're after, you can save yourself a few cents by going for Dry24/7 instead. On the other hand, if cuteness is what you're after, you just can't beat the Bambino. \\n \\n One last thing... \\n I've heard some speculation on DD that this might be the same diaper as ABU's Fabine. If that's the case, we can finally put the rumours of insanly high absorbency from that diaper to rest - it's good, but it's not that good & it can't hold anywhere near a gallon of pee. Apparently ABU are shipping out some Fabine diapers now. If anybody happens to have both the Fabine and this New Diaper on hand, I'd really appreciate a detailed look at whether they're the same diaper or not.\",\n \"Summary: If you like plastic-backed Abena diapers, stock up now because it looks like their days might be numbered.\\n\\nPost: Rumours that Abena are killing off the plastic-backed diaper have been whispered about for years now but it's never come to anything. Lately, though, they've been picking up pace with talk of January 2012 being the time that they stop making them. \\n It started with a newsletter that AirOliver (large German supplier of every diaper you can possibly imagine) sent out, suggesting they would be discontinued. From there, a a lengthy thread grew on ADISC within which, people have received varying replies from different companies and Abena national offices but the general consensus is that it is happening and will probably take affect from January. \\n If you don't want to pick through an ADISC thread, the nuggets I came across were that Abena Denmark and Germany have both said that the decision has been made and the date is set. Abena UK (who I've always found to be out of touch on goings on in the company, to be honest) said that no decision has been made yet but that it's being considered. Gary Evans (of XPMedical fame) has apparently had a sit-down with Abena to discuss the matter and they said they'd get back to him soon. Gary does have clout with Abena - he has convinced them to make a special production run of a discontinued product for his store in the past. \\n [AirOliver/SaveExpress]( are running a banner on their website stating: \\n > Abena change all products to CottonFeel from Jan.2012 ! \\n Now assuming this happens, I'd guess that the major suppliers will have a fair amount of stock on hand and that it'll take a while for the supply to dwindle but if you're a fan of plastic-backed Abena diapers, you might want to start building up a bit of a supply...\"\n]","isConversational":false},"profile_size":{"kind":"number","value":15,"string":"15"},"task":{"kind":"string","value":"longlamp_4"},"split_kind":{"kind":"string","value":"user_based"},"id":{"kind":"number","value":2998,"string":"2,998"}}},{"rowIdx":2999,"cells":{"question_id":{"kind":"string","value":"Annieone23"},"question":{"kind":"string","value":"Generate the content for a reddit post If people steal, mod, cheat, or fan translate it, then it is probably worth playing or at least looking in to. If there is no interest in any of those categorizes then it means the game is probably shitty and nobody cares enough to buy or play it."},"answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Probably me just being a hipster, because I don't even read a lot of reviews. My gaming vetting process is actually rather complicated so bare with me, because you asked :P \n Basically it boils down to this: Are people pirating this game?\nIf someone can steal any game they want for free, it stands to reason that they will only steal the best of the best. They don't have to pick through bargain bins and cruddy cheap titles. They can afford to be picky! Also a reasonable person will not steal a cruddy game, because it is not worth the risk. They can only justify (illogically mind you) a life time of buttrape in jail by stealing the best of the best.\\ \n So basically about once a day or every few days I browse The Pirate Bay's top 100 downloaded torrents within each gaming section. I mainly play PC, DS/3DS, Wii, or PS3. If something is consistently within the top 100 for weeks, or has thousands upon thousands of downloads and comments I figure it must be an awesome game and I should look into buying it. \n If I check any review site it will be Metacritic, solely because they will give me a sampling of all the major review outlets. If I want user reviews I check out Gamefaqs. Gamefaqs can be trolly at times, but there will usually be a (in)sane person who goes into wayyyy too much depth about the game in their basement dwelling review. They can be pretty helpful to peruse and give you an idea of just the average joe gamers opinions. I usually read a terrible review and a glowing review to draw my own conclusions. \n Also, if I am interested in something that is getting a Japanese (or other language) version before being localized to PAL or NTSC regions I will look to see if there is a fan translation project started. My reasoning behind that is any game that people NEED to play so badly they are willing to hack and translate it themselves is probably a title worth looking into, especially if it is going to get an English localization sometime anyways. An example is Pokemon, although it only works for descriptive purposes because everyone knows if they will or will not like the newest Pokemon game without reading any reviews. But still Pokemon is always painstakingly translated by the fans to English as soon as humanly possible, despite everyone knowing that it will come out in English in a few months. That shows that game must be pretty good to quite a few people. This is how I found and fell in love with Mother 3, an amazing Japanese only GBA RPG sequel to the NES games. People translated it from scratch, very difficultly, so it stands to reason it is worth trying out at least (and it was awesome!). \n And lastly, cheat codes and mods. Kinda the same as pirating. People don't sit there and make cheat codes for shitty games. There are probably next to zero cheats for Cooking Mama 5 for example, yet there are hundreds of custom cheats/mods for Skyrim or any Grand Theft Auto. If people love it, they will customize it. If no one is customizing it, then nobody loves it and I probably won't either. \n This is wayyyy longer than I thought it would be, but you asked and I delivered!"},"correct_answer":{"kind":"string","value":"Probably me just being a hipster, because I don't even read a lot of reviews. My gaming vetting process is actually rather complicated so bare with me, because you asked :P \n Basically it boils down to this: Are people pirating this game?\nIf someone can steal any game they want for free, it stands to reason that they will only steal the best of the best. They don't have to pick through bargain bins and cruddy cheap titles. They can afford to be picky! Also a reasonable person will not steal a cruddy game, because it is not worth the risk. They can only justify (illogically mind you) a life time of buttrape in jail by stealing the best of the best.\\ \n So basically about once a day or every few days I browse The Pirate Bay's top 100 downloaded torrents within each gaming section. I mainly play PC, DS/3DS, Wii, or PS3. If something is consistently within the top 100 for weeks, or has thousands upon thousands of downloads and comments I figure it must be an awesome game and I should look into buying it. \n If I check any review site it will be Metacritic, solely because they will give me a sampling of all the major review outlets. If I want user reviews I check out Gamefaqs. Gamefaqs can be trolly at times, but there will usually be a (in)sane person who goes into wayyyy too much depth about the game in their basement dwelling review. They can be pretty helpful to peruse and give you an idea of just the average joe gamers opinions. I usually read a terrible review and a glowing review to draw my own conclusions. \n Also, if I am interested in something that is getting a Japanese (or other language) version before being localized to PAL or NTSC regions I will look to see if there is a fan translation project started. My reasoning behind that is any game that people NEED to play so badly they are willing to hack and translate it themselves is probably a title worth looking into, especially if it is going to get an English localization sometime anyways. An example is Pokemon, although it only works for descriptive purposes because everyone knows if they will or will not like the newest Pokemon game without reading any reviews. But still Pokemon is always painstakingly translated by the fans to English as soon as humanly possible, despite everyone knowing that it will come out in English in a few months. That shows that game must be pretty good to quite a few people. This is how I found and fell in love with Mother 3, an amazing Japanese only GBA RPG sequel to the NES games. People translated it from scratch, very difficultly, so it stands to reason it is worth trying out at least (and it was awesome!). \n And lastly, cheat codes and mods. Kinda the same as pirating. People don't sit there and make cheat codes for shitty games. There are probably next to zero cheats for Cooking Mama 5 for example, yet there are hundreds of custom cheats/mods for Skyrim or any Grand Theft Auto. If people love it, they will customize it. If no one is customizing it, then nobody loves it and I probably won't either. \n This is wayyyy longer than I thought it would be, but you asked and I delivered!"},"documents":{"kind":"list like","value":["Summary: Skip season 1, watch from Season 2 onwards. Also don't skip the Christmas Episodes, those are cool/story relevant too.\n\nPost: Hm.. hard to say.. It's like saying.. Ok I wanna read Harry Potter so just pick out a chapter for me in any of the 12 books that you think will get me hooked, ya know? \n I would go the simple route. Skip Season 1 of the 2005 series and just start from the beginning of Season 2 onward. Season 2 to present is just all awesome. Notable favorite episodes of mine include The Impossible Planet 2-parter, The Human Nature 2-parter, and Season 3's ending. Many episodes are just stand-alone and enjoyable out of context but to really enjoy the nuances of Dr. Who and to understand the importance of major plot twists and revelations you should probably just watch them in order starting from Season 2. \n I'm also 20 and also an American so don't worry about not catching references in the show or be worried about the show being too childish. I am also not some huge brit-ophile hipster. It is just a really good and really awesome Sci-Fi show. Also, it is kinda Dr. Who's style to mix really low budget effects with really high budget effects so don't be freaked out about an episode with mannequin monsters cuz later on there will be an episode with crazy spaceships etc. Anyways.. I am rambling now...","Summary: I like boats more than track confined trains haha.\n\nPost: Mind you, I haven't played either of them since they came out, so I am a tad rusty... But one of my biggest differences was the sense of exploration in PH. I really enjoyed in PH and WW being able to sail ANYWHERE I wanted on my boat, and the joy I derived from discovering a new island, especially \"secret\" ones that had nothing to do with the main game. \n In ST I felt extremely confined and frustrated at the linear feel from riding on train tracks. I wanted to explore this huge open world! Also maybe it is just my imagination, but I felt like there was less to explore in ST in general. Almost all of the platforms and locations ended up being important to the main quest. The main quest was fine, except I wanted some more secret and hidden platforms. \n Also the flute was terribly hard to use.","Summary: David kills Goliath. Israelites rejoice!\n\nPost: Blond guy on the right (Ken) is actually the health bar on the top left, notice how it literally doesn't exist. ANY move will kill him. Chun-Li moves in with a devastating combo, as she is at a bit under half health and is ready to finish this fight! Ken parries EVERY move, which is incredible and relies on timing perfect to a fraction of a second, and then instantly returns with a blistering combo that completely annihilates Chun-Li.","Summary: Roll with the changes made by good intentioned hard workers and if all else fails, the community can customize/augment/develop its own personal tweaks once its more final.\n\nPost: I personally love Unity. It is much more inviting and slick feeling, while still retaining the functionality and power of Linux/Ubuntu. \n I do not understand why people complain so vocally and adamently about a feature that in the end is nothing more than a beautifully crafted reskinning of already existing features. In the end, once Unity grows through it's trial by fire hardening and finalization across 12.04 and 12.10 people who still loathe it will either be able to customize it or change it themselves. \n That's my opinion and I think we could all show a little more respect to the hard work and dedication shone to an amazing and free OS. These people are just that, people. They are trying their hardest to both be new and inventive while also making you the user happy. They don't go into work and say \"muhahaha Ubuntu users will hate this!\" and then spend thankless hours implementing it.","Summary: Jesus lets you empty your sin counter, but nobody, including God is going to just hand you the keys of Heaven without any effort on your part.\n\nPost: Original sin is the flaw that causes us to make other flaws. Hence why it's improbable and basically impossible not to sin ever. \n Jesus died so that we may be forgiven for original sin and our other many sins, arguably caused by the knowledge we gained through our original sin. \n Basically because he died you now have a much better and more probable/merciful opportunity to be forgiven for your sins when they happen and through the continued learning of the New Testament you can hopefully prepare and prevent future transgressions.","Summary: Aborted babies go to purgatory, possibly forever, and then Heaven. Which is hardly the case for anyone who commits abortion, especially on such a scale. You are not doing anyone a favor.\n\nPost: A thousand wrongs don't make a right. \n Also depending on who you speak to, aborted babies who have not been baptised, which cleanses you of your original sin at birth, go to purgatory. So basically a baby confession, except the baby doesn't need to tell anyone it's sins because we all know it's original sin and it's only a burden not the babies fault. \n I would like to believe that God could be a bit more merciful then strict doctrine teaches. But then again, the reasoning is pretty sound. The reasoning is that since your baby died with original sin, it died a mortal sinner, but since it's a baby and God is merciful they go to purgatory where they can work off their sin and have the opportunity to turn to the Lord. So abortion babies could spend eternity in purgatory, and never make it to Heaven, but at least they wont't go to Hell (you can't fail purgatory, you just stay stuck until you find the Lord).","Summary: Go to confession you lazy bum :p If you think that is too much to ask of you for eternal bliss, then good luck!\n\nPost: Why are you bitching about God making you do at least one lick of work in your entire life? \n Humanity suffers form original sin, and because God sent his son Jesus down to suffer with us (and even more so then some considering he was tortured and killed publicly) you have the ability to overcome it. \n How lazy can you get? If you believe, then all you have to do it go to confession and BAM, you are absolved of all your sins. You tell one person your sins, you have no more sins (until you commit more ;p). \n Although TBH you should also really go to Mass as well, because of the Eucharist. But hey, I'm not forcing you to do anything, I'm just saying its what you should do if you are a believer.","Summary: God is pretty lenient in our punishment, and gives us a clear path to avoid it's lasting effects. Also original sin is a byproduct of free will, which is necessary to prove your love for the Lord is real, and not just an \"arranged marriage.\"\n\nPost: You know you just replied to my previous statement too eh? \n To continue, if you don't believe it, then don't get so worked up about it. Nobody is endangering your lifestyle because they have faith. \n Also to go off on the tangent of God's responsibility towards his creation of a \"flawed\" humanity. God did not make a flawed humanity, but he did give us free will. Through free will we chose to sin, and forsake the Lord, and as such we got the punishment he very clearly said we would get. EXCEPT! God is merciful, and he sent his son etc etc. Basically it is like time out from when you were a little kid, except on God scale. If you are good, you can get out of your punishment early for good behaviour, because Jesus vouched for you. \n Then you would ask, why did he give us free will then eh? huh?! That's because God wants and needs you to want and accept him. You cannot truly prove your loyalty to the Lord without being able to be tested. If your only choice is to love the Lord, then it isn't exactly a choice. Your relationship with God is not an arranged marriage, it has to be formed out of honest love.","Summary: God is all powerful and can be quite unforgiving at times so be happy that the prescribed path is as easy as it is. Even if it confuses you, its really not that hard to follow so w/e. Also as I said in this or the other comment thread, you Jane to prove your love to the Lord and to do that u have to be tested (ie. Free Will and now Original Sin)\n\nPost: Life isn't fair yet eternal happiness is a lot less hard to obtain than you would think it would be. \n The stakes were high before we commited original sin. God didn't want us to sin, and as such made the promised reward awesome and the punishment equally unawesome. \n And through Jesus it is hardly even a punishment anymore. You have the very easy and possible ability to overcome it. \n Why wouldn't it be fair of the Lord to follow through on his promises (albiet as I said: in a lenient way!)? If you believe in Him as the Bible and church teach Him then you believe he is both omnipresent and omniscient and then who are you to judge?","Summary: money.\n\nPost: I was just at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in DC. I can answer this! \n Much too expensive, required a lot of fuel, and didn't really cut down time enough to justify the effort. People would rather travel slower at normal rates than the exorbitant costs of supersonic flight. So","Summary: This video is misleading and disingenuous IMO. Quit trying to trick us into supporting things and treat us respectfully by just telling us the true motives, because they are really not that bad here! \n PS. If anyone calls me Generation We, I will personally start WeWar 1.\n\nPost: Well you see that is different from out parent's generations because FUCK PARENTS! \n This video appears to be praying upon the new uninitiated voting generation with fancy statistics and the snazzy video to manipulate them into voting some Baby Boomer's futurist agenda. \n Creating renewable, green, resources that can out-perform fossil fuels would be amazing! But to think it would save our economy or impact us in the short-term is lunacy. Developing said fuels would, as they say, cost billions upon billions of dollars and decades (or more!) or development. \n I am not saying we shouldn't do this, because I think it is the best long-term goal. But this video misleads you into thinking it will solve all our short-term dilemmas. If we really wanted to turn our country around from an economic standpoint, and improve American lives (in the short-term) through simple trickle-down economics, we would go balls to the wall anti-green and start producing cheap mass produced goods like China, with no thought to environmental effects etc. That would solve our short-term problems, but we would be huge dicks too.","Summary: Explain to me what Akira meant , please!\n\nPost: I just watched Akira for the first time less than a month ago, and immediately upon seeing the Chronicle trailer I thought about this. \n That being said, can some of you fine /movies folks explain to me what in the heck Akira is all about? Outside of the \"Kid gets superpowers and goes from mild mannered follower to dickwad arbiter of the endtimes\" theme I really did not pick up on a lot of the symbolism and such. \n I guess some themes about encroaching technology ruining humanity while simultaneously offering hope for the future, is always seemingly present in classic anime like Nausica or Ghost in the Shell. But I am hoping for some more concrete musings outside of my super general take away from the movie.","Summary: Either change it all or not a bit. They left characters the same from the book even though they were in a different \"universe\" bc of the ending, creating a bizarro world hodgepodge of mediocre storytelling.\n\nPost: I agree. It was a fitting modification to pin it on Manhattan and I didn't disagree with that. My problem stems from the fact that the first half stays true to the book while the second doesn't. So the motivations for the characters in the first are still existing in a world where the book ending is the ending while by the actual end of the movie the ending is the movie ending. \n The movie felt like it was fighting against itself because of that. I posit it would have been a stronger movie had they changed more instead of less (barring a pure book adaptation the entire way through, which I would have loved but agree that it would have been unweildingly long, maybe a two patter). \n My biggest beef, and I haven't seen the movie in a while, was ozymandias and the comedians motivations. I think it was outside of Dr. Manhattan's character to kill so many innocent ppl, he stopped valuing life but that doesn't make you evil just dispassionate. But even more so, in the movie ending he basically does it of his own accord and bc he has become a loose cannon. Ozy really has no ultimate control over him and therefore is not pulling the strings, in which case the Comedian's entire character is lacking in motivation.","Summary: Catan rules say you can't trade the same resource for the same resource, for whatever reason.