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[ { "body": "Sounds like I might have to try this. I like to make something similar, Bacon creamcheese puffs.\n\n[Before](http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantasysage/3104244190/)\n\n[Cooked](http://www.flickr.com/photos/fantasysage/3104244288/)", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I'll give this a shot. Reminds me of my mom's sausage muffins:\n\n* 1 package [Jimmy Dean sausage](http://jimmydean.com/products/default.aspx?postid=35) (reg, hot, sage, whatever)\n* 1 jar [Old English cheese](http://www.coffeewithbarretts.com/blog/uploads/old-english-process-cheese.jpg) (neither old nor English, go figure)\n* 1 package Thomas' english muffins\n\nBrown sausage & drain. Mix in cheese while the sausage is still warm/hot. Spread the result on english muffin halves and bake at around 400 (can't recall exact temp but it doesn't matter much) till you get a little browning up top.\n\nThe recipe is obviously easy to scale. You can mix up the sausage types/flavors if you like. You can also freeze them before baking and pull out as many as you like when ready to bake.\n\nDelicious comfort food.\n\nEdit: formatting", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "When I was 17 and my first boyfriend and I started having sex, I wanted to go on the pill. So my best friend and I went to Planned Parenthood. She decided to go on the pill also, so PP gave us both exams. We finished our exams and met back out in the waiting room and she was visibly upset. I asked her what was wrong and she told me she had chlamydia. It was curable but she was pretty disturbed because she didn't know how long she had it and they told her it could affect her chances at pregnancy later on. \n\nThe same friend found out a few months ago that she had HPV which led to cervical cancer. :(", "score": 7 }, { "body": "One friend I had, not promiscuous (4 or 5 partners by age 30), got herpes from a girl. Another friend, very promiscuous (70 partners by 24), never got anything. Go figure. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Yes. Not me, but close friends. They also had LOTS more sex-- with lots more women-- than I did. They described to me some fairly gruesome things happening to their sexual organs due to STDs. But apparently were successfully treated by doctors afterwards.\n\n\nNote that there's a few STDs which many may carry with no symptoms their whole lives, like Chlamydia.\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydia_infection", "score": 3 }, { "body": "When I was in the army stationed near the Mexican border a buddy of mine would always go down to Nogales and frequent the strip clubs. He found out that private dance = sex. So in the private room he decides it's a good idea to go down on the stripper and get an STD on his face. If I remember right he got herpes, but I can't remember I was too blown away by the fact he went down on a dirty stripper. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You're only an hour and a half away; It could be a lot worse. The adjustment will be difficult, but part of maturing is learning to accept that things change. I don't agree with people who say that you should just end it, or anticipate an ending. If you trust her now, you can't let other people talk you out of that trust, and you can't break that trust yourself. It takes some serious strength to make a long distance relationship work. Visit as often as possible, and have her come visit you. Talk often, but understand that her life will be different, too, so she won't always be able drop everything to be there for you. Make an \"appointment\" to call or chat at a predetermined time, and stick to it.\n\nI broke up with my high school girlfriend when I left for college, and I really regretted it. There's a huge chance that it wouldn't have worked out anyway, but I never gave it a fair chance and once I had realized that I still cared for her, it was too late. Since then, I've had long distance relationships work and I've had them fail. \n\nUnderstand that making a long distance relationship is work and it won't be as much fun. If you visit each other infrequently, things are going to be a little weird at first. Visiting more often helps. The worst thing you can do is prepare yourself for the worst, because without the security of having her close by, you will find yourself looking for \"signs\" everywhere. Prepare yourself for making it work, if that's what you really want, and expect the best. Good luck!", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "If you're going for movie posters, I highly recommend you research [Polish movie posters](http://images.google.com/images?q=Polish+movie+posters&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=7Ys_S5KRKIyNnQfjrKT3CA&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=6&ved=0CDgQsAQwBQ). They're works of art in-and-of themselves, and they're less cliché than just movie posters.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I used to work in movie theaters so I have a nice collection. My computer room has Fargo, The Thin Red Line (Terrence Malick) and The Arrival as well as a reproduction of 2001 A Space Odyssey (wish I had the real thing though).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I have mostly maps. Decorative, practical and gives the room the feel of a supervillain plotting to take over the world, dr. Evil-style. No computer room should be without a map of Mars. Also I got a poster with the tech-tree from Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I have two posters, both the larger 40ish x 70\" maybe?