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Tonight on Reddit-Event: 6v6 PUG up to 9v9 Highlander - 8:00 EST | Join us on the reddit-event server for some School-yard style pick-up game fun. We will go with whoever we get up to a 9v9 Highlander (1 of each class) if we get enough people.
Server IP: 68.232.168.52:27015
Password: r3dd1t
Following a couple of maps, we might break into Manhunt or Gungame if people are willing. | 5 | [
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"body": "Remind me not to do anymore reddit events... the admins were terrible. Spent an hour an a half just fucking around, on the wrong map, or in the wrong mode. ",
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"body": "We may play some customs maps, so I would recommend downloading cp\\_freight (final), cp\\_obscure\\_b4, and cp\\_follower (so you don't have to download them from the server).\n\nIt would be awesome if we could get 18 people to come out for a highlander, so don't be afraid to come, even if you think you're terrible.",
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Dear Reddit: I got fed up with unreadable YouTube links so I created this redirect service | Retube [http://retu.be](http://retu.be) creates readable youtube links based on the title of the video. For example, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l74Y_p6or00
gets turned into this:
http://retu.be/1001/Michael_Jackson-Billie_Jean-30th_Anniversary_Special
It's sort of like bit.ly, tinyurl in reverse :) Basically so you can send informative/descriptive links by email or chat. It's hosted on a low-spec server, so it might go under with any traffic. I've literally just deployed it, so any bugs do let me know.
A little more info is here: http://retu.be/help
**Edit:** I have now added a javascript bookmarklet which can be dragged to a bookmarks toolbar. So when on a video page you can instantly create a readable link (and, after creation, by clicking on the "Test link" link, you'll be taken right back to the youtube page). It's been tested in FF3, Chrome (both on ubuntu), if it breaks / doesn't work let me know.
**Edit 2:** This service (and the bookmarklet) will only work for video links that start:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIDEO_ID&other_query_params...
It doesn't (currently) work with playlists, channels or other youtube pages. | 34 | [
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"body": "This is great! Nice work!\n\nIt'd be great if there was a greasemonkey script or a bookmarklet that would do this from the actual Youtube page and copy it to your clipboard.",
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Dear Reddit: How do you get over the general malaise of finding out you're about to be unemployed? | I have worked at a local convenience store for over two years now. The business itself has been open for three years. The situation is a bit convoluted as the store may be able to stay open. Regardless, the entire staff is in fear of not being employed in less than a week. It's really a shame as we have a great beer selection, congenial clientele, and a nice downtown community atmosphere.
If you've been in the situation and know the feeling, how do you cope? How do you find a new job, and if you can't find a job so easily what do you do to productively occupy time? | 3 | [
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"body": "Don't burn bridges. Be respectful. Get a letter of recommendation if possible. Start looking for a new job immediately.\r\n \r\nEdit: Also, for the love of fuck, keep yourself occupied. Be around friends, family, etc. The depression that can set in from being idle for too long can sometimes literally kill.",
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So devout Redwings fans, do you think the Wings will make the playoffs? | Do you think it will happen? Why or why not? What obstacles must they overcome or what will ultimately hinder them from making it? | 5 | [
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"body": "I think they're going to finish strong and creep in. Howard's been pretty fantastic lately, except for the hiccup against the Islanders, and the skating corps is finally getting healthy. \n\nIn the short term it may have been difficult for Detroit but in the long term this is going to pay off, it got some of their younger players like Helm some much-needed playing time and he's definitely risen to the occasion. \n\nOnce Franzen's back Detroit's going to be back as well. They might not be the powerhouse of years past but they're still definitely a team to be reckoned with.",
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"body": "I also believe that the Wings will be in the playoffs, most likely between as a 6th, 7th or 8th seed. Once major pieces like Kronwall and Franzen get back, the Wings must stay healthy. The Wings' struggles this year are directly related to all of the injuries. Also, Howard must continue to have the hot hand and it would be nice to see Ozzie build some momentum of his own. This Wings team, when they are healthy, can be a thorn in the side of a 1, 2 or 3 seed. ",
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This is a circle, jerk. | http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Auto_Racing_Orange_Circle.svg/800px-Auto_Racing_Orange_Circle.svg.png | 8 | [
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"body": "[This is a square, Asshole.](http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Malevich_Black_Square_1913.jpg)",
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EVE Online: Is it worth playing if you don't have THAT much free time (and if you're a noob)? | Situation is simple: I started playing EVE, but played only... well, I don't remeber, something like 2-3 months. I reached (nearly) 3 mil sp, but then stopped playing because of my studies, my friends, my fraternity etc.
The problem is pretty simple too: EVE is a frustrating game. But it's also an AWESOME game! I need to play it!
Now... Is it worth if I restart playing EVE with not much time? Let's say during the first half of a semester i can spend 2-4 hours/day on EVE, but 0-2 during the other half of the semester, with up to 3 weeks without playing at all when the semester ends and exams are there. Is it even possible to achieve something? I want to do industrial stuff, mining etc, but can I become useful for a corp if I don't put more time into it?
EDIT: Thanks for all replies! Think I'm going to reactivate my account... | 13 | [
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"body": "Keep in mind that your skills train even if you don't play, that's one of the biggest differences with other MMOs I've found. Right now I'm kind of in a slump where I'm only playing a couple nights a week for 2-3 hours, but I'm still having fun doing it...and I'm training new skills all the time so that when I do get back to having more time for the game I'll have some new stuff to fly or fly better.",
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"body": "If you are interested in industry, you can just use market orders to buy minerals and set up jobs, it only takes a few minutes a day. If you want to be more productive, head out and mine yourself, but the bulk of your cash should come from buying minerals (with buy orders, not from sell orders), building stuff and selling it (again, from sell orders, not to buy orders).\n\nOne of the weird things about T2 manufactury is that usually the total sell orders for the minerals just about equals the sell orders for the finished product, so technically margin trading minerals would yield the same profit. The reason this is not true is because the total liquidity is way higher for manufactured goods.\n\nIn english: you manufacture T1 stuff to sell it faster, not to sell it for more. It's up to you to use market orders to get minerals for cheaper (possibly by hauling around).",
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"body": "If you enjoy it and you can afford it, then its always worth it. I only ever play about 5-10 hours a week on good weeks.",
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"body": "I have the same situation as you, so perhaps I can add a bit to the already great conversation. \n\nEVE doesn't seem to mind if youre gone, skills keep training, event occur, corps war. I only play once or twice a week when I get the time when the semester gets rollin, but I have a blast and really enjoy chattin' up my corpmates of 4 years now. Its as much as social event as it is gamin' time. \n\nIf its worth the money for you, I'd say go for it. I pay in 3-month increments to cut down on cost and keep me motivated, tho I have desubbed a few times when timse get crazy.",
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Reddit, Im going on a double date and the guy on the other side of the table is the "one up" guy. How do I deal with him? | So I agreed to go on a double date with a girl from work, its not a first date though. The thing is she said it would be fun to make it a double date with a friend of hers and her boyfriend.
Ive met the boyfriend before and he is the "One-up" guy. Very competitive and always trying to be better than you. every story I tell he always says " oh thats nothing, I've........."
how do I enjoy myself because I kinda like this girl? | 124 | [
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"body": "On the date:\n\n**You:**\"This is fun. It's alot better than the last double date I went on. \nThe other guy just kept one-upping everything I said.\"\n\n**Him:**\"That's nothing. *My* worst double date was... oh.\"",
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"body": "Explain to your date (in privacy) how he's the one up guy and how you will now make a game of goading him into hilarious excess, and that you don't want her to think you're really a bragging douche you just like to make him get silly in his braggadocio so you're about to start laying it on thick.\n\nThen do it, and enjoy.",
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"body": "You think that's bad? I've gone on so many double dates, I've lost count. I have so many bad stories I would have to do an AMA about it.",
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"body": "Just reply to his stories, without any emotion at all, \"neat\" then go directly back to talking to your gal. \n\nSeriously. It appeases him in a terrible way, by satisfying his need of praise while also clearly showing him you couldn't give a crap less. And then there is simply nothing more to that conversation, as you didn't ask any questions or say anything to which he can respond.\n\nAnd if he does it more than a few times, he will realize that you aren't actually caring about his stories at all as your single response is constant and unemotional.",
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"body": "In my experience, people who one up everyone else are just sad liars who are desperate to be as cool as you are. It's pretty easy for everyone else around to realize the guy is making things up, even if they are going along with it. Just relax and enjoy the fun, because the joke is on him.",
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"body": "Make something up that one ups him but is clever and relevant and obviously false. Talk about your days in 'nam, and how you missed your olympic appearance because your plane was hijacked by a gang of lolcats.",
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"body": "Easy: Set the bar low. For example, once you once climbed Mt. Everest.\n\nTalk about having climbed some very small local hill, and have him one up you, then say, \"Actually it was Everest I climbed but was trying to be modest.\"\n\nOr maybe you went skiing down some local fairly steep hill, and then he one ups you, and you say that no, actually you beat Stalin skiing down the K-12.\n\nIt will make him paranoid.\n\nUnderstate your accomplishments, let him one-up you, then CRUSH HIM WITH REALITY.\n\n",
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"body": "Ask questions about her. Its the best advice for any date, and if he starts the one-up thing just ignore him. Don't get into a one-up competition.\n\nI had two friends that had families with money. One didn't care too much about it, but a lot of his stories involved money because that was his background. The other one was constantly trying to one-up him, and it took a while for the other one to learn not to be taken in by it. My family was neither rich nor poor, and we never put much emphasis on it, so he had no ammo to use against me, so I never had to deal with his one-upsmanship.\n\nIf you know things about this guy, you can talk on areas that you know he has no interest, and hopefully circumvent his tendency, especially if you can find something you and her have in common that he doesn't.",
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"body": "Get the original 8-bit Super Mario 1-up sound on your phone. Use appropriately. When asked why you keep doing that, explain that you felt like you had to keep up somehow.",
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"body": "whenever he says something he did that one ups you, I would ask him about so many minute details of the one up it would drive him insane ",
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"body": "A lot of people are suggesting you beat him at his own game by being over the top and making him look ridiculous, or make fun of him with a \"cool story, bro.\" \n\nI think this is terrible advice. You are only going to seem like more of an asshole. If this girl is cool, she will see through his bullshit and appreciate that you are not an idiot like he is. If she can't see through him then maybe she isn't worth dating.",
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"body": "Don't pay any attention to the guy. Just focus on your girl and don't bother even justifying anything he says.",
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"body": "Here's a secret nobody realizes, it is AMAZINGLY easier to score with the girl when you double date with a One Up guy.\n\nThe girl see's how annoying and obnoxious and self centered he is and is relieved at your calm demeanor and instinctively looks at you as more compatible.",
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"body": "You've got him pegged: he's insecure and has everything to prove. Be the better man by relaxing and being yourself, confident in the fact that you don't need to impress anyone. This will, ironically, impress your date far more than a game of one-upmanship.",
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"body": "Goddammit reddit. All these upvoted responses are absolutely terrible. And i mean go to the bathroom and run out the back door ending the date terrible. How is being passive agressive, or downright hostile to the other guy on the date going to make you look good? It might make you look better than the other guy but thats not saying much. They will probably end up hating both of you if you act on any of this advice. Its just that shitty.\r\n\r\nListen, you two are already percieved as friends. Since you obviously know him previously and are going to dinner together you are tied together in both your date's mind. She wants you to have a good time and get along with her friends. Adding value to him adds value to you. He is an asset. Tearing that down is tearing down yourself. If one upping is part of his personality and not some way to make you look bad then go ahead and play into it. \r\n\r\nSet him up for his best stories and direct the conversation away from him if hes in danger of becomming a douche. If the girls have fun its a win for both of you. If you act entertained by his stories you dates will be too. If hes a little out there they will see it and they will realize you are sociable and a good guy for not letting it ruin your time. Thats how you look good here.\r\n\r\nYou want them to associate you with fun, not some butthurt troll that can't tolerate some obnoxious guy. \r\n\r\nIf you make one person have a bad time, be it one of the dates or him you effectively turn it into a bad date. There is absolutely no advantage to you to do anything but make him and yourself look good. Confrontation (passive or aggressive) is uncomforable. If hes that bad that it will always end up with that then you should cancel, if not figure it out and own the situation. There's no reason he has to get to you unless you let him.\r\n\r\n\r\nI swear reddit in general has never been on a date before.",
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"body": "One-upping is sometimes unintentional or misinterpreted. In awkward social situations you may just be trying to be a part of the conversation by presenting a similar life experience that you might have had. I know I came across as a one-upper when I first met my wife's (then girlfriend) friends at a dinner party. Everyone was talking about stuff they all did together when they were growing up and I felt a bit left out, I didn't want to just sit there quietly like a doofus, so I started telling similar stories I had myself, which just earned me a lot of uncomfortable silence and blank stares.\nSo my choice was to be known as the quiet unsociable boyfriend, or the blathering full-of-shit boyfriend.",
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"body": "YOU: I have to admit, there was once in college that I was not sure if I was that into girls.\n\nHIM: That's nothing, one time I blew like three dudes behind a dumpster.",
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"body": "The ultimate phrase for this situation. Must be said with a sort of disgusted or dismissive look: \"That's great, but anyway...\"",
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"body": "I'm not a real party guy, but I went to one a few years ago, and got introduced to a professor who looked like \"not a party guy\". But when he was introduced to us, he said \"So, what's the last book you read that wasn't for work, and how did you like it?\" I told him the title, and he said he hadn't read it so I gave a short summary, and then told him I thought it was only okay. He asked a few followup questions, said it seemed like an interesting topic but he'd accept my opinion on its okayness, and then turned to my wife and asked her the same thing. She'd been reading *Guns, Germs, and Steel*, and he asked her a number of questions about what she thought of it.\n\nIt was really strange, being asked a question about something that goes on inside your head, but that wasn't about what you think of celebrities and wasn't too personal. My wife & I both agreed it worked well: it gives you a chance to talk about something you're doing without talking too much about yourself personally. Ever since, that's my go-to topic: what's the last book you read that wasn't for work? If I'm in a group, I ask each person in turn. (If it doesn't seem like a group of readers, I substitute movies instead, giving two categories: on TV or at a cinema.)\n\nI've discovered that this is also good because it often slows down people like Topper from Dilbert [http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2009-05-07/](http://www.dilbert.com/fast/2009-05-07/), because they can't very well say \"That's nothing, *I* read a book with *ink* on the pages!\", and because if they don't let the next person have their turn then their rudeness becomes obvious. Once obnoxious guy went on about how he could have written a much better book, and I said \"Well, I'll look forward to reading it when it's finished\", and turned to the next person and asked them what they'd read. He looked positively poleaxed at the notion that anyone expected him to actually *do* something he'd been bragging about.\n\nEDIT: link",
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"body": "easy:\r\n\r\nRight. I had to get up at ten o'clock at night, half an hourbefore I went to bed, drink a cup of sulphuric acid, work twenty-nine hours a day down at the mill and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work, and when we got home, our mother and father would kill us and dance on our graves singing Halleluja. \r\n",
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"body": "Get Neil Armstrong to drop by and chat for a bit. One time him saying \"That reminds of the time I was walking on the moon.....\" beat that bitch. ",
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"body": "i would think he's doing it because he's nervous himself and has extremely low self-esteem. \n\nit'll be like \"oh yeah? well i drive a porsche CAYENNE!\" and you answer \"really? those are pretty alright, from what i've read...\" \n\njust be patient and nice to him. not overly nice, but never show a whit of annoyance. don't ever offer him any ammo, just be passive and let him be superman. \n\nif you're lucky, the girl will notice and think \"wow, that guy danny is such a douche, but my date gary is super patient with him.\" \n\nwomen aren't dumb, she'll see what's going on. if she's the kind that thinks \"wow, gary is such a pushover\" because you're being patient, then, well, no second date and you dodged a fucking bullet.",
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"body": "Let your girl in on your insight and turn it into an inside joke between you two. See how many times you can get him to one up you just so you can toss your girl a knowing grin. If he catches on that you are toying with him he will stop and you and your girl can continue on your double date. Cool thing about that is, if it works well, you can come back to it later as a small personal meme. Also, counter every one up with a CSB.",
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"body": "The best way to deal with it is to smile condescendingly and then ignore him. So, if you say something, and then he says, \"that's nothing, you should hear about the time when I blah, blah, blah,\" then while he is rambling on, then smile and nod, turn to your girl to keep a connection with her, etc. Don't engage him or respond to anything he says. At some point, turn to your girl and resume the previous conversation you were having or start talking about something else. If you want to be sly, then turn to her and start a \"private\" conversation by using a lower voice. You could do this by turning to her and asking her how her meal is. Do this while he is in the middle of talking. That way, if he somehow tries to interject into this private conversation you are having, then he will have to interrupt himself to do so.\n\nNo matter what, if you play this correctly, you are actually getting a golden opportunity to strengthen your connection with this girl. It's up to you. Good luck.",
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"body": "I work with one of the worst one up guys I have ever met. My strategy is to agree with him in a very subtly sarcastic tone.\r\nFor example at the open bar work party we were discussing general consumption levels and about how bad xmas time is for excessiveness. This guy drops the hammer and puts out startling statistics on what he’s drank in one sitting which (and I’m a very good drinker so I know what) would kill a baby horse. People start to argue with him about a) how would you remember that b) not possible you only way about 140 pounds only to be met with even more ridiculous stories, because if there is no way of proving him wrong then he’s just going to continue. I just look at him and in a subtly sarcastic tone say something along the lines that I was rather impressed and that must have been quite an experience. He thought I was making fun of him but I assured him that “no no, I honestly believe you drank that much. I’m very impressed.” \r\n\r\nWhat else is he going to say? Chicks are also attuned to sarcasm especially if they have older brothers.\r\n",
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"body": "Do the \"I walked on the moon\" bit by Brian Regan\n\n[link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QvSoRQrVJg)",
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"body": "Say \"We clocked the T-Rex at 32 miles per hour.\" \n \nIf he says anything but \"You have a T-Rex?\" it's a LIE!!!",
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"body": "I've rarely dealt with the one-upper, so maybe I'm him. Anyway, on to my amazingly awesome story about a one-upper we used to know in college. My friend Danny and I had a female friend in our dorm, and I'll be honest, our friendship was mainly transportation based. She had a car, and we did not. There really wasn't any attraction other than that, and she was acceptable company to hang out with. \n\nAlong comes her new boyfriend sometime in the second semester. He also had a car, and unfortunately, it was a Honda Prelude, or something like that, with an equally uncomfortably back seat for two 6 foot tall guys. Needless to say, he did everything in his power to ditch the third and fourth wheel, although really his only power was trying to constantly one-up any story we told.\n\nAnyway, he was a horribly ridiculous one upper, and the girl never really saw through it. I just remember his most ridiculous story was told after someone mentioned frisbee golf. He told a story about how he threw a frisbee from the upper deck in Husky stadium and it landed in Union Bay. We played along and asked him questions about why he threw it, or what he was doing there, and he just kept getting more and more defensive.\n\nSadly, our ride to the U district on the weekends was lost on him.",
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"body": "I don't have any good advice, but it makes me recall two friends I had. One we called \"One up\". Then we met this other guy... we called him \"Double up\". When the two of them got into the same room... wow\n\nMy general response for ppl like this : \"Well my father is Superman...\" \nThey usually end up looking at me like i'm retarded... they are probably right.",
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"body": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QvSoRQrVJg\n\nThis should help, just try to avoid breaking down at the dinner table when he starts pumping his own tires.",
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"body": "Say:\n\n* I have killed *zero* people in cold blood.\n\n* I have served *zero* years in federal prison.\n\n* I'm currently dating *zero* other women.",
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"body": "Make a game of it with your date. Tell her about your \"one-up guy\" theory (don't be mean about it) & every time he one-ups someone, you both have to slam your drink. If the guy really is a dick your date will recognize it, too. ",
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"body": "In a letter of Machiavelli's, still in existence, when one of his penpals brags how he'd bedded some amazing looking whore, he brags how he slept with a decrepit, old, gray, mostly toothless, fat old lady and he doesn't think he'll ever have sex again.\n\nHowever, you must make it clear to your date _beforehand_ that you'll be doing this, and the stories _must_ illustrate a certain amount of creativity on your part. If you are creative, you win, if you just reverse stuff, you lose.",
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"body": "talk to the girls- then let him talk- then talk to the girls again- they will notice that you talk to them while he only talks about himself.",
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"body": "Go into \"Four Yorkshiremen\" mode and just keep one-upping him to the point of absurdity. See how long it takes until he realises you're taking the piss.",
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"body": "Self-deprecating humor. There's only two ways he can one-up you, and both make him look bad- example 1:\n\n**you:** \"I am *such* a procrastinator. This one time I waited so long to...(insert funny anecdote here)...\n\n**him** \"That's funny but this one time I...(proceeds to expose a worse trait of his own, thereby making himself look worse than you- you get points in your girl's eyes.)\n\nexample 2:\n**you** \"I'm so clumsy. this one time I...(another funny anecdote)...\"\n**him** (not willing to make himself look bad) \"wow, you really *are* clumsy.\" (Now he's made himself look like more of an asshole by dogging you out unnecessarily.)\n\nEither way, after a few of those deals, I bet nobody at the table will be interested in his nastiness, and you all can proceed to just talk around him.",
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"body": "Please take a tape recorder to the dinner. I want to know what a one-upper sounds like in the wild...",
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"body": "Ask her questions about herself. If he starts one-upping her, you can defend her. And you end up looking like a good listener :-)",
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"body": "You: \"I use to always buy everyone-I-went-out-with's food and drinks but I can't really afford that anymore\".\n\nCome on, worth a try.",
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"body": "Let him. Give him all the rope in the world. Let him be the star of the night. Ask questions that set him up to glorify himself. Punctuate his statements with lots of \"really?\" and \"that's interesting\" and \"how so?\". \n\nConfidence is not having to tell everyone how awesome you are. Your date will be able to tell the difference. ",
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"body": "whip out your cock and tell him to 'top this'. the one-up guy almost almost always has issues in that department. \n\nplus the wait staff at the restaurant will love it. ",
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Looking for a good 22LR pistol. Other than the Walther P22 and the Sig Mosquito, what are some other ones? | I've been looking around trying to find a nice 22LR handgun that isn't a tiny little thing like a Kel-Tec. I was just looking for some other options other than the previously mentioned guns.
Thanks.
**Edit** I like the P22 and the Mosquito, I was just looking for some other options. | 22 | [
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"body": "If you dont mind ugly, Beretta neos is pretty accurate, I pop prairie dogs @ 50 yds with mine. W/a cheep $20 bsa red dot scope. I also keep it in the jeep when deer and antelope hunting, for popping grouse",
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"body": "I would definitely say that the top two are the buckmark and the ruger mark II/III. I prefer the buckmark because the grip feels better in my hand. Mine shoots any ammo great. I threw a cheap reflex red dot sight on it and it's one of the most fun shooting guns I own. I have the camper version, picked it up new for $250 at Gander a few years back. They make tons of different versions so you can pick what suits you best. ",
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"body": "A question for the americans here: Have you heard of any of the .22 guns that are the most common ones if you visit a competition here in Sweden? I'm talking about guns such as these:\n\n\n[Hämmerli SP20](http://www.sgid.org/images/lauf/ulli09.jpg)\n\n[Benelli MP90 WC](http://www.bengtsforspsk.se/grafikk/Benelli-MP90S-WC.jpg)\n\n[Pardini SP22](http://www.targetshootingproducts.com/store/images/_immagini_espanse_SP%20rf.jpg)\n\n[Feinwerkbau AW93](http://www.waffenhaus-schneider.ch/Bilder/Waffen/Feinwerkbau_AW93.jpg)\n\n[Walther SSP](http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/images/ssp_gross_2700000.jpg)\n\n\nI'm not sure there is a market for these in the US. Here in Europe, .22 shooting is quite big and these guns are pretty expensive, around $3k for a new one so you wouldn't buy them for plinking...\n\nI have an older version of the Benelli myself but I wouldn't turn down the Walther...",
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"body": "For a nice .22 pistol, I say Buckmark. For a throwaway plinker.. I have a P22 and I couldn't be more happy with it. I know it's not the best, but that's not why I got it.\n\nBrowning makes a fine .22 that's as accurate as can be. I have my eye set on one after a rifle.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Like other have said, Buckmark is fine if you don't like the P22 or Mosquito.\n\nI have to put in another plug for the P22. I put a TAC-65 suppressor on it, and it is incredibly fun and quiet to shoot.",
"score": 5
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"body": "Ruger Mark II/III if you're on a budget (they're around $250 new if memory serves me correctly)--I have one, they're very good.\n\nFor the Rolls-Royce of .22 semi-auto pistols, the hands-down best is a [High Standard](http://www.highstandard.com/guns.html), but keep in mind that they retail for around $800 (but worth every penny, IMO--no question about value for money, the only question is whether or not you can afford one).",
"score": 3
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"body": "I have the Walther P22 and I love it. I have put a few thousand rounds through it. Great for plinking, great for target practice. \n\nI know you said you were looking for other options, but I'd have to vote for the P22.\n\nMy next handgun purchase will be the Walther P99 in .40",
"score": 3
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What song makes you feel like dancing? | tl;dr Favorite Dance Song
edit: so far, awesome. i feel more awesomeness coming and will probably dance all day ;) thank you!!
2nd edit: 70 songs on my playlist, in addition to a couple of videos.. please add more if you're seeing this for the first time!! | 14 | [
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"body": "[Lex](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0VAkPjrnWM) by Ratatat.\n\n[Dont' Stop 'til You Get Enough](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURRmWtbTbo) by Michael Jackson.",
"score": 3
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Does anyone know of any good web hosts? | Not hosts that charge too much for what they offer, or hosts that offer way too little to handle dynamic content. Basically, I'm looking for somewhere that I can pay decent money to carry an imageboard. Not an imageboard as popular or as bandwidth-guzzling as 4chan, course. | 4 | [
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"body": "I'd go with the two hosts that have recently advertised on reddit: A Small Orange and athenainternet. Mind you, I'm not a customer, I just like the attitude of the owners and their operation seems legit enough.",
"score": 3
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What's the weirdest misconception about computers or the internet, you've ever heard? | "I’d like an email designed and sent to the internet."
"We do not want anything interactive. We tried internet once. Didn’t do anything." | 6 | [
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"body": "in H.S I let a friend use my laptop and he left his myspace logged in. So we added all these pictures of ricky martin and added the YMCA song and commented on all his friend's pages, saying \"you are too cute!\"\r\n\r\n3 months later he found out it was me and a few friends, and advised his friends to give me thier email addresses because :\r\n\r\n\"he'll send you a virus in an email that will turn log into your myspace and turn it gay\"",
"score": 3
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"body": "When I was doing tech support for Bellsouth DSL (2wire support), I had an older lady who requested help with disabling the wireless signal in her 2wire modem. \n\nNow this wasn't a big deal, but seemed like an odd request coming from her. Not to \"assume\" things, but she didn't seem like a tech-savvy person who would know this can even be done, that and when I asked her at the beginning of the call what OS she was running, she responded with \"Compaq\". \n\nSo I decided to make conversation while helping her to do this and asked why she wanted it off. She replied that she is 100% sure the wireless signals throughout her house was summoning her dead ex-husband. And she was very serious too. I made the mistake of starting to try and convince her it isn't possible but that just led to her getting very angry at me.\n\n***Facepalm***",
"score": 3
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"body": "A friends mom is **firmly convinced** that she can be spied on through the CRT, you know, like a reverse camera thingy. In general, she is not a whack-job. But in this, no amount of logic can sway her.",
"score": 3
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Can someone explain to me why a natural disaster gets much more coverage than a man-made disaster? | Every day [16,000 children die of hunger](http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html). In the United States we pay our farmers not to grow food to keep the price high. We have the technology and ability to solve this.
The situation where poor people's live anguish only is [covered only when commercials can be broadcast between interviews](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aptli/do_you_think_it_is_in_poor_taste_for_newscasters/) makes me very, very angry. | 10 | [
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"body": "Look, hunger is a problem of poor organization. We have surpluses of food because we have institutions in place to promote such things. Poor nations don't have those institutions. Whose \"fault\" is that? Should we be running 24/7 news on how poor everyone else is? It's not exactly news that people have different standards of living. Systemic poverty is not an overnight thing that we can just swoop in and provide aid for.\n\nWhen a natural disaster hits it becomes a rallying event for people to help out. It's not that all of a sudden people care about hunger, thirst, etc. It's just that something like an earthquake has no rhyme or reason to it. An acute crisis requires swift action, which is something that awareness and one-time donations can actually ameliorate. \n\nIf we were to try to feed every hungry mouth by giving away everything for free, we would be bankrupt and they would have no means to actually support themselves. They would be utterly dependent upon foreign aid, which is not the way to lift people out of hunger. Real change must come from within.",
"score": 8
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"body": "If commercials were not being broadcast between interviews then there would be no money to do the broadcasting or interviewing...",
"score": 3
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I just made the most delicious, succulent pork I have ever tasted in my life. Reddit Cooking, I give you: Coca Cola Carnitas. | Okay, so a little background: I first saw these made when I was in college, staying with a family in the *colonias* (shanty town) in Nogales, while doing research for a paper about the *machiladores* (American-owned factories) just south of the border. As delicious as they were then, it never really occurred to me to give them a shot on my own. I guess I just figured that it was just that woman's inherited cultural magic that made her carnitas so delicious, and nothing I could ever hope to replicate.
But then, fast forward a decade to a few months ago, when I went to Mercadito, this great gourmet taco place in Manhattan, and saw Coca Cola Carnitas on the menu, and they were just as amazing as I remembered from Nogales.