\n\nPost: Not to be a spoil sport but it actually says in the rules that you cannot make trades of the same resource for the same resource. I am not particularly sure what that stops players from accomplishing but I have a theory that it is to stop players from saying they will trade Wood for Sheep with a confidant, and then actually just trading Wood for Wood so as to create the illusion that player X has more sheep now. Then again, there isn't some over the shoulder Catan judge so I don't see how you could get caught from doing that anyways.","Summary: Grumble grumble. Book >>> Movie.\n\nPost: Dude you are the only one I have seen on Reddit who agrees with my sensibilities that the fake alien monster, while more wtf at first, makes much more sense in uniting the world. \n The entire book is ultimately leading up to that reveal, even if you are not concious of it until after the fact. By changing the ending, they create many loose and dead ends within the motivations of particular characters. Most distressing to me is the character of the Comedian who is only a ghost of himself from the book. His role goes from meaningful and important to just an action scene we couldn't omit. \n The change made no sense to me and I have a hard time watching the movie because of it. This is made all the more painful by the fact that the movie is made wonderfully and is perfectly executed, just in the wrong way.","Summary: Flavor packets. Do it.\n\nPost: In Scouting they forced everyone to drink a full nalgene prior to starting a big hike, as they rightly should have. It's just a good tip. Yet I hated drinking that much water, so I can relate. Started putting a flavor packet in the water, lemonade or something, and boom. It just slides down so much easier.","Summary: Magic the Gathering is cardboard crack. Who knew?\n\nPost: Magic the gathering. I, and my brothers, made fun of that shit hardcore. Like man we are nerdy but at least we don't play magic! Then a friend on my hall freshman year of college played a lot and had me play some with one of his spare decks so he could practice for fnm. It slowly grew on me until sophomore year when I got my own decks and now I fucking play all the time. The company of people is a little odd at times but damn that game is fun as fuck. Fuck magic for being so fun! It makes me mad how much I like it lol.","Summary: If you feel left out because you can't beat games: Then play games you aren't supposed to beat and that are meant to be done with when you lose interest.\n\nPost: Why not try some games which you aren't supposed to \"beat\"? Then you never lost! Who says you need to finish! It's entertainment, and if you're done being entertained then you're done! \n Something like Canabalt or Doodle Jump or (to an extent) Super Hexagon may suit your tastes. \n Those are kinda like simple time-wasters though. To a degree any decent MMO never really ends. Get a WoW account or join Eve Online or Guild Wars 2 etc etc. You could never finish everything, and even if you came close they will just add more. So play when you feel like it and get as far as you want. No one chastises someone for not beating WoW because it's not possible. Everyone just plays and has fun. \n In addition, why not try some roguelikes like Brogue or Faster Than Light. Anything with randomly generated gameplay never ends, and even if you get the amulet of yandor or whatever you didn't really beat the game. It's different every time, hence endless (until you feel done of course). \n Finally, in the vein of randomly generated: Minecraft. It's a game. It never ends, ask my younger brother who plays incessantly. It's like legos, you are done when you want to be, not because the story ran out. \n BONUS: Text Adventures like Zork 1, 2, and 3 all have endings but can be played at a super casual pace, with no real skill outside of logic puzzles and the ability to type required. They are oldies but goodies and might suite your nature.","Summary: He is totally dead because oranges.\n\nPost: I think its as good as confirmed. Oranges are an ancient and well known symbol for death in plays, movies, and other entertainment etc. He trips, snaps his neck, and then a bowl tips over and oranges fall on him. Considering the level of craftsmanship put into BB, I highly doubt this is a coincidence. Oranges being symbols of death and him seemingly dying while oranges fall on him, too good to be a coincidence and seemed scripted since the entire bowl was in frame etc. \n Also it didn't really cut right away from him like a cliff hanger, Saul's lackeys left and went to talk to Saul after mailing the envelope. Not that they are the brightest bulbs in shed mind you, but I would assume they would have checked his pulse etc and if he was just injured they would have realized it eventually.","Summary: I hate Black History month. Every culture deserves equal standing. I wish there was a much more inclusive America month instead.\n\nPost: Its ridiculous we are still so backwards as to have a black history month. I'm mobile ATM but somebody needs to kindly post that Morgan Freeman video where he details black history month. \n As a stereotypical white-irish American, maybe you think I don't have room to talk, which is wrong. But even putting aside myself. Where is Native American month? They deserve it just as much, considering the hardships and duress their culture has suffered here in America. But why stop there? Where's Asian American month, what about internment? Or Hispanic American month considering their negative stereotypes but rich culture? \n Point is, as races, everyone has a story, everyone is special, everyone has leaders and thinkers and history! Yet only one race gets a month as if its the only one worthy of recieving it. That is unfair, and in essence racist! \n Why can't we celebrate everyone's accomplishments, trials, and tribulations? Why can't we have an inclusive America month where we discuss and consider the plights, advancements, and futures of everyone and every culture in America.","Summary: Korean monopolies (NAVER+DAUM) have successfully neutered Google Maps here. \n Edit: The irony is that NK is much more likely to use the Korean language map sites anyways, yet only the English site is restricted. Really annoying too cuz NAVER and DAUM don't have English portals.\n\nPost: The war reasoning is compelling, but false. The Korean language sites give perfect directions. The real reason is Korea is incredibly keen on maintaining Korean companies competitive edge. Monopoly style corporations are the cultural norm, so much so that there is an entire subgenre of Korean drama television (and kdrama is wildly popular mind you) devoted to office/ceo drama in, fictional, monopoly companies. Once the Korean company has the market and recognition then they left foreign competition trickle in. For example Iphones being barred in Korea. Koreans see almost no problem with these massive monopoly companies, and if anything relish them under a sense of national pride that Korea has come so far since the Korean War so fast. Mind you 60-70 years ago Korea was a dirt patch that had just been firebombed to hell. Often Koreans will willingly eat shit from the ingrained Korean product/company rather than support foreign investment. See the cesspool that is Kakaotalk, which is no different than Google Hangouts or FB messenger, yet rife with spam and limitations. Especially because local foreign investment, China and Japan, are seen very unfavorably in Korea, especially the latter. Sorry for the rant but I live in Korea and find the study of a country which went from literally nothing to Samsung and KIA fascinating.","Summary: Reminds me of Twinking in WoW. Me gusta.\n\nPost: I freaking love this kinda stuff! \n Reminds me of the good ol' days in WoW with Twinking. For anyone that doesn't know, a Twink was a level less than or equal to 19 character who had impossibly good stats and armor to make them incredibly powerful in that PVP tier. People spent hours on their level 60 main toons farming obscure endgame/rare items which didn't have a level requirement for some reason or another to deck out their PVP Twink. Usually these items were impossible to get in normal level 19 gameplay, and it was a lot of work, but the results were cool and you destroyed in PVP. \n I don't have an endgame char yet in T2 but I have been actively thinking in the back of my head how to do something like what you achieved! Kudos and interesting read!","Summary: of this is siblings are ~50% genetically identical, and 99.95% biochemically identical! I will edit my first comment to reflect this. \n Source:\n\nPost: I got my fact from the Cheetah Conservation Fund, I sourced it at the bottom of my post. \n I knew relatively nothing about the related genetic diversity between humans so I took it at face value. \n I am now attempting to find a reputable source (darn you Yahoo Answers clogging up my searches!) that either proves me right or proves me wrong. \n That being said, my point was comparing genetic diversity between two related humans, while you are comparing genetic diversity between humans and other animals. I am no statistician, but I would imagine the percentages cannot just be compared 1:1. \n Ill try and get back to you on this.... \n Edit: Got it! Ok the"],"string":"[\n \"Summary: Skip season 1, watch from Season 2 onwards. Also don't skip the Christmas Episodes, those are cool/story relevant too.\\n\\nPost: Hm.. hard to say.. It's like saying.. Ok I wanna read Harry Potter so just pick out a chapter for me in any of the 12 books that you think will get me hooked, ya know? \\n I would go the simple route. Skip Season 1 of the 2005 series and just start from the beginning of Season 2 onward. Season 2 to present is just all awesome. Notable favorite episodes of mine include The Impossible Planet 2-parter, The Human Nature 2-parter, and Season 3's ending. Many episodes are just stand-alone and enjoyable out of context but to really enjoy the nuances of Dr. Who and to understand the importance of major plot twists and revelations you should probably just watch them in order starting from Season 2. \\n I'm also 20 and also an American so don't worry about not catching references in the show or be worried about the show being too childish. I am also not some huge brit-ophile hipster. It is just a really good and really awesome Sci-Fi show. Also, it is kinda Dr. Who's style to mix really low budget effects with really high budget effects so don't be freaked out about an episode with mannequin monsters cuz later on there will be an episode with crazy spaceships etc. Anyways.. I am rambling now...\",\n \"Summary: I like boats more than track confined trains haha.\\n\\nPost: Mind you, I haven't played either of them since they came out, so I am a tad rusty... But one of my biggest differences was the sense of exploration in PH. I really enjoyed in PH and WW being able to sail ANYWHERE I wanted on my boat, and the joy I derived from discovering a new island, especially \\\"secret\\\" ones that had nothing to do with the main game. \\n In ST I felt extremely confined and frustrated at the linear feel from riding on train tracks. I wanted to explore this huge open world! Also maybe it is just my imagination, but I felt like there was less to explore in ST in general. Almost all of the platforms and locations ended up being important to the main quest. The main quest was fine, except I wanted some more secret and hidden platforms. \\n Also the flute was terribly hard to use.\",\n \"Summary: David kills Goliath. Israelites rejoice!\\n\\nPost: Blond guy on the right (Ken) is actually the health bar on the top left, notice how it literally doesn't exist. ANY move will kill him. Chun-Li moves in with a devastating combo, as she is at a bit under half health and is ready to finish this fight! Ken parries EVERY move, which is incredible and relies on timing perfect to a fraction of a second, and then instantly returns with a blistering combo that completely annihilates Chun-Li.\",\n \"Summary: Roll with the changes made by good intentioned hard workers and if all else fails, the community can customize/augment/develop its own personal tweaks once its more final.\\n\\nPost: I personally love Unity. It is much more inviting and slick feeling, while still retaining the functionality and power of Linux/Ubuntu. \\n I do not understand why people complain so vocally and adamently about a feature that in the end is nothing more than a beautifully crafted reskinning of already existing features. In the end, once Unity grows through it's trial by fire hardening and finalization across 12.04 and 12.10 people who still loathe it will either be able to customize it or change it themselves. \\n That's my opinion and I think we could all show a little more respect to the hard work and dedication shone to an amazing and free OS. These people are just that, people. They are trying their hardest to both be new and inventive while also making you the user happy. They don't go into work and say \\\"muhahaha Ubuntu users will hate this!\\\" and then spend thankless hours implementing it.\",\n \"Summary: Jesus lets you empty your sin counter, but nobody, including God is going to just hand you the keys of Heaven without any effort on your part.\\n\\nPost: Original sin is the flaw that causes us to make other flaws. Hence why it's improbable and basically impossible not to sin ever. \\n Jesus died so that we may be forgiven for original sin and our other many sins, arguably caused by the knowledge we gained through our original sin. \\n Basically because he died you now have a much better and more probable/merciful opportunity to be forgiven for your sins when they happen and through the continued learning of the New Testament you can hopefully prepare and prevent future transgressions.\",\n \"Summary: Aborted babies go to purgatory, possibly forever, and then Heaven. Which is hardly the case for anyone who commits abortion, especially on such a scale. You are not doing anyone a favor.\\n\\nPost: A thousand wrongs don't make a right. \\n Also depending on who you speak to, aborted babies who have not been baptised, which cleanses you of your original sin at birth, go to purgatory. So basically a baby confession, except the baby doesn't need to tell anyone it's sins because we all know it's original sin and it's only a burden not the babies fault. \\n I would like to believe that God could be a bit more merciful then strict doctrine teaches. But then again, the reasoning is pretty sound. The reasoning is that since your baby died with original sin, it died a mortal sinner, but since it's a baby and God is merciful they go to purgatory where they can work off their sin and have the opportunity to turn to the Lord. So abortion babies could spend eternity in purgatory, and never make it to Heaven, but at least they wont't go to Hell (you can't fail purgatory, you just stay stuck until you find the Lord).\",\n \"Summary: Go to confession you lazy bum :p If you think that is too much to ask of you for eternal bliss, then good luck!\\n\\nPost: Why are you bitching about God making you do at least one lick of work in your entire life? \\n Humanity suffers form original sin, and because God sent his son Jesus down to suffer with us (and even more so then some considering he was tortured and killed publicly) you have the ability to overcome it. \\n How lazy can you get? If you believe, then all you have to do it go to confession and BAM, you are absolved of all your sins. You tell one person your sins, you have no more sins (until you commit more ;p). \\n Although TBH you should also really go to Mass as well, because of the Eucharist. But hey, I'm not forcing you to do anything, I'm just saying its what you should do if you are a believer.\",\n \"Summary: God is pretty lenient in our punishment, and gives us a clear path to avoid it's lasting effects. Also original sin is a byproduct of free will, which is necessary to prove your love for the Lord is real, and not just an \\\"arranged marriage.\\\"\\n\\nPost: You know you just replied to my previous statement too eh? \\n To continue, if you don't believe it, then don't get so worked up about it. Nobody is endangering your lifestyle because they have faith. \\n Also to go off on the tangent of God's responsibility towards his creation of a \\\"flawed\\\" humanity. God did not make a flawed humanity, but he did give us free will. Through free will we chose to sin, and forsake the Lord, and as such we got the punishment he very clearly said we would get. EXCEPT! God is merciful, and he sent his son etc etc. Basically it is like time out from when you were a little kid, except on God scale. If you are good, you can get out of your punishment early for good behaviour, because Jesus vouched for you. \\n Then you would ask, why did he give us free will then eh? huh?! That's because God wants and needs you to want and accept him. You cannot truly prove your loyalty to the Lord without being able to be tested. If your only choice is to love the Lord, then it isn't exactly a choice. Your relationship with God is not an arranged marriage, it has to be formed out of honest love.\",\n \"Summary: God is all powerful and can be quite unforgiving at times so be happy that the prescribed path is as easy as it is. Even if it confuses you, its really not that hard to follow so w/e. Also as I said in this or the other comment thread, you Jane to prove your love to the Lord and to do that u have to be tested (ie. Free Will and now Original Sin)\\n\\nPost: Life isn't fair yet eternal happiness is a lot less hard to obtain than you would think it would be. \\n The stakes were high before we commited original sin. God didn't want us to sin, and as such made the promised reward awesome and the punishment equally unawesome. \\n And through Jesus it is hardly even a punishment anymore. You have the very easy and possible ability to overcome it. \\n Why wouldn't it be fair of the Lord to follow through on his promises (albiet as I said: in a lenient way!)? If you believe in Him as the Bible and church teach Him then you believe he is both omnipresent and omniscient and then who are you to judge?\",\n \"Summary: money.\\n\\nPost: I was just at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in DC. I can answer this! \\n Much too expensive, required a lot of fuel, and didn't really cut down time enough to justify the effort. People would rather travel slower at normal rates than the exorbitant costs of supersonic flight. So\",\n \"Summary: This video is misleading and disingenuous IMO. Quit trying to trick us into supporting things and treat us respectfully by just telling us the true motives, because they are really not that bad here! \\n PS. If anyone calls me Generation We, I will personally start WeWar 1.\\n\\nPost: Well you see that is different from out parent's generations because FUCK PARENTS! \\n This video appears to be praying upon the new uninitiated voting generation with fancy statistics and the snazzy video to manipulate them into voting some Baby Boomer's futurist agenda. \\n Creating renewable, green, resources that can out-perform fossil fuels would be amazing! But to think it would save our economy or impact us in the short-term is lunacy. Developing said fuels would, as they say, cost billions upon billions of dollars and decades (or more!) or development. \\n I am not saying we shouldn't do this, because I think it is the best long-term goal. But this video misleads you into thinking it will solve all our short-term dilemmas. If we really wanted to turn our country around from an economic standpoint, and improve American lives (in the short-term) through simple trickle-down economics, we would go balls to the wall anti-green and start producing cheap mass produced goods like China, with no thought to environmental effects etc. That would solve our short-term problems, but we would be huge dicks too.\",\n \"Summary: Explain to me what Akira meant , please!\\n\\nPost: I just watched Akira for the first time less than a month ago, and immediately upon seeing the Chronicle trailer I thought about this. \\n That being said, can some of you fine /movies folks explain to me what in the heck Akira is all about? Outside of the \\\"Kid gets superpowers and goes from mild mannered follower to dickwad arbiter of the endtimes\\\" theme I really did not pick up on a lot of the symbolism and such. \\n I guess some themes about encroaching technology ruining humanity while simultaneously offering hope for the future, is always seemingly present in classic anime like Nausica or Ghost in the Shell. But I am hoping for some more concrete musings outside of my super general take away from the movie.\",\n \"Summary: Either change it all or not a bit. They left characters the same from the book even though they were in a different \\\"universe\\\" bc of the ending, creating a bizarro world hodgepodge of mediocre storytelling.