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[ { "body": "The recordings are your property, but the content of those recordings, that is to say the intellectual property regarding the compositions, belong to him because he was the performer/composer. I understand you were involved with the sound design and arrangement to some extent, so you may be able to make a case for intellectual property ownership in terms of sound design and arrangement, but so long as he composed the work he retains composition and performance rights. You have no legal obligations to give them to him, but you can't use them to make money because he hasn't signed a contract with you, and he can't use them to make money either because you haven't signed a contract with him.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "It may be painful, but the simplest way to be done with this would be to give him the recordings and walk away. I'm guessing the odds of him making money from them are pretty small (though you'd have a better guess about that obviously).\n\nNo reason you couldn't keep copies for yourself, though, if you like your contributions.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Don't buy flashcards. The creation of flashcards yourself is half of the learning process. There are good apps for flashcards... I use Anymemo as a program and download flashcard stacks from flashcardexchange.com. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The Ultimate Beginner's Resource Thread in the sidebar has some absolutely amazing resources, if you haven't already taken a look at it. Primsleur didn't really work for me, but that was because it didn't fit my style/preferred methods of learning -- we're all different, though, so it might work well for you. \n\n\nFor starters, learning Hangul: \n\n[The Korean Wiki Project](http://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/?title=Learn_hangeul) and the [Korean WikiBook](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Korean/Alphabet) were really helpful introductions to the alphabet for me. All you need is some sort of foundation and then the best practice from there is just reading and exposing yourself to it. There are (I'm sure) better resources out there, but those are the ones that worked for me\n\nAs far as vocabulary goes, I find [Memrise](http://memrise.com)'s Comprehensive Korean course to be a great way to pick up vocabulary, especially if you're just starting. I'd also definitely suggest picking up some sort of textbook or something to study with as well. *Intermediate Korean* is a really great textbook. You can google for it if it's not already in the Ultimate Beginner's Resource Thread (again, found in the sidebar of this subreddit)\n\nGood luck with your learning journey! If you have any basic questions feel free to hit me up with a PM. I'm just a low level learner myself, but I can help with some intro/really basic stuff.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The biggest thing is to find one resource and stick to it hard. \n\nThe absolute coolest I have found is talktomeinkorean.com\n\nThere's so much knowledge on there. \n\nMemrise is fun, I would give that a shot too. Very fun.\n\npimsleur is na.... too boring.. you won't finish it i bet. \n\nbut for learning the alphabet there is only one golden resource that is \n\nhttp://www.koreanwikiproject.com/wiki/?title=Learn_hangeul\n\nshould be quick and fun there. they did a great job", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Hi, fellow learner here! As far as the alphabet, you don't really need a book or lessons, in my honest opinion. I found a spreadsheet online of all of the characters and just read it over a few times. I printed out the sheet and just practiced writing english words in hangul, whether it be my name, a piece of furniture, anything that I see. It helped me memorize the characters, and as I was writing I saw where the holes in my knowledge were: eg, \"Oh, I keep forgetting K\" or \"I wonder what I have do to to get a 'yoo' sound,\" and I would look it up. Of course, there are still some characters that don't correspond with the english language, but just writing out the hangul and looking at my sheet helped immensely. And it was fun and easy! I learned the entire alphabet and basic grammar in less than a week. From then on I just practiced and got it really memorized pretty quickly. I don't think I'll ever forget! I find myself doodling in hangul all the time. It's really a very clear and basic alphabet. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Looks nice. I like the idea of having a rating that is a mix of the overall character. \n\nThat being said, there's no way to tell what the actual rank of your character is based on DPS, Life, Primary Stats, etc... When you go to the ranklist for each stat, it displays the \"rating rank\" rather than the rank searched for.\n\nAs well, unbuffed DPS would be nicer to view. EHP would be preferable to Life. \n\nJust minor things. Site looks nice. I'll keep an eye on it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Off Topic a bit, but it says if you finish everything, you get extraordinary loot. Perhaps there is a satchel and you open it and you get like 3 items. It could be a hat, could be a strange weapon, a regular weapon, cash for the mode, etc...\n\nI think the money stacks in your inventory and you can use it to have advantages earlier on by keeping it and letting it stack up in your inventory!", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm trying to be the least homer-ish as possible... but there's no way the bears got worse. Getting rid of Martz is going to help tremendously, we're getting our first round right tackle back, plus we added a ton of depth to our team. Not to mention a huge upgrade to our WR corps.\n\nI could maybe see your point if you think age is going to be a factor... but we always tend to play it careful with our older vets.\n\nIf you think the division's going to be tougher this year, fine. But the Bears as a team are not worse than last year.", "score": 87 }, { "body": "Most of these seem on point... I take issue with two though:\n\nThe Cowboys will probably end better. They took care of one of their two biggest weaknesses (secondary).... they've still got interior OL issues but should be as good if not better than last season. \n\nThe one I disagree with most strongly though- The Bears did not get worse. How can they be worse than half a season with Caleb Hanie?\n\nIIRC Carimi was out last year with injury, that'll help their OL. Marshall and Jeffery will be serious upgrades at the WR position, and most importantly, Cutler is back at QB.", "score": 36 }, { "body": "Niners worse- I'm guessing injury bug, no way they get same TO ratio\n\nSteelers worse- Old\n\nBears better\n\nBills better", "score": 35 }, { "body": "Jets definitely take it for me. Last year's 8-8 season is going to look great compared to this year's circus show. Best/worst thing is, it won't even be Tebow's fault.\n\nTo go more in depth, their OL is awful so far. Allowed 2 sacks on Sanchez? He only played for about 2 series! \nDefense also looks pretty bad, especially with losing Cromartie.", "score": 23 }, { "body": "Dolphins will be worse. No go-to wide receiver will really hurt Moore.\n\nJets too, who is their 2nd WR? Doesn't matter who is throwing the ball here.\n\nRaiders are in such a complete overhaul this year that I doubt the personnel will be able to keep up. They lost a lot in FA and Carson Palmer has yet to prove his worth.\n\nI don't trust Vick and the Eagles. LeSean had a career year last year, so some regression is expected, especially due to loss of stud LT Jason Peters. Vick is not good enough to win games on his own, and if he is injured, as he often is, they are in trouble.\n\nLions will probably see a regression, as their secondary cupboard is bare. Stafford can't keep slinging for 30 pts a game, in my opinion. (This regression probably won't be dramatic, but 10-6 is hard to get to in the NFC North).\n\nSaints will regress a teensy bit for obvious reasons.\n\n49ers too, simply because it is really, *really* hard to go 13-3 two years in a row.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "The Cowboys improved drastically I think. If they don't get plagued by injuries they will be a dangerous team. \n\nEveryone else I agree with, but da burs. They'll be better too. ", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Honestly, I can't think of any teams that are going to be worse than:\n\nCarolina\n\nAtlanta\n\nNew Orleans\n\nThose guys don't stand a chance", "score": 14 }, { "body": "I don't think we've gotten worse. Instead of the good old \"give all our good free agents to other teams\", we actually went and signed some guys. Ingram was a beast putting pressure on Rodgers, and Gates is back to full health, so at worst, we're about the same.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Wow, I can't believe no one mentioned the absolute offensive train wreck that is the Phoenix Cardinals. Any victory for them this year will be a miracle.\n\nIn fact, I was thinking about going there this weekend and walk on as their starting QB . . . ", "score": 12 }, { "body": "The Chargers added some quality receivers (Meachem, Royal), plus Gates seems to be fully recovered from plantar faciatis (sp?). Rivers is going to have a lot of toys to play with.\n\nOn the D side, the front 7 looks better than I've seen it since Merriman got busted for steroids.\n\nThe AFC West is going to be an absolute brawl....just how we like it!", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I think my Cowboys tread water. No better, no worse. \n\nI think the Steelers get worse with the loss of Mendenhall and Big Ben's possibly gimpy leg, plus an aging defense. \n\nSaints, naturally, without their head coach and a post bountygate hangover. \n\n\n", "score": 8 }, { "body": "top 8 teams will be worse\n\nbottom 8 teams will be better\n\nwho knows about the rest.\n\nStatistically these simplistic statements probably have a better chance of being correct than anything any real informed analysis will tell you.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I agree on the Chargers. Disagree on the Bears. \n\nI think the Jags might have gotten worse. Not on talent, I just don't think they're going to win the coaching lottery, and it'll take a few years to improve. For my bold pick, I think the Saints will fall, being impacted by the loss of Payton and their Assistant HC (not being affected much, if at all, by the player suspensions). Brees should still put up pretty big numbers, but the overall cohesion of the team will suffer. With the Falcons, Saints, and possibly even Buccaneers putting up large offensive numbers, the Saints take a huge hit in the win column. That's my guess.\n\nMy take on the Seahawks is that they held the team together very well and we can't possibly get worse unless Lynch takes a dump. If that happens, we're probably boned.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "The Bears? They'll be almost the same team they were last year. Yeah the D is older, but they upgraded their WR corps to what could be an elite group. I really wish we hadn't traded Marshall to them, but he's a hell of a receiver, and his personality disorder is under control. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I can't agree on the Bears. I think their WR corps got better, and if Cutler stays healthy they are a playoff team. Michael Bush is also a solid back up, and could start for plenty of teams.\n\nJets will be worse, and nothing but a circus.\n\n49ers might do well, but not like last year. Alex Smith will be Alex Smith.\n\nThe Lions might get worse especially with all the arrests, and a possible CURSE. The main reason I say the Lions though is the division is really tough. \n\nThe Chiefs will be better. As long as Brady Quinn never has to go in. Cassel isn't great, but Quinn is worse.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I really think the Jets will be better. I always though Schottenheimer at OC was screwing everything up with the offense. And tebow, media sensationalism aside, is fine as a wildcat and backup. Shonn greene is a solid runner, and the defense is looking nasty as always, with Quinton Coples showing a lot of potential. Could be a surprise team. Or it could all crash and burn to 4-12", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Well, the New York Giants won't win the Super Bowl this year. \n\nTherefore, the Giants are worse this year. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The loss of Suggs definitely hurts, but it only seems that our defense is \"aging\" because of Lewis and Reed. No one else is over age 27, except for Ngata, who is 28. We've got two quality corners in Webb (26) and Jimmy Smith (24), and I think Upshaw has the potential to fill Suggs' shoes at least reasonably well.\n\nThe O-line was only mediocre last year, allowing the 12th-fewest sacks in the NFL. This was with Grubbs having a Pro Bowl season, so losing him is definitely a concern.\n\nAll of this, coupled with a rough schedule, means I think we'll see a drop-off from 12 wins down to 10.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "You do realize that if you take Ray and Reed off the team we have the youngest D in the league right? Just checking. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Well... if youre going off full rosters without injury and not their records, I think the Colts are honestly in worse position.\n\nThey had Manning last year (technically), Dallas Clark and Pierre Garçon. The only viable replacement they made was swapping out Andrew Luck with Peyton. Take into account that they have a new HC and are switching to the 3-4 with two very talented 4-3 DE's in Mathis and Freeney and I just don't see them being an improved squad.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Eagles lost Jason Peters and their QB has raised some durability issues. They still have a ton of talent, but pose a serious risk of having a major flameout if they can't protect Vick.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I hate saying it but the Browns are actually worse than last year. A new QB even if it is someone other than McCoy is going to set you back and with all of the injuries/suspensions that we have we are in for another rough year.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I think we are a better team this year that will have a much worse record. After the first 6 games our schedule gets pretty brutal. I could see us starting out 5-1 and having everybody talk about us then going 2-8 the rest of the way. Our last 10 games don't have any easy wins. [Schedule](http://espn.go.com/nfl/team/schedule/_/name/cin/cincinnati-bengals) ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Tell me again how the Ravens are about to enter the geriatric ward, what with the average age of the defense at a whopping 29 years old. Lewis is still a producer, though he's on the field for morale more than anything. Reed is still fantastic and easily a hall-of-famer right out of retirement. Everyone else is under 30.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Record wise I think the 9ers will be worse, but they still have all that talent, 13-3 is pretty hard to improve upon ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Its got to be the Raiders. They had to cut Routt and Boss for cap reasons. Also, they didn't improve in the draft since they had hardly any picks. Not to mention losing Bush in the offseason, McClain's off the field issues, and yet another regime change. There is no way in hell they got better, 4-12. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Why is it that you think the Cowboys might have gotten worse? They just drafted the best DB in the draft, I understand they have some OL injuries, but does that mean that they got worse? Where do you see this? Just asking, since you mentioned them.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Meh. Wackos are gonna fap to anything and everything. What you should be concerned with are uploading pics with geo tags.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "I'm not worried at all, but I don't post pictures because I think most people only care to see them when they are really funny or interesting.\n\nHere's the thing about being worried about security. First, those Facebook group stories seem like urban legends or cases of overzealous parents on a witch hunt for a bogeyman. It reminds of the remarks a female coworker once made to me about a man working in a child care agency across the street form us.\n\nI understand removing your kids name from the pics so that they can't be indexed by Google. This is just saving your kid future embarrassment. However, I think the geotag thing is probably unnecessary unless you are: \n*extremely wealthy\n*in the middle of a dangerous custody battle\n*live in a dangerous country where kidnapping is common\n\nHere's why: 115 kids were abducted last year in the United States. 115 out of almost 75 million kids, or roughly 1 in 1.5 million. Look at this [list](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/03/30/15-things-more-likely-to-happen-than-winning-mega-millions.html) and see all the things that are more likely to happen to you, including dying in the bathtub, than your kid being abducted. \n\nDon't misunderstand me, every time I walk down the stairs with my child the thought runs through my head that I could trip and fall and drop him and he could die. *Every* time. I get that we're all worried about something happening to our kids and I'm all for keeping my child safe, but I think a lot of this fear is just a reaction to what we have thrown at us on a daily basis. It's all around us, in every ad aimed at parents and in a lot of sensationalized news reports.\n\ntl;dr: There are a million more things to worry about in this world. Things aren't nearly as scary as the news makes them.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I won't post pictures of my daughter here. I just don't have the desire to show her to a bunch of people I don't know (who probably really don't care if she ate a cookie or whatever anyway).\n\nIf you do, there are some tips to follow (my friend leads the online child safety training for parents in her school district):\n\n * Make sure when you take the picture that geo-location services aren't enabled on your camera/device. I believe imgur strips that metadata out but still..\n * Don't put your kids name on the picture, as the name of the picture, etc. If you put the kids name in the file name and it's online, eventually it will get indexed by google and become searchable by their name\n * Don't post pictures with easily identifiable landmarks of your neighborhood, their school, etc. \n\nJust some basics. I just keep my kid off unregulated places like this as much as I can.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "any of these for the 3ds.....\nxbox 360-Duke nukem forever Balls of steel edition Halo Reach Halo 3 CoD:WaW Popcap collection Ghostbusters Brink CoD:MW2 L4D2 CoD:MW3 Portal 2 The Orange Box Homefront Lego Batman/Pure Dj Hero+ 2 turntables Mortal Kombat: komplete Edition CoD: Black Ops Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare- sealed CoD 4 Gears of War Triple Pack- played once. Snes- Super mario world, wayne's world, super mario all-stars. Nes- Tetris, mario/duck hunt/track meet/, zelda 1+2 gold, excitebike, ninja gaiden, bart vs space mutants, game genie, ghostbusters. N64- Ocarina of Time, Majora's mask, Mortal kombat 4, mario 64, Mario kart, donkey kong 64, south park rally,Namco museum, smash bros.Mario party, hey you pickachu, some other Gamecube and gameboy games. and 400 coins or so of club nintendo codes", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Love being able to see those stats! As a math nerd, those stats make me tingle in all the right places. ;)", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "the braces make you look a couple of years younger, but you absolutely don't have to worry about your looks.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "You are super cute with a touch of sexyness! If I were to meet you on the street I would try to think up a lame excuse to talk to you and then try to get your number... dating material!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I see what you're trying to do, but I don't know that something like this is easily done, or even possible. The choosing of those products are pretty subjective. People love their razors/brushes for pretty specific personal reasons. Something like a graphics card - it's pretty simple to do some benchmarks and say which one is better. For DE shaving, it's really hard. Which is why we have this nice and populated community - to talk about all those comparisons/experiences/etc. \n\nps. My razor is overkill? haha.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "you should change this to a budget guide like builapc. it might suit this better, as everyone has there own preferences.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think you might be reading too much into things. As soon as he joined the Nights Watch, it had to be expected that he will no longer make any decisions for himself.\n\nIt's like joining the army. You take orders now, you don't make orders.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I don't want to be that guy but there is no spoiler tag on this thread. That said it could have something to do with him descending from very lofty houses.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "One thing that really annoyed me in the first season was when Jon was selected to serve as a steward with so little 'action' on his part. In the books you got to see a bit more of Jons actions - you could see him proving himself, so when Sam says \"He wants to groom you\" - it made sense. In the show Jon was kind of whiny, spent 3 minutes not being a douche and Sam was all like \"He wants to groooooom you\", and it just seemed silly to me.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Avoiding Disaster:\n\nDon't push yourself too far with the DIY attitude, especially with plumbing or electricity. Hire a pro if you're not confident or comfortable.\n\nGet a battery backup for your sump pump. \n\nMake sure your smoke and carbon monoxide alarms are in good working order. \n\nMake sure you change your locks and garage door codes/frequencies. \n\nUpgrades: \n\nNice toilets, totally worth it. \n\nCeiling fans, totally worth it. \n\n\n\n\n\n", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Think \"TOP - DOWN\" and \"OUTISDE -IN\".\n\nThere is no point in painting a ceiling if your roof is leaking. No point getting a new efficient furnace if you have a bunch of drafty doors.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Make sure you both know where the breaker box and (more importantly) where the water shut-off valve is. ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Plant little trees This Year. Lots of them, where you will love them in 5-10+ years.\n\nPut occasional maintenance on a calendar so you can recall:\n\nIt's time to change the furnace filter (every 6 months)\netc\n", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Landscaping is the best way to increase your home's value.\n\nI'd draw up a plan for how you'd like the yard to look in 10 years and get started.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "First, make sure to winterize your home. Do this right away while the weather is good -- plenty of guides online for this. If you're in a snowy area, make sure you have a long pole to prevent ice dams on your roof. Plan ahead for where you're going to toss snow you clear, you don't want melt running against your foundation/basement.\n\nWhile your at it, many power companies in the US (dunno about Canada) will do a free energy audit. Get one. Make the recommended fixes. Will save you money in the long run.\n\nSet aside cash each month specifically for home repairs. When something goes wrong, you want to be able to fix it right away. Goal should be at least a grand, a few grand if you can afford it (can't afford not to, really).\n\nPlanning on having kids in this house? Don't make any upgrades without considering the impact the kids will have.\n\nEx. 1: Carpeting -- don't replace it now, wait until the kids are older. Ditto for hardwood floors, unless you plan on having them refinished when you eventually want to move.\n\nEx. 2: Furniture -- don't buy glass-top coffee or end tables if you will be having young kids. Try to avoid pieces with sharp corners.\n\nEx. 3: Electronics/media cases -- make sure your entertainment center can easily have child locks put on it, ditto for your media storage (CDs, DVDs, etc). Bookshelves just won't cut it -- your shit *will* get scratched up.