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I think it should be fixed on either UTC standard or UTC+1 year around, with the current zone offsets.
Moving timescales add a lot of complexity to the implementation of timekeeping systems and have [dubious value](
I think seasonal shifting time made sense in the pre-electric past, when timekeeping was more flexible and artificial light was inefficient and often dangerous.
Now we have machines that work easily with simple timekeeping rules, and it's more beneficial to spend a small amount on energy for lighting, and save the larger cost of engineering things to work with the complex timekeeping rules, as well as saving the irritation to humans.
Lighting has gotten much more efficient over time; we can squeeze out a lot more photons per unit of energy from a 2012 CFL or LED than a candle could in 1780, or a lightbulb could in 1950.
There's a lot of room for improvement in how we use lights as well; as lighting control gets more intelligent, there will be a lot of savings from not illuminating inactive spaces constantly. | Shifting seasonal time is no longer worth it. |
Art is about the hardest thing to categorize in terms of good and bad. To consider one work or artist as dominate over another comes down to personal opinion. Sure some things maybe blatantly better than other works, but it ultimately lies with the individual. I personally enjoy the work of "street artists" (using quotations not to be sarcastic, but mainly because this is in a different category than graffiti and since my background is not in art I don't know what the "proper" term is , if there is one), but I do see where you are coming from. CLET tends to use the same images continuously (to a point where one could say "Is this it?") as do most street artists (I do think this term is thrown around a lot more than it should be, I agree with you there) and it can be annoying. | Personal opinions 'n shit. |
Ask me what I think about the Wall Street Journal and I'll tell you about it's bland, monumental, walls of text.
This isn't the deeply engrossing reading material that the bubblegum popping, paparazzi loving celebrities read in the daily publications of The L.A. Times.
It’s apparent that Wall Street journal is going after that greed driven, white GOP, 50-90-or-so demographic, with its over-the-top use of big words nobody really gives a shit about (eg. “gratuitous....magilla ”), | insults and slack ass insight.
Wall Street Journal misses on enough counts that not only did i yawn with boredom, i fell asleep trying to read through this crap.
It may be the paper for you, but if your in the the market for a new read, i'd at least counsel you on reading the Washington Post instead, due out on stands anytime, or the Globe, which is slated for a weekly release. |
In Mechwarrior Online, I have begun to use a mouse for the "turret" aspect of the torso twist/tilt and a Logitech G13 for other controls ( The G-13 has a little thumbstick that works well for WASD functions and has a little keyboard to cover all the other (limited) controls required for MWO. For modern games, I guess that's as close to HOTAS as they want you to get. For a better solution, I think that with a joystick emulating mouse inputs it would be passable, but as you said: It's presently a sad day and you have to be able to edit XML files to modify joystick input triggers and it starts becoming an occupation rather than a gaming hobby. In Mechwarrior 2, 3, & 4 I use the Steel Battalion controller and it is freaking awesome to have the three axes of torso twist, tilt, walking direction, plus a real throttle, plus real hat switches for views, plus pedals for extra speed, stopping power and jumpjet control. Not to mention the 32 other buttons and the flip cover over the eject button. Check this control map by Baron Von Pilsner ( and look at my original posts for links to my Fully Enclosed Mech Simulator on Mechwarrior Online's forums for details. | Yes, Joysticks in modern games have apparently become passe unless you are playing a flight sim and that sucks. |
All but one of my nails were in the ballpark of 1 1/8" - 1 1/2" long when my ring finger nail broke to the quick on Monday! It was the second break on the same hand in about a month, so I finally had to get compulsive and make all the nails the same length! I probably cut off more than half the length of the free edge.
As a side note, I used to be a serious nail biter all through my childhood and high school. I have had occasional relapses in my adulthood as well, but the point I'm trying to make is that my nail beds are really short, and I think my nails that short show about 1/8" of my fingertips and look so sad! | OPI Nail Envy! |
I could give a shit about turn by turn directions because I never drive and the new maps doesn't have ANY public transportation directions which is just complete bullshit -- especially for a company that is supposedly "green" conscious.
I know Apple and others have said that you can just get a 3rd party app, but to be honest I haven't found one for NYC Metro area that is as fast and complete as iOS5 Maps. It has integrated bus routes/schedules and train schedules and as someone else pointed out in another thread about this subject, you will need another 3rd party app if you go to a city other than your own, instead of easily being able to get directions as you travel.
I would also argue that since NYC of all places has a pretty shitty selection of 3rd party options, that the available options in other smaller major cities would be significantly shittier. | I don't drive like most people in major cities, and need public transit directions integrated in iOS6 Maps. |
So you're saying "try it, I might not mind losing access to directions that follow my only available mode of transportation (public)"? This isn't a it might be ok but some people don't like it issue like Siri not listening to you well . This is removing an entire function that I use all the time. It's not worth it and I won't be upgrading. Especially since they still haven't provided a feature that lets you roll anything back to a previous version (which just boggles my mind). If have to roll everything back using a backup of it turned out that, yes, I really can't find my way through the maze of subways, busses, and trains that make up the greater NY area with a combination of 3D flyovers, luck, and magic . | you don't seem to understand what's going on here. |
I love this idea and most definitely want to help. I have a few concerns though. My primary concern is that of financing. Making movies isn't free as we all know. It's fine to work on one or two volunteer projects for fun and to build interest and community but somewhere down the line it must be made sustainable. Otherwise the turnover rate of artists skyrockets.
My secondary concern is keeping this as open, transparent, and democratic as possible. Reddit's strength is in the hive, for better or worse, and I'd hate to relegate decisions to a few of us who happen to live in LA. From the get-go this needs to be a global initiative. So yeah, getting out of that SoCal bubble is key. | How we make money? How we involve everyone, yo? |
Theres an entire small town under the lake by my house. I'll try and get up there soon to take pictures. the lake should be pretty empty right now. Usually is at the end of summer and before rainy season. It's actually pretty close to Shaver lake. Lake Kaweah in CA. I don't remember the story well but they either made the lake or made it bigger and the town had to be moved. didnt take down the buildings and once in a while you can see them sticking up a bit out of the water. I think the area use to just be a river. a decent part of the Central Valley use to be a lake because of all of the rivers flowing in. Shaver might be from this too. blocking off the rivers to dry up the valley. Not sure though.
this is what it use to be. Tulare Lake. Biggest lake on the west side of the Mississippi river. Now the valley is dried up but has some of the best soil for crops in the world. | I'll try and get some similar shots from lake Kaweah next time I'm up there because there is an entire small town under the lake. |
FALSE. Evidence: Wolfman is a man with hair all over his face due to a gentic disorder. Wolfboy is a boy all over his face due to the same disorder, and guess the fuck what man WOLFBOY IS WOLFMANS SON AND THE GENE WAS PASSED DOWN, AND IT WILL SPREAD UNTIL WE BECOME A POPULATION OF WOLFPEOPLE, AND BEING A GINGER WOLF WILL BE COOL, BECAUSE LETS FACE IT IF YOU SAW A RED FUCKIN TIMBERWOLF YOU WOULD THINK THATS COLL AS SHIT. WHEN YOU SEE THAT SHIT, You'd probably think "EHHHH GET ME OUT OF HERE GUYS THATS A RED FUCKIN TIMBER WOLF, EITHER IT WAS BORN WITH RED HAIR, OR THATS THE BLOOD OF ALL ITS VICTIMS STAINED INTO ITS COAT!"
**~~ | dont fuck with red timber wolves |
If the number of sides of any circle => 4, then yes. | no |
Yeah, but most folks think avoiding gluten will cause them to become thin. Thats why I call it a fad. A woman I know once fell asleep after eating a large cheeseburger. She believed her sleep was caused by the gluten in the bun, and now she goes around telling people shes borderlime celiacs. Funny thing is I have seen her unknowingly eat foods PACKED with gluten since the whole cheeseburger incident without any trouble. | stupid stuff. |
As an entrepreneur/freelancer (especially a successful one) a good CPA can really really help you out. They can find lots of deductions and credits that you're eligible for AS WELL AS keeping you out of trouble with the IRS. The last thing you want is to find out 2 years from now that someone on reddit told you something and you listened, didn't pay something until later, and end up with an audit and a lot of penalties. | get a good CPA - they aren't that expensive but are 100% worth it |
i guess the way I tell it is off. Here is some back story- the dog was left outside with no shelter or food for most of the day to "train it to be a coon hound". (I lived by really country folks). When I came upon it that night, it had been bit by a unidentifiable snake and was beat for it, then was fed table scraps ( a half of a baked potato was put in his bowl). I was walking into the sliding door and said "Hey Pup!" and patted him on the head. At that point I was bitten and grabbed, as you know those jaws are bred for, I am sure. The only family member he would listen to was the youngest child and he was not there. I had 3 grown men remove the dog and say," I am so sorry- we keep him hungry so he will hunt better, and keep him outdoors so he will be acclimated to all weather. I did not blame the dog. That was his life; how he was brought up. I blamed the father of my friend who owned him who disregarded the dog as a pet and trained him in a small backyard with children to fight, hunt, starve and get rained on, etc. The poor dog had to be quarantined for a few days because of the supposed snake bite encounter, and I got threats from the owner saying I roughed up his dog and got him going, which i most certainly did not. I lost 2 friends that night (they were also sons of the dog owner), had ER bills and a permanent scar. But no, I know that was the way that poor guy was raised. I have known to many nana pits and papa pits that I know for a fact that it was due to neglect and ego that the dog acted that way. | Dog neglected for sport, stranger danger ensues. |
Didn't they lose 6 games in a row? Just because you're close for some of the games doesn't mean that you're not a lot weaker than that team. I love Arkansas razorbacks football. 2 years (i think) we lost to Alabama and LSU by a field goal that we missed from less than 40 yards. This year we lost to Alabam 52-0. Our team isnt' young and we we're ranked 8. Our quarterback did get injured against UL monroe, but that doesn't make up 49 points. | just because you're close "at times" doesn't mean you didn't get stomped in a best of 5 that you lost 6 games in. |
You probably won't come off as an ass if you just say whats on your mind to the girl you like. If the other girl gets offended that you like the other chick, well its not really anyones fault but her own.