\\n\\nPost: I agree. It was a fitting modification to pin it on Manhattan and I didn't disagree with that. My problem stems from the fact that the first half stays true to the book while the second doesn't. So the motivations for the characters in the first are still existing in a world where the book ending is the ending while by the actual end of the movie the ending is the movie ending. \\n The movie felt like it was fighting against itself because of that. I posit it would have been a stronger movie had they changed more instead of less (barring a pure book adaptation the entire way through, which I would have loved but agree that it would have been unweildingly long, maybe a two patter). \\n My biggest beef, and I haven't seen the movie in a while, was ozymandias and the comedians motivations. I think it was outside of Dr. Manhattan's character to kill so many innocent ppl, he stopped valuing life but that doesn't make you evil just dispassionate. But even more so, in the movie ending he basically does it of his own accord and bc he has become a loose cannon. Ozy really has no ultimate control over him and therefore is not pulling the strings, in which case the Comedian's entire character is lacking in motivation.\",\n \"Summary: Catan rules say you can't trade the same resource for the same resource, for whatever reason.\\n\\nPost: Not to be a spoil sport but it actually says in the rules that you cannot make trades of the same resource for the same resource. I am not particularly sure what that stops players from accomplishing but I have a theory that it is to stop players from saying they will trade Wood for Sheep with a confidant, and then actually just trading Wood for Wood so as to create the illusion that player X has more sheep now. Then again, there isn't some over the shoulder Catan judge so I don't see how you could get caught from doing that anyways.\",\n \"Summary: Grumble grumble. Book >>> Movie.\\n\\nPost: Dude you are the only one I have seen on Reddit who agrees with my sensibilities that the fake alien monster, while more wtf at first, makes much more sense in uniting the world. \\n The entire book is ultimately leading up to that reveal, even if you are not concious of it until after the fact. By changing the ending, they create many loose and dead ends within the motivations of particular characters. Most distressing to me is the character of the Comedian who is only a ghost of himself from the book. His role goes from meaningful and important to just an action scene we couldn't omit. \\n The change made no sense to me and I have a hard time watching the movie because of it. This is made all the more painful by the fact that the movie is made wonderfully and is perfectly executed, just in the wrong way.\",\n \"Summary: Flavor packets. Do it.\\n\\nPost: In Scouting they forced everyone to drink a full nalgene prior to starting a big hike, as they rightly should have. It's just a good tip. Yet I hated drinking that much water, so I can relate. Started putting a flavor packet in the water, lemonade or something, and boom. It just slides down so much easier.\",\n \"Summary: Magic the Gathering is cardboard crack. Who knew?\\n\\nPost: Magic the gathering. I, and my brothers, made fun of that shit hardcore. Like man we are nerdy but at least we don't play magic! Then a friend on my hall freshman year of college played a lot and had me play some with one of his spare decks so he could practice for fnm. It slowly grew on me until sophomore year when I got my own decks and now I fucking play all the time. The company of people is a little odd at times but damn that game is fun as fuck. Fuck magic for being so fun! It makes me mad how much I like it lol.\",\n \"Summary: If you feel left out because you can't beat games: Then play games you aren't supposed to beat and that are meant to be done with when you lose interest.\\n\\nPost: Why not try some games which you aren't supposed to \\\"beat\\\"? Then you never lost! Who says you need to finish! It's entertainment, and if you're done being entertained then you're done! \\n Something like Canabalt or Doodle Jump or (to an extent) Super Hexagon may suit your tastes. \\n Those are kinda like simple time-wasters though. To a degree any decent MMO never really ends. Get a WoW account or join Eve Online or Guild Wars 2 etc etc. You could never finish everything, and even if you came close they will just add more. So play when you feel like it and get as far as you want. No one chastises someone for not beating WoW because it's not possible. Everyone just plays and has fun. \\n In addition, why not try some roguelikes like Brogue or Faster Than Light. Anything with randomly generated gameplay never ends, and even if you get the amulet of yandor or whatever you didn't really beat the game. It's different every time, hence endless (until you feel done of course). \\n Finally, in the vein of randomly generated: Minecraft. It's a game. It never ends, ask my younger brother who plays incessantly. It's like legos, you are done when you want to be, not because the story ran out. \\n BONUS: Text Adventures like Zork 1, 2, and 3 all have endings but can be played at a super casual pace, with no real skill outside of logic puzzles and the ability to type required. They are oldies but goodies and might suite your nature.\",\n \"Summary: He is totally dead because oranges.\\n\\nPost: I think its as good as confirmed. Oranges are an ancient and well known symbol for death in plays, movies, and other entertainment etc. He trips, snaps his neck, and then a bowl tips over and oranges fall on him. Considering the level of craftsmanship put into BB, I highly doubt this is a coincidence. Oranges being symbols of death and him seemingly dying while oranges fall on him, too good to be a coincidence and seemed scripted since the entire bowl was in frame etc. \\n Also it didn't really cut right away from him like a cliff hanger, Saul's lackeys left and went to talk to Saul after mailing the envelope. Not that they are the brightest bulbs in shed mind you, but I would assume they would have checked his pulse etc and if he was just injured they would have realized it eventually.\",\n \"Summary: I hate Black History month. Every culture deserves equal standing. I wish there was a much more inclusive America month instead.\\n\\nPost: Its ridiculous we are still so backwards as to have a black history month. I'm mobile ATM but somebody needs to kindly post that Morgan Freeman video where he details black history month. \\n As a stereotypical white-irish American, maybe you think I don't have room to talk, which is wrong. But even putting aside myself. Where is Native American month? They deserve it just as much, considering the hardships and duress their culture has suffered here in America. But why stop there? Where's Asian American month, what about internment? Or Hispanic American month considering their negative stereotypes but rich culture? \\n Point is, as races, everyone has a story, everyone is special, everyone has leaders and thinkers and history! Yet only one race gets a month as if its the only one worthy of recieving it. That is unfair, and in essence racist! \\n Why can't we celebrate everyone's accomplishments, trials, and tribulations? Why can't we have an inclusive America month where we discuss and consider the plights, advancements, and futures of everyone and every culture in America.\",\n \"Summary: Korean monopolies (NAVER+DAUM) have successfully neutered Google Maps here. \\n Edit: The irony is that NK is much more likely to use the Korean language map sites anyways, yet only the English site is restricted. Really annoying too cuz NAVER and DAUM don't have English portals.\\n\\nPost: The war reasoning is compelling, but false. The Korean language sites give perfect directions. The real reason is Korea is incredibly keen on maintaining Korean companies competitive edge. Monopoly style corporations are the cultural norm, so much so that there is an entire subgenre of Korean drama television (and kdrama is wildly popular mind you) devoted to office/ceo drama in, fictional, monopoly companies. Once the Korean company has the market and recognition then they left foreign competition trickle in. For example Iphones being barred in Korea. Koreans see almost no problem with these massive monopoly companies, and if anything relish them under a sense of national pride that Korea has come so far since the Korean War so fast. Mind you 60-70 years ago Korea was a dirt patch that had just been firebombed to hell. Often Koreans will willingly eat shit from the ingrained Korean product/company rather than support foreign investment. See the cesspool that is Kakaotalk, which is no different than Google Hangouts or FB messenger, yet rife with spam and limitations. Especially because local foreign investment, China and Japan, are seen very unfavorably in Korea, especially the latter. Sorry for the rant but I live in Korea and find the study of a country which went from literally nothing to Samsung and KIA fascinating.\",\n \"Summary: Reminds me of Twinking in WoW. Me gusta.\\n\\nPost: I freaking love this kinda stuff! \\n Reminds me of the good ol' days in WoW with Twinking. For anyone that doesn't know, a Twink was a level less than or equal to 19 character who had impossibly good stats and armor to make them incredibly powerful in that PVP tier. People spent hours on their level 60 main toons farming obscure endgame/rare items which didn't have a level requirement for some reason or another to deck out their PVP Twink. Usually these items were impossible to get in normal level 19 gameplay, and it was a lot of work, but the results were cool and you destroyed in PVP. \\n I don't have an endgame char yet in T2 but I have been actively thinking in the back of my head how to do something like what you achieved! Kudos and interesting read!\",\n \"Summary: of this is siblings are ~50% genetically identical, and 99.95% biochemically identical! I will edit my first comment to reflect this. \\n Source:\\n\\nPost: I got my fact from the Cheetah Conservation Fund, I sourced it at the bottom of my post. \\n I knew relatively nothing about the related genetic diversity between humans so I took it at face value. \\n I am now attempting to find a reputable source (darn you Yahoo Answers clogging up my searches!) that either proves me right or proves me wrong. \\n That being said, my point was comparing genetic diversity between two related humans, while you are comparing genetic diversity between humans and other animals. I am no statistician, but I would imagine the percentages cannot just be compared 1:1. \\n Ill try and get back to you on this.... \\n Edit: Got it! 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cdnbroker | Generate the content for a reddit post the last thing the Liberals need is a bigger step to the left. | Neither. If the Liberals lose the next election (and it looks that way if an election were held today), it would be a poor choice for the party to swing more to the left.
The Liberals are supposed to be the big tent middle party. Rae (NDP Premier) and Kennedy are too left wing. If anything the party needs a more r... | Neither. If the Liberals lose the next election (and it looks that way if an election were held today), it would be a poor choice for the party to swing more to the left.
The Liberals are supposed to be the big tent middle party. Rae (NDP Premier) and Kennedy are too left wing. If anything the party needs a more r... | [
"Summary: is - you have major causation issues in your hypo. The Crown has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the actions of the defendant are a 'significant and operating' cause of death (for homicide). To further prove murder - specific intent needs to be shown. You have a challenge with both. \n As for... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,900 |
Ghillieguy | Generate the content for a reddit post If you don't plan on shooting first strikes through it, get something else | It's a cool gun with a lot of features but you should be realistic on how much you're going to use all of those features. A big selling point is that it's first strike compatible, but keep in mind does your field allow first strike rounds? Are you even going to be shooting first strikes? Can you afford first strikes ev... | It's a cool gun with a lot of features but you should be realistic on how much you're going to use all of those features. A big selling point is that it's first strike compatible, but keep in mind does your field allow first strike rounds? Are you even going to be shooting first strikes? Can you afford first strikes ev... | [
"Summary: When Bitches are indecisive and hypocritical\n\nPost: It was my sophomore year in high school, and I had something equivalent to about 1/2 of a girlfriend (We openly admitted that we liked each other and we kissed a little bit after the homecoming dance) but after that she told me she didn't know if she w... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,901 |
g33n | Generate the content for a reddit post because people are unscrupulous and free education doesn't necessarily serve the interests of society. | This is really hard to address properly without coming across as patronizing, so I apologize if I do in any case.
Education is a scarce resource, and pricing certain people out of certain market segments is one way to guarantee access to a body that can make use of that scarcity. If I only have ten bottles of medicin... | This is really hard to address properly without coming across as patronizing, so I apologize if I do in any case.
Education is a scarce resource, and pricing certain people out of certain market segments is one way to guarantee access to a body that can make use of that scarcity. If I only have ten bottles of medicin... | [
"Summary: The jewish women in his neighborhood might be worse drivers around bikes than jews elsewhere.\n\nPost: On the other hand, if you ride enough neighborhoods on bike, you can tell that there is a very different character to the drivers in different areas. The quality of the roads is a confounding factor (the... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,902 |
Polyneophite | Generate the content for a reddit post don't be a duche. | I wonder if you're as ugly as you sound.
You, idiot. I am talking about you.
While I see the concern about privacy I think it depends on the relationship. Dude she just started talking to/one of the first message exchanges? No real expectation of privacy, to at least not a big one. Existing partnership? Yes, an exp... | I wonder if you're as ugly as you sound.
You, idiot. I am talking about you.
While I see the concern about privacy I think it depends on the relationship. Dude she just started talking to/one of the first message exchanges? No real expectation of privacy, to at least not a big one. Existing partnership? Yes, an exp... | [
"Summary: RES is the shit.\n\nPost: Reddit Enhancement Suite. It offeres a whole bunch of features such as the ability to tag people however you want and color code different users. It also is supposed to track how many up or down votes you give each person and display it next to that name but that feature is curre... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,903 |
chirisu | Generate the content for a reddit post Do your own legwork for the class, don't complain about the professor's actions (or lack thereof) when you haven't talked to them about it.
(Of course, you could just turn him over the department chair to get him in trouble for not doing his work in a timely fashion.) | Should have talked to your professor first and expressed how uncomfortable you were going into the final without seeing the graded essays.
Should know the material. If you're not sure if you're getting the material, you should ask more questions in class.
What is this, high school? I had classes where we ONLY h... | Should have talked to your professor first and expressed how uncomfortable you were going into the final without seeing the graded essays.
Should know the material. If you're not sure if you're getting the material, you should ask more questions in class.
What is this, high school? I had classes where we ONLY h... | [
"Summary: If you can afford it, do the surgery. 6 months of wearing pads and gauze and taking lots of baths, but the end result is better. But also keep in mind that something is causing the fistula and humira or remicade could treat the source as well as the fistula itself.\n\nPost: I had 3 surgeries for abscesses... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,904 |
Fuglypump | Generate the content for a reddit post If Adblock makes a website more usable then that means its ads are intrusive. | Anything that doesn't get in the way or autoplay.
Reddit's ads are on the right side of the screen while just about everything important is on the left side of the screen. This is unintrusive because I don't need to look at them in order to use the website.
A good example of intrusive ads is YouTube, if you use adb... | Anything that doesn't get in the way or autoplay.
Reddit's ads are on the right side of the screen while just about everything important is on the left side of the screen. This is unintrusive because I don't need to look at them in order to use the website.
A good example of intrusive ads is YouTube, if you use adb... | [
"Summary: I love my dad, I respect his views, but he is not a very smart man.\n\nPost: My dad's career is selling useless junk trinkets and miscellaneous items to Christian book stores for his company, he is a salesman. Random things that could be an every day object but have been turned religious by adding scrip... | 33 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,905 |
heorhe | Generate the content for a reddit post after experiencing both mediums, the anime (entirety) made me cry at the ending out of sadness (yes I consider final movie good if you have read the manga). The manga however made me cry out of happiness. both are good, anime is a better experience if you don't include final, but ... | So the author used the manga as sort of one offs where each chapter something gets resolved more or less. so in fifty pages a problem arises, hijinks ensue, problem gets solved, and on to the next chapter. during the chapters the characters do learn and develop, however it takes a while for these small incidents to bui... | So the author used the manga as sort of one offs where each chapter something gets resolved more or less. so in fifty pages a problem arises, hijinks ensue, problem gets solved, and on to the next chapter. during the chapters the characters do learn and develop, however it takes a while for these small incidents to bui... | [
"Summary: GRRRRRRRRRR SALMON\n\nPost: There was this one commercial about 10+ years ago. \n It started with a father with his son and daughter going into a \"pink and frilly\" store. they went in and the dad said \"go an sweety, pick out whatever you want\" to the girl and she goes off to do whatever. Then he turns... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,906 |
hillbilly_hubble | Generate the content for a reddit post I really do understand what you're saying, but even for girls who think they understand the risks, I still very much doubt many actually realize the risk until it is too late. | And I would agree... To a point.
I'm not sure very many of the females that join a football team entirely understand what they are getting into. There is no way to convey to a 14-18 year old girl that, no matter how 'hard nosed' you are, you very likely cannot compete, and it is very likely that it is dangerous for y... | And I would agree... To a point.
I'm not sure very many of the females that join a football team entirely understand what they are getting into. There is no way to convey to a 14-18 year old girl that, no matter how 'hard nosed' you are, you very likely cannot compete, and it is very likely that it is dangerous for y... | [
"Summary: Fuck You\n\nPost: Yes, and I am very committed to my wife. But, I am committed to who she is, and she is committed to who I am. If I were to come back from a deployment a raging, abusive alcoholic, I would expect her to leave me. \n If she become an emotionally closed person who became emotionally abusive... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,907 |
swxrice | Generate the content for a reddit post the last paragraph | Background for non-Rice affiliates: about 80% of all Rice undergrads live on campus. Most students only spend their junior year off campus, and not all even do that. As such, about 1/3 of students on campus are drinking age, and about 2/3 are not. Since all of the classes intermingle in the dorms (there is no senior do... | Background for non-Rice affiliates: about 80% of all Rice undergrads live on campus. Most students only spend their junior year off campus, and not all even do that. As such, about 1/3 of students on campus are drinking age, and about 2/3 are not. Since all of the classes intermingle in the dorms (there is no senior do... | [
"Summary: Nobody is allowed to quickly rush the FG unit on anymore because Bret Bielema hates the HUNH.\n\nPost: It normally is. This is a college rule to slow down the HUNH. If the offense makes or pretends to make a substitution, the defense must \"promptly\" make any substitution they want to. The umpire should ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,908 |
gyro2death | Generate the content for a reddit post It's a long explanation why your gravity turn is worse than mechjebs bastardization of the concept. | I think mechjeb runs the throttle to the actual terminal-v of a given altitude (it does change gradually) so you were hurting yourself by cutting your thrust back.