\n\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Whenever you find a problem, fix it as soon as you can afford to. I build and renovate houses for a living, and I can state with confidence that over a 10 year period, you will realize a 1000% return on your investment...easily!!!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Great post, great attitude. There are a lot of people on this sub who wish more than anything that they quit at 24. Or in their 20's, or in their 30's. \n\nMyself included.\n\nSo if you ever feel the urge to smoke again think of us 10-20 year smokers and imagine how shitty it would be to join us. \n\n**So don't.** Like you said, shut the door and take your life back.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "tl;dr the perfect word of god needs to be interpreted. Except for the parts you take literally. Which aren't to be confused with the parts you don't take literally. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "> Here's why you shouldn't disregard religious texts altogether: the literal things in texts should be taken as symbols for something, not literally\n\nFor instance, we should take God as a symbol for the things that humans don't yet understand. We should take all rule-based literal things as more like primitive social rules. They don't matter in this day and age. They're not literal, after all.\n\nWhen you allow interpretation to take over some portions of the text, you allow *all* portions to be interpreted, including being interpreted into oblivion.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "We all understand the concept of parable and allegory. The problem is that religious texts **are** taken as literal truth by some, because there is often no indicator of which parts are supposed to be read as allegory, and which parts are intended to be literal truth, and so people pick and choose the parts they want to believe, and then use circular reasoning to claim that their beliefs are in line with the will of the divine.\n\nWhere you see a lesson to not let worrying about the past prevent you from moving forward, many people see that as a **literal** example of how God will visit his wrath on those who disobey him. And the only thing that causes you to believe differently than them is your upbringing and some common sense.\n\nMeanwhile, there are plenty of secular texts out there that you can analyze for the same life lessons, but which **no one** will take as literal truth.\n\n>bash the people that . . . Are brain-washed into believing it literally!\n\nSo you take *none* of the Torah literally, then? For example, you think that Moses was never presented with the Ten Commandments and never led his people out of bondage?\n\nI suspect that there are parts that you *do* take literally. You just think that those are the parts that are *supposed* to be taken literally, and disagree with those who take *different* parts literally. In my eyes, that makes you pretty much the same as them.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "> I don't believe in all of the \"all-knowing-being\" and \"Adam and Eve\" stuff, but sure... if you do something bad/evil, life will get you back.\n\nIn other words your threshold is against obvious nonsense, but nonsense that you can easily test for yourself is still beyond your reach.\n\n> Now WHERE in there did you see something fake?\n\nA woman was turned to salt. And yet nobody around her died from the intense radiation required for the immense amount of fusion reactions required to do that.\n\n> My own RABBI didn't believe that the story actually happened... woman turning to salt? Nobody believes that. (I was in a conservative synagogue, by the way). What we got out of that passage was ...\n\nNo, see, if the woman didn't really turn into salt, then the premise of the story is garbage. That means the so called lessons are garbage as well. There are plenty of better stories to learn from that don't involve telling us garbage.\n\n> Guys... most people have common sense! \n\nUtter garbage. Throughout my lifetime I have seen polls showing the majority of people believing in extra terrestrials having visited earth, the majority of people disbelieving the theory of evolution, and the majority of people skeptical of global warming. My country also re-elected George W. Bush after they saw what he did in the first term. Most people (in my country) do *NOT* have common sense. That is a certainty.\n\n> I know that in Judaism, people are encouraged to be skeptical\n\nI have heard this, but the only ones who take that seriously, as far as I have ever seen are the ones that become atheist. A non-trivial amount, but I strongly suspect that's more because of the weakness of the religion rather than the strength of people's minds.\n\n> I haven't met a single non-orthodox rabbi that believes in the Torah literally.\n\nNice definitional cop out. And so what of the orthodox rabbis? Are you saying that they don't exist? \n\n> So don't bash religion... \n\nFuck you, don't tell me what to do. I will bash religion incessantly, relentlessly and without caveat, thank you very much.\n\n> bash the people that\n\nNo you fucking asshole! *PEOPLE* who believe this shit are *VICTIMS*. You don't bash the people, you bash the belief.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Hugs!\n\nMy little man is 8 weeks too, and it's exhausting and sometimes I wonder why I chose to do this to myself. I just try to remember that it should get easier from here. We don't have 18 years of this. Not every baby is easy and not everyone has to love the newborn stage - it really helped to read that other new moms feeling tired and weighed down sometimes.\n\n\n I also find that it helps so much to get out of the house alone for a half an hour with my music on (or whatever other relaxing thing you want to do) for half an hour each day just to rejuvenate. When I'm stuck alone inside with him I also chuck him in a carrier and go out for a walk, just the change of scene and fresh air usually helps.\n\nMore hugs to you, remember it's normal to have these feelings , don't bottle it up, and if it escalates to depression seek help!!", "score": 4 }, { "body": "8 weeks is an incredibly difficult time. Honestly, the whole first year is really demanding and simply a lot of work. But you won't be this tired, or this busy for 18 years. Hang in there, and breathe deeply. You'll be getting first smiles soon!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "They never said they fixed the HRV glitch, so this is to be expected.\n\nHere is what was fixed: \"- An issue where manually exiting HRV would cause the HRV meter to drain and prevent you from entering ADS\"\n\nThe HRV glitch where you mysteriously lose the ability to HRV was never fixed.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "They fixed the hrv-losing-charge-even-without-using-it and the fuck-I-cant-use-my-sights-must-spray-damn-Im-dead one... servers are still lagging a bit, and the main hrv glitch is still there.\n\nAt least now is playable.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "* cloudynights.com \n* astronomyforum.net\n* stargazerslounge.com\n\nI like all three, honestly. The last one leans more heavily towards the UK; first two are more US-based folks, but they all have people from all over.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "With a low cost radio, battery power, and some wire tossed up in a tree. You can communicate with (most) anyone in the world. No third party involved. I'm not relying on an ISP or a phone carrier and I can, reliably for the most part, transmit text, voice, images by bouncing radio waves off the sky.\n\nI'm not so much for talking, if I'm on the mic, I'm talking to other jokers from Reddit, but I do enjoy some digital modes and I'm really trying to work on my copying skills so I can work CW (morse code) reliably.\n\nI also just enjoy listening... My radio is a very nice receiver so I can listen to shortwave AM from around the world.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I enjoy it because of the technical challenges. using no more power than a nightlight to talk to someone 1000 miles away without using the internet, transatlantic cabling etc. is pretty mindblowing.\n\nAlso designing and building things like Quadrifilar Helix Antennas to decode weather satilite telemetry, or bouncing packet data through the ISS.\n\nJust the sheer fact that radio waves generated by me are bouncing off the freaking ionosphere makes me grin!", "score": 7 }, { "body": "It's VERY individual.\n\nMany like to talk and are into the social aspects. Clubs, contesting and all that.\n\nMe? I like the 'magic' of radio. Taking 'something' - voice, data, pictures - from here and getting it \"over there\" with NOTHING in between. And understanding HOW that information got there - that's the techno-geeky part. The \"Magic\" of RF and propagation.\n\nThe digital revolution, internet and home PCs rather than being an 'end' to Amateur Radio, all serve to expand and provide new opportunities for us to apply our 'RF Wizard\" skills in new ways. Sound card digital modes, SDR, integration with GPS, ALE, 'hinternet', etc, etc.\n\nImagine - saying \"Hello World!\" into your microphone, wait a few seconds and you hear your self. Yup - that signal went all the way around the world \"that a way\" and came back to hit you in the 'back of your head' . Or bounce it off the moon (bit longer delay), or the briefest of flashes left behind by a meteorite, or off the belly of a passing jetliner. Talk with an astronaut on ISS, receive images direct from them. These points are only a few of the 'tips of the variety of icebergs' in Ham Radio.\n\nThe potential interest points are as varied and individual as there are participants and their imaginations.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Weird question if I translste it:\n\nHey, why do like horses? Are they nice? Do you just feed them or do they have other uses?\n\nAnd just in case I like them too, where is a good horse book?\n\nBefore you all want.to downvote me: normally you get exposed by somebody else to horses, knitting, ham radio. Asking out-of-the-blue is interesting.\n\nTo your question: amateur radio is very diverse. Use google, youtube and read some amateur radio blogs to get an idea.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "For getting started, checkout the FAQ thread linked in the side bar.\n\nAnd check out [hamexam.org](http://www.hamexam.org) for study materials.\n\nCheck out the [Amateur Radio Relay League's](http://www.arrl.org/getting-licensed) website for information on getting started (and browse around for other topics that may interest you)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's nice to see a real case mod. The craftsmanship looks top notch. I see nothing wrong except the there is no band or fitting on the second videocard. \n\nXpost or /r/gamingpc.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "Hey very cool build, I love the blue/orange contrast (which I have [toyed with](http://imgur.com/a/0ldrZ) myself in builds). You may want to look into side illuminating LEDs. I can't find any references to them any more since I've only really seen them at radio shack, I know they still exist. It's like a normal LED lens chopped flat with a concave cone cut into the top, more of the light is cast outward.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Great Mod, I'd like to see more of this on buildapc than the standard \"look how much money I have\" builds.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Nice mod of such a simple case (owned a 210 for a little bit). What rads are you running in your loop?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Someone did this a few weeks ago.\n\nhttp://www.reddit.com/r/breakingbad/comments/xrl48/breaking_bad_death_list/\n\n", "score": 13 } ]

[ { "body": "Please please please, something on the east coast and/or some Midwest shows. have not been able to make it to Electric Forest the last two years. I need my cheese fix here on this side of the Mississippi. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I have it on pretty much certain authority they'll be doing NYE at 1st in Broomfield. It's a good venue, get's a large crowd without being too large (it's about 6,000 I believe, a little more than half of red rocks which is about 9,900). \n\nDon't really think there'll be a hulaween this year; they would have to announce it really soon in order for people to plan that. As someone who lives in CO and hit 9 of the 11 west coast shows last month, I'm super stoked for more cheese, I can never get enough.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "that's awesome. you should submit to CustomPC / bit-tech for some coverage. You got skills, and I bet you could be sponsored if you continued....", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "No comment other than 8am on a Saturday I would expect to be the peak of the clusterfuck. Try 5:30 am on a Tuesday for minimal crowd. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Lol... With a few exceptions everyone drops in on everyone at the Bu. There's no law there.\n\nFirst, check for consistent sections at first point. Sometimes waves swing wide or shallow and line up differently and cut most of the pack off. One of the best Bu ive surfed was the very inside part of first point when there was tons of sand early season. Top to bottom chest high drainers with 2 other people on it.\n\nNext check out second point. Sometimes waves swing a little wide between second and first and run a little bit.\n\nThird is usually dog shit now adays.\n\nIf you must surf first... I dunno... be Allen Sarlo. If your not pretty seasoned it might not be worth it.\n\nYou could try surfing at night if there is a bit of swell and the tides not too extreme. But even then you'll be surfing with a few people.\n\nYou can pay to park at the state park east of the street parking. It costs but it's less hassle. The walk through the estuary and you'll end up at third point.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "this isn't terribly helpful but village green is a really great complex. we are paying 642 (water/trash inclusive). plus if you move via my reference i get one hundred ducks. i'll even give you half of them. i'm super nice. this dude on my floor has a nice bike he doesn't even lock up (he might be dumb). shit he might be dumb. anyway it's cool and blue and i'll sell it to you.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "redditor is looking for a roomie....screenname is shhgotosleep. sounds like the beginning of a horror movie :p", "score": 7 } ]

[ { "body": "Here are a few things you can be doing:\n\n1) take all buffs and have constant 2x buffs going and giving blue to mid. This is a HUGE exp boost for you since buffs give a lot of exp.\n\n2) take wraiths as much as possible from both sides. They are easily accessible near midlane so you can \"camp\" it while still farming. \n\n3) punish overextension easier without fear of counter gank\n\n4) take dragons earlier and more frequently to increase global gold.\n\n\nAs the top laner in this position,\n\n1) grab someone with range and mobility. Teemo is the perfect example of a good 1v2 since he is hard to catch and can farm safely. \n\n2) build GP10 or tankier items first rather than, say, a brutalizer. Take advantage of their inability to abuse you as well as your inability to kill them. \n\n3) expect to lose your tower. Ward up the nearby jungle and take the free farm and take wolves/golems\nWhenever you can. \n\n4) focus on survival as you'll out scale them quicker if you're alive", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Cross your fingers and hope you have a decent 1v2 top matchup. Sometimes your top will just be fucked and not be able to do anything 1v2. Let your team know that you will need to focus most of your attention on top before the game actually starts. I wouldn't bother ganking early since it's 2v2, your top will just have to suck it up until he has a decent level advantage. A good timing to try to gank might be when your top hits 6 and his opponents are still 4/5. Also since they have no jungler take their buffs and solo dragon as much as you can.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Just bought it for the hell of it. \n\nThe controls are a bit frustrating but it's definitely true to the original - with some quest-style features.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "I think humanities courses should be required, but there shouldn't be any specific class that's required.", "score": 28 }, { "body": "Yes simply because you need to be and I hate to beat a dead horse, \"well-rounded\". As an engineer you are going to need to write up reports and what not so you do need to know how to correctly write. Also, it helps to keep a sane mind with knowledge about other subjects.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "How one dimensional do you really want to be? You will realize sooner or later (hopefully sooner) that you are part of humanity and culture and art are a shared heritage that makes us human...fully human.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I believe that universities with required courses that don't pertain to the major you're seeking are required so that you have a broader scope of understanding apart from engineering. In other words, those classes are there so that the students graduating are cultured as well as knowledgeable, and not just a bunch of students with their heads up their engineering butts. \n\nBaylor University is similar to your university in that engineering students have to take two semesters of an ancient literature class. I really like the way that UT Austin runs the required curriculum comparatively, because the students can choose what subject they want to take for their humanities from a wide selection of classes. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "They let us pick ours, my problem is that they classify stuff like astrony as too related to my software engineering degree. I think all engineers should take an english test when they arrive, and be put into a writing and presentation course if they bomb. Actually, all students. As for the non-technical electives I consider myself well-rounded so I would rather have taken more technical ones but I see why they are valuable. I wish there was an option to take either technical or non-technical as I think a lot would choose the \"easier\" courses anyway.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "1) You have a fantastic user name for a naval arch.\n\n2) Humanities courses serve a purpose greater than teaching you the subject, they also serve to teach composition, critical thinking, research skills, and a number of other things which end up being helpful for engineers. Plus, sometimes after a ton of classes with numbers, it's nice to use the other side of your brain.\n\n3) If you think 2 courses is a lot of humanities you should look at what some larger engineering schools require.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I've easily spent 50% of my 30-year engineering career writing in some form or another. Most of the most intractable problems I've faced were not technical but sociological, psychological or economic.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Engineers are trained to think \"outside of the box\" but in doing so another box is created. Some really great solutions to real world problems come from people who don't realize what is or isn't possible. By taking humanity courses you should be opening up to to the ideas of people who \"don't know any better\". You should also remember that engineering is a very new field.\n\n >The general feeling is that this requirement is bogus for engineering students. \n\nThis is why people don't like engineers, learning is never bogus. Learning is most excellent.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": " I'm fond of [vegiac.com](http://www.vegiac.com/) -- how about throwing a community list into a FAQ post and linking that in the sidebar?\n\nIs there a broken FAQ link there already? Um...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[The Vegan Stoner](http://theveganstoner.com/) and [The Vegan Zombie](http://theveganzombie.com/).\n\nBoth have delicious recipes that are easy to make!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm going to guess that the vast majority of these personalities you're talking about would rather throw themselves off a bridge than play in such a league.", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "I was in a similar situation you are in. Met an awesome girl, but for a couple months we lived a few hours apart. We would go for a couple days at a time not talking to eachother, or just a brief text here and there. \n\nI was always worried she wasn't interested in me or something like that, but the reality was, she was just a busy girl. Some people are busy and don't feel the need to constantly text or call. Nothing wrong with that. It took some getting used to, but I learned that was just how she was. I remember at several times I considered breaking up with her because I hated the minimal communication. But once we went back to school and saw each other again, it was a great relationship. \n\nIf I had let my own insecurities get to me, I would have missed out on an amazing relationship. I think this girl is into you. She introduced you to her friends, she is willing to go out with you when she is probably exhausted and she has been showing physical interest in you. I wouldn't listen to what eyesoutofsockets said about sex. Just because you two haven't had sex does not mean she isn't interested in you. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I'd just throw in the towel. In my experience \"busy\" is more of a personality type than a temporary condition. If your not a busy person and you're seeking a relationship with a busy person, be prepared to be/feel chronically neglected. Any attempt to slow her down will be construed as you being controlling or needy. Me? i need a girl who knows how to sit down on the couch and veg for a few hours, a few times a week. That busy shit aint for me.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I dunno, man. My husband and I met online, and we lived a 90 minute drive apart and had night-and-day work schedules, and we *still* found time to be with each other (as exhausting as it was--we'd settle in to watch a movie and I'd almost immediately fall asleep). We ended up moving in together rather quickly because of this. If you want something badly enough, you make it work.\n\nHOWEVER:\n\n>She basically works 2 full-time jobs during the summer... as well as a very active social life. She will start full-time school locally in September.\n\nSo you've got a month left until she settles into a more palatable routine. All indicators point to \"she's into you\", so I would just hold tight until school starts and see what changes then.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I don't care how busy someone is, it takes less than 10 seconds to send a simple text to say hello, how ya doin. If it takes someone more than a day to text me back and uses the excuse that they were busy, I call BS. I've had extremely busy periods in my life (full time college student working nearly full time, working 80 hour work weeks recently, etc) and I've never been so busy to not find an extra 10 seconds in a day to send/respond to a text. \n\nWhat was her reaction when you brought up the lack of contact? I don't see anything wrong with initiating a bit more contact and see where it goes.\n\nI also don't see anything wrong with asking her about her feelings. Maybe saying something along the lines of \"Can I ask you where you see this going?\" Seems reasonable after half a dozen dates.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Maybe lots of people are friends with their family or friends' little siblings. Some of us still go to school with these people too. Unfortunately, this newer generation is being classified as full of idiots. There are a bunch of non-idiots, like me for example. I'm 13 and entering the 8th grade. I am not a twat like most of the kids my age shown on this subreddit.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "think of it like this. 18 year old senor. 15 year old sophomore. they go to the same party. hit it off. become friends", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm 25 and a few of the girls that post humorous/troubling things on Facebook are the ones I've babysat or are part of the whole \"friends of the family\" type thing... in addition to relatives.