OR: talk about planning to go out or something with both of them and exchange numbers with all involved and then text the girl you want to later. a little underhanded but it may avoid any confrontation. | just get both of their numbers, text the one you like |
To simply say that The Massive Monkees were better dancers is a bit of an overstatement. Hitting the moves on the beat is the basics of not only breakdancing, but all dancing. You can't say that what Jinjo Crew did was nothing but a bunch of stunts while claiming that The Massive Monkees did was the are of dance. The Massive Monkees didn't just beat some group of guys that were good at stunts, they beat THE Jinjo Crew. If you knew anything about the B-boy scene, you would know who they are. Both crews put on an amazing performance, which we should be thankful for seeing. To say otherwise would be an insult to the blood and sweat poured into this performance by both crews.
If you want to look at how the judges scored, Jinjo Crew beat the Massive Monkees on execution and lost on foundation and originality. Individually, I would have to say that Jinjo Crew had better dancers. Their moves were quicker, cleaner, and, on average, more complicated. However, The Massive Monkees did an amazing job showing off their flow of creativity and their teamwork. That is why the judges gave them the win.
It gets easy for things to get biased when we put thing in terms of "USA vs Korea" or Country X vs Country Y. When our team loses, it's because of biased judging and the other team cheated. Look at how the US media started attacking the Chinese during the Olympics for the "abusive" training the athletes went through when China started presenting itself as a threat to US dominance at the Olympics. But note how the dancers are as soon as the battle is done, before the results are announced. They're excited for each other and freaking hugging each other and shit. We have to remember, or at least try to remember, that's what this is about. Bringing the world together by sharing in what we love to do. | Oppan Gangnam Style |
This picture doesn't follow too well, as defining characteristics of major characters are left out in both sections. | It's a half-assed fan-art that literally put effort into one-half of the picture. |
And that is, hands down, the coolest aspect of the game. It rewards creativity, careful planning, and experimenting with unconventional ideas. There is no optimum build or gear allocation. You can do things that the designers never even dreamed of and come up with a very effective build that might be unlike anything that anyone else does. | Play balance is for wimps. Welcome to the deep end of the pool. |
I want to say this was about two weeks ago, could be less, but I haven't been sleeping very much lately and the days are starting to blur together. My dream started off quite normal, going to familiar places and seeing people I knew. However, I then went through a door and ended up on the middle of the interstate outside my current hometown, traffic not even bothering to attempt to avoid me. It felt like Frogger. Anyway, I came to the conclusion that I should just walk home to my old house which is about 180 miles from where I live now. The entire way back, I began making up stories to keep myself entertained and somehow came upon the idea of creating a new background for my last name, coming up with traits and their stories for each letter in my last name. Somehow I ended up in my childhood neighborhood in North Carolina, but my house in Florida had replaced the house there. Every light in the neighborhood was off. No streetlamps, no porch lights, the stars and moon were gone as well. Completely dark, and the fatigue was beginning to wear me down. I finally made it to my house and walked in the front door. I expected to hear my dogs barking due to the noise I made, but there was nothing. I walk through the hallway, turn my head to the right and see my parents' bedroom door is closed. I figure they're asleep, so I turn around. As soon as I was facing the opposite direction, I see my sister in a chair, dead, eyes open but lifeless, and fucking Slender Man behind her, and even with his featureless face, I could sense every bit fear-inducing aura built up within him as if he'd done this same thing to thousands of people in their nightmares since the dawn of man. I yelled out her name in the dream, waking myself up with the sound of me actually yelling it in the real world. I shot straight up in my bed, sobbing, yelling out my sister's name as if it were something from a movie. That one nightmare singlehandedly scared me more than anything else in my entire life. | Fuck Slender Man. |
I take a beta blocker for my heart condition that not only makes me have crazy dreams, they can feel more real than reality. 2 dreams come to mind which were fucked up. The last and most recent was basically unzipping the skin on my barely 1 year old daughter to save the universe under the direction of an alien. I knew it was fucked up, but I honestly believed what the alien was saying so to save the universe I butchered my daughter. Now that was pretty bad and all, but the first really bad dream I had on the beta blocker has stuck with me just as much. In it I was at my parents house with all of us dressed in bdsm gear. I then became aware that I was in a dream and thought to myself wtf? a lucid dream? this is awesome. At that point my feet wouldn't move and my parents gradually walked up to me before violently raping me. I couldn't do anything to wake up and it felt as real as anything I have ever done while awake and sober. It felt like the dream lasted hours, I woke up in tears and didn't say much for a few days instead opting to get extremely wasted until I got over it. | Butchered daughter to save the universe and was violently raped for house by my parents, both of which felt as real as reality when awake and sober. |
About two months ago I had a very vivid and detailed dream about Extraterrestrials invading earth. I believe there was also some kind of plane crash involved - perhaps having to do with the ETs disabling all Earth-en electronics?
Anyway, in the dream as the spaceships were descending, I felt this overwhelming terror and realization that my life would never be the same, and that I would very likely die soon.
Woke up really scared from that one. | Aliens, man. |
While I was under during my spinal surgery a few years back I had the most vivid and terrifying dream of my life.
My eyes slowly opened as I tried to shake off the grogginess of sleep. Immediately, I was filled with a sense of dread and discomfort, and my surveillance of my surroundings did little to comfort me. I was naked, laying on a large operating table made entirely of cold stainless steel. The room I found myself in was completely empty, save for my metal platform, with the wall that my feet were towards being made of glass. On the other side of the glass was my mother, talking nervously with some doctors and looking more and more hysterical as they attempted to comfort her. My voice caught in my throat as I tried to call out, and my legs refused to budge as if welded to the steel. At this moment, I noticed the single most excruciating pain I've felt in my life, and collapsed back onto the table. I looked down at my chest, and saw a gaping, gory, bleeding chasm stretching from my collar bone down to my belly button. I could feel my stomach turn, for as I looked closer, the inside of my chest was hollowed, as if I'd been cleaned like some game. With uneasy trepidation, I plunged my right hand down, further and further into my chest, looking desperately for any organs that would remain. For how could I live without them? My hand returned, sheathed in a thick coating of blood, at which point I lost the ability to breathe. A cold wind swept over my body as I curled up, a pool of blood now leaking from the massive hole in my chest that I knew I couldn't fix. I would die here. Cold, alone, sad, and afraid.
Though the dream lasted little more than two minutes, I can recall every second with complete and total detail. It was so vivid, that when I came out of anesthesia I kept asking the doctors and my parents about it, convinced the whole ordeal had been real. | Dreamed I woke up during my operation with my organs gone and a hole in my chest. |
Long one,
I was in Walmart, being chased by a man whom I knew was going to rape me/cause me serious bodily harm. Said Walmart became a maze and was increasingly hard to navigate, then I come upon my ex boyfriend in the yarn section (which I'm not sure exists in Walmart stores) and he refused to help me. He said, "You deserve what is happening to you". So I'm running out of breath, feeling terrified, knowing I'm going to be caught when I see the door and run outside.
It's raining, and very dark out. Two of my professors are out in the parking lot, one is crying and staring off into the distance. I follow her gaze to see this terrible scene: A bridge over a gaping ravine has collapsed and cars are still driving off the edge and crashing into the river beneath. People are dying right before my eyes, screaming, crying. My ears are filled with a terrible screeching sound louder than any other sobbing and I'm suddenly underneath the bridge looking up.
I turn around and there's a little girl laying on the river-bank, she's making the screeching sound. I can see blood everywhere but begin to panic when I can't find why she's making this horrifying noise. I place my hands beneath her head and lift her face towards mine. Her eyes are all white and completely void of life. Her mouth grows wider as she screeches and her jaw begins to unhinge. Her teeth grow into long silver spikes that pierce her lips as they grow, finally her head tears in half completely.
Once everything was silent and this 'girl' lay dead on the ground, I grew calm with the thought that it wasn't me that had to suffer.
Then I woke up. | series of unrelated fucked up things reveals that I'm a very selfish person. |
Serial killer kidnapped me and a bunch of other people, made us work in a pretend store, and hunted us down. He cornered the last few of us in this display for a living room, and I was hiding right next to his last victim. I looked up at him when he put the barrel to my head...
And then it skipped to me in the hospital.
I was being treated for burns on my hands from grabbing the barrel, shallow stab wounds to the lower back/side, and shock. And all the while, I was asking if anyone would let me brush my teeth.