\nOne's monumental, and of the London Calling album by The Clash, the other is landscape, of [this mushroom cloud](http://www.opednews.com/populum/uploaded/c2-castle-bravo--bikini-atoll-hy-35095-20090808-147.jpg).", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The site says 64 unique tiles are used. From what I can see 60 of them have 4 unique rotations and 4 of them have 2 unique rotations. So I'd say there are P = 64! * (4^60) * (2^4) ways of placing the tiles. \n\nAs far as number of solutions all I came up with is a quick and crude possible upper bound. There are four edge type for a tile: all black, all white, white-black and black-white. So after the first tile is placed, only about 1/4 of the remaining tile-rotations can be placed next to it. When you get to the second tile of the second row, there are two edges to match, so only about 1/16 of the remaining tile-rotations will fit. Many of theses choices will lead to dead ends. So given the total number of placements P from above i'd put an upper bound at P/(4^15)/(16^49), which is about 64!/(4^49).", "score": 7 }, { "body": "This will be incredibly hard to get an exact answer, I think it is unlikely to be possible without some pretty heavy computer assistance.\n\nTo get a rough answer I would try writing a computer program that tests a large number (as in millions) of random combinations to see how many of them work, giving you a rough probabilty of a random combination working. From this you can get an estimate of the number of solutions.\n\nI think it is likely that the probability is so small this won't work though.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Yup, i have this small snippet to set up a random background: \n \n #!/bin/sh \n WALLDIR=\"$HOME/jpgs\" \n feh --bg-seamless $WALLDIR/$(ls -1 $WALLDIR|sort -R|sort -R|sed q) -a 128 \n \nwhich creates fairly good *randomized* wallpapers.\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "As opposed to previously, when it was not chemistry?\n\nAnd yes, baking soda is not baking powder. They're very different.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "You're wrong. Baking powder is a mixture of cream of tartar (tartaric acid) and baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). The CO2-evolving acid/base reaction involves only these two species. If your baking powder has starch, it's as an inert filler.\n\nYour cookies would have turned out the same if you'd just forgotten the baking powder altogether.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "In Bruges and Green Street Hooligans. I haven't seen them in a while but I think that's what you're looking for.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I, as a European, feel totally outraged of your associating European with damp and grey. Now shure, it's winter over here, but come on !\n\n\nWell, if you liked Children of Men, one must-see is certainly 1984.\nGoing on with retro sci-fi : Fareinheit 451, Alphaville, then everything Godard and everything Truffeau.\n\n\nI command Subway and Nikita, then going back with Luc Besson : Le Dernier Combat.\nCloser to us : Die Welle, Goodbye Lenin, and not so damp but *so* european : Lola rennt. Same place, 20 years earlier : Das Leben der Anderen\n\n\nEverything Emir Kusturica.\n\n\nDelicatessen, La Cité des Enfants Perdus\n\n\nPeut-Être (very dry and sunny, but still ...)\n\nUn Homme, une Femme\n\n\nVery damp, very grey and halas so european : Nuit et Brouillard\n\n\nFurther east, but still Europe : Утомлённые солнцем\n\nBack west :\nL'Armée des Ombres\n\nBack south :\nLa Dolce Vita, Otto e mezzo\n\n...\n\n\nAnd of course don't miss M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder and Metropolis\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "The Krays, The Boxer, In the Name of the Father, The Football Factory, Get Carter (the original w/ Michael Caine), Dead Man's Shoes", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I used to have this too, and if you don't have a nicotine or caffeine addiction, then the problem may be dehydration. Try drinking some water before or after waking up.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Are you addicted to caffeine or nicotine? If I sleep for more then 7 hours my buzz wears off and it gives me a headache.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Yes, I have headaches too and sometimes even nausea. I used to be able sleep 10+ hours but now after 7h I'm more tired than rested.\n\nI'm 23.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Sometimes, but it is usually because my body wants the caffeine kick that I give it by that time if I'm up. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I wouldn't say I get a headache, but if I get more than 8 or 9 hours, I will be very drowsy for about 4 to 5 hours upon waking. This doesn't happen if I get 5-6 hours. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I've never had a headache from sleeping in. If I wake up any later than 8:30 or 9 I do feel horrible though, more from feeling lazy useless and having wasted half the day.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This blew my mind a little bit, because I woke up at 2 PM today after sleeping over 12 hours.\n\nMy head felt like someone was trying to wrestle a crocodile enclosed in bubblewrap.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "epiphones aren't bad for starting out. have you considered trolling craigslist or something local to find used? fender strats are good for starters, ibanez too are a good place to start... and can be found pretty cheaply used. \n\nonce you get more experienced with electric guitars, then the question of what kind of guitar gets a bit more complicated... but for starting out, like i said, epiphones are quite suitable for starting out. \n\nas for amps, will you be jamming with a drummer? if so, that's tough because you'll want something loud enough (in the 20-30w range) but if you are just going solo, then that 10w will do the trick. \n\ngood luck :)\n", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Go used. You'll always get a better deal. Epiphones and Mexican made Fenders are great starter guitars.