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm still not sure if this movie is really incredible or if someone is pushing a viral marketing campaign for it on reddit. I've seen it posted in two different horror reddits at least 6 times in the past week with every post making it seem like it was some obscure movie no one had ever heard of and is the greatest horror movie in ages.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm glad to see someone else enjoyed the film as well. I'm kind of on a found footage high right now, I love the stuff. Given you don't see many really good ones. But for a found footage anthology I thought V/H/S was pretty scary and I really liked it. Although I don't feel it's the best anthology or found footage film out there, I think it did a pretty damn good job of combining the two with a film style that appears like a VHS tape, but without being too campy or having shitty CGI. But I think a lot of people like it because it's the combination of both. \n\nI personally really enjoyed the film. I thought it was done well, though there were definitely parts that didn't need to be in there, and given that it's 2 hours could've easily been cut and still had enough time. Most of the mini-stories(which were what I was most interested in anyways) were really creepy. I'm just glad that other people enjoyed it. A lot of the comments I've seen about it refer to it as \"shit\" and \"trash\" which I feel like there are plenty of movies that actually fit that bill, with this not being one of them. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The Jake fart has been done. Would be better if IK farted while being pummeled. Like when Ricardio is stepping on LSP.", "score": 17 }, { "body": "This sounds cool, but I have two problems. 1: You can't burn down the treehouse! that would suck. 2: Ice King can make a new palace with his powers.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I think this idea has too many similarities with the episode where Ice King gets married from Season 1. Uncomfortably helping the ice king and then finding out they didn't really have to, it's just too close.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This is actually a pretty legitimate idea. I can totally see it happening, plus I would love to watch an episode where Fp has more lines than she did in \"Burning Low\". ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm not an expert or anything, but I feel like this idea that their is an Extremist Islamic group gaining power right now is simply propaganda. Sure, the President of Egypt is from the Muslim Brotherhood, but he doesn't really have complete power or anything. From my understanding, the only reason that he won was because the uneducated Muslims there all voted for him, while intellectuals split their vote among many candidates. I think we still have to wait for the dust to settle before we know what direction that region is going.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "None of this is really a surprise or a new trend. The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt played, IMO, a substantial part in keeping Mubarak in power: if there was ever any Western pressure to liberalize, he'd point out that free elections would mean the Muslim Brotherhood would get a lot more power in a geopolitically crucial country. Although banned under the regime, it was the only opposition power with any real organization, which gave it an enormous head start when the regime tumbled. As others have pointed out, the Brotherhood got a minority of votes, but it was the largest minority by far.\n\nThe autocratic governments in the region are relics of secular, nationalist movements from the middle of the 20th century. They seized power and have repressed dissent. I'm sure the fervor and flavor of the Islamists in all these countries has changed in that time, but rest assured it's always been there.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Al-Qaeda/any-Islam-jihadist-movement will seek to take advantage of instability in the region so the fact that they are fighting against the regimes that have long suppressed religious expression in government isn't a surprise. You have to remember these are very recent uprisings, and especially in countries such as Egypt the Islamists in power will gradually impose their desired reforms; if they were to all of a sudden pass strict Sharia law within several weeks of taking power, there would be another revolt. The key will be in 5 years down the road, when Islamist regimes will (likely) be the new dominant political force in the region and then seeing what their actions are. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "As The Economist pointed out during the Egpytian Presidential elections, the Islamists gain a lot of political currency from their status as politically suppressed actors. When they are folded into the democratic government, as is the case in Turkey, their cause becomes less exciting and people judge their worthiness to govern on more mundane things, like the ability to keep garbage collection going.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Yes, there seem to be some infiltration by al qaeda to establish a muslim-state. However, the governments that have been elected after the revolutions have mostly been moderately muslim.\n\nHorribly misspelled 'establish', sorry; When it's late my English goes weird.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Agreeing to mediation and then having the mediator be so biased in favor of your ex wife leaves you with little recourse. Make sure you get ALL of your evidence introduced and on the record. That is critical because in the case of an adverse ruling you have to have everything present and set up for an appeal. Get everything in that list in terms of statements from the people at your kid's school, and their summer camp admitted into evidence. \n\nThe best you can do is present your mountain of evidence, and hope the judge comes to the correct decision. Either that or convince the mediator that you should have full custody. If the judge comes to the opposite decision, appeal. You have a deck stacked against you, good luck. \n\nAlso, if you can get some evidence of her drug use, any evidence, it would be good for you. ", "score": 17 }, { "body": "I'm still not able to fathom how a MEDIATOR dealing with a case of divorce and child custody would strike a drug test of one of the parents, especially if they have so many apparent problems. Are the courts not aware of her drug abuse, or are you unable to bring up the subject? If I was making your case the drug abuse would probably be my strongest argument against her, because let's face it: she has given up as a responsible and able mother by using any sort of substance and claiming she needs child support. I will consider this a staggering affront to the law if she comes away with anything but the memory of the children whose lives she is ruining.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Post text automatically copied [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/MRSelfPostCopies/comments/y7wgi/copy_exwife_is_a_dirt_bag_and_neglect_our_kids/). ([Why?](http://www.reddit.com/r/MRSelfPostCopies/comments/q8y0u/meta_faq/)) ([Report a problem.](http://www.reddit.com/message/compose?to=%2Fr%2FMRSelfPostCopies))\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "**I'm experiencing something relatively similar right now. I can't really tell you much beyond speculation about a mindset like your Dad's, but I can tell you how someone like you has dealt with this. If you're not interested, then kindly disregard the story. I have some advice for you in the bullet points at the end.**\n\nI'd like to tell you my story so that we have a good understanding about each other's tragedies. Last summer, I came home from work to see my dad's car still home. He works night work, so I was immediately confused. I went inside and my Mom came downstairs. In a relatively neutral tone, she said to me, \"Something's going on with your Dad and money. He's telling me he's $60,000 in debt, and he's going to need to borrow money from you.\" Then I had to wait downstairs for two hours while my Dad was on the computer dealing with debt relief agencies. He came down and started eating dinner. I asked him \"What the fuck?\" He just looked at me and said, \"I've had problems with money, and it finally all caught up to me.\" Mom came into the room at this point. I asked my Dad, \"Well, where did it all go?\" My Mom interrupts and blurts out, \"He won't tell me.\" My Dad then tells me that he needs $1800 or they're going to repossess my Mom's car, which I gave to him. I asked a few more questions, but got relatively nowhere other than \"the debt has been racking up for about eight years\" and \"it doesn't have to do with drugs, gambling, drinking, or infidelity.\" My grandfather got involved, and my parents wound up taking a second mortgage out on their house (57 and 53 years old at the time). I (wrongly) assumed that was it for the time being.\n\nAround Christmas, my Dad asked if he could put some money into my bank account and use my Paypal for Christmas shopping. My parents share all finances, so I figured he was just trying to keep my Mom's gifts a secret from her. Then, a month or two later, I notice these odd transactions in my account: -$139.00 here, -$210.00 here. I confront my Dad, and he tells me that the money he had deposited around Christmas was from a loan, and these were the payments going back out. He always replenished my account or paid me back right away, so it was never an issue. Then these withdrawals started happening more frequently. Then big sums of money started coming out. Then my account got overdrawn. At that point, I decided to open a new bank account and have my name withdrawn from that account. I asked my Dad what the fuck was going on, but he kept the same line as before. I did a bit of digging and found out that all of these withdraws were from Payday loan services. I tell my Dad he's on his own with this, and I assume this is the end.\n\nNot so.\n\nI stopped home one Sunday on my way to a party (as I no longer live there), and my Mom asked if I was coming any time in the future. I said I could probably manage a trip, but then asked why. She told me, \"There's something I'd like to talk to you about.\" I told that I was going to drive myself insane with worry if she didn't tell me, so she blurts out \"Your Dad and I are going to be separating.\" Apparently, my Dad withdrew a chunk of money from their shared checking account, money they were going to use while on summer vacation. She asked him what he spent it on and he just said, \"Food.\" He refused to budge any further. Mind you, my father is sitting on the couch at this point just watching television and is completely aware of this conversation. I asked him what the fuck was going on, and he went back to the old \"I'm just bad with money.\" I blew a fuse and just walked out of there. I ask my Mom what's going on between them whenever we talk, and it's always the same: \"We're OK. I can't really trust your Dad, but I'm 54. I can't start over now.\" My father, her husband of 31 years, hid $60,000+ in debt from her and won't tell her what that money has been spent on. \n\nI'm very well aware of how much money my parents make, and they are absolutely not living outside their means. They only buy a new car every 12 or 13 years, only eat out once a week, and go on two vacations per year, one of which is to my grandparents' mountain house, which is free of charge. They spend less than $100 a week on groceries. They do go shopping every week, but it's mostly just window shopping. My parents are both very good discount/coupon/sale shoppers. That $60,000+ went somewhere, and it certainly wasn't in my parents' house.\n\nMy faith in my Dad is absolutely shattered. I still have the login info for the old account's online management tool, and, as of writing, it's overdrawn for $1200. My Dad, through admission of almost everyone that knows him, is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. He's not the brightest guy, but he's incredibly kind and caring. He was, for my upbringing, a family man. He worked long night hours so that my parents could save by not needing to put me in any sort of day care. And he threw that all away for bullshit. And the worst part is that he won't even admit to his mistake. My Mom said originally that she'd be willing to work with him if he'd come clean (if the money was spent on gambling/booze/drugs), but he won't. At this point, he's fucked either way. She has lost all faith in him. Even if this debt turns out to be something stupid like gambling debt, he's lost my mother. If it's something worse, well he's fucked there too. He traded in his family for $60,000+, and, so far as I can tell, he has nothing to show for it.\n\nMy Mom has recently been keeping me at arm's length about the whole family. I've reached out frequently, but I always get short, ambiguous responses. \n\nThe best things I can tell you:\n\n- Let your mother be the one who decides how she feels.\n\n- Don't give unwarranted opinions. I'm sure you're angry, but just think about how your mother feels. Again, let her lead her. \n\n- Do assure your mother that this is not her fault and that shouldn't feel stupid, if anything, just taken advantage of. If your Dad hid this and revealed it \"unprovoked\" then that probably means he's been very clever about hiding it. \n\n- Your Dad was probably lying for one of these reasons: pride, stupidity, or shame. Being a good dad and being a good husband absolutely have overlap. If you fail at one, you're going to fail at the other. Pardon my bluntness, but your father seems to have failed at both. As a role model, he's absolutely let you kids down. As a husband, he's absolutely failed his partner in the most devastating way possible. \n\n- Try and act as a buffer between your siblings and your Mom. Your 19-year-old siblings should have some wits about him/her, so direct contact with your mother regarding the situation isn't a bad idea, but I would be cautious about your 14-year-old sibling. Certainly, it's important that his/her questions are answered, but be a filter for your Mom. Make sure she's not being asked anything that she doesn't want to be asked. \n\n- If your mother has any family (siblings/parents), then try to be their buffer too. They're naturally going to gather their pitchforks and torches when it comes to your father, and, again, it's important that your mother be in charge of dealing with how she and her family deal with this man.\n\n**MOST IMPORTANTLY...**\n\n- And this is the thing that I've been telling myself: I am not my father. Certainly, my Dad taught me plenty of valuable lessons, but it's obvious to me now that I can only take them with a grain of salt. This is your (and by extension your siblings') chance to prove your independence. ", "score": 113 }, { "body": "My father had been leading a double life for about 25 years. Mostly infidelity, but it wasn't just that. In January 2010, my older brother figured out my father's computer password. He was just trying to find old tax returns to help my little sister fill out financial aid applications, but instead, he found gigabytes of evidence (not counting porn) that my father was a disgusting piece of shit liar.\n\nI'd been suspecting that he was hiding things from us, because he never had any money despite having a 6 digit salary. In the very beginning, I hoped he would fess up and truly try to change. But after a few months of what seemed to be no progress, I abandoned hope. My siblings had mixed feelings, and I think my mom still mulls over it in her head every day, but I think we've all come to the conclusion that he is incapable of changing.\n\nI think his issues stem from a childish desire to just take whatever he wants, whenever he wants, without considering their consequences. He is also one of those people with delusions of grandeur, so when he doesn't get what he wants, his self-esteem is damaged and he needs to do something to make himself feel better. It is a pathetic cycle of delusion, failure, disappointment, and reactionary behavior. He comes up with justifications for his bad behavior, at least when he is forced to talk about it. If he could go back in time, I am sure he would have only been more careful about how he covered his tracks. He would not have behaved any better. The worst part of it to him is that people have found out, and those people can now judge him for his actions (which damages his precious self-esteem).\n\n**I guess what I am trying to say to you is: a person does not do this for 23 years and then somehow \"get better\".** It took me many months to experience the grief of \"losing my father\", but I've come to terms with it. Maybe your father is somehow different. But the best I can do in my situation is learn from my father's mistakes, and move on with my life.\n\nHere is an open letter that I wrote to him in September 2010, about 8 months after the discovery, which contains some details of the things he did: [http://openletterstomyfather.blogspot.com/](http://openletterstomyfather.blogspot.com/)\nSince he was terrified of more people finding out about his secrets, and since I knew that hiding was certainly not helping him, I made this letter public (to family and friends) for a brief while. I hoped that it would help in some way, and I think that it did, but it wasn't enough to change who he is.\n\nA bit of a followup on him: he remarried about 1 month after the divorce went through and moved thousands of miles away to be with his new wife, a person who is tremendously different from him as far as values / religion / politics go (well, how would I even know, I don't think I ever knew him). He has called me one time since he moved, yet maintains that he loves his children. I don't think he ever did.", "score": 41 }, { "body": "As far as this gets you; my ex was a terrible husband and he's a wonderful father. He always neglected me, even after making it very clear that I wasn't happy he made NO effort to improve things until I was already done trying and crying. Now we co-parent. (50/50 custody) and while I don't always agree with him (kool-aid and candy) he really is a wonderful father. He's much more devoted to our son than he ever was to me. ", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Perhaps I can offer you some perspective. I am your father in 15 years. I'm married with kids, and I regularly sleep with other women. Have a date tonight, actually.\n\nFirst, you don't know what the intimacy was like between your father and mother. You said she's pretty and fit, but that means nothing. My wife is beautiful but I rarely get to be intimate with her, and in the few times I do, half of those she's basically just waiting for me to finish so she can sleep/get on with her day. I had to ask myself if a lack of sex was reason enough to break up my family and ask for a divorce. The answer was a resounding no, but that did nothing for my sexual frustration, so I cheat. But I don't know what the relationship between your parents is like, so I don't know if that's a factor or not.\n\nAnother thing is that - and you probably aren't aware of this - but there is a very subtle dynamic that can exist between men and women, where a man gets validation by having a woman accept him sexually. This isn't present in all men, but I've noticed its a common thread among guys who used to be the Forever Alone type, always lots of girl friends but never a girlfriend. Because emotional friendships with women came so easily to us, we came to value sexual ones because these were the ones that took some work. After all, as women themselves will say \"I won't have sex with just any guy, he has to be special.\"\n\nHaving your wife accept you sexually is nice, but at some point it gets taken for granted. As if its just a natural part of the equation. So we start to miss that feeling of validation - that some woman finds us sexy on some level, and is willing to have sex with us. Even now, when I hook up with a new woman there is a certain thrill, a sense of accomplishment. That feeling of validation. This is a feeling I simply just can't get from my wife, even if she were more interested in sex and we were having it multiple times a week. I have known a lot of guys who get sort of addicted to that feeling, and sleep around for no other reason than that.\n\nI love my wife and family, I really do. A lot of people have told me that I should come clean to my wife. At one point I considered it. I do want to be honest with her. But I also know that if I were to tell her about my extramarital activities, it would crush her. I can logically explain it all to her, but none of that will matter. It's simply better that she doesn't know. Ten years from now will guilt or something catch up to me and prompt me to confess like your father did? I don't know. Right now I would say no but I have no idea what I will be like in 10 years.\n\nRight now the only thing I can suggest you do is to not hate your father. You wanted perspective from someone like him, and here it is. I don't know him so I can't say how much of my situation applies to him, but feel free to ask me anything else.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Your mom's intuition about being concerned for depression and suicidal may still be spot on. Clinically depressed people will exhibit self-destructive tendencies. His may have manifested in sleeping with questionable women, or even very upright women in a subconscious effort to subvert his family life. His finally coming clean could indicate he is hitting rock bottom. I know you feel betrayed, and you and your family have been, but stuck with him until he gets some counseling and therapy. If it turns out he is an uncaring asshole, so be it. But I have a feeling there is much more to his story. ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Wow, really sorry your life has been turned upside down like this.\n\nIt seems to be a common theme in families where children feel like they've been upholding standards that their parents expected of them and the parents themselves don't reciprocate.\n\nI experienced a crisis of similar emotional impact in my family but not quite the same kind of behaviors so I don't think you'd identify with me if I told my story.\n\nI had a lot of intrusive thoughts about my parents and family during the crisis periods. It was really hard to be a functional person with the weight of my family life on my shoulders. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I'm just curious on why would he admit it all in one weekend. I know that it's not relevant, but was wondering about it.\n\nSome times there is not a reason, or the initial reason is mundane. I doesn't change the fact. And it also doesn't change the value of the teachings. The strong moral compass he taught you can still be valid. Is just that he happened not to follow it.\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Your father might have a sex addiction. Your father might not find your mother attractive anymore. Your father may just love the rush of it. But, realize that THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HOW HE FEELS ABOUT YOU. Sorry for shouting, but you just needed to know that. I spent a very long time being very angry with my mother for cheating on my father as much as she did, and while it breaks my heart I know she did not to do it to me, or to hurt me, and it was not about me. It was about her, and her problems, and her problems in her relationship. Your father being with other women does not mean he loves you any less. I know in this case you want to be on your mom's side, and you should be supportive, but please do not cut your father off. If your relationship but to this point has been good, please try to keep some sort of relationship with him. Divorce is not the child's fault or a reflection of them, and neither is cheating. \n\nGood luck to you and your family. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Check this out, OP:\n\n1. My mom cheated on my dad. I'm the son of that affair. \n2. My dad cheated on my mom (and eventually left her).\n\nHere's my perspective:\n\nI care about both of them. I value their happiness. But I honestly don't feel a need to judge either of them. They're both human. They fucked up a lot. I don't hold grudges.\n \nAre you capable of just putting down the burden of judgement here? It really is that simple. Just decide not to hold their personality flaws/mistakes against them.