Also what most people don't realize about real gravity turns is that the way they are performed in real life is only due to the complete difference in rad... | I think mechjeb runs the throttle to the actual terminal-v of a given altitude (it does change gradually) so you were hurting yourself by cutting your thrust back.
Also what most people don't realize about real gravity turns is that the way they are performed in real life is only due to the complete difference in rad... | [
"Summary: Making it a non-cheat would only be beneficial if you could change your camera distance. Since you can't change camera distance it has no benefits.\n\nPost: To quote /u/lumbdi \n >Since the camera distance is fixed (1134) it doesn't make a difference.\nThe fog plays a role if the distance is big. Else it ... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,909 |
GuiitarMan | Generate the content for a reddit post Cool story bro! Bought my parents an Xbox360 Kinect bundle ofr Christmas. | Good story! I thought about trying to get my dad into Portal. The only real games he plays are Zelda games for the Gameboy. Yes he has everyone that has come out and yes we have bought him the newer gameboy's as they were needed for the newer Zelda titles. He loves the puzzles and hates all that "hackin' and slashi... | Good story! I thought about trying to get my dad into Portal. The only real games he plays are Zelda games for the Gameboy. Yes he has everyone that has come out and yes we have bought him the newer gameboy's as they were needed for the newer Zelda titles. He loves the puzzles and hates all that "hackin' and slashi... | [
"Summary: What's wrong with these young wippersnappers?\n\nPost: Being an old school ent, I walked into the local headshop for the first time right when they opened the other day. I was just there to check out their selection of vapes when, what I can only describe as a mob, comes flying through the front door and... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,910 |
muffypoo | Generate the content for a reddit post Transformers, more flexible storylines. | They are rather different genres, really. Transformers goes along the same line (of toy products mostly) as GI Joe, MASK and Centurions as they all involve man and machinery. TMNT was more... Ghostbusters/Batman/X-men?
Unfortunately business-wise, it's more lucrative producing Transformers as the Cybertronians come i... | They are rather different genres, really. Transformers goes along the same line (of toy products mostly) as GI Joe, MASK and Centurions as they all involve man and machinery. TMNT was more... Ghostbusters/Batman/X-men?
Unfortunately business-wise, it's more lucrative producing Transformers as the Cybertronians come i... | [
"Summary: lmgtfy](\n\nPost: They function differently for any one program. Assuming you're a PC user, on the desktop/windows explorer, \n \n F1 calls up the Windows Help Menu \n F2 to rename a file \n F3 to search \n F4 shortcut to the location bar \n F5 refresh (works the same in any browser) \n F11 fullscre... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,911 |
kiwirish | Generate the content for a reddit post Anything can and will happen at the Olympics, just ask any Olympian. Whoever dares wins, not whoever is the best. No one is out of it until they're well and truly out. | This reminds me of how we've broadcast the Olympics in NZ. Not on TV though, had no real complaints there, but in the news.
I hate when people mention an incomplete list of people that can dash one nation's medal hopes. As someone who has been (albeit not Olympics) in a medal winning position before where it should h... | This reminds me of how we've broadcast the Olympics in NZ. Not on TV though, had no real complaints there, but in the news.
I hate when people mention an incomplete list of people that can dash one nation's medal hopes. As someone who has been (albeit not Olympics) in a medal winning position before where it should h... | [
"Summary: They're not, you're just picking the wrong sports. A lot of sports offer cheap tickets, especially at the minor league level. Simple supply and demand.\n\nPost: Supply and Demand. If 50,000 people want tickets for a game that seats only 10,000, then prices will go up because of high demand. If a team need... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,912 |
Biffingston | Generate the content for a reddit post IT's not that they're conserative that's the problem. It's that they're liars. And if you plug your ears and pretend it's ok, you're part of the problem too.
But I'm pretty sure that you'll just go on blaming the liberals for being mean rather than leave your comfort zone and ... | You're throwing a jumble of accusations out, I feel, in hopes that one or two may stick. So let's take them one by one.
>Mainly what I'm trying to explain is that YES, Fox does have a right wing bias. But that doesn't mean that they LIE. You'd be very hard-pressed to find anything racist, sexist, or homophobic, unle... | You're throwing a jumble of accusations out, I feel, in hopes that one or two may stick. So let's take them one by one.
>Mainly what I'm trying to explain is that YES, Fox does have a right wing bias. But that doesn't mean that they LIE. You'd be very hard-pressed to find anything racist, sexist, or homophobic, unle... | [
"Summary: Be a little more humble, people won't think you're an ass.\n\nPost: WEather intentionally or not, your OP read like it was dripping with sarcasm. Basically the message was \"You fucking suck, you shouldn't do this. You're an idiot to do this.\" \n Weather you intended it that way or not is up in the air... | 192 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,913 |
PauliEffect | Generate the content for a reddit post Wife took the term "garden apartment" literally and nearly killed us all trying to grow beets. Need to fix wood floor in the next 2 weeks.
edit: I'm broke as a joke | My wife burned a 3" diameter spot into my wood floor with a garden light (nearly burned the whole complex down). The wood is charred deep so this isn't something I can sand out. I'm moving at the end of the month and don't want to lose my security deposit.
I need options as to how to fix this. Is there a way to con... | My wife burned a 3" diameter spot into my wood floor with a garden light (nearly burned the whole complex down). The wood is charred deep so this isn't something I can sand out. I'm moving at the end of the month and don't want to lose my security deposit.
I need options as to how to fix this. Is there a way to con... | [
"Summary: Judo> Kung Fu/ Karate for fun and practicality. Kung Fu > Karate for static postures. \n edit: I think that children should not take BJJ or Aikido. BJJ because I strongly disagree with teaching children under 13 how to choke or stress the joints. Moves like that are dangerous, require a finer degree of ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,914 |
Rad-R | Generate the content for a reddit post I wish the WWE knew what they were doing so wrestling could be cool again. They continually miss every opportunity of getting back into mainstream pop culture. | I grew up on WWF and WCW, but today's WWE is boring and incredibly reminiscent of everything that was bad about WCW near its end, while still showcasing classic WWE flaws, such as talking segments opening shows, for example. All these great performers that I'm supposed to wait for to get that brass ring are basically t... | I grew up on WWF and WCW, but today's WWE is boring and incredibly reminiscent of everything that was bad about WCW near its end, while still showcasing classic WWE flaws, such as talking segments opening shows, for example. All these great performers that I'm supposed to wait for to get that brass ring are basically t... | [
"Summary: Watch Nitro from the start of the nWo up until Jericho leaves the company. Every wrestling fan should watch that, it's so much fun.\n\nPost: I've been watching Nitro from '97 lately, and I can't stop recommending it to people. Sure, there's some goofy stuff with Piper, but the nWo at its peak is just fuck... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,915 |
thetengallonhat | Generate the content for a reddit post if you're healer, (correction) group, is over geared and not stance dancing they aren't maximizing the jobs potential. | Gearing mostly, partly SCH design
I have both a WHM and SCH at 50, since they both share Darklight they are geared equally outside if my WHM relic.
Running either job through AK I can spend 90% of the time using DD spells on either class. In fact, SCH has it a little easier since I can drop Sacred Soil while in Cl... | Gearing mostly, partly SCH design
I have both a WHM and SCH at 50, since they both share Darklight they are geared equally outside if my WHM relic.
Running either job through AK I can spend 90% of the time using DD spells on either class. In fact, SCH has it a little easier since I can drop Sacred Soil while in Cl... | [
"Summary: Once you go action combat, you won't go back.\n\nPost: Extremely happy with GW2, I don't have plans on picking up another MMO since between having played TERA and now playing GW2 I am spoiled with action combat. \n I played RIFT briefly the other afternoon helping a buddy out before my subscription ended ... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,916 |
masterf99 | Generate the content for a reddit post You can use enchanted armor to make a Potion of Fortify Enchanting that will give you %29 stronger enchantments, and that's the max I believe. | make a set of Hide armor, enchant with Fortify Alchemy, put armor on, make a Potion of Fortify Enchatment, take the potion, enchant another set of armor with fortify Alchemy, put that armor on, make your Potion of Fortify Enchantment. Repeat this process until you can make a Potion of Fortify Enchantment that gives yo... | make a set of Hide armor, enchant with Fortify Alchemy, put armor on, make a Potion of Fortify Enchatment, take the potion, enchant another set of armor with fortify Alchemy, put that armor on, make your Potion of Fortify Enchantment. Repeat this process until you can make a Potion of Fortify Enchantment that gives yo... | [
"Summary: Unplug doorpins one at a time until you find the faulty one, then report back for options :-)\n\nPost: Def sounds like a door pin issue, the second chirp like the other users said, is because the unit is detecting an open zone. If I remember correctly, Civic door pins are super easy to get to. I would u... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,917 |
AgentPissant | Generate the content for a reddit post it depends on what you're trying to achieve | Falling Down]( is a really great one. If I had to pick 1 it would be that one.
But as great as it is, it's not as good as a collection because what movie you want depends on what mood you want. For example, [Leaving Las Vegas]( is a classic but if you don't want to get hammered and sullen then it's a bad choice. [Ame... | Falling Down]( is a really great one. If I had to pick 1 it would be that one.
But as great as it is, it's not as good as a collection because what movie you want depends on what mood you want. For example, [Leaving Las Vegas]( is a classic but if you don't want to get hammered and sullen then it's a bad choice. [Ame... | [
"Summary: I'm fucking jealous you get to see women who are Jews in bikinis. Like, that's my thing (or close) but apparently I was born in the wrong place.\n\nPost: I may not have been clear, I meant that there is this social idea that being religious means not hating, while the photo indicated to me that being reli... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,918 |
DukeTheMook | Generate the content for a reddit post Stop driving. | A person like you should probably not be driving. You're probably the type of person who's bumper is all fucked up from parking and you probably have dents, I see people like you driving and get mad because its people like you who cause insurance rates to be so high. | A person like you should probably not be driving. You're probably the type of person who's bumper is all fucked up from parking and you probably have dents, I see people like you driving and get mad because its people like you who cause insurance rates to be so high. | [
"Summary: Grandmas suck\n\nPost: My grandma, she lives with us, she's 97 and wears diapers, I hate having her here because she smells horrible, I have to help her in and out of her wheelchair and she has night terrors. The only way to get her to stop screaming in the middle of the night is to beat her legs with a l... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,919 |
iritegood | Generate the content for a reddit post Power users are the opposite of what you want for a user-controlled site. | Maybe some of the always-redditors don't understand why us Digg users hate powerusers.
They undermine the system. Reddit still has popular soverenty, so you can't empathize. When I left, Digg had practically zero articles on the front page not from power users. The power users have hordes of friends (many of which ... | Maybe some of the always-redditors don't understand why us Digg users hate powerusers.
They undermine the system. Reddit still has popular soverenty, so you can't empathize. When I left, Digg had practically zero articles on the front page not from power users. The power users have hordes of friends (many of which ... | [
"Summary: The country would be better off if 10% read a book than if 50% bought a gun.\n\nPost: If you think that, in a modern democratic society, that owning a gun is more important than being informed and knowledgeable about the issues that affect us as a nation and people, you are completely delusional. How are ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,920 |
loudmouth222 | Generate the content for a reddit post I want to impress this girl whom I've hung out with a couple times in groups and only talk through text and social media. What are some texting conversation tips to keep her interested in talking then eventually ask her out. | As the title reads I would like some conversation tips for texting and social media like Twitter or snap chat. I met this girl through a friend and have hung out with her a few times but in a group at parties. We get a long well and have similar personalities. The only contact I still maintain is texting and snap chat.... | As the title reads I would like some conversation tips for texting and social media like Twitter or snap chat. I met this girl through a friend and have hung out with her a few times but in a group at parties. We get a long well and have similar personalities. The only contact I still maintain is texting and snap chat.... | [
"Summary: Old friend and middle school crush for us both works at the same place. She makes effort to speak to me through her busy schedule and gives a lot of attention through social media. Any chance these are signs of interest or are they irrelevant? I plan on asking her out anyways.\n\nPost: So recently an old ... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,921 |
koronicus | Generate the content for a reddit post orgasm is capable of being a purely mechanical act, whereas self-love necessarily goes deeper than that. | Self-love is a concept that encompasses self-acceptance, which definitely isn't an inherent part of bringing oneself to orgasm. As the author suggests, the belief my body is dirty is far from rare, and there's stigma associated with masturbation in some circles which can be problematic if internalized. Ultimately, ev... | Self-love is a concept that encompasses self-acceptance, which definitely isn't an inherent part of bringing oneself to orgasm. As the author suggests, the belief my body is dirty is far from rare, and there's stigma associated with masturbation in some circles which can be problematic if internalized. Ultimately, ev... | [
"Summary: format: \n >Lots of words. (Source: my ass) \n I cannot believe you are putting me in a position of having to defend theists. Please find better arguments because the ones you have here are shit. \n Your ideas about both mental illness and theism are bad, and you should feel bad.\n\nPost: The author of th... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,922 |
zhidecitta | Generate the content for a reddit post The project by TFYC never died, and thus was never killed by ZQ. If ZQ didn't kill it, there was no news to report on outside of the event itself, which is minor news at best and is looking for money. There's no reason to think a lack of media coverage was explicitly the fault of ... | Eh, it might have been a envenomed rant, but there were only a few actual criticisms. It was mostly musings, jokes, and jabs otherwise. They all also took place half a year ago, which makes it coming up now seem a bit odd.
The transgender policy is as fair as I really think you can get for a women only event, but the... | Eh, it might have been a envenomed rant, but there were only a few actual criticisms. It was mostly musings, jokes, and jabs otherwise. They all also took place half a year ago, which makes it coming up now seem a bit odd.
The transgender policy is as fair as I really think you can get for a women only event, but the... | [
"Summary: The m16 was meant to be a long range gun, but it was OP as all hell and made entire categories of guns irrelevant. The new patch gives CQB weapons a purpose again. Also, OP described the AKM as his dream gun, but wanted them to turn the m16 into that instead of using the AKM.\n\nPost: The old m16 was 800 ... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,923 |
Blindocide | Generate the content for a reddit post a lack of empathy and common morality well escalate conflict around you, which is more likely to result in your death. Which you want to avoid, right? | hampering their own chances at achieving success, or doing well in life.
Now, I'm not a Buddhist, but I think the issue is that you're not looking at the picture broadly enough.
The reason why the human species invented morality is because we exist within groups of other members of our species. Morality are just th... | hampering their own chances at achieving success, or doing well in life.
Now, I'm not a Buddhist, but I think the issue is that you're not looking at the picture broadly enough.
The reason why the human species invented morality is because we exist within groups of other members of our species. Morality are just th... | [
"Summary: things do exist \"before they happen\", but not at the time called \"before they happen\". they exist at the time when they happen, but all times exist.\n\nPost: things do exist \"before they happen\". \n they just don't exist at that point in time, which is what aristotle is trying to say. \n well, arist... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,924 |
CooterSquirrel | Generate the content for a reddit post Played a 35pt game with Kromac vs. Calandra. Did some stupid things that I'm aware of, and probably did more stupid things that I'm unaware of. Can you guys point out glaring mistakes so I don't repeat them next game?? Thanks! | I'm a relatively new Circle player and played with Kromac for the first time last night. Trolls have given me a lot of trouble so far but this game was actually the best thus far, despite not having any experience with Kromac. I mean, I still lost pretty badly, but at least I killed some of his models and contested... | I'm a relatively new Circle player and played with Kromac for the first time last night. Trolls have given me a lot of trouble so far but this game was actually the best thus far, despite not having any experience with Kromac. I mean, I still lost pretty badly, but at least I killed some of his models and contested... | [
"Summary: Communicate, don't force an ultimatum\n\nPost: That's really not the only option - OP could communicate with his fiance, tell her what he is and is not comfortable with, and if she's a decent person she can still hang out with the same crowd but not participate in the same behavior that bothers OP. Reaso... | 96 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,925 |
Death_Star_ | Generate the content for a reddit post I write, but mostly as a screenwriter. I developed/outlined a lot of material for a dense TV show, but I think it's too complex to be a TV show, so I think it could be a novel. BOTTOM LINE: Is it too late for me to get started?
Thank you in advance! And good luck to those who... | The basic points:
I am NOT a professional or even a semi-professional writer .
I am an attorney with roughly 8:30am-6:30pm-type of hours. I mention that because it not only demonstrates that I have a full-time commitment, but it also shows that I spend a good amount of my job writing , which "exhausts" a bi... | The basic points:
I am NOT a professional or even a semi-professional writer .
I am an attorney with roughly 8:30am-6:30pm-type of hours. I mention that because it not only demonstrates that I have a full-time commitment, but it also shows that I spend a good amount of my job writing , which "exhausts" a bi... | [
"Summary: and boy is it TL) Tony Stark has struggled with his own legacy and trauma throughout the Phase 1 movies. He sees Earth as a hill for kings to stake claim to. He'll attempt to leave his greatest legacy in a fully-automated super-powered Iron Man suit -- Ultron. Ultron will, of course, devolve and indisc... | 200 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,926 |
IArgueWithAtheists | Generate the content for a reddit post We are broken. | I'm not going to discuss indoctrination, and I'm not going to talk about the story of Adam and Eve.