Now, I've made my own carnitas a few times before, and they've always been pretty damn awesome, but nothing as good as either of these.
So I gave it a shot their way. And. it. was. fucking. awesome.
Here's the recipe:
Take one 6-7 pound pork shoulder, and cut it into 1"cubes, trimming away as much fat as possible (but don't go crazy, you *are* cooking pork shoulder).
Throw the cubed pork into a pot with a quartered onion, a roughly chopped jalapeno, and a few crushed garlic cloves. Season with salt, pepper, and adobo seasoning.
Now comes the awesome part: cover this whole mixture with straight-up Coca Cola Classic. Don't question it, don't worry about it; just do it. You should have just enough so that the pork settles about 1/2 inch below the surface. Probably about 1 liter.
Now bring this to a slow boil, and reduce it to a simmer as soon as you see the liquid begin to bubble.
Leave it just like that, uncovered, for about 2 1/2 hours. Stir occasionally.
Quick note: after about 45 minutes you'll probably notice that your pork has become super tough, dry, and chewy. DO NOT PANIC. This is supposed to happen. Basically, at this point all of the good soft fat has boiled out of the meat and into the liquid, but the tougher connective tissue has not yet broken down. Just keep on simmering and trust the recipe.
After the 2 1/2 hours, the liquid should be getting low and ridiculously delicious. Go ahead, give it a taste. You'll want to bathe in that shit.
At this point, stir in your favorite hot sauce to taste (I like rooster paste, myself) and about a tablespoon or two of Dijon mustard (optional, but awesome).
By now, the meat should be starting to really fall apart, and you'll probably want to help it along. Just start mashing away with a big fork until you get it into smaller shredded chunks.
Now just let the rest of that liquid soak in and cook off and you're done. Serve it with warm tortillas, or over rice, or just eat it straight out of the pot.... | 66 | [
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"body": "Had to say rooster paste, couldn't man up and say you love the cock sauce. Aka awesome sauce aka sriracha sauce or reddit's favourite sauce.",
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"body": "If you use palm sugar, lime juice and cinnamon instead of coke you'll get a much more natural flavour but still have fantastic meat.",
"score": 5
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"body": "I once had kangaroo with coca-cola sauce. Wasn't impressed. And, no, the combo didn't leave me bouncing off the walls :).",
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"body": "> You'll want to bathe in that shit\n\nYou had me @ this part ;)\n\nlooks good. instead of dijon, thinking of using Coleman's powdered mustard (sort of dust the meat cubes in it).",
"score": 3
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"body": "I made this 2 days ago, it is probably the best thing ever.\n\nI have to say, I went heavy with adobo sauce and it served me well. it is very savory and succulent. Mine is also a rich red color. \n\nI also tried it with rice + chipotle sauce in a burritto and it is like the God version the Spicy Chicken Burrito that was recently removed from Taco Bell's Menu (R.I.P S.C.B)",
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IAmA Childrens entertainer, i dress up as superheroes such as spiderman for kids birthday parties. AMA! | I found the job on my universitys website which has part-time jobs for students, I didn't submit a resume, I simply emailed a 500 word description of myself and my phone number. I didn't receive a callback, so I called the company. Turns out they didn't call me back because I didnt submit a formal resume.. Its a childrens entertain job for christ sakes :P
edit: that was 10 months ago, i got the job. | 4 | [
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"body": "One of your superpowers seems to be the super ability of not answering questions in a timely manner.",
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[offer] [request] Guy's insight | I am offering a guy's insight in to relationships. I am requesting a girl's insight. I know there's /r/relationship_advice, but there is a limit there to how much you can disclose.
Also, I'm hoping that this thing is more long term, every once in a while we catch up, ask questions, but we already know the background etc.
Edit: Wow! Thanks for the support everyone! I'll contact you! | 5 | [
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"body": "I'm in. I seem to be the one my internet friends come to for girl advice anyway...feel free to PM me and I'll give you my IM handle.",
"score": 4
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r/gaming... Have you recently gotten the satisfaction of conquering a game that dominated you in your youth? Talk about it here. | I recently made a bid to defeat all the titans of my youth. These are games that I could not beat for the life of me.
First up was Kid Chameleon. My god that game was impossible. I couldn’t begin to tell you how much time I spent on that game. It never ended. Recently my brother and I decided to download it on the Virtual Console and 2 player the hell out of it. For several weekends we would spend all day forging a path through that game. We got stuck on but finally blew through several hard-ass levels (Bloody Swamp, Hills of Forever, Ice God's Vengeance, The Final Marathon). I mean, we got so good at this game we had every continue and extra life memorized, and I've never even looked at a damn strategy guide. We got to The Final Marathon each with about 18 continues and 20 lives. When we each individually beat it we had about 3 continues (you know how Kid Chameleon works, you have to memorize every little part of a level to beat it, trial and error). Well my brother was unsuccessful in taking down the final boss. I got lucky and got stuck in a rut in the ceiling while jumping on his dead and beat him in about 5 seconds. Best day of my life.
Next up was Zombies Ate My Neighbors. I could not beat that damn game when I was young. I played it so much. First, I got stuck on the level with the huge worms. Beating it, I felt redeemed... only to get to the level with the huge spider.
Recently I picked it up for the virtual console, started out with the password BCDF (starts you off on a bonus level where you get a bazooka that lets you open a hedge in level 1 and go to the bonus level again) and played through the game all tactically (remembered how many button presses between bazooka and water gun, how many squirts it took to kill each monster, saved all my first aid kits until 1 HP, saved all monster potions for babies/worms/draculas/frankensteins). I found the secret flame thrower I never knew about which dominates frankensteins and draculas.
I beat the hell out of that game. Felt good man.
The only game I have left to beat is Secret of Mana. I remember renting that game, and Jesus it is long. I got the whole way to the Mana Fortress before and then I had to return it. And you know how games are back in the day, the save was on the cartridge, and of course I never got that version back so I eventually lost interest in beating it. But I plan to do that very soon.
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"body": "I thought now that I'm older I'll go beat the shit out of Mega Man 2 to make up for all the trauma it caused me.\n\nYeah didn't work out as planned...",
"score": 14
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"body": "The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for the NES (1989). That game was STILL nearly impossible as an adult.",
"score": 8
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"body": "The Legend of Zelda. Don't ask me why, but when I was a kid I was afraid of moblins, so I never went to a screen that had them come out. I even used my Game Genie in this game to get all kinds of stuff, but I never would go where the moblins were...\n\nThese days I play it on Virtual Console all the time. I know where every object in the overworld is hidden and usually don't go into the first dungeon before acquiring the Magical Shield, the White Sword, Candle, Blue Ring, Power Bracelet, and red Water of Life.\n\nThere was one time I came home from work, started a new game and thought I'd try to beat it in one sitting. It was no speedrun but I beat it in about 3.5 hours. Then proceeded to drink!",
"score": 4
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"body": "7 years ago: Fuck you Half-Life and your unbalanced firefights.\n\nNow: I beat you. Fuck you Half-Life and your unbalanced firefights.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Impossible Mission for the C64. When I was younger I couldn't figure out what to do with the puzzle pieces. One day while browsing the vc library on the Wii i found this gem and started playing it. Really enjoyed it. Finally got to the end. ",
"score": 3
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"body": "Zelda II on NES. As a kid I loved the first Zelda but couldn't stand the 2nd one. Then about 15 years later or so I played this on an emulator and beat it. It's actually a really awesome game. Much different than the other old school overhead view Zelda games.",
"score": 3
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"body": "Finally beat Biometal. Who's the bitch now, alien fucks? \nEdit: Cybernator too. \nEdit2: Just went to wikipedia's list of snes games to find Skyblazer, this game always kicked my ass as a kid. It took me forever to find the name of that game :(",
"score": 3
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"body": "The original Toejam & Earl. And the only reason I beat it was due to save states on emulators. That game was(is) the best.",
"score": 3
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Well, I'm leaving for work right now knowing that I will be fired once I get there. Wish me luck?! | I'm only doing so because if I don't go in my boss could say I quit and I couldn't collect unemployment. I'm actually happy because this will give me time to focus on my studies and will be a nice vacation after working three and a half years (not taking a single vacation the entire time). | 25 | [
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"body": "Fare thee well in thy endeavours, Sardonapalus.\r\n\r\nMay your termination be swift and painless; \r\n\r\nMay your erstwhile coworkers envy you your freedom;\r\n\r\nMay your boss come to regret his decision;\r\n\r\nMay you enjoy your extended vacation;\r\n\r\nAnd may your happiness lead you through your studies and on to greater things that cannot but engender more happiness thereby.\r\n\r\nFarewell and anon, my friend!!",
"score": 27
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"body": "It's tougher to get unemployment benefits if you were fired for cause. Not saying it's not impossible, but typically you get them if you were laid off or wrongfully fired. ",
"score": 5
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"body": "Stay professional and calm during the encounter, both with your boss and with your colleagues. This will pass, and in a while you'll probably think it was all for the best. Make sure they remember you as a fine and professional person who should never have been fired.",
"score": 4
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"body": "Best of luck, man.\n\nAsk him for a letter of recommedation, and then when you're leaving, in front of as many current employees as possible, try to get a High 5 from him. This will greatly improve morale in the other employees. ",
"score": 3
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Personal story of an event that made me very happy. | Yesterday in my Spanish class, we got off the subject of Spanish because we had finished all of the work, and were just discussing how Catholics allow their kids to drink wine for religious reasons. This led to me saying comment about some alcoholic beverages being pretty good.
My teacher then asked me what religion I was, and when she noticed that I kind of froze, she said "Or are you not? That's fine too, I understand. It doesn't offend me or anything." I lied and said I was Christian and she replied with something along the lines of, "Oh okay. I just noticed you got this look on your face and I didn't want to have worried you." This shocked me greatly, considering that I go to a Christian private school, in the bible belt (Alabama, specifically). I already knew she was very tolerant towards many things (homosexuality, for example) but this made my day.
**tl;dr- Teacher asks me what religion I am, says it's fine if I'm not religious, and that she understands. This occurred at a Christian private school in Alabama.** | 11 | [
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"body": "> tl;dr- Teacher asks me what religion I am, says it's fine if I'm not religious, and that she understands. I lie and say I'm Christian anyways. \n\nFTFY. ",
"score": 13
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"body": "Next week's headline: Spanish Class student kidnapped and subjected to forced \"exorcism\" by devout evangelical teacher.",
"score": 3
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I've been asked to make a cheap webcam security. | Some friends of mine asked if I could help capture a nefarious business associate in the act. I tried to use an open source program called [Dorgem](http://dorgem.sourceforge.net/) but for the people I'm putting this together for it'll be too difficult. I could do it myself, but because of legal reasons it's best if fewer people are involved in between.
1). I need to start multiple image capturing after motion is detected,
2.) I want to store the information off site, ideally something easy for my friends to get access to.
3.) I need to make it fairly idiot proof.
Any suggestions? | 27 | [
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"body": "[Motion](http://www.lavrsen.dk/twiki/bin/view/Motion/WebHome) has a ton of features to make it fully automatic. it can upload to an external FTP or SFTP. I once used it to catch a burglar on the act and later to watch his apprehension by our campus police. \n\n**EDIT:** By the way, here's the burglar we caught getting pwned by police: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4E-DpgfGMo",
"score": 8
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I don't like her friends. How important is this in a relationship? | We've been in a relationship for 10 years. For the majority of it, she didn't hang out with her friends that much because we were busy with school and work. She's had a few consistent friends who are around our age. I'm 28, she's 27. In the last couple of years, she has made some friends that have her same hobbies..singing/theater. These new friends are 18-21. Don't get me wrong, I'm not an ageist, but the maturity levels of these friends really makes me paranoid. The advice they give her, even outside of relationship advice, lacks any kind of experience to back it up. Also, there seems to be a lot of drama surrounding these friends and their personal lives, and all I can do is roll my eyes. My girlfriend gets caught up in it..wondering who said what, blah blah. I have even said to my girlfriend that I see her regress right before my eyes. I have been trying to be mature about it...telling her to invite them over for dinner, games, etc..but conversation never goes anywhere. I really feel like I'm dumbing myself down to hang out with these people. | 17 | [
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"body": "Have you tried being mature about it? Really? If I invited friends over and my girl rolled her eyes during the conversation I would be considering ending the relationship 10 years or not. Your post conjures up an image of you sitting with a blazer on and a pipe reading the newspaper while the rest of them get drunk and have a good time, you tutting all night.\n\nYour post reads like you are 58 nevermind 28, lighten up. Your girlfriend might be desperate for fun. You telling her she's regressing is only going to lead to trouble. \n\nWhere are your friends during all of this? To answer your subject line, it doesn't matter, not if you're happy to let her do her thing. If you want her to stop hanging out with them though, that's a different matter.",
"score": 17
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"body": "I was prepared to come in here and tell you that you need to make the effort to get along with her friends, because they are an important part of her life and she probably wants to incorporate you into it.\n\nThen I read that they are 18-21 year old theater people. Oh my god, what an annoying bunch of people, especially around that age. Yes, I am aware that I'm completely generalizing based on my own experiences. But seriously, one of my closest friends is a theater person, and the rest of the people that she knows from that world are fucking intolerable. \n\nYou could try making them not like you by saying things like \"Sondheim is so overrated,\" or \"Glee would be a great show if it didn't have so much singing in it.\" Then maybe they wouldn't want to come over anymore. Good luck to you. ",
"score": 14
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"body": "You are asking reddit's advice about your girlfriend's friends, who give her bad advice because they are 18-21 and don't have experience to back up their advice? Do you know what the demographic is here?",
"score": 10
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"body": "You are dumbing yourself down to hang out with them. Which can be a great stress reliever at times, if you adjust your attitude slightly. Who wants to be constantly on the top of their game? Hanging out with dumbasses is a great way to relax.",
"score": 9
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The Greatest Tuner of All Time | I was a cynic, but now I want one of these. A polyphonic tuner, that can simultaneously report on each string. And it's true bypass. Sweet mother of mahogany.
[Amazing Polytune Demo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvwMoIbrX1Y)
[Polytune Product Page](http://tcelectronic.com/polytune)
No affiliation here, just a keyboard covered in drool. | 31 | [
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"body": "100 bucks... \n\nhttp://accessories.musiciansfriend.com/product/TC-Electronic-Polytune-Chromatic-Pedal-Tuner?sku=423383\n\nThis just might be the earliest Christmas present I have ever bought myself!",
"score": 4
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"body": "That looks pretty kick-ass, but not nearly as accurate as this:\n\n[http://www.turbo-tuner.com/](http://www.turbo-tuner.com/)\n\nI got the Turbo Tuner for Christmas and can't say enough good things about it.\n\nToo bad they can't combine the accuracy of one with the multi stringification-majigger of the other. ",
"score": 3
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Those evil womenz! They're just lying about the negative effects of hormonal birth control on their libido in order to get out of sex! It's all in their heads! | From a submission entitled ["The pill and how it's a scapegoat for not wanting to have sex with your partner.](http://www.reddit.com/r/relationship_advice/comments/aq3f2/the_pill_and_how_its_a_scapegoat_for_not_wanting/):
-"If you think the pill is to blame, then most likely the problem isn't the pill, the problem is you"
-The problem with your libido is 99% in your head. There is something other than "the pill" that is causing sexual tension.
No, superdug, a doctor you ain't. If you were, you'd know that hormonal birth control has very real negative effects on libido. It ["inhibits the production of certain hormones called androgens, such as testosterone, which directly influence sex drive and pleasure" and "increases the production of a protein called sex-hormone binding globulin (SHBG)", high levels of which are linked to decreased sexual desire."](http://www.naturalnews.com/023450_birth_control_libido_hormones.html)
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"body": "I'm also curious why superdug seemed to assume all relationships have communication issues. That seems like a stupid assumption to make.",
"score": 13
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"body": "Thanks for the study link! My OBGYN mentioned something to this effect a while ago, but I could never get access to the article she mentioned without paying some serious money.",
"score": 12
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"body": "That thread made my blood boil. It's almost like he has his fingers stuck in his ears going I CAN'T HEAR YOU I CAN'T HEAR YOU LALALA",
"score": 7
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DAE not use the Google search bar because it doesn't automatically clear what you typed? | I don't really care if people know what I searched for, for the most part, but I just hate the fact that what I type is left there unless I remember to manually clear it... if only for aesthetic reasons. | 20 | [
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"body": "You want to install [Searchbar Autosizer](https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/1172). Among other things, it allows you to auto-clear the search bar and it also resizes it when not in use.",
"score": 3
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Proggit, what do you do when code isn't working and you're frustrated as hell? | You know what Im talking about. That moment in the project where something breaks, and you're initially clueless as how to fix it.
Five hours into debugging, what do you do to release stress? | 73 | [
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"body": "Go out and do something completely unrelated to work. Maybe go for a run. Personally, I find a nice porter or bock goes a long way in clearing my mind.",
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"body": "Strangely, I often figure out problems while describing them to people who do not understand the problem or much about computers at all. I guess I frame the problem differently, think about it differently, which gives me perspective to find a solution.",
"score": 49
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"body": "Talk it through with someone else. The act of doing so usually lays bare some mundane assumption (or a typo) and you get a \"DOH\" moment.\n\n",
"score": 21
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"body": "A few things I do:\n\n1. Rubber duck method - explain your code line by line to someone else or an inanimate object out loud.\n\n2. Binary chop - print out important variables or conditions halfway through the execution. If it works up to that point, chop the remaining code in half again. Repeat until you find the offending.\n\n3. brute force - as robwgibbons mentions - \"when in doubt, print it out\", print variables everywhere, just make sure the printing is clearly labelled with line and file.\n\n4. write a unit (or functional) test - helps you figure out the problem now, and will automatically test and help debug in the future.\n\n5. get lunch - It's proven science that walking away from a problem after a while allows you to rejuvenate your ability to problem solve.\n\n6. sleep on it - Again, there is an ever mounting body of evidence that dreaming is actually helpful in problem solving.\n\n7. releae the stress - a stress ball, punching the air, saying nonsense words, making jokes. Remember, you're going to solve the problem eventually. Just relax.\n\nI use all of these methods at one point or another. The only method I don't recommend is to get frustrated, or sit there just thinking the same thing over and over. You have to break the train of thought that got you to the point you're at. Go get lunch, and resolve to fix it when you get back.",
"score": 20
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"body": "Bitch to my co worker enough about it until he decides to look at it and then it becomes his problem.",
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"body": "> Five hours into debugging\n\n5 hours is way too long!\n\n[#1 Set a duration of how long you think it should take to solve a problem](http://www.dcs-media.com/Archive/20-20-top-20-programming-lessons-ive-learned-in-20-years-FI)\n\nIt suggests that it was just as much as mystery why it seemed to work as it is that it no longer seems to work - which suggests there's work to be done on the assertions and test-cases rather than *debugging*.\n\nExplain the problem to someone else.",
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"body": "Go for a walk.\n\nGet away from the keyboard - you're too close. Give your brain a rest, and let your subconscious mull it over for a while. Have some water, or a nice cup of tea. Fresh air, sunlight, some light aerobic activity are all great at this point. Sometimes you just need to sleep on it - leave the problem alone until the next day.\n\nClose the debugger, and *think* about the problem. A debugger is often times a crutch, and while it allows you to *observe* the program, it often prevents you from *analysing* the program.\n\nCheck your assumptions. Then check them again. When you're so close to a problem like this, you lose perspective and you are inevitably making a metric buttload of assumptions, any one of which might be undermining your debugging process.\n\nPrint out the code and take it away. *Read* the code, with a pencil at the ready so you can scribble and make notes. Don't just skim through and mentally say \"yeah, yeah, yeah\", as that becomes a useless reaffirmation. Actually *read* it with a critical eye, think about where things could go wrong, how, why. Check your boundary conditions, logic flow.\n\nUse defensive programming. Add assertions everywhere to check preconditions, postconditions, and failure conditions. Make sure you check all return codes. Add `printf` tracing to likely hotspots, and dump out critical values. Using `printf` is better than a debugger in so many cases.\n\nGet yourself a teddy bear and explain the problem. While an actual teddy bear can still work, a coworker is usually capable of more intelligent feedback. Explain to them the problem, and talk them through the code. As you go through the problem together, often times you will have a realisation in the middle of the explanation (often, it's one of the assumptions mentioned above!). And often your coworker will ask a seemingly innocuous question, forcing you to rethink (and *check your assumptions*) and out pops the solution.\n",
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"body": "Take a break! Everytime I'm stuck in my personal projects I just go do something else and forget it for awhile. Sometimes this pause takes weeks (I only have personal projects, so I can do this if I want). When I go back I can almost always see the project in a different way and fix stuff that was bothering me.",
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"body": "OK, lots of good suggestions here, but none of them actually attack the problem...you still have code that doesn't work. Here's what I do:\n\n1. Based on your description, at one point it worked, so revert or comment out new stuff very liberally until the program runs without errors. Yes, this means you're missing a lot of functionality, but it's a major ego boost to compile and run when you've been debugging for five hours.\n\n2. Add new bits back in with lots of debugging output. Don't assume anything is doing exactly what you thought it was. Check, double check.\n\n3. Eventually you hit a point that it's broken again. Now go back to step 1. Eventually you zero in on the actual problem.\n\nPS - I also take breaks and talk through the problem with someone else, both great suggestions. The other person doesn't even need to understand what you're talking about, it's more about you just talking through it.",
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"body": "Get another pair of eyes on it. There are all kinds of errors that you can stare at for hours and never see, *just because you wrote them*.\n\nI can't tell you how many times in my career I've helped someone find a bug just by making them describe what the code was doing.",
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"body": "Stop debugging the old way, just *read* the code, trying to understand what it really is doing and all the kind of race / corner conditions that may happen. Use paper and pencil to understand what part is doing what and try to figure what might not work as expected.",
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"body": "\"Hey man I'm sorry to interrupt you but I think I found a bug in the compiler! Look at this! First I set this here, then I call that, then I cast to this here... you with me? Then I --wait. Nevermind\"",
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"body": "If you have someone you can talk to who may not be involved with your project, but could comprehend the nature of the bug as well as you could, take a break and try to communicate the problem to them. Because you have to provide context, it forces you to start from square 1 and account for all the general factors that are an influence. \n\nThis could result in you having a \"house\" moment and stopping mid-explanation of some minor side detail as the real problem dawns on you. Or it could result in the person bringing up a question (either for clarification on their part, or as suggesting the first place they are thinking to check) that stops you dead in your tracks, usually leading to the right path to the solution.\n\nGenerally if it's a bug where you are not even sure where to look or how it could be going wrong, your concept of what's going on might be off, so best to voice it to someone and see if they can be made to understand as well (but please make sure they're willing to help). This is often enough right there to be on the right track for solving it, or at the very least you should come away having a better understanding of what's going on now that you've walked through the process outloud, and a night of sleep to digest this might be enough.\n\n",
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"body": "By far my favorite way to debug is the Rubber Duck Method.\n\nhttp://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0211/msg00174.html\n\nThing is, it actually works.",
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"body": "You know about `git bisect` and/or `darcs trackdown`, right? They let you quickly find the revision in which the bug was introduced; after that, it's usually pretty easy to work out the problem. And `git bisect` at least can be used interactively, for bugs that are hard to test for automatically. It's like voodoo.",
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"body": "Take a shower.\nOr, walk my dog, and tell him about the issue.\n\nOr, in some cases, I just write an email to someone who knows their stuff, trying to explain the problem. I don't think I've ever hit \"send\", some insight into the nature of the problem always derails me.",
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"body": "I go find someone nontechnical (girlfriends work well) and explain the issue. Usually, this results in an 'AHA' moment.",
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"body": "Take a break. Do something else, sleep on it and let the subconcious do some churning, and come back refreshed the next day ",
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"body": "A lot of times, if it's a small enough snippet of code, I just delete the part that's giving me problems and start it over from scratch. It irons out all of those little itty bitty bugs that make my life a living hell, but are impossible to find, e.g. a random typo.",
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"body": "You make changes to the code so that every time something breaks, it starts streaming porn rather than displaying any sort of error. That usually makes the process less stressful, and actually gives you and your testers an incentive for complete testing.\n\nYou can make it stream different kinds of porn for different types of errors. For example, Null Pointer type errors could be girl on girl action.",
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"body": "To see if a line is reached:\n\n**#define** _MRK_ cout<<\"Mark@Line \"<< **__LINE__** <<endl;cout.flush();\n\nPrinting a variable out: \n\n**#define** TELL(var) cout<<#var ## \": \"<< var <<endl;cout.flush();\n\nI am not sure if this is standard C++ or if it just works in Visual Studio (2008 Professional Edition to be specific). It should print out the name of the variable and the value, I forget what the ## does. Maybe it prints out var <variable name>: <value><\\n>",
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What is a technology or advancement that you have witnessed go from exciting new discovery to common use? | I believe I'm too young to experience this (college-aged), but often times when I see someone post some new amazing scientific discovery or invention that is still in the early prototyping/testing stages, but looks groundbreaking or promising, I see a lot of replies saying how it will never make it into the real world.
I'm having a hard time wording what I'm trying to say, but hopefully you understand me. What major technology have you witnessed seeing go from the "I saw an article about that in Popular Science" stage to "my uncle has one of those"? | 7 | [
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"body": "I'm just about old enough to remember when home computers didn't even really have an OS and we used the 5 1/4 inch floppy disks to play on a sweet screen with a black background and green text! Who would have imagined how much the PC industry has grown.",
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Anybody else commute to Houston from the College Station area? How crazy is it? | I'm a sysadmin in College Station whose job is going away this year. There aren't a lot of professional IT opportunities in this area, but I don't want to move because my wife has a good job here. I was thinking about trying to find a job in Houston and commuting to it. Is this a doable idea, or crazy thinking? I'm not sure if traffic would make it just painful or practically inconceivable. | 8 | [
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"body": "That is going to be a seriously painful commute. The distance is bad enough, but 290 is one of the worst roads in Houston to drive on in the evening. I haven't done it in the morning, but I know from experience that going out that way in the evening is insane. I understand your situation, but I think you're better off exhausting all other options before committing to doing the commute to/from Houston on a daily basis. Also, I'm in IT and don't want any more competition in the market here. Yes, I just admitted my bias. Take it as you will.",
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"body": "There are jobs in the The Woodlands, Spring, and around Greenspoint Mall too. These areas are much more accessible than downtown from College Station.",
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"body": "It shouldn't be too bad if you commute from North Houston, probably no more than 2 hours during rush hour (90 minutes without traffic). If you're living in downtown Houston, be prepared for a 3 hour drive each way during rush hour.",
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How much do you put away for retirement? | I am a recent college grad who just started working and now has a 401k, joy! Anyway, how much to people typically put away? I've been putting away 17% of my AFTER tax paycheck into my Roth 401k. Is this about normal/a good rate? I know it isn't as much as I should (it never is), but I"m curious what the reddit community does.
I know income is also a factor and I'm making over 50k though I don't want to specify exactly how much.
EDIT: I should mention my company doesn't match, theoretically I have no max as far as I know... | 7 | [
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"body": "Don't listen to people who tell you that 17% is a lot. There's a reason the average American is in debt and all need social security when they hit retirement age.\n\nMy parents taught me to shoot for saving 50%. If you're making over 50k and don't live in NYC or LA, you should be saving 30%.",
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Ask Military: What is the best way to "support troops" ? | I have two friends being stationed in Iraq, and I really want to start sending care packages (or something more useful?) to them or any other soldiers. I've never done this and wonder what is actually the best things to send that they don't have access to.
How can I find soldiers to send stuff to if I don't know them already? | 8 | [
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"body": "It really depends on where they are at. Most over there have access to everything they need, but i've had buddies that slept under the truck every night because they had no shelter. My opinion is to just ask them, i'm sure they appreciate the gesture. ",
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"body": "Do the AnySoldier or USO thing, because practically everything they'll want is illegal in Iraq, and will get seized - porn, booze anything with pork in it, etc. Plus, the other stuff they'll want and ask for has to be packaged pretty well to handle the long voyage and the extreme climate in Iraq. When one my friends stationed over there asked me for some Jolly Ranchers, I mailed him a bunch, and they arrived in a sticky, goopy, useless mess - right, they don't react well to 130 degree temps. D'oh. Same deal with a batch of batteries I sent - they \"popped\" and leaked battery acid all over the care package I sent.\n\nBetter to let organizations with experience and expertise in that area handle that problem.\n\nIf anyone you know asks you for something, of course, send it, but pack it well - putting whatever it is in a Styrofoam container should be enough to keep it from succumbing to the heat.\n\nEDIT: Though probably the best thing you can do to \"support\" your buddies is to throw them a rager of a party when they get back with all the things they've missed out on over there. Booze, hot (non-military) women and no rules.",
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"body": "A good bet is to talk to them and ask they what they would like. But while you're at it, ask them to ask their friends as well. That way you get a \"wish list\", that you can fill over a period of months. Having an EOM package or even a letter to look forward to makes the time go by much faster.\n\nOne of the easiest things to send are hometown newspaper clippings, and if you really want to blow their mind in a good way, ask some of the available cute girls they knew back home to send them \"sweet\" notes--nothing rude, just something to \"boost morale\". It does. Big time.",
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Help me convince my boyfriend that 30 isn't "old"! | Hi! My boyfriend is turning 30 soon, and he's very depressed about being "old." So, Reddit, would you help me convince him he's not a geezer? I need ideas for childlike activities we can do together on his birthday, and fun presents.