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "> My dad has been living a double life for 23 years and \"unprompted\" admitted this weekend. Need serial cheater/liar insight? \n\nEveryone's a victim. Sad but true. Do not hate anyone. Life is life.\n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "*\"What's your favorite pony? Mines is Pinkie Pie\"*\n\nFucking disgusting. Everyone knows it's Trixie. Bronies like this are what's ruining our fandom.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Asked by my little brother who is reluctant to give MLP a try:\n\n\"Why do you watch such a gay show? Only gay people watch that show.\"\n\n(I don't hate gays just so you know)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "*\"oh so you fap to r34 ponies? disgusting.\"*\n\nApperantly everyone clops around here. Why, stereotypes, why?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Lazer said the settlements are pre-built into the map, and that they will degrade only when not fed resources i.e. when no one is there. It would be cool if the player storage was an ender chest. And apparently, there will be Tstificates in a finished settlement (thats what the screenshot showed). So now I can't wait for 1.4, Zombie Villagers FTW.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "1. No.\n\n2. Maybe\n\n3. Yes, because the world is persistent and goes on even if you step away. Nothing wrong with losing the settlement to someone else while you take a vacation.\n\n4. Maybe\n\n5. They will be preset on the map.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The Main Monkey Business & Malignant Narcissism remain as two of my all-time favorite Rush instrumental songs. I was hoping for more instrumentals in the CA album :(", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I really like the whole album. It is markedly darker than the rest of their catalog which is why I think it generally gets a bad reception. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I never really cared for it from the start. I bought it, gave it 4-5 tries start to finish, and shelved it never to be picked up again.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The Larger Bowl remains to be one of my top 5 favorite Rush songs. I haven't talked to anybody else who seems to like it the same way I do. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Great, solid album. Obviously not a classic but still way better than the output of a heck of a lot of groups aged in their 50s!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I really like it. The album is far from my top albums of all time, but still.\nI like it partly for Peart's anti-religious stance.\nAnd it's got some good songs that hold their own today.\nSpindrift, The Way The Wind Blow, Faithless, We Hold On, Working Them Angels, Far Cry, Armor And Sword. Not a bad tune among them. Not to mention the instrumentals.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I didn't care for it for the first 10-12 times through, except for the Main Money Business. Five years later it is one of my favorites, and one of maybe just 4 or 5 albums I can listen to from cover to cover. I can't believe I ever disliked it, and TMMB is absolutely underrated IMO.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "While I'm used to seeing such flippant rape references on the rest of reddit, this caught me quite off guard. I don't like it. Just my opinion. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Well, it's been a fad to submit submissions without any content to them. Like 'OMG SPAM EMOTESSSSSSS' or 'let's talk even though there are plenty of chat submissions active right now.\n\nSome people upset about this, so drama.", "score": 11 }, { "body": ">the Plounge is a bit of an exclusive community.\n\nThis gets repeated so many times, every month, week, day. Sure, the Plounge has regular users who are known, and have posted and commented since the beginning. However, it is not *nearly* as exclusive, or hard to get into as anyone has ever claimed. A huge portion of the people here don't understand the inside jokes to begin with, yet they respond and dive right in. I have been here for a long time, and know pretty much everyone, even the infrequent. Within the last two months alone there has been a huge influx of new regulars, as well as new infrequent posters. The tides have shifted as they always do. There is no special way to get in other than post. No one is missing out on streams, or special clubs; absolutely everything is available to everyone. Want to watch a stream? Join it. Simple as that. Want to become known? Post. Simple as that. Ya wanna talk to other Ploungers without posting? Join the steam chat, or look for a Skype group. \n\nEven with all these things, you don't have to participate in anything but the posting. I never go to streams, nor do I speak to people through steam. But I post. Not nearly as much as I used to, but I jumped into it, as all the \"regulars\" have before. \n\nI understand the meaning of the post, and this rant is on the borders of irrelevant to it. However it's aggravating to see people complain about not being included, or not knowing how to join in the fun. No one \"knows\", they just post. Post, post, post, post. The worst that can happen is you get a downvote every so often, which is meaningless. If you are on this sub, you know about as much as everyone else does, the only things missed out on are deleted threads, or individual private chats which are rare to begin with.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "[](/ppshrug) Disagreements and the like, seems like there has been an influx of how shall I say, content less and/or context-less posts, which led to some people parodying these posts in a short span by making multiple purposefully contentless/contextless posts. \n\nI really wouldn't call it drama, I mean it wasn't an attack against any single user or anything, and I mean this is the internet, if you sense 'drama' it's as easy as pressing that red X or just scrolling past.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "[](/ppshrug) You stop the orgy and people suddenly want to leave. It's insanity. \n\n[](/sbbook) Really though, just ignore it. I'm completely confused as well. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This is my approach too, although i don't understand the \"using it in the macro\" part.\n\nI look into game development history to try to find the path of incremental game development.\n\nhttp://i.imgur.com/ov8Nv.png\n\nBeginnings (1960-1980):\n\n- Pong (1967)\n- Break out (1976)\n- Snake (1976)\n- Space Invaders (1978)\n- Asteroids (1979)\n\nGolden Age (1980-1990):\n\n- Pac Man (1980)\n- Frogger (1981)\n- Donkey Kong (1981)\n- Mario (1983)\n- Castelvania (1986)\n- Prince of Persia (1989)\n- Pole Position (1982)\n- Elite (1984)\n- Gradius (1985)\n- Karateka (1984)\n- Golden Axe (1988)\n- Tetris (1984)\n- Gauntlet (1985)\n- Zelda (1986)\n- Dragon Quest (1986)\n- IQ+ (1987)\n- Maniac Mansion (1987)\n- Double Dragon (1987)\n- Populous (1989)\n- Final Fight (1989)\n\nAge of mastery (1990-2012):\n\n- Another World (1991)\n- Sonic (1991)\n- Streets of Rage (1991)\n- Alone in the Dark (1992)\n- Dune II (1992)\n- Wolfenstein 3D (1992)\n- Doom (1993)\n- Harvest Moon (1996)\n- Fallout (1997)\n- Bejeweld (2001)\n\n\nEdit: Spelling and some order\n\nEdit 2: removed duplicate Golgend Axe entry", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Here's a [list of games](http://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/sob61/list_of_49_simple_games_easy_to_clone_for_the/c4fugre) to program in order of difficulty. I followed it briefly, then started making my own games (also as a one-man hobbyist like yourself).\n\nI use java and jme3 (3d engine) extensively. Tried some blender tutorials for a bit, but haven't used that knowledge yet. I've studied game-specific design patterns, programming best practices, AI algorithms, etc. Personally it helps to focus on whatever you're into at the moment; if I feel constrained or non-motivated, I move on to other aspect of the game.\n\nGeneral advice:\n\n* Check out the sidebar on the right. It has a lot of resources to help get you started.\n\n* While everything can be done through computers, it helps to purchase a book once in awhile.\n\n* It's surprising how much info is out there if you just search for it. But a lot of the time, you just don't know what you don't know. (That's where the books come in!)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "If you're going to go the flash route would recommend trying the [Starling Framework](http://gamua.com/starling/). You can use it with box2d or Nape as a physics engine and there's a decent amount of info out there for it plus some good tutorials on their website. [GoToAndLearn.com](http://www.gotoandlearn.com/) has a bunch as well.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I watched some video series on video games history, it gives an interesting insight on some actors of the game development industry and on the evolution of games.\n\n- All Your History Are Belong To Us by Machinima:\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/show/allyourhistory\n\n- GDC 11 Classic Game Postmortems\n\n1. Pac Man – Toru Iwatani - 1980\n\n1. Pitfall! – David Crane - 1982\n\n1. Elite - David Braben - 1984\n\n1. Raid on Bungeling Bay – Will Wright - 1984\n\n1. Marble Madness – Mark Cerny - 1984\n\n1. Maniac Mansion – Ron Gilbert - 1987\n\n1. Populous - Peter Molyneux - 1989\n\n1. Prince of Persia - Jordan Mechner - 1989\n\n1. Another World – Eric Chahi - 1991\n\n1. Doom – John Romero - 1993\n\n1. Bejeweled – Jason Kapalka – 2001\n\nhttp://www.gdcvault.com/free/gdc-11\n\n\n- GDC 12 Classic Game Postmortems\n\n1. Gauntlet - 1985\n\n1. Alone in the Dark - 1992\n\n1. Harvest Moon – 1996\n\n1. Fallout – 1997\n\nhttp://www.gdcvault.com/free/gdc-12\n\n- GameSpot Video Game History Month 2010\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL44F74850A92F2B4E\n\n\n\n- Gamespot Video Game History Month 2011\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6DD46AAC2431CACE\n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'll start. I'm a 20 something IT professional, trying to not be. I'm a recent college grad, with my bachelor's in audio engineering. I've got all kinds of Pro Tools certs. I have a little project space where I record my own stuff, and mix/master other people's stuff. Used to do some tracking, but I had to move back home after school, so my tracking room is kaput. Doing some collaborating via /r/MusicInTheMaking and /r/CollaborationHub while waiting for round 3.\n\nUsed to be in a band, where I played bass and did some backing vox, in college. We recorded a CD. If you want, you can check it out [here](http://therestthesouthandthewest1.bandcamp.com).\n\nWhat about everyone else?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I'm an almost 18 year old high school student. I played guitar and trumpet up until a few years ago and then picked up producing music a bit over a year ago. Pretty much all of the past year has just been learning how to produce and mix and master, but I still have years more to learn. Along with that I have been learning to play piano. I like this subreddit a lot because it introduces me to people, instruments, and genres that I would never be exposed to otherwise. Also I'm big into \"EDM\", though it has pained me to watch it be slowly killed here in the states. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I'm a 52-yr-old woman who writes/books/designs merch for my band (Jedi Nighties). We're in the process of recording our first album, and have played a bunch of small concerts. I've been playing guitar since I was 12, but didn't play much when my kids were in the house. I have taken a shit-ton of creative writing workshops, so can write lyrics fairly well though I can improve (Neko Case, anyone??) I like rhythmic rock n roll. I've been in a bunch of bands since the eighties, from punk to jazz standards to blues, but my voice is only good for backup now.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I'm an unemployed 38 years old psychologist/psychotherapist, so I got a lot of time in my hands. :)\n\nI started learning piano by myself in 2010 and recently joined a band of friends that play mostly rock from the 80's. They have no intentions of becoming a serious project. We play all Fridays to unwind from the weekly stress.\n\nIn the long run, I would like to be good at piano playing, do some gigs, collaborate with other musos, maybe play at a piano bar or do something on the line of Richard Cheese. Covers with a swing :)\n\nRegarding musical styles I have a very broad taste, but nowadays I've discovered humorous songs, a thing that is not very popular in Portugal (you know, the cultural thing about Fado). I'm really into Tim Minchin, Steven Lynch, Tom Leherer, Axis of Awesome, the already mentioned Richard Cheese and Amateur Transplants to name a few. If you know any others let me know. That, and jobs. :)\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm 25, have a Bachelors degree in Music (classical) and in a few weeks I move halfway around the world to pursue a Masters degree specialising in vocal pedagogy.\n\nApart from that, I teach kids to sing in an after school club and also a local youth choir. Also been learning piano for 6 months, and was in a band playing synth and singing back-up up until recently.\n\nThings like SongWars and the band are good for me because they're a break from the classical style, and it stops singing feeling like 'work'.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm in my mid-30s, and my work is a mix of admin, event planning, data entry and graphic design. I'm a long-time karaoke addict, and I've recently discovered jazz jams and full-band open mics. When I'm not trying to find places that will let me sing, I enjoy rock-climbing, sewing/ costuming and other arts and crafts.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "> She also says her parents want me to be more successful before they will accept me (I make 6 figures but she's a doctor).\n\nWho wants to be accepted by parents like this anyway? Seriously?\n\n> All of Reddit, my close friends, parents, and psychiatrist all think I should break up.\n\nFTFY", "score": 4 }, { "body": ">gf has promised to try hard to make things better.\n\nThat's nice.\n\n>Nothing has changed\n\nOh. \n\nSorry, OP, it's probably not going to change. At least, not to the extent that you want it to. It's greet that she's controlling her anger and all, but unless she starts showing a general interest in you and your interests it's only going to be a matter of time before she slips back into her old ways.\n\n ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "It's been a year, you're still miserable, get out. She can promise all day she'll change, but you've proven she doesn't have to, because you still allow her to walk all over you. You've been together 8 years, she's almost 30 and she still can't stand up to her parents about the relationship? Leave. Really, just go. Find a woman who values you and is willing to respect you. If a group of strangers and those closet to you are all saying to leave, I think you have your answer.\n\nDo something for YOU. Not her. She isn't going to change and you need to stop waiting for her.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Her relationship with her parents is ridiculous and immature. She refusal to meet your parents is scary. You say she making changes...what are they? You just said that not much has changed. \n\nI think you know what you need to do, but you're having a hard time doing it. Good luck.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Yeah. I used to LOVE cheeseburgers even though I hated ground beef, so I switched to boca burgers right out of the gates. Now that I've been vegetarian for 4 years, and since I rarely eat boca burgers, now when I do, I constantly look at it and poke it to make sure they didn't give me beef by mistake since it looks and tastes similar to what I remember it tasting like. \n\nI used to eat them to replace my craving for a cheeseburger but now that I'm more grossed out by meat, I am almost starting to not like them.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Every time I taste faux heavy-processed something I'm amazed how it tastes exactly like something I used to eat, but when I offer it to someone who actually eat the real thing, they cannot recognize the taste at all. Well, at least it works for me ;)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I am not sure how one could sort items. The only sorter I have seen sorts incoming monsters by their behavior (skeletons stand and shoot, creepers sneak to the side, zombies charge in) Items can be floated down flowing water, but the behavior of all items seems to be the same, and the only thing that detects the presence of floating items, a wood pressure plate, always gives the same signal (On or Off) If I am wrong, someone please correct me.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I have an 870 super mag and I had the same issue you have. Turns out, it is just a designation thing. I got mine with the mossy oak hardwoods camo on it(my duck gun, don't judge) so I thought that was it. Did some digging and found out that the 870 express super magnums only say \"870 super magnum\" on the side. Hope this helps.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Go to walmart and get a cheap ass rug to put either beside the hookah or under it. It'll stop the burns from the house and go on the crappy rug instead. Or get a windcover to keep the coals from falling off too much. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I hardly ever say this, but this is something worth being a bitch about. You gotta give him some shit - either do it carefully or let someone else do it. The rug suggestion is a good one, but he's gotta be an adult about this.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I have a friend who keeps his hookah inside a small metal trashcan, so it is harder to knock over. It also has the added bonus of catching the rare coals that do manage to get knocked off.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I usually have the basic rule of 'nobody touches the hookah but me'. Some people are too clumsy. Other tips include 'keep it out of kicking reach', use square coals and finally, stick a tile, carpet or something under the hookah as a last resort to catch errant coals. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "[Charcoal Holder](http://www.socialsmoke.com/Charcoal-Holder-c)\n\nWindcover with MAGNETS\n\n[Hookah home](http://5starhookah.com/Hookah-Home-MSHH.htm)\n\n\n\nOutdoor Rug to set the hookah on", "score": 4 }, { "body": "If he's not adult enough to handle the hookah, then he shouldn't be allowed to do anything but smoke it. I am extremely anal when it comes to my hookah for these reasons, I've had enough people knock it over and lost enough security deposits due to it. \n\nWhat kind of hookah do you have? As long as it's not a tiny pumpkin, you can get a [Hookah Home](http://www.hookahhomes.com/) for it, or a padded skid for it. I bought a cheap rug (as everyone else said) regardless, and I know people who bought a cheap coffee table at Wal-Mart and cut a hole out of the middle of it so that they can place the hookah on the floor and have the bowl protruding through the hole. The hookah won't fall, and at most the coals will fall on the table where they are easily picked up. Also, windscreen.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This might be a good opportunity to dig up that post about repairing carpet that I saw here sometime in the past.\n\nEdit: [Found it](http://www.reddit.com/r/hookah/comments/ox21j/any_suggestions_for_fixing_coal_burns_in_a_carpet/)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Normally, wooden pipes burn a bit when they are used. A layer of char is built up as the pipe is used and this layer protects the rest of the wood from being burnt. That is why when you clean out a pipe, you have to be careful not to scrape too hard - it knocks off the protective layer of char.\nDense wood is better (Like the briars you are talking about), because it burns less volume to create the same layer, but since the embers you are talking about are small, it should not be a huge problem.\nJust make the pipe bore a few millimeters smaller than you want it, and smoke it a few times.\nCheers!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Cherry is used for pipes, as is hard maple, pear, apple, and others. Put no finish on it the inside of the bowl and it will be fine.\n\nWood is protected from the burning contents by charring and buildup of carbon and tar. Briar is not all that much more flame resistant than other woods (it is more resistant, but there are other qualities just as useful that recommend it for pipemaking as well).\n\nUse your cherry in good conscience.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Don't treat the wood. Seriously. Leave the inside of the bowl untreated, and for the outside just stain it (if you want to) and buff it with carnauba wax. What will happen is that as your friend smokes it, it will build up a layer of tar (called a cake) that will protect the wood. With a properly built up cake, the pipe will last years, and if it's really taken care of, it'll last a lifetime. Also, based on the fact that you didn't know about briar beforehand, I'm going to assume you're new to pipemaking and direct you [here](http://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Pipe_Making). ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "In the words of Gandhi, \"be the change you want to see in the world\".\n\nSort by New. Upvote and reply to good older comments.\n\nI feel like I've been seeing a little more life amongst late comments these days. I also think those exchanges are more likely to be friendly and pleasant.", "score": 29 }, { "body": "It's the format of Reddit that doesn't favor it. It is designed to bring up the \"best\" content, not the best discussion. It is a good thing for the frontpage, especially since Reddit is huge, but it cuts the comments into popular chunks and forgotten rest.", "score": 22 }, { "body": "reddit's design is built around constantly bringing new topics to the front, not for sustaining conversations. If you want sustained conversations, you should be using something like a standard forum, where *activity* determines what's at the top, not \"newness\" and popularity.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "> Don't think I really have to explain it.\n\nIt would've been nice. It seems like you're just complaining about how you are sometimes late to threads. You can't expect discussions to go on for 7 hours, unless no one is actually reading what has been said before them.\n\nI'll just say that I have no issue reading and replying to new messages, even if what they replied to is from yesterday.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "yes. reddit has become an evolution sort of, on more classical forumspace. what can happen here is not merely discussion. what does often is. comment permalinks are a bit like bumps, think bestof or srd. internal linking causes all sort of strange events, where something can be put back into new light. it's all much more convoluted, but possibly much greater.\n\nlivedness is both measured and defined differently from space to space and person to person, but the infrastructure here is very powerful. in a beast like askreddit it is amazing. a lot is luck. it moves very fast. small subs can go very slow. but we love that it's all recorded the way it is, how it can be arranged.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If you're looking to save money and you don't already regularly cook from scratch, you should start! :)\n\nGenerally finding non-GM tofu isn't too hard because hippies care about both tofu and GMOs. (That's my theory anyways). I buy mine made locally but one big(ger) brand name is Sunrise Tofu, even their conventional tofu is GMO-free. They do make some prepackaged products as well, like marinated tofu in cubes for stir fry.\n\nIf you want a 'meat substitute' you can make them out of beans and wheat gluten. You can buy powdered wheat gluten in health food stores or online. You can make that into seitan by mixing it with water and seasonings and simmering it for quite some time (an hour or more) but I usually make something like sausages or chickpea cutlets. (see:\nhttp://vegandad.blogspot.ca/2008/03/homemade-sausages.html\nor\nhttp://recipes.sparkpeople.com/recipe-detail.asp?recipe=265436\nfor examples.)