I want to address the issue of the Christian belief that humanity is broken.
I am not entirely sure why this is a controversial belief in itself. It seems that anyone with some knowledge of history and the news shoul... | I'm not going to discuss indoctrination, and I'm not going to talk about the story of Adam and Eve.
I want to address the issue of the Christian belief that humanity is broken.
I am not entirely sure why this is a controversial belief in itself. It seems that anyone with some knowledge of history and the news shoul... | [
"Summary: Logical impossibilities are not powers, and being \"unable\" to perform them is not a limit. But also, the notion of supertasks might be obscured by how little we understand time.\n\nPost: Most people are familiar with theists saying things like \"God is outside of time\" or \"outside of space\" (I prefer... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,927 |
sloppyjoes7 | Generate the content for a reddit post Regulations helped cause the recession, so it's insanity to think regulations could have prevented it. | Glass–Steagall should have been repealed. Regulations like that only increase costs and screw with the market.
Proof: 09-10-2003, at G.W. Bush's request, a hearing was held due to worries about a potential housing/foreclosure crisis, focusing on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Ranking member, Representative Barney Fr... | Glass–Steagall should have been repealed. Regulations like that only increase costs and screw with the market.
Proof: 09-10-2003, at G.W. Bush's request, a hearing was held due to worries about a potential housing/foreclosure crisis, focusing on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Ranking member, Representative Barney Fr... | [
"Summary: Caillou will make your kids worse.\n\nPost: I watched Caillou once, to see how bad it was. I had Excel open and kept track. In the first 90 seconds, Caillou whined three distinct times. \n People are not exaggerating about that show. I timestamped every time he whined, and it averaged out to about once p... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,928 |
thegreatgoldenbaby | Generate the content for a reddit post This is from the weekly "Best and Worst of WWE Raw" written by Brandon Stroud. It's featured on the website "WithLeather". Go check it out. It's great. | Let's not forget where this came from. Brandon Stroud of the website WithLeather came up with this. He writes a lot about wrestling on the website an does a weekly "Best and Worst of Raw". He honestly writes some of the most insightful stuff you'll read about wrestling. His passion is unmatched, and really, above all e... | Let's not forget where this came from. Brandon Stroud of the website WithLeather came up with this. He writes a lot about wrestling on the website an does a weekly "Best and Worst of Raw". He honestly writes some of the most insightful stuff you'll read about wrestling. His passion is unmatched, and really, above all e... | [
"Summary: i can understand that kid/teenager mightnot getr the reference as the ooze isnt what most people think of when they think TMNT. they think Pizza and Cowabunga.\n\nPost: right. but by all accounts, ivemet youngsters who dont even know those movies exist. thanks to FOX kids and that TMNT movie released a co... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,929 |
nothingtoseehere28 | Generate the content for a reddit post stick with it and you don't need to worry about it. | I'm going to talk about being ketoadapted because I think that will answer some of your questions.
Being ketoadapted means your body has transitioned from normally using carbs for fuel to using fat for fuel. It mans systems in your body have changed. That process can take a few weeks or more depending on the person a... | I'm going to talk about being ketoadapted because I think that will answer some of your questions.
Being ketoadapted means your body has transitioned from normally using carbs for fuel to using fat for fuel. It mans systems in your body have changed. That process can take a few weeks or more depending on the person a... | [
"Summary: it's not the diet, it's her insecurity. Can't fix it until she opens up and shares with you what the real problem is.\n\nPost: sounds to me (and I'm a woman if that makes any difference) that she's feelibng insecure about the change in your relationship. Instead of sharing the insecurity (which is very ha... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,930 |
Dragon029 | Generate the content for a reddit post Forbes is spinning the title a bit, but all that it will take for the F-35 to be the last (US) manned fighter is a bit of political pressure in the right places. | I work with manned military aircraft, but have coworkers who have worked on unmanned systems, and I personally get involved in the field of open source UAVs.
Whether or not the F-35 will be the last manned fighter (at least for the US) isn't an easily answered question - there is significant political resistance agai... | I work with manned military aircraft, but have coworkers who have worked on unmanned systems, and I personally get involved in the field of open source UAVs.
Whether or not the F-35 will be the last manned fighter (at least for the US) isn't an easily answered question - there is significant political resistance agai... | [
"Summary: jets these days are far more complex, politics, safety and bureaucracy demands far more testing and red tape and aircraft are getting more advanced, requiring tech demos very early on to prove they can accomplish key tasks (look at the UCLASS and the X-47B).\n\nPost: If anything, the F-16 was under-tested... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,931 |
Jamstar | Generate the content for a reddit post you have the nerve to beg for free shit on reddit, then talk about "community", that's not how communities work. | the more nice the community is towards each other the stronger we can become.
You aren't even a member of the reddit community, you are someone who uses reddit soley for trading, You have been a member for 4 months and never even posted in a different subreddit.
My posts might be seem kinda gloomy to you, But you w... | the more nice the community is towards each other the stronger we can become.
You aren't even a member of the reddit community, you are someone who uses reddit soley for trading, You have been a member for 4 months and never even posted in a different subreddit.
My posts might be seem kinda gloomy to you, But you w... | [
"Summary: most people trying to trade have no idea what their items are worth, and instead of bargaining back and forth to reach an agreement, they dismiss your first offer as a lowball offer, even though they STILL dont know what they want. I advise keeping people on your friends list that you have done fair trade... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,932 |
BZCoolness | Generate the content for a reddit post It's an interesting read, but remember that it isn't prophecy and that it wasn't written by someone authorized to give revelation for the whole church. So remember that a lot of it is probably personalized for him and might not actually be how everything happens. | I've read the book. I like the book. I don't take the book as scripture or revelation. This is one person's account that (if this was revealed to him) was obviously meant for his personal study and not as revelation for the church as a whole. In fact, at the beginning of the book he says something to the effect of "I'm... | I've read the book. I like the book. I don't take the book as scripture or revelation. This is one person's account that (if this was revealed to him) was obviously meant for his personal study and not as revelation for the church as a whole. In fact, at the beginning of the book he says something to the effect of "I'm... | [
"Summary: In WoL she had to have a big group with her so she didn't die, leaving the Swarm leaderless. In HotS, she had a big group with her in the end because they were attacking Korhal.\n\nPost: In HotS, she didn't take the whole Swarm. As broodmothers came back to the Swarm, she would immediately put them to wor... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,933 |
Kraox | Generate the content for a reddit post 8] | While these laws are a step in the right direction, it's painfully clear the right people aren't being involved in the writing of the legislation. 2.5 ounces, 6 plants.
It's amazing how when they're weighing for the purposes of imprisoning someone the plants all weigh several pounds each and have ridiculous "street v... | While these laws are a step in the right direction, it's painfully clear the right people aren't being involved in the writing of the legislation. 2.5 ounces, 6 plants.
It's amazing how when they're weighing for the purposes of imprisoning someone the plants all weigh several pounds each and have ridiculous "street v... | [
"Summary: Current iteration of this mod is a game play conundrum. It seems good on paper, but in practice it is both extremely inefficient and encourages poor game play in order to be used effectively. Damage to your shields would be one thing, but making players sit through enough damage to completely take down ... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,934 |
nsfwhun | Generate the content for a reddit post I want tophats for my local bees, also is there a bee that looks like a bumblebee that is not a bumble? | There is a bee (now with a partner) that lives under my front porch.
These bees look similar to bumbles, but I can't quite tell if that's what it is? Previously there was 1 (have seen it fly in and out), and recently have noticed a second (paler in color).
They are INCREDIBLY polite; I say this because I've had it ... | There is a bee (now with a partner) that lives under my front porch.
These bees look similar to bumbles, but I can't quite tell if that's what it is? Previously there was 1 (have seen it fly in and out), and recently have noticed a second (paler in color).
They are INCREDIBLY polite; I say this because I've had it ... | [
"Summary: I prefer pan and it implies, to me, more of an attraction to a spectrum of persons versus only cisgendered individuals.\n\nPost: I prefer saying \"pansexual' because, to me, bisexual denotes a \"binary\" idea of sexuality. \n In addition, I live in an area where identifying as \"bisexual\" has a lot of ne... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,935 |
dabezian | Generate the content for a reddit post Asshole owner of venue forced underage teens to stand outside at an outdoor EDM festival that got rained on by a severe thunderstorm because there was alcohol being served inside the venue (double-booked show), then tried to fuck us (show producers) over | My group of friends did electronic music shows at local venues for high school kids while we were in high school and they were fairly popular (~1000 at each one, with $10-15 cover).
So in our earlier days, we tried to do a festival outside. The owner of the space was a real dickhole and everyone in this town has lear... | My group of friends did electronic music shows at local venues for high school kids while we were in high school and they were fairly popular (~1000 at each one, with $10-15 cover).
So in our earlier days, we tried to do a festival outside. The owner of the space was a real dickhole and everyone in this town has lear... | [
"Summary: I wish you would read it, but intelligence is measured by both emotional and logical reasoning, emotional reasoning being the basis for faith, and logical reasoning being the basis for denial. One is always naturally higher than the other, but both must be measured to adequately measure \"intelligence.\" ... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,936 |
Terrible_Gamer | Generate the content for a reddit post Console gaming dirty masses will never be as awesome as PC gaming overlords. | I tried playing FPS games on the 360 when I got it. I bought several games and spent a few months playing multi-player. I just could not get past the handicap of using the controller.
I used to play counter-strike and actually made money at it. I couldn't log in and play on public servers. I would get banned within 3... | I tried playing FPS games on the 360 when I got it. I bought several games and spent a few months playing multi-player. I just could not get past the handicap of using the controller.
I used to play counter-strike and actually made money at it. I couldn't log in and play on public servers. I would get banned within 3... | [
"Summary: I didn't get to play my pre-ordred SW TOR until Dec 31 because of a bad registration code and horrible customer support. From now on if I can't buy it on Steam I'll just get it from a torrent. Origin and EA wont be getting anymore of my money.\n\nPost: I pre-ordered Star Wars The Old Republic the day pre-... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,937 |
akuta | Generate the content for a reddit post Summary: Sometimes the "bad" managers aren't bad after all (as you pointed out, it's subjective) and are just misunderstood.
Edited for some wording and a comma. | I'll explain a little about my experience with it and it may make a little sense.
Our company has always had a laid back environment. When I was initially hired, I was hired as an IT tech. We fielded support calls to fix people's internet issues, email issues, dialup/isdn, etc. Over the next year I was promoted a few... | I'll explain a little about my experience with it and it may make a little sense.
Our company has always had a laid back environment. When I was initially hired, I was hired as an IT tech. We fielded support calls to fix people's internet issues, email issues, dialup/isdn, etc. Over the next year I was promoted a few... | [
"Summary: Thumbs up to you and your wife. You are living in a situation that makes you both happy. The people who don't like it can get bent.\n\nPost: In the end, the situation is just as you two decided you wished it to be. If they don't like it, they can get lost. \n My girl likes to make me dinner and do other h... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,938 |
2Bored_to_Work | Generate the content for a reddit post My life sucks and I think I should just try to get disability.
Edit: currently on vyvanse, cymbalta, and naproxen. Diagnosed as adhd-pi with comorbid major depressive disorder. More like I get distracted, accomplish nothing, and then feel like whale shit on the bottom of the oce... | I'll admit, I don't like reading posts like this. Here I am writing one though.
I want to give up. I've failed at every job I've ever had. I'm a federal employee under FERS. It's the longest time I've ever had one job because it's hard to fire me. I wanted to quit after 6 months, but 6 years later I'm still here. I'v... | I'll admit, I don't like reading posts like this. Here I am writing one though.
I want to give up. I've failed at every job I've ever had. I'm a federal employee under FERS. It's the longest time I've ever had one job because it's hard to fire me. I wanted to quit after 6 months, but 6 years later I'm still here. I'v... | [
"Summary: ADHD sucks and makes me ruin every job I get. I'm trapped in a career field I don't like and don't have the means to go back to school to fix it. I would like working for myself, but don't really have the means to start a business either... Meds and stuff are burned out. What now?\n\nPost: I am kind of l... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,939 |
dubbya | Generate the content for a reddit post my buddy's dad didn't want us to know he blazed but we found out he burned the dankest of the dank. Much fun ensued. | When I was in high school, I had a buddy whose dad "didn't burn" but knew we were toking up in the basement most nights and didn't care because we weren't out getting into "real trouble" but rather getting baked and playing AD&D with Zeppelin records on.
Turns out the guy who "didn't smoke" had a half lb of the sweet... | When I was in high school, I had a buddy whose dad "didn't burn" but knew we were toking up in the basement most nights and didn't care because we weren't out getting into "real trouble" but rather getting baked and playing AD&D with Zeppelin records on.
Turns out the guy who "didn't smoke" had a half lb of the sweet... | [
"Summary: Go to Holland, find a cafe that makes pot cookies and give it a go to see if it works for you. Progress from there as you see fit.\n\nPost: Or just use The UK's free healthcare. \n I must say that pot might not be a bad idea. I have two friends with chronic pain disorders, one with Fibromyalgia and one ... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,940 |
spacedude86 | Generate the content for a reddit post Used AWD IS 350s seem really rare, it's frustrating. Am I the only one who is frustrated by the lack of cars on the market right now? | Hey /r/lexus! I'm looking to become a member of the lexus club by nabbing a new to me 2011 or 2012 AWD IS 350. I've driven Toyota's my entire life and love the build quality and reliability. I'm looking for high reliability/quality in a luxury sports sedan, and so naturally my first instinct was Lexus.
I've driven th... | Hey /r/lexus! I'm looking to become a member of the lexus club by nabbing a new to me 2011 or 2012 AWD IS 350. I've driven Toyota's my entire life and love the build quality and reliability. I'm looking for high reliability/quality in a luxury sports sedan, and so naturally my first instinct was Lexus.
I've driven th... | [
"Summary: Either way, don't be an asshat.\n\nPost: It's a toss up, really. Sometimes a new face can have some fresh ideas that are actually pretty good. A lot of times I've seen someone within a different department/company/program come in with potential projects/policy implementations/SOP's they've learned in thei... | 39 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,941 |
exelion | Generate the content for a reddit post Tried to use my charm on a girl, singed my arm to hell and back because I don't pay attention. | Oh god, I am like...a walking encylopedia of stupid injuries.
My favorite though...many moons ago, I was working in food service at a theme park. The little cafe I worked at had a Superpretzel machine. I was standing near it, when this cute girl from another department came up and was asking me something. Me, being t... | Oh god, I am like...a walking encylopedia of stupid injuries.
My favorite though...many moons ago, I was working in food service at a theme park. The little cafe I worked at had a Superpretzel machine. I was standing near it, when this cute girl from another department came up and was asking me something. Me, being t... | [
"Summary: well quit assuming when they're more direct about things.\n\nPost: Now, in our defence...a lot of ladies (not saying all, not saying you specifically) are lousy about telling us when they're upset until it's too late to do anything about it. \n So we have to guess. And if their demeanor suddenly changes, ... | 54 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,942 |
Fey_fox | Generate the content for a reddit post Every thing is temporary | No, it's not bullshit. Re:the bench. Zillions of folks have died on this planet, we have forgotten nearly all of them. Many people have already died today, but odds are most of us don't know any of them either. We could burn all of our time building memorials to the dead, like in the past how some of our ancestors buil... | No, it's not bullshit. Re:the bench. Zillions of folks have died on this planet, we have forgotten nearly all of them. Many people have already died today, but odds are most of us don't know any of them either. We could burn all of our time building memorials to the dead, like in the past how some of our ancestors buil... | [
"Summary: I think maybe the Disney version of the beast may be a metaphor of a guy learning how to grow the fuck up.\n\nPost: But the cruel prince was eleven years old when he was transformed by the witch ( re Lumiere: \"Ten years we've been rusting...\", at the time of the movie the beast was 21. Beast spent all h... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,943 |
cdskip | Generate the content for a reddit post Once upon a time, I successfully mailed out a bunch of job applications at my local post office. | I saw a old guy in the post office one early morning last year who was trying to recover some mail he said he'd dropped in the box outside the night before because he'd realized that he'd put the wrong address on it. The employee kindly told him that they weren't allowed to do that, and that in any case, that mail had... | I saw a old guy in the post office one early morning last year who was trying to recover some mail he said he'd dropped in the box outside the night before because he'd realized that he'd put the wrong address on it. The employee kindly told him that they weren't allowed to do that, and that in any case, that mail had... | [
"Summary: Current QBs play in an environment friendlier to passing offenses than ever existed before 2004. There are certainly some other reasons for these changes, but the rule changes of 1978 and 2004 shouldn't be underestimated.\n\nPost: This]( is a quickie graph of how passer rating league-wide has changed sin... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,944 |
vLesbian | Generate the content for a reddit post Currently the "fun" gamemodes are ruined by people who spam op champs and "try hard." Its like trying to spar a martial art with someone and they are using full force while you are just trying to mess around. Its not fun. | Each team picked the opposing teams champions.
These gamemodes are not meant to be taken seriously. Every time I actually think about trying something out like this new hexakill on 3v3 or the ascension game mode I remember how much I hate ARAM and how URF was a great concept but ruined.
The whole point is that the ... | Each team picked the opposing teams champions.