\n\nFor amps, you can either get get lucky with a cheap tube amp (score!) or one of the many tone-modeling amps. Technology is really coming along with those things. They sound better every time I hear one, though tube amps are still ahead.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "It really depends. If you stick with playing guitar you are going to want to replace everything in that pack pretty quickly, but if you give up you at least won't waste much money. \n\nI recommend saving up more and buy a better practice amp and a used guitar. The guitar you can replace but a good amp will last forever. I use VOX amps but Line 6 may be better for beginners. Here is a line 6 for $99 http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/Line-6-Spider-IV-15-15W-1x8-Guitar-Combo-Amp?sku=620208\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I think Squires blow Epiphones out of the water. Ive had several of each, and new Squires are real nice. I have $5000 guitar, and a $150 squire. The squire gets more finger time. Granted, i put a few hours setting the squire up..... also, the cheaper affinity series squires are made from alder, instead of agathis wood. Just like the expensive fenders. 90% of an Electrics sound is created by the amp anyway. That is where you will want to spend real money. A $100 guitar into a $1000 amp sounds MUCH better than the opposite. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you are just beginning learning, I recommend that you start with an acoustic. You can get a decent cheap Fender / Washburn / Ibanez / whathaveyou for under $200 and it will sound better than any electric+amp that you can get for that price. \n\nIf you are dead-set on electric, you should save up a little more cash and spend $300-400, and you will be much happier in the long run. If you cheap out on the electric initially, the tone of the guitar and amp will suck, it will be hard to play, etc and you will not want to play it, much less practice scales and chords. \nThen again, if you are determined you can make a go of anything. \nAcoustic is much better for learning and training your ears though and really hearing what you're playing. Good luck!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Epiphones are great value, squier standards and yamaha pacificas are also pretty solid beginner instruments.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I like the ones that tell me that I wouldn't steal a car. Fact: I would, if I was just going to make an identical copy of the car and leave the original for the owner.\n\nEDIT: Spelling.", "score": 67 }, { "body": "Use the time productively. I load the disk and it conveniently gives me plenty of time to hit the bathroom and grab a snack before the menus come up.", "score": 27 }, { "body": "nothing like guilt-tripping the wrong target group (say, 5-year-olds getting desensitized to FBI threats of life in jail... no wonder we dont care about the death-warnings on cigarette-packs, we've been threatened with life in prison sinced we learned to pop in our favorite tape/dvd of cartoons)", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Your question will gather just as many (and identical) responses if you asked \"DAE hate poking their eyes out with a fork?\". Of course every breathing person on the face of this planet hates legalise, be it on DVD or other media.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "This is one of the many reasons I don't feel guilty about pirating. For being honest you get inconvenienced by annoying crap, plus you have to pay way over the odds for it. Furthermore you have to go down to a shop to buy it or wait for it being delivered. \n\nIn a couple of years all physical forms of media will become obsolete anyway. ARRRHHHH!", "score": 9 }, { "body": "The ironic thing is that if you are seeing that warning... you probably didn't pirate it and won't ever because why pirate something you already have?", "score": 8 }, { "body": "The worst thing about this is that people watching pirated DVDs never see it, so it doesn't affect people who choose to pirate at all. It adversely affects those who are doing the *legal* thing, thereby actually making the pirate alternative a superior product. Ridiculous.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Once I invited this girl I knew to come over and watch a movie. She hit the stop button twice, then play...and viola straight to the movie. Has to be published online somewhere....", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I always buy cheap, no name, import DVD players. The kind that only have instructions printed in Chinese (and sometimes Korean). They usually don't have whatever bit of programming prevents you from skipping those warnings. They almost always play burned DVDs better too because they don't give a shit about copy protection.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman and then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet and then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again. Downloading films is stealing, if you do it, you WILL face the consequences.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I always think it's funny that the big companies treat the people who actually buy their stuff like criminals.\n\nYOU THERE!! THE ONE WHO JUST BOUGHT MY STUFF!! STOP FUCKING STEALING MY STUFF!!!!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[Here is the entire tournament](http://www.pokerhandreplays.com/multihands.php/id/15567) from my perspective. I'm giving away all my secrets here!", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Nice report!!!\n\nHere are the current [standings](http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=t1BoIODBV3g1maHuqcoPacg&output=html). I kept the info separate between FTP and PS since there's no easy way to determine what players are the same but using different handles.\n\nOf course there's only one tournament to report for each site, but that will grow!