\n\nAs another broke student, I'd say higher quality food doesn't always have to require higher spending, unless you've been eating nothing but the cheapest of cheap (ie nothing but ramen noodles). I can get about five meals out of $3 worth of ingredients if I make something like lentil soup (just potato, carrot, onion, garlic, ginger, spices and dried red lentils). I build my meals around legumes (usually purchased dry, often organic, soaked and cooked from scratch- the organic dry is still much cheaper than the conventional canned), whole grains (usually brown rice, occasionally whole grain pasta), and fresh veggies (mostly from a CSA box subscription and farmers markets in the summer). Cheap, simple and good food.\n\nEdit: Also wanted to add that it's a good idea to look up which GM products your country has approved if you're worried about it. Here in Canada it's just canola, soy, corn and sugar beets. Buying organic sugar and tofu/tempeh, cooking with another oil or buying organic, and generally avoiding processed food with lots of refined corn or sugar would eliminate all of those.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Downvotes? Seriously? \nThis was a serious inquiry... \n\nFuck, I didn't realize vegetarians were so rude online.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "It's not just irritating, it's creepy. Yes, men are really obvious about it. \n\nOn the internet, often it's worse. For some odd reason, men just expect that the reason that you are on the internet, seems to be that you are just waiting for some man to pay attention to you. I learned long ago to use the invisible option on yahoo, or random men would just start talking to me and often even asking for cyber or phone sex. \n\nYou don't even have to be all that attractive. Just having a vagina and boobs is often more than enough. They don't even have to be all that attracted to you, either. \n\nYou know all those rumors about chatroulette? They are pretty much all accurate. \n\nI have this completely wonderful male friend, a little older than I am. One day I was complaining to him about having my breast and ass grabbed at my local bar, by some random drunk guy. He said that women were lucky, that women never just groped men. \n\nSo the next time I saw him, out of the clear blue sky I walked by him and suddenly grabbed his crotch. He looked terrified and completely shocked. I just turned to him and said \"not all it's cracked up to be, is it?\" ", "score": 29 }, { "body": "It's usually quite awkward, and honestly irritating. I'd like to be recognized and appreciated for more than my physical qualities/gender.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "When it's online, it seems... pathetic. As well as icky. The ones that would be annoying/irritating/unnerving in real life situations. I mean, you can shut stuff like that down pretty easily on anonymous sites like this one or tumblr, say. On facebook, just block that person - but they know your name etc.\n\nWhat creeps me out a bit is when the dude making the smooth lines and asking questions about me and stuff is claiming 13 or 14, but talking with very adult tones - I'm 22, so in a way, I consider myself a bit safer, but either these are guys thinking I'm easy jailbait or these are kids who are really overly sexualised. :(\n\nAs far as special treatment goes - I've heard guys complaining about how women get served at bars first or get free buses or whatever, but I've never seen any instances and I certainly never get served first. I have a small waist and large chest, but I guess I'm not as pushy as some girls can be at clubs/bars/pubs - I just quietly wait my turn, and hope that the guys who've got their drinks already will fucking move out of the way.\n\n\n\n(Seriously dudes/dudettes, if you have your pints/drinks, go find somewhere else to stand. There's a queue forming.)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Not all ladies get hit on or groped everywhere they go.\nI'm a lady and I've never been aggressively pursued by anyone. I'm sure I've been hit on and had no idea, because I'm terrible at recognizing social cues like that. I'm not saying that I want to be approached all the time, I'm just saying that it never happens to me.\nIn fact, I often get shafted when I try to converse with guys. \nMaybe I'm a hideous monster and no one has filled me in...\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Yes, men are really this obvious about it and sometimes it's very scary. I don't like walking down the street and getting ogled. I've been followed more times than I can count and sometimes it's terrifying. I've also been cornered by three men at once (I ran away, losing my shoes in the process) and have also been groped while window shopping.\n\nAlso women are socially conditioned from an early age to be \"sweet\" and \"innocent\" so standing up for ourselves is frowned upon as it makes us look immediately like bitches. However, I'll stand up for myself and I even carry a knife in my purse if I know I'm going to be out late. I refuse to be a victim.\n\nOne thing I ABSOLUTELY hate is when a man tells me \"Smile! You're much prettier that way!\" when I'm just walking on the street. Not many people I know have a smile on their face as their default \"look,\" so why is it a random dude's right to tell me that I have to smile? I'm sorry, I don't exist for men's boners. I am not your toy and I don't exist to look pretty for you. Get the hell out of my way.\n\nWow, that felt good. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Ok, 1) I see it as a business deal, you want a sexual relationship, she doesn't, compatibility is nixed, time to move on. There's nothing wrong with you discontinuing the friendship.\n\n2) From your other comment here (specifically \"hatefuck\"), honestly it sounds like you're not just sexually infatuated but more that you were attracted to her and her ambiguity towards you pissed you off. It's one thing if both parties are into that kind of thing, but if you're obsessing about that with a chick who doesn't want a romantic/sexual relationship, that's just not healthy. You're mad.\n\nGiven that, I don't think you should be in contact with this woman anymore. If she's bothering you about \"just wanting to be friends\", then just tell her honestly exactly what's going through your head... that you want to hatefuck her. She will very likely back off.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I think if you are honest with her she should be able to respect it. It sounds like the same situation as why couples can't be friends after breaking up. If someone is attached and still wanting more it can be very painful.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Damn totally know what you mean. Hopefully you can stock up again soon. I hate going without, depression becomes pretty much unbearable pretty quickly", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "What exactly do you mean and could you give some examples?\n\n Are you talking about clip show episodes that is basically the characters reminiscing by showing things from previous episodes or are you saying a show like say Battlestar is taking scenes from previous episodes and using them as new scenes ?", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Colors are from local groups/brotherhoods aka \"cofradías\", each cofradía will do one event/procession.\n\nNever thought I would google this... but here are some:\nhttp://semanasantagranada.ideal.es/cofradias.html", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "nice thats a great idea. me and my friends play a game where you pass around a peice of paper. everyone has to write one sentence, and you must fold the paper so you can only see the previously written sentence. So all of the sentences really only relate to the one before it. after you reach the bottom of the page, you read the story, and they are always hilarious. ", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "[Blackalicious - The Fabulous Ones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgOGjbGINDw)\n\n[Binary Star - Reality Check](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__Z4jDgOFTA)\n\n[Binary Star - Honest Expression](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg8xfWqCmc4&feature=related)\n\n[Typical Cats - Any Day](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGzrUjZjgI)\n\n[Typical Cats - Snake Oil](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye9PFytSFXw&feature=related)\n\n[People Under the Stairs - LA Song (Sensitive Mix)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjMIK1PcCc)", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Albums you should pick up: \n\nDr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst\n\nQ-Tip - The Renaissance\n\nBlackalicious - The Craft\n\nJurassic 5 - Power in Numbers\n\nFlying Lotus - Cosmogramma", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Thanks to OP and especially contributors of this thread, haven't found so many great albums at once in a looong time.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "If y'all are still around, I compiled this all to a spotify playlist if you're into that sort of thing: http://open.spotify.com/user/isaacsvensson/playlist/4Kd7GoUg5jQ3NKAl697j0s\nI'm pretty stoked about it, so I hope you enjoy!\nThanks for the seeds. I'll probably post an [update] with the playlist in the top.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This is a very good point. Another thing that is often overlooked is the psychological factor. DRG might be the big dog in SC2, but he was a lowly practice partner for CJ back in BW. Him playing against Effort, who is arguably CJ's ace right now and has been ever since he came back from retirement must have been a very important match to him. The pressure was on him to not lose. Meanwhile, very little people expected Effort to take even one game of him, let alone the series. All the pressure to perform was on DRG, whilst none was on Effort. \n\nCombine this with the lack of intel the GOM players have on the Kespa players and you could very easily see how upsets could happen.", "score": 50 }, { "body": "Another thing not being mentioned on why Kespa players' rise in skill seems so fast is that while the SC2 pros had to start from 0, i.e., develop new strategies, adapt to metagame changes etc, Kespa players have all that work done for them. They just need to pick a solid build and know that it has undergone a lot of testing during these 2 years of SC2, and also just read or have someone teach them all the extensive knowledge of timings, strategies etc that have been created by the SC2 pros.", "score": 28 }, { "body": "Yes, of course this and what FromBeyond said is a huge advantage to the KeSPA players, but you are forgetting that SC2 is an entire new game, they still had to learn complete new starts, timing, units, spells etc etc etc. \n\nI am truly amazed by their transition and I feel that some people are trying to take it away from them.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Using this logic noname code b players would be taking games off established people in the GSL all the time. \n\nAnd yet that doesn't happen", "score": 12 }, { "body": "the reason they're beating GSL pros is because their mechanics are better, their micro is on par if not better, they havent really faced top tier competition outside of DRG who is slumping lately.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "This is a good point...also reinforces my theory that GSL is sniper city. Counter opponents win. This isn't true for everyone but wow is it showing. Sure it's a valuable skill but it's also a liability.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "i think brood war players have been playing sc2 for quite some time (honestly the transition bw -> sc2 is not THAT hard) and are just generally GOOD players ", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Because their mechanics are better. If you look at the zergs, the creep spread is fucking retarded. Just look at sc vs jaedong that happened recently. They hit injects more and creep spread better.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I agree with the BW fanboys in that the BW players are great and once fully developed will hold some of the top spots in the SC2 scene. Maybe even most of them. But I also think that some of the SC2 greats, if roles were reversed, would be able to do the same thing. Maybe not as high of a %, but definitely some. \n\nThe point about \"well this guy was mediocre in BW and now he's awesome, game must require less skill!\" is kind of weak because people can improve at gaming -in general- over the years. Stephano was good in WC3 but nowhere remotely near the level he's at now. I'm sure Flash wasn't as good at C&C or whatever he played before BW. Then again Flash is a beast so maybe that's wrong. But you get my point.\n\nI'd also like to add that it's a little one-sided how the BW fanboys view things. If the KESPA players lose, it's because they've only had 6 months to practice. Not, you know, because of the skill of the SC2 pro that beat them. If they win, it's \"zamg stupid SC2 nubs are already getting beat\". You can't have it both ways.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Well... they will even become better if they go full SC2 pro. That Hybrid League thing atm is bullshit and pro players admit it themselves. It is hard to focus 2 \"totally different games\" at once.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "**Album** - *Representative song* (Favorite song)\n\n* **Pablo Honey** - *You* (You / Blow Out)\n* **The Bends** - *Just* or *My Iron Lung* (Fake Plastic Trees / Talk Show Host)\n* **OK Computer** - *Let Down* or *Paranoid Android* (Exit Music)\n* **Kid A** - *Everything in its Right Place* (In Limbo / How to Disappear Completely)\n* **Amnesiac** - *You and Whose Army?* or *Packt* (Life in a Glass House)\n* **Hail to the Thief** - *There There* (Scatterbrain / Wolf at the Door)\n* **In Rainbows** - *Weird Fishes/Arpeggi* (Nude)\n* **The King of Limbs** - *Bloom* (Separator)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I think my list would be pretty different. \n\n**Pablo Honey** - You (You)\n\n**The Bends** - *The Bends* (Street Spirit)\n\n**OK Computer** - Let Down or Paranoid Android (Exit Music)\n\n**Kid A** - *Idioteque* or *Everything In Its Right Place* (How to Disappear \nCompletely)\n\n**Amnesiac** - You and Whose Army? or Packt (Life in a Glass House)\n\n**Hail to the Thief** - *Wolf at the Door* (There There)\n\n**In Rainbows** - This album is so damn coherent, there's honestly not one specific song that represents more than another. (I honestly can't decide my favorite song... They're all too good)\n\n**The King of Limbs** - *Bloom* (Morning Mr Magpie)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "the bendiez - just\n\nok compziez - paranoid anturds\n\nkid aaaaa - morning bellz\n\namnaniac -i might be wrongggg\n\nhail to the thom -go to sleeeeeeeeeep\n\nin rainbows - bodysweetners\n\nthe king of limbo -mernern merster mergper", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Go to /r/buildapc or some other sub, 'cause /r/l4d2 is *not* the place you should be right now. Just check out what's necessary for L4D2 (you can go to L4D2's Steam page for that), print out the necessary specs and when buying a computer, make sure your chosen computer passes these specs. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "you should be more concerned with the details on the graphics card. I imaging a 1.8 dual wouldn't do it, though I haven't really tested what I can get away with.\n\n\nFrom steam:\n\nSupported OS: Windows® 7 32/64-bit / Vista 32/64 / XP\n\nProcessor: Pentium 4 3.0GHz\n\nMemory: 1 GB for XP / 2GB for Vista\n\nGraphics: DirectX 9 compatible video card with 128 MB, Shader model 2.0. ATI X800, NVidia 6600 or bette", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Water has various bad effects on electronics:\n \n1. Causes a \"short circuit\". Instead of following the wires it is supposed to, it travels along the water. This can cause malfunctions, and can even lead to some things seeing too much power and being destroyed. \n \n2. Corrosion. Water can make things \"rust\". Copper is particularly susceptible, but other metals can be corroded as well. This might not cause immediate failure, but can eventually cause conductors to become \"open\" (don't conduct enough electricity) or make poor contact to other conductors. It can also cause physical failure of things like metal capacitor housings, although that's fairly rare. \n \n3. Integrated circuits nowadays have some porous layers inside of the silicon \"chip\" that are used to make up insulators in the circuitry. Moisture can cause these materials to swell and crack, causing opens or even shorts. \n \n4. Many integrated circuits are not moisture-proof. Water can fairly easily get inside of them. If this happens when they are turned off, it can lead to bad things when they turn on and the integrated circuit chip gets very hot very quickly. The trapped water can turn to steam and expand, causing the packaging to rupture, sometimes violently. This is called the \"popcorn effect\" in the industry. \n \n5. Dendritic growth. Moisture + metals + voltage + contaminants can cause metals to migrate in a pattern that looks like the roots of a tree. These dendrites can grow until they cause short circuits. \n \nThere are a few other, but these are the biggies. \n \nEDIT: Added (5) and the sentence at the end.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I can field this one.\n\nElectronics have a bunch of little tiny wires that carry electrical signals where they are supposed to go. When you dunk it in water, the electricity goes through the water instead of the tiny wires, gets where it isn't supposed to, and that breaks the device.\n\nIt's not just water that ruins electronics, it's the combination of water and electrical power. Some people have saved their electronics by removing the water before powering it on - even though it got wet, if the electricity doesn't go where it's not supposed to, the device may still be fine.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "To be alone I always go to water. I either shower, have a bath, go swimming or sit by a lake. Water soothes me.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Seattle Washington. I went to college in Northern California and as soon as I graduated I moved to Seattle. Smartest thing I have ever done.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "**Where to start?** \nAvatar: The Last Airbender, Book 1, Episode 1: \"The Boy in the Iceberg\". The Legend of Korra is a sequel/spin-off series that happens 70 years after the events of TLA.\n\n**Is TLA considered anime?** \nNot really. It is an american cartoon with heavy eastern asian and anime influences, but if you were to post something from avatar in /r/anime, they'd probably crucify you.\n\n**What do you like about the show?** \nPretty much everything, but especially the writing and character development. Also, the animation is beautiful (admittedly, the earlier episodes are less so, but by the end it's fantastic).\n\n**What do you dislike about the show?** \nNot much, though there are a few episodes (The Great Divide) that are pretty much worthless.\n\n**What's so appealing, etc...?** \nSee above. It's a fantastically written, beautifully animated, complex world with a compelling story and intricate characters.\n\nalso, bending is like the coolest thing ever.", "score": 153 }, { "body": "Before you do anything: NEVER watch the movie. ok then...\n\nAvatar The Last Airbender is an american cartoon that has a lot of anime influence. The show takes place in an \"asian\" cultured world where some people have the ability to \"bend\" the elements using martial arts. Basically just imagine martial arts with cool elemental powers intertwined. The show is funny, adventurous, inspiring, and very thematic. Like the movie The Iron Giant, it has a lot of more mature themes that are cleverly incorporated into what was intended to be a kids show on Nickelodeon.\n\nAvatar was a revelation for american cartoons. There has never been anything else like it. Fantastic story, to art, to production value, to characters. It is one of the best cartoons to ever exist\n\n[Here is the intro to the first episode to give you an idea of the plot](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CggapZLtWdo)\n\nedit: To satisfy your curiosity I am 19. We've had age surveys on here before. Most people here seem to be in there 20's", "score": 90 }, { "body": "I'm a 23 y/o female and have been mildly obsessed with TLA for the past few years (watched the series a good 4 maybe, 5 times now while also rewatching my favorite episodes quite often).\n\nThe reason isn't SIMPLY magic, though magic is a large part of it. Like most well-written stories, it sucks you in (you may find yourself to be disappoint at times, because it makes you want to be a mother effin' bender). \n\nThe characters are all so well-rounded, that by the end of the series, it's not unheard of to feel bad for the bad guys.\n\nThe humor is wonderful, not just for kids at all. \n\nSure, the first season starts off a little slow, but there's important information that needs to be seen there that shouldn't be skipped. Both 2nd and 3rd seasons are FANTASTIC. \n\nThen, there's LOK. Also a wonderful series and more \"grown up.\" You COULD watch it without having seen the TLA, but I'd still recommend starting with the TLA first.\n\nMy friends and I (all of the same age group 23-25) would gather to watch the new episodes of LOK. We also have frequent discussions about TLA, what element we'd best fit with, etc etc etc.\n\nSo uh... just give it a chance, because... IT'S AWESOME. AND IT'LL QUENCH YA.", "score": 44 }, { "body": "Not an anime, since it isn't japanese. Start with TLA and then Korra. First half of season one of TLA is a little hard to get through but it is worth it. Rest of the show --> utterly brilliant: you will laugh, get angry and cry. So I have one advice: go and watch it.", "score": 23 }, { "body": "Hey! Welcome to /r/thelastairbender!\n\nWhat's appealing about this show? Avatar: The Last Airbender is by far the best animated series I've ever seen. It's set in a beautiful fantasy world with fantastically complex characters. It's funny, moving, enchanting, emotional, [insert positive adjective here]. Also, the music is phenomenal. \n\nThe only dislikes I have about the show are like others have said, the first season can be a little hard to get through. You can really tell the writers and creators aren't quite confident in writing the more mature themes they want to add to the show. I think this may be because at this point I don't think they realized many people older than 12 were watching the show. It seems a little kiddish, but once you hit episode 12, The Storm, you start to see a little bit of a shift. \n\nThere are 3 seasons to Avatar: The Last Airbender, then during this past year, The Legend of Korra premiered. It's set 70 years after Avatar: The Last Airbender, and somewhat involves characters from the first series, so I recommend starting with A:TLA. Korra is amazing because it took the maturity from the previous series and ran with it. It is much darker and gritty, while still being rather enchanting. Again, I believe that this is because they now realized the majority of their fanbase was older than their intended demographic. \n\n\nI can't speak for everyone when I say this, but the world and the mythos behind everything is what draws me in. It's fantasy, but done differently than you've ever seen before. I'm really looking forward to the upcoming second season of Korra, where they plan on delving more into the myth and history behind the world. \n\nAnyways, give it a shot! I've introduced the show to many of my friends, all of differing tastes (some who would never watch a cartoon), and none have not loved the show. I even got my parents into the show. Now, when new episodes of Korra premier on Saturday mornings my entire family sits and watches it together. I can only hope the show will have the same awesome effect on you that it's had on me and the people in my life. \n\n", "score": 18 }, { "body": "The sure is pure, unadulterated awesome. It's one of those things where at first you think, hey this is pretty funny but then you start to get involved with the characters and you want more. Just start from the beginning and watch. The humour is great and the characters are silly and complex and all around fun. Korra took it all to the next level. ", "score": 13 }, { "body": "How about comparisons?\n\nYou could compare Avatar: The Last Airbender to Harry Potter on a meta level. It's cheerful, fun, creative, light at the start, but started getting more darker and complex as the series goes on. It's original target demographics were the kids, but as time passed, and it's popularity/recognition increases, a lot of older people started joining. Then, the movies happened.