These gamemodes are not meant to be taken seriously. Every time I actually think about trying something out like this new hexakill on 3v3 or the ascension game mode I remember how much I hate ARAM and how URF was a great concept but ruined.
The whole point is that the ... | [
"Summary: The tribunal isn't perfect, and it never will be, but for a free system its decent. Stop telling Riot to fix it, I am sure they are working on it.\n\nPost: getting people who aren't even trolling banned in the process based on a faulty system. Look, the tribunal isn't perfect, but for what it is its prett... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,945 |
LonelyNixon | Generate the content for a reddit post lt has gotten better this is what the south bronx used to look like( ignore the words at the end I'm not sure what hes going on about)]( and crime and overall filth has gone down significantly as has overall wealth in the city.
-This does come at the pricing out of the middle cl... | I like when I hear the word yuppy on the internet. I never hear it besides from nyers and it leaves people not from the region confused.
Honestly I agree with you and I disagree with you.
On one hand yuppies don't rob you, yuppies don't rape you, yuppies don't shoot you for eyeing their girls, they don't start fire... | I like when I hear the word yuppy on the internet. I never hear it besides from nyers and it leaves people not from the region confused.
Honestly I agree with you and I disagree with you.
On one hand yuppies don't rob you, yuppies don't rape you, yuppies don't shoot you for eyeing their girls, they don't start fire... | [
"Summary: I like big butts and I cannot lie, you other brothas can't deny...\n\nPost: This is more how to dress like a hipster than a hero. \n \n 2.This is too geared towards girls, come on now lets be real this is not only reddit but /r/comicbooks. Girls are in the minority here and I'm disappointed that my option... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,946 |
prussianiron | Generate the content for a reddit post 35,000 man battle, with me only having 13,000. Distance of reinforcements killed me and wiped out most of my active armies. | In Darthmod Shogun 2, with the Uesugi. I had Uesugi Kenshin (with maxed out command and like, 9 honour) and 2 generals, each with full stacks, as well as a leaderless army of samurai with (I believe) about 4 Nagi's and 4 Katana's, next to Kyoto, ready to besiege it. The only problem was the 4 stacks of Hatakeyama troop... | In Darthmod Shogun 2, with the Uesugi. I had Uesugi Kenshin (with maxed out command and like, 9 honour) and 2 generals, each with full stacks, as well as a leaderless army of samurai with (I believe) about 4 Nagi's and 4 Katana's, next to Kyoto, ready to besiege it. The only problem was the 4 stacks of Hatakeyama troop... | [
"Summary: R rated movie restriction is bullshit and I never enforced it while employed at a movie theater\n\nPost: I worked at a movie theater for 11 months, and I agree with all of this except the R-rated policy. I wouldn't check ID's or anything, and I would never throw somebody out just because they wanted to se... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,947 |
danE3030 | Generate the content for a reddit post I'm obsessed with the Rockets : / | Hah-the funny thing is, even though this is against 'our rules', my friends and I had stood up to leave early. We were down by so much and there was only a few minutes on the board so we figured it would be okay this one time to duck out before the game ended (we loathe the fair-weather fan attitude in Houston and try... | Hah-the funny thing is, even though this is against 'our rules', my friends and I had stood up to leave early. We were down by so much and there was only a few minutes on the board so we figured it would be okay this one time to duck out before the game ended (we loathe the fair-weather fan attitude in Houston and try... | [
"Summary: Focus your search on areas of high production; Tacoma, WA and Austin, TX are two places I like to spend time. You are lucky. :)\n\nPost: Not sure how other Ents will feel about this topic, but I'm game as long as we don't get too specific. The only problem is that the 'best' weed is not going to be fou... | 61 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,948 |
dzendian | Generate the content for a reddit post wash hands before I eat | I must always wash my hands just before I eat. It doesn't matter if I haven't even done anything gross with my hands since the last time I washed them (for sure - always after using the toilet).
I notice that people around me don't wash their hands as much as I do.
I don't particularly consider myself a germapho... | I must always wash my hands just before I eat. It doesn't matter if I haven't even done anything gross with my hands since the last time I washed them (for sure - always after using the toilet).
I notice that people around me don't wash their hands as much as I do.
I don't particularly consider myself a germapho... | [
"Summary: different every time\n\nPost: Adrenaline rush. \n To some, it's exciting, to some, it makes them ill. \n Some people run, some people duck/flinch, and some people go tits out and face first into it. \n The 3 childhood fights I was in when I was a kid all had different outcomes. \n They all had to deal wit... | 32 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,949 |
Connguy | Generate the content for a reddit post be alpha as fuck. | Like we tell my main man JewBoy, you gotta be Alpha! She's saying she expects it to be sudden, so make that shit sudden. Who cares if you fuck it up and miss or whatever could go wrong the first time? You've been dating six months; just get it over with. Plant one somewhere on her face, and the second one will follow n... | Like we tell my main man JewBoy, you gotta be Alpha! She's saying she expects it to be sudden, so make that shit sudden. Who cares if you fuck it up and miss or whatever could go wrong the first time? You've been dating six months; just get it over with. Plant one somewhere on her face, and the second one will follow n... | [
"Summary: glad you're healing OP, but this doesn't belong here\n\nPost: Be careful with the sarcasm, you're making it more difficult for this point to get through because people are defensive of the OP due to the backstory. \n OP, what the comments here complaining about the sob story and lack of an interesting pic... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,950 |
Ratelslangen2 | Generate the content for a reddit post r/anarchism was actually totalitarian /r/radfems (they said it was a good idea to burn MRA's to death)
My questions are, what is your opinion on places like this, is /r/feminism really as bad as i have experience (similair experience to /r/anarchism). Is there, as the Gestapo of... | I have found myself to be an extremely pro-equality thinker from a very young age. I learned about feminism and the bunch in middleschool, but being from a non-english speaking country, i never experienced the "new" feminists until i was about 15.
I found it horrifying how narrowminded they were and how easily their ... | I have found myself to be an extremely pro-equality thinker from a very young age. I learned about feminism and the bunch in middleschool, but being from a non-english speaking country, i never experienced the "new" feminists until i was about 15.
I found it horrifying how narrowminded they were and how easily their ... | [
"Summary: Prehistoric DayZ but wolves eating your brains instead.\n\nPost: Prehistoric]( \n Its a a survival game of sorts. But not like your everyday survival game, its set in stone age Africa/Europe/where ever you want it to take place. \n Forage, hunt, build and thrive! Hunt deer for food and for fur. Make cloth... | 19 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,951 |
Clumpy | Generate the content for a reddit post Yay! | Since everything that can be accomplished in a link can be accomplished in a self-post, I don't see any problem. The twin concerns of avoiding spam and bloat (not really a problem right now) and also avoiding the attraction of people who communicate primarily through spam and bloat (our rules keep this from being a pro... | Since everything that can be accomplished in a link can be accomplished in a self-post, I don't see any problem. The twin concerns of avoiding spam and bloat (not really a problem right now) and also avoiding the attraction of people who communicate primarily through spam and bloat (our rules keep this from being a pro... | [
"Summary: Deseret Book doesn't really mean anything interesting, and Utah is a little strange, but not nearly as strange as many may think.\n\nPost: Deseret\" is a word used in the Book of Mormon to mean \"honeybee.\" The beehive is sort of a Utah Mormon symbol and a lot of church-y stuff uses it. The Deseret News ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,952 |
Anovadea | Generate the content for a reddit post small fry in a party that's just come to power trying to make his name by suggesting some "revolutionary" cost-cutting measure, or a bigot using the recession as an excuse to deny treatment. | In fairness, TDs have piped up with this one every so often, and tend to be systematically ignored. It's not the first time some dull-witted TD has suggested this in recent memory, and it probably won't be the last. If I find a link to the previous time, I'll post it. (Edit: So last time it was a Labour Councillor, Co... | In fairness, TDs have piped up with this one every so often, and tend to be systematically ignored. It's not the first time some dull-witted TD has suggested this in recent memory, and it probably won't be the last. If I find a link to the previous time, I'll post it. (Edit: So last time it was a Labour Councillor, Co... | [
"Summary: the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.\n\nPost: When I was doing my final year project, I had to work with some FIPA-compliant multi-agent systems. In fact, I had to get agents from one framework talking to another, and in my stupidity I wrote another. The agents used the ACL wrapped ... | 36 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,953 |
Fat_Crossing_Guard | Generate the content for a reddit post I would argue "etching cream on jeans ---> crafty person" is deductive reasoning, and I'm talking about judgments based on what would otherwise just be a set of clothing, not straight deductions. | There are those who would see jeans with some sort of non-denim substance on it and see you as lazy, or inconsiderate, or even poor. These judgments they would make hold no bearing on your intent, or whether you decided to stain your jeans, or even what the substance actually is.
The point is there's no adequate reas... | There are those who would see jeans with some sort of non-denim substance on it and see you as lazy, or inconsiderate, or even poor. These judgments they would make hold no bearing on your intent, or whether you decided to stain your jeans, or even what the substance actually is.
The point is there's no adequate reas... | [
"Summary: They're doing what they think is right. Fundamentally, their aim is total equality and the elimination of prejudice based on GSM/race (though SRSPrime just mocks it), and that is a fair goal. But their methods are misguided by what I believe to be a youthful sense of justice and a penchant for drama. The ... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,954 |
GillicuttyMcAnus | Generate the content for a reddit post microfiche was like the .rar of their day, all compressed and efficient and shit. | We have that shit at school, like wtf it's 2014 .pdf yo...
But seriously, it mades sense. A lot of the aircraft manuals in the library at school were printed a looong before personal computers were even thought of, and microfish does a real good job of condensing things. We have some manuals on the computer, and they... | We have that shit at school, like wtf it's 2014 .pdf yo...
But seriously, it mades sense. A lot of the aircraft manuals in the library at school were printed a looong before personal computers were even thought of, and microfish does a real good job of condensing things. We have some manuals on the computer, and they... | [
"Summary: its like teaching a dog to sit... but instead of saying \"sit\" the trainer says \"break\" and \"gas\"\n\nPost: Except that the owner would need to be able to see so they could direct the dog. The dog can't actually drive, its following commands/playing a game. \"oh shit, the human made that sound I bette... | 46 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,955 |
Piogre | Generate the content for a reddit post it's not the driver's fault, please don't yell at the driver | Just want to say, as a pizza driver, it's rarely the driver's fault when the order's late- the delivery time depends 90% on order-to-staff ratio, 5% on insider efficiency, and 5% on the driver not being a clown. orders at any one time is extremely hard to predict as it is very inconsistent, even hour-to-hour, and stor... | Just want to say, as a pizza driver, it's rarely the driver's fault when the order's late- the delivery time depends 90% on order-to-staff ratio, 5% on insider efficiency, and 5% on the driver not being a clown. orders at any one time is extremely hard to predict as it is very inconsistent, even hour-to-hour, and stor... | [
"Summary: just say what you mean to say because we're too stupid to accurately get your hints\n\nPost: If we do catch one, we can't figure out if it was really a hint or if we're overanalyzing. We have inward debates about whether it was a hint, or if we're overanalyzing, and I'd guess that about half of those deb... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,956 |
Tana64 | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't simmer over it, OP; sort out the problem as soon as you can, as calmly as you can, or seriously consider walking away/backing off if he isn't ready to respect someone else's feelings yet.
/opinion | In my experience, it's always better to address nagging issues as early as possible.
Tell him that you both need an urgent talk, alone, and ask him when next suits him. Then, you talk about it. establish some rules, and explain (and enforce) consequences for breaking them, making sure not to accuse, or pretend that y... | In my experience, it's always better to address nagging issues as early as possible.
Tell him that you both need an urgent talk, alone, and ask him when next suits him. Then, you talk about it. establish some rules, and explain (and enforce) consequences for breaking them, making sure not to accuse, or pretend that y... | [
"Summary: VIDEO GAMES FOR LIFE \n BY CRUMPETS THIS IS LONGER THAN ANTICIPATED\n\nPost: I've been playing games since I was in primary school. Played a lot more during university years, and now that I work full-time, I play about the same amount of time I did as a young child, only without my mother telling me to do... | 39 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,957 |
lordderplythethird | Generate the content for a reddit post a lot of lies and half truths in those articles | Honestly, it's not that expensive. It's already the same price as the Eurofighter, and it's still in low production. Full production costs are going to put it around the same cost as block 60 F-16 or F/A-18, while having greater capacities than either.
Plus, that MotherJones article is simply regurgitating the POGO... | Honestly, it's not that expensive. It's already the same price as the Eurofighter, and it's still in low production. Full production costs are going to put it around the same cost as block 60 F-16 or F/A-18, while having greater capacities than either.
Plus, that MotherJones article is simply regurgitating the POGO... | [
"Summary: BTS blatantly lies and never offers any proof of these claims they make non stop. They're funded by anti-Israeli organizations, and most international human rights groups do not consider it a valid and legitimate human rights group, of which BTS claim they are.\n\nPost: just FYI, this \"report\", is by Br... | 44 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,958 |
recycled_ideas | Generate the content for a reddit post the pc's you see as a patient are the least likely to be upgradable, and the hospital may not be quite so bad. | No, what I mean is that the computers used in the back office and the computers used in clinical areas aren't the same.
In a lot of clinical areas you have computers which run equipment and if the manufacturer doesn't support an upgraded OS on that device, which is often the case, you're kind of stuck. In offices the... | No, what I mean is that the computers used in the back office and the computers used in clinical areas aren't the same.
In a lot of clinical areas you have computers which run equipment and if the manufacturer doesn't support an upgraded OS on that device, which is often the case, you're kind of stuck. In offices the... | [
"Summary: hard work is necessary, but not sufficient for success, not just in development but in life. Lots of people work hard and never succeed and the fact that you did and they didn't is mostly luck.\n\nPost: No one says you didn't work hard, just that hard work is not sufficient, you need luck( those opportuni... | 66 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,959 |
random012345 | Generate the content for a reddit post You're asking for the holy grail for developers: easy, lightweight, pretty cross-platform. Many things come close and promise a lot, but none have been able to pull it off. Java and Javascript (for browser apps) is the closest we've come. | Looks nice, native: Ok, that's do-able. Plenty of options out there.
Works with Windows, Mac, and Linux "with little work" ...ok, there's some cross-platform options out there that looks nice... we can still work with this.
Easy to use and compile: Hmmm... now we're starting to run into some issues, especially ... | Looks nice, native: Ok, that's do-able. Plenty of options out there.
Works with Windows, Mac, and Linux "with little work" ...ok, there's some cross-platform options out there that looks nice... we can still work with this.
Easy to use and compile: Hmmm... now we're starting to run into some issues, especially ... | [
"Summary: Languages depending on startups or traditional business is a stereotype.\n\nPost: Huh? \n Startups use Python, Ruby, Java, PHP, C#, C/C++, Objective-C, Javascript, or just about any language they need to get a job done. In the context of our modern Silicon Valley startups, many are Ruby or Python because... | 94 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,960 |
dalgeek | Generate the content for a reddit post Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are easy to annoy and have the root password. | Back in my ISP days I had a customer with a similar attitude. He ran a bunch of celebrity fan sites and thought he was hot shit because of it. For example, he ran the official fan sites for Gillian Anderson, Jessica Alba, Hillary Swank, etc. way back before they really blew up. Anyway, it was a small shop but had r... | Back in my ISP days I had a customer with a similar attitude. He ran a bunch of celebrity fan sites and thought he was hot shit because of it. For example, he ran the official fan sites for Gillian Anderson, Jessica Alba, Hillary Swank, etc. way back before they really blew up. Anyway, it was a small shop but had r... | [
"Summary: To err is human, to really fuck things up requires a computer.\n\nPost: I used to work at a hosting company and there were two things we were not allowed to do: write custom scripts or migrate customer data. One of my 1st shift coworkers decided to do both in one shot. The customer had a new server and ... | 50 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,961 |
MinkOWar | Generate the content for a reddit post you have somewhat conflicting specifications, do you want a mediocre rugged camera, or a good camera / wildlife capable-ish camera? You will pretty much have to choose one or the other, they don't mix well unless your wildlife is fish at snorkelling range :) | Rundown of your specs you've noted, just to help you narrow things down, as you aren't going to get everything you note in one camera:
>No interchangeable lenses (Likes point and shoot)
Describes any point and shoot, easy enough category for us.
>Able to easily adjust focus (Primarily takes photos of wildlife)
... | Rundown of your specs you've noted, just to help you narrow things down, as you aren't going to get everything you note in one camera:
>No interchangeable lenses (Likes point and shoot)
Describes any point and shoot, easy enough category for us.