\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Sorry guys, I blanked on the EST and showed up 30 min late with 500 chips. I'll be on time next week ;]\n\n~layzice", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "what you experienced was an estastic high\r\nthe exact opposite is also possible with a soul ripping low.\r\n\r\nthis isn't to be feared... just used and learned from.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It's funny that my friend showed me this AMA. I'm pretty interested in your daily activities, daily food intake, and body weight, because I am convinced I have the same thing. I am currently 20 years old, male, 170lbs, and I try to go to the gym twice a week along with basketball a few times. I usually consume a lot more than a normal person, and its because once I have one bite, I just feel the need to eat so much more. The other day I went to Burger king and ate 2 king size number 6, along with 4 whopper jrs. Around those number of calories (idk how much it is, I'm guessing over 2500) is what I normally eat in one sitting.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": " just roll with. If I made a mistake, I own up to it. But If I didn't, I stand up for myself. Even if it enrages the other person. I don't yell, I calmly explain the situation. I don't back down, unless there's a good reason. Like getting fired......", "score": 22 }, { "body": "If it's someone you don't know and will never see again, always apologise, even if it's 100% their fault. Who the fuck cares? There's no point to be made with a complete stranger. You have nothing to gain and everything to lose.\n\nIf it's someone who's a part of your life, it's a different story. If it's trivial stuff, again, just apologise, but if it's something that matters, it's important to make your side of the story known or else you'll find yourself in a \"debt\" position you don't deserve.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Funny! I just went through this not ten minutes ago. Someone tried to punch my basset hound through our fence, and my first reaction was to say \"If you ever so much as look at my dog again, I'll kill you and your whole fucking family, you ill-educated piece of gutter trash shit.\" (true story!) It went back and forth from there. Screaming at one another.\n\nAnd I'm left sitting here feeling alternatively enraged and worried and all the rest.\n\nPointless, egregious apologies are the only answer. Had I simply apologized for my dog barking at her, she'd be the one, potentially, feeling like an asshole, and I wouldn't be sitting here worried about it. \n\nThe Bible is right, I think. Romans 12:20 *\"Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.\"*\n\nKill 'em with kindness. \n\n*sigh.*", "score": 7 }, { "body": "They say hindsight is 20/20, and I usually believe it's true - any time I've acted purely on impulse, I've noticed that most of the time I was in the wrong and ought to have apologized rather than fight. This is why a cooling off period is important in an argument.\nI've noticed that in a lot of scenarios involving confrontation, if you're not sure of the facts or think you may have misunderstood the other person, standing down atleast gives the other person a chance to clarify.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I was actually going to post a similar question later today. I have a hard time preserving my dignity, because I never know when to pick my battles. My folks raised me to be a gentleman. I spent the better part of my life being mentally abused because I was an easy mark. I had no real defense. \n\nI would go home and have my sister torture me with stupid mind tricks, then complain to my mother if I ever lost my temper. By the time I realized that I could also complain, I had already established myself as the ill-behaved sibling with no credibility.\n\nYou get enough people telling you two plus two equals five, and suddenly it starts to make sense. That kind of conditioning leaves you wide open to attack. You do what you can to make sure no one ever does it to you again, and you suddenly realize you're just being paranoid.\n\nI have learned to apologize for everything, and let life sort out the dickheads that want to march around with their balls ten feet in front of them. I protect what is mine, and that's just about it. I care about the world I live in, but there's far too many arrogant pricks out there who want to take a piece for no particular reason. I don't have children, and I see no tragedy in that.\n\nBasically, like any good man, I keep an eye on the flock. I do my part, and avoid arguments at all cost. If someone dares to seriously harm something I care about, it's a goddamn shame for both of us because I do intend to do something about it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Deal with the emotions first, get at why the person may be angry --> don't sweep the emotions under the rug. Show that you understand and empathize. \n\nI would be angry too if X happened, and it made our team look bad. \n\nGet at the context of what happened. \n\nI didn't finish the assignment because I had other things I had to attend to. 1) 2) 3)\n\nWhat could have avoided the situation? \n\nMaybe if I had told you in advance, we could have figured out which was a priority.\n\nIf it was your fault, I am sorry I made a mistake,\nIf blame can be shared. I am sorry we are facing this situation. Let's work on a solution together. \n\nIf someone is bullying you, it's tricky. You can't accept it as a longterm pattern. Get out of the relationship if possible. -- Check books like the \"No asshole rule\" for advice. \n\nSee also Center for non-violent communication for excellent resources. \n\nhttp://www.cnvc.org/\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "It's possible to do both. You apologize for what you did that caused the offense, but if there's a reason you did it, say so. Or if it was unintentional, say so. \n\nIOW, you apologize for the *feelings* you might have caused, not your intentions -- if they were not malicious or rude. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Its not a healthy thing and could impact you later (or at the very least, you've gotten into some bad habits that can be hard to break). What can happen is your body goes into a sort of starvation mode -- your'e not giving it all the fuel and vitamins it needs to operate on a daily basis. When it does get the food its going to start to hoard it. This could mean you put on weight that you don't want.\n\nHow are your energy levels? Are you very active?\n\nI have been eating like that since I was about 10 or 11. I'm now 30 and fat and am struggling to eat right. Not only do I have to remind myself of the healthy things to eat, but also I have to remember TO eat. I never learned to cook because I never meals, if you only eat one meal a day, whats the big deal about buying something? Which of course is less healthy blah blah.\n\nThe best luck I had was when I managed to do a diet of 5 meals a day. First time I started to lose weight. And the whole time it was a chore. \"Fuck, I have to eat again??\"\n\nYou probably need to think about the vitamins and that that your body needs on a daily basis. If you're not prepared to make a change to your eating habits right away, I'd suggest at least taking good multivitamin.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "Does [The Truman Show](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/) count?\n\nI really enjoyed the part of the movie where he's in his boat and he bumps into the end of the sky.", "score": 21 }, { "body": "*V For Vendetta* has a scene like this, shortly after Natalie Portman's head gets shaved. There's also some of this type of thing going on in *Moon*. *Vanilla Sky* and *The Thirteenth Floor* too.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "David Mamet does this all the time and really well imo. House of Games (I think), The Spanish Prisoner, State and Main. \r\n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "*The Matrix* is the first one that comes to mind. *The Prisoner* is a TV series, not a movie, but it's got that idea too.\n\nThe trailer for *[Inception](http://inceptionmovie.warnerbros.com/)* seems to indicate that it's all in *someone's* mind.\n\nIt's not exactly what you're looking for but *[A Cock and Bull Story](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Cock_and_Bull_Story)* is totally meta; it's a movie about a bunch of people making a movie about a book that is supposedly unfilmable.\n\nI know I know a bunch more examples that are more precisely what you're asking for; I'll edit my post if I remember some later. Cool question, btw!", "score": 7 }, { "body": "There's a bit in Mulholland Drive where it seems like we're in a recording studio, but it turns out to be a movie set.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Not a movie, but the Twilight Zone episode [Stopover in a Quiet Town](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stopover_in_a_Quiet_Town) immediately comes to mind.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "[Murder by Death](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074937/) has a scene in which two characters, after entering a spooky room, discover that the dust in just baking powder and the cobwebs are fairy floss (or cotton candy for you US redditors).\n\nSoon after the fakery is revealed to have been done by another character, but its a great meta moment at the time.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "[The Game](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119174/) has a scene in an apartment that turns out to be a fake set, filled with empty books and things.\n\nEdit: I feel incredibly stupid, I didn't see/read the description form the OP. I also think it is cowardly to remove a comment, so I will keep my stupid one here. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Contact a lawyer. Power of attorney does NOT entitle you to spend all the money on yourself. It means that you are supposed to use a person's money on their well-being, since they are incapable. I read stories like that from around here from time to time. Your uncle NEEDS to account, and show that he is spending the money for the care of your grandmother, or he is stealing.", "score": 14 }, { "body": "The common theme here is contact a lawyer. They're good for something, and this is it. Lawyer. Now. Like, get off Reddit, pick up the phone, and call yours. If you don't have one, call around among family members and find a good one. Now. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Forging signature is illegal. You can start with that to have his power of attorney revoked. He can also be arrested for elder abuse if he is leaving her without money for bills, rent and food. You need to get this taken care of ASAP.\n Getting a restraining order against him once that is done would also be a good idea. Also make sure that all her mail is still going to her and not him.\nSee if there is an attorney or a volunteer program that specialized in the abuse of the elderly and disabled. I volunteered for such a group where I live for a couple of months. They know what they are doing and will represent her for no fee.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Elder abuse, forgery, theft...call a lawyer asap. Get legal advice. And one of the first questions I'd be asking is if I could get a restraining order for uncle to be staying far away from mom. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Too bad you didn't get a restraining order earlier. Give 'em an inch, they will take your whole grandmother.