I'm already planning to make him a cake decorated with Lego, and I found a couple of Star Wars coloring books we can do together. What else should I do? Do you know of any good web stores that sell kids stuff that adults might like? Thanks for your help! (I'll post pictures of the cake later, if anyone's interested.) | 8 | [
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"body": "Please. 30 is often barely mature, let alone old. I wouldn't want to be 30 again. My 40's are so far the best decade yet.",
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"body": "Wear a sexy school girl outfit. He will love that. Especially if he went to a private school.\n\nDon't forget forget to post pics.",
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"body": "No, No, No! 30 is not old, unless you don't take care of yourself. I have seen some hard livin' people in their late twenties and I was like *DAMN!*\n\n* If you want something fun and child like to do, fly a kite.\n* use a board and a cinderblock to make a bike ramp.\n* do a little target practice with a BB gun/slingshot.\n* buy a bag of green plastic army men and a magnifying glass.\n* cap gun fight either as army or cowboys n Indians or cops n robbers.\n* waterbaloon fight\n* buy a nerf football and play 3 flies up with your friends\n* also, when having the birthday party you have to have vintage cartoons on, like old scooby doo, or even schoolhouse rock.",
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Reddit, I'd like to learn MATLAB | Does anyone know any websites or books that would give me a nice introduction to MATLAB that assumes no past programming experience? I feel one of the best ways I learn is through experiments so if anyone knows any websites have any cool tutorials on things you can do on MATLAB would be great. | 6 | [
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"body": "Do you need matlab specifically? You have to pay for its compiler and such not. I personally would suggest learning python and numpy as a numerical analysis program.\n\nThat being said, the most helpful thing I've found with matlab is the build in help function. In the interpreter window, just type *help* you'll get a whole range of topics. For any specific function (for example *plot*) just type *help plot* and it'll give you all of the arguments and descriptions of how to use it.\n\nIn addition to that, I recommend going out and getting a book (or downloading a PDF) on intro to matlab. the ones I used were pretty expensive because they were chosen by my university, so I've no good suggestions for you there.",
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[4] I used to have memory problems until I tried... | Hey Trees. I thought I'd mention this incase anyone else has memory problems when smoking regularly. When I used to smoke regularly I would have pretty awful memory problems - I'd forget conversations I had the day before, I'd forget plans I made, etc. so I eventually stopped.
Well, over winter break I thought I'd be fine starting up again, just to make the break more interesting. I had recently started taking vitamin B12 since I knew vitamin B12 deficiency was the only real risk when consuming nitrous. Vitamin B12 affects, among other things, memory health.
Well, I've been smoking every day for nearly a month now and haven't had ANY memory problems. I can remember things just as well as I could when I wasn't smoking at all. I haven't changed anything else in my diet, so I think there's a pretty strong chance that that is what has been helping me.
Anyone else used to have memory problems associated with trees and got it to go away somehow? | 28 | [
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"body": "Those evil-natured robots/\nthey're programmed to destroy us/\nshe's gotta be strong to fight them/\nso she's taking lots of vitamins..",
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"body": "Well shit, I too am a daily smoker with memory problems, and though I've learned to cope with THC-induced memory haze almost all waking hours of the day, you've really piqued my interest in B-12 supplements. I'm running to GNC soon and will report back in a month, I guess...",
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"body": "I had to take b-12 when I was taking medicine for Tuberculosis. It can really mess up your liver. You wanna watch out how much of that stuff you take, plus it'll make you gain a lot more weight then normal.",
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Question about doubling or quadrupling a LSD dose | Some back information: I experienced a ++/+++ trip on San Pedro with visuals and a lot physical euphoria. It went perfectly fine.
The other day I took LSD for the first time: 1/4 of a tab (one using this art: http://polopokol.com/kepek/281.jpg , if that's of any help). It was barely threshold. I felt some slight tingling in the chest, but nothing more. I didn't expect more, since it was my first time and I just wanted to have a little taste. Having been underwhelmed by 1/4 tab, I'd like to take more. Do you think that quadrupling the dose should be safe (taking 1 tab)? Or I should rather take 1/2 and some time in the future take 1? | 3 | [
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"body": "there isn't a standard for how much lsd is on a tab, in fact a lot of tabs can be different sizes. If you got threshold from a quarter tab, that's probably about 25-50 mcg, so a full tab would 100-200 mcg which is normal. For full effects, I'd take 2 tabs, if it's not enough still, only redose if it's within 2 hours of the first dose, otherwise don't waste it. Oh and I'd wait to try a full dose at least a week after that first test. Good for you for testing it as well, kudos for being smart.",
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"body": "That blotter paper is supposed to be Albert Hoffman when he discovered LSD on accident and rode his bike home. Neat-o.",
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"body": "There was another thread of someone asking almost the same question. \n\nThe first time I tripped was on half a tab. I felt tingly and colours got vivid but nothing weird happened. The second time I took 3 tabs of Optical Illusion and I tripped my balls off.\n\n1/4 a tab is such a low dose. The most I had ever taken at one time was 15 tabs. The more you take the more intense the rush will be and the trip will last longer as well.",
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"body": "I say take one; 1/4 a tab is a really small dose, and I doubt that you'd be overwhelmed by one (although never can be sure about the potency...)",
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Why do many submissions with completely misleading headlines get massive upvotes, even when most of the comments are pointing out how wrong it is? | As recently evidenced [here](http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/aq2gd/holy_shit_over_the_past_nine_years_more_us/). Do people upvote hoping that others will upvote their comment about how shitty the submission is? | 77 | [
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"body": "it could be the diggization of reddit. reddit is now so popular that a considerable fraction of its users are very casual internet users who don't bother with comments entirely. ",
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"body": "On that article there were 68 comments, and 433 up-votes, which means more people voted up then commented. I realize you citied it only as an example, but the majority of reddit does not leave comments... \nAlso, people may actually click through and read the article and determine that, despite the misguided title, the article is of quality and worth their time and others, so they up-vote. \nIn a similar vein, I despise the sensationalized titles found around here so often...the kind of posts like \"OMG This is really bad/outrage/a travesty/heart breaking/ludicrous. Vote up so world will know, blah blah blah.\"",
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"body": "I feel it necessary to point out that this thread would have been much more funny if you'd made the text a long essay on something completely different than the title, and then watched the upvotes roll in.",
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"body": "They upvote the thread so that people will read it and upvote their comments that point out how wrong the headline is. Duh.",
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"body": "Because the people complaining about the headline want people to see and then upvote their comment for calling out the OP",
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"body": "Three things: (1) a submission can be upvoted because the conversation in the comments was good, (2) the article was actually good, and (3) people need to not trust headlines rather if it's on reddit or anywhere else. \r\n\r\nAlso, the majority of all the people on reddit do not leave comments. So I seriously doubt any submission is being upvoted solely by the people who leave comments so they can get \"upvoted for their comment.\" I'm personally terrible with leaving comments and upvoting. I forget to upvote articles I actually like, much less to upvote for the reason you assume. ",
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I would give up a year of new games to go back to that child-like sense of wonder when first playing World of Warcraft. | Exploring Elwynn Forest.
Finding a secluded cave with three chests and a rare spawn.
Walking into Stormwind the first time.
Getting 75 Leatherworking.
Killing Edwin Van Cleef.
Seeing Thunder Bluff's elevators (and then wisely jumping off of them).
Being able to go in any direction and find something new and exciting.
When I look back at my favorite moments of gaming, it will be these tiny, miraculous accomplishments in Warcraft. There was something beautiful and amazing about each time I entered a new zone, and I curse myself (myself, not Blizzard) for not being able to see this beautiful world for anything more than a treadmill connected by flightpaths. | 177 | [
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"body": "I spent my first three or four days /played running around and getting slaughtered by things 20, 40 levels higher than myself.\n\nEveryone likes to piss on WoW, but I, too, have very fond memories of Azeroth. I'm with you.",
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"body": "It might cost a bit more, but traveling around the real world can do the same thing. Elwynn forest ain't got nuthin' on Redwood National Park in Humboldt.",
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"body": "The unknown. That was so so attractive. \n\nNot knowing what is around the corner, or that it will kill you. \nNot knowing how large and different the maps are, not knowing how many stories will unfold in front of your eyes. \n\n\nElwynn -> Westfall progression and a big \"woah\" at the beach, and then \"holy efin shit, look across the river!\" into Duskwood, and your buddies standing around not knowing what the f.. is happening but yeah let's go explore, followed by \"shit its a spider! run!\" followed by Redridge and the tunnel to your certain death.\n\n\nWhat about **first** flyover on a griffon from Stormwind to IronForge and seeing all these epic things happening underneath, everything \"skull\"ed?\n\nFirst time in Stranglethorne Vale? First mount you bought with everything you had?\n\nYour first sale of an item you *made*?\n\nHow about first Southshore-TM battles on PVE? Before arenas, before battlegrounds, before anyone had any respectable gear?\n\nWhat about first Scholo full clear with 5 people and 5 hours?\n\n\nI think the main appeal was also that everyone around you was on the \"same\" page, maybe a little further ahead, but still basically not knowing shit. \n\nEverytime expansion comes out, its like this for first 5 days, if you manage to play for a few hours each day. And then its all gone again.",
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"body": "Ditto, except replace WoW with Everquest.\n\nThat game was amazing when I first played it. I've never been able to get that back...it's not the same anymore.",
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"body": "In spite of all the terrible decisions I made as a result of playing this game over the course of four years, I have to admit that there are still days that I miss aspects of it.\n\nIt's one hell of a drug.",
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"body": "On the WoW front, my favorite memory was selling all of my gear (I mean all of it) to afford a snoeshoe rabbit for 5 silver. I named him Flopsy. Flopsy and Zapperella had a long career together, but never better than that first day.",
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"body": "I remember when running from Ironforge to Menethil harbor seemed like the scariest and most time consuming thing ever for my low level character.",
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"body": "My girlfriend and I were sitting in bed, on our laptops, having just run an instance, and were in Thunder Bluff managing our auctions when a message popped up in the trade channel: a guy was selling two purple items for about 100g. This seemed crazy to me, but after chatting with him I found that he couldn't use either of them, and he was desperate to close a deal with someone else for a purple item that he *could* use, and he was 100g short on that deal.\n\nBoth items were worth at least 150g. Also, one of them was one my girlfriend could actually use.\n\nWe put our heads together and did the math. If we dumped everything we had, absolutely everything, including our armor and weapons, we could scare up 100g. We could then buy these two purple items, sell one for 150g, and we'd be up a purple item and 50g.\n\nIn the middle of talking my girlfriend into this deal (which, in the end, worked out even better than that - we got about 200g for the item we sold), my girlfriend said, \"This is exactly like dating a coke dealer. 'No, baby, I know we need that money for rent, but we can double it and *still* keep a couple grams for ourselves!'\"\n\nMan, it was a sad day when I got a job and she went back to school.",
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"body": "It makes me sad to think about it, too. I think WoW killed my passion for gaming. Not because I burned out on the grinding, but simply because I can never seem to recapture that joy I had initially with it (even when I tried the WoW's Lich King expansion).",
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"body": "I think a big part of it is that now MMOs are much more, uhh, mechanical? Not sure how to say it. Basically when WoW started the mechanics were very sloppy, but fun. There wasn't a lot of optimizing to be done.\n\nI know on my first character (a mage) I went 50 levels trying to stack intellect. Now that I think about it there was no real reason why, I just thought mages should have intellect, and at the time mana regeneration was basically nonexistent. I spent an entire week of summer in Scarlet Monastery trying to get every blue piece of gear just because I wanted to look cooler and didn't want to miss out on the best dungeon gear. It would have been way faster to just ignore dungeons and level in greens, but I wasn't thinking about optimizing or getting to endgame.\n\nI can still level alts and enjoy the world in WoW, and I do. I think it's the fact that nobody else is doing the same anymore that makes it less fun doing so. I had a crew of people I regularly ran dungeons with my whole time leveling, and we were always within a few levels of each other. Now if you are leveling with someone and miss a day they're 10 levels ahead when you log back in. Not a complaint, just trying to posit a reason why the feeling changes.",
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"body": "I remember starting out as an orc, running to that secret path that shamans get their first totem from, falling off a cliff and into the Ratchet bay, and being eaten by the level 18 makuras that I thought were bosses. \n\nOf all the games with large open worlds, WoW did danger best. ",
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"body": "I was given a demo invite by my roommate while I was sitting around recouping from having my wisdom teeth pulled. I spent the entire time exploring everything I could before I realized there was more to the world than just Dun Morogh. \n\nMy jaw hit the floor when I expanded the whole world map for the first time. I miss those days.",
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"body": "I've love that feeling. I was always in new zones a few levels before I was supposed to be, so it was even more intense for me. \n\nI've also gotten that feeling from Gothic 2, Ultima 9, and Morrowind. I think it's kinda the same thing though: those were all during a period where I was just learning about how awesome big open world rpg/adventure games are. By now though, it's really hard to find games that feel like the did the first time :( \n\nAlso, Risen and Gothic 3 (with the user patch) are pretty good.",
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"body": "I was extremely skeptical when WoW came out and didn't start playing it until a year after release. I'm glad I tried it. I remember being in complete awe of Stormwind with the music when I first walked through the front gate.\n\nI like the lore, but I'm a nerd. :D",
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"body": "For me it was after all that hard work I finally got a mount! My noob troll Priest riding atop a purple raptor. Ohh that was the best, I felt like speed racer, only to fund out that was actually the slow one... \r\n\r\nI am about a month into EVE. It almost feels the opposite of WoW. At first I was I thought to myself, WTF is going on, but the more I play it the better it becomes. ",
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"body": "This is how I felt when I first played Asheron's Call as a kid. It was the first MMO I ever played and I had no clue how to play them. So I made what was most certainly a horribly gimped character and ran around exploring. It was magical. I don't think I have been that enthralled by a game since. Nowadays it's nothing but reaching the level cap and reading forums on the best skill/equipment setups and how to get everything.",
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"body": "Replace the above with Asheron's Call or Dragonrealms and I know exactly how you feel. Nostalgia, man. Nostalgia.",
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"body": "YES i feel exactly the same. The best gaming moment in my entire 19 years of life so far was the first time i played World of Warcraft. I don't care about how everyone hates on that game, i played it for 3 years and i don't regret a second of it.\n\n\nI have shown self control and quit so i can focus on university studies but i plan on getting into that new MMO Blizzard are making.",
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"body": "It was Diablo for me,early Sunday morning chatting with unique individuals,and knowing at the time I was playing something truly awesome.",
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"body": "I remember being amazed that you could link loot in chat and people could see the stats. Or seeing a warrior use charge for the first time and going \"WTF.\"\n\nI might go back when Cataclysm comes out and see if the revamped world creates the same sens of newbie wonder.",
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"body": "All right, do it. Don't play anything for a year. I bet your wonder will be back when you fire it up next January (for a while, anyway).",
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"body": "Having played for the first time ever a few weeks ago, I know what you mean. I haven't played since my week trial ran out (far too addictive, I have to say). But the sense wonder as I explored Westfall was amazing. Doing my first raid ever (Van Cleef, actually) was really fun. We kept going deeper into that cave and then WOAHMYGODABOAT. We didn't finish it, unfortunately.",
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"body": "I was in the first beta phase for WoW, and have also not felt the same amount of 'EPIC' from any other game.",
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"body": "I remember when me and my friend first started. We rolled undead, him a warrior, me a warlock. We walked over the zep hill from Brill and saw the Undercity. We then both ran away because we figured it was some high level place that would whoop are low level ass's.\n\nI also miss all the fun of exploring shit. Like CoT before it was opened, Hyjal, old ZG, old AQ. When they removed wall walking it killed a lot of my interest, then when they removed wall jumping my interest really died in the game. I do have a folder of great screenshots from all that shit though.",
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"body": "I never got into WoW, but that's exactly how I felt playing Oblivion. I remember the sheer sense of awe when I got out of the jail, not knowing what to do or where to go. I spent 100+ hours on my first play thought, doing absolutely everything I could in that game. In a way, it kind of ruined other games. I would play a game like halo and want to go off and explore instead of following the missions. I can't wait for TES5.",
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Masturbating is a chore. | Here's the problem. I never touched myself, at all, until a year ago. At that point I started to have sex with zero results, and I realized that learning how to please myself would be an important step one.
So I buy a dildo and a vibrator and go to town. Nothing. I read a couple books about the subject "sex for one" "something else" and followed the advice given. Then FINALLY, I had my first orgasm.
Where I'm at now, it doesn't matter whether I light candles, watch porn, read smut, watch Heros, or read the newspaper. No matter what, it will take me one full hour up to an hour and a half to reach orgasm. I'm always glad once I have it, but seriously. Way too much of a time commitment.
It takes so long, that the idea of masturbating is unappealing to me and I avoid doing so. It only happens when I schedule it in and force myself to waste a couple hours vibrating. But I want to keep up at it because I figure the more I do it, the quicker it'll come.
Anybody else take FOREVER? Any advice to move the process along some more? | 29 | [
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"body": "I have to give it to you girls. I followed your advice; I used a new position (straight legs with flexing feet), I read a smutty fanfic of choice, and then kept my mind from wandering by sticking to the fanstasy fic that turned me on.\nAnd we've got a new record - 10 minutes!!\n\nWhat can't 2X solve?",
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"body": "Okay, this will probably sound silly but are you thinking the whole time? If you are what are you thinking about? Work? Stress? If it will happen in under an hour this time? \n\nEDIT: I have no idea what that last sentence was supposed to mean..sorry. Glad things are \"working\" again! ",
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"body": "I had the same problem starting out, I could get off it just took fooooreeeever. The most important part is that you aren't stressing about how long it's taking or pressuring yourself into having an orgasm. Just play around and explore you know? Don't expect 2 minute screaming orgasms right off the bat. The more you do it, the more you begin to learn what you like and then what you *really* like and as you get more familiar with yourself, the quicker you get off.\n\nAlso, what kind of vibrator do you have? I had one of couple of years ago like [this](http://www.freddyandeddy.com/store/sexy_Vibrators/Fun_Factory_Dinky_Digger_Vibrator.html) that did absolutely *nothing* so I got bored and kinda gave up. Then I got a [Hitachi Magic Wand](http://www.amazon.com/Vibratex-HV-250R-Hitachi-Magic-Massager/dp/B00005M1WE) a while ago which completely changed my mind. So maybe you haven't found the right one for you yet???\n\nThis is just my experience of course, YMMV",
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"body": "This is going to sound strange -- but maybe don't make the orgasm the goal? Maybe instead make it about feeling GOOD. So find ways to relax (aside from Heros, so not with you on that one :D ) do things you find turn you on, or relax you (soothing bath?). Play with yourself a little, idly but don't think about it having a start or an end. Maybe, subconsciously, its putting pressure on yourself.\n\nSecond -- not everyone cums from the same thing. Personally I only cum with stimulation to my clit (gee, starting to think I should have done this with an alt account! haha), penetrative stuff can feel nice but isn't what I like. I also have found that I like to lay on my stomach instead of my back. So everyone has these little things that make the difference.\n\nI think its normal to not cum everytime (and it can be normal for YOU but maybe not for the next person). I don't, although more so now than I used to. You can also try different things like position -- lay on your stomach, your back, try straddling your pillow with your toy on it, rubbing against it....\n\nPersonally I have a small egg shaped vibrator that I prefer, but mileage and results may vary :).\n\nGood luck -- and try not to worry.\n\nOh another note -- for me, there's such a thing as too long. If I keep going at it after a certain amount of time, it ain't happening. Things go numb. I need to take a break or just go do something else for a bit.\n\n",
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"body": "Takes me 30 seconds the first time, and that scales up logarithmically with each consecutive attempt without a day's break. Just putting it out there.",
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"body": "I hate to sound like a broken record, but.\n\nSmoke pot, yo.\n\nI started masturbating when I was 11 or 12 and started smoking pot in my late teens, but I only figured out what pot did to me sexually last year, at 33. Which is a shame, because had I known sooner I could have spent the last 20 years in bed. Basically my favourite thing in the world is getting completely fucked up high all by myself, masturbating like an animal, then eating junk food and watching TV.\n\nGetting high does this: I stop flinching. I don't hesitate. I put the vibrator exactly where it feels good, and I don't move away or feel oversensitive. It allows me to feel and enjoy the most intense stimulation possible without feeling overstimulated. \n\nI come to orgasm quickly if I want to, and I can have rolling moderate orgasms over and over (and over). I've done it for more than a half an hour on a few occasions. When I feel like stopping I just flick the switch (heh) mentally and have the big finale show-stopper orgasm.\n\nIt. Is. Fucking. Amazing.\n\nI've learned to partly replicate this effect when I'm totally sober, incidentally. It's still way less intense and I have fewer orgasms, but it's like a junior version of what happens when I've smoked a joint. I was always a one-big-orgasm-you're-done person, so figuring out the pot thing had a very real effect on my sexuality.\n\nAnyway, I say this not at all to brag, but to say that our bodies are capable of pretty amazing things. I ***REALLY*** recommend you try experimenting with pot and your vibe.",
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"body": "Are you on any medications? \r\n\r\nNot to flog a dead horse... but SSRI's will delay orgasms. I'm usually good in under 2 minutes... but SSRI's put me up over 10 minutes.",
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"body": "Wow! This may be a great justification for having a slew of lovers at once. I figure if four men (or women, depending on your tastes) can pleasure you for 15 minutes a piece, this might actually work out.",
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"body": "It sounds to me like you're not very good at getting into a sexual mindset - and now that you've got anxiety associated with not being able to come, it takes you even longer! Here's what I'd recommend:\n\nBrowse porn. Extensively. You need to fill your mind with all the filthy images you can imagine so that you can decide amongst them which ones actually turn you on. Develop generic criteria for the things that get you off - interracial, threesomes, bisexual, poop, whatever.\n\nBrowse sexy romance novels. Go to Half Price or Goodwill and pick up a few dozen cheesy-ass stories involving pirates, hookers, pirate hookers, or whatever else might possible be hot. Read them. Give your imagination some fuel for fantasies.\n\nNow for the act itself. Don't approach masturbation as a journey to an elusive orgasm. Approach masturbation as an excuse to spend a little time focusing on yourself. Get into something comfortable and sexy or just nothing at all and spend a good half hour just grooming yourself - do your nails, do a facial, and then finish it off by rubbing lotion. Continue rubbing lotion - but not to have an orgasm! Just because it feels good.\n\nExplore everywhere and discover your favorite erogenous zones. Play music that you find sexy. I personally get off to death metal and various hardcore techno best, but you might like something smooth or sultry or even just talk radio as background noise. Don't even think about touching a vibrator at this point! Pick your favorite fantasy from all of your research - or whichever one strikes your fancy - and let your mind wander around details of the fantasy. What does it smell like? What does the sun or air feel like against your skin? What is your fantasy male doing to satisfy you mentally, physically and emotionally? Don't start masturbating until you can't take the teasing you're giving yourself any more. Wait a long time before you touch your clit and even longer until you finally penetrate with your finger.\n\nBy this point, you should be fully aroused both physically and mentally. Continue to take your time building up, first with the vibrator just on your thighs and hips and finally letting it brush against you. Tease yourself with the head of the dildo/vibrator while fantasizing and make sure you're being teased in your fantasy, then finally let yourself have what you want.\n\nYes, all of this might take almost an hour. But that's the whole point! You're doing it wrong if you want to get it over with fast. Orgasms aren't easy at first for women and they certainly aren't easy for men to help them achieve either. It takes patience and time to build your skill. But if you take anything from this ridiculously long first-comment-from-a-male-in-XX, don't masturbate as a way to get off. Masturbate as a natural consequence of spending time taking care of yourself.",
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All time favorite raid? | Hey guys, just wondering, what is your all time favorite raid and why? For me it has to be Sunwell Plateau because it is a beautifully crafted instance and the storyline is immense. I also like the fact that unlike most of WoW content these days, it actually required a well geared and co-ordinated team to complete it.
I don't really like ToTC much, the bosses are ok, but the place is so boring especially if you've completed it many times. Icecrown is quite nice looking from what I've seen of it though | 12 | [
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"body": "I get all kinds of shit for saying this, but AQ40 was one of my all time favorite raids. The trash could've been less time consuming, but I really enjoyed the overall experience, from the massive server-wide event to open the gates, to running around on bug mounts, to the sheer vastness of the zone, to most of the bosses. Specifically:\n\n* The idea of killing bosses in a different order to tweak the difficulty and get different loot was the first inkling of what would eventually become hard modes, and was really cool at the time.\n* Sartura was HILARIOUS fun. Tons of people hated her for not being a \"stand there and kill it\" fight, but I loved it.\n* Twin Emperors is still my favorite boss encounter to this day. It was such a challenging fight to execute properly, but the result was one of the most satisfying boss kills I've ever experienced. To this day, even a group of geared 80s can't face-roll the fight without paying attention to the mechanics, which you can't even say for Kael'Thas.\n* C'thun was just a super fun fight.\n\nNow, that said, I have a suspicion that ICC will end up topping it for me by the time all is said and done. Blizzard has obviously poured a lot into this raid, and it's showing.",
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"body": "Karazhan with absolute ease. It was the best way to start raiding, despite the ridiculous (at the time) attunement quest that was originally required for it.\n\nMany optional bosses, only a few mandatory bosses, and apart from Moroes and Prince, none of them were a pain in the ass. At least it wasn't an annoying 60 instance lazily retuned and was actually original.\n\nLook at it this way, if TBC had separate 10 and 25 man versions of each raid, it would have easily topped every raid in Wrath (Naxx is annoying, Ulduar gets boring after 2 - 3 weeks), ToC is kinda lame, and ICC is just dark and boring)\n\nPlus lets not forget the fact that every zone in Wrath looks alike.",
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"body": "I liked raid X because it was harder than raid Y and actually took skill, but thanks to those filthy casuals, all new raids are like raid Y.\n\n<9 months later>\n\nI liked raid Y because it was harder than raid Z and actually took skill, but thanks to those filthy casuals, all new raids are like raid Z.\n\n\netc, etc...",
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"body": "My favorite encounters (although I haven't done a lot of the earlier WotLK stuff):\n\n1. C'thun (AQ40)\n\n2. Kael'thas (TK)\n\n3. Nefarian (BWL)\n\n4. Lady Vashj (SSC)\n\n5. Vaelastrasz the Corrupt (BWL)\n\n\nMy favorite raid instance however, is probably ToC, since while none of the encounters are OMGawesome, the entire instance is nice and tightly designed, with no trash, and encounters that are challenging without resorting to random bullshit (\\*glares at firefighter/rotface\\*).\n\nOne thing I've noticed about WotLK is that, while no encounter has really blown me away, the instances overall are much better designed to be fun throughout. Clearing through 3-4 hours of snoozefest bosses and endless trash (including the dreaded anubisath defenders, which could have been bosses in MC) in AQ40 just to get to C'thun was hardly worth it, for instance.",
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"body": "Nostalgia says Karazhan, but I think my favorite would have to be Zul'Aman.\n\nZA was just so well crafted, short, and 10-man. It made for tight teamwork and pushed you to chain-pull and down everything as fast as possible. I never beat the timer though. :/\n\nAs far as vanilla raids go, AQ40 rocked simply because of C'thun. All the other vanilla WoW raid bosses couldn't compare. C'thun was Epic *and* terrifying.",
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"body": "Black Wing Lair, without a doubt..\n\nI fucking adore the suppression room, Burning Vael down, and Firemaw as melee. Chrommagnus was a treat and a half, Nefarion was a hell of a fight to learn.\n\n\nIt was a hell of a kick in the pants from MC, Blizzard really stepped their game up for it.\n",
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"body": "Sunwell for sure. If you didnt get a chance to experience the Kil'Jaeden fight first hand i feel sorry for you. It it was one of the most epic experiences that was ever put in the game. As far as last bosses go, the only one that even comes close to KJ is Ragnaros. \nWe will see how the Lich King falls, but KJ set the bar mighty high.",
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Did I tell you about that time I got caught rubbing one out? | Thought this would be a funny topic. Here's my story
When I was 13 I was at my grandmothers’ house for spring break. We had rented a movie and I was unaware of it at the time, but the movie contained a sex scene (wish I could remember which movie now).
This was back when not every one had cable and the stations went off the air at midnight, there was no such things as the "internet" (how many remember that?).
Later that night after everyone went to sleep and there was no more television to be watched I popped the video in. I didn’t have any real intensions of, well you know, until it came to that sex scene.
It kind of got my hormones going and one thing led to another and I whipped it out and went for it.
The thing was that portion of the movie was very short. I had to keep rewinding it over and over until I could finish doing my thing. When I was done I cleaned up and passed out.
The next morning I was woke up early for breakfast by my grandmother. I got up and I went to sit down at the kitchen table when my uncle walked in. He lived next door in a little one room shack of a house across the gravel driveway from my grandparents.
He sees me at the table and pats me on the shoulders and says "damn, that was a good movie last night, especially that one scene!" I couldn't believe it.
My grandfather had hardwired my uncles television next door to show whatever was playing on his tv in the living room (the one I was using).
He never told me if he came and looked to see what I was doing. I hope not. I had broken out my grandmothers old school coiled wire message contraption and a tube sock. Ah, the good ol' days.
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"body": "> My grandfather had hardwired my uncles television next door to show whatever was playing on his tv in the living room (the one I was using).\n\nWhy??",
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Need help finding Internships involving Math: More Inside | This post follows my original post on whether or not majoring in math was something I should consider found here: http://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/ajgfe/freshman_attending_a_good_university_is_majoring/
With my second semester approaching I need to start to look for an internship for this summer that will make me more aware of my interests and possibly help me figure out what kind of career I'd like to have.
What kind of internships relating to actuarial science / finance / economics / anything logical or math related would I be able to pursue for a few months in the summer?