>Able to easily adjust focus (Primarily takes photos of wildlife)
... | [
"Summary: Lighting is the important part, not the camera, so, rethink your plan.\n\nPost: You can probably get by with north facing windows for lighting, and maybe a sheet of paper as a reflector for reasonable lighting, but otherwise your food photography is going to suck without dealing with lighting. \n Any SLR ... | 54 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,962 |
MontrealUrbanist | Generate the content for a reddit post more unit density within a given volume doesn't necessarily equal more population density. The reverse is often true. Unit density != building density != population density. | No, we've been talking about unit size . The article makes a big deal about it, you mentioned it in your post, and I mentioned it in my reply. The only reason I mentioned the number of units in my calculations was to show you that unit size doesn't necessarily mean more people for a given volume of building. In fact, ... | No, we've been talking about unit size . The article makes a big deal about it, you mentioned it in your post, and I mentioned it in my reply. The only reason I mentioned the number of units in my calculations was to show you that unit size doesn't necessarily mean more people for a given volume of building. In fact, ... | [
"Summary: We agree, prices will rebound, but it will likely take 2 years or less because in addition to affecting supply, low prices also induce new demand.\n\nPost: The sharp crash we've experienced is more pronounced than cyclical corrections. The market is not at equilibrium right now. We both agree that oil wil... | 16 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,963 |
Xyrqurqualym | Generate the content for a reddit post Your origami will be appreciated. Maybe not to the extent you expect, but it will be appreciated. | Generally, I don't make anything of flowers. I have a potted plant. One. And I keep that one alive because I was quite surprised that I managed to not kill it within five days of getting it and now I'm trying to find out how much farther I can take this until I manage to off it.
However, here's the catch. Handmade or... | Generally, I don't make anything of flowers. I have a potted plant. One. And I keep that one alive because I was quite surprised that I managed to not kill it within five days of getting it and now I'm trying to find out how much farther I can take this until I manage to off it.
However, here's the catch. Handmade or... | [
"Summary: Positive feedback isn't going to come on its own and being a pitiful sack of misery makes you so amazingly unattractive. Go get your positive feedback. Work on yourself. Hit a gym, dress better, learn how to cook. \n EDIT: If you need help getting started, feel free to PM me. Just don't expect me to have... | 31 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,964 |
noughtagroos | Generate the content for a reddit post you need the mental calisthenics from a well-rounded degree, including both science & liberal arts. | Probably the dumbest thing Feynman ever said. I have an English degree and have made millions in the software industry. Why? Because I can communicate well. All those engineers who can't write can't sell a line of code without someone like me. Also helpful is that, with my training in philosophy and rhetoric, I underst... | Probably the dumbest thing Feynman ever said. I have an English degree and have made millions in the software industry. Why? Because I can communicate well. All those engineers who can't write can't sell a line of code without someone like me. Also helpful is that, with my training in philosophy and rhetoric, I underst... | [
"Summary: We're [ jerks ]( and we're fucked.\n\nPost: The calculus of humanity: \n Technology and economic progress [accelerate]( as the first derivative of the rate of worldwide population growth. \n The problem is, our collective consciousness -- our wisdom, compassion for fellow man, morality, if you like -- lur... | 38 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,965 |
SJHillman | Generate the content for a reddit post You're not buying a product, you're entering into an agreement. | You seem to think that the customer is always right. This is not true. You entered into an agreement with the university that is much, much more detailed "Here's money, gimme diploma". The money is just one thing you're giving them. You're also agreeing to abide by a number of terms - such as punctuality, conduct, etc.... | You seem to think that the customer is always right. This is not true. You entered into an agreement with the university that is much, much more detailed "Here's money, gimme diploma". The money is just one thing you're giving them. You're also agreeing to abide by a number of terms - such as punctuality, conduct, etc.... | [
"Summary: Uninformed people told other uninformed people that IE is bad because they once heard it was bad, so it must be bad.\n\nPost: It's a relic from the old days. Up to IE6, Internet Explorer was notorious for not following Internet standards to the point where some websites had to be coded once for IE and cod... | 79 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,966 |
shiccy | Generate the content for a reddit post dry kibble that's labelled as "diet" food. | My bf had a dog before we met and now she's ours. She gets dry food, but used to get tons of table scraps. She's a chihuahua / beagle mix and in the smaller side, so all the table scraps killed her pancreas. Now we have her on a low protein diet bc she has pancreatitis (chronic where if she gets any high protein/fat fo... | My bf had a dog before we met and now she's ours. She gets dry food, but used to get tons of table scraps. She's a chihuahua / beagle mix and in the smaller side, so all the table scraps killed her pancreas. Now we have her on a low protein diet bc she has pancreatitis (chronic where if she gets any high protein/fat fo... | [
"Summary: Absolutely it makes a difference.\n\nPost: 100% yes. \n I dated a guy for a hot minute that smoked. He was actually pretty hot, nice, etc, but when it came down to it, the smoking on his breath was so appalling that I had to break it off. To a non-smoker, his whole body tasted like the most stale nasty ci... | 40 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,967 |
Knoxie_89 | Generate the content for a reddit post Family owns a cabin together, cousins being added as owners. How can we setup a contract to prevent each other from not paying their fair share.
Thanks in advance! | So one thing I learned in college is that you should ALWAYS have a roommate agreement/contract. No matter how close of friends you are. I have let this idea flow into the rest of my life too.
Background:
My Grandfather, Father, and Uncle bought/built a cabin for the family and they all own equal parts. My uncle unfo... | So one thing I learned in college is that you should ALWAYS have a roommate agreement/contract. No matter how close of friends you are. I have let this idea flow into the rest of my life too.
Background:
My Grandfather, Father, and Uncle bought/built a cabin for the family and they all own equal parts. My uncle unfo... | [
"Summary: Make a pros/cons list and search around for your best deals new and used. And make sure yo consider maintenance costs. Foreign cars tend t be more expensive to fix. \n edit: Downvotes... really? \n Missing word, forgot about having 100% perfect grammar at all times on the internet.....\n\nPost: If your'e ... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,968 |
daprice82 | Generate the content for a reddit post Yeah, the internet overreacts, but the WWE Network is dependent 100% upon that internet audience. The margin for error is a lot less. | I just think people are doing what they do on the internet
But that's the problem. The WWE Network is an internet-based venture. The audience is going to be more critical. If the feed fails for a few minutes during an important part of the show, the internet will eat them alive. Perception is everything. Even if... | I just think people are doing what they do on the internet
But that's the problem. The WWE Network is an internet-based venture. The audience is going to be more critical. If the feed fails for a few minutes during an important part of the show, the internet will eat them alive. Perception is everything. Even if... | [
"Summary: they're not the same belt.\n\nPost: Regarding a few of these: \n \n I don't think \"Vince sent NWO to destroy WCW\" is really much of an urban legend. I'd say the more popular legend is that Russo was sent to do it (and did a fine job!). Not that I believe that either, but I think that's far more of a p... | 38 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,969 |
under_analysis | Generate the content for a reddit post I thought I tearfully drunkenly confessed all my sins to a friend in front of a guy I barely knew, and only found out years later that either I hallucinated the entire thing or my friends are really committed to preserving my dignity for me. | Went to a show with my roommate and got super super wasted. Not the drunkest I've ever been, but very drunk. Went home, changed into my pajamas, and then wandered into her room and sat on her bed to chat about something my drunk self thought was Very Important.
Her boyfriend was in the bed with her, but they indulged... | Went to a show with my roommate and got super super wasted. Not the drunkest I've ever been, but very drunk. Went home, changed into my pajamas, and then wandered into her room and sat on her bed to chat about something my drunk self thought was Very Important.
Her boyfriend was in the bed with her, but they indulged... | [
"Summary: NotAllAsexuals\n\nPost: I don't think it's fair to generalize that widely. The same thing gets said of bisexuals all the time, that they're \"just doing it for attention\", and in my experience some people who claim that label are just saying that for one reason or another, but you can't say because of th... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,970 |
riptide747 | Generate the content for a reddit post Added "blow me" on my girlfriend's to-do list without her knowing, she sent the list to her parents without seeing my addition.
Update: They thought it was funny and said to be more careful of the things she sends them. | I'm at my girlfriend's house for Halloween and she needed to get a bunch of stuff done before we started to party. On her list were things like "Wash dishes, set up decorations, cook brownies" etc. I thought I would be funny and wrote "Blow Jake" (my name is changed) on the bottom of her to-do list.
Apparently she di... | I'm at my girlfriend's house for Halloween and she needed to get a bunch of stuff done before we started to party. On her list were things like "Wash dishes, set up decorations, cook brownies" etc. I thought I would be funny and wrote "Blow Jake" (my name is changed) on the bottom of her to-do list.
Apparently she di... | [
"Summary: wanted to know how far a nailgun could shoot, accidentally shot myself in the hand.\n\nPost: I was helping my dad do the siding on our house which involved a nailgun. He was outside a window on a ladder and asked me to take the nailgun so I grabbed it by the handle, finger on the trigger, and was curious ... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,971 |
Svardskampe | Generate the content for a reddit post Support, yes. Identify with them: no. | I feel the points they raise, the problems that are addressed are definitely valuable and need to be addressed. I also think that there is more levelheadedness among them, and a lot of people there understand that men and women both have problems, but that they address the male side of problems, and understand women ha... | I feel the points they raise, the problems that are addressed are definitely valuable and need to be addressed. I also think that there is more levelheadedness among them, and a lot of people there understand that men and women both have problems, but that they address the male side of problems, and understand women ha... | [
"Summary: Getting a relationship with the opposite gender seems easier to me than to befriend them.\n\nPost: Being among other people so there is not much room to interject yourself, also having no body language in the sense of, looking up when I walk past by, or have a faint smile. Just the acknowledgement of \"he... | 22 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,972 |
chernobyl169 | Generate the content for a reddit post META-INF is a Java system folder that defines application defaults. Removing it allows mods to set their own. | META-INF is a folder that Java looks for when launching a .jar file. If it's there, the folder contains data that tells Java what classes to load and launch. If it's not there, Java looks for a Main class and launches that instead.
Java developers are expected to include the META-INF in a distributed .jar because the... | META-INF is a folder that Java looks for when launching a .jar file. If it's there, the folder contains data that tells Java what classes to load and launch. If it's not there, Java looks for a Main class and launches that instead.
Java developers are expected to include the META-INF in a distributed .jar because the... | [
"Summary: Sheldon Adelson burned $150M in an attempt to get corrupt Republicans in office so he could make his multi-billion-dollar bribery lawsuit disappear, and failed.\n\nPost: No doubt. Here's an example of a guy giving as much as he sees fit in an attempt to sway the federal situation favorably toward an inves... | 45 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,973 |
hexapodium | Generate the content for a reddit post XBL only "hosts" until you start the actual game, then it picks a donor Xbox (or in some cases, the developer's server hardware) to run the server for the duration of the game. | In most cases, the "server" is hosted on one of the players' xboxes, i.e. the "host", but the XBL servers also perform some synchronisation functions between the various clients and the host. What happens in most games (I'll take Reach as an example) goes like this:
1 Some players all hit "matchmake" at roughly the... | In most cases, the "server" is hosted on one of the players' xboxes, i.e. the "host", but the XBL servers also perform some synchronisation functions between the various clients and the host. What happens in most games (I'll take Reach as an example) goes like this:
1 Some players all hit "matchmake" at roughly the... | [
"Summary: people don't want to carry loads of adaptors for their existing stuff, and they'll punish you in the store if you try to sell them a laptop with anything other than a normal USB port.\n\nPost: Slight correction: the spec now also allows for normally-slave devices to become USB masters under certain circu... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,974 |
jbisinla | Generate the content for a reddit post You've got lots of options. | You can find Gillette Travel Techs pretty easily / cheaply, but I don't really recommend getting that as a replacement handle as a) safety razors are kind of a pain to travel with, and b) the handles are pretty tiny to be enjoyably usable.
(That said, I've got a complete one with a slightly tarnished handle sitting o... | You can find Gillette Travel Techs pretty easily / cheaply, but I don't really recommend getting that as a replacement handle as a) safety razors are kind of a pain to travel with, and b) the handles are pretty tiny to be enjoyably usable.
(That said, I've got a complete one with a slightly tarnished handle sitting o... | [
"Summary: Yes, there's money to be made if you keep it cheap and know what you're doing. If you don't have a clue and hire staff in hopes that magic will happen, you're probably going to lose money.\n\nPost: Who/what are you talking about? \n This has nothing to do with /r/losangeles, but I'll give it a shot. \n If... | 91 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,975 |
mrzoink | Generate the content for a reddit post You can run this and it should not give you a problem.
PS: Avast has used the word plugin in a somewhat non-standard way in this case (from the Chrome OS perspective - but I doubt they're the only ones to do this.) One cannot install plugins under Chrome OS, which are executable... | The Avast extension is simply a web-reputation aid. [This feature is already built into Chrome]( but if you want to also use the Avast extension, that's fine.
Neither of these schemes (Google or Avast) are traditional antivirus - they are not scanning your file system for known malware, identifying, isolating, and sa... | The Avast extension is simply a web-reputation aid. [This feature is already built into Chrome]( but if you want to also use the Avast extension, that's fine.
Neither of these schemes (Google or Avast) are traditional antivirus - they are not scanning your file system for known malware, identifying, isolating, and sa... | [
"Summary: The insurer is betting that most people will live long enough that they can turn a profit by investing the premiums paid into the pool by purchasing stocks and making other kinds of investments. \n The math works out to support this theory in the long run.\n\nPost: They take the premiums that you pay and ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,976 |
MrNecktie | Generate the content for a reddit post fuck dude it's a gamepad with a fucking fan in it how cool can you get? | Reposting my own comment from a separate thread:
Nyko Airflo EX. Thank me later -- I've got one myself and it handles exactly like a PS/XB controller with a few more buttons. Compatible with most OS's back to Win 95, and shouldn't be too expensive. Picked it up about 6, 7 years ago for $30 and it's never failed me si... | Reposting my own comment from a separate thread:
Nyko Airflo EX. Thank me later -- I've got one myself and it handles exactly like a PS/XB controller with a few more buttons. Compatible with most OS's back to Win 95, and shouldn't be too expensive. Picked it up about 6, 7 years ago for $30 and it's never failed me si... | [
"Summary: Review is legit. The plot does suck, assuming not much else is covered in five minutes. The dogshit brown on gunmetal gray argument applies, but with less gusto than the previous installments. And I think, frankly, Marcus should have died.\n\nPost: Frankly, and this'll get downvoted, it does make sense; ... | 20 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,977 |
unoriginalsin | Generate the content for a reddit post Don't be a douche. | Yeah. Common courtesy for people that are moving sure is ridiculous, huh?
Were you in a loading zone? Because that 's what they're for. If the sign said "No stopping, standing or parking", you're screwed. And while it sucks, you should not have left the vehicle unattended in a no parking zone. Had you driven around ... | Yeah. Common courtesy for people that are moving sure is ridiculous, huh?
Were you in a loading zone? Because that 's what they're for. If the sign said "No stopping, standing or parking", you're screwed. And while it sucks, you should not have left the vehicle unattended in a no parking zone. Had you driven around ... | [
"Summary: Fuck off and die.\n\nPost: Ah, so you're one of those idiots that pulls halfway through a street and stops because traffic is almost clear. Gotcha. Stay the fuck off my roads, I will let you cause an accident. I will decide to properly use the turning lane in such a way that directly impedes your misuse o... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,978 |
Twigsnapper | Generate the content for a reddit post Create small goals to entertain yourself and boost your morale | For me it was small goals. I was 400+ pounds and gave up on being happy. I was miserable and hated myself.
I went to the doctor one day (He is a family friend that has known me my entire life), and i said I had chest pains and wasn't feeling well. He told me to get out of his office and not come back. I stared at him... | For me it was small goals. I was 400+ pounds and gave up on being happy. I was miserable and hated myself.
I went to the doctor one day (He is a family friend that has known me my entire life), and i said I had chest pains and wasn't feeling well. He told me to get out of his office and not come back. I stared at him... | [
"Summary: 9 1/2 hour surgery + catheter + 950 stitches = Hell for 3 months\n\nPost: I had skin reduction surgery after losing 225 pounds. I had 950 stitches over 9 1/2 hours over my arms, chest, back, stomach and legs. It was a \"prize\" i gave myself. \n When I awoke from the surgery, it felt like I was nailed to ... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,979 |
BuffyPilotKnob | Generate the content for a reddit post that boy won't be affected. | Her son was probably just confused by her reaction, but it's not gonna affect the way he views people who are different. He's just gonna learn not to to point out differences within earshot of the person.
The same thing happened to me when I was about 3, a little person smiled and waved at me in a store. I was amaz... | Her son was probably just confused by her reaction, but it's not gonna affect the way he views people who are different. He's just gonna learn not to to point out differences within earshot of the person.
The same thing happened to me when I was about 3, a little person smiled and waved at me in a store. I was amaz... | [
"Summary: Getting squirrelly works when evading law enforcement.\n\nPost: When my husband and I first started dating, we used to like to hang out at local parks drinking beer late at night. I don't know why, this was kind of thrilling to us at the time. Anyway, we were at a park we had never been to, when a cop p... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,980 |
EvilSqueegee | Generate the content for a reddit post What do you guys do to help making writing through the blockage less mentally painful? | I don't even really know if this qualifies as writer's block, but every now and then I find that my writing just... stops.
The most frustrating thing is that it's not for lack of idea. I know exactly what's suposed to happen in a scene. I even have a picture in my head of the event I'm describing, I can feel the char... | I don't even really know if this qualifies as writer's block, but every now and then I find that my writing just... stops.