He was in the ICU with a crushed windpipe and lacerations near the jugular. | I had a nightmare about almost killing a serial killer while he tried to kill me. |
This is back when i still listened to skrillex. Songs almost always play during my dreams, and this was no exception. This was also a very vivid dream, pretty rare for me. Started at a huge rave with some really hardcore ravers. Piercings everywhere, facial tattoos, shaved heads, the whole bit. Weird for me, since I rarely go to parties, much less raves. Intro to First of the Year by Skrillex starts playing. Everyone's dancing, partying, and people are popping pills. Loooots of drugs. Mostly pills though. And then, right as the drop starts, huge floodlights on the ceiling turn on, illuminating the entire building. Walls are bare, unpainted, white. Everyone in the building turns and stares at me. And then, simultaneously, they all scream, "call 911 now!" (the drop) and collapse at the same time. They were dead before they hit the ground. Blood starts coming out of their eyes, ears, nose, and mouth. End of dream. Go listen to the song, this'll make a bit more sense. But yeah, that shook me up pretty bad for about a week afterwards. | don't listen to dubstep right before you go to sleep. |
I was hanging out with friends when suddenly two suited men grabbed me and told me to follow them. They put me in a car and we drove to a huge house and they put me in a white room with a bed, telling me I had died.
They were gonna leave me in the room and lock the door, and I could stay in the room forever without sleeping or eating, but when I went for the bed to sleep, I would die.
I cried and tried to kick the door open, and then I sat in a corner, crying and thinking about my life - and after a while, I started to man up and was ready to die, I got into the bed and felt like i startet to float, and then I woke up in my own bed, 100% ready to die.
Didnt spoke much that day in school | I dreamed about being in a white room where I should die when I went to bed, thought about my life and decided I was ready to die. Woke up in my bed. |
While levi stf may seem like a cheap alternative to raws, they aren't.
The fit is bad unless you have cankles and fat calves. Most raws like nudies, apc, or nf are not cut like stf are. Stf are straight leg while raws are tapered/ slim. | Stf dont substitute raw denim. Straight leg is not good looking. Look for slim/ tapered denim. |
Ive actually had a guy speak to me at a stop light as though we had been racing since the previous light. Example: 'Wow, yer pretty quick. Did you do anything to it...?' and Im like...wha??? I was just driving to Bag-n-Save for some milk during half time. | it is possible to be in a race you didnt know you were in. |
I've been playing a 2001 MiM strat for five years now, and it's only been great. The stock pickups were just okay, I've since replaced the humbucker with a dimebucker and the neck with a seymour duncan blues something'or'other. I think I had it set up when I bought it, and it has been rock solid: holds its tuning great, no warping or fret buzz in this whole time, no weird burrs or sharps have developed on the tuners or bridge. | if you like it, get it. The MiM strats are solid. |
There's no definitive line when it comes to hours or anything. Someone could spend all their time sniping on 2fort, whereas others could spend a quarter of that time doing pugs or lobbies. Generally, it's just how you perform compared to other people in the area you play most. If you're topscoring by a mile every match on a valve server, you'd be considered a relative pro. But just because you're a pro, doesn't mean you stop working at it. Find something you're bad at, make it better, and if you're good at one thing, find a better person to play against. If you're bored of valve, move to one of the server farms, and then keep moving up to some servers with experienced players, like STAR's server. From there, try lobbies, and competitive. | There isn't a definitive skill level, it's all relative to whom you're playing against. |
Analysts are actually surprisingly correct on their estimates on most things for the business world, like a company's projected earnings for the quarter.
For this, the problem is the only sales that counted towards the weekend were fulfilled sales (sales don't go on book until the item has changed hands, so an estimated million or two pre-orders are not counted towards this weekends sales because they ran out of product). Additionally, because Apple ran out of stock so fast, the product was not available for showcase and for immediate purchase in Apple store, which they expected limited the amount sold. The figure could have easily been 6-10million phones sold opening weekend had Apple had adequate stock. The analysts expected Apple to, but unfortunately Apple did not come through, otherwise this weekend could have been a huge stock boost which I would have loved to see. | Analysts usually do quite well, but Apple not having enough iPhones in stock for opening weekend hurt their sales and thus caused them to come in under expectations.
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I have one very distinct memory of bad saves. In Final Fantasy Tactics, there's a boss encounter about 3/4ths of the way through the game that you have to fight with only your main character. It's at the end of a series of battles, meaning you can't move through the world map between them. The first time I ever played the game I got stuck here, I hadn't been staggering my saves, and saved over my only slot right after the first battle. I wasn't strong enough to defeat the boss and got stuck. I ended up having to restart from the beginning to beat him.
Fast forward to Final Fantasy Tactics: War of the Lions on the PSP. I was well aware of the boss, but I wasn't sure where. I had staggered saves and I was making sure that I always had a backup save. Somehow when it came time to fight that boss again, I had messed up my staggered saves and gotten stuck again. I think there was a cutscene or something before the first battle that you could save at, I don't quite remember exactly how I messed it up. I could go back to the battle before but that didn't help too much. Stuck yet again, I gave up. Luckily I aced it when I played through the game again on the iPhone.
The best manual way to deal with it is to stagger saves over several slots, giving you X number of saves back from your current save. Ideally though you shouldn't have to think about it at all in a well-designed system.
I wouldn't call your Dark Souls or FF issues related to bad saves. Those are both just part of the game that you have to deal with. A real bad save is one where you are stuck losing regardless of what you do. | Fuck Wiegraf |
Explain to me how to kite when they jump directly onto you immobilizing you?
stun after leap (imob is 1.5s iirc, GCD is 1.5s, do the math)
kite (see the attached slow; im assuming youre assault)
no "good" focus spec is going to double leap on one target just to, um, kill you. Try kiting away from your group and you neutralize the threat. | learn to fucking play your RANGED (see ranged) class. |
Like I said I don't know and do not have the expertise or education
look, i appreciate our level of conversation but i think you can understand if i tell you this is getting annoying. You keep saying it's important and insisting there is a role, but when I ask multiple times for more information you respond like this. Look, if you don't have a reasonable argument to back it up, we can move on. You're perfectly entitled to a point of view without evidence or reasonable argument.
> i don't really believe that argumentation even works, directly
Fine then, what does suggesting this guy is closeted gay going to do indirectly? Or at all?
>are much more effective, if not persuasive.
what is the indirect effect of suggesting this homophobe is a closeted gay?
>again, you should be skeptical, but the study found that they tend to be gay
dude, it doesn't mean he's definitely gay. this is a fact. we don't know. it's likely that he is, according to the research, but again, i ask you, how is this of any use? Accuse him of hypocrisy? He'll simply deny it, and continuing to call him gay will transform your accusation into taunting--you are now being unreasonable bullying tactics.
So again, | I get you think that through some fancy hand-waving suggesting the guy is gay (whether to his face or to each other) has some use. I'm simply asking you to present evidence or a reasonable argument.
I'm still waiting. |
Tower of heaven wasn't great mainly because it was the last arc to feature the bad reused animations for attacks and such, and the lack of blood that becomes a real mood killer when Erza has her first real major battles that would need it.
Oracion Seis on the other hand was just a huge let down on delivering the story. The thing is my opinion on this arc might be a little biased, as at this point I ran out of episodes and changed to reading the manga. Then when coming back to watch the episodes it was more evident what factors were missing from the anime and that affected my views on the series. Now obviously it had its moments, Jura's fight with Hoteye was very well made, but especially the fights on the later stages seemed much worse on anime format. Lucy's and Erza's fights were not that well done and the final fight was made a wee bit too corny compared to the manga.
But the real killer was the fact that the anime's delivery of the emotional stuff at the end was just plain worse than the manga's. That could be because I had already known of the coming plot twists, but that hasn't really mattered in any other anime I've watched thus far, nor did it affect my reactions in the Edolas scenes, which in truth were not as sad as the one in the end of Oracion Seis. | A mix of censoring, lacking delivery and bias towards the manga. |
She's been honest with you the entire time. And it's all about the drugs.
You have to admit that you do like to use a lot. We all like drugs and the feelings but anything in moderation ya know?
What are your goals besides drugs? Why can't you be happy with yourself and not rely on a pill and a high to make you happy? Why not take up a sport, running or even skydiving? You know, something that actually accomplishes life and you can share your experience with anyone anywhere?
You'd really impress her if you cut most of those out. Why should she invest in you if you end up getting thrown in jail, overdose on something, or ruin your health.
She definitely cares about you more than you know, and that's kinda hot. But you're not seeing it. You could have an amazing future with this beautiful girl and you're willing to throw it away for some "high" with your friends.
You have a lot to be thankful for with her, and I don't think the pills are worth it. | create your own natural highs. Gym - get a physical goal. Drugs are the lazy, trashy, and tacky way to be something you're not. |
If this Plan B is the same as the "morning after pill" I was prescribed 10 years ago (it wasn't OTC then, and going to get it from a furious hospital doctor [because doctor's offices were closed on a Saturday] who almost kicked me out because I didn't have a regular gyno, which meant she had to do a bunch of other checks on me as well was rather traumatic to me - for almost a year I turned sheet white at the notion of having to see a gyno), I'd have to agree. It screwed up my periods completely (I got them every 2 weeks for months, and even prescribing me the regular BC pill didn't fix it).
Edit: So my | is I'm all for it being somewhat more easily accessible than it was then, but if it's the same pill, it's definitely a hormonal whopper with side effects.