EDIT: I'm ideally looking for an interneship in Dallas and its surrounding cities. | 5 | [
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"body": "**Edit Edit**: My answers are assuming a U.S. applicant. In some cases, a citizen (probably).\n\n**Edit**: I didn't read your original post carefully enough. Let me re-answer with this: since your motivation seems industrial, allow me to suggest such things as the DOE, DOD, and other related government internships. These guys always have something going on for summer, they tend to pay well, and their fliers make the work look pretty applied. (Hopefully somebody with some experience with one of them will chime in.) In addition, if you have any desires (later on) to stay in academia, their (mostly statistics-based?) agenda will be looked upon as favorably as the alternatives I originally mentioned below. Note: There should be a poster somewhere in your department for these things, perhaps in the physics and other departments as well, as they canvas everywhere in the US, and they are looking for applied but mathematical thinkers.\n\n**Original answer**\n\nCould you be more explicit with the question? There are internships, which are generally industrial, and there are research experiences, such as R(esearch)E(xperiences for)U(ndergraduates), etc.\n\nIf your intent is to do mathematics, as opposed to learning mathematics for some sort of business / industry goal, I suggest the latter. A starting point for such a search is [the NSF website](http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/reu/list_result.cfm?unitid=5044), which lists the programs (aka REUs) taking funding from the US government. One should also note that there are many many many many (can I stress this enough?) other similar programs available, not only in the US, to undergraduate maths majors.\n\nMy experience, as you can tell, is with the REU set-up. My first and only time was during my second summer, so it is certainly possible to find an opportunity. In fact, I felt over-qualified for many of the places I looked at (I was) because many are aimed at students taking a more classical pace (eg Calculus first year, more Calculus and maybe DiffEq during the second year).\n\nFrom my own experience, which is by no means a sample size, find a professor who's proposed summer research is interesting, and contact him directly. I applied to only one school, and after the deadline, but easily got in for the research. It is completely besides the fact that I found that summer to be horrible and depressing; honestly, don't let that affect your thoughts on the subject -- many friends of mine were quite happy with their arrangements.",
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"body": "Hi.\n\nI'm a math prof at a research university. When I was your age, I worked at lots of companies. I didn't get any money from my family.\n\nI ended up working all over Silicon Valley as a programming monkey. Even after I had a lot of experience, it was difficult to find something that was actually mathy. Even though I was working at the biggest 3d company in the world, nobody knew the orthogonal group!\n\nI have been making sure not to reply to you in the hopes that someone would give you some genuine help. *Please downvote me when someone has some better suggestions.*\n\nI was never able to find a math job outside of academia. At my institution, it was pretty reasonable for good students to get a summer job reading papers under a prof; this is similar to martturco's suggestion. Basically, there is no output expected of you. You are given papers to read, and you get a salary, the end.\n\nThis is the only job in actual math that I have ever heard about for undergrad mathematicians.\n\n",
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Busted, but life goes on. [0, for now] | Well it finally happened. My mom found my stash. I was at school (I commute to a nearby college; GGC if you must know) and I get a call on my cell from my mother urging me to come home asap. I arrive at home and my mom is sitting in the living room with the altoids tin I use to store my bud in. She found it in my closet while randomly cleaning. She was extremely pissed at first but was mostly just disappointed (the whole "I didn't raise you to do drugs" routine). We had about an hour long conversation where I tried to explain how the worst danger I was ever in was the danger of getting caught. I did admit it was wrong for me to smoke in her house seeing that she is completely anti-drug (including alcohol, hey at least she's consistent in her beliefs), but I remained adamant in my belief that smoking pot isn't wrong. In the end we had a mature conversation on the topic of drug use and she respects that I can do what I want as an adult however she still thinks I shouldn't smoke. She did throw away my stash (no big loss only about a gram of shwag), however I'm not kicked out and shes not adding any restrictions other than don't smoke or keep drugs of any kind in the house (a fair ruling imo since it is her house). After all that was said and done she hugged me, said she still loved me and then I went back to school since I had a few more classes. This occurred on Wednesday and so far nothing else has changed on the homefront, business as usual. To me this is sort of a big deal. I've been smoking for about two years now and have been extremely paranoid about being caught. This paranoia stems from all the horror stories I've heard of kids being kicked out of their parent's homes or being forced to go to treatment. Ultimately yeah, I got off easy with getting caught and for that I'm relived. I'm going to respect her wishes and keep it out of her house while I live there, but will continue to smoke with friends away from home and really thats how it should be anyways. If theres a moral to this it's doing what you want is fine, but respect the people who put a roof over your head.
Anyways, now that I've said my bit do any of you treeple\twigs\ents have any stories or advice about getting caught by parents?
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"body": "Randomly cleaning? Riiiight. You're in college and your mom still goes through your stuff? Start hiding gay porn and BDSM magazines in your closet. When she starts to freak out tell her the weed was the only thing that kept you normal. ;)\n\nBTW: You probably shouldn't take my advice. ",
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"body": "Wow. That could have gone a lot worse. Please thank your mother for being rational and loving instead of hysterical.",
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"body": "When I was in high school, I got busted *all* the time. For my 18th birthday, some buddies gave me an awesome bong as a bday present. Obviously I was stoked! Only problem was that my Dad used to \"clean\" my room when in fact it was an excuse to snoop around. I had a tiny door (maybe 3' in height) that was used as an access to the roof in the corner of my room. Weird house, don't ask. Anyway, I thought I'd found the perfect hiding place for my new bong. You'd go through the door and at the back of the attic it led to was some plywood that you could pull back without breaking it, so I put my bong behind that. Fast forward two weeks, I come home from school in a really good mood, chatty mood. So I'm talking to my mom for like 5 minutes, all smiles and what not, when I notice that the bong is just sitting there on the kitchen counter. I sheepishly ask my mom \"*uh.. so, what's that?\". My mom's expression changes within a *nanosecond* from smiling to **stern** and she simply says \"I don't know. You tell me\". \"Ummm..\", I say, \"someone left it at my 18th party and I didn't want to throw it away in case they wanted it back\". After that, we never spoke of it again and I wasn't about to go fishing through the garbage just to get busted again so I just let it go.\n\nMy parents knew I smoked up but never gave me a hard time about it unless I was caught red handed. A couple of years later, I come back on a visit from college and call up a dealer of mine to pick up. He's a \"buddy dealer\" i.e. the guy in pineapple express who's all like \"Yeah man! It's good shit, let's smoke up together!\" My parents were gone for the afternoon so I thought fuck it, if he wants to smoke me out why not. We go back to my place and smoke the fattest joint I'd had in like forever. This guy is a major pothead and so can handle his shit. I, on the other hand, get blazed beyond belief. We finish smoking and I'm leading him out the house when *bang* my parents come back home. He makes his exit post haste while I'm stuck with my mom going \"what's wrong with your eyes???\" I'm so stoned at this point I don't even bother making an excuse, saying instead \"Umm.. yeah... sorry.. I'm going upstairs..\" A few hours later, I come down and talk to my mom. She's none too happy, but I plead my case nonetheless. I'm telling her how my grades in college are good, my life in general is stable and if I smoke a little pot now and then so what. What comes next completely takes me off guard.. she simply says \"You're right. It's your life and unless it's coming in the way of school, I don't have a problem\". Ever since then I've never had a problem with my parents when it comes to my pot habit.\n\n*tldr* got busted many times, eventually my parents accepted it and I never had problems with them again",
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"body": "I'm curious what state you live in? I find more and more parents of kids my age (18-22) becoming more accepting of marijuana, but only after all of the recent exposure in California (Front page pictures/articles/polls of marijuana on nearly all major newspapers here over the past 12 months during different times, most notably SF Chronicle's exposure of marijuana as the norm)",
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What MUD would you recommend for a new player? | Basically, I have never played a MUD before and am curious about playing one. I have been thinking of playing Shadows of Isildur as it is based on Lord of the Rings (and that's cool), but I was wondering what your recommendations would be.
Any MUDs I should try? Any tips in general? | 9 | [
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"body": "I recently started playing dragonrealms.. it is not free but so far seems to be a great game with many friendly and helpful players. \n\nI have also heard good things about Aardwolf, though I haven't played it myself. ",
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A few questions about r/physics posts. | * Are there enough people with institutional journal access to make it worth posting journal articles? Nature, Nature Physics, Physics Review Letters, etc?
* Either way, is there any interest in seeing current research papers? They are often too technical and specialized to be of interest to a broad group. Personally, though, I would like to see whatever people think is particularly interesting research within their own field. Maybe the OP can explain _why_ the paper is novel or interesting.
* A note on the last question: this wouldn't work at all if people downvote based on what they personally aren't interested in. Immediately downvoted posts don't appear in 'what's hot,' so they aren't visible by going to r/Physics. My suggestion: upvote what you like, ignore/hide what you're not interested in, and downvote spam or inappropriate posts. This maximizes the number of people seeing new links, which _they_ might be interested in.
Any thoughts? | 16 | [
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"body": "There is currently /r/hardscience that is dedicated to journal articles of all fields.\n\nJust thought I would throw that out there.\n\nHowever, I am always interested in new, interesting physics articles, So I would love it if people would post links to journal articles here in /r/physics",
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"body": "I like journal articles/papers in general, but i do find them hard to understand properly(presumably others too), and it takes longer. Presumably same for other people, I'd rather have replies from people who don't understand it fully(yet) then no replies. (Edit: oops, repeated myself, shouldn't take too long to choose wording..)\n\nThis subreddit is a little too quiet, any informed submissions are welcome.",
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"body": "I think it would be interesting to see some current stuff, though i admit i doubt i would understand much. I say submit it and let the comunity do with it what it will. You could summarize it into plain old English for the rest of us if you like but i wont be upset if you don't, maybe a kind redditor with a bit of knowledge could help out in the comments.",
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What is one of your deepest darkest secrets that hardly anyone knows about you? | About 8 years ago my friends and I were talking about streaking during the football game. Well a couple of weeks later I was driving home from work and passed a football game and streaked right across the field. My friends all asked if it was me but I just denied it.
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"body": "When I'm wearing socks with long pants, there's a 98% chance my socks are mismatched. The remaining 2% accounts for the seldom occurrence when I blindly pick two socks out of a drawer and they happen to match. \n\nAlso, I hate wearing socks and shoes. Hated them since I was a baby and I'd go barefoot everyday if I could.",
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"body": "OK, almost everyone that knows me thinks I'm an incredibly happy person, always smiling and jolly and whatnot. Some of the time though, maybe not that often, I am in fact horribly depressed and thinking about how worthless and disgusting a person I am and how no-one could love me, you know, typical problems. I don't tell anyone because I'm scared of rejection and abandonment because they think I'm a weirdo.\r\n\r\nIt's getting better though, I manned up enough to ask out a girl I really like and I'm opening up to her a bit.",
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"body": "I am happy and unfailingly nice, but I secretly think almost everything is bullshit, enough so that if I said what I'd think I wouldn't be very popular as a dinner guest. Examples:\n\nSports are meaningless games played by independent contractors who will work for whoever pays them most, yet people get all wound up about \"their team\" and get deeply invested in favorite players who may play for the competition next season. The games are arbitrary. Golf? Why not tiddly winks instead? Fashion. $200 jeans. Famous designers? You made a shirt. Status symbols. Your fancy car only convinces me you prioritize money badly. Wine that costs more than $12, I'm not convinced you can tell the difference. Changing fashions, disposable goods, government working \"for the people\" where the people are something other than corporations. Christians celebrating the birthday of Christ, a man who said things like \"It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God\" with material exchanges under the christmas tree, a pagan symbol. Lying to your kids about Santa. Circumcision. Homeopathy. Ghost Hunters. Fear of terrorism. God. Soulmates. Reality TV. Chiropractic. I could go on...",
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"body": "I keep cake in an old tupperware container labeled \"Cuyamaca Trout '05\" and stash it in the back of the freezer. \n\nI fucken hate living with poor, lazy stoners.",
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"body": "I am not really a morning person never have been, my brother used to always ask me who peed in my corn flakes, by the time I was 9 this got old, So I peed in his cornflakes, litterally, although I think it was cocoa puffs or something not actually corn flakes!",
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"body": "You want deep dark secrets, check out [PostSecret](http://postsecret.blogspot.com/). It's some freaky, fascinating stuff.",
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"body": "I was at a football game with my parents and kids cheering on my cousin Dave when some guys ran across the field fully naked. I luckily had my camera with me and took very extreme closeup pics of them. Sold the pictures and used the money to go to a local massage parlor where i got a happy ending from an 18 year old thai girl. \n",
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"body": "When I was 19, I was dating this guy who still hung out with his ex-girlfriend on a regular basis. I hated her just simply because she was his ex. So when this said ex-girlfriend got knocked up by her new boyfriend of a few months, I decided to make her life just a little miserable. \n\nShe came from a pretty conservative values kind of family so I knew that when her parents found out she was pregnant, they would be disappointed. I wanted to make sure I was the reason they found out. \n\nSo my local newspaper allows you to place ads online without paying. They will call you to verify the ad and for payment information. I put a little text ad stating something along the lines of congratulations Liz and Bob on your pregnancy. I put her parent's phone number in the contact info. The newspaper called her parents and told them about the ad and the pregnancy.\n\nSo what was the outcome? Her parents were disappointed that she was knocked up but still supported her. She thought my boyfriend at the time did it and stopped talking to him right after that. I never, ever told him it was me, even though he asked. \n\nOverall, that taste of sweet, sweet evil was incredibly satisfying to me.",
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"body": "I'm a furry, a voraphile, and a zoophile. The only people who know are on the Internet, and they only know me by this name.",
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"body": "Hrm.. Definite throw away account for this one.\n\n* I have paid money for sex on multiple occasions over the course of ~3 months. \n* I consider myself straight (as I am way more attracted to women), yet fantasize about giving oral to a man.\n* I've worn makeup and painted my toenails as a joke. I may have enjoyed it more than I wish to realize.\n* I am slowly coming to the conclusion that I am a woman trapped inside a man's body who desires the companionship of another woman, yet still desires men in a purely sexual nature. If this sounds fucked up ... well, you're probably not too far off.",
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"body": "I am so deeply, hopelessly, madly in love with someone that I can't have. I will **never** share this with them. It would never work out between us, and I cherish the friendship we have more than anything.",
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"body": "A (suicidal) girl once told me I saved her life.\n\nNot especially \"dark,\" but I've never told anyone.",
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"body": "Had to create a throw-away account; but, tonight I decided I would kill myself. I had hoped this night would never come as I tried everything in my power to prevent it but all events lead me back to this decision. My life has not been what I hoped it would, I messed up far more than I could have imagined. I wanted to say sorry to the people I hurt, but they've turned their backs on me because I have been so depressed. It hit the point where I pushed away the people that cared the most, and I just couldn't stand looking at myself.\n\nI just want to make this short, I want to say sorry to my Son, you're the one person that kept me sane, each morning you had a smile and would make me happy as we laughed and had so much fun. I've let you down, I love you son.\n\nMom, Dad, Brothers and Sisters, I know you tried to help me but you cannot help those that cannot help themselves. I wish I could say sorry, I ish I could take back all those mean things, I wish I could've made you proud to call me your son dad. I am sorry I failed you so many times and I am sorry that I couldn't be the person you wanted me to be like your favorite son. \n\nI write this final goodbye, no one will find me, but they will find my final note.\n\nGood bye reddit, you've kept me sane for long enough. \n\nI love you Son. I love you Mom. I love you Dad. I will miss you all. ",
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"body": "Even though I get every movie reference and joke, I really don't like Will Ferrell.\n\n\nIf he funds the Arrested Development movie though... that's another story.",
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"body": "I pretended to be gay to try and get with this chick who my best friend liked. He played along in front of her, and since that night I sometimes think about what it'd be like if it wasn't just an act. He's the only person I trust, and he can barely stand me. \n\nI know I'm not gay, but sometimes I think I might be *not* not gay.",
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"body": "One time I went to a playboy mansion house party. I met Osama, he seemed like a pretty cool guy. We were discussing hide-and-seek, then I offhandedly told Osama a good hiding place when I was drunk, now I just don't remember it ... ",
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"body": "I met this girl online. We had an amazing first date, and then saw each other for 3 weeks. In our second week, we were hanging out at an irish pub and I asked her if she had ever done e. She got all excited and called a friend to see if he could get some.\n\nIt was her friend the drug dealer. She used to be a heroin addict. \n\nWe broke up a week later, and a week after that I got an email that she had died from a heroin overdose. ",
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How did you pay for school? | Hi reddit. I'm a 21 year old student currently trying to figure out how to pay for school which starts in a few days. I left home after high school after getting accepted to a top university - moving away from home at the age of 18 using loans and grants. Unfortunately I had a horrific medical event that lead to me to leave school for a quarter and I was eventually kicked out for lack of progress in my impacted major (Computer Science).
Two years later I'm still living in the same city that my school was in, working to pay my rent / utilities / food and playing music but I've always wanted to go back and finish up my Computer Science degree. The local community college isn't too expensive but I barely make enough money to get by each month let alone pay for books / tuition.
My parents are both working class and have an insane amount of
debt from raising me and my sister - so much that they're about to lose the house I grew up in (but hey, it's happening to everyone right?) so there is no chance of help from them. To top it all off my Dad was diagnosed with Parkinsons last year and medical treatment is costly - not to mention finding a job is pretty tough when you have a disability like that.
So I have to ask - how do people do it? I know I was meant to finish school, I get great grades and I'm not even too far away from getting my undergrad done. I love working (I currently have one part time job and two project based ones) but I feel stuck and really want my degree. I signed up for classes and even after aid I need to come up with $320 for classes not to mention cost for books. Do people get loans to finish up - I hardly have the credit? What happens when I need to transfer back to a 4 year school and things get even MORE expensive? | 5 | [
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"body": "Worked my ass off. \n\nCoffee shops, call centers, serving. Anywhere that'd hire me and pay a reasonable wage. I've taken semesters off just 'cause that was when I could find work, or because I couldn't afford to be a student that go-round. \n\nNo loans, no bursaries, no money from the family. Purely out of pocket. I'm canadian, so all tuition is base-rate subsidized by the government / taxpayer, but \"my share\" has been entirely covered by me, up front. \n\nSave up, my man, have enough padding to cover a semesters rent & tuition, take a reduced courseload and accept you won't be done as fast, and then get a part-time job or two. \n\n...And you have my sympathies about your father. My dad died of Parkinson's just under three years ago, right before I left town to go to uni. ",
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"body": "I was right where u r big guy. S holarship didn't pay and I ended up oweing 2000 to my school. Took me to years and a ton of jobs but I made it. Here's some hints. During the summer work at vacation spots like mackinac island. All college kids room and board is in your pay no cars and all you do is WORK I. 3 months most make a couple thousand easy. Second focus on what ur spending stuff on work out a HARDCORE budget and stick to it. Best onluck man I'm going to school for computer science myself. Going to make video games one day maybe I'll run into you!!!",
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I have my coursemate's USB stick for the weekend. What do I do with it? | My coursemate has left his USB flash drive in the computer labs, and I've been tasked with getting it back to him on Monday. But not before I've had some fun with it.
I've already put Never Gonna Give You Up onto it (renamed to something he's more likely to listen to), and a copy of Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Can anyone suggest what I should rename plan 9 to in order to increase the surprise (bear in mind that video files have a thumbnail preview, in this case a black-and-white picture of a (air?)man and a woman standing in front of a door)? And does anyone have any suggestions of what else I should put on it? There's 385MB left on there. He'll take most things in good humour. | 3 | [
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"body": "Take pictures of you and the USB drive in all sorts of uncomfortable scenarios (e.g. stick it up your butt) and take pictures, and put the pictures on the drive for him.",
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"body": "Assuming he uses Windows, create some folders with a Linux Live CD containing illegal characters for a Windows PC. He won't be able to open, rename or delete them.",
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"body": "Take it with you everywhere you go. Take pictures of you and it together. Make it look fun and romantic. Make a montage and have The Turtles song Happy Together play over it. Put the file on the drive. Muss up your roommates bed, place the drive on his pillow. ",
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Create your own stomp boxes/pedals? | Anyone here venture in to this? I've got a degree in Computer Science which came with a modicum of training in basic electronics and this is something I'd be really interested in trying out...however, I have no idea where to get started!
Anyone who's done this have any suggestions? | 7 | [
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"body": "My advice is to just explore some forums first and see whats around, [freestompboxes.org](http://freestompboxes.org/) is a really good place to get schematics. If your looking into kits then [General Guitar Gadgets](http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/) is a cool place. \n\nA really easy starting project would be something like an opamp boost, it has a really low parts count and you can get everything at Radioshack really easily.\n\nMy only advice is if you're looking for quality parts it's probably best to order them online, Radioshack can only take you so far (and they have a horrible selection of switches). A good online place is [Small Bear Electronics](http://www.smallbearelec.com/home.html).",
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"body": "[This](http://www.buildyourownclone.com/) site has pretty cheap built your own pedal kits, which would be a good way to start out and figure out what you're doing.",
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"body": "I've built 2 pedals from [Build Your Own Clone](http://buildyourownclone.com), but I've never actually designed and built one from scratch.",
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[request] Any and all help with my corn bunting website project | Hello Reddit, you've always come up trumps for me in the past and this time I've been uuming and aahing about whether to ask or not because it's not asking for a sketch, it's a bigger request this time.
I don't like asking for freebies but my budget is going to be tight enough and I can't really think of a better subreddit to ask in.
Ok so let's cut to the chase. My wee birds, corn buntings, in the UK have suffered an 83% drop in numbers over 50 years. On the island I work on there are approximately 500 left. That is pitiful considering that I am living in a "stronghold" for the birds.
I want to create a website for people to submit a picture of a corn bunting (that's why I've been asking people to draw them at every opportunity) with the ultimate aim of getting 500 drawings, approximately one for each bird here. I would then put them together and get them published into a book with the profits going towards conserving the corn buntings, the book being sold on the site.
In my mind I could get 500 easily and would keep the project going afterwards with an outrageous target of getting as many as there are in the UK - anything around 10,000. Not likely obviously but the project doesn't stop after an achievable target.
I realise this is borderline pie in the sky but I have always wanted to tackle a big project like this and my idea for the website would be a simple voting gallery and submission page, it doesn't need to be fancy and certainly not have much upkeep once it's been put up on the net.
However I lack ALL web development skills, I don't even know where to start. I was pointed in the direction of godaddy.com but it'd be a waste to pay for a domain and hosting when I have nothing to host.
So where do you come in? Well the first thing is to name the project, I can't think of a snappy domain name. Feedabunting.com? Even cornbunting.com is available.
Then I need someone to do something with the website when I've got it bought and a host chosen. Obviously I'm no fool, I'd need someone trustworthy. I don't mind if it's a template, it just has to be presentable.
So the idea is someone draws a picture, submits it online and knows full well that it can be voted on for the top X get put into the book. The voting isn't even that important, I can choose the top however many if needs be but I'd like it to be a site for people to visit again and check up on the progress of the book, buy the book when it's done and check out other peoples pictures.
Now Reddit, I'm a dreamer, if this sounds fucking stupid then shoot me down in flames. I don't want to keep this inside my head any longer so if it can be done and it sounds like it'd work then I want to do it.
But if it's going to take LOADS of work, you reckon the book will flop and nobody will draw anything then I'd be best not doing it so tell me now before I get carried away any longer.
When and if the books becomes completed, anyone that helps of course gets mentioned, bigged up and thanked, the artists named and shamed. The website too, plaster your name on it if you design it yourself.
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"body": "If you can get hosting, my company would do what you want for free. Only if you make an offer thread in exchange.",
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"body": "Hi :). You have an awesome project, I love all the pictures drawn so far. Unfortunately I can't be of much help setting up a website, but I *can* try to make you a nice drawing with the meager drawing skills I have. Pencil on paper though, so it might take me a week to get around to it and find time to scan it.\n\nEdit: I don't think it's a lost cause, obviously :). You do need to get a certain critical mass of drawings and (media) attention. Luckily you do have some drawings already, so I guess you should probably try to make a simple website, go live with it and call all (local) media you can find. It's probably going to be hard to say if this will work before you're at that stage of the project.",
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IAMA American living in Central London, AMAA | I'm probably far from the most knowledgeable person here about London or the UK, but perhaps there's some intersection of me being an American and living in London that may be interesting to someone or elicit questions. I've been here since 2008 and I'm on a Highly Skilled Migrant Programme / Tier 1 (General) visa, along with my wife. Being an introverted software engineer who works from home, I probably can't provide deep insights into the British psyche, but we're pretty active and I'll try to answer what I can. =)
I grew up in Portland, OR and spent the decade prior to moving here in San Francisco, CA.
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"body": "At which point did you discover that the Full English Breakfast is the finest meal available on the face of the planet?",
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"body": "What have you noticed about Rights in the UK? I hear all kinds of stories about cops just taking your camera, or how you have no right to defend yourself, or how you are under electronic surveillance 24 hours a day.\r\n\r\nOf course, those things happen in the US too, but they're technically illegal, and a cop sometimes gets suspended (with pay) for a day or two after violating your rights here.",
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"body": "It's great to have you here. We need more 'American Spirit' here.\n\nMy wife is also from California and living here, do you participate or recommend any ex pat meet ups?",
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Looking To Help In Haiti | I am moving to the Dominican Republic next month for a period of 6 months. I will be there building homes with students from different highschools all over Ontario. Each group will come down for a week or so and stay with me and build and then go back to Canada. However, I will not have groups every week, infact I may have all of April off. I am looking for something I can volunteer for in Haiti, it is so close I really should get over there and try and do my part if it is possible. I am a 25 year old male not afraid of travelling alone. Speak English and Spanish and have an undergraduate degree in life sceinces. I want to work with an organized group such as habitat for humanity or something along those lines. I do not need to be paid, having my food and shelter provided would be nice but is not necessary I could afford to pay for it for a few weeks.
If anyone knows of any groups going down help rebuild or hand out medicine or do something that is reasonably safe and organized could you please fwd me a link or a phone number or anything that could get me started volunteering over there.
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"body": "Your good intentions are appreciated but sending anything more than money right know is detrimental to the relief effort. There's more than enough for manpower for rebuilding. Unless you are a doctor or an engineer you should really not go.",
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Recipe request: how do I make my own lunchmeat? | I generally get half a pound per week for lunch, either of turkey or roast beef. I tend to prefer the "cajun" flavored varieties, though these past few years I've not managed to find a variety as good as I used to (by the time I thought to check the brand of that which I liked, I had already moved away).
For turkey, I'm assuming I can just buy a boneless breast and slice it up. Are there any particular cuts of beef that turn out best?
Is this something I will be using my crockpot for?
I've yet to buy a slicer (been reading a few Amazon reviews, most stuff out there is junk), and the decision to do so really rests on whether I can come up with something decent enough to enjoy having for lunch. | 6 | [
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"body": "All you really need is a slicer. Season a roast, cook it, cool it, slice it. It's the slicer you're after.",
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"body": "I won't bore you with recipes. You can google roast turkey and roast beef recipes easily enough. \n\ntreephant5 is absolutely correct, what you need is the slicer. Keep your eye on craigslist, and if you live in a large town, watch the papers for auction notices; if a deli or restaurant is going out of business, you might be able to grab a commercial quality slicer for cheap.\n\nMy mom had a big commercial quality slicer, and lemme tell ya, there's no other tool (Alton Brown be damned) that can do the job that thing does. \n\nThe thing is, though, is how much money will you actually be saving in the end? I just bought a pound of Boar's Head rare roast beef at my local mega-mart and it was like $9.47. I would have to cook and slice a *lot* of roast beef to get to the point where I was saving a significant amount of money. A decent roast is what, $5-$6 a lb.? And when you factor in the cost of the slicer and the amount of time it takes to cook/package/slice the end product, you have to kind of wonder exactly how much you're going to be saving?",
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American thinking of Traveling to India alone for a week. Looking for any and all advice. | I'm a 21 year old American college student (male) who is considering disconnecting for a week and traveling to India during my spring break. I've done a great deal of traveling around in the UK and Europe, but have never spent any time in India, or anywhere in the developing world for that matter.
I would most likely be traveling to Mumbai, as I've been interested in visiting there, but I'd be open to suggestions of other cities/places to go. I'm looking for any and all advice Reddit may have for me regarding...
1. What to bring/What not to bring.
2. Good things to try to do/see.
3. What types of places to stay.
4. What to avoid eating.
5. Typical prices for everyday items and advice as far as not getting ripped off.
6. Tips for traveling alone.
7. Any other general advice you may have.
My father is an airline pilot, so I can try to get a deal flying standby, but that doesn't always work out so if you have sage advice on flying between the US and India, by all means, I'm open to that as well.