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Sounds like elder abuse, get a lawyer. Make him show the court the receipts proving that he's spent your grandmothers money in her interest. Don't be afraid to prosecute him to the fullest extent the law allows where you're at. Jail might be the only way to keep your grandmother safe. But, if he had a history of taking advantage of his parents, why didn't anyone kick up a fuss when he got her to sign the power of attorney? Or question how he was handling things? If someone had taken an interest earlier it might not have come to this. \r\n\r\nAt this point someone's going to have to get aggressive to protect your senile grandmothers interests. Sounds like it'll be you or your mother. Since your grandmothers money is probably gone now, it might be out of pocket - unless you can recoup it from your thieving uncle. Sorry to be so pessimistic, but the situations not good. Good luck", "score": 4 }, { "body": "If he forged her signature to claim her retirement checks, is that not mail fraud in some way?\n\nIf you could stick that to him it would put a definite dent in his day.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "People are saying about EQ'ing it out but here is the base line:\r\n\r\n**sort out the acoustic environment that you are recording in**\r\n\r\nSo few people spend money on some basic, cheap acoustic treatment to make the recording environment more suitable.\r\n\r\nYou **should ALWAYS** sort out issues before you have recorded them. \"Sorting it out in the mix\" is the *polishing a turd* method. Do not go down this path.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "If it can be removed, it'll be removed via EQ.\n\nApologies for shamelessly spamming my own site, but I wrote a [tutorial last year](http://davidstuneshop.net/articles/tutorials/audio-engineering/mixing-part-3-eq/) on how to do this. If you're familiar with EQ's, then skip down to the section titled \"Parametrics in the Mix\".\n\nSomething else you could try, which is a little extreme. I don't really sanction this approach, but if all else fails, try this: dig up an old version of Cool Edit. There was a shareware edition before Adobe bought it and called it Audition.\n\nIt has an amazing noise reduction technology built in, and I still keep a copy installed just for this feature. It allows you to sample just the offending sound, and then remove it from a recording.\n\nActually there are quite a few commercial plugins that do this now, but for my money, Cool Edit still holds its own. As with all noise reduction apps, the removal may cause unexpected artifacts, but they're usually preferable to the original.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "You have control over what gases to excrete? That's impressive. Most humans can't do that.\n\nI think the feeling of being in control is largely an illusion. It's an evolutionary trick of consciousness which makes us *feel* as if we are the agents of voluntary control, when it is in fact mostly pre- or sub-conscious neural potentiation which drives us to action.\n\nI enjoy your description of life and \"control\" as a rhythmic process--I'd be willing to accept a broader interpretation than breathing, because as stated above I have qualms with regarding the control of breathing as something we are volitionarily in control of. Unconscious processes *make* you breathe whether you'd like to or not, on a conscious level.\n\nI'm very interested to hear you describe what you think happens when something becomes \"internal\" and \"in our control\". Are these conscious happenings? What is it about these internal happenings that make you feel in control of them? Clearly you are not a determinist.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Halo 3 (including ODST) campaign allows 2 player split-screen maximum. Firefight is technically campaign, so it only allows 2 players per Xbox.\n\nThe second disc contains all of the multiplayer content for Halo 3. This includes every Halo 3 map ever released, Forge, and Theater. Four player split-screen can be played on this disc only. This is fully compatible with the original Halo 3 disc.\n\n\n\nSo, with ODST, you get:\n\nODST Campaign (2 player split screen, 4 players max)\n\nODST Firefight (2 player split screen, 4 players max)\n\nHalo 3 Multiplayer (4 player split screen)\n\nAll DLC included (no extra price/download)\n\nThree exclusive Halo 3 maps\n\n\n\n\nIf you were to get Halo 3, you would have the Halo 3 campaign and the original maps. You would need to buy the Heroic (may be free), Legendary, and Mythic 1 map packs. Mythic 2 is not available on the XBL Marketplace.", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "[The Soviet Manned Space Program](http://www.amazon.com/SOVIET-MANNED-SPACE-PROGRAM-Phillip/dp/051756954X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262460691&sr=1-1) by Phillip Clark. I found an old copy for $1 at a library book sale last year. It's a very thorough book.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "'[Father](http://www.amazon.com/Father-Volumes-1-Nataliya-Koroleva/dp/5020357278/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in)'. It's an English translation of the biography of Sergai Korolev (the head engineer of the soviet space program) written by his daughter, Nataliya Koroleva.\n\nIts a beast at over a 1000 pages but the first half is his early life and can skipped/skim read. The second half gives a good personal account of the Space Race from the guy at the centre of it. I'm not sure where you could get it outside of Russia though, I got given it a the Roscosmos headquarters in Moscow.