The most frustrating thing is that it's not for lack of idea. I know exactly what's suposed to happen in a scene. I even have a picture in my head of the event I'm describing, I can feel the char... | [
"Summary: Beta means \"for testing\" which is not correlated in any fashion to the availability of the game.\n\nPost: You are flat-out incorrect. This is totally a Beta. \"Beta\" doesn't mean \"Exclusive membership,\" which is what this line of reasoning seems to be implying. \n \"Beta\" means \"This is still in a... | 21 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,981 |
renegade_division | Generate the content for a reddit post I think your reasons to take sides between Rothbard vs Friedman are incorrect. I want citations. | I read Rothbard's vision of an ancap society: a bunch of DROs decide to enforce a law code deliberately based on libertarian principles. Well, that might happen, but it would require a bunch of Rothbardians.
I am not sure if Rothbard really did say that the law must be the most ideal libertarian law or else its not a... | I read Rothbard's vision of an ancap society: a bunch of DROs decide to enforce a law code deliberately based on libertarian principles. Well, that might happen, but it would require a bunch of Rothbardians.
I am not sure if Rothbard really did say that the law must be the most ideal libertarian law or else its not a... | [
"Summary: is this: \n Because choosing healthcare is such an immensely complicated task which an single individual can't be expected to do, we should hand him the task to choose an agency which will choose the healthcare, the defense service, the judicial system and the roads for him, because clearly choosing betwe... | 25 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,982 |
lejefferson | Generate the content for a reddit post We all done fucked up. | as you would expect them to do ?
No. I would expect countries not to be willing to rape the resources of another country for their own selfish desires and then complain that the Soviets are going to get the oil when we can't have it for free.
The British government spent years trying to get the U.S. to do this ... | as you would expect them to do ?
No. I would expect countries not to be willing to rape the resources of another country for their own selfish desires and then complain that the Soviets are going to get the oil when we can't have it for free.
The British government spent years trying to get the U.S. to do this ... | [
"Summary: Basically just be a decent human being.\n\nPost: I just saw this comment and even though we already resolved this wanted to state for the record that. \n A. You don't have to have sex with someone just because they bought you a drink. \n but \n B. You shouldn't accept drinks from people or other gifts of ... | 26 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,983 |
dorianfinch | Generate the content for a reddit post maybe date other genderqueers. it made me the [happiest girldude ever.]( | I consider myself an almost-transman genderqueer individual (no hormones, no surgery, just present pretty masculine) and I like boyish people, but I doubt any gay guy would have anything to do with me. So I got even luckier and ended up dating a nonbinary person like myself who self-describes as "like 70% boy and 30% g... | I consider myself an almost-transman genderqueer individual (no hormones, no surgery, just present pretty masculine) and I like boyish people, but I doubt any gay guy would have anything to do with me. So I got even luckier and ended up dating a nonbinary person like myself who self-describes as "like 70% boy and 30% g... | [
"Summary: in my subjective opinion, gender is what you make of it and it's your decision! can be confusing, but also freeing.\n\nPost: Honestly - and this might be an unpopular opinion here, idk - over the course of my life i've discovered that gender isn't as cut-and-dried as we sometimes wish it would be. At leas... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,984 |
RagingErectus | Generate the content for a reddit post People are dumb and this comic hits the nail on the head. | Definitely the problem with Truth. The punchline is a true statement, but it almost implies that two separate, unrelated things have causality. Most people take the almost-implicated-if-you're-not-paying-attention causality and make two mistakes by 1) Believing something someone told them without any corroborating ev... | Definitely the problem with Truth. The punchline is a true statement, but it almost implies that two separate, unrelated things have causality. Most people take the almost-implicated-if-you're-not-paying-attention causality and make two mistakes by 1) Believing something someone told them without any corroborating ev... | [
"Summary: My experience is that the difference in \"upkeep\" between OSX and Win is that the difference is negligible and should not really be a consideration in the purchasing decision.\n\nPost: Writing from a Linux desktop right now, next to my dual boot laptop with OSX and Win7 on it. I say this so you know I'm... | 45 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,985 |
UnknownHer0 | Generate the content for a reddit post dam is the easiest base map by a wide margin, just bring a sniper and a bunch of scanners | I never have understood why people have trouble on that mission. I'm pretty new to long war, but playing on classic I've done the mission twice now and both times I absolutely blew through the mission. The Dam level I think may be the easiest level in the entire game, The highground towers are such perfect places fo... | I never have understood why people have trouble on that mission. I'm pretty new to long war, but playing on classic I've done the mission twice now and both times I absolutely blew through the mission. The Dam level I think may be the easiest level in the entire game, The highground towers are such perfect places fo... | [
"Summary: it all boils down to what \"options\" means to you. Do you want more possible builds for every mech variant? Or do you want to see more different kinds of hunchbacks? I prefer building my own mech out of each variant rather than being assigned an ac20 hunchback and a ac10 hunchback.\n\nPost: Assuming ever... | 39 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,986 |
DoDope_FuckHope | Generate the content for a reddit post Freestyle to everything,watch Whiplash and freestyle to that too. DRUMS ARE YOUR FREESTYLING FRIEND!
P.S.that ending doe | Freestyle to EVERYTHING.
I've been doing this for a while now and not only does it make you better at freestyling, but it tests your ability to stay on beat (whatever it is), your flow and how you incorporate your vocals to sound dope with the shit you're freestyling over!
I've just had an great birthday party and... | Freestyle to EVERYTHING.
I've been doing this for a while now and not only does it make you better at freestyling, but it tests your ability to stay on beat (whatever it is), your flow and how you incorporate your vocals to sound dope with the shit you're freestyling over!
I've just had an great birthday party and... | [
"Summary: Dude I was cool with 5 min. Ago starts swinging on me fuckboi style and I laugh in his face. \n EDIT: Also forgot to mention that that same dick almost got beat up by another dude in my class because that deuchebag was constantly harrassing that other dude.\n\nPost: so im in this new class with new people... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,987 |
SilverHoudini | Generate the content for a reddit post Plants need different watering regimes. To see if the plant needs water, check the soil that's a few inches below the surface. | One of the main reasons a soil doesn't take up water is because it's already at full capacity. I personally don't ever really recommend the watering globes because I don't feel like they provide enough air for the roots. But I know other people swear by them. My guess is it depends on the plant and soil, etc. The diffe... | One of the main reasons a soil doesn't take up water is because it's already at full capacity. I personally don't ever really recommend the watering globes because I don't feel like they provide enough air for the roots. But I know other people swear by them. My guess is it depends on the plant and soil, etc. The diffe... | [
"Summary: Hybridization is quite common in nature without humans doing anything.\n\nPost: That's not to say that they aren't natural. There are tons of species that hybridize in nature without the interference of humans. Silver and Red maples, for example, hybridize quite readily. There's a theory that Bur and Whit... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,988 |
cfsg | Generate the content for a reddit post Get some sleep. Enjoy your video games. | I know the feel, bro. All too well.
That said, I don't accept your premise, that you're pathetic. There's nothing pathetic about playing video games, and there's nothing pathetic about being good at video games. I don't believe you're not good at anything else. I do believe you haven't tried many other things more th... | I know the feel, bro. All too well.
That said, I don't accept your premise, that you're pathetic. There's nothing pathetic about playing video games, and there's nothing pathetic about being good at video games. I don't believe you're not good at anything else. I do believe you haven't tried many other things more th... | [
"Summary: go fuck yourself\n\nPost: I wonder if this is a result of some bizarre miscommunication. On Google Maps it does indeed 100% say \"Not A Road\" where that road is.. but as we can see [in this image here]( and then in [these images here]( the road is clearly labeled Winterwood Lane, because it is home to Wi... | 17 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,989 |
Nihilate | Generate the content for a reddit post my maths may be shoddy (it's been a while) and maths doesn't work well with language.
edit: formatting.
double edit: I just got what you're talking about, whoops :S. It seems we're looking at it from different angles >_> | Are H and A separateable in this instance? Is the variable HA or are there two separate variables making up HA (being H and A)?
Using less confusing variable names we have two options:
Using x in exchange for HA as one variable becomes x^4 . x^4 != 4x (unless x is equal to 2 2/3, which makes no sense given the co... | Are H and A separateable in this instance? Is the variable HA or are there two separate variables making up HA (being H and A)?
Using less confusing variable names we have two options:
Using x in exchange for HA as one variable becomes x^4 . x^4 != 4x (unless x is equal to 2 2/3, which makes no sense given the co... | [
"Summary: Yes, Batwing Brume is both black and white.\n\nPost: The best way to tell is to look at its casting cost. A card counts as being every colour that's included in its casting cost, regardless of how it was cast. This is subject to some exceptions (usually cards with a CMC of zero or nothing), where the card... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,990 |
vh1atomicpunk | Generate the content for a reddit post Intel has a better product, AMD is less expensive for close to the same performance. | It really depends on what you are doing with the computer, and what kinds of chips you're comparing.
[Tom's CPU Charts]( can be a good reference point. You'll notice that all the higher end CPU's from both companies perform pretty well when paired with high-end graphics cards if you're gaming.
The AMD 'modules' ar... | It really depends on what you are doing with the computer, and what kinds of chips you're comparing.
[Tom's CPU Charts]( can be a good reference point. You'll notice that all the higher end CPU's from both companies perform pretty well when paired with high-end graphics cards if you're gaming.
The AMD 'modules' ar... | [
"Summary: Yes for most things.\n\nPost: Yes for great prices on those things they sell that are authentic. Many Innokin products including MVP's, many Aspire products, many Kanger products. \n No on Kanthal, cotton, silica, etc. Go to Amazon for this. Same or better prices, better quality, faster delivery. \n No... | 18 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,991 |
spenceast | Generate the content for a reddit post I have started and then given up on many different stories. One of my biggest personal goals is to complete and publish my own novel. What can I do to achieve this? | As an English major, I read and write frequently. I fill notebooks up with story ideas. I love writing a lot. Problem is, I get started writing one story and then...get bored of it and switch to the next story idea I have. At one point, I had six different documents open, each with a different idea. I was excited about... | As an English major, I read and write frequently. I fill notebooks up with story ideas. I love writing a lot. Problem is, I get started writing one story and then...get bored of it and switch to the next story idea I have. At one point, I had six different documents open, each with a different idea. I was excited about... | [
"Summary: Showed up for what I thought would be a date, turns out, she hired me to be her son's babysitter.\n\nPost: Was at a café meeting some friends and saw a really pretty woman at the counter. Started chatting with her and it turns out she's a single parent too, so I ended up getting her number, which she gave... | 24 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,992 |
Buster-The-Nanobot | Generate the content for a reddit post Valve will strengthen the 25% of players of the 100% who play comp to get even better (IMO that is a load of shit) and as a result, the other 75% who don't play competitively will be turned off from the game when every single fucking server, valve hosted or otherwise, becomes a pu... | Everyone who has a brain that doesn't play comp will get fed up and stop playing when all the peaceful-light hearted valve pubs become overflown with comp tryhard players which result in F2P Gibusvisions essentially becoming fish in a barrel for them to shoot. In otherwords, by competetive TF2 becoming a thing, sure va... | Everyone who has a brain that doesn't play comp will get fed up and stop playing when all the peaceful-light hearted valve pubs become overflown with comp tryhard players which result in F2P Gibusvisions essentially becoming fish in a barrel for them to shoot. In otherwords, by competetive TF2 becoming a thing, sure va... | [
"Summary: Welcome to Hat Fortress 2. Buy cosmetics and dress up 9 insane mercenaries and do a little bit of killing on the side.\n\nPost: Important things you should note: \n TF2 has a very interesting economy because of its trading system. Like in CS:GO with gun quality and skins and such, TF2 has things like Gun ... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,993 |
CRoswell | Generate the content for a reddit post I want good players that aren’t elitist douches or fail players to fuck shit up in Cata. Post your info below.
edit 1 - Wow. Awesome to see so many replies! I'll be sorting through these over the next week or so. | Fellow redditors... We’ve grown lazy, apathetic, and un-motivated. To that I say... NO MORE!! It is time to descend into the fiery depths. Into the disgusting underbelly of the world and slay the denizens that jeopardize our way of life! To take back the underground taverns for the Dwarves, the lingerie stores for the ... | Fellow redditors... We’ve grown lazy, apathetic, and un-motivated. To that I say... NO MORE!! It is time to descend into the fiery depths. Into the disgusting underbelly of the world and slay the denizens that jeopardize our way of life! To take back the underground taverns for the Dwarves, the lingerie stores for the ... | [
"Summary: The amount of training and person-specific adjustment that goes into accurately shooting a bow makes it ridiculous to put into DayZ. Stick with the Xbow, add a quiver.\n\nPost: You are comparing apples to oranges though. At 25 yards, most people with very little practice could hit center mass on a man-sha... | 35 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,994 |
L1eutenantDan | Generate the content for a reddit post optimism runs abound, but the impact of this draft won't be felt immediately outside of probably Sankey. | Taylor Lewan has been playing guard in the absence of Andy Levitre (appendix got taken out, he's back for today's scrimmage against Atlanta) and has had some trouble adjusting to the position which isn't unexpected for a guy who's about 6'8" and has spent his entire career protecting his QB's blindside. he's been gett... | Taylor Lewan has been playing guard in the absence of Andy Levitre (appendix got taken out, he's back for today's scrimmage against Atlanta) and has had some trouble adjusting to the position which isn't unexpected for a guy who's about 6'8" and has spent his entire career protecting his QB's blindside. he's been gett... | [
"Summary: Gucci is fun and hype, sometimes that's all that matters, and he still got better wordplay than Chief Keef cause yo is at the bottom.\n\nPost: oh he's not super technical or anything, but he still puts out music you can enjoy when you're cruising, when you're at the club, when you wanna get ignant, whatev... | 27 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,995 |
Jesus_marley | Generate the content for a reddit post If you want to get to Heaven, Jesus is the way to get there. If you don't give a shit, that's ok too. Either way, don't be a fucking fuck. | I look at like this. Jesus said to love everybody. Period. He also said the only way to get to Heaven is to believe he is the Son of God. If you don't believe in the Divinity of Jesus, that's cool. Since you don't believe in heaven either. No harm, no foul. That in no way detracts from the original statement to love ev... | I look at like this. Jesus said to love everybody. Period. He also said the only way to get to Heaven is to believe he is the Son of God. If you don't believe in the Divinity of Jesus, that's cool. Since you don't believe in heaven either. No harm, no foul. That in no way detracts from the original statement to love ev... | [
"Summary: i would rather live in a sytem that cannot punish the guilty if the alternative is one that will punish the innocent.\n\nPost: Vigilantism is not justice. Any system that allows for the citizenry to apply summary judgement upon a person without evidence based solely upon feelings is anathema to justice. e... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,996 |
doppelbach | Generate the content for a reddit post confirmation bias (they want to find reasons to dislike it) | I think some people have the notion that feminism is pointless, since women can legally vote, run for office, have a job, drive a car, etc (in the US at least). So from the perspective of these people, feminists are whining for no reason. Then to complete the picture, these people might filter out stories or facts wh... | I think some people have the notion that feminism is pointless, since women can legally vote, run for office, have a job, drive a car, etc (in the US at least). So from the perspective of these people, feminists are whining for no reason. Then to complete the picture, these people might filter out stories or facts wh... | [
"Summary: Latin is dead because it's not changing anymore \n Edit to more directly address the question: even though Latin doesn't change anymore, it can still be used to name new things with creative use of the existing words.\n\nPost: Living languages like English differ from dead languages like Latin in two maj... | 28 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,997 |
autieab | Generate the content for a reddit post is: no real children, just roleplay, harmless kink (unless you count diaper rash :P), enjoyed and needed by those who have it. | so I stumbled upon your subreddit by accident
Ain't askreddit threads about kink great? :) (assuming that's the 'by accident'). We almost always get linked in those threads.
Anyway, to answer, some people think it's just fucking weird (to quote the askreddit post "Acting like a child, wearing diapers and pissing y... | so I stumbled upon your subreddit by accident
Ain't askreddit threads about kink great? :) (assuming that's the 'by accident'). We almost always get linked in those threads.
Anyway, to answer, some people think it's just fucking weird (to quote the askreddit post "Acting like a child, wearing diapers and pissing y... | [
"Summary: So long as the plane isn't crammed to bursting, most airlines will allow diapers to be carried even above your usual 1+personal allowance so long as you're not obviously taking the piss.\n\nPost: FWIW, everybody can take that 'personal item' on as their second carry on, a laptop bag, diaper bag, large pur... | 15 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,998 |
Annieone23 | Generate the content for a reddit post If people steal, mod, cheat, or fan translate it, then it is probably worth playing or at least looking in to. If there is no interest in any of those categorizes then it means the game is probably shitty and nobody cares enough to buy or play it. | Probably me just being a hipster, because I don't even read a lot of reviews. My gaming vetting process is actually rather complicated so bare with me, because you asked :P
Basically it boils down to this: Are people pirating this game?
If someone can steal any game they want for free, it stands to reason that they w... | Probably me just being a hipster, because I don't even read a lot of reviews. My gaming vetting process is actually rather complicated so bare with me, because you asked :P
Basically it boils down to this: Are people pirating this game?
If someone can steal any game they want for free, it stands to reason that they w... | [
"Summary: Skip season 1, watch from Season 2 onwards. Also don't skip the Christmas Episodes, those are cool/story relevant too.\n\nPost: Hm.. hard to say.. It's like saying.. Ok I wanna read Harry Potter so just pick out a chapter for me in any of the 12 books that you think will get me hooked, ya know? \n I would... | 23 | longlamp_4 | user_based | 2,999 |
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