Cheers. | 5 | [
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"body": "I spent a few weeks in India in 2006, landed in Mumbai and enjoyed the city and the rest of India I saw immensely. People say you either love India or hate it, and I loved it .. dearly. I figure this comes down to if you're the kind of person who can enjoy themselves without the cleanliness of their normal environment. If you're someone who enjoys camping, for example, then you'll be fine. \n\nIndia was my first encounter with a developing country, and I was in a kind of shell shocked state for the first couple of days. There's not a lot you can prepare for that initial culture shock. I met up with my sister who had been in India for a few months, so I got the ropes a lot quicker because of that. After a few days I felt confident getting myself around. One of the harder things to deal with at first is that you'll be walking around in an environment that, if you were back home, alarm bells would be going off telling you to high-tail it out of there. It takes a while to adjust to the difference, and work out what's dangerous and what's not. As a hint: Indian people are pretty honest and good people (anyone who's not selling you something), so long as you stick to main streets, you'll be safe.\n\nBig tips would be educate yourself about all the scams that are out there. In my 3 weeks in India people tried to scam me probably 6 times, and it's possible that I was scammed without me realising. These include:\n\n* People walking up to you and giving you advice. On my first full day in Mumbai I wanted to catch a ferry. A nice man walked up to me and asked if I wanted the ferry. Yes I told him, so he led me to where the ferry left, his ferry wasn't going to leave for 2 hours which was inconvenient. My sister twigged that he wasn't the official ferry service, and the official ferry service was running ferries every 20 mins.\n* Taxi drivers suggesting you another place to visit, or taking you to a place that's different from what you asked for. We would get taken to \"Bamboo village\" instead of \"Bamboo villas\", the people who work at \"Bamboo village\" pay the drivers to mislead tourists\n* Anything taxi drivers tell you, where you can imagine them or someone they know making money from you as a result. Like being told there are no trains going a certain place, but a friend can drive you there\n\nGet an idea quickly of how much a Rupee is worth, because that will avoid you being taken for a ride. I did this by working out how much a decent restaurant meal and a beer was worth in Rupees, and using that to judge relative prices.\n\nHaving said that, once you get a little bit fluent in haggling, and avoiding the numerous scams, try to enjoy it. It's actually pretty funny. And if you call someone up on something, say \"no, that doesn't sound right, what kind of a sucker do you think I am?\" you'll often get the person immediately apologise and tell you they have to do it, because that's how they earn money for their family. It's just a different system there, and scamming is semi-fair in the free market. \n\nAdvice I was given by my sister before I arrived in India was be prepared to see some extreme poverty, some people who are missing limbs, plenty of beggars who will approach you, child beggars, babies sleeping on the pavement as you walk around them, people who look a bit fucked up (physically a little mutated). This scared me at the time, but it's worth being very prepared so it's not such a shock when you arrive.\n\nKeep all coins you receive as a result of breaking notes in your pocket and reserve these coins for giving to beggars as you walk around the city. Always look for opportunities to break large notes you may have into smaller notes, so pay for accommodation with a large note. Taxi drivers and restaurants can get quite pissed off if you try to pay them with a really large note. If needs be, approach a bank and ask if they can simply break a large note into smaller so that you have them. Remember it's a cash society, so you always want enough smaller notes to pay for everyday things.\n\nLearn to be assertive, and to only make decisions when something makes sense *to you*, which means you're not just being convinced of something by someone else. It's okay just to ignore people outright who are getting in your face in India, you don't have to be so polite to everyone all the time. People will approach you trying to sell you things, and it's okay not to even look at them and just say \"No\" and ignore them. That said, do be polite when you interact with people. It's just you don't have to interact with every person who's approaching you. Haggling can be fun, shopping can be fun, you can have fun with the touts trying to get you to buy things you don't like. I discovered Indian market people tend to appreciate people having fun, rather than people who are getting very stressed out. \n\nWhat to bring: \n\n* Silk sleeping bag liner. These are thin material bags you can slip into if you don't trust the bed you're sleeping in. You can treat them with permethrin that will keep bugs away\n* Liquid hand sanitizer! This is essential. Always use it before eating. And practice not touching you eyes, lips, nose with your hand. Essentially the same strategy as not contracting pig flu you can use to not get sick in India. If you sanitise your hands, and don't touch your face, you can probably avoid getting sick.\n* Something similar [to this](http://www.summitcampinggear.com/potableaquawatertravellerpurificationbottle750ml.html). These are great. You can't drink the water in India without getting sick, and you don't want to leave behind a toxic waste dump of plastic bottles, or even need to constantly be sourcing water bottles all the time. These bottles let you fill up with water at the tap, and they have a filter in the lid that will filter bugs and dirt.\n\nWhat to avoid eating:\n\n* Salads, fruit (except peelable fruit you can peel yourself), ice in drinks. These are for all the same reason: the water will make you sick. Salads and fruit you can peel yourself may have been washed in the water. Ice in drinks will dissolve and you might get sick. Stick to cooked hot foods (the temperature will kill bugs) and buying bananas for fruit.\n\nPlaces to see in Mumbai:\n\n* Spend a day at [elephanta island](http://images.google.co.nz/images?sourceid=chrome&q=elephanta)\n* Spend a couple of hours at [Haji Ali mosque](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haji_Ali_Dargah)\n* Visit [chowpatty beach](http://images.google.co.nz/images?sourceid=chrome&q=chowpatty&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi) a couple of times, once during the day and once at night\n* Try to see a couple of bollywood films, even if you don't understand them\n* Look into if there are any Mumbai festivals happening at the time, and make sure you try to witness them. When I was there it was Ganesh's birthday and thousands of people were carrying clay statues of Ganesh into the water at chowpatty.\n\nI find a good way of getting to know where I might want to visit is to check out [flickr photos of Mumbai](http://www.flickr.com/places//India/Maharashtra/Mumbai) if you switch to the \"Recent\" tab of the image viewer you'll see normal people's photos that have just been uploaded, rather than professional tourist shots.\n\nI think if you're an adventurous person then you'll love India, but be prepared for an immediate culture shock upon arrival. ",
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Does anyone ever notice that you can see your breath more when you are around car exhaust? | When it's cold outside, and you are near a running car, you can always see your breath much more than if you were just breathing fresh air. Why is this? I couldn't find anything online and I was wondering if any of you smart redditors know...
EDIT: I am NOT talking about standing behind a car and BREATHING IN exhaust, I mean situations like crossing the street or walking on the sidewalk and a bus passes you, situations where you barely even smell the exhaust fumes. | 5 | [
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"body": "Condensation nuclei. The car exhaust contains all sorts of tiny particles that water vapor from your breath and the surrounding air is able to condense on.",
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How do you deal with those really deep zits? The ones that get red and painful, but never develop a head? | Usually I just have to leave it alone because it cant be popped... then it eventually goes away.
Is there a better way to deal with it? I have one right now between my chin & lower lip that is starting to develop. I fucking HATE these bastards. | 65 | [
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"body": "15 minutes with a very hot washcloth will either bring it to a head, or piss it off something fierce. I usually got em when I was really stressed out. Freshman year of college, got one on the very tip of my nose. We affectionately referred to him as the \"Little General\" cause he was always out in front.",
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"body": "squeeze it and pick at it futilely until it becomes an enormous disfigurement for about a week and then goes away on its own.",
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"body": "I'm sure this is going to be downvoted because you really shouldn't do this, but, You can take a needle, and try to find a pore that is open. Stick the needle in (it should go in easily and painlessly) and the just squeeze. If you can't find a pore, then leave the pimple alone.",
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"body": "I employ little dwarfs (like those from Dwarf Fortress) to work on it. They get drunk, hammer it and the next day it's gone. love them feisty little fellers. ",
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"body": "Benzoyl Peroxide, Benzoyl Peroxide, Benzoyl Peroxide, Benzoyl Peroxide\n\nIt's a fucking miracle chemical. \nI went for being a spotty person to a non spotty person over the space of about a week when I first found it a few years back.",
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"body": "Neosporin with pain relief & don't touch it. Acne is bacterial and an inflammation. Try advil for the swelling/pain.",
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"body": "There may be some super-secret remedies, but if you have the will power and self control to leave them alone until they go away I'm 95% sure you're already doing the right thing.",
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"body": "Cut it open, squeeze it out, then put the video up on YouTube.\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3jNCBe1VTY",
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"body": "Just from reading through this thread, I'm surprised at the amount of bad or incorrect advice.\n\n\nDo yourself a favor and skip all this and go to http://www.acne.org\n",
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"body": "As a preventative measure, sleep with a clean towel on your pillow every night. Wash your bedsheets and covers every week. Drink more water than you usually do. Exercise, like at a gym a few times a week. If the zit is inflamed, put toothpaste on it to reduce the swelling at first. There probably isn't any pus in it yet and there might not be so you have to just keep it clean and leave it. But if it does have pus in it and you can see white in the centre when you stretch the skin around it then you can try putting your two fingernails on either side and push downwards as opposed to inwards as most people do. If you push hard, SOMETHING will come out, even if there's no pus, there will be sebum. God I'm supposed to be working but I couldn't resist an opportunity to procrastinate. All the best pizza faces!",
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"body": "Use your knuckles to pop it. Get way behind it and slowly bring your knuckles together until you can feel an enormous amount of pressure on a single part of your skin. Keep doing it until you think you can get it to blow. When you finally get it to pop, it'll hit the mirror with a \"ping!\" and make your bathroom smell bad.\n\nSo exhilarating.",
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"body": "I'm in school for esthetics, so anything I offer in this comment is from the education I've received that I've actually tried myself.\n\nTea tree oil works wonders. It can kill bacteria, encouraging the pimple to break down faster. Mix it with a little bit of water, though, otherwise you may dry your skin out too much.\n\nDon't play with it/try to squeeze it! Popping a pimple that isn't quite ready to come out can break your skin, leaving you with the possibility of scabbing and/or scarring. What would you rather: a temporary red spot on your face, or a permanent spot on your face? If you feel you absolutely need to take care of it, go on over to a local spa and pay a couple of bucks from a trained esthetician/spa therapist to extract it with a sterilized lancet.\n\nIf you want to spend a few more dollars, try to track down some Aveda Outer Peace Acne Spot Relief. I swear by it! It's reduced my pimple time by a couple of days, even on those big, deep ones! Even just applying steam (NOT direct heat, such as a hot facecloth, that will send fighter cells to the skin's surface and possibly encourage more pimples to form) will help the little buggers come out.",
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"body": "hey i wanna chime in on this one because i'm pretty sure i found a pretty good cure for acne. zinc. i take chelated zinc in 15 mg pills twice a day, and it has done a lot to clear up my face, quite amazing. I also bought some zinc pca online and added it to lotion and put that on my face as well, and i nothing even starts to form anymore. But This last step was recent, I think oral zinc may be good enough.",
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"body": "apply heat to area. heat up a bit of metal, like a spoon handle or something, put a bit of tissue on it to stop the skin burning and hold it on your zit.",
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Confused about being a good christian and the role of god in the affairs of the planet... | From my understanding, being a good and decent christian was summarized in the parable of the good Samaritan. As found in the gospel of Luke 10:25-37. When Jesus asked whom was the neighbour of the Jew that was attacked by bandits, while en-route to Jericho? The reply was "The one who showed him mercy." The Samaritan. Without getting into the perception of foreigners or the split of the Talmudic tradition between the Jews, this is the simple underlying truth of the parable.
If we are to believe the likes of Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell, that Haiti was ravaged by earthquake as god's will, and New Orleans by flood as per the will of the almighty. Reaching way back to when the holly roller smote the city of Sodom. Rick Warren has agreed to mud wrestle Dwight Schrute for charity (I guess that's a christian thing to do...)
If these disasters are the will of god, then clearly christians should not interfere with his wishes, by showing compassion and charity and help the survivors of such devastation... But how are they to become good christians without mercy for their fellow man? Would this be considered a moral dilemma for those followers of Robertson and former followers of Fallwell?
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"body": "The larger problem here seems to be god \"giving us free will\" yet intervening in our affairs anyway. That is contradictory in itself, but it also raises questions like \"why didn't god intervene in the holocaust?\" and \"why doesn't god just wait after death to punish people like he is said to do.\" Also, how do we interpret what events are caused by god and what are not?\n\nChristians say their religion serves as an explanation for various real-world phenomena. But what good is an explanation if it raises more or larger questions than it answers?",
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"body": "These so called church leaders have a political agenda- by propagating their own opinions in the masses they gain support that makes them famous and powerful. You should think of the example set when Jesus rescued Magdalene as she was about to be stoned. He did not acknowledge whether she was guilty or not- he only acknowledged that her accusers had sins of their own to worry about- and then he helped her. The gospel is full of instances where Jesus helped, ate with, and befriended those who church leaders despised. That is why he was hated and feared. Ignore the opinions of these so called church leaders- christian love is not something that should be withheld because of the circumstances the needy find themselves in. Judge not.",
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What is the longest you've ever gone without sleep? | 39 hours. I was in college, and after staying up all night studying for a test, I decided to see how much longer I could make it. I lasted until about 11 pm the next night. | 5 | [
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"body": "I'm in the midst of staying up all weekend. I've got an exam tomorrow and an exam on monday morning; I stayed up last night studying for an exam today, so I've been up for 36 hours already. I'm planning on spending the whole weekend revising, give or take a few hours for sleeping here and there. I think it can be done. Wish me luck reddit!",
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"body": "I likes me my sleep. I've only stayed up all night three or four times in my life, and two of those were when my kids were born. The other two times were when I was camping out for concert tickets (early 80s). And even then, one of those times I was passed out for a while, so it doesn't really count.",
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What does /r/fitness think about cutting the majority of my liquid intake down to water only. | Maybe the occasional beer, glass of wine (I rarely drink anyways), coffee or tea. Anyways, what are your opinions?
EDIT: This doesn't include recovery drinks after a work out. I am talking everyday drinking.
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"body": "Really just cut anything with HFC, however just water is great. I did a small bit of netsearch and those smart water bottles, the tall thin ones is the lower limit of how much water you need in a day, about 4 cups. I would recommend getting one and just refilling it every day to make sure you get enough water.",
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"body": "95% percent of what I drink is water. I have alcohol about once every couple weeks, hot tea in the evenings, and some occasional milk.",
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"body": "So what's this mean? You are still drinking what the rest of us drink - Oj, Tea, whey powder, beer, wine, milk, etc, but are just cutting back on soda?",
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"body": "Water is all you need. I can't live without my coffee though (black.) Green tea is good. 100% fruit juice (not from concentrate, no sugar added) is good too, but as somebody else added, not as good as actually eating the fruits/veggies.\nWhat I'm torn between is skim milk or 2%. I can get by on skim milk, but I really don't need to lose weight and I greatly prefer the taste of 2%!",
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"body": "Too much sugar is unhealthy. Most fruit juice has WAY too much sugar in it. I like a bit of sugar in my coffee, and I do like to have ice cream or a piece of candy. I generally consume less than 10 grams of sugar a day. Look at most beverages or candy bars, and you'll see that they can have up to 4X more sugar than that.\n\nHFCS is unhealthy. Most soda has HFCS in it. HFCS is shit and should be avoided like the plague (or should the plague be avoided like HFCS?)\n\nMilk and water are my staples. Occasionally I'll have a 'sport drink' like gatorade or powerade, but typically I dilute it with water (way too sweet for me). And, you know, if I'm in a pinch for energy (I don't/can't eat very much due to a very busy life), a bit of sugar will give me a nice little burst of energy (with an accompanying crash)\n\nToo much beer and wine is bad in any case, but if you start having adverse health effects from alcoholic drinks, you have an alcohol problem, not a sugar/carb problem.",
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What piece of outdated technology do you still prefer and use regularly? | I personally love old un-electric razors and i still buy physical cds and vinyls at my local record store | 37 | [
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"body": "I love the NES. \n\nI plan to introduce my son to video games chronologically, from the NES onwards.\n\nI'd start at something earlier, but that just seems evil... Even I can't play old Atari 2600 games, even though I grew up with them.",
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"body": "I still listen to the radio when I'm in my car, instead of plugging in the MP3 player that I don't own.",
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"body": "My [IBM Thinkpad 600E](http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:600E), circa about 1998. Setting aside performance, I have never encountered another laptop that good. It's tough, fairly light, attractive, has a [clit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clit_mouse \"Hooray for hilarious Wikipedia redirects!\"), and the incredible keyboard that made the Thinkpad famous.\r\n\r\nI still use it. =/ Really wish I were amazing enough to be able to pull out the guts and replace them with something a bit more modern; that Pentium II is a little slow these days. =P",
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"body": "My penis. It has been around for many years and it doesn't even perform its primary task very well but I still manage to use as many times a day as its old batteries will handle. ",
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"body": "My old-ass Epson Perfection 636U scanner. Built like a tank, huge scanning surface, TWAIN-compliant, and occassionally spends late nights with me.",
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"body": "I use a mechanical watch, vacuum tubes and vinyl (stereo), double-edged safety razor with brush, an old rotary phone (in addition to an iPhone), fountain pens, a manual transmission in my car, and carburetors on my motorcycle.\n\nI love these things. ",
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"body": "* K&R C. (Never liked ANSI C.)\r\n* sbus\r\n* text terminals (serial consoles on all of my computers except the desktop)\r\n* FDDI (MTU big enough for 4K NFS packets)\r\n* vi (as opposed to vim)\r\n* fvwm\r\n* Manual focus lenses (on a modern DSLR body)\r\n* SD videocameras (higher resolution is great, but I DESPISE 16:9.)\r\n",
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"body": "Various peripherals with wires. Sorry, I far prefer a few wires to having to change a damn battery in a mouse or keyboard. Yeah, yeah, wireless power transmission will eventually solve the problem. Not there yet.\n",
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"body": "Remington typewriter. Love that thing -- weighs 20+ lbs but I've carried it around with me every time I've moved.",
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"body": "a vcr. \n\nI work during prime time and need something to record the few tv shows I watch regularly. \n\nI dont have cable tv, and dont want to pay for some tv guide programming subscription fee that commercial DVRs require you to have. \n\nI also dont want to have to boot up a damn computer in order to record a tv show.\n\nVCR is the best option for my particular needs. If there was a dvr that I could manually program (like a vcr) I would buy one.",
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Is there a program that could turn midis into 8 bit tracks? | I stumbled unto some 8bit remixes (basically the same song but 8bitified) in youtube and was wondering if there was an easy way I could do that by simply running the midi through a program? and if not what program should you suggest i use if i wanna do it from scratch? | 3 | [
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Reddit, I'm looking for fun multiplayer DS games to play with my girlfriend. help! | My girlfriend just bout a DS and we're looking for some extremely fun games that we can play together. Thank you! | 3 | [
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"body": "I like the original Bomberman for DS. There's a bunch of different options, like the ability to voice-detonate bombs, and when one person dies, they can \"kill\" the other and steal their place.",
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Cheesy eggs with ramen noodles | Alright boys and girls, this one is super simple and uber tasty. It may not sound like it (I admit I was a bit worried myself before trying it) but give it a try.
* Boil ramen noodles per directions on package, discard seasoning packet or save it for another day
* Drain ramen and toss noodles in a hot skillet with butter/oil
* Crack 2-3 eggs on top of ramen and scramble
* Once eggs begin to solidify, toss in a handful or two of shredded cheese and mix together. Cook until done.
Voila! | 29 | [
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Relocation update: 9 days left. | 2) Still haven't found a place to live in Tauranga. Looking for a roommate situation. I suppose I could get a 1/1 apt., but everything I see there is a bit pricy.
3) I'm all packed.
Nine days to go.
UPDATE:
Well, here's the thing. I've withdrawn my bid for the manual car, after realizing that my plan was, according to Reddit, "retarded."
I concur, believing I now suffer from "How hard could it be?" syndrome.
The new plan: Take a bus to Tauranga.
UPDATE 2:
I decided to "splurge" by getting a 1998 Corolla instead of a 1996 Corolla. This one's got an automatic transmission, ABS and airbags. I'm still going to have to drive it from Auckland to Tauranga. I promise to take it VERY easy and drive INCREDIBLY carefully.
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"body": "If you've only ever driven an automatic, you will be unable to drive a car with manual transmission without at least 2 or 3 lessons on quiet roads. \n\nPlease don't try and drive your new manual as soon as you get off the plane, you will jerk the car violently for about 20 meters and be unable to get out of the carpark. You'll also fucking pummell the clutch and smoke will eminate from your vehicle, which will cause quiet the scene at the airport.",
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"body": "Thats slightly retarded, more than one person has been killed on our roads by tourist that \"forget\" which side of the road to drive on. That's going to be an experience for you in its self with out also trying to drive a manual. You also might want to find out how to put the car in your name with out an NZ drivers license.",
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"body": "If you haven't already, have a look on the [Trade Me Flatmates wanted](http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Rentals/Default.aspx) page for somewhere to live. It's what most people use for advertising for flatmates these days.",
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DAE think that carrying a cup of coffee without spilling it is the hardest thing in the world? | The only way I can do it is if I stare constantly at the mug while walking very very slowly, stopping occasionally if the ebb and flow of the coffee is getting dangerously close to the edge... | 15 | [
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"body": "Not the hardest, but there is definitely some added level of difficulty. Why? Water's surface tension allows it be carried rather easily on a wobble. But, not so with coffee. Does the oil on the coffee eliminate the surface tension? Is it because of the material... the coffee... the suspension that makes it difficult? The cream?\n\nI don't know, but I also wonder about this all the time.",
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Hey Reddit, do you have a cool and unused movie/game/novel idea that you're never going to develop? | I know that people are typically super protective of their ideas, and that is understandable. But I get a lot of ideas for short stories, movies or games, and I know I will never have the time to work on them. Other times I think it's a cool idea that will probably not work when fleshed out to full length.
I've never been super-protective of my ideas anyway, I figure ideas are cheap, it's the execution that requires talent.
Here are some of mine:
* Time-travelling firefighter/historians travel back to the burning of the Library of Alexandria to save lost texts. They must arrive smack in the middle of the fire so that they don't meet anyone and mess up the timeline, but need to grab as many books as possible and recover knowledge that was forever lost. Complications ensue?
* Cowboys and zombies. Though this has probably been done already.
* Steampunk vs. magic retelling of the colonization of North America. Mystic, magic-themed Native Americans versus zealous, steam-powered European imperialists.
Anyways, do you have any spare ideas you don't mind sharing? | 4 | [
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Can I use Google Voice to eliminate my unlimited texting plan? | So here's the thought process: I'm planning on getting an Android phone (Nexus One/Droid) on Verizon at some point this year and was thinking about the capabilities of Google Voice. It allows me to send and receive text messages via my Google number, but I was wondering if the application for Android had some sort of "receiving" notification that isn't text-based (as in, doesn't send me a text via my phone carrier)? I realize I could just check online every so often for a text, but I think it'd be easier if the application notified me of a text (vibration, ringing, etc). Does the GV app do this? | 24 | [
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"body": "Yes, The GV app will poll for SMS at a certain interval via the data connection, I believe the lowest increment is 5 minutes, and then send a notification to the window shade. No SMS plan required. I find routing my GV texts through GMail is a faster way to receive notifications. \n\nNote however, Google Voice does not support MMS at all right now.",
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"body": "FYI, if you set GV to forward your SMS to GMail, they push (better battery life, no background process needed) and you can reply by email as well.",
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"body": "I know that the GV Android app runs in the background and notifies you if you have a new GV voicemail message. I suspect that it will do the same thing with text messages, though I haven't received a text through GV yet.\n\nUPDATE: I just tested this by sending a text message from my phone to my GV number, and the GV app popped up a notification by itself. So it looks like it does work that way. The trouble is, it also seemed to send the message directly to my phone as a standard SMS. So that kind of defeats the purpose.",
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"body": "I have Tmobile with the N1 and use GV. I get free unlimited texting using GV. It checks for new texts every five minutes and rings or whatever you have it set to do. You can also use it with a free SIP number from sipgate and using sipsorcery for unlimited calls, but voip isn't too great yet. Plus they don't let you get the internet only plan off contract. I have 500 min with unlimited data using GV for texting at $55 a month no contract. Have fun, it's great :-)",
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Hey Reddit, are there more atheists in the world (America Specifically) than polls claim? | There are days I wake up, dumbfounded by the amount of friends/family/acquaintances that are atheists that I am fortunate enough to be surrounded by. Are the polls wrong, as a result of bias, closeted atheists, etc. or am I just very, very fortunate? | 3 | [
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"body": "in the polls, a lot of people mindlessly give the name of the religion into which they were born, but they never actually think about god, and if pressed, would probably turn out be agnostic",
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I recently aquired a Nintendo (NES) with games (Duckhunt, Zelda, Paperboy, etc) and a light gun, but this isn't really my thing. Does anyone want to trade? | Reddit,
I've got:
* Nintendo (NES) copyright 1985 :)
* Two Controllers, but one does not work
* Nintendo Zapper (Light gun!)
and these games:
* Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt
* The Legend of Zelda (gold cartridge)
* Super Mario Bros. 3
* PaperBoy
* The Adventures of Bayou Billy
* Wheel of Fortune
Everything works except one of the two controllers, which might only need to be opened up and soldered or something. And the RF switch thingy was cut and mended by its previous owner.
I'm not in to old console stuff, but I know other people really like this sort of thing. Does anyone want to trade something for it?
I'll entertain anything really, but for shipping or real-life trade purposes I live in southern New Hampshire in the U.S. For ideas of what I'd like I'll just say I'm a 21 year old college student who doesn't own much of anything except a camera, car, and computer (clearly the three essential C's)
*edit:* I'll put up a photo soon, here you go: http://imgur.com/M3KH7.jpg
*edit2:* I'm not sure what I'd be willing to trade for, but here's a short list of things I find interesting: Game theory, cognitive science, philosophy, strategy games, books of all kinds, antique things, art-related things, sculptures, computer things, pentax-related camera things, or things that you think would make a good gift for my girlfriend (who is also artistically inclined) | 4 | [
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"body": "I'v got a crapton of brand new, never opened books and book boxed sets (mostly computer, philosophy, and science)\n\ni'v also got a few ps2/3 gmes I don't want. \n\nI would be willing to trade those! Ask me for more info. \n\n\n",
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"body": "What sort of things would you be willing to trade for? Here's some things I would possibly offer in exchange (choose one):\n\n*Fifteen dollars\n\n*Settlers of Catan board game (maybe)\n\n*Some books\n\n*If you have a desktop, I'd give you one of these old computer parts for it: Nvidia Geforce 7950, an old ATI PCI tv-tuner card, or 2 gb ddr ram.",
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I can't figure out if this is the norm with programming departments ... | I just finished up my quarterly review at my job. I'm a C# programmer, but mostly doing QA and testing (I'm a junior programmer so I figured i'd have to take the non-programming tasks before the more senior level guys do).
But mid way through my review, my boss tells me: "I haven't seen you take any initiative with programming. You've told me about your other side tasks, but they don't involve C#. To me, C# is money, and if you're not going to show me that you're willing to learn and expand your knowledge in your own time, I don't see why you should be a programmer instead of a Tester."
At this point, I just bit my tongue. I like .NET, but on my own time I've found more enjoyment in learning Objective-c (trying my hand at making millions in the iphone app store :P). Or PHP/Python/MySQL web development. Learning about Test Driven Development and reading about different programming methodologies.
Is this wrong? I went to a technical school to learn what I know in programming. So I know I probably wont stack up to a University grad without rounding my corners with different technologies. And broadening my option of programming languages. Or am I wrong? Should I focus on C#? Become a master at it and then later on maybe pick up new things on my spare time?
Is my boss even justified in telling me that he can judge me as a programmer based on what I do on my own time?
I need some input proggit.
I've been programming professionally full time for a year and a half and I'm in crisis mode about this job and my career.
EDIT: thanks to everyone for their response. I love you reddit. And you restored a lot of faith in myself and the direction I was going in.
After leaving work for the day and having a few beers I think I've cooled off. While I do have basic experience as a code monkey for C#, I don't have deep knowledge of just how deep the rabbit hole goes regarding WPF, WCF and other technologies. So maybe that is what my boss was trying to motivate me to do. But regardless, him giving me non-programming tasks and expecting me to teach myself at home is wrong. I could do it to better my position, but I don't feel its justified to knock my review down a few points based on what I do in my spare time.
I'll leave my own feelings for the company and it's managers to myself. But I will start job hunting for something that gives a little more freedom to grow. And doesn't use me as a tester. I'm all for being the new bitch, but I haven't written C# in 3 months now, and its getting to the point of ridiculousness.