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[Am I the only one who has absolutely zero interest in watching sports?](http://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/9nfic/am_i_the_only_one_who_has_absolutely_zero/) 459 upvotes\n\n[DAE hate sports on TV or in general?](http://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/9qiwq/dae_hate_sports_on_tv_or_in_general/) 37 upvotes\n\n[DAE (males in particular) not care about professional sports at all?](http://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/a0e0p/dae_males_in_particular_not_care_about/) 645 upvotes\n\n[DAE not enjoy watching sports?](http://www.reddit.com/r/DoesAnybodyElse/comments/aijju/dae_not_enjoy_watching_sports/) 275 upvotes", "score": 44 }, { "body": "Let me provide a related anecdote. My sister used to dislike sports of all kinds. She couldn't have cared less about football, soccer, baseball, or basketball. She didn't play sports, and she didn't watch sports. I grew up playing and watching sports, so I really like them. Because I went to a school playing in the national championship for a sport, she watched the game. She didn't know exactly what was happening, but by the end she was screaming and yelling because of the situation in the game. Afterwards, she said it was the most fun she has had. Everyone dislikes some sports, so you aren't alone. However, I find it hard to believe that there isn't some sport in the world that you find enjoyable to watch. \n\nOftentimes I find that people who don't like sports really don't understand them. Try taking the time to learn about one particular sport (the rules etc.), read about the players, and then talk with some of your friends. \n\n\n", "score": 9 }, { "body": ">I just feel sports is such a waste of time. It makes me sick that so much of society's time is devoted to it.\n\nhow is enjoying sports different from enjoying world of warcraft? plenty of people waste years of their life on the computer. does it make you sick when society's time is wasted on that shit too?\n\njust because you dont like it doesnt make it gay.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Maybe the reason you dont enjoy a certain sport is because you don't appreciate the technical details of the sport. Once you start learning things like that, you automatically get hooked.\nAlso another plus would be if the audio-commentary is knowledgeable, and well informed. Those guys can really hook in a viewer by presenting all the real-time relevant information in an easy to digest manner...", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I played soccer and paintball at a very high level throughout my life and while I love playing any sport, I too can not stand watching them. It seems so counterproductive. I don't want to live vicariously through someone. I'd rather just play. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Congrats, I love sports, and find your take on them disappointing, if you don't like something don't talk about it, if another person brings it up, tell them you don't like sports. If they keep talking about them to you, leave, don't talk to them, get new friends/people to talk to at the office, try to change the subject to something everyone can relate to. Sports is a nice way to socialize with others, if you don't like them, that's fine, just remember that everyone can like and care about different things, whether you agree with them or not. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Of all of the things society goes ape shit for you pick one of the most innocuous and then try to compare it to homosexuals somehow?\n\nAlso...\n\n>The obsessing over stats and every single play and players history. \n\nWhat about it? Maybe with all that free time you aren't \"wasting\" you could learn how to form a cogent argument or atleast a complete sentence? Also apprently it is impossible to be a casual fan?\n\nFurthermore, everything is a waste of time, especially entertainment. Speaking of which, sporting events are down right cerebral in comparison to most of the inane garbage that passes for entertainment these days. Also don't blame sports for your social ineptitude. \n\n>It seem(sic) trivial\n\nI've got bad news for you, guy, your entire life is trivial. Nothing you will ever do will be meaningful and that goes for all of us. Therefore it is foolish and myopic for you to denigrate others because of the way they choose to while away (a very small fraction) of their time.\n\n\nSeriously though, your ire towards inane forms of entertainment would be much better directed at....I dunno, inane forms of entertainment? Reality tv, popularity contest tv shows, celebrity worship programming or news as entertainment are all not only more inane than a good strategic sporting event, but they are actually detrimental to our society.\n\nBasically, I don't think any of your arguments beyond \"not interested\" even come remotely close to holding water.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Hello all,\n\nAs a recently sober meth addict, I often find myself in a conflict of sorts. I am lucky enough to have parents that do not hold my sobriety against me. I was raised to respect others points of view. For this I am very greatful.\n\nThe conflict comes as a conflict of internal guilt. Whenever I am home, I feel, well, guilty, when I accidently reveal some of my sober tendencies to my mother. She is a giant meth head, who smokes up on a regular basis and is very involved in the meth community.\n\nMy standing position that since it offers her so much comfort, I should be wary of introducing anything that might shake such comfort.\n\nI wanted to know if anyone else has dealt with something like this, and how they have handled it.\n\nCheers!\n", "score": 9 }, { "body": "A dose of humor helps. This morning my elderly father wondered aloud whether he should go to church as he does nearly every day. My reply:\n\n\"At minus seventeen plus windchill? Forget it. If God wants you then he knows where to find you.\"", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I have an addict friend who credits his sobriety with \"god.\" In this particular case, belief in a fairy-tale is less dangerous than him doing drugs. I think that he is sober because he wants to be sober, but he gives religion all the credit because it's part of AA to do so. I don't even bother arguing with him about it just in case it is religion that keeps him in line. I'd rather have an irrational sober and healthy friend than a pathetic Golom like atheist friend.