Second edit: Thanks to everyone who actually sent me thoughtful replies instead of going "no she's wrong, downvote herp derp". |
I was on this server and we were in our nether base. Someone decided that putting in beds right next to our chests for decoration would be fun (ignorant of what would happen when you click on one). I accidentally clicked on one and not only was all of the stuff strewn about, the base was quickly burning to the ground. | BEDS IN THE NETHER ARE NEVER A GOOD IDEA. |
Change out force armor for pinpoint barrier (+5% cc) and use the scoundrel with anatomy (+3% cc). You'll need more ApoC from a source and/or wand. You've done a good job stacking attack speed, but I feel like that has hindered you from getting more ApoC, LoH, and CC. Find a monster level that you can farm comfortably in 1.0.5 (All MLs above 0 have ilvl 63 drops) and slowly start accruing capital. Critical hit damage is a nice bonus, but only once you've collected enough APoC and LoH to set up an infinte permastun loop. | CC, LoH, and APoC before DPS (in my opinion). Baseline mechanics have to work well before it can output a ton of damage. |
No, you're not alone. I didn't take one either. I did sit in on the BRC when my wife took it. The instructor you get when you take the MSF is pivotal in how beneficial your BRC experience will be. My wife's instructors were just a couple of good-ol'-boys earning a little extra cash on weekends. I believe many new riders put too much stock in what an MSF course instructor has to say, as though they are the end-all-be-all in motorcycling technique. The curriculum is essentially the same defensive driving techniques taught in high school drivers' ed. It's not some magic bean that keeps you from dying on the street. It's not a magic common sense pill either.
Her class was geared toward cruiser riders as well. The myths about front brake vs. rear brake were actually taught in her class. Then, as the husband, it's difficult to refute the misinformation she was given by this motorcycling god placed before her by fate.
Edit: I'd like to add that about 6 miles into her 2nd ride, she went wide in a right-hander, froze at the controls and crashed in the grass. I was behind her and had to watch and hear (Chatterboxes) the whole thing. She was uninjured but her Baby Ninja wasn't rideable. This was a week after she passed her BRC at what her instructors said was the "top of the class." | The MSF, while a good base, isn't going to transform anyone into a good rider. Common sense, respect for the machine, a thirst for knowledge (and research), the ability to think critically and apply that to the controls and a host of traits that some people just don't have will go a lot farther to surviving your motorcycle. |
I used to work for MGM Studios (now known as Disney's Hollywood Stuidos,) and it was Soap Weekend. This meant that thousands of soap stars from around the world flocked to the park to charge hundreds of dollars to sign a photo. I was heading into the castmember restroom after a delicious lunch of mystery nuggets. The door seemed a bit stuck, so I slammed into it like a line-backer on steroids. Unbeknownst to me, Susan Lucci was on the other side, trying to escape our filth-laden bathroom. My beefy body hit the door, and I heard an "oof" as yards of skanky red cloth, shiny brunette hair and about 17 inches of spike heels flew across the room and landed in the sink. | I knocked Susan Lucci on her ass. |
The good:
Audio/Video quality (including mics)
Banter wasn't annoying
You know what you're doing while playing
The bad:
Banter got off topic, which is fine but towards the end of part 2 you brought up XP boost being potentially pay to win, but never really talked about it. I find commentary to content more enjoyable when interesting conversations are had about the content they're displaying. By no means does this mean it has to be 30 minutes talking about firefall, but considering your audience is watching a video about firefall news/opinions/criticisms/explinations are what I'm looking for for most of the commentary | Good job, but more firefall talk |
I am a little late, but this is something I did that my Dad was proud of me for.
I was constantly bullied for around 7 years (still am in some cases) but, although I could fight if I needed to (My father is an ex almost Olympic boxer who taught me for around 2 years,) I would always get ready to hurt someone but stopped myself. I wanted to hurt the person but there was something stopping me. Almost every day I would come home with a new bruise and with each day both my father and I got a little bit more angry, he told me that if I stood up for myself I would get to go to Mc Donalds or something. After years of my Dad telling me to stand up for myself one day while being randomly attacked by someone (he was my friend but just got scared as hell.) So I just did did a spin and threw a right hook (with nice form if I remember correctly,) into his jaw. The bully fell to the ground crying, almost knocked out. As you may expect I got send to the principals office and was told the basic "What you did was wrong!" I told my Dad about the story he gave me a pat on my back. When my teacher went to speak with my Dad about it my Dad replied with "My son was bullied for years and you guys didn't help, he stood up for himself and do you think that that the kid will bully him again?" The teacher was embarrassed and it made my week and the bullying has remarkably slowed down. | After years of being bullied, almost knocked a kid out and got Mc Donalds.
Edit: This was Grade 7. |
My then 10 month old son was the McDonalds playplace, just being a little goofball, when this ADORABLE little girl climbs in as well, the cutest little thing ever, about 5. She walks up to my fiancee and asks "Can I play with him?" and points to my son. She said sure and she climbs up and starts playing with him. Well, for about twenty minutes, they're giggling and laughing. When suddenly, she screams bloody murder. We turn around ... and then started laughing.
It turns out my 10 month old son was as big as this 5 year old and her pinned down, pulling on her dress and trying to bite her cheek. It was adorably creepy. I had to climb in there and pull him off (easier said than done). She ran out and she promptly left with her mom. | My 10 month old molests a 5 year old. >> |
when my kids were little (they are both in their 20's now) i had always told them to look after one another. reminding them that he was the only brother he had. the oldest was in 5th grade, the younger in 4th. on the bus one day coming home from school, an 8th grader began hitting the older in the back of the head ( this was not the first time he had bullied them). he was hiting him fairly hard as he came home with large knots. anyway, the younger who was sitting with him jumped up, leaped across the back of the seat and promptly beat the 8th grader into a crying bloody mess. (i had taught them both how to defend themselves from an early age) no one EVER dared to bully either of my children for the remainder of their schoolling.
this story was relayed to me by their bus driver ben, who happened to be a friend of mine.
lucas, the younger, was kicked off of the bus for a week for fighting, shcool rules, although the driver clearly stated to the principal that it was a matter of self defense. ben, the driver, was quite proud of my son, no where near as proud as i was.
i enjoyed every day of driving that boy to school.
the 8th graders parents, both of whom i know, to this day will not look me in the eye or speak to me. | 4th grader beat an 8th grade bully to bloody tears. |
My dad is a CFO and spends most of his time making business contracts and so spends a large amount of his time in negotiations/arguments. As a result he is normally very calm and well worded, and when he wants to be aggressive goes for the approach of being firm and accurate in his negotiations and basically knowledge bombing people till they don't know what to do.
A few weeks ago my girlfriends father (who is an ignorant idiot) started trying to blame my girlfriend for getting who drink spiked when she was out at a bar in a quite area, saying that the way she was dressed was provocative and a bunch of other disgusting and retarded reasons. He also tried to stop me coming into his house or seeing his daughter because of this, no idea how that logic worked seeing as though I was the only person comforting her.
So when I arrived at the house he started yelling at me, calling me a drug addict because he knew I have smoked weed before, yelling at me and my girlfriend, she starts yelling back and holding in tears while I patiently waited for him to finish his shit storm idiot rant. Once finished I asked him if we were going to go inside and talk like adults about it or if he wanted to keep throwing a tantrum. He was so taken aback he told us to come in and we sat down.
I then proceeded to go through everything he said, negating every argument and informing him how disgusting it was that he would even suggest some of the things he had said (that I was a drug addict and that the way she dressed she was asking to get her drink spiked). He continuously tried to interrupt me switching to his daughter, at which every time I calmly stated that I thought we were having an adult conversation and that I would be able to finish my story without being interrupted. By the end of my 5 minutes of knowledge bombing him he couldn't even look me in the eyes, he just said it was fine if I stayed there and I dealt with the situation in a respectful way.
I told my dad the story and he just said with a ridiculous grin on his face - "you are definitely my son." | talked a bully (my girlfriends dad) into thanking me. I am my fathers son |
to make matters worse I live in new zealand, So I have to also buy a step down transformer to even get the thing running without blowing it up. An expensive investment :/)
Note for anyone else ordering the O2 or O2+ODAC: When you order from Epiphany Acoustics, they will supply a power supply with the correct voltage for your country. This means that you can get away with a travel adapter instead of buying an entirely new PSU for it.
> -If I used a 3.5 to 3.5 cable to connect the O2 to my ONBOARD SOUND, wouldnt I be distorting (over amplifying?) my music? Is that how onboard sound works?
If you have the O2+ODAC, there is no good reason to do this, as you will not be utilizing the ODAC, which you have paid for.
In terms of distortion: The signal is going to be no better than the quality of your soundcard, but the O2 will provide enough power to drive difficult headphones, and may still sound massively better than the headphone jack on your PC due to driving the headphones properly. | There is a USB mini connector on the rear of your O2+ODAC - use the supplied USB cable and connect that to your PC directly. No other connections needed. |
Fuck that noise. Yes, sorority girls dress similarly. (At my school they have a big thing for oversized tank or tshirts with the sleeves cut off and bright sports bras). Yes, there are problems with Greek organizations perpetuating harmful gender roles and classist attitudes and bathing in your own privilege and even a lack of critical thinking and self-awareness.
But really, FUCK THAT NOISE. Because sorority girls happen to like a particular outfit that outfit must be ridiculous? How about mocking all the indie/hipster/whatever dudes who wear jeans, converse, and a dark band shirt basically every day? Oh, that's right, they aren't women you already have a distaste toward, so no, you don't feel a need to belittle their style. How about frat guys? On any given day, at least 75% of them are wearing either khaki or pastel shorts, Sperrys, and a plaid or striped button down. But you'd never dare to judge men's fashion choices this way, would you?