Thank you again Reddit. | 26 | [
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"body": "No, that's wrong. He's treating your personal time as his own. You are his employee, not his slave. His problem is that he wants all the benefits of training, but instead of allocating any of his budget for that purpose, he wants you to sacrifice your personal time so he can get it for free. He can't manage for shit and you're shouldering the burden.\n\nYou *are* learning and expanding your knowledge with your side projects. If he would like you to develop your skills with any *particular* technology, he can schedule this into your work day as part of your duties. He doesn't have the right to decide for you what you work on in your own time. He gets to call the shots *when you are at work*, so if he'd like to choose what you focus on, then that's the time he can do so.\n\nIf he doesn't want to allocate any of your time for you to develop your skills, then he has no right to complain that you aren't developing your skills in the direction he would like. You've made more than enough effort to develop your skills, if he wants to throw a hissy-fit because you didn't sacrifice your personal time in avoiding the need for him to allocate some of his budget for training, then that's his failing as a manager, not yours as an employee.\n\nBear in mind that even if he's an arsehole and totally in the wrong, he's still in charge at work, so you have to make him happy if you want to progress further in that company. If you and he can't see eye-to-eye then your only options are likely to be remaining a low-level employee or finding another job.\n",
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"body": "> I'm a junior programmer so I figured i'd have to take the non-programming tasks before the more senior level guys do\n\nThat might be true, but that's no excuse for not giving you smaller programming tasks to cut your teeth on.\n\nIf you aren't given the opportunity to do C# on the job, no one should be bitching that you aren't doing any at home. Dump this shit-hole quickly, find a better job. I bet you aren't paid well, either. :|\n\nYou _could_ go to HR and say you're leaving because you haven't been given the chance to do even beginner programming tasks. There's a chance you could get good results with that, but your boss still isn't going to stop being a giant cunt.\n",
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"body": "This is solely from my experience, but...\n\nJunior programmers are not testers. Companies that are serious about testing hire QA people, it's an entirely different job title and everything.\n\nCompanies that hire people as junior programmers expect them to write code or document that code (and maybe stand up a build server, version control, etc)... but all these things relate directly to writing code. As a junior programmer you should be closely supervised by a senior programmer, but a good chunk of your time should be spend writing actual code.\n\nIf you're not careful you're going to end up like a guy I interviewed this morning. He has 'Senior Java Developer' on his resume (and that was his title according to his former company's HR), but when pressed with a few questions it turns out he actually spent most of his time testing even though he was hired as a developer. There might be very good reasons for that, and he just might not have been a good developer so they stuck him in testing, but regardless you won't get hired by another company if you're a 'Junior Programmer' for a year and don't actually program anything. That looks really bad to a future employer.",
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"body": "Any language you choose is worth your time. However, if you are looking to move into a dev position in a Microsoft shop C# and .NET is what you are going to do. If you aren't interested in C# its best to move to a place that will work with the languages you want to use.\n\nWhen I first read this I was thinking that the manager was being unfair, but then now that I think about it, if I were a manager of a company that was all Microsoft, all the time, why would I want to move someone who doesn't know the technology into that position when I can hire someone that has 3+ years of .NET under his/her belt. \n\nIt looks like this guy is being quite clear. You are not moving up until you embrace the company culture. I think that it's a legitimate ultimatum. Find a job that fits your goals and pack your bags. You aren't going anywhere in this job.",
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"body": "If your performance review was not completed objectively based on your actual performance within your job description and duties, then I would take issue with the boss. If anything, you should have been praised for expanding your toolbelt rather than going home and rotting your brain on the tube.",
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"body": "Of course I wasn't in the room, but it sounds to me like he's under pressure to avoid increasing salaries and is looking for any excuse he can to prevent you from asking for a raise or promotion.",
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"body": "This post and its comments are swimming in the typical programmer prima donna mentality. You are not rock stars.\n\nI dated a med student, and it was embarrassing to compare her colleagues to mine. Hers work 30 hour shifts _while_ taking classes and then studying in what free time they have. They pay massive tuition for the honor. They get treated like dirt at their non-paying jobs, frequently interogated, yelled at and made to do grunt work. Yet they are supremely motivated, to the last man.\n\nMine have zero to (occasionally) four years of secondary education, sometimes not even in a computer science-related field. They accept no formal mentoring or on-the-job training, believing themselves to be endowed with natural talents for discerning universal truths from a minimum of experience. They frequently complain about such things as the snack budget being too low, or the temperature of the office not being to their liking, or about having to explain what they're doing. They lack fundamentals like OO design (which we use), yet spend their free time learning about things like functional programming (which we don't use), if they study after hours at all.\n\nYou have 1.5 years of experience, mostly testing. Guess what? You don't know shit and you aren't worth shit. Junior programmers nearly aren't worth the air they breathe. I don't know what you're getting paid, but your company is probably doing you a favor just by employing you, with the expectation that you'll grow into something useful. If you want to be a professional C# programmer, then you need to be a _great_ C# programmer, and achieving that needs to become your goal _right_ _now_. Otherwise you're just another code monkey, hating his day job, doing enough to get by, churning out mediocrity. So grow up, cut the attitude, roll up your sleeves, and go get to work at becoming a respectable professional. It's going to be tough and not always directly rewarding. That's life.\n\nAnd by the way, if you want to be a professional PHP/Python/MySQL developer, sure, you can do that. But unfortunately you have no decent experience with those techs either. So your plan would be to keep your day job while you build up skills in these other areas where you really want to work. I guess that's what you're already doing, but doesn't that mean your boss is completely right to be upset? You're screwing him in order to advance yourself somewhere else down the road. At least be honest about it and accept the consequences.\n",
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"body": "Don't worry about what your boss says. Bosses and managers will say and do whatever benefits them most. In this case, your boss needs to say something vaguely negative to not give you a large raise or bonus so that he or she can get a large raise and bonus. Or he or she may have someone like a cousin or friend they fantasize about hiring into your job. It doesn't matter, because pure economics will prevent them from doing anything. Employment is an equilibrium, not a careful balance.\n\nOnce you know that it doesn't matter what he or she says, that they are full of it, and that you have taken steps so that it actually doesn't matter what they say, then you know you're pro. If most software manager sociopaths could act on even 0.1% of their shit talk, the average programming job would be 3 months.\n\nFor example: You boss obviously wants testers, however programmers are more valuable and difficult to find, so he or she won't be able to convince their bosses to force you into testing. You are also going to want to tone down testing and start complaining lightly unless that's what you want to do.",
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"body": "Do what keeps you employed. That's important.\n\nBut don't stop doing what keeps you interested and sharp, which may be even more important.\n\nC# .NET by day and awesomesauce by night is more common than you think.",
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"body": "It's a bit of both. It's wrong that he expects you to learn work-related stuff outside your work hours. On the other hand, you really do need to spend your own time to be a good developer.",
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"body": "There is a lot of good programming advice in the comments, I however have some job advice:\n\nStop telling your boss what you're working on in your spare time, next time he asks tell him you've become a C# wizard and to give you something real to work on. If you fail -- well you wanted another job anyway right?",
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"body": "I don't share what I do on my own time with my day job. I cant even fathom why you would do that? In my opinion what you do on your own time is yours to \"sell\" however you like. Your boss sounds terrible and Id be looking for another job. \n",
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"body": "There does seem to exist a link between a good programmer and working on projects with their own time. At the mega corp I work at, the best developers are also the ones that spend time at home working on anything. You can use C# at the office and Python at home - programming concepts generally can be used in any language.\n\nTo give yourself a little bit of time to program at work and show something for it (written in C#), you might want to look at writing little utilities or test harnesses that help you do your Testing job.\n\nI think your problem is that your boss is out of touch with reality, or completely sold out to Microsoft and their technology. That in and of itself isn't a good or bad sign, but when you start seeing that preference become 'LAW', you might want to find somewhere else to work.",
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"body": "Microsoft shops are boring, stagnant places where you peak early, then slowly die.\nDo yourself a favor and run. ",
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"body": "> So maybe that is what my boss was trying to motivate me to do. But regardless, him giving me non-programming tasks and expecting me to teach myself at home is wrong.\n\nMaybe you could counter-propose him to help you in acquiring a MCPD certificate? Tell him that you've thought about it, and that you really want to improve your toolset, and can't he foot the bill for the certification?",
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"body": "Look for another job. When the interviewer asks why you're leaving tell them it's because they told you that you'd be programming at your current job and you aren't. It worked for me after my first job.\n\nI really hate to say this but you've been \"pigeon holed\" and these poor excuses \"that you don't meet their needs or put in unexpected effort\" are attempts to keep you down, to suppress you as an overqualified tester.\n\nFind another job on the sly and then after the job is given to you in writing, go tell your manager to go fuck himself. You've been to university all this time to prepare for a development job and he won't meet you half way with training for the job he supposedly needs you for? Honest to god you should be feeling angry. Now calmly quit and get the career you've always wanted on its way.",
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Talking to strangers. | I'd like to be a bit more social and I figure talking to strangers would be a good start. I'm not very good at initiating a conversation but once that's out of the way I'm quite fluent so I was wondering if you could share some of your favorite conversation starters and maybe some tips.
This is what usually happens: I select someone I'd like to talk to, spend several minutes trying to force myself to act and then when I ask for the time or whatever they just answer, but not giving me anything to go on with.
Ps: I'm quite sure there are threads like this, used the searchreddit but couldn't find any of them.
**TL,DR**: What's our way of starting a conversation with a stranger? | 7 | [
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"body": "The best way to have a conversation with a stranger is to have a reason to talk with them. If there's something about them that interests you, or a situation you are both dealing with, it's simple to generate an opening statement based on that.\n\nAny more than that is not necessary- if they want to talk to you, they'll help you continue the conversation together. If you can't think up something to say, it means you have no business bothering that person in the first place :)\n\nIn other words, don't focus on starting artificial, purposeless conversations. Focus on being an attentive, forward, interested, and interesting person and the rest will come from that.",
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i have to make a difficult decision about my 4-year relationship | i've been with this dude for almost four years. i love him and it hurts me a LOT to even have these contemplations about our relationship. but i want a lot out of life and he doesn't seem to care about much of anything.
he goes to work, contributes a paycheck to our lifestyle, and that's about it. he doesn't clean unless prompted, he doesn't clean the litter box unless it's a solid mess, he doesn't feed the cats unless prompted, he accepts his failure in college and won't go back due to his already accrued debt (which he hasn't paid anything in about two years because he "doesn't make enough money".. he totally does, btw), so he's stuck in this shitty job that he complains about but does nothing, we smoke together and i feel i can't break away from it if i wanted to, he plays video games whenever he's not at work (which is fine, but do SOMETHING else for fuck's sake), he gets mad at me and doesn't talk if i make a subtle suggestion about him doing something constructive around the house or for himself, and i'm about fed up with his attitude about life. he feels that he's basically worthless, has no chance of doing anything else in life other than what he's doing, but he won't DO anything to change these things.
i'm sick of his moping, i'm sick of picking up after both of us all the time, i'm sick of reminding him to turn stuff off when he leaves the house, i'm just sick of feeling like his fucking mother all the time. i'm getting a lump in my throat typing this and i don't know what to do. i've had this conversation with him several times and nothing has changed. he says he loves me and wants to be with me forever, but he doesn't SHOW me. ever. i feel taken advantage of for my nature to care and help, but i don't feel it to be my responsibility to show him the way.
what the hell do i do? i don't want to break up with him, but i'm afraid that if i don't and he doesn't change his attitude then i'm going to be unhappy forever. help me, reddit. i'm in tears, here. | 12 | [
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"body": "> i don't want to break up with him, but i'm afraid that if i don't and he doesn't change his attitude then i'm going to be unhappy forever\n\nThe best advice anyone ever gave me when I was miserable in a relationship was to start doing the things that made me happy RIGHT NOW. Start doing the things that make you happy. Don't break up with him, but don't allow any consideration for him to get in the way of moving forward with your life. If that means moving out, move out. Either way, get out of the house, pursue your own friendships and opportunities and interests.\n\nIf you can start focusing on your own fulfillment, a few things will happen:\n\n1. You'll start feeling better about your life and yourself.\n2. He may - *may* - be shocked out of his complacency by your independence\n3. He may be inspired by your passion for life.\n4. Regardless of how he reacts, you will feel more confident and optimistic about deciding what your next step is.",
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"body": "This guy sounds *a lot* like me when I was depressed and I'm sure you're thinking some of the exact things my ex thought when we were together. Him saying that he feels worthless is a definite sign that he isn't happy at all. He may very well be happy being with you but aside from that it sounds like he isn't happy with his own life at all.\n\nI would almost guarantee you that he's clinically depressed. Lack of motivation, not caring about living in a dirty home, feelings of worthlessness and failure, zoning out into video games, probably using pot as a crutch, becoming dependent on you. It seems pretty obvious to me. But, then again, maybe he's just a lazy underachiever. Or maybe that's just how he wants to live life. How long has this been going on? If it is depression, I can assure you, it isn't an easy thing to just snap out of. It's like a cycle that will eat at you and wear you down the longer it continues.\n\nMy suggestion is to sit him down and get his full attention. Be blunt and completely honest with him. Either he tells you what's going on and you two try to work on it together or you're going to leave. Be sure to tell him that you do care for him and you want it to work out but right now you are feeling very strained. Tell him if he is feeling depressed that you are there to support and help him. If he gets bitter and starts getting angry tell him you do not want to continue the conversation until he can speak about it rationally and with a level head. If this does not work and he makes no effort to correct the issues, you're probably better off leaving him. At least then he'll be left on his own to deal with his problems without leaning on anyone or having his girlfriend be his mother. Eventually he'll get used to taking care of himself again and hopefully gain some independence. Therapy (specifically cognitive behavioral therapy) has been going well for me for the past three months and you may want to consider discussing that with him if it turns out he's depressed.",
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"body": "Has he always been this way? Has he been diagnosed with depression? you say he feels he's worthless - if he's depressed it's really hard to **want** to do anything. If it's a depression issue, steps can be taken to make things better. Diet changes, exercise, therapy, can all help make him a more productive person. Most of all he'll need your love and support.",
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"body": "> i don't want to break up with him, but i'm afraid that if i don't and he doesn't change his attitude then i'm going to be unhappy forever.\n\nYou already know the answer to your question.",
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"body": "You know, I was wishy washy until I got to \"so he's stuck in this shitty job that he complains about but does nothing.\" I don't know what kind of effort you've made to help him get out of this eternal funk, but I'm going to take it on faith that you've made one. Sometimes the proverb about leading a horse to water is just dead on, and it seems like this is one of those times.\n\nIt's hard to accept, but it looks like he's turned into a giant victim of life. It's been four years, why do you believe he is ever going to change? I guess the bigger question is why has it lasted four years at all? What are the redeeming traits? What's in it for you if you spend the next decade trying to help him turn into something you (and I) think is a more worthwhile existence?\n\nIs it just comfort? If so, then all your doing with your relationship is what he's doing with his job. And in that case, I would give you the same relationship advice I'd give him about his career. If you aren't happy, and you aren't willing to do something about it, then shut up and accept your lot in life. Otherwise, quit your job/relationship and move on to better things.",
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"body": "Your boyfriend sounds like the average male redditor, with perhaps a touch of clinical depression.\n\nMaybe nagging isn't what he needs.\n\nHe is how he is, and will be that way until HE DECIDES to change things, which may be years.\n\nIf you don't like that, you need to move on.",
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"body": "This is who he is. You're either going to have to readjust your expectations, or find someone that better fits them.",
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Ladies..I need fashion advice! | So i'v got a few issues regarding fashion I was hoping someone could help me with.
1- I have a ton of colorful, bright, and weird leggings with different strange patterns. I love them. I used to wear them with jeans skirts and t shirts, and im starting to realize that it looks a little goofy. I was wondering if you ladies knew anything fashionable I could use these leggings for.I am a little clueless, and I want to make the most of what I have.
TD'LR what do you wear crazy leggings with? pics?
2- I want to look more fashionable in general. I have a decent amount of clothing, but not much style. What are some clothing combinations and styles that would look good on a tall and slender girl with some nice hip curvage?
I really like very peacocky clothing that stands out and looks different.
Any pictures would be great.
thank you so much in advance! | 5 | [
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"body": "Cut all of your legging into strips and sew them into a skirt!!! BWUAHHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!! IT'S ALIVE!! ***IT'S ALIIIIIIVE***!!!!",
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"body": "I tend to wear mine with a pair of destroyed jeans. They make it possible for me to wear my favorite pair of jeans, the ones with holes in rather awkward places, without offending anyone. ",
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"body": "1. Wear them with block colour short dresses? Not cocktail dresses, but neat \"businessy\" dresses. Or with a belted sweater dress? Belts in general good.",
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IAmA son of a spiritist family. AMA | I am part of a spiritist family( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritism ). I grew up being taken into spiritist centers, they are the temples where spiritists go. My family is strongly involved in this religion, both my father and mother study regularly, and my father gives lectures at one of the local spiritist center. My grandfather and some of his brothers and sisters are mediums in a center in the city they live. When I visited them as a kid I've seen many times my grandfather speaking as if a spirit talked through him. They were considered good spirits, and always spoken messages about Jesus Christ, doing good for others, about how people present should give to others and do their part on their activities.
Obviously when I grew up and started studying at school I started racionalizing and seeing that it might not be true. After a while, arguments started to happen frequently between I and my parents. My sister believes in everything, but I eventually couldn't be part of something I entirely not agree with. I don't have a religion anymore, and God for me is just the nature and universe with all its laws, for me science is the way to be close to the greater meaning of all.
As you can see my experience is pretty unique, it may be interesting for some of you and I decided to share. Please ask me anything you would like to know, and I'll try to answer. | 4 | [
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"body": "Wow, I had no idea this still existed... I thought this went out with Mary Todd Lincoln seances and posthumous photography. Do you believe that human beings have souls?",
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Two BBC series about Photography I would like to share with my fellow redditors | **The Genius of Photography** (6 part - 2007 BBC series)
* BBC official site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius
* Torrent from TPB: http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4178820/the_genius_of_photography
* Thread about this show on [reddit](http://www.reddit.com/comments/algqo/a_must_see_for_all_photography_amateurs_the_6/).
**Master Photographers** (6 part - 1983 BBC series)
* Some [clips](http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Master+Photographers+1983+BBC&emb=0&aq=f#) on Google Videos.
* Torrent from IsoHunt: http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/25303435/Ansel+Adams?tab=summary .
And in case something bad happens:
* Both torrents on a zip in http://uploaded.to/file/kp1upd | 100 | [
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"body": "Right! You can watch it streaming :)\n\nThe Genius of Photograph \n\n* [Ep.1 - Fixing The Shadows](http://art.docuwat.ch/videos/genius-of-photography/the-genius-of-photography-01-fixing-the-shadows/?channel_id=0&skip=0) - Two parts.\n\n* [Ep.2 - Documents For Artists](http://art.docuwat.ch/videos/genius-of-photography/the-genius-of-photography-02-documents-for-artists/?channel_id=0&skip=0) - Two parts.\n\n* [Ep.3 - Right Time, Right Place](http://art.docuwat.ch/videos/genius-of-photography/the-genius-of-photography-03-right-time-right-place/?channel_id=0&skip=0)\n\n* [Ep.4 - Paper Movies](http://art.docuwat.ch/videos/genius-of-photography/the-genius-of-photography-04-paper-movies/?channel_id=0&skip=0) - Two parts.\n\n* [Ep.5 - We Are Family](http://art.docuwat.ch/videos/genius-of-photography/the-genius-of-photography-05-we-are-family/?channel_id=0&skip=0) - Two parts.\n\n* [Ep.6 - Snap Judgements](http://art.docuwat.ch/videos/genius-of-photography/the-genius-of-photography-06-snap-judgements/?channel_id=0&skip=0) 4 parts\n\nMaster Photographers\n\n* [Ep.1 - Jacques Henri Lartigue](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1134319457685102524&ei=u-9QS_CcOsSp-AaipP3vBQ&q=Master+Photographers#)\n\n* [Ep.2 - André Kertész](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4221154340966078477&ei=u-9QS_CcOsSp-AaipP3vBQ&q=Master+Photographers#)\n\n* [Ep.3 - Bill Brandt](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7498812648377438880&ei=WPBQS7bqIoOm-AablczDCg&q=Master+Photographers+3#)\n\n* [Ep.4 - Ansel Adams](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=410465473434476327&ei=u-9QS_CcOsSp-AaipP3vBQ&q=Master+Photographers#)\n\n* [Ep.5 - Alfred Eisenstaedt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gMex5mndME) - YouTube parts [2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rasdZ-1lfzE), [3](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGxkkxjOGUk), [4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCXhqYYuN40)\n\n* [Ep.6 - Andreas Feininger](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXGua_YjiUg) - YouTube parts [2](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iby7p7BN-k&feature=related), [3](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFF_FUP33U&feature=related), [4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7jN-4OSJRc)",
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DAE hate 420 stuff or when people say '420 friendly' | It bothers me but in a way I like it cause I instantly know I'll hate that person. I don't have to waste time trying to see if I'll like them. | 12 | [
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"body": "Exactly! I mean you try and advertise a friendly birthday party for the Fuhrer and people have to go and bring *drugs* into it.\n\nThat was a pretty awkward day",
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"body": "After playing Xbox Live for a few years, I have definitely seen enough 420 references for my entire life.",
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"body": " \"I like pot, I enjoy pot, uh, I like to smoke it. (crowd cheers) Alright! But the one thing I don't like about pot is the subculture it's spawned. I think it's embarrassing and really juvenile and uncreative, and I think the epitome of it is 'High Times' magazine. That is the most juvenile, immature publication, it's incredible, I mean it's like a notch intellectually below 'Highlights for Children.' I mean, they're both great to read when you're baked, but come on!\n\nHigh Times has centerfolds of buds! I know people who take these centerfolds out and stick them up on their wall! I know these guys I grew up with them! These people are sitting there going 'Aww, man, shit! Did you, uh...check out April's Bud of the Month, man! That shit is awesome, man! That shit is so sexy and... (starts making orgasmic sounds) sweet, and fuck look at the fucking red hairs on that, man, I mean it's awesome man!!' Ugh, guys jerking off to pictures of weeds. \"\n\n-David Cross",
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"body": "No not really, it's just a covert way of advertising an interest without screaming \"HEY I SMOKE POT\"",
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"body": "i love 420 stuff (ie: beautiful/creative pieces, a delicious joint, some yummy baked goods) but yes the phrase \"420 friendly\" is tired. I think \"I smoke weed\" or \"I support legalization\" is much classier - and nobody is really shocked or offended by it anymore.",
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"body": "Time to stop speaking of pot in code. Here in California, it's inching towards legalization. No one even hides it anymore in my neighborhood.",
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"body": "420 isn't what bothers me the most, but what I do hate is the \"I was so stoned i did a stupid lol\". I know I forget shit now and then, but I can honestly say neither I nor the people I usually smoke with have done something monumentally stupid and blamed it on pot. \n\nStupid people do stupid shit no matter what drugs they are on, and when they drink the blame is given to alcohol instead. ",
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My intersexed friend just had a kid. She needs some snappy answers to some invasive questions. | My friend, who identifies as female, had a fling with some chick about ten months ago. My friend has been told her whole life by doctors that she could never have kids. The fling got pregnant, kid is born, paternity test proves my friend is the bio-dad. We live in a fairly small community in a major city. Everyone knows everyone else. Obviously, the fact that she now has a daughter is raising some eyebrows, and she's getting some unwanted questions from people she doesn't know that well. She needs some way of either deflecting these queries, or... Or. Suggestions? | 5 | [
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"body": "\"Not that it's any of your business, but why do you ask?\"\n\nIf the response is something like \"because I really want to know\", or \"I'm nosy\", the response to the former can be \"how does it feel to want?\" or \"Oh, *that's* nice!\". As to the latter, easy. \"Well, doctors say admitting it is half the solution.\" You can add a conspiratorially whispered \"Good luck!\", if you like.",
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Fun and games with SSRIs...or Nap Time | I have been on anti-depressants for a while now. It took me a couple of years to connect the fact that I was beginning to fall asleep in class for the first time in my life to the fact that I was on a new drug (Zoloft at the time, which got changed to Paxil because of dietary issues). So I brought this up with my present psychiatrist back in June and we decided to try getting off the SSRIs and he put me on Wellbutrin. Now, wellbutrin was FANTASTIC energy-wise, but did nothing for my mood.
Now, I'm back on the SSRIs (Prozac) and about the smallest amount I can. It's working for my mood, but my boss woke me up at work the other day. I get about 8-9 hours of sleep a night.
Have other people on here had issues with SSRIs and sleepiness? If so are there any tricks you can offer?
tl;dr SSRIs make me sleepy, looking for a non-medical solution to the sleepiness. Anybody? | 8 | [
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"body": "I had the same problem on antipsychotics (prescribed as mood stabilizers) classically tiring. There are two things... one is how long have you been taking it... if it's under 1-2 months I would try staying on it longer.\n\nIf it's been that long... then you may need to look at when you take it, etc. etc. If you take it in the morning, perhaps move that so you take it all at night? With your doctor's guidance.",
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I'm a "cold fish"... | I can't remember the last time I honestly felt affection for someone. I mean physical affection, like wanting to hug or kiss someone. I like being around friends and I value relationships. I have hobbies and interests and I enjoy socializing, although I know I'm an introverted person and I need time to 'recharge' between tasks. What can I do to fix this? | 3 | [
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"body": "If it is something that your head wants and you are having trouble getting your feelings to match, your best bet is to approach it like a fear. Force yourself to go outside of your comfort zone, which is physical affection, in this case. For all of you jackasses who are thinking sex, no, I'm not advocating that this person become a slut.\n\n\nLet me relate a personal story. When I was 2 years old I moved in to a house across the street from a girl who would become my best friend. We've been friends ever since, through elementary, middle and high school. We shared everything with each other, she is married and I can't wait to go visit her after she gives birth to her first child. Up until the last month of high school, however, I had never even hugged her. I'm an extreme introvert and physical contact with *anyone* was just not something I desired and even something that kind of freaked me out.\n\nIn order to get over it, the rational part of my brain recognized it as something I wanted to get over and I, therefore, forced myself into situations where I was being physical with people (friends, physical relationships with people I liked, etc). \n\n\nIf it's something you want to fix (not that it necessarily objectively needs fixing) then put your mind to it and force yourself to do it. Over time you'll probably get more comfortable with it and eventually it'll be natural. \n\n\nThis is all assuming that it's not some kind of hyperphobia. If that's the case, go see a therapist.",
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"body": "Do you feel as though you are missing anything from not having physical relationships? Did you know that some people are [asexual](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual) and live long happy lives without ever feeling the need to start a romantic relationship? If you're comfortable with the way you are don't change because society wants you to, that's a quick path to unhappiness.",
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Using playing cards instead of dice... | So Monday, I forgot my dice for a session of Over The Edge. Noone else brought any and we were at a bar. So I went to 7-11 and picked up a deck of cards.
OTE is d6 (Roll Xd6, add 'em up, & beat your opponent's roll total). I discarded the Kings and treated 7-Q as 1-6 so that the deck had eight of each number. We would reshuffle halfway through the deck.
It worked out rather well. No dice scattered on the floor and all the 'rolls' were nicely lined up when 'dealt.'
Anyway, I love to hear other players thoughts on this technique. Any ways to make it better? Also, what sort of quick fixes have you used to compensate for lack of dice?