\n\nFor Harry Potter, it was the event of the decade, century even. It gathered a ton of more fans until it became a cultural phenomenon, [to the point NASA included the event on the timeline of human history.](http://i.imgur.com/UPhsw.jpg) For The Last Airbender, we know all that happened. M. Night Shyamalan gets to direct it.\n\nYou could kind of compare it to Lord of the Rings. If Tolkien took inspiration from all sorts of European mythology, then Avatar took from mostly Chinese mythology. The plot is a bit similar in some ways, but it's a bit spoilerish.\n\nLastly, you could compare it to Star Wars. If people call Star Wars, [\"World War II in Space,\"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_sources_and_analogues#Historical) then The Last Airbender is the pacific front of World War 2 in a fantastical world. Nothing else than that, though, other than Mark Hamill being in both.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I'm a 23 year old male. I think what I like most about both series is in the little details. The creators put an insane amount of effort into creating the world of A:TLA and it shows. The cultures and architecture of each nation (corresponding to the four elements, in case you didn't already know this) are wonderfully diverse, each drawing heavily on ancient Asian cultures. The same amount of effort is put into Legend of Korra, which 70 years later shows contemporary culture and technology slowly creeping in (LoK's musical score and art direction are based on a cross between the ancient Asian influences of TLA and New York City of 1920's Prohibition-era America, which works a lot better than it sounds). The animation itself isn't top notch (though it's by no means bad) but the art direction is, and the show is pretty often gorgeous to look at. Each type of bending corresponds with a specific type of martial art, which results in a lot of pretty damn good (and well-choreographed) fight sequences. It has probably the best action I've ever seen in an animated show (though I'm not really an expert).\n\nAs for the writing? Like others have said, TLA gets to a pretty shaky start, but once it finds its footing halfway through season 1 or so it takes off. The show occasionally panders to its original target audience (i.e. kids) with silly fart humor and whatnot but on the whole it deals with pretty heavy issues for a Nickelodeon cartoon. Shortly after the start of the show the hero discovers that his people were the victims of mass genocide, for instance. And they're not coy about it, either. Usually when a piece of entertainment is marketed as \"family-friendly\" that means it's great for kids and a good excuse for adults to play sudoku on their iPhone. A:TLA is one of the few \"family-friendly\" shows that I would say plays just as well to adults as it does to kids.\n\nAs for the things I don't like...like I said, both TLA and LOK occasionally pander to the audience with dumb fart jokes and the like, but that's not nearly prevalent enough to be a huge issue. LOK is darker than TLA but the 12-episode structure gives it less time to explore its themes. Without venturing too far into spoiler territory, LOK's central conflict is borne from a movement of non-benders rebelling against benders, but the show never actually explores the implications of it. As a result roughly 2/3 of the show is completely plot-driven, which is still good but comes at the expense of pushing a lot of interesting supporting characters out of frame near the end of the season. And it spends a LOT of time nurturing a silly and pointless love triangle. But it's only the first season; it has a lot of time to grow.\n\nTo give some perspective as to my personal tastes, some other TV shows I watch are The Wire, Deadwood, Breaking Bad, The Venture Bros., Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Game of Thrones, Battlestar Galactica, and Six Feet Under.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I'm a 27 year old female and I discovered this show only last year. It really is one of the best shows out there. And yeah, it's a Nick show, but I know way more adults that love it than kids. \n\nDefinitely start with TLA season one, episode one. I promise, you'll zip through the first \"Book\" and get hooked. \n\nEverybody has their own preferences for the show, but I love it because EVERY character *good and bad* have multiple dimensions. Plus, though it is supposedly a \"kid's show\" you can tell that the animators and writers love what they do and make it with an adult audience in mind too.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Another cool thing I don't think have been mentioned is the fact that they delved into different martial arts and used them as the foundation for the four elements and their \"bending style\" + each element has some kind of influence on the culture of each nation.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Age 21.\n\nYou got enough answers for the listed questions, so I'll just toss in why I like TLA.\n\nThere's an extraordinary dynamic in this show that you really understand at an older age that I wasn't able to appreciate when I was younger. Certain dark themes hit you very hard in a very stark contrast to the show's kid-friendly cartoon exterior. I won't spoil, but shit gets heavy, fast.\n\nAdded to that is the character development. The stable of primary and secondary characters is pretty large and impressively virtually every single one is well-written. The way these characters change through the series is astounding. These are kids who fought a war and they didn't make it out without scars. I didn't really grasp just how upsetting and dark some of this stuff was until rewatching the show in my very late teens. Again, no spoilers, but shit gets heavy.\n\nStory forwarding is and plot is handled in a way I've never imagined possible in a kids show. Usually you'd expect the ragtag group of lovable kid fighters to valiantly triumph over every battle with love and rainbows and unicorns and shit. Not here, these guys lose. A lot. And it's not pretty most of the time.\n\nIt's interesting to watch the evolution of this show from a production-quality level. The difference between the first four episodes and the last four episodes is incredible. I highly suspect that these jumps are a result of the show appealing to a much older demographic than Nickelodeon originally targeted, and then upped the ante to draw them in. The first bits of the first season are visibly, understandably, targeted at children. Things go haywire toward the end of the first season, culminating in what I think is the heaviest moment of the whole show, though its not explicitly stated and you have to think about it for a moment to grasp just how messed up the situation must be for a certain character.\n\nEssentially, I really think it's a show for adults that got the green light under a TV-Y7 moniker so they very subtly and very craftily hid (sometimes they didn't even bother to hide) these darker themes in the goofiness of kid's cartoon, and they pulled it off magnificently. I proudly put Avatar: The Last Airbender up in my list of favorite shows populated with the likes of Firefly, Game of Thrones, 24, and a whole host of other programs that you wouldn't think TLA belongs with.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "A:TLA is without a doubt one of the best shows ever made. The writers did such an amazing job with every episode (though some man argue about \"The Great Divide\"). Probably the best character development you'll ever witness will be in the form of Zuko. You will become so attached to the characters in ways you can't understand. It will make you laugh, it will make you cry. You will always be kept on the edge of your seat. By the end of it, you will wish you could bend. Also, I'm 16. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Pretty much everything I can say has been said already, so I'll throw out there that I'm 19.\n\nAh, what the hell. I'll give my opinion, too, if you even read this far down. The beginning was all right. I only really started to love it once they [reached the North Pole](/spoiler) (Very minor spoiler, I'm just being really really careful with it). Then it just becomes amazing.\n\nDon't watch Korra first. While you can enjoy it without knowledge TLA, it relies on it too much for you to fully enjoy it, and it would probably have the feel of any old anime.\n\nAlso, seriously, stay away from this subreddit until you've finished TLA and LoK. Since new material hasn't come out in months it's assumed everyone's seen everything Avatar-related so spoilers are thrown around left and right. You'll never be able to avoid them.\n\nAnyways, enjoy the show (you're watching it. You don't have a choice at this point). I look forward to seeing you back once you have eaten the fruit and tasted its mysteries.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I pretty much outed myself at work because I didn't notice that there was a big bold \"Gaybros\" title on the sidebar, big enough for my coworker to see from his desk. so, no one talks about it. and I like that. I'm pretty sure people know I'm gay, but I just don't talk about it, they don't talk about it and we're all great. I didn't want to have a big \"coming out\" at the workplace. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Welp, if you wanted to come out, great way to do it. If you;re not quite ready, you can say, \"You think I think I sing like a gay guy? Wow, thanks!\"", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I was at work. Sexy man walks by, I say \"Hello Gorgeous\" to myself as guy walks off. I turn around, BOOM, one of the male Managers standing behind me. Ha! I just moseyed on. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Having sung both classical and modern a cappella music in college for 10 years, I really want to be offended at the stereotype, because there were plenty of straight bros in those groups. Singing along to music isn't gay, it's *fun*.\n\nBut, coming from me, it doesn't really mean much to complain, does it?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Sometimes you have to divorce yourself from your emotions and look at things rationally. What is her schedule truly like? Is at all realistic that she could make changes/sacrifices/compromises for you? Do you have an example of how you've tried to do this and it hasn't worked out? Why didn't it work out? Is the problem that you have other plans when she wants to talk or is it because you want to talk with her at other times?\n\nLastly, have you tried discussing this with her? Your third paragraph sounds like a really good way to say it to her.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "You seem to be in a similar situation to me. Apart from my phone calls usually last 5 minutes. I have kept this up for 2 months and tried to be understanding of his busy schedule. However, whilst it is important to be understanding and supportive, your own happiness is important. I text my SO yesterday to say we need to talk, I'm going to explain that while I understand he is busy, to keep our relationship alive we need to find a bette solution to communication. We'll see how the chat goes next weekend.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[How to date a med student.](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,452186,00.html)\n\nYou can ask her to do the same - just ask her for a little bit of time, or to call you when she has study breaks when you're not working(no one can focus for that long, seriously). Both my SO and I are med students as well, and trust me, 30 minutes isn't going to make or break her grades. She can spare 30 minutes, you just have to ask nicely. Sure, it's not on your terms, but that way you guys compromise more than you do now. \nAs the year progresses and she gets more into the swing of things/figures out how her exams work, her schedule may free up. You just have to keep communicating about what your time commitments are.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "*Small Businesses/Localized/Decentralized*\n_____________________________________\n**WHAT KEEPS POOR PEOPLE OUT OF WORK?**\n_____________________________________________\n*State Regulation* -- leads to favoritism, bribery and destroys jobs for the lower classes.\n_____________________________________\n[How Cronyism is Hurting the Economy(short)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSgUENZ9O94)\n\n[Economic Freedom & Income Equality(short)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B_btJT8kzw)\n\n[The Reality of the State | Stefan Molyneux (short)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iA3sAPmlQE)\n_____________________________\n*Minimum Wage Laws* -- destroys job opportunities for the least skilled workers in society. \n___________________________________________\n[Myth: The Government and Labor Unions Saved Us From Low Wages and Poverty(short)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVAxNqRTKY)\n\n[Edgar the Exploiter](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFbYM2EDz40)\n\n[Does the Minimum Wage Hurt Workers?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ct1Moeaa-W8)\n__________________________________________\n*IP law* -- monopoly privileges granted by government over the use of ideas and information.\n_____________________________________\n**Against Intellectual Monopoly**\n\n\"It is common to argue that intellectual property in the form of copyright and patent is necessary for the innovation and creation of ideas and inventions such as machines, drugs, computer software, books, music, literature and movies. In fact intellectual property is not like ordinary property at all, but constitutes a government grant of a costly and dangerous private monopoly over ideas. We show through theory and example that intellectual monopoly is not necessary for innovation and as a practical matter is damaging to growth, prosperity and liberty.\"\n\nfree ebook:http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm\n_____________________________________\n[Kinsella on Protecting Value and Harry Potter ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWeUGU6SrYw)\n\n[Full Kinsella interview on IP laws vs. free market methods](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgUBcXDNc1w)\n\n[Intellectual Freedom, Kinsella](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI5AyeFK5Bo)\n\n_____________________________________\n\n**THREADS**\n________________________________\n[Thread: ELIMINATING IMMORAL WEALTH CONCENTRATION](http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/wq6i6/does_pure_capitalism_without_government_lead_to/c5fmjmd)\n\n[Thread: Free market or consumer regulation](http://www.reddit.com/r/Anarcho_Capitalism/comments/tg07w/a_few_questions_especially_about_regulations_and/)", "score": 25 }, { "body": "Marginal utility is a huge factor when your business gets real big without help from the government. Many big business could not survive without government intervention. As far as local vs global food i would speculate both would be in abundance like they are now.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "We cannot answer this question. We could guess but one of the primary assumption of Austrian Economics (and what separates us from other economists) is that we cannot predict with certainty future events. Because economics is merely interaction between individuals and we cannot predict the actions of individuals we cannot predict economic events with any real certainty. \n \nBut to give you a stock answer: \"Whichever meets the current demands of the consumers and provides goods and services more efficiently than their competitors\".", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Capitalism has allowed us to make progress by scaling industries ever-larger than they had existed before. This has made sophisticated goods more abundant than ever before.\n\nFor example, the supply chain of the automobile companies is now completely globalized, where a few decades ago we could still pretend that countries made cars. No one can do at current prices for cars any longer.\n\nThat being said, while capitalism does allow for ever bigger industries to be created, that doesn't mean that there are economies of scale to be realized in all industries. Restaurants, for example, do not really benefit from scale. (Television advertising has made national chains possible, but that period is ending.)\n\nSo the answer is it depends.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "> Would the equilibrium in an anarcho-capitalist world lead to big organizations or small organizations?\n\nI don't know. I would at least guess that the biggest firms under ancap conditions would be smaller (have relatively less market share) than the biggest firms now though, since right now the largest ones benefit from political protections (regulations that disproportionately hurt their smaller competitors, for example) that can be expected to counterbalance diseconomy of scale to some extent--ie. right now the activist state mitigates some of the burden of being big.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Well big businesses wouldn't be protected by regulations, the insane tax code or zoning laws so I think most businesses would be smaller. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The size of the majority of organizations is not dependent upon a coercive monopoly (i.e. a state). Just removing the state will not necessarily mean that organizations will suddenly increase or decrease in size.\n\nRather, the size of an organization is dependent upon benefits and costs. Your particular production process may be more effective if you have more people involved compared to other production processes. \n\nFor instance, when you seek to build a barn, but you don't have any construction machinery, then you will need to get more people to help you to build the barn. Thus, the usage of capital (e.g. machinery) affects the production process; with the appropriate tools, you can achieve more with less effort.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Hey kodia_Blue ! Welcome aboard.\n\nI'm sorry to tell you that we do not know the future. We have some good guesses, but in the end we do not know.\n\nHere is what I know. The larger a company gets, the bigger [economies of scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economies_of_scale) it can do. There are also problems with large companies. They have [diseconomies of scale](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diseconomy_of_scale).\n\nSmall companies tend to be more efficient, faster to adapt and more creative.\n\nYou might have more large companies in sectors where efficiency, adaptability and creativity are less of an issue and more small companies in sectors where this is not the case.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Sounds good, but I think what would be even better is just a different attitude to the posts. If people could start posting more interactive threads that encourage discussion and support, that would be awesome.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "Wow. I am relieved someone else was feeling that too. It almost made me resent other people who were depressed when I wasn't because the venting would just bring me down which isn't right because everyone needs a little venting. What a wonderful solution. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "4 hi is what you're in normally when in 4wd mode (or all the time, in your case). 4 low is what you put it in when you need extra control and torque while offroading.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "A traditional part time 4WD system has 3 modes: 2HI, 4HI, and 4LO. You can only use 4HI or 4LO in poor traction conditions, because the front and rear driveshafts always turn at the same speed in 4HI or 4LO, meaning the wheels have to be able to slip a little to make up for any differences in rotational speed between the front and rear tires. \n\nAn AWD system that allows all 4 wheels to be powered even on dry pavement uses a differential, viscous coupling, etc between the front and rear. The front and rear driveshafts are not locked together in AWD. \n\nThe option you're talking about for the new 4Runner is an AWD system with a locking center differential. To answer your question, you'd use 4HI in poor traction situations, like offroad driving. Doing so locks the center differential, making this mode functionally the same as the traditional part-time 4HI mode I mentioned in the first paragraph. You'd do this because even though the center differential in this case is equipped with limited slip technology, it does not fully eliminate [differential slip](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_\\(mechanical_device\\)#Loss_of_traction). Locking the center differential completely eliminates center differential slip and gives you better usable traction. The catch is that you can only use this mode when traction is bad enough that the wheels are allowed to slip a little. \n\n4LO mode is like 4HI but with more gearing. You go slower, with more control, and have more torque available. You'll understand why 4LO is important pretty quickly if you start driving off road much. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Lt-Gen. Romeo Dallaire. It's horrifying, but it is absolutely worth the read.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think you'll look really good once you lose more weight. Not much else needs work. Maybe cut your hair shorter on the sides?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Man you look like a good guy, sure a little goofy but I'm sure that's all part of your character. Which brings me to the advice you need to know, character, it doesn't matter what you look like, just feel good inside and do what's best for you.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "You need to consider what you want to achieve from your training and what you want to be able to do. Bodyweight training is going to allow you to control your body weight and move that around easily. Weights are going to focus your ability to move external objects. Both build muscle and there is some cross-over but there are some differences.\n\nIf you want to try bodyweight training, I would recommend convict conditioning. If done properly, bodyweight training can give you some real power and strength but you need to forget only doing the \"girly\" progressions. Most gymnasts train almost exclusively using boydweight exercises (in my experience anyway) but they train hard. There will be no kneeling push-ups, or at the very least as few as possible. I really like CC and tend to incorporate it into my weights routine anyway -- I particularly like how much flexibility and balance are explicitely explored because this suits my lifestyle and injury history more\n\nOn the other hand, if you want to try weights then go for it, and big weights at that! Starting Strength and New Rules of Lifting for Women (or something like that) are what tend to be recommended here, but if you find another programme you like, do that instead. If you like to do dumbbell rather than barbell, do so (but make sure the weight is challenging -- 12kg x 8 is better than 2kg x80 in general). As mentioned before, I like combined CC with some barbell work because it achieves the results I want. Slightly Confused as to why you seem to think you cant just walk into a gym and rock the weights. You're a fully grown woman arent you? You don't need to ask permission from your mommy to train, you dont need permission from anyone for that matter. \n\nI would personally recommend a mixture between the two, but remember that you dont necessarily need to join a gym for this. You can use objects that you find around the house as additional weight to BW exercises and I find the less ergonomical shapes also work my balance and finer motor skills (something I have issues with). Even a riffle thats about 6kg becomes really heavy to hold during 15 minute wall squats. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "For me the gym fee is worth it, because I am more likely to finish my workout and/or hit it hard at the gym vs. at home. It's like I know I'm there to work, so I do. I've tried working out at home, and I am such a quitter.\n\nI don't exercise with others either. I try to go to the gym during slow times, which for me is in the morning before work. I might someday join a class if I'm not seeing the results I want, or I'm getting bored, but for now I just do my own thing and don't talk to anyone else.