(OP, "you" is totally not addressing you. It's directed at the article writer, I just fall into second-person when I rant.) | Yes, you're totally right to feel something isn't right about this article. |
Think of it like mailing pages of a book to different people who own photocopiers. If you have the full set, A, B and C, and then you give three people one of those pages after you've photocopied them, there are now 2 people out of 4 who have A, B or C. Then, everyone photocopies what they have and redistributes it, Which means that you don't have to send out 3 copies of the same file, only 2, and the others contribute one.
Same works with torrenting; the more people there are that have a piece of the file, the easier it is to get hold of, and the less each person has to contribute. As soon as someone has a piece, their connection uploads it to torrent programs that want it, and in return they can get pieces from other people. Essentially, the more people involved, the faster the file spreads, because everyone can start copying and sending off the parts they already have. | Always look for the highest seeded torrents, and always seed. |
Hmm. Well while trying to get my monk where i wanted him in terms of survivability, i went through many combinations and unfortunately, the cookie cutter build is what really stood out as effective.
Right now the monk being what it is, i think crazy skills combos are reserved for those with crazy DPS or insane gear that makes them pretty much not give a shit. | There is a reason why the cookie cutter combo is the cookie cutter combo.
Also, ADD ME dont forget.. Im not kidding about the items. |
I feel obliged to say that doing it properly makes a huge difference. Of course there are a variety of ways to smoke or vaporize it, but a key rule is keeping it in your lungs once you've inhaled it. Without this step you probably won't break through.
There have been so many tales of extraordinary experiences on this drug, and I'm here to say that every time I've broken through has been a profound and memorable experience. Many people report seeing humanoid figures or other conscious beings (aliens?) reaching out to them. I can't say that this has been consistently true for me, but in the 10-15 time's I've tried it, I've broken through to have "out-of-body" experiences maybe 8 times. I've witnessed wholly hallucinated experiences from giant flowers made of soft peach-colored flesh bouncing to Animal Collective, to flying through a stone cavern at blinding speed on color-changing rapids to Battles. All with my eyes closed.
What I can say is that it is unlike every other drug. You may reach an out-of-body experience that allows you to hallucinate things you ordinarily would not on other psychedelics like shrooms and LSD. The most prominent adjective I would use to describe a true DMT experience would be dream-like and meditative, not nightmarish or frightening. I have never had or seen anyone have a bad time on DMT. | DMT is a drug unlike any other that can bring you outside of your own consciousness. A drug I believe everyone who is considering should try (correctly).
edit: Forgot to mention that it usually lasts from 5-15 minutes when not combined with MAOIs. I typically sprinkle it on a bowl of weed and hold a lighter far enough away to vaporize/slightly combust the bud. IMO: if salvia is a freakish nightmare, DMT is a beautiful and lucid dream. |
What applications? Are you talking SIMT or SIMD? I have considerable experience with coding real world applications (in customer's hands) for many-core (single die) architectures at this scale and [much] larger. I also write compilers for them. Could you give us an estimate of your current fetch/ALU ratio?
For those who don't know about these devices, let me put it into GPU terms (SIMT only; SIMD is much, much harder to analyze): fetch would correspond to a texture sample, ALU is the work done on the sample. If the arch's fetch/ALU ratio is 1:4, then you need 4 (pure, non loading) arithmetic operations per memory request to keep the part "fed". A ratio as low as 1:4 is only really possible with low clock rate/memory rate ratio, and (nearly pure) SIMT. For instance, a large RT pixel shader on a Radeon 5870 would have numbers like this.
SIMT means "single instruction multiple thread" and refers to totally non-communicating processes. SIMD means "single instruction multiple data", where each lane is allowed to communicate. For instance, the SSE instruction HADD is SIMD, not SIMT, because the lanes of the vector unit "talk". Likewise, gather is SIMT, whereas permute is SIMD.
For many core (single die) devices, another problem is that the workload has to be fairly homogenous across all the ALU [vector] units, or you will starve the units when they thrash the local working set of hot data. This means that for SIMT architectures, it is not just enough to have homogeneous per ALU [vector] work, but also homogeneous workload across the entire device.
This is entirely different from, say, the large scale server x86 boxes. These devices are truly high-throughput serial devices, designed to allow an enormous amount of thrash on the local working set. They do this with high frequency rates, OOO pipes, and staged caches of every (ginormous) sizes, and narrow vector units. | This is possible on GPGPU-like (homogeneous) workloads with a low clock rate. Otherwise, BS. |
It's an amusing variation on the tired "harem" genre.
But really, watch episode 1. If you don't like it, drop the series. | The fork. |
The Narrative of HL1 can lead you to believe that this was Black Mesa's first visit to Xen. This is not the case. The Lambda complex didn't need any crystal to send Gordon through to Xen IIRC. The lab in the chapter "Questionable Ethics" was built to study the aliens, there was no way it could have been built in the time of the BM incident(it had to have been built years before the incident). And of course the various Hazard Suit wearing bodies and supplies you find throughout Xen suggest previous visits.
Dr. Rosenberg in Blue Shift can give you some back story. | The scientists never needed a crystal to visit Xen. They had been visiting without one for decades. |
It doesn't sound like you have a realistic view of the economy. The world's wealth is not a zero-sum game. It's the same reason that people can invest in the stock market long term and ALWAYS expect growth (over years, possibly decades). The economy grows.
An easy example is the homeless. Even now, at the local shelter I work at, every homeless person has had some fast food within the week and has access to a cellular phone. Either their own or their family's. The poor of today have it incredibly better than the poor of a hundred years ago. Look at all the leisure time we have now in the middle class and lower class. I have a family friend who farmed back in the day. He had maybe 2-3 hours a day, from age 12 to 30, of "free" time. Nowadays his kids, in the same farm, have 4+ hours/day, including school.
Most American kids have some access to education. Some social welfare program. Something. Compare that with a century ago. 150 years ago in the start of the Industrial Age people had a life expectancy of less than 40 years because of the lack of regulation and laws. Things are improving. The economy is NOT a zero-sum game. Ever heard of the rule of 72? Yeah, your real wealth as a country doubles once every generation or so (at least in developing countries). Where do you get these figures you're saying? What is the majority of the world? How are they in despair? I was perfectly happy being poor when I was younger in a developing country. I'm just as happy, maybe less, once I became (relatively) successful. Also, I don't know what gas tanks you're talking about. I think the highest end sport-yacht is the Cigarette, costing a little under a million. I sincerely doubt they spend as much to top off the gas tank as the yacht costs.
Believe it or not, this is not a bad time to be poor at all. Google it if you don't believe me. Lots of sources say that this century is the most peaceful, just to give another comparison. Least violent century in recorded history (not by volume, but by percentage) | World GDP is not a zero-sum game. This is a great time to be poor and in "despair." You don't know how money works. |
Clearly I'm open to both sexes as attractive when they meet my personal criteria for the phyiscal, emotional, mental, and sexually attractive requirements. | i'm bi. Moving right along... |
Because spinning axe is a massive damage buff(percent based damage buff that applies his passive dot), even at rank one. Because he can use the spell once and keep the buff for an extended amount of time, and even re-apply. Because asking for a massive damage increase that can't be countered and doesn't expire after a set time is like asking for Corki's rockets to home in on the nearest low heath champion and deal true damage. | quit whining. figure out the difference between a good axe and a bad one. don't chase bad axes. |
Backstory: This F250 has been in my family since i can even literally remember. One day on the way home (Nebraska) from Oklahoma we were pulling a trailer and see smoke from the under the hood. So we jump out and pop the hood and low and behold the damn things on fire. Luckily we were at a rest stop and a couple truckers had extinguishers. But it was too late much of the truck had been burned. Come to find out a fuel line had broken. Well it was the only truck we had at the time that could pull and money was tight so we replaced the interior and got her running right and continued to use it. About a year later my father and I were changing the oil and hear a clank in the drain pan. I looked through and to my amazement was piece of the piston skirt. So the truck got parked and the family got a new one. Several years later i decided i missed it and sanded it down and painted it white. Took the motor out and replaced it with a fresh one i built myself. Now its as happy as can be with no rust and a healthy 460. Its basically a toy that i take out in the backwoods with friends now since it doesnt go too far at 5-6mpg. | Truck caught fire then later found pieces of piston in oil and pan. Rebuilt it due to fond memories with my father. |
If you think that "science" is some infallible, mystical tome floating out in the sky somewhere, with all the rules and explanations for the universe just waiting to be discovered and neatly copied down; if you think THIS is science as opposed to the blind, groping, stumbling human institution in which personalities and reputations are as influential as actual results, then you shouldn't be posting this in /r/atheism. Have you ever spent time around REAL scientists? | The universe is the universe, and science is just the part we THINK we understand. Making some abstract notion of "science" into your god is just as wrong-headed as any human-constructed deity. |
I have always wondered why there are so many downvotes in this sub/r/. Assholes and trolls of the internet aside, I just don't understand how people can post something genuine and receive so much negativity. Case in point this OP. [COMC]: "Hey guys, I'd like to share my passion with others." DOWNVOTE! "Hey guys, I'm playing [insert complex game], and we're stuck on this part." DOWNVOTE! I mean wtf'n fuck. Yes, many of the questions are answered forthwith, but what's with the vitriol? Sheesh! I guess I'll rack-it-up to jealousy or simple butt-hurt. And no, it doesn't keep me up at night, it just makes it harder to weed thru the smoke of the way people act on here sometimes. I was overjoyed when I found this sub, and boy howdy how that changed soon enough.