Any thoughts on games that use a similar technique? I can think of Dread, Nobilis, Amber, Mortal Coil, or Deadlands, but I have yet to play any of them. | 11 | [
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"body": "[Primetime Adventures](http://www.dog-eared-designs.com/games.html) is kind of like that. We're playing Star Wars with it and the layout of the game (like a TV episode) really suits the world quite well.",
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"body": "I once read a tip about using cards instead of a d20. Face cards were pulled, Ace was 1, reds were value and blacks were value+10. The thing I liked about the tip, tho', was it advocated dealing out 3-5 cards to each player. At each test, they can choose which card to play--really important tests and checks, they'll use higher cards, piddly stuff they'll use lower cards. BUT, they have to use up all 5 cards before they get dealt any more. That way, at some point, they're going to HAVE to use that red ace. It introduces a bit of strategy to the outcomes described above; players have to ask themselves, \"should I take the hit *now* with my red ace, or save it, when it potentially could be much better or worse?\"\nI really liked the idea, but I've never had the chance to give it a shot.",
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"body": "Let's not forget Aces & Eights: Shattered Frontier and the alternate card rules for indie-game Storming The Wizard's Tower\nEdit: Though A&8's does also use dice.\nEdit: oh, and I forgot about Cold Blooded Games 'Bust' system!",
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"body": "Not an RPG, but [Malifaux](http://wyrd-games.net/shop/home.php) is a relatively new tabletop game that uses cards instead of dice.\nIts definitely worth a look if you're into tabletop war games.",
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Post 'em if you got 'em: Gaming-related wallpapers! | Here are a few of mine to start:
[Half-Life](http://imgur.com/HnkbH.jpg)
[Team Fortress 2](http://imgur.com/grDAC.jpg)
[Pac Man](http://imgur.com/RDMk2.jpg)
[Metal Gear Solid 3](http://imgur.com/VvTOq.jpg)
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"body": "Bioshock wallpapers:\nhttp://bestgamewallpapers.com/bioshock\nhttp://www.2kgames.com/cultofrapture/downloads",
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"body": "Obscure one, but [Sonic Adventure 2 stage select screen](http://i.imgur.com/LbQam.jpg). Still WIP, due to a lot of my applications stopping me from changing the icons. This and other reasons mean I'll likely rebuild it from the ground up with a third-party program when I get Windows 7.",
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Are you annoyed by the fact that no matter what comments you post, no one will notice them unless you were among the first ~50? | I've noticed that my main source of irritation in social networks is the fact that 95% of people don't read beyond the first 50 comments to any post/submission/discussion. Sometimes you really have something witty (at least you think so) to say, but by the comment count you realize that no one will ever read it. Does it annoy you too? | 664 | [
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"body": "Punxsutawney's Guide to Reddit Success\n\n1.) *read* top submissions\n\n2.) *comment* on new submissions",
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"body": "51st comment, damnit I just missed the cutoff.\n\nOh well, at least I can say some edgy shit. Sausages are better than bacon!",
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"body": "Actually [reddit introduced the \"best\" sorting method](http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-system.html) that is supposed to remove this temporal advantage.\n\nCurrently the top ten top-level comments here were posted\n\n* 1 hour after your initial post\n* 6 hours\n* 3 hours\n* 1 hour\n* 0 hours\n* 4 hours\n* 1 hour\n* 7 hours\n* 1 hour\n* 6 hours\n\nWhich gives a mean posting time of 3.0 hours after your initial post, not far off from the 3.5 hours expected average (it is now 7 hours after your initial post). Given the small sample size this is a pretty reasonable number.",
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"body": "I don't know, I'll generally scroll-skim the parent comments pretty far down the page. All too often, the replies devolve into some pun thread or tangent conversation. As long as your witty comment is on topic and not buried as a 4th or 5th level reply, it'll get some eyes on it.",
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"body": "Honestly, and this may be my low standards for everything in life playing itself out, if I leave a comment and see that I got just a single upvote I'm satisfied. For the people who shoot for the top and don't make it, and then go mope about how nobody noticed them, yet they have four or five upvotes - I say fuck that. That's four or five people that you don't know, probably will never know, but have acknowledged you, agreed and affirmed you. In a world that's so caught up in doing anything to get ahead, a little acknowledgment from your peers can go a long way. But hey, I'm just drunk.",
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"body": "I'm not sure about this.\n\nIt generally holds true, but I think that blacks, who have no initiative, generally post late in the thread, and don't draw much notice. The same applies to drunken Indians - there's a redundant expression for you - as well as greasers, greedy Jews, and inscrutable Asians, whose opinions can't be deciphered anyway, because they're busy smiling.\n\nI think that reddit is also hard on people from southern rural areas, seeing as they are too busy diddling their close relatives to learn to write coherently.\n\nI'm not racist: some of my best friends are wops, spear-chuckers, sheenies, timber niggers, sand niggers, slopes, portagees, spics, mexcrement, limeys, micks, cholos, dagos, papists, Scotsmen, Welsh backsliders, frogs, Polacks, peace-pipe smokers, mustard chuckers, and Eskimos. It's just that some racial groups are lazy and stupid, and lack the initiative to get on a thread in time.\n\nI haven't touched on gender issues here - in a caring and sustainable way, of course - because women are just cum dumpsters as far as I'm concerned. Shit, they're dumber and less relevant than Conan O'Brien! Hence I don't really know how to address their special problems, except to say that I believe there is hope for them: they can be taught not to talk all the time. And what's with chicks who won't swallow my cum? I have a name for them: dumped. The nice thing about dating 14-year-olds is that I can lead the way. They have to be young and - it goes without saying - white.\n\nI really dislike fat people too; stop whining and lay off the cheese! Why do you expect me to love you? You eat too fucking much.\n\n",
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"body": "**YOU CAN ALWAYS DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO GET ATTENTION!!!! IT HAS A TENDENCY TO STICK OUT BECAUSE IT HURTS PEOPLES EYES!!!! UNLESS YOU SAY SOMETHING REALLY WITTY PEOPLE WILL BE MORE LIKELY TO DOWNVOTE YOUR COMMENT UNTIL IT IS HIDDEN!!! THEREFORE IT IS WISE TO ONLY USE THIS METHOD IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING REALLY, REALLY GOOD TO SAY!!!!!!!**",
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"body": "I guess this applies to submissions too because you obviously didn't notice the first 50 times people posted this. And check this links in the sidebar, this belongs in [/r/DoesAnybodyElse/](http://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/).",
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"body": "I get annoyed when I spend 3 hours working on a [story](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/aq8q3/does_listening_to_certain_music_bring_back_a/c0iufzl) that nobody reads- after having dozens of requests to write more.\n\nHonestly, I think I've spent at least 12 hours writing a [whole bunch](http://www.reddit.com/r/flossdaily/) a different stuff for reddit this week, and I can't hit the tipping point on anything.",
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"body": "I say my piece and state my case as honestly as possible then I get the fuck out of Dodge. If someone comments on my comment then I may, nay, I do, attempt some semblance of a reply. Truthfully I try to read all the comments I can within any topic, save for those that appear to be filled with trolling.",
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"body": "> 113 comments.\n\nWell, shit... There's go my chance of being seen. Since nobody is going to see this anyway...\n\nYou're all faggots!",
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"body": "The ultimate irony is that I'm going to answer \"yes\" but no one will notice.\n\nBut yes, it does get a little irritating sometimes.",
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"body": "11 hours later, i find this discussion, and there are 244 comments already, therefore i can say anything i like and no-one will ever read it ... i can confess anything ... my fave Abba song is Dancing Queen",
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"body": "It's all timing. I believe that some people will read your comment and perhaps orangered it, or up or down vote it. I pretty much always read every comment to make sure the post is legit. Of course, time plays a big part. Unless U comment on the article I don't come back to it.",
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"body": "No, I only find it annoying once the number of comments passes 500 or if most threads have dwindled off into 'load more comments' oblivion.",
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"body": "When you write comments [like this](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/apm0y/the_lack_of_tolerance_on_reddit/c0isi0u), **no**.",
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"body": "I personally think it's time to shuffle them, apart from the replies to you and the top five rated ones.",
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"body": "It does but that's something unavoidable. no one is going to read 100+ comments on one thread, nothing is that interesting. We are only human...or are we",
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"body": "What annoys me more is the fact that the first FEW PAGES of comments are just bullshit jokes/memes/useless crap posted under the highest rated comment threads to get trickle down karma. Yes I realize theres a - button to collapse comments, but a shit lot of good that does you when you're already one page down. ",
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"body": "This comment does not matter as nobody is going to read it. I wrote it solely for the purpose to apease my brain center of self-importance and feel to be a part of community. Nothing witty is included. I have also planted some grammar errors in it to make grammar nazis feel important and purposeful, also to divert them from more useful comments.",
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"body": "I have not noticed this. I comment on topics that have 500+ comments all the time and very often receive replies.",
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"body": "I always sort by old to new, but often look at the bottom for those witty late comers. I read a thread earlier today where the first 25 commenters were all complete morons so, my method saves me some time, sometimes. \n\nBut to answer the question : No, it doesn't really *irritate* me. \nWhen the list grows to over 9000 I just refrain from commenting.",
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"body": "So, who cares?\n\nJust speak your mind. Some of my best work (from the limited selection of mediocre submissions I've actually made) has been deep, deep down in the dark depths of some comment thread long-since dead and buried.\n\nBut the context is right, so I say it there and no-where else.\n\nOn the other hand, sometimes I do as others do and piggy-back - replying to a comment that already has sufficient upvotes to put it at the top of the *hot* pile, thereby all but guaranteeing views and attracting votes (one way or the other).\n\nNot this time, though.",
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"body": "But this is not true. At this point in time, 252 comments have been posted but I'm sure a lot of people will see this. Perhaps not as many that see the top 5 threads or so, but hey, you can't have it all ;)\n\nI'd say be less worried about what happens with your comments and spend more time writing and making sure your input is as good as you c can make it. \n\nAnd yes, focus on new submissions ;)",
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"body": "Make sure you are sorting by 'best'. The algorithm used rewards quality over the post time. Randall Munroe explained it at some point in the Reddit blog.",
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"body": "The market chooses the #1 comment so I read that one. If #2 has several hundred points I may glance at it too. Otherwise its just indie crap. It may have better plots and character, but it lacks production value.",
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"body": "I was going to comment on that with the secret of everlasting life, but I'm now too depressed to do so",
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"body": "Yes, but nobody will ever see this comment so I guess it doesn't matter. Edit [Damnit, someone already posted this sentiment. Oh well, nobody will ever see this repost.]",
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Thermos cooking recipes? | I'm going to be living in a van for the next year or so (in Portland!), so I'm exploring cooking methods that are suitable for that living situation. One of those I found is thermos cooking, where you combine the heat-holding capacity of a thermos and very long (8+ hour) cooking times. I tried cooking some brown rice over night (1c rice, 3c boiling water), but the result was... strange. 3/4 of the rice was mush, and the rest was uncooked. I'm still experimenting, but as I do, does anybody have any wisdom regarding this method or even some decent recipes? I'm familiar with Kurt Saxon's information, btw.
Thanks! | 31 | [
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"body": "It seems to me you could apply a lot of the Freezer Bag Cooking recipes and methods to a Thermos. When backpacking I do almost all of my cooking in freezer bags. There are a bunch of recipes [here](http://www.trailcooking.com/taxonomy/term/7%2B8).",
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"body": "I always wondered why it seems like 94% of people have such a huge boner over Portland. Whenever I would visit, I just ran into a bunch of yuppies and pretentious 20 some things. I guess it's possible that I just missed the interesting areas. \nI was thinking that veggies (especially potatoes), dehydrated mushrooms, rices that are quicker to cook ( instant 5 minute stuffs), oats could work out. Bouillon is cheap, too. \nGood luck to you and your adventures!",
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"body": "i dunno why you'd be so into thermos cooking. if you have a van then you have room for a LP tank and a camp stove. you can get an adapter for a 20lbs. or 40 lbs. tank to attach whatever your attaching it to. you can even get a 100lbs. tank and do the same thing.\n\njust be careful. they can and do go boom.\n\nwhere would you park and how would you not get hassled by the cops? \n\nwhat about an address?",
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"body": "I've cooked rice, beans, oats and wheat berries in my thermos so far.. any fresh veg is going to work well too.\n\nDid you stir or otherwise agitate your brown rice after pouring in the water?",
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"body": "I make oatmeal with dried fruit in it. Quick oats + raisins + craisins + flax seed + brown sugar + dates + walnuts etc is a great and hearty meal.",
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"body": "Portland Maine or Oregon? As for the thermos...You have a limited amount of energy, three or four cups of hot water at the most. The length of time the thermos takes to cool down is essentially irrelevant. The real question is what can you cook in the same amount of hot water on the stove with out adding any more heat? Cous cous is a definite possibility, maybe a couple of hot dogs, perhaps some of the instant cups of soup, things that are made to be edible quickly by adding hot water. ",
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What song would you pick to describe each class? | I've always been meaning to ask this, since I'm a curious fellow. Every time I listen to '16 Shells From a Thirty-Ought Six' by Tom Waits, it reminds me of the Engineer. Anyone else have any songs that make you think of a specific class in particular? | 8 | [
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"body": "Sniper: \"Land Down Under\" by Men At Work. The opening line is \n\n*Travelling in a fried-out combie*\n\nand the chorus is\n\n*I come from a land down under \nWhere beer does flow and men chunder \nCan't you hear, can't you hear the thunder? \nYou better run, you better take cover.*",
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"body": "It seems like AC/DC has a couple that apply: \nDemo - T.N.T. (I'm Dynamite) \nSpy - Dirty deeds done dirt cheap \n \nI think the medic might pull out some Vagner and go with Flight of the Valkyries.",
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"body": "[Spy (Casino Royale Theme)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWaB4ISFnbg)\n\n[Scout (The Bronx - Heart Attack American)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3f8VUZ5xAU)\n\n[Demoman (Prodigy - Spitfire)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrmf283dSXw)\n\n[Pyro (The Blood Brothers - Set Fire to the Face on Fire)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGovcXvmbU0)\n\n[Medic (Ennio Morricone - Chi Mai)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez9jwY6kBLE) - This song could probably go with any of the classes\n\n[Sniper (Kool and the Gang - Jungle Boogie)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dl9IoIY7ghY)\n\n[Soldier (The Rolling Stones - Can't You Hear Me Knocking?)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fa4HUiFJ6c)\n\n[Heavy (Gogol Bordello - Wanderlust King)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnXRWycjiBg)\n",
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"body": "I guess this one is a little obvious, but whatever:\n\nFor the spy, [Spybreak!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCBL33NKvPA&fmt=18)",
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"body": "Demoman - [The Main Title from the (original) Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 Score](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-WYm9nl32Q&feature=related).\n\nEdit: I don't have any specific logic behind this, but for some reason I've always felt like the song fit him.\n\nModerately unrelated, but that film has a ridiculous soundtrack... definitely worth checking out if you're into really dirty funk.",
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The Solution to 90% of Relationship Problems | 1. Define the Problem
2. Talk to your partner about the Problem
3. Did you reach a compromise? If No then go to #2, If yes then you don't need to bring up the problem again unless it resurfaces
All of the preceding steps assume that you want to remain in the relationship. If you don't then just tell your partner you do not wish to continue in the relationship. After the break up think about what you have learned from the relationship about you and the types of people you are attracted to and use this information to find someone new or buy cats.
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"body": "What if the problem is being with someone who approaches all problems in life with a bullet point list containing a GOTO statement? ",
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"body": "This is great if you both know how to communicate what you're thinking. When it comes to relationships I often feel like I've somehow lost my sanity, because what I say (or think I'm saying) is not what's being interpreted on the other end. In turn, I interpret way more than what's being said (body language, facial expressions, deeds) and for some reason that ends up coming back to bite me in the ass as well.\n*sigh*",
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"body": "Actually, the solution to 90% of relationship problems is much simpler: break up. Then find someone new whose bullshit doesn't irritate you. Repeat process until satisfied. ",
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"body": "I have three problems with this:\n\n- Some problems simply cannot be compromised. Example: one person wants kids, the other does not. You can't compromise and have half a kid.\n\n- Compromises very often leave both partners unsatisfied, because they are, by the very definition, mediocre solutions. A better strategy is to seek out a win-win solution in which both partners can be happy. \n\n- Finally, and most importantly, every single relationship is going to have irresolvable problems. It's a fact of life. Once you accept this reality, and change your expectations, relationships become easier and happier. \n\nOn that last point, a renowned relationship researcher suggests that instead of trying to solve the irresolvable, one should instead increase the number of positive interactions in the relationship. By increasing the positives, the negatives just seem so less important. \n\n",
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"body": "I'm a bit disappointed that your goal seems to be reaching a compromise. Many times a better solution can be found that isn't a compromise between what each party wants, but instead is a creative alternative that is different from either's original vision. So indeed, talk to your partner, and **listen** to him/her, but have that talk include being creative about completely new ways of thinking about what's going on.",
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"body": "Upvoted for \"or buy cats\". So much drama could be avoided if crazy people would just stick to pets instead of people...",
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"body": "I think that's a little simplistic. As has been mentioned previously in the comments, some people may not know how to effectively communicate what is wrong. There may be past issues that have not been resolved, there may be fears of retaliation or conflict. Some may not have the self confidence or are lacking skills to define what they are feeling. \r\n\r\nThis is where r/relationship_advice comes in and helps depending on an individual's situation. It's blind sighted to generalise on all relationships as they are all different, different people interact in different ways and we all have baggage of some sort that can distract/influence us.",
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"body": "I was tempted to downvote this one because it is way oversimplified. \n\nHowever, it opens one of the most crucial ways that relationship issues can be worked on: communication. (Don't underestimate, sex, just plain forgiveness, working it out with a friend or counselor... etc..)\n\nThe trouble is this: Most people don't really know how to communicate. How many people have tried to express something that was really bothering them, but had fear, hurt, anger, anxiety or hesitation block them or cause the communication to come out in a way that just caused your partner to react and then cause even more problems...\nHow you communicate is probably part of the original problem in the first place. \n\n\nSince we are writing nice tidy flow charts, ill submit my own.\n\n1.) Agree that you need to communicate about some things.\n\n2.) Set a time limit, after which you both agree to go do something else that you like to do.\n\n3.) Take turns expressing exactly what is on your mind.\n\n4.) While one person talks, the other person's ONLY job is to look and listen, and then attempt to describe what they heard. (active listening)\n\n4b.) Under no circumstances should the listener react, defend or attempt to solve the issue that the speaker is communicating.\n\n5.) The listener empathizes with the speaker by saying something like: I understand, I can see how you would feel like that... etc. \n\n6.) The listener asks... Is there anything else that you would like to say about it? If yes return to 4. \n\n7.) If the issue is resolved you will feel warm and affectionate toward one another. If not, switch roles and return to 4.\n\n8.) STOP when you reach your time limit. If you are committed enough to be together and attempt what can feel like an awkward or contrived communication technique, then further discussion on the issue can wait until after you: go for a run, read a book, have sex, share a foot massage, have a meal, play strip poker or whatever else it is that you do together that reminds you that you actually like being together. \n\n\n\nYou will be astonished at the response you get from your partner when you just listen, reflect back to them what they said, empathize and be interested enough to ask for more... without putting in your two cents, defending your position or attempting to solve the 'problem'. Really. Mostly people just want to feel heard and the solution arises naturally from that. Before you criticize this process try it... just once, it works.\n\n\n\n\n",
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What is the best prank you have pulled on a co- worker? | I sat in a pile of whipped cream today, and now I feel the need for revenge! What is the best work place prank you have pulled on a co-worker?
These guys all work out on the rigs, and I'm looking for good pranks that are not technology related! Thanks | 10 | [
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"body": "I told a colleague that ‘Five years from now I’m gonna give you my show,’ and then when the five years came I gave it to him, and then I took it back almost instantly.",
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"body": "Changed the signs for the bathroom around. Watched our male friend go into the \"male\" bathroom for a shit and we changed it back. Told the female manager that there was something-animal-like grunting in the bathroom for girls. Good times..",
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"body": "This happened to me once, and I have to admit it was pretty good. Basically, my boss held the lever on my chair so that it was raised all the way, then put a bunch of lotion on the handle under the chair so that when I sat down and tried to lower it, I would find a nasty surprise. Harmless prank, and everyone got a good laugh out of it.\n\nSO, to get him back, I took a screen cap of his desktop, set the screen cap as his background, then moved all of the files on the desktop into a temporary folder. It took him about half an hour to figure it out.\n\nEdit: I just saw that you're anti-technology on this. Just put arsenic in their coffee.",
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"body": "We have a resident engineer that works for a vendor but exclusively for our company who loves to prank people but gets LIVID if someone messes with him.\r\n One day the refridgerated vending machine was being filled, one of those with the carosel that spins with the press of a button. The RE was out to lunch with his buddies and had left his car keys on his desk so we asked the vending machine guy to lock them in the machine along with a Mt. Dew, (the guy HATES Mt. Dew). Vending guy does it, we took a pic on a cell and sent it to him. He got back quickly and was fuming mad. He had to pay $1 for the Dew and to get his keys back, best part was we took a video and sent it to his wife for posterity :)",
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"body": "I work at a hospital and one day one of the night shift guys was filling out some paperwork. I took a piece of paper and wrote \"I'm a dick\" in big letters and then taped it to his back while he was typing. I got a text a few hours later stating that he had walked through our Emergency Room and through all 7 floors of patient rooms with this sign on his back. So pretty much everyone in the entire hospital had seen it.",
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"body": "Got my workmate away from his desk then took his wallet. Laminated the contents to an A3 sheet. Twenty minutes later replaced the wallet and put the A3 sheet under his keyboard.",
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"body": "Plastered a male co-worker's cubicle with Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, and basically anything from Tiger Beat posters. Covered his computer monitor, phone, mouse, everything with colorful sparkle stickers. I couldn't do anything computer related because he has a laptop he takes home every night, and nothing chair related because he's in a wheelchair.",
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"body": "Two weeks ago I filled one of my coworkers offices full of empty bags filled with air for when he came back from vacation. Here's a cruddy cell phone pic I made of it.\nhttp://i.imgur.com/iJvuZ.jpg",
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AskRPG: Distributing experience according to the player's behaviour...or not. | Hi RedditPGers,
my P&P roleplaying group (not D&D - I *think*, at least from what I've heard in the Penny Arcade podcasts, that our system is a lot more RP based than D&D is. ) consists of seven people (the DM included). These guys are a bunch of computer scientists (and two chemists) who "just" want to have "a bit of fun", "nothing serious", "I have to work/study/play computer games all day and just want to relax" kind of dudes.
Just relaxing can mean different things, obviously. For myself and one, maybe two other guys at the table this means good RP, interactions between the characters, and/or good NPC interactions. We have one guy who's an incredible powergamer (currently he's researching how to best use the artifact generation system), another one who insists that the world the DM shows the group should be as "realistic" as possible ("no, witches don't act this way. Witch circles are naturally supportive and no, there's no intrigue in between them!"). We have one guy who almost never says anything. We even have one guy who cannot take the game even a bit seriously and (ab)uses it to see how far he can go before the DM kicks him out of the group or the NPCs (or the PCs) murder him (unfortunately, his class...kind of a trickster having been raised by fairies and therefore equipped with magic you wouldn't believe).
Now, the group dynamics will not change. Over time, we've become very good friends, and to even think about anyone leaving the group...well, it's not an option. The players themselves probably will not change either, at least not very far.
Maybe I should also explain that if someone doesn't have fun, he grabs a musical instrument or laptop and proceeds to play/hack/surf the web/check eve. Oh, and if more than one person are not playing, they loudly engage in "oh, we're not disrupting anything, are we?" discussions about Star Wars, Lisp, other people, Java or anything but the game.
DISCLAIMER: I'm not saying that's a bad thing. Everyone has fun most of the time at the sessions, even if some people get stressed out from time to time.
My job, as a (part-time, we take turns) DM, is to see that everyone has fun, probably at the same time, including myself. Now, I've played in groups where people are actually silent when there's an intense one-on-one game going on, and I really enjoyed that. I'm not expecting miracles, but it would be really nice if, overall, the group could evolve a bit more roleplaying (which is, due to the circumstances, almost non-existent).
Now, the gaming system allows for small to significant amounts of XP to be handed out instantaneously, as a reward. It also (as played by us) kind of demands the DM to distribute XP during the ongoing campaign, so we've been doing it at the end of a session. This allows for rewarding "good/bad" roleplay (again, this term is highly subjective). It's only those points I'm talking about - they also get XP for doing quests, and for taking part in fights.
Now, my idea is the following: Instead of distributing the roleplay-experience points according to the amount of roleplay I get from each player (which, over time - and it is a long campaign - would lead to a significant imbalance, since the RP is always happening on the same corner of the table), I'm thinking about shifting experience points, and rewarding each player according to what I've seen from him before. I. e., the guy who almost never says anything would get XP for talking to an innkeeper about a dirty room (okay, he's playing a dwarf, so the situation probably would reward negative XP, but let's assume for the sake of argument that he's a very clean dwarf), the guy who likes to flirt with the barmaids and makes off-hand comments to the bartender about the quality of his service probably would not (because that's what he always does). I realize that this is comparable to the "no child left behind" policy - but still, the idea of keeping the players to standards they can actually keep instead of rewarding them for what they always do (of course, if there's a significant amount of good roleplay, the player is going to get XP no matter what. The aim of this is to keep everyone fairly even), I think, has some merit.
What do you think? How do you distribute RP points in your groups? Do you distribute them at all?
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"body": "Here's something that one of the people in my group started doing, and I quickly adopted it because it was awesome.\n\nHave a set amount of xp to distribute to everyone. For example, he's been running a Silent Hill themed World of Darkness game, and let's say, he hands out 4 xp at the end of each session to everyone, for showing up and participating. \n\nHe then goes around the group with the question \"What did we learn today, or what is the moral of today's story.\" Players can answer either question, and the answer is worth an experience point.\n\nThen he will award \"Heroism points.\" He goes around the group, and may or may not give a bonus experience point for stellar role-playing, or in-game heroics, explaining why he did or didn't give the point.\n\nFinally, he goes around the group again, with the question, \"Who did you appreciate today and why?\" Answers can be in character or out, and people who were the most appreciated get a bonus experience point.\n\nNot only does this reward good role-playing, but it cements the session in the players' minds. Giving an in-character moral of the story helps players connect with their characters, and the appreciation awards solidify certain scenes, actions, or interactions, in the minds of the players.\n\nAs far as in-game conduct goes, my group actually went as far as to draft a set of table rules for how we interact. There's a story behind this, which I can go into if need be. Anyway, one of the most important rules is, the GM's rule is FINAL. You may dispute once, but if the GM does not change his mind, shut up and roll with it. If you are the GM, do NOT get drawn into arguments about rules, or physics, or whether this or that is possible or not. You are there to make sure everyone has fun, not debate semantics for 20 minutes. Make a ruling, and stick to it.\n\nMultitasking isn't a bad thing as long as its not disruptive. Most of my group will constantly be surfing the web, playing WoW or Eve, doodling, etc. If the point comes when that becomes disruptive, that's when it needs to be limited, but not until then.\n\nOn the role-playing side of things, try a new system. Some people have a hard time getting into the high-fantasy mind-set. Maybe play Shadowrun and pull a heist, or be pirates in 7th Sea. Sometimes a change of pace will let players connect a bit more.",
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"body": "The Deadlands system uses a similar system where you get XP based on roleplaying (sort of - the GM can give you tokens that can be used as XP or AP basically whenever you do something cool). In games I've been in, the GM definitely ended up having to give the minimal roleplayers a hand-up. This caused a lot of problems, though- one player eventually quit, citing his frustration at getting nothing for hours of carefully in-character, very well-done roleplaying, while other crappy meta-gaming players got rewards for saying a cool zinger after an explosion. So it's a dangerous way to do things. ",
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"body": "I award xp to the group, not individual players. If, as a group, they do something spectacular, they get bonus xp, otherwise, they get the standard session's worth.\n\nI do this for two reasons. \n\nThe first is that sometimes, there really is GM bias in who gets spotlight time. It's hard to keep on track when a player is pursuing a plot I favor compared to players who are pursuing equally valid plots that interest them, but which I just don't have fleshed out as well for one reason or another. And not giving them enough attention is already a problem, which I shouldn't compound by giving them less xp because of it. I will make sure to shift the spotlight towards these players next session, but it doesn't make sense to leave them behind due to my own mistakes/lack of prep during the current session.\n\nThe second reason is more aimed at your issue, which is that different players have different goals when playing a game. As you already said, your group has a very diverse set of goals. Some really want to dig into the story, a couple want to power game, and a couple just want some hack and slash fun. If you insist on keeping this group together, awarding bonus xp based on one aspect of the game and not others is going to make players who don't play your way feel jipped. That's not what you want to convey with your award system. Roleplay can be rewarded with plot awards, which appeal to those who like roleplay and those who don't like roleplay aren't affected by it.\n\nIf you're more concerned about getting other players to try your way of gaming, talking to them about it is far more likely to get a good response than leaving them behind on xp. But even then, some people just have a preferred style of gaming, and it's something you might have to deal with if you want to keep this group as it is.",
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"body": "An old tactic I use to use was to hand out items along with exp. The trick is that the items are either duds or cursed. Duds are either very low on charges or used up, and or they have been lied to about the item. Cursed items are just that, CURSED. Now as far as the curse goes, depends upon the item and the person you are giving them to. Sometimes you don't even have to know the curse, but figure it out later as things develop.",
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"body": "I tend to give out the same basic amount of experience to all of my players, just for \"showing up\". But then I also give some extra for anyone who \"did cool stuff\". Doing cool stuff is a loose definition: it COULD be for role playing, but it could also be for clowning around or having a cool role in the plot.",
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"body": "I personally don't like policing players through exp or other 'gifts.' It's on par with giving them a gold star. It would be hilarious if you gave them gold stars but if you were serious I don't think most people would be too happy with you (I don't even like rewarding role-playing.) It sounds to me like you're all adults, why don't you man up and discuss the issues you have with them instead?\n\nI tend to leave things alone as long as everyone's having fun. If someone isn't having fun I try to make it fun for them.",
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"body": "Distribute rewards to enhance the behavior you want to see in your game. Without knowing which system you are using, this is as good as it gets for now. Sorry.",
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"body": "Roleplaying is increased by motivators. This -can- be swag, but it shouldn't be boring pile-o-money stuff.\n\n\nMotivator 1: Family & friends. Invent backstory, or force them to. Use it to pry role-play out of them. Family estate is in financial trouble because Dad gambled away the family fortune to a Lawful Evil guy who's willing to trade it back for something he really wants and is too old/lazy/cowardly to fight for. Fighter's old unit commander sends word that someone is hunting them all down because of the battle of whateverthehell. Sister is done run off and is marrying some trickster. Try to tie two of these together, somehow. Any players siblings? Boom. Old war buddies? Pow, motivator. \n\n\nMotivator 2: Very specialized rewards. Holy item from cleric's church as a boon for doing service. It works special ways for HIM only if he's doing certain types of things. Book of lost spells for wizard, lets him create something something. Try to make the rewards -meaningful- not just powerful.\n\n\nMotivator 3: Specific goals + rewards. Give players specific (secret) goals for their characters that are specific to their history and which are NOT \"Kill the whatnot\" type goals. Commands like \"Convince\" and \"Investigate\" will force them to not-kill their way to an ultimate purpose.\n\n\nAND FINALLY: Cross purposes. Nothing will get your players role-playing faster than to have conflicting goals. These don't have to be (and usually shouldn't be) directly at odds. Two people interested in the same book. One wants a single page, one wants to destroy it. Maybe it's evil, maybe it's SOOOPER evil, but the one page has a special history or location or whatever. Bob wants it in ashes, Fred wants that page. Watch them argue. Have two people contact them about a recently discovered whatever. One's paying cash, one's a church father who needs it for some really nice thing. Crossing the paying dude opens up a can of pissed off wyrms, as he didn't mention his evil-clerical background until after they work out that Father Fred gets the thingy. Any type of slightly conflicting goals will work, especially if it forces them to figure out either a difficult compromise or the best action.\n\n\nPS: Punishment. I've done it, and like housebreaking puppies it's not particularly effective except in rare cases. Send them on a mission by someone who is lying to them. They're doing something truly evil (dying orphans, puppies on fire, whatever) without knowing it. Unless they role play, they will never discover the motivations and truth behind the mission. If they fail to do this, they should be punished with many bad things: Moral descriptive smackdown (OH GOD THE PUPPIES ARE WHIMPERING), in game response (Ye Olde Police team up with The Church of the OHnoYOUdidnt to find them) and perhaps even some \"Hand me your character sheet\" moments (alignment change, loss of religious backing/paladinhood). Make sure you also tell them you're VERY disappointed in their idiocy.",
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My wife told me she wants to leave - after nearly nine years together I'm left some weird combination of terrified and saddened...advice? | We hooked up at 19, married at 26, now we're almost 29 and she told me she wants to leave. She says she wants to do so temporarily, to grow as individuals and perhaps work things out, but I can't help but assume the worst. Other than the words coming out of her mouth nothing makes me believe it will be temporary.
Anyway, I'm a little terrified of what to do next. I don't want things to end, I feel like she's going nuclear out of nowhere. Just a few days ago things seemed fine, a little romantic even, and we haven't had any major arguments for weeks (though we had a few big spats over the holidays). FYI there's pretty much zero chance she's cheating or anything, it's more like she's withdrawing and wanting to be alone or something.
On top of that, I never dated at all during my 20's so that's a big fear, that I'll be alone for a long time because I'm so incompetent in that department. Last time I had to find a girl I was a kid, and I wasn't even very good at it then, so what do I know now!
I also worry about her - I make most of the money and she'll be struggling on her own any way you look at it.
**TL;DR**
I have two questions for the wise ones of Reddit:
1. Has anyone been in a similar place and managed to work things out? Advice on that?
2. Worst case: it ends and I'm on my own. This is my one and only long term relationship, and obviously my only adult relationship, so advice on moving on?