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": ">Do you consider an athletic body type attractive?\n\nAll day, every day, as many as possible. If I could fill a ball pit with athletic women and just roll around in it all day, that's where I'd be right now.", "score": 55 }, { "body": "The easiest way for you to figure this out would be to give example pictures and ask for yes's and no's. Everyone's definition of athletic/muscular is different.\n\nAs for my definition of athletic, yeah, I find that attractive, but if it strays into an area where she's clearly muscular (i.e. noticeable biceps/6 pack/etc), then it becomes a massive turnoff.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Yes, I extremely drawn to athletic/muscular women as a matter of course since I like to live an active lifestyle. Ladies who look like they're ready to go running, biking, hiking, climbing or throw down on a basketball court, are my kryptonite. \n\nIt's developed into a bit of a problem actually, since I get so flustered around them my first instinct is yank their ponytail and run away like a kindergartner. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I like them a lot. \nBut being a very doughy, unmotivated guy myself, I would be intimidated from trying to approach them (Insert [Garth here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FucbvoFFy0)). \n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The one we have.\n\nThe reason things are fucked is because the government ignores the Constitution, and voters are too stupid to care.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This appears to have nothing to do with UFOs other than speculation?\n\nMany, many children have imaginary friends, particularly if they are only children or isolated by age. Nothing weird there. \n\nYou've got footage of you talking to it and pointing at nothing. So that would mean it wasn't there, right?\n\nFear of alien abduction is not unusual, it's a scary idea, and abduction by non-human beings is an archetypal human fear. Read some medieval faerie folktales, it's full of the same stuff. Probably a deeply embedded fear of predation that dates back to our distant human ancestors.\n\nScary aliens have been on TV since the 1950s. That's where we pick up the archetypes, most of us. I was obsessed with aliens when I was a little kid solely because of TV. You probably got a fear of aliens from TV. \n\nIn short, interesting story, not trying to be rude, but there's nothing unusual here and don't read anything into it. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "that may actually have been your brother you were talking to, before he was born. \n\nAnd you might be an \"alien\" yourself, and the person you were talking to was helping you adjust. Since he is no longer \"available\" (based on societal norms you may have created a disbelief that blocks him from your reality experience) the harsh experience of this world may have created the PTSD (assuming you are \"sensitive\"). \n\nThere are a lot of potential scenarios. I would suggest however that you view that encounter as a positive thing and not negative. Perhaps also the same with any buried abduction experience. If they were here to harm they would have easily done it long ago.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Goddamnit. I should have stopped reading after the first paragraph. This was useless to this subreddit. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "MMA vs DRG GSL blizzard cup game 7\nI think there's a Chinese commentary version of it on YouTube \nWhole series was epic", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Your daughter is very lucky to have a father like you! I'm 14 and have just recently came out as bi, and I really wish my father supported me like that.", "score": 39 }, { "body": "> Did you meet any lesbians at camp?\n\nUnorthodox as opening conversational gambits go, I dare say.", "score": 35 }, { "body": "Wow you're an awesome father.. My mom thinks people like us are basically retarded and I'm pretty sure my dad would kick me out... Anyways high five to you man. You're an awesome dad!", "score": 10 }, { "body": "That's really nice, you seem to be a very open father, I wish my Dad was more open about love and sexuality and stuff.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I think I'd be a great parent for an lgbt kid, mine may be heterosexual. I have a nephew that may be gay, parents are fundamentalists. Wish I could help him. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You are an amazing father. I hope (and am sure) that your daughter knows this. \n\nMy dad compared my Facebook coming-out (a week after I told him) to telling strangers that I have an unfortunate birth defect. So.\n\nHigh-fives for being an awesome dad. You give me hope :)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "After living in a fundie family where in my 20's I still don't feel comfortable coming out, my main goal in life is to be this kind of parental figure.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "So awesome! I was having feelings like that when I was her age, but I never told my dad because he would have been so angry. Although, it may have been easier on him in the long run to get used to the idea so he wouldn't have been so shocked when I married a woman! \n\nShe's very lucky and you are very wonderful. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I have an AGV Grid and it's comfortable as all hell, the wind noise isn't bad either. The GP Tech is insanely nice, it feels like heaven on your head. ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "[Scuffletown Park](https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF-8&q=scuffletown+park,+richmond&fb=1&gl=us&hq=scuffletown+park,&hnear=0x89b111095799c9ed:0xbfd83e6de2423cc5,Richmond,+VA&cid=0,0,2160548233550294405&ei=AsQqULXJBKf06AH8vIHYDw&ved=0CGYQ_BIwAA) is great because it's usually empty, the occasional cute dog walks through or songbird stops by, and snacks are close at hand at the Strawberry Street convenience store. It's very quiet atop the VMFA belvedere, too... for shade, sit under the giant trees in the sculpture garden !", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Libby Hill park has a few benches in the shade with the best views of Richmond. I'd suggest the bench near the war memorial. Plenty of street parking. \n\nYou can thank me later ;)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Behind the Richmond public library main branch on Franklin, vmfa, at a table in front of lift coffee shop, black hand, a pool?, maymont, even somewhere on vcu or ur campus. UR is really nice to look at but I don't know if they ticket when school is out. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "[Stir Crazy, in Bellevue](http://stircrazycafe.net/), is a nice little neighborhood coffee shop that you would almost never hear about unless you lived in Bellevue. They've got couches and recliners in the back, and they always feature local artists on their wall. They've got great sandwiches (try their sweet cornbread breakfast sandwich), and the owner Jay is a peach of a fellow. When I lived in Bellevue, I used to go to Stir Crazy all the time just to read and drink some coffee.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "VMFA 3rd story, left side. there's a great quiet room up there with 4 chairs and a view of the Blvd. Free admission and a neat little spot where people won't generally bother you.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I really don't think that we'll ever know. Like stated before, he recoiled like that either because he thought that you were going to get him, or you actually had hit him. With the video quality, there's no sense in even trying to debate it. If you guys kept having trouble with him, you might be able to assume that he was cheating, but trying to decide either way is pointless. The less you worry about it, the easier life gets.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Definitely looks like he cheated, from that range at least one of your three shots should have hit him. \n\nIt's hard to 100% expose cheaters on camera. That's why I use my flashlight so much when I'm recording, it makes it much easier to see hits because you can see the BB's fly through the air. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I flinch like that when I go around corners without looking and not expecting someone. Hell, sometimes I even let out a little 'Yelp', jump in the air and dart back around the corner. I must look very strange.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Some people do that on instinct. Hate it. You think you shot them but then they shoot back...\n\nHaha loved the intro with the grenade!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Probably just reflexes. I'll admit that I have done that a few times myself. If the other player complained, I just called a hit anyways and say we got each other. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm not an expert so someone else could probably give you a better explanation \n\nI think the general consensus is that Stalin was an anti-Semite but not in the same way as Hitler. He was not inclined to the sort of racial theories which fascists subscribed to. Instead, as an ardent communist, he was opposed to all forms of organized religion. Moreover, because he frequently found himself in competition with Jews (most notably Trotsky) he felt profoundly threatened by them. By the end of his life he came to greatly dislike Jews.\n\n Had he lived longer he likely would have stepped up their persecution. I doubt Stalin would have launched an extermination campaign like that of the Nazis, but knowing him many would have died regardless. I recall, but am not sure, that most of the victims of this short lived persecution were educated (I think Jewish doctors and poets). Minority intellectuals were considered especially threatening and killing such people was in line with previous Stalinist actions (ex. the Katyn Massacre).\n \nIn general Stalin’s killings were pragmatic (although totally unnecessary and paranoid) as opposed to the Nazis whose Genocide was primarily a product of their ideology. If he perceived a group as threatening he would terrorize them. \n\nThat being said Stalin himself was of an ethnic minority background and he frequently associated with Jews (his son and his daughter each married one). Jews were so imbedded in Soviet culture that any sustained genocide would have been difficult (but not impossible). Moreover, Stalin’s “ideology” and his desire to be perceived as acceptable by foreign powers could occasionally cull his murderous tendencies. \n\n", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Take that baby to a doctor. \n\nAnd my daughter had a lot of feeding problems as a small infant. Turned out she was lactose intolerant AND allergic to soy. So milk-based lactose free formula for us.", "score": 42 }, { "body": "Are you sure it is wind and not reflux? Reflux could be making her throat hurt, which would make her reluctant to eat. Either way, I agree that a trip to the doctor wouldn't be a bad idea.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Wind? As in gas? \n\nIf she is having intense problems with gas so much that she isn't able to feed normally and she cries often then it is time to see a doctor. They will check her and see if there are any internal problems and offer some remedies. \n\nIf you can't go in, give the office a call. They might have some advice they can give over the phone.\n\n ", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Like booksarepretty, my daughter needed to be switched to soy. She was still gassy but less so. We also gave her mylecon a lot. Worked wonders for her! We put it right into her formula though she didn't mind sucking it down. We did the same thing with the gripe water, but that didn't seem to help her at all.\n\nYou need to talk to your doctor. I would also suggest trying to lay her on her stomach while soothing her, rubbing her back. The pressure on her stomach will help ease the pain and push it out. Also rubbing her belly was snuggling might help. \n\nUnfortunately gas is a problem until they become a little more active, at which point their own movements help them release the gas.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Sounds like lactose intolerance. Babies are not meant to digest cow's milk. Cow milk is intended for baby cows where it passes through their 4 stomachs. Goat milk is good, as they have 1 stomach like us and the milk molecule is much more digestable. Try switching to goat or soy formula. Best of luck!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "See your doctor. My son went through something like this as an infant. He was diagnosed with reflux and a dairy/soy intolerance. We had to put him on a very specific formula. Fortunately he outgrew it by a year old and has no food allergies now, but switching formula back then made a huge difference. Call your doctor asap and explain the symptoms, I'm sure they will tell you to bring her in right away.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Take her to the doctor before you switch her formula. It could wind up making things worse, something like this should really be monitored by a medical professional. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Sounds like a possible food allergy or intolerance. Take her to her pediatrician and ask for allergy tests. My son had a lot of health problems because no one thought to check this. Be insistent if your mind tells you to. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Fap. I had a cut on the palm of my right hand that took a while to heal, so I was able to practice fapping with my left. ", "score": 29 }, { "body": "I play the drums and I am right handed but, in the speed it takes me to hit something once with my right, I can do it twice with my left. My left hand is much more flexible. I can also hold things more steadily with my left, for some reason.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Drive. I'm a righty, but 99% of the time I spend behind the wheel I am using my left hand. When I try to use just my right hand to drive, it feels very awkward and I don't feel nearly as much control as I do with my left. However, my right hand does an excellent job switching gears!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I can catch small objects better with my left hand. Left hand catches of small objects are pretty kung fu.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Not meaning to pry, but... have you recently begun to engage in anal sex, increased that activity, or taken a new partner?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Step 1: See a doctor. \n\n Step 2: Do some research and find about exactly how many sphincters the average human has and get back to me, because now I'm curious. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[Traville Barber Shop in Rockville](http://www.yelp.com/biz/traville-barber-shop-rockville) $15 including neck massage and hot lather shave for sideburns and back of neck (and popcorn while you wait)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Everything you need is in the sidebar. If you use pcpartpicker it is impossible to choose incompatible parts. What is the budget?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Yes, you can use it like an arduino. There are several things to keep in mind though. It has no stock ADC/DACs on it. You'll need something like an MCP3208 if you want ADCs, and an appropriate DAC chip to meet your needs. The raspberrypi uses 3.3V on the gpio, so you'll need level converters if you want to hook up 5V devices.\n\n\nAlso, the raspberypi is an actual computer, so it services interrupts and does other things than just talk to the chips like an Arduino. Calling something like delayMicroseconds(1) from the bcm2835 library may not get you a 1µS sleep, their docu on it says you're more likely to get an 80µS sleep. In some cases, the system may service an interrupt during the sleep call, and it'll simply return with an EINTR code. Things that have a clock line like I2C and SPI will probably be easier to code for than half-duplex one-wire type sensors. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Death of a Mailman: \"A man is not postage due!\"\n\nLast book I read? \"Doctor Who and The Abominable Snowmen\", a few weeks ago. I'm currently reading \"Warrior's Honour: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience\", by Michael Ignatieff. It's dated in it's examples, but whatever - I bought it for a quarter from the library.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Last book I finished would be Rx: The Reservoir back around June, currently I'm reading the first Game of Thrones book.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[](/rdsad)It was a bad omen that you felt the need to remove your important things from the lanyard. They are easy enough to replace, and cheap though.\n[](/sp)\nLast book read?\n\n\"The Elegant Universe\" by Brian Greene. An interesting book that explains some physics theory in a relatively easy to comprehend way.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[what I thought a lanyard was](http://www.marineinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/sextant-use.jpg)\n\n[](/ohcomeon \"and I even went to college!\")", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "> **Tibalt's Mountain**\n\n> Land - Mountain\n\n> Tibalt's Mountain enters the battlefield tapped.\n\n> Whenever you would discard a card at random, instead choose and discard a card.\n\nNothing short of this.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Rakdos guild had Hellbent, ie: no cards in hand makes something better. Something similar to Hellbent would be helpful such as, whenever you discard a card make something better, do damage, removal, -/- or +/+, etc.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\"Target players draws 20 cards\"\n\nThat would make his -4 somewhat more effective.\n\nI actually have 2 of them, I run one in my Burning Vengeance deck, and Ill probably chuck the other one in soon. His +1 is good for getting things in your graveyard if your deck is into that, and his -4 scares people into emptying their hands. Plus, everyone wants to attack him so he doesn't get his Ultimate off, which you can use to your advantage. Hes not amazing, but I like him. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I like my cover art really ambiguous. The Twilight novels were awful, but they didn't look like trash at first glance, and I'd bet that helped sales. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Something identifiable that has something to do with the book. The cover of my copy of *Nineteen Eighty-Four*, for example, features a big eye and a big red \"1984\", which has now become synonymous with totalitarianism to some degree.\n\nThe cover of my *Brave New World*, however, features some anonymous skyscrapers and Edvard Munch's *The Scream*.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Simple and stylistic, preferably with no people on the cover because I like to imagine them for myself. I like a brief synopsis, but it's not necessary for me because I usually don't choose books on a whim.\n\nSome of my favorites:\n\n[*The Catcher in the Rye*](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/32/Rye_catcher.jpg)\n\n[*Will Grayson, Will Grayson*](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a8/WillGrayson.jpg)\n\n[*The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao*](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5f/Junot_wao_cover.jpg)\n\n[*Life of Pi*](http://blogs.roanoke.com/backcover/files/2010/10/LifeOfPi.jpg)\n\n[*The Great Gatsby*](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b0/Gatsby_1925_jacket.gif)\n\n[*Everything Matters!*](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gSqWmU1tR5k/Sx27r6wOC2I/AAAAAAAAC0A/8e93bCOoMDg/s400/9780143117513_EverythingMatters%E2%80%93CVRF.jpg)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "It's not so much what I like as what I don't. I don't like faces, either photos or some artist's interpretation of what the protag looks like. It usually clashes with whatever my imagination comes up with, and then I have to spend the entire time I'm reading looking at this \"inaccurate\" cover. Annoying.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Any tuner worth paying will be able to give you a base map for your mods to be able to drive it to them. Things like injector and MAF scaling will be handled, which will allow you to start and drive the car just fine while staying out of boost. Then once you get it to them, the rest of the mods can be handled.\n\nOf course if you lack the EM tools to apply the map, then you're kind of stuck and will need to trailer it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Phew that's a pile. Cigars you can carry with you as long as they're not Cuban. I would suggest leaving the cutters in the checked in baggage for concern of confiscation.\n\nTorches are hit and miss. You'll want to empty them because they present a fire hazard from pressurization.\n\n--Avrus, Cigar Surgeon, M.D.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "They should be allowed in your checked bag - definitely not in your carry-on - but I've heard stories of them being taken anyway. Best bet, put a cheap cutter in your checked bag and bring matches.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It was a primary. In a primary, you vote for the person you want to represent your party in the coming elections as well as for local legislation.\nYou couldn't vote for a republican if you were a democrat because the republican candidate isn't running for a slot in the democratic party.\nDuring the main elections in November you would have a chance to vote for either the person you voted for in the primaries for your party or their opposition. It confused the hell out of me at first too.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I know a theater major who is now in primary flight school :p\n\nBut great summary otherwise, I'd clarify this though:\n\n>Doing shitty work and shamming for 2 years as an E4 will not make you a better officer or better respected as \"prior service\".\n\nThis is *generally* good advice. And what I mean is that if you have *no prior military experience* then don't enlist specifically for the sake of becoming an officer later. That's doing a disservice to your eventual unit, IMO. That being said, a salty Corporal who decides he wants to commission is going to have a pretty decent head start on his fellow Lts, particularly if he stays in the same occupational field.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "If Air Force, you basically need a GPA of 3.5+ to be competitive currently, even in a technical field. I almost aced the AFOQT but didn't get commissioned because my GPA wasn't above 3.5.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Nice to see someone new wanting to play the series. Assassin's Creed is an amazing series for people who are looking for story and people who want awesome gameplay.\n \nSeeing as how you are the latter, I would say start with the first one. Was it \"baaaaad?\" No, not at all. It was a new idea, something that had more or less never been done before.\n\n It was repetitive and it had it's flaws like every game does. I say get as far as possible into the first one (you even find yourself delving into the story a bit, i would recommend this if you do find it getting repetitive) and then when you decide you are done, go for the second one. I always thought the AC2 fixed about 90% of the problems the first one had.\n\nAfter you are done with that you could try for AC:Brotherhood to try out a few new mechanics, or jump to AC:Revelations in order to see all the new things they added and see the difference between when AC first came out, to what they have now.\n\n**But** if you are just wanting gameplay straight up and do not mind not knowing the difference, jump to AC2 or AC:Revelations. I hope this helps and I am sorry for the wall of text. The Assassin's Creed series is one of my favorite series ever, easily in my top 3. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I had tons of fun in Assassin's Creed(first one). Assassin's Creed II is the usual consensus of best one.