I don't think I've ever downvoted anything in here except shitty remarks people leave. I love it when I oooo..and ahhh..and think goodhearted, "That bastard! Look at those games!", or "Man, this collection has many of what I have, but not that one ! Maybe since our choice of games are so similar I should check that game next!"
As far as a [COMC] Friday (or whatever) is concerned, I personally think it's a bad idea. For one, that's all it will be, and the people who dislike it now will hate it later. [COMC] posts hardly take up the majority of /r/boardgames and like others have already stated, get RES and filter it out. But don't ban something others enjoy just so you don't have to look at it. because you don't have to look at it . | I like [COMC] and see no reason to ban it or set aside a day for it. +downvote rant |
Great image, but I'm not 100% certain I agree.
It's easy to say "I rebelled, why didn't you?" But often the facts of the matter are that when you grow up in an environment full of certain messages, you're likely to end up believing those as true (Go to college if you want a life, have kids, get a 9-5 job and be responsible, etc). It's not at all fair to blame people for listening to the things they have been told their entire lives, just because you had the insight to realize it's bullshit and escape from it.
Rather, we need to start challenging the messages. We don't get anything other than a smug sense of superiority by blaming people and saying "Oh? You're miserable because you had kids? Well, that's what you get for just buying into the kids = happy crap." We instead need to encourage people to think their decisions through like we (presumably) have done, so that they can come to their own conclusions about what is best for them, rather than what society says is best for them. | Don't blame miserable parents for not realizing they'd be miserable, blame the culture that told them they wouldn't be. |
It isn't a matter of mechanics, not really. You're thinking of it from an engineering viewpoint, when you should be thinking of it from a business standpoint.
Granted injection molding isn't going to just disappear, but for applications where the costs involved are cheaper to 3D print on location, rather than wait for delivery and pay transportation (think big construction products) - yes, for those applications 3d printing is going to be absolutely necessary.
I work in shipping (so slightly different than your IM example but bear with me), and i'd gladly pay $500k to have a machine that could print a critical part on demand in steel. That may not be even 5 years away!
I've had to have ships wait on demurrage of $30k a day, for 7 or 8 days at a time waiting for a fucking man hatch cover to be finished, shipped and installed on site so that the USCG will clear the vessel as seaworthy. Essentially, that hatch cover cost me $200k.
If I could make one on site, the difference in price between the regular making of one, and mass production argument you are making doesn't matter. I'd be a fool not to pick a 3D printed version every time. Even if it's 30x more expensive than a mass produced unit on a unit cost basis. | 3D printing will become profitable in niche areas before it takes on mass production. |
I (a guy) was talking to my (female) friend. She was upset because she and her (my best friend) boyfriend had a fight over some sex thing. She said something along the lines of "I'm not attractive. I bet he's never masturbated to me". I told her that she's beautiful and sexy and one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen (which is true. She's almost exactly my ideal body type). She then point blank asks me if I have ever masturbated to her.
Of course my initial reaction is duh i uh you uh see uh... But. I was on pain medication from a surgery a week prior and was feeling especially brave/stupid, so i decided to be truthful and say "yes...multiple times". To my surprise she says "that makes me feel good. Really good." I then ask her if she's ever masturbated to me. She says "to the idea of you and (my best friend) fucking me at the same time yes".
All subsequent sex talks with these two have been way more interesting to say the least. | I'm sure it's extremely dependent on the girl and your relationship with her, but being truthful can lead to some interesting perks
Edit: slight grammar error |
Maybe this is just a silly idea of mine, but what if actual warp time is increased? Right now it's 4 seconds. Bumping that to 10 seconds would make warps slower and riskier.
I don't like it when there is a fight near a pylon, and when you kill all the zealots, Protoss retreats and warps in a new wave of zealots right in the middle of the battlefield. Slower warp times would make this ineffective, because no zealot would spawn in time, or even survive the warp attempt. | Keep cooldown as it is, bump warp time from 4 to 10 seconds. |
I've had several people attempt to make the case for the top-down view of patriarchy;
patriarchy is not top-down, it's pervasive. elements exist institutionally (proliferation of men in power and relative scarcity of women in power) but also individually (gendered insults). i know we've talked about this. please stop beating on straw-men.
>there's a much more obvious comparison here: a theist who talks about god being responsible for everything in the world, then attributing all kinds of phenomena as a result of god.
that's a really bad comparison as patriarchy doesn't have agency or direct responsibility, which is important because of your talk of responsibility and attribution. it's another layer of analyzing historical events, just like any history book does. it's unfalsifiable in the same way that "Many late-war actions by the Allies in WWII were precursors to gearing up for the Cold War, such as the bombings of Dresden and the focus on air superiority by the allies" is unfalsifiable. it doesn't make the statement without value , simply "not strictly scientific". | unfalsifiable is not a synonym for dismiss-able, it's a synonym for "not science" |
Girls on reddit that I know in real world all do it on purpose. If they post a picture of themselves with something else, they do it, most often, in order to get these comments.
As far as your links - they seem harmless. You could have at least dug up some really offensive ones that have to do with children or rape victims or something. If I posted a picture of myself and had girls reply with "you're cute", I wouldn't mind.
This is not really even a problem, most people don't see it as an issue. When you present people with looks, you're going to get a comment on your looks. Photography, in particular, being an exclusively visual medium, invites comments about the subjects of the photograph. It could be a cute girl, it could be a creepy dude photobombing from the background. It doesn't matter - whatever jumps out at a viewer is what will be noticed. For a heterosexual man it's always going to be a cute girl.
It's a problem when a professor gives a lecture, and gets comments on his/her looks instead of the material. It's a problem whenever something else is downplayed and relegated in order to "make room" for looks, but this isn't the case when dealing with photography. | Keep pleasing my penis. |
I taught this stuff in the AF
The reason for this, is that aircraft have a tendency to break at the wing and tail, when they crash.
If you are sitting behind the wings, and the craft crashes, it gives you multiple options to egress the plane. You will have the fracture in the front, rear, and most likely an emergency door will still be intact. | Always sit behind the wings, to survive.
Bonus info: MOST crashes occur within the first, and last, 5 minutes of the flight. |
Future advice: never get a credit card or car loan at the same place you have your checking/savings/money market accounts.
The agreement for your loans usually includes a section on the issuer's "Right to Offset." This means that if you default or go over your limit, they can take the money from your other accounts with the institution to cover the losses. | Don't shit where you eat. |
does anyone know the head count yet?
I got there at 3:30 on Thursday for camping, i waited about hour n half and got 5th row which was about 100 yards from the entrance.
I thought everything was very well planned | CP was sick |
Going for the freeze out" means basically ignoring her. Giving her space to "reset" your relationship and hopefully make her wonder about why she doesn't have your undivided attention anymore.
Don't text her, call her or message her. YOU are the prize, if she wants you she will contact you if not then it's her loss. Don't initiate anything with her if she flirts with you flirt back hard , show her the awesome guy she is missing out on and then just walk away. Don't cave in and wildly ask for another date. Your time is too valuable to be on this one chicks beck and call. You are too d@mn busy doing awesome man crap to care. Let her chase you for awhile.
After a solid amount of time (varies - and I'm not talking like 2 weeks either.) you can try to re initiate for a possible round 2.
I think your best bet would be to ignore her and the oncoming case of oneitis and try to close other chicks, combined with practicing and reading up on how to have good sex. After a few other chicks you are going to forget all about this chick. | 1.)Ignore her, don't initiate contact.
2.)If she initiates flirting, flirt back hard. Don't fall prey and desperately ask her out. Make her know YOU are the prize.
3.)Read up on sex as the other posters mentioned. /r/sex Open/Close new chicks and apply step 3.
5.)If you REALLY want this chick after all those chicks you can attempt to resuscitate the relationship with her after a solid length of time, (months not days.) |
And yet that anonymity isn't always enough for people to say, out loud, that they are atheists. If it was a phone survey, they have your phone number. And if they have your phone number...well, put it together yourself. When there are fundamentalists out there that believe atheists should be registered like sex offenders, a lie can many times allay the fears of being "found out" and ostracized or confronted or discriminated against.
Also, while I sort of understand your Buddhist conversions argument, another problem with the survey is that it's not asking about beliefs, but about religions. People have a desire to be a part of something bigger than the individual and will reach out to religion many times to fill that void. It doesn't mean that atheists suddenly believe in a god, it means they want something more than what they have had. Sometimes it's pantheism, paganism, deism, atheistic Buddhism, etc.
I once embraced Buddhism as a "way of life" and rejected the notion that it was a religion. During that time, I still believed in a higher power and eventually went back to Christianity before shedding all supernatural beliefs and openly stating my atheism (to myself and close friends only due to fear of rejection from my family). If I went back to Buddhism now, as an atheist, I still wouldn't believe in a god or higher power and yet may chose to label myself as a Buddhist. That doesn't mean that I'm not also an atheist. And this is why the survey is flawed. It simply asks what were you raised and what do you consider yourself now and if there is a change, it's set as a hit against the initial group.