Thanks all. | 9 | [
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"body": ":(\r\n\r\nSorry to hear about your plight. Kind of strange, but my fiancee and I are nearly 29 and we met when we were 19 as well. She initiated a \"break\" in our mid-twenties and from my experience, there's not a whole lot you can do to stop her. So here's my advice.\r\n\r\n1. She left because we met when we were so young and she was afraid she was \"missing out\" on life. ie. She wanted to whore around. She was moderately successful at it. I was as well (but to a lesser extent). After a few months, she called begging to get back together. I refused. I was dating and still struggling to get over her, but doing a little better each day. We ended up back together after I had what I'd call an epiphany. It worked out, we were happier than ever, she had grown out of her stupid phase, and we eventually got engaged.\r\n\r\nHere's my advice to you. Work on yourself. Try new things and meet new people. Don't date at first. Just try to rediscover what it's like to be just YOU. You'll find your priorities change and you may have been negelecting some things that are very important. \r\n\r\n2. If it ends, so be it. This part's from experience. TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS. You really will get over it. One day the sun will shine again, the air will smell sweet, music will sound lovely and this will all be a distant, albeit unpleasant, memory. No one can understand the mantra \"Take it one day at a time.\" until they go through it. That's what it is, each day gets a LITTLE better. \r\n\r\nPersonally I wouldn't even worry about how to date until you're healed up.",
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"body": "Don't pester her, but I think it's important that you encourage her to communicate to you why she's been having doubts. If everything seemed fine, and you guys were even recently romantic, she might be depressed or have some kind of personal issue. ",
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"body": "Its never temporarily and its never to take a break, she has someone on the side that has finally coaxed her into leaving you. \n\nBest thing to do, is play along with her stupid games, and mount up evidence for the lawyer, you get to the lawyer first , protect your bank accounts , and items you own. \n\nIf she really had a problem and wanted to work things out, she would ask you both to go to a councilor\n\nBut for sure, she is with someone else, thats how they roll ",
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"body": "DUDE GO AND GET LAID!!!!!!!!! \nAnd drink\nand do anything you want when you want. \n\nDUDE you are free. \n\nGO AND LIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! \n\nWOOT WOOT \n\nU should be terrified silly by how much sex your going to have. ",
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Update: I'll be on medication soon | This is an update from [My Last post](http://www.reddit.com/r/SuicideWatch/comments/apdlk/how_can_a_person_live_with_no_money/). Today I went in for a psych eval to see if medication would be helpful (working with my therapist). I've been prescribed Lamictal and Vyvance. The doctor didn't diagnose me with anything, merely acknowledged I have symptoms of Bipolar disorder and ADD. This isn't surprising based on our discussion. I don't really think I am bipolar (certainly depression), but I did describe a mild high stage I went through a few weeks ago where I was quite a bit more sexual (never engaged in sex with anyone- just spent a lot of time in chat rooms online), and spent a bit more at the store than what I wanted (I'd go to the grocery store to buy one or two things, but ended up buying stuff I had plenty of, such as peanut butter or bread... not a big deal since I like to keep those in stock). I didn't tell her about my mild hallucination I've had a few times, where it's like I'm getting raped (I'm a gay guy, it's as if I'm being anally raped). That's just too difficult for me to talk about. It's incredibly embarrassing, and doesn't happen too often. I'll start the Lamactil tonight, and the Vyvance sometime within the next few weeks (it'll take some time to get everything set up). Both of these are provided to me for free (thankfully). I've been hesitant about medication in the past, but right now am much more concerned about just trying something (especially with my possible ADD). I'm incredibly tired of feeling stupid for reading things and not absorbing the material or feeling lazy because I keep putting off doing things.
Thanks to everyone for your help in my last post. I'm still trying to figure out what I'll be doing, but hopefully my medication will help (especially the Vyvance). In the meantime (while I'm getting adjusted to the medication), I still have no clue as to what I'll be doing, but this gives me a bit hope. | 10 | [
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"body": "Good luck with it. I'm crap with emotional support so I'd rather stick with the technical side -\n\nA few good tablets with the input of a good doctor can make a world of difference, believe me. You may not be lucky enough to find the right combination at first, but keep at it - a total cure is definitely possible. Don't be afraid to change medication if it's not working out.\n\nThe right combination doesn't just apply to the drugs - the right combination of doctor + drugs is important too, so make sure you are with a doctor you trust.\n\nThe first few months on a new set of drugs, while overall positive, can be a bit mental. Just don't be hard on yourself, and know that any crisis will pass. If need be, make an emergency appointment with the doctor.\n\nGood luck!",
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"body": "Thank you for sharing your story and progress. Don't be hard on yourself for this taking time. it takes time. Trial/error is how the majority of us get through life.\n\nPlease post and talk any time you need.",
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Bribed my girlfriend with some ice cream to get her to watch Doctor Who with me! | So, my girlfriend is not to fond of my scifi shows, once calling them my "gay scifi shows" so I had to bribe her to watch some Doctor Who with me. I am a huge Doctor Who fan and I wasn't trying to get her to fall in love with the show. Just wanted her to see what good scifi really is. Anyway, I had been telling her how good this episode was so I took her for some ice cream so we could come back and watch Blink. She is a fan of scary movies so I knew this would be perfect.
Anyway, my ears are still ringing from the scream she let out during the show. She liked it a lot, I don't think she's gonna be spending her nights watching Doctor Who know but she really enjoyed it. I am trying to think of another great episode she might like that isn't to space and aliens oriented. Any suggestions? | 21 | [
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"body": "I just told my girlfriend she couldn't watch and that piqued her interest. I showed her Blink and now she's obsessed.",
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What should I call my computer/tech company? | I'm starting a computer/tech company and I'm struggling to find a company name that I simply love. I've had a few ideas, but I won't share them quite yet because I want to see what you all come up without me priming you. I will at least tell you the areas in which this company will focus, at least initially:
* Data Recovery
* Web Design (emphasis on simple, temporary websites such as for a wedding)
* General computer upgrade, repair, design, etc.
* Custom HTPCs
Ready......go! | 5 | [
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"body": "How bout a number. You probably won't want a small one, because that would mean you're small. You should pick a big one. Like the biggest number you can think of! Also, I'd probably spell it differently, but keep it phonetically the same so people don't get mixed up.",
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I just setup a new computer for my parents... | I set up accounts for each of them, an administrator account, transferred e-mail contact info/messages and iTunes music. I even defused an insane argument about them wanting separate iTunes accounts because he didn't want her music playing when he put the library on random. Yes, he knew he could create playlists, but no, he didn't care. He wanted separate libraries. So I split the music between their computer accounts... problem solved.
Firewall on, 30 day Norton trial active, iTunes loaded. Check, check, check. Pleased with myself, I turned the computer over to my dad.
Within 5 minutes he had opened a sketchy e-mail from "an old college buddy" and clicked on a link to a Russian "chat" website that mysteriously didn't work... Hmmm...
Five minutes out of the box and they probably already have a nasty virus. As I write this I'm responding to questions like, "How do I put an address on the mail?"
Kill me, Reddit. Just kill me... | 4 | [
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"body": "My dad bought a cheap computer 2 years ago, and has had constant serious problems with it. It finally became unusable a bit before Christmas. I had this idea, that for Christmas, if he bought the parts, I'd build him a pristine computer and set it up so it would be solid and perfect. \n\nBefore I could offer him though, he told me had already bought a new machine. It was an \"E-machine\" from best buy, and \"supposed to be really good\". Last I heard he can't get the Windows \"find\" feature to work, and has been unable to get the word processor to function. Fortunately, he's getting tech support from another relative, if not, I'd be in exactly your shoes.",
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Did anyone notice the /r/guncontrol subreddit? | I know people are entitled to their opinions and all, but the entire subreddit seems like some kind of ideological crusade by one vehemently anti-gun redditor with a *major* burr up his ass.
Your thoughts?
**EDIT:** [Quick link for your convenience](http://www.reddit.com/r/guncontrol) | 23 | [
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"body": "Well, since there are a number of anti-gun crusaders who like to frequent *this* subreddit, and inject their two cents (on even the most innocuous of postings) in some vain attempt at \"converting\" us to their stance, it couldn't hurt to return the favor...\n\n... post facts and call BS wherever it is deserved\n\n... point out when their arguments make absolutely no sense, and are clearly coming from the viewpoint of firearms \"thing on the shoulder that goes up\" ignorance\n\n**EDIT**: But I **won't subscribe**. I don't want to artificially inflate their subscriber numbers, and hearten them to the idea that they have some kind of big \"mind share\"",
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"body": "Holy crap, there's a subreddit with a point of view completely opposite of ours? \n\nSTOP THE PRESSES!",
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"body": "Those poor folks. Our subreddit is fun. I imagine that hanging out at /r/guncontrol is a little like hanging out at /r/abstinence and /r/teetotaller. Now, excuse me, please. I gotta get home, have a couple beers, bang my girlfriend, and get to bed early. Gotta be at the range early tomorrow morning.",
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"body": "Don't mass downvote their subreddit or your account may be flagged and your votes wont count anymore.\r\n",
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"body": "> the entire subreddit seems like some kind of ideological crusade...\n\nI only see 3 articles in that subreddit. Am I missing something or did something happen to the others?",
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"body": "Odd that you should mention it. I just spotted it this morning and laughed to myself at it having so few subscribers.",
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"body": "So letim. Use rational arguments and facts to dispute his/her points, or ignore him/her. \n\nThat's what makes horse races.",
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[request] Artistic minds for inspiration in creating a football team badge. | I need to combine the [white rose](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Yorkshire_rose.svg) of Yorkshire, this [lion](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Aston_Villa.svg), an element of this [badge](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Birmingham_City_FC_logo.png) and a [sea horse](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Newcastle_United_Logo.svg) from this into a sports badge for a football (soccer) team.
Any suggestions or ideas would be so greatly appreciated. My creative juices have run out. This isn't for profit or anything, it's for a little football team me and a few friends play in for leisure.
EDIT: I appreciate your help so far guys. Sorry for the slow reply, I've been pretty busy. | 3 | [
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"body": "you have way too many items it's gonna look like a clown car logo. \n\nif you look at all those logos they each have one thing on them.\n",
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About the karma system...? | Hi, what can I do with the reddit karma I've accumulated? I've been curious for a while. Can I exchange it for something? If so, what? | 4 | [
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"body": "Well p-dub exchanged about 70,000 comment karma for about $7,000. So the way I figure it, with a good enough sob story, karma is worth about 10 cents a point...",
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"body": "I recently discovered that at 100,000, you get access to the Reddit Gold Card Club. \n\nIt's seriously awesome. You get to **Your free trial of Reddit's gold status has just expired. To view the rest of this comment, please get 100,000 karma or pay a flat, one-time fee of $29.95 directly to karmanaut**",
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I just got a DS yesterday and need some suggestions. | My friend just gave me her DS because she knows I've always wanted one, and she didn't use her's that much. I'm coming into the whole DS thing pretty late, and I've never really kept up with what games have come out for it. So, any suggestions on what games I should pick up first? | 7 | [
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"body": "1. Buy an R4\n2. Get a compatible SD card\n3. Download all the DS games you could ever want\n4. ????\n5. Profit ",
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"body": "I post this in every \"suggest some good DS software\" post I come across, but it's still worth posting.\n\nFirst, get a flash cart. They're cheap, and [some places](http://www.dealextreme.com) even ship for free.\n\nNow, I know what you're thinking, but I'm going in a completely different direction. Sure, you could pirate games or run emulators. Or you could legally download [DSLibris](http://sourceforge.net/projects/ndslibris/), and be able to use the DS as a dual-screen ebook reader. Fill that flash cartridge up with Project Gutenberg epub files, and you're set.\n\nWhat's that you say? You like for your books to have pictures in them? You like books which are *primarily* pictures? Like comics? [Oh, okay, if you insist.](http://gnese.free.fr/NDS/ComicBookDS/?language=en)\n\nBetween these two programs, I do way more reading on my DS than I play games - and I play a lot of games.",
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"body": "Something I hear is pretty popular is [Imagine: Babies](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagine:_Babies).\n\nBut seriously, some more info about what sort of games you've enjoyed in the past, or you think you would be interested would help.",
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"body": "Well I've enjoyed:\n\nChrono Trigger\n\nThe World Ends With You\n\nThe Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass\n\nMario Kart DS\n\nFinal Fantasy Tactics A2\n\nSuper Mario 64 DS\n\nLook into some of those and see if you'd like them maybe?",
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"body": "I remember getting my DS and the first thing I bought for it was the first **Phoenix Wright** game. It's a definite must play. The **Professor Layton** series is also great.\n\nHere's a list of other great titles my friends and I can recommend (bolded are my personal picks =D):\n\n* **Advance Wars: Dual Strike**\n* **Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow**\n* **Contra 4**\n* **Elite Beat Agents**\n* **Hotel Dusk: Room 215**\n* **Lunar Knights**\n* **Meteos**\n* **N+**\n* **Tetris DS**\n* **Trauma Center: Under the Knife 2**\n* **Warioware: Touched!**\n\n\n* Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin\n* GTA: Chinatown Wars\n* Kirby Canvas Curse\n* Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass\n* Mario Kart DS\n* Mario and Luigi: Partners in Time\n* New Super Mario Bros.\n* Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword\n* Planet Puzzle League\n* Sonic Rush\n* Space Invaders Extreme\n* Super Mario 64 DS\n* The World Ends With You\n",
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"body": "Phoenix Wright series, all the games are great. The gameplay may be simple, but i find the story to be gripping, the music thrilling and mood-setting. It's kinda like Pringles, once you pop you can't stop.\n\nI also enjoyed the Professor Layton games, TetrisDS and the Mario games (Mario64, MarioKart, New Super Mario Bros).\n\nThose are my suggestions.",
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Dear r/gaming, can you help me find this game? | This game was posted to reddit a while ago, but I haven't been able to find the link no matter how hard I try. It was a dark puzzle game very similar to machinarium, and the link posted was a video of the gameplay. It had one robot moving through a world and restarting a factory, and turning on lights and such through various puzzles. Help finding this would be greatly appreciated! | 4 | [
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"body": "I believe the game you're looking for is Little Wheel\n\nFound [here](http://www.kongregate.com/games/fastgames/little-wheel).",
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can you say "as I was flying over Kenya I saw teams of wild animals"? | Can you say "as I was flying over Kenya I saw teams of wild animals"? Or does it have to be herds or groups? | 6 | [
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"body": "Not really. \"Team\" would imply an organized group working towards a common purpose. Even \"herd\" only applies to certain types of animals (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_names). \"Group\" is probably your best choice for non-specific or mixed collections of animals.",
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Redditors, any tips on gap years? Any insane stories? | Looking for an Around The World Ticket. Preferably quite a few stops covering Asia, North America, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji etc
Ive got about £3000
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"body": "Would you be looking to work while abroad, or just do a complete world tour?\n\nGeneral advice:\n\n* Travel cheap. Don't spend big bucks on a round-the-world ticket if you can do most of your trip by train.\n* Always travel overnight. Saves a night's accommodation $$$ and sometimes it's cheaper.\n* Document the shit out of this. My dad did this, went everywhere from the USSR to Iceland to Thailand to India. He has about 300 slides of the whole thing, and it is absolutely incredible to look at now. (Also, he met my mother on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. They fell in love in Soviet Russia. Pretty awesome.)\n* Don't travel with anything that you would be sad if you lost forever.\n* **Use people.** 99.9% of everyone you meet will be friendly and supportive. Do not be afraid to ask for help and advice from strangers you meet on your way. Local strangers are your greatest resource, and remember: *every stranger is a potential friend.* \n* Refinement on above: live local. As a result of your budget, you'll obviously have to to a certain degree, but even youth hostels are pretty much the same worldwide. Your hostel is for sleeping and nothing else – if you like the people you're living with, bring them with you on adventures. Put on a happy face every day and do everything you can to meet as many people as possible.\n* On that note: if you have some sort of skill, that's a great way to meet people. Stand in a park juggling and people will come to watch. Tell them about yourself, and ask them some questions. Juggling, magic, kite-flying, anything you can do in public to get people to talk to you. This is especially good if you're shy or have trouble approaching strangers. \n\nMost of this is common sense but hopefully it provides some ideas!",
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[Request] Could someone make a high quality version of this? | I need [this](http://i.imgur.com/G45G5.png) in a good, 720p format (or 1080p if you are freaking brilliant.) I'm having a really hard time finding the page that the Dr. McNinja came from, which is really embarrassing because I found it earlier today and used it in this, so if I find it I'll edit it.
I'd basically like for this to look like a decent Xbox Live indie game title screen.
Edit: This isn't an essential part of the game yet, obviously, but I'd like something that looks a little better than my crappy, thrown together PowerPoint version for the future, you know? | 15 | [
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"body": "Final #2: Fixed the colouring of the star\n\nhttp://i.imgur.com/6PKYp.png\n\nhttp://i.imgur.com/7fX7m.png",
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"body": "Just so you know, the \"The Adventures of Dr. McNinja\" is not coming out very well (it's more difficult then the sans-serif fonts used in the rest of the image). Any idea what font that is?\n\nEdit: Actually, any of the fonts would be useful. (\"Super-Awesome\", \"Asian\", \"Fighting Game\", etc)",
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"body": "Final: (the star shape behind the title can be removed in the .svg, if you like. I'll be putting up in the drop.io site in a sec.)\n\nhttp://i.imgur.com/OgJRf.png\n\nhttp://i.imgur.com/ElNgK.png",
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Isn't one of the main clashes between buddhism and science the idea of impermanence? (They get along well otherwise it seems) | Science is all about the idea that there are some things in the universe that are permanent. These are called laws of nature. Science and the idea of experiment is predicated on this. However, I have always found true in many ways the Buddhist idea that nothing is permanent and so, as a scientist, I am having a hard time reconciling my work with my Buddhist relation towards life.
Philosophically you might try to think your way out of this distinction by saying that "laws of nature" are these abstract principles that guide how subatomic particles interact with a certain tautological analytic (in the Kantian/positivist) mathematical certainty. But do chemists not study reactions that happen whether you do them now or at any indeterminate point in the future? What about when we get to the level of a protein? Most biologists would be offended if you told them that, yeah, that's nice that your protein folds up in xxxx-way and interacts with yyyyy-other protein but at some point in the universe this may change. In fact, if we believe neurobiologists, all things from matter up to thought itself (as information somehow encoded in matter) may be subject to the permanence of scientific law (although it may not DETERMINISTIC law--a subtle distinction).
So really the idea of impermanence in Buddhism and permanence in science is a fundamental distinction. And I don't think that our current scientific understanding of universe can be denigrated to a platonic form like a circle. In addition, I don't think that after a certain point in the current scientific understanding of the universe can we even really draw a line between a phenomena and a law (as it is simply a reflection of that phenomena). However, as a scientist I want to believe that certain types of reflections pass some special criteria in our universe of being something akin to permanent even outside of an observer.
The idea that, if you did the experiment again, it would be the same, is at the very heart of science. And this goes directly against the grain of Buddhism's assertion that everything is impermanent. I know that human civilization may not last forever but I'd like to think that (as a scientist), if I discover something, I have just done something that is akin to 'glimpsing the permanent', something that cannot be undone so long as I record it and explain it to someone. Is it only permanent so long as there are people around to understand it and my brain/reddit around to record this knowledge? (This I would say is the start of a genuine argument against this distinction). Or am I overstating the buddhist idea of permanence and it's reign over the content of matter? Maybe "everything is impermanent" is not intended to apply to synthetical a posteriori ideas about the world but simply to conformations of matter and ideas somehow transcend this. Wouldn't you have to say that ideas transcend matter and even thing-ness in any sense?
If someone wants to write a 'tl;dr' version of this question, or point me somewhere where it has been properly discussed, feel free. Thanks for the help! | 7 | [
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"body": "I'm a scientist who is interested in Buddhism, and this is going to be pretty incoherent, but here is how I think of it. The laws of nature are not some things out there in the universe, but are part of the human mind. The laws of Physics in particular are mathematical models that people have come up with. They do correspond very closely to some kind of external reality, as verified by experiment. And the experiments will correspond in the same way a million years from now (although probably not a trillion years from now). But the reality itself does not contain these particular laws. In fact it is conceivable that someone else could have worked out a very different set of laws that make the same predictions, and our own laws are evolving and may look very different in a thousand years.\n\nSo I guess I'm saying that physical laws suffer the same kind of impermanence that people do because they are carried by people. There is something out there that is relatively constant that the laws correspond to, but it is unknowable in itself. But even that will probably dissapear eventually when the universe dies.\n\nWhen I think of Buddhist impermanence I do not think mainly of abstract ideas, but of the ephemeral present, of reality that passes through us and is gone. I've wondered how to deal with ideas in a Buddhist sense, too, and I think it requires some kind of Kantian idealism that says that space and time, for instance, are something that our minds add to our experience, and that reality in itself is unknowable.",
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"body": "A proper translation of the final words of the Buddha is probably in order.\n\nThe translation is possibly open to substantial debate.\n\n[One source renders this as](http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/buddhism/lifebuddha/2_31lbud.htm) \n\n*\"Behold, O monks, this is my last advice to you. All component things in the world are changeable. They are not lasting. Work hard to gain your own salvation.\"*\n\nThe technical point is the phrase \n\n*\"All component things in the world are changeable.\"*\n\nThis is also has been rendered as *all composite things*, and as *all created things*.\n\nThus the question becomes:\n\nAre laws of Nature composite or component or created things?\n\n[See also this discussion](http://www.jayarava.org/buddhas-last-words.html)\n\n---\n\nvarious translations of the passage.\n\nT.W. Rhys Davids\n\n\"Then the Blessed One addressed the brethren, and said, 'behold now, brethren, I exhort you, saying, \"Decay is inherent in all component things! Work out your salvation with diligence!\"'. This was the last word of the Tathāgata. \n\nMaurice Walsh\n\nThen the Lord said to the Monks: Now, monks, I declare to you: all conditioned things are of a nature to decay - strive on untiringly. These were the Tathāgata's last words. \n\nThanissaro Bhikkhu\n\nThen the Blessed One addressed the monks, \"Now, then, monks, I exhort you: All fabrications are subject to decay. Bring about completion by being heedful.\" Those were the Tathagata's last words. \n\nSister Vajira & Francis Story\n\nAnd the Blessed One addressed the bhikkhus, saying: \"Behold now, bhikkhus, I exhort you: All compounded things are subject to vanish. Strive with earnestness! \n\n---\n\nas a side note, there was [a recent article](http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100112165249.htm) where it was noted that\n\n* If you vary one universal constant, then the universe as we know it is not possible.\n\n* If you vary more than one universal constant, it is possible to find alternate stable configurations.\n\nThis opens up the possibility that universal laws are in some sense not quite universal.",
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"body": "You seem to be discussing two things here - Anicca (impermanence) and Sunyata (conceptual emptiness) - and applying them to questions they just don't address. Probably the best way to think about this is that Buddha addressed *only* the mental causes of suffering. Trying to apply psychology to cosmology is like training pigs to sing. Frustrating.\n\nAnicca, or impermanence, is one of the marks of existence. That means that our reality as we perceive it changes. Impermanence, suffering and self-change are problems we try to solve through Buddhism. They aren't eternal laws of the universe - they are hindrances to freedom.\n\nSunyata, or \"emptiness\" means much what ablakok is saying - our conception of the universe is made up, so we shouldn't get too caught up in it. This is a very difficult subject, and does tend to wander over into metaphysics if you aren't careful. That's why some traditions forbid students from discussing the concept with those who don't have the proper context.",
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"body": "My understanding is that permanent means unchanging. We die, but we don't cease existing. The point being that no form is permanent. The atoms and such may be, but the human/rock/water isn't.\r\n\r\nI say this with only a mild understanding of the scientific part, correct me if I missed the question.",
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"body": "The latest Scientific America magazine had an article about how other universes could exist with different sets of natural laws and physics. Of course it's currently impossible to know, but it's possible that our universe was created with a set of temporary (albeit long lasting) natural rules that will someday cease to exist if/when the universe colapses or fizzles out into nothingness (possibly to be replaced with a new universe complete with different laws).\n\nI wish I could cite the sources, but a few Tibetan Buddhist teachers of mine have mentioned that Buddhist texts describe the universe as being destroyed and recreated over and over after vastly long time periods (was it millions of Kalpas?). ",
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"body": "Not to beat the old quantum horse, but aren't all theoretical predictions only 99.99etc.% accurate based on our current understanding of measurement? I see it like this. You can write the equation for a perfect circle (r = 1), but that's just an approximation of what actually occurs in the universe. In the same way the self and all else is just an approximation we use to categorize that which can not be categorized because our actions have already changed us (and the universe to some small extent) the second we think about them. Doesn't mean the equations / categories aren't useful, just that they aren't fixed to any real perfect unchanging thing.",
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Normalizing subreddits: How do you tiebreak the top posts from each subreddit? | It seems that the top post in each subscribed subreddit has a normalized hotness of 1. This means there is a tie between the first N posts on your front page (where N is the number of subscribed subreddits). How/where is this tie broken?
I'm looking at normalized_hot_cached in [normalized_hot.py](http://code.reddit.com/browser/r2/r2/lib/normalized_hot.py).
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"body": "Funny you should ask, I was just working on that code yesterday :) It's broken by the absolute (non-normalised) hotness. The tuples that we generate in that `results` list looks like ([line 106](http://code.reddit.com/browser/r2/r2/lib/normalized_hot.py?rev=bf9f43ccacc4ee7933629c621f97d6ff0ddd11b8#L106))\n\n (link, normalized_hot = hot/top_hot)\n\nWe then [sort by the tuple](http://code.reddit.com/browser/r2/r2/lib/normalized_hot.py?rev=bf9f43ccacc4ee7933629c621f97d6ff0ddd11b8#L108)\n\n (x[1], x[0]._hot)\n\nThat is:\n\n (normalized_hot, absolute_hot)\n\nSo in general, `/r/reddit.com` will still beat out `/r/photography` for #1, but the #1 item for `/r/photography` will still beat out the #2 item for `/r/reddit.com` (note that this isn't guaranteed to be true given some distributions of relative scores, but it's the general case)",
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Reddit, what's the scariest movie you've ever seen? | My girlfriend's son likes scary movies, but he's rather discerning in his tastes. I figured reddit would have good recommendations.
Edit: He's 13 and has already seen some very scary movies, so don't pull any punches.
Also, he's entirely unfazed by poor and/or old special effects, so movies from _c._ 1995 to present would be ideal. | 26 | [
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"body": "The only movie that's ever really scared me is [Event Horizon](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119081/)\r\n\r\nGranted, I was 9 at the time, but horror movies tend to just make me laugh. I have a demented sense of humor.",
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"body": "Who Framed Roger Rabbit.\n\nWhen I was a little kid, I found [Judge Doom](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADrojCw6amM) very disturbing.",
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"body": "IT for sure. Tim Curry scared the piss out of me when I first saw this movie and still does to this day.",
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"body": "He may be unfazed by pre-'95 special effects, but sit him down in front of John Carpenter's \"The Thing\" and see how he fares. If that proves useless, get the original Japanese \"Ju-on\" films on. \n\nOr \"Martyrs\", from 2008. Kind of scary, ultimately grim, hopefully will fulfill all needs.",
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"body": "Paranormal Activity.\n\nI'm sure I'll get crap for saying that, but seriously! I had to cover my eyes at the end because I'm such a pansy.",
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"body": "Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner: [**Slither**](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j-y6B7UpQM)\n\nOh hey look, it's Pam from the office! And captain Reynolds! Hooray!",
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"body": "[Let the right one in](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICp4g9p_rgo) is a great movie. It's about a teenage vampire! :)",
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"body": "Evil Dead, Martyrs, REC. And make him watch older horror movies. The Thing or the Fly are still effective horror movies. And nothing scared me more then seeing Alien in the theatre when I was 12.",
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"body": "House on Haunted Hill, the remake from the 90s or so, freaked my shit out when I was younger. Some bits still give me the heebie-jeebies.",
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"body": "For me it was Arachnophobia, seeing as how I've always been freaked out by spiders (well since I was locked in a shed full of spiders and forgotten about).",
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"body": "[The Witches](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100944/) was terrifying as a kid. The part when their feet morphed into Witch feet was the worst. \n\nMore recently, since that is what you asked for, 1408 was surprisingly creepy.\n",
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Would anyone here be interested in an affordable
digital video gun sight? | I found all the pieces I need and am thinking of starting a build. Does anyone see any glaring problems or has someone already done this? I'm thinking it can be done in the $100-150 range.
Basically it would be a small camera(less than an inch long) that could be mounted just like a laser sight, and there would be a small screen that would either be mounted into an acog style frame or made to fold along a rail. About a 2inch display.
Sighting would work through a crosshair overlay and you would have full zoom capabilities. Initial adjustments could be performed using a boresight and software adjustments. The pros of this are no parallax, light weight, adjustable zoom and compact. Plus shooting around corners would be a no-brainer(military). Possible cons could be brightness of the display, battery life.
The possibility for improvements are endless, automatic sighting using laser range finders and image recognition, infrared, video recording, modular and removable displays, monocular, tons of fun image recognition stuff(it could tell you how the gun moves as you pull the trigger and afterward, safety interlocks, friendly beacons etc) Even for airsoft it could be useful if it recorded video so you could dispute hits and the like. | 15 | [
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"body": ">I'm thinking it can be done in the $100-150 range.\n\nI'm thinking it can be too.\n\n[Oh, wait....it already has](http://www.opticsplanet.net/bushnell-5x-videoscope-riflescope-737000v.html)",
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