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I love the first game! I actually started playing Assassin's Creed for the first time last wednesday, and I beat the first game in 2 days, and immediately went and got the 2nd one. I'm almost finished with it now and I have brotherhood and revelations on the way in the mail. The first one is repetitive but I think the story is good enough that it'll keep you going, but if you're nervous you are not going to like it, then go ahead and start with AC2, because it is truly incredible and definitely worth whatever price you find it for. \n\nBasically I'm recommending you start with the first or second one, because I know that AC: Brotherhood and AC: Revelations deal with the main character introduced in AC2. You should be a bit more concerned with story, because these games can get really deep and can engross the player very well. I lose track of time when I play them.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The doubles finals set was really neck and neck, well worth the watch. Also, Vro's matches against Chad were an incredible display of Ike's abilities.\n\nWorth noting that a LOT of Ike's entered, yet only Vro made it to the finals. For good reason.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I know I post this everywhere, but I'm an artist. I work in sculpture, ceramics, drawing, digital media, poetry, and some print making. Here's my website (I'm still working on it, so it's kinda fucked up based on your screen size) www.olivart.org\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "[I decorate cakes!](http://gemcitytiffany.wordpress.com) \n\nSomeday I hope to be good enough to open my own bakery :)\n\n\n(edit) Walked away for a while and came back to 8 unread messages, I was wondering who I pissed off!... this sub is awesome hahahaha. Usually 8 replies means someone wants to poke me with a pitchfork!", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I do some basic astrophotography. Here is a link to my google+ album\n\nhttps://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/108100206454715393091/albums/5759510471739666561\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I have amazing reaction speed. I often snag flys out of mid air....catch falling things etc...\n\nI am a MASTER at wack-a-mole at carnivals/fairs. I hit 100% of the moles pretty much every time and ive never lost a game. Ive played one of those big ones, with 20 people and won 6 games in a row....gave the toys to the little kid next to me...he was sooo happy :)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I love playing my violin, although I don't have much time for it anymore like I used to. I'm hoping to change that very soon.\n\nI also love photography. Although I still have pictures I need to finish editing and upload to my [flickr.](http://www.flickr.com/photos/legasia/)\n\nOh! And I've done some freelance modeling as well. I also greatly enjoy being on that side of the camera.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I scrapbook. It's a great hobby. Kind of creative. And I love anything to do with pictures. Mine or other peoples, doesn't really matter to me.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I like graphic designing. But I guess I can't call myself a graphic designer, or even a frwelancer, until I actually get paid for something. Haha. This is some [random stuff]( http://imgur.com/a/Aj46e) that I've made in illustrator.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I play some instruments, doodle, cook/bake, write and sew. I'll try my hand at anything else that looks fun too.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Some might not find it creative, but I'm a pretty decent target shooter.\n\nI can play some piano and trumpet too.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Struggling writers unite! Honestly, I feel like we all need some kind of support group. Or some exterior motivation to finish our work.\n\nSo aside from that, I'm also a recovering film editor and symphony violinist. I also play guitar on a fairly regular basis (some fools even pay me!), and I'm consistently inventing new methods of hurling in Skee-Ball.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If I were being offered Foster and Decker for McFadden and Jones I would definitely decline. It seems like a huge downgrade at wide receiver for a reasonable bump up in running back quality.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You know, the test results are in. \n\nYou are a horrible person. \n\nI'm serious, That's what it says. \n\nWe weren't even testing for that. \n\n-Glados from Portal. Everything she says is gold. ", "score": 872 }, { "body": "\"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!\"\n―Cave Johnson", "score": 506 }, { "body": "\"Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to earth, and we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!\" - Sergeant Avery Junior Johnson", "score": 358 }, { "body": "\"This is America, where a lying, cheating degenerate like myself can prosper.\" - Nigel West Dickens, Red Dead Redemption", "score": 277 }, { "body": "\"They say the old caretaker of this place went absolutely crazy. Chopped up his entire staff. Of robots. All of them robots. They say at night you can still hear the screams ... of their replicas. All of them functionally indistinguishable from the originals. No memory of the incident. Nobody knows what they're screaming about. Absolutely terrifying. Though obviously not paranormal in any meaningful way.\" Portal 2", "score": 272 }, { "body": "\"War is where the young and stupid are tricked by the old and bitter into killing each other.\"\n\n-Niko Bellic", "score": 252 }, { "body": "The president has been captured by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president? \n\nEdit: [Link to Bad Dudes on NES emulator](http://www.playnes.net/play/77/Bad_Dudes.html)", "score": 231 }, { "body": "\"Wake me when you need me.\"\n\nIt seams we're going to need him real soon, poor chief can't get a break. ", "score": 221 }, { "body": "> Great. See, this is where it starts, and when we're all just organic batteries, guess who they'll blame? \"This is all Joker's fault. What a tool he was. I have to spend all day computing pi because he plugged in the Overlord.\"\n\n~Joker, Mass Effect 2", "score": 212 }, { "body": "\"You need more outlets\"\n\n\"I have plenty of outlets\"\n\n\"I meant besides vaginas\"\n\n-Maria to Ezio in ACII", "score": 198 }, { "body": "Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You'll know when the test starts.\" - Cave Johnson", "score": 188 }, { "body": "Mine is when you run someone over in GTA IV, and Brucie is in the car and he says, \"That is real time natural selection\". ", "score": 184 }, { "body": "\"We've both said a lot of things that you're going to regret.\" - GLaDOS\n\n\"William Shakespeare does not exist. His plays we're masterminded in 1589 by Francis Bacon, who used a Ouija board to enslave playwriting ghosts.\" - Fact Core, *Portal 2*\n\n\"Would you kindly...\" - Atlas, in *Bioshock*", "score": 147 }, { "body": "Oh, god, can't choose which is the best... They all share first place in my opinion.\n\n- \"Some emergency testing may require prolonged interaction with lethal military androids. Rest assured that all lethal military androids have been taught to read and provided with one copy of the Laws of Robotics. To share. If you feel that a lethal military android has not respected your rights as detailed in the Laws of Robotics, please note it on your self-reporting form. A future Aperture Science Entitlement Associate will initiate the appropriate grievance-filing paperwork.\" - Announcer, Portal 2\n\n- \"This next test applies the principles of momentum to movement through portals. If the laws of physics no longer apply in the future, God help you.\" - Announcer, Portal 2\n\n- The lemonade quote by Cave Johnson\n\n- \"May I borrow your earpiece? 'This is Scout - rainbows make me cry, over!'\" - Spy, TF2\n\n- \"...And from that day forward any time a bunch of animals are together in one place it's called a 'zoo'!.. \n \n \\*team fortress theme\\*\n\n ...Unless it's a farm!\" - Solider, TF2", "score": 129 }, { "body": "\"I don't trust a man that doesn't have something strange going on about him, cause that means he's hiding it from you. If a man's wearing his pants on his head or says his words backwards from time to time, you know it's all laid out there for you. But if he's friendly to strangers and keeps his home spick-and-span, more often than not it means he's done something even his own ma couldn't forgive.\" - No-bark Noonan (Fallout: New Vegas)", "score": 127 }, { "body": "If anyone brings up someone quitting their profession and becoming handicapped through archery incident. I will personally beat your ass.", "score": 125 }, { "body": "\"Stand on the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters. Silence is your answer\" Javik Mass Effect 3", "score": 119 }, { "body": "\"Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled Trainers should try to win with the Pokémon they love best.\" - Karen (Pokemon Gold, Silver, & Crystal)", "score": 108 }, { "body": "Gunnery Chief: This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferrous slug, feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an everest class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3% of light-speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means- Sir Issac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton's first law?\nServiceman Burnside: Sir! An object in motion stays in motion, sir!\nGunnery Chief: No credit for partial answers, maggot!\nServiceman Burnside: Sir! Unless acted on by an outside force, sir!\nGunnery Chief: Damn straight! I dare to assume you ignorant jackasses know that space is empty. Once you fire this hunk of metal, it keeps going til it hits something. That can be a ship. Or the planet behind that ship. It might go off into deep space and hit somebody else in ten thousand years. If you pull the trigger on this, you are ruining someones day, somewhere and sometime. That is why you check your targets. That is why you wait for the computer to give you a damn firing solution. That is why, Serviceman Chung, we do not \"eyeball it\". This is a weapon of mass destruction. You are not a cowboy shooting from the hip!\n\n- random convo on the Citadel in ME2. God I love that bit.", "score": 106 }, { "body": "\"Hey, you the one killin' all the crap when people ask? The Catch-a-Ride near Fyrestone is more busted than my momma's girl parts. Really appreciate you takin' a poke at that. The uh, system, not my mom. Hot dog down a Skag den, know what I'm sayin'?\" - Scooter, Borderlands", "score": 83 }, { "body": "I like long walks on the beach, full moons, knitting, and unicorns. In fact, I once took a long walk along a beach at midnight where I found a unicorn, which I then stabbed in the throat with a crochet needle. I'm a woman of simple yet refined tastes.\n\n-Gabriella (Dark Brotherhood, Skyrim)\n\nNot exact, but you get the idea.", "score": 77 }, { "body": "\"I know what the ladies like.\" - Sgt. Johnson in Halo 2, referring to the tank being delivered for Cortana and Master Chief.", "score": 68 }, { "body": "Catwoman: No gun, Harv? Shame. This is gonna hurt.\nTwo-Face: TWO GUNS, BITCH!\n-again from Arkham City", "score": 67 }, { "body": "\"I am the great mighty poo, and i'm going to throw my shit at you. A huge supply of tish, comes from my chocolate starfish. How about some scat you little twat?\"\n\n-The Great Mighty Poo", "score": 58 }, { "body": "\"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!\"\n\n―Cave Johnson\nor...\n\nYou arent a regular moron. You were *designed* to be a moron. \n-GLaDOS\n\nor..\nhow are you holding up? good. *because I'm a potato*.\n-GLaDOS", "score": 57 }, { "body": "\"Now! This is it! Now is the time to choose! Die and be free of pain or live and fight your sorrow! Now is the time to shape your stories! Your fate is in your hands!\"\n--Auron, FFX", "score": 52 }, { "body": "\"I poke my head out of the gutter for one freakin' second, and fate shovels shit in my face!\"-Ken Rosenberg of GTA:Vice City", "score": 48 }, { "body": "\"This planet smells like hemorrhoids wrapped in bacon.\" - General Knoxx, Borderlands \n\nAlso, \"Never give up, trust your instincts.\" - James McCloud, Star Fox 64", "score": 42 }, { "body": "\"Definition: \"love\" is making a shot to the knees of a target 120 kilometers away using an Aratech sniper rifle with a tri-light scope.\" - HK-47 from Kotor (II)", "score": 29 }, { "body": "Do you get to the cloud district very often?\n\nAll kidding aside, though: \n\n\"Your entire life has been a mathematical error... a mathematical error I'm about to correct.\"", "score": 28 }, { "body": "Everything Minsc says in Baldur's Gate is gold. I particularly like this quote: \"Make way evil! I'm armed to the teeth and packing a hamster!\"\n\nAlso, any and all of the insults in the Monkey Island series.\n\"I will milk every drop of blood from your body!\"\n\"How appropriate. You fight like a cow.\"", "score": 28 }, { "body": "[\"Some call me the Flaming homo.\"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USWACpd3Nvk&feature=player_detailpage#t=800s)\n\n -- Amarant (if you name him \"homo\"), Final Fantasy 9.", "score": 27 }, { "body": "\"A sword wields no strength unless the hand that holds it has courage\" - The Hero's Shade from Zelda: Twilight Princess", "score": 24 }, { "body": "\"Go ahead, make my day. \" \n\nAnd \n\n\n\"It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all outta gum.\" - Duke Nukem", "score": 23 }, { "body": "Spider-Man: Shattered dimensions.\nAfter a couple of puns because Electro isn't wearing any pants...\n\n\n\nElectro (overpowered): \"I AM PURE ENERGYYYYY!\"\n\nSpidey: \"WITHOUT PAAAAAAAANTS!!!\" \n\n\n\nI died laughing, I'm writing this from the otherside", "score": 23 }, { "body": "\"I love the sight of humans on their knees.\" - ~~EDE~~ EDI\n\nEDIT: Thought of ED-E from Fallout: New Vegas instead of EDI from ME2.", "score": 20 }, { "body": "\"I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate you\"\n\nor \n\n\"Son of a submariner!\"\n\n-Kefka (Final Fantasy VI)\n\n\"Not even death can save you from me.\"\n\n-Diablo (Diablo 2)", "score": 17 }, { "body": "\"Hello my friend. Stay awhile and listen...\"\n\n\"You have quite a treasure there in that Horadric Cube\"\n\nMore or less anything Deckard Cain said.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "\"Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards, we regret coming to Earth, and we most deffinately regret that the corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!\"\nSargent Major Avery Jounier Johnson", "score": 14 }, { "body": "\"Now I ain't the judge, but as it turns out it you or me. The way I see it, it might as well be you.\"- John Marston, Red Dead Redemption.\n\nA close second is from the end of mission in Modern Warfare 2 to retake the White House- \"When the time's right, corporal. When the time's right.\" Everything coming together for that part of the campaign right then gives me chills every time.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\"I hate trains\"\n\"I hate planes\"\n\"I hate helicopters\"\n\"I hate sewers\"\n\"I hate hospitals\" - Francis, Left 4 Dead\nAnd others I cant remember", "score": 7 }, { "body": "For science. You monster. - GlaDos\n\nDo not pursue Lu Bu! - Dynasty Warriors 5 (I think it's 5....might be 3). ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "\"Ugh... I HATE mimes...\"\n\nprops to the people who know from what game this one is.\n\nEDIT: another one from the same game: \"GET OFF MY TRAIN!!!\" and \"I LIVE..... AGAIN!\"", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Maria de' Mozzi: You need a more creative outlet. \nEzio Auditore da Firenze: I have *plenty* of outlets... \nMaria de' Mozzi: [seriously] I meant *besides* vaginas. \nEzio Auditore da Firenze: [rolling his eyes] Mother... \n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I think mine would be \"when Gotham is ashes, then you have my permission to die\" said by Snape in Mass Effect 3", "score": 6 }, { "body": "\"Now that I'm married, I realize how much I missed,\"\n\n\"Being tossed ass over tits, and hammered like a bent nail?\" - Dragon Age 2", "score": 5 }, { "body": "[\"Reactor online. Sensors online. Weapons online. All systems nominal.\" ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCmrp38KjYg)\n\nThis was how I always knew the battlemech ass kicking was about to begin.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "A bunch of the things Mordin says before that thing [he dies](/spoiler) in ME3. \"I made a mistake!\", \"Someone else might have gotten it wrong.\", etc.\n\nAlso \"There was a hole.\" (Legion)\n\nAnd \"Hold the line.\" (Captain Kirrahe)\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\"It's big.\"\n\n\"*Very* big.\"\n\n\"Hey, where do you think you're going?!\"\n\n\"Isn't it obvious?! We're *taking it*!!\"", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\"I'll attract the enemy with my human call - I'm so wasted, I'm so WASTED!\" -Dryad, Warcraft III, more widely known as Enchantress from Dota", "score": 5 }, { "body": ">Deep inhale\n\nJohn Marston didn't have to say a damn word to make the scene before his death absolutely epic. Loved that part.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "To add to the massive number of Portal quotes already here...\n\n\"This next test was designed by a Nobel Prize winner. I don't know what the prize was for but... Well, that isn't entirely true, I know it wasn't for being resistant to neurotoxin.\" GLaDOS", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Portal 2: Oh, good. My slow-clap processor made it into this thing. So we have that. ... And for teaching Blue a valuable lesson in trust, Orange is awarded fifty Science Points.\n\nMass Effect 3: The prayer was not for him, Commander...His wish was for you.\n\nThat one makes me really sad...", "score": 5 }, { "body": "\"So the lord forgave him?\" \"Yes!\" \"A cold blooded MURDERER?\" \"YES!\" *shoots guy in the face* \"Well hell, that's good to know!\" -Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Pretty much any line from the Legacy of Kain series. Some of the best dialogue from any game I've ever played.\n\nA personal favorite:\n[\"And then, a terrible realization. The Reaver was never MEANT to be a soul stealing weapon. The ravenous tortured spirit of the blade was, and always had been....me\" -Raziel](/spoiler)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\"You know, you look exactly like the last guy I rescued.\" -Commander Keen reacting to a re-used sprite", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Five years ago, I lost 30,000 men in the blink of an eye.. And the world just *fuckin'* watched. Tomorrow.. There will be no shortage of volunteers.. No shortage of patriots. I know you understand.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "*I made a deal with the devil, Jimmy.* \n\nTychus Findlay, Starcraft II\n\n[The moment.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8xG8ykoK4E#t=1m9s)\n\nSeriously, I always try to keep in touch with people named Jimmy in my life. For the sole purpose of being able to use that quote every now and then. One Jimmy I know is a massive selfish ass even.\n\n>Jimmy: I just skipped class.\n\n>Me: You made a deal with the devil, Jimmy.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Gears of War 3, Dom Santiago at the end of the 3rd Act : [\"Never thought it would end like this. Uh, Maria?](/spoiler)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\"This, recruits, is a 20-kilo ferris slug, feel the weight. Every five seconds, the main gun of an everest class dreadnought accelerates one to 1.3% of light-speed. It impacts with the force of a 38-kiloton bomb. That is three times the yield of the city-buster dropped on Hiroshima back on Earth. That means- Sir Issac Newton is the deadliest son-of-a-bitch in space. Now! Serviceman Burnside! What is Newton's first law?\" Gunnery Chief\nMass Effect 2", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\"The healthy human mind doesn't wake up in the morning thinking this is its last day on earth. But I think that's a luxury, not a curse. To know you're close to the end is a kind of freedom. Good time to take... inventory. Out-gunned. Outnumbered. Out of our minds. On a suicide mission. But the sand and rocks here stained with thousands of years of warfare... they will remember us. For this. Because out of all our vast array of nightmares this is the one we choose for ourselves. We go forward like a breath exhaled from the earth. With vigor in our hearts and one goal in sight: We. Will. Kill him.\" - Captain price before the end game mission in mw2", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Wheatley: \"Oh, for God's sake... They told me that if I ever turned this flashlight on, I would die! They told me that about everything! I don't even know why they bother giving me this stuff if they didn't want me to use it; it's pointless! Mad!\"", "score": 4 }, { "body": "\"In the end, what separates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No. A man Chooses. A slave Obeys.\" -Andrew Ryan, BioShock. \n\nRunner up, everything by SHODAN. \n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Wheatley: \"Could a MORON! PUNCH! YOU! INTO! THIS! PIT?! Huh? Could a MORON do that?\"\nPortal is genius. Anyone who says anything otherwise is indisputably wrong.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Resident Evil 4. \"your right hand comes off????\"\nIt's not even that funny. It's just Leon's tone of voice when he says the line and the bad guy's indignant reaction to it that gets me every time.\n\nThe opening lines to Max Payne are great too. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\"I'm British you muppet\" in a crappy cockney accent right before killing the main bad guy in the Crysis addon\n\nSo so terribly cheesy and bad that its good", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\"I am the great mighty poo, and I’m going to throw my shit at you!\"\n\nor any line from CBFD. That entire game is comedy gold.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\"Why do you continue to follow your orders while your superiors betray you? Why did you come here? Well I'll tell you then. You enjoy all the killing. *That's why.*\"\n\nedit:\n[link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEg-1VEksW4&feature=player_detailpage#t=171s)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\"A puppet who can no longer be used is mere garbage.\n\n*This puppet's role has just ended.*\" - Majora's Mask", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[From Halo 2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6Bb1TfJisE)\n\n\"That structure in the center of the city. It's a Forerunner ship - and Truth is heading straight for it. If he leads the Covenant fleet to Earth, they won't stand a chance. You have to stop him.\"\n\nI don't know, man. The way Jen Taylor delivers that line is just awesome", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\"You've all heard this before. How life has infinite possibilities. I don't believe that one bit. There weren't many paths for me to choose. Sometimes, there would only be one. From the limited possibilities I faced, the choices I made have brought me this far. That's why I value the path I chose... I want to hold true to the path that HAD to be taken... It's not like I drifted here on the tides of fate. I'm here because I chose to be here.\" - Irvine Kinneas (From Final Fantasy VIII)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "J: \"Listen Frenchie w-\"\n\nB: \"Please! I am Belgian!\"\n\nJ: \"Then make yourself a fuckin waffle, we're done here\"", "score": 3 }, { "body": "“Remember my super cool Rattata? My Rattata is different from regular Rattata. It's like my Rattata is in the top percentage of Rattatas.”\n-Youngster Joey, Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\"Do you think we have forgotten? Do you think we have forgiven? Behold, now, the terrible vengeance of the Forsaken! Death to the Scourge! And death to the living!\" - Grand Apothecary Putress, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. \n\nAnything GLaDOS ever said. \n\n\"We were there, when a world of limitless adventure opened up before us. We rose defiantly, against all those that threaten the peace of our kingdoms. We ventured to a new alien world, and cast the Lords of Shadow and Flame back into the abyss. It was we, who held the line, as dead itself rose like a tide to swallow everything we held dear. We have endured the breaking of the world, and must now face the destroyer and end his cycle of destruction. But soon we will face a new chapter. An adventure unlike any we've known thus far. A mystery shrouded by superstition. A land of forgotten power and ancient magics and a people that well may change the fate of us all.\" - World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Preview", "score": 3 } ]