Where's Universal Unitarian? Pagan? Secular humanism? Any other association with belief and not religion? Remember, people like labels. It helps them file things away in their mind and shorten the amount of time necessary to form opinions. | You wanted to use this information to prove a point, but it's not very useful in backing up your point. As I said way back, straw man. |
skills also scale differently with power, so the min value balance can be different then max value. You also make no comparisons to other classes... So overall all you've done is given baseline DPS value's for elementalist auto attacks, with absolutely no reference or ability to make statements of over or underpowered... And tbh elementalists have so many more skills to be using to do damage with than...idk EVERYTHING but maybe an engineer, that if there baseline dps was onpar with a guardian, then give the burst on top of it... it'd be a little ridiculous | Don't be bad, use your skills, cycle atunements. |
I wanted to prove that so I made a chart, I want to make one for each class so I can get a true comparison. So for now enjoy this chart for Elementalists! | Learn to read? |
This on no way helps, but when I lived in campus at a university in Sydney, there was a pair of shoes up on the power lines near our residential building. I saw the Canadian dude throw them up there and I know why.
Earlier in the day we were just hanging out and he was standing in the middle of the lounge room. He tried to fart and...well, a thick brown liquid ran down the inside of his leg and over his shoes and socks. His best friend starting laughing so hard, I decided to get out of there as it would already be embarrassing enough for him (and didn't want to be around when the smell hit).
Tried as he did, those shoes got clean but the smell remained. So in the end he decided to throw them up onto the power lines instead. It took him two goes, but they got there and were still there 2 years later when I left uni in 2002. | shoes on the power line may mean a Canadian shit himself. |
My friends that died, died putting themselves in harm's way so that others wouldnt have to. They went out to disarm ieds so their junior team members wouldn't risk their lives. They went and cleared roads for the convoy behind them. | Don't diminish why others have died.
Also, fuck you. |
Question: I'm a Canadian and came home from university to find our internet connection was no longer secured. My mom said it just randomly happened. Tried to log-on to my modem and add a security but it wouldn't let me in. Called the support line posted on cisco's (my modem company) website. I went through a very similar process that was explained by this guy but on my mac. He showed me the console and the error messages gained control of my computer, etc, etc. charged me around $170 to resecure the network and wipe the viruses of the 4 macs that were connected to the modem. | Did i get scammed by Cisco? |
I got a few of these calls a few months ago. One time when I had nothing better to do, I played along. When he said the errors were caused by viruses, I told him that I knew about the viruses and I liked them. He said they were bad viruses, and he wanted to help me remove them. I explained that I didn't want to remove them, because they are my pets, and I want them to grow up big and strong. My goal was to train them and enter into the Johto Virus Battle Championship. He got angry, told me I was wasting his time and hung up. | I told a scammer that computer viruses are my pets, and I raise them like pokemon. |
I did this exact thing when they called me - I was bored and had played around for about 45 minutes. Originally he had got me to the eventviewer by spelling it out, e for egg, v for vision etc. I started having 'issues' and started spellling out the errors to him - f for foxtrot, u for uniform, c for charlie etc. I told him to suck my dick, eat my ass in the same way before he passed me off to his manager. His manager hung up fairly quickly.
The kicker? The first guy who was too thick to pick up on what i was doing FUCKING CALLED BACK TO ABUSE ME! I shit you not. I remained calm and told him how much fun I had with him, he asked me to suck his dick, I said I'd love that because he sounds like a pretty boy. He was fucking furious, it was beautiful. I love the nerve of the asshole, calling back a potential target for wasting his precious time. | scammer calls back to abuse me for wasting his time |
Every basic ecology class teaches this. The idea situation would be to harvest and maintain the population when they are at K/2 (half the carrying capacity). This would mean they are experiencing the highest rate of increase. If you keep a population very low (which is usually as, as seen in this article), there will be an large number of small or juvenile fish that aren't participating in reproduction, and there is also a chance of local extinction. Additionally, if you keep the population high (although this never really happens), the rate of increase is greatly reduced due to the population being close to it's carrying capacity - basically wasting potential fish. | We need to stop being such selfish bastards |
i was thinking about exactly this just yesterday and my thought was,
how is it even possible that we are out-fishing the seas? i'm not doubting it's happening just that there is enough food for everyone (if evenly distributed) and we are not over-harvesting our crops or over-slaughtering our cattle. there might be cases of over-hunting but that is usually not for food. why is there so few fish-farms? 70% of earth is water, and no one lives there! super much room for farms. of course there is some engineering and ecologic difficulties but really, we went to the moon 50 years ago! today we have robots that can learn and are able to see peoples thoughts, we built a 828 meter high tower. surely we should be able to build fishfarms. this should have been happening long ago, i feel traditions and conservationism is to blame here. | why are the fishfarm industry so small scale? |
at first i thought this post was a joke, i read 100mi as 22min 35 seconds...then i thought about it. | i'm stupid sometimes |
Eh. The problem is with circulation. Smoking causes your vessels to constrict, which reduces blood flow to the area, which reduces your body's ability to heal. So yeah, the nicotine may reduce your stress, but it also DRASTICALLY reduces your body's ability to heal. | Please stop smoking? |
Well, lets see. I got tormented every morning in PE by some skank (who we'll call Jenny) who "Just didn't like me" She proceeded to try to make me her "bitch" (give her my things to "borrow", tell me to do things for her) and after I refused, proceeded to convince people that I was talking shit about them. Now considering she was fairly well known, she managed to turn a lot of people against me. Including this huge broad that I barely knew (who I'll call Kelly). One thing leads to another and Kelly, who is HUGE, wants to fight me. Kelly threatens to stab me, gathers a hoard of people to jump me, and approaches me in a passing period. My friend who was with me, who also knew Kelly, tried to talk to her, and explain that she was being lied to, but Kelly's trailer trash cousin hit my buddy and they got into it before any actually discussion took place. In the end we all got suspended; Me, my buddy, Jenny, Kelly, and her crazy cousin. I ended up changing schools. My mom thought it was ludicrous that I was suspended for literally not doing anything, and its turned out to be the best decision we've ever made.
And Kelly's cousin went to juvie right after! And then to jail! Glad she's doing well for herself. | Bitches are crazy and high school sucks for pretty much everyone. |
During the Abbey Road recording sessions, a number of basses were used. It's believed Paul switched between his Hofner, Rick, and a Jazz during the recording sessions. Even Harrison used his Fender Bass IV on a couple tracks (Golden Slumbers, Maxwell's Silver Hammer, and Carry That Weight. IIRC). Though during the time when they put down Come Together, it was believed that he had the refinished Ric with him.
Paul's tone was a variety of things, but most of all it was a high quality tube studio compressor he used extensively. Get some flat wounds, or roll the treble/tone all the way off, and play with either pick or fingers to get the sound right. and just tweak. trust your ears. the tone is in your fingers
ANYWAY, sorry for the rant. | Get a compressor and flatwounds and practice. |
I've found that low-class mobs, Centurions and Marauders most notably, seem to stagger consistently when they're in the radius of the Singularity. The chip damage and the stagger provides time enough for me to get shots off with the Hurricane. This tactic is sufficient enough for me to deal with general enemies.
But I agree to a point. The Singularity-Adept really can't bank on priming and detonating their own explosions. They can self-detonate, but it requires the player to operate within a terrifying and narrow margin of error. As a duder who isn't very good at video games, that's probably not a square deal.
I love the new Singularity Adept much in the same way I like the Paladin. I'm now a de facto shield stripper. 200+ damage p/second isn't monumental on Gold, but that chip damage plus the overwhelming assault from a Hurricane slotted with Disruptor Ammo helps the Adept soften the front lines up. Shockwave can stagger pretty much everything, and Warp is there to really hurt the armored guys.
Maybe I'm in the minority on this, but I always found the Human Adept to be dependent on other strong power users. Singularity wasn't useful in my playstyle before, but is easier to incorporate as a support-type now. | I don't know that I agree or disagree but I think I want to cobble together some other perspectives before diving headlong into a conclusion. |
Last NAGA one of my teammates went to Philly and won two belts and a silver medal. He doesn't really talk about it. Just rolls and shit-talks (in good fun). That's pretty much an exemplification my school's atmosphere. I can't imagine the kind of atmosphere you're describing. If someone gets caught, they tap, laugh, and roll again. | What you've described is a cancerous, anal-cyst of a training environment. Find a more chill school, if you can. |
I am in mechatronics too. Graduating in a few months.
It is an awesome program, and you do learn a lot. While it is kind of competitive, we are a very cohesive bunch (together from start to finish) and as such, we try to help each other as much as possible. The amount of cooperation I have seen is really heartwarming.
In addition, we learn a lot, but we don't go very much in depth. Last term, for example, I had my first mechanical design job. I hadn't learned much regarding nuts, screws, and washers. The senior engineer at the company explained, though, and thanks to the background we had gotten, I understood it really well. Full responsibility was handed over to me for about three weeks.
You will probably be biased to one subject or the other, but you will learn how everything else is connected. If it is for you, you will really love it.
Why do you want to go into tron? | I think tron is awesome, but it depends on who you are. Why are you considering it? |
Best tip I can give you is to train to fight. Boxing, Judo, BJJ, Muay Thai, Krav Maga, anything man. Find something you like and train in it.
If you were to get into a fight tomorrow, it will probably go the exact same way it went today.
Also, understand that no matter how good you become at fighting, or how many tips you get, there is ALWAYS a chance you will still get your ass kicked. Training helps you mentally deal with that ass kicking too. | Find some fighting art you like, Train. |
OMW to mountain high, got breakfast and scratchers @ jensens and won 50 bucks, best day ever. | got paid to snowboard for a day. |
in my limited experience i find that learning the game first and getting your general mechanics down is a lot more important than learning individual heroes. if you have a good general knowledge of skill interactions and skill usages(which you can obtain from both playing against certain heroes and with certain heroes on your team, i.e. by not necessarily playing the hero itself) and decent mechanical skill, then playing a hero you've not played before becomes a LOT easier.
personally i just played the heroes i liked playing, and occasionally when i went out of my comfort zone with heroes i hadn't played before i still did pretty well as the general mechanical skill and game knowledge i'd built up from say, my first game as enigma(the first hero i played) to my first game as jakiro(couple days ago) made both experiences completely different and i played a pretty semi-decent jakiro. | learn the game and learning the heroes will come naturally. the only real exception to this i would say are micro-intensive heroes, in which a completely different kind of skill is required. |
One thing I have been told multiple times is that if you have any field or lab experience and you really connected to a grad student or professor, see what the programs are like at the school where they got their masters, PhD or maybe even were a postdoc at. This can open up doors for you! For instance, you can put the person you connected to (let's call them person A) as one of your references. I'd put them near the top of your list. Person A went to Berkeley. You decide to look into Berkeley's programs. You find that person A knows many of the faculty members as they were very active in the department. You submit your application to the person with the project you're most interested in, (person B) but you say is okay if it doesn't work out with them, you wouldn't mind working with someone else. Person B sees person A on your references list and remembers that person A still has his Janis Joplin album and has been meaning to call him anyway! He calls up person A, they catch up, then B asks A about you. A raves about you and says "you'd be missing out if you didn't take this wonderful person on." B then looks at what you are interested in and realizes (with a little help from the positive words of his friend) you would be the perfect fit! Assuming you pass the interview.
Good luck with everything!! I don't know much about deadlines, I just thought this might be a way to shorten the time it would take. | who you know is more helpful sometimes than what you know. |
There was a interview done over the summer with a Japanese game designer whose name escapes me. The main focus was your question. His thoughts on it was that Japanese game developers had gotten complacent and no longer create games that are as interesting as they had in the past. That the cool visuals are there but a good narrative is missing.
Also Japan had always made game for it's markets first and then released them to the rest of the world. Now there are more game developers making games geared towards US and Euro sales. Go and look at the games released in the 80's and 90's, and compare them to the release lists from 00's. I would think that the 00's list might be bigger and has a more diverse list of developers
Over the last decade there has been a major shift in what type of games are available. The 80's had a few types that the 90's expanded on that list and the 00's saw those game types multiply by stitching together different types into new "frankenstein" game types. Like Borderlands being a Shooter with RPG elements, or Fallout New Vegas being a RPG with shooter elements. | Japan got lazy, and there is way more competition |
My thoughts from nine months ago and its corresponding discussion: [here](
>I would love to see a Zelda title taking place so far in the future that the current timeline either is blurred to irrelevancy or converges somehow into a single thread. I'm thinking about 1000 years or so passes by, and the fantastical world we once knew is just a myth among the inhabitants of Hyrule.
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>I'm thinking of a dystopian future where tech has replaced magic/potions/etc and most organic things. It's a dirty and sad place filled with machines and metal. The gods haven't made themselves present since the last game (chronologically) in the timeline(s).
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>Link's name is relevant now from a technology standpoint. I imagine Link minding his own business walking down an alleyway on his way to meet up with his friends, when he hears a woman being assaulted. It's Zelda. Link steps in, despite his usual apathetic tendencies (demonstrated in earlier cut scenes leading up to this point). Zelda is ungrateful, claims she could have taken care of herself, and walks away in a huff. Link pursues her, but loses her around a corner. He finds himself in an unfamiliar part of town, and as he's walking and taking in his surroundings, he falls through deteriorated street into some underground passages. Perhaps he stumbles upon the reason why the gods haven't been present in so long. Perhaps he finds an entrances to some of the "old" Hyrule. Perhaps a lot of things...
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>It can go a lot of different ways, but I'm very interested in a total departure with regards to tone and setting. At the same time, weaving in the traditional play-mechanics we've all grown to love and call "a Zelda game".
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> | Dystopian future, legend is myth, no god presence, all tech, Zelda's a bitch. |
You're missing out on a few key stages, which is crucial to how the law works.
When the 999 call is made, by either someone who heard the gunshot, or the homeowner who's defended himself, an ARV (armed response vehicle) will be sent out. The guy with the gun, whomever it may be, will be ordered to put the weapon down.
If he owns a shotgun/rifle, then there will be a 99% chance that he'll also possess the shotgun certificate or FAC (Firearms certificate) to go along with it. This will be recorded on a database and will enable the police to establish whether he is the legal owner of the firearm very quickly.
The police do not have to arrest someone to talk to them. The police will talk to the person who used self defence in the household, be it for a few minutes longer, to establish the basic runthrough of events. If everything checks out, there are witnesses etc, then normally you'll just be asked to go to the station to give a statement, and possibly further questioning. If there are any discrepancies, etc, you'll probably be arrested. | Establishing identity is an incredible simple process, and if there's any doubt then you'll be arrested. |
After seeing enough of these pre and post weight loss photos, I've decided I'll dedicate my senior thesis in scientific research to this phenomenon I'm going to call The Chubby Muncher . I established that every person that is overweight, from a little chubbiness to a lot of fat lady lobes covering the body, in every segment of being a fatty, is capable of eating a smaller, handsome person. Whether or not it shows depends on the size of the smaller, handsome person and the digestion process of the fat person. When they munch it down, the smaller person has a 1/32 chance of still being alive. In other cases, the fat person remains fat forever, but can still munch down other smaller people that will reset the 1/32 chance for them. In the rare case that the smaller person survives, they can, in turn, start eating up the conscience of the fat person from within. This is a 100% deliberate choice. If the smaller person decided they like being inside the big person, they can tingle their brains and ask for more candy, and the fat person will inject more sugars into their body, for the smaller person to eat. They have to survive too, you know. But if the smaller person decides they want out and start eating the conscience, at one point, the rest of the triggers will stop working. The fat person will stop eating so much and so unhealthy, the fat person's muscles will demand exercise and eventually, the fat person is completely obliterated and the smaller, handsome person comes out. | don't be fooled! This is not the fat person from the first photo! It is a smaller, handsome person the fat person had at first eaten, but fought its way out! |
I meant files, mostly word really. Well, actually I guess I meant just change the folders and all it's file's permissions, so that people could work, but they would be blind. Cause some trouble and mayhem, see how many people still try and work blind, and how many of those delete everything. Another fun thing, would be to randomly give random pepple admin status/permission/access to random stuff (eg. servers, drives). I want to watch the world burn, but I'm too nice. If I wasn't moral (ethical? I mix the two up alot [wth¿⸮? My fone kerekted a lot to a lot¡i! nevermind its just the crap default keyboard. It doesn't have "alot" in it's dictionary, but it just has a fuck-all unintuitive autocorrect. "Stuf" gets changed shit, quotation marks are ALWAYS turned into commas, et cetera. My brother turned off swype because thought it was too slow... I'm going to turn Ignacio on. Wtf... I typed "it back" without the space, what the shit is Ignacio?]) then I would just be like a non-genius version of Jigsaw, only kinda crappy
EDIT: | I act/post like I'm high or something late at night. |
She is not the most important thing in your world. You are, and you are performing a massive disservice by staying on this withered relationship.
She doesn't want to try with you, she wants to try with this other guy. What's more, she's cheating on the other guy with you. Remember that when you're talking about getting over your betrayal; she is continuing to betray both of your trusts.
You seem like a great guy, but you gotta walk away from this. It will be difficult, and you will be tempted to talk to your ex repeatedly. That's why there are a lot of jokes about drunks calling up their exes at night. But you'll see that it gets better over time.
If you're looking for advice on handling the breakup, I would suggest hobbies, friends, and positive atmospheres. Also, it's normal to feel pathetic now, but you can't turn on yourself. You did everything you could, and your ex decided to take advantage of your kindness. | Fuck that bitch, she doesn't deserve you. |
You have to hit all of your defensive timings - if you don't know what your defensive timings are, watch some pro games. You will see terran put up turrets after a certain point, some Zerg lay spore crawlers in advance, and most common protoss timing is a cannon or observer to prevent burrowed warfare.
Banshee harassment made 6 queens the standard for some players. I strongly suggest getting upwards of 4-6 queens against terran specifically for dealing with early banshees and hellions.
In terms of detection, cloak banshees are the reason for most early lairs. I generally go for lair tech only after +1 armor and ranged are done, otherwise I feel I am going for it far too early. | Either you invest in Queens for AA and Overseer's for detection, or you make 3+ Spores to cover all of your tech buildings, bases and drones. |
I'd like to respond to the second question.
My answer: Who cares? This is my opinion of course, but even if an omnicient and omnipotent being created the universe, it would be nothing like theists describe it. Do you really think such a being would be jealous, violent, attention craving, hypocritical, sexist, racist, ... etc? With its unlimited power, do you even think it cares about a damned thing that happens on Earth? Given the scope of the universe's existence, our species exists in a blink of an eye to a being of that nature. Why would our existence matter to it?
Regardless, the existence of such a being as described by theists contradicts itself (an omniscient being cannot be omnipresent). It also still does not answer the question of infinite regression, which I fear is impossible to answer. | There are more important questions we should be asking ourselves, my friend! |
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