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My parents are both pastors. I am sixteen now and have been \"tea kettle\" agnostic since around age eight. My parents were fine with my lack of belief though my mom wanted me to have the church in my life and forced me to go once a month. My way of respecting their faith is primarily to keep to myself about it. I am very argumentative when I disagree and they both know my holdings/viewpoint. I decried their faith when I was younger and have seen my father start to have his own failings of faith. If people prefer to have faith as a crutch to keep them comfortable, so be it. I am comfortable enough on my own and I invite others to join me but am comfortable with myself, and therefore on my own.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "My experience, and the experience of others, tends to confirm the following rule:\r\n\r\nYou get exactly 2 \"freebie\" encounters. After the third encounter, somebody will develop feelings, and it will get complicated where either one or the other can no longer handle the \"no strings attached\" or, it evolves into a relationship. YMMV", "score": 18 }, { "body": "The *key*, and I'm deadly serious here, is honesty.\n\nKeep the dude up to date on your feelings. Check regularly on his. Things like this have a habit of slipping into psuedo-relationships by default, just because neither of you have anything else going on.\n\nThe FWB thing usually ends in one of three ways-\n\nThe F way- someone will get bored/tired of the sex, or one of you will realize they're getting real feelings for a person who is not going to fall in love with them, and someone will decide to go back to being Friends.\n\nThe W way- one of you will decide that you actually want to be With someone, but not each other. It'll have to end, unless one of you wants to be the 'other person' someone cheats with.\n\nThe B way- You both figure out you really have real feelings and decide to keep the Benefits and drop the Friends thing.\n\nNone of this is bad, as long as everybody's on the same page. It's when one party is secretly catching a case of feelings and doesn't tell that hearts get broken. \n\nJust keep it real. \n\nOther pitfalls: Be *crystal* clear about rather or not you two can screw other people, and how much you want to know in that department. This can avoid hurt feelings, and eliminate a lot of natural, but unfair jealousy.\n\nAlso, make sure you are aware of rather or not your FWB wants your hookups to be public information or not. I'd be suspicious of anyone who refuses to own up to their activities, but not everyone wants their business out on the street like that. You might not either.\n\nI think that's it, just a few tidbits of wisdom I've learned.\n", "score": 13 }, { "body": "They are fun and exciting at first. Then after a while (half year to year) the excitement is gone and it begins to get dull. Even though it seems to be awesome that neither of you have any emotions invested in the other, this leads to something else. Hatred. You will eventually come to hate him/her simply because in having nothing emotionally vested in said relationship, it gives you nothing to really redeem that person's flaws which you would normally overlook. What you ask? Isn't no strings attached sex enough to stave of annoyances and a strange tension? No it is not. Basically it will start to be like a job. Ultimately though, I say go for it. You live once (so we assume anyway), so enjoy the ride (no pun intended).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "My rule is to keep communication open to avoid misunderstandings. Also, I never, ever think about them as more than just a fb and if I think they are, I end it. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Oddly, my story is quite similar:\n\nI have just gotten into my first proper friends-with-benefits type relationship with a girl I've been friends with for a few years. We first slept together a couple of months ago, after my HIV test came back negative, and since then we generally have sex whenever she stays over (about once every 1-2 weeks).\n\nHaving never been in a situation like this (I'm usually doing one-night stands, I've only had a couple of long-term relationships) I am finding the whole thing quite interesting but I can see how it has the potential to get emotionally confusing. When she stays over, during the night we kiss, have average sex, she falls asleep on my arm so I can't get out of bed. Then the rest of the time I have to try and avoid her because she drives me nuts when her mouth isn't on my dick.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Oh boy, here we go :) \n\nI have had a few of these... one worked out fine, other two involved unstable women. \n\nThe one that worked out fine- I think the reason for this was because of the frequency... or lack of I should say. We had sex a handful of times over a few years. This was perfect, we'd hang out, watch a movie, great sex, then that was that. Nothing more. She was married at the time and as soon as she left him and got a new bf, we stopped all FWB activities.\n\nOne of the other two was just psycho. She was interested in being with me but would always belittle me and try and make me feel bad, but was very stand-off-ish to me and felt it was weird when I just wanted to \"hang out\" instead of other things. She ended up belittling me too much and I ripped into her and we haven't been friends since. \n\nMy last one lasted the longest and was the hardest. She and I were friends for years. I was the one that introduced her to everyone yet she dated all my friends and not me. Finally after all her friends cut ties with her, she wants to hang out all the time with me. Things happened, we had sex nearly every weekend or every other weekend for a few months. But it was always... always... \"lets get drunk then have sex n crash\" so there was little intimacy, rarely kissed, etc. The last time anything happened was my birthday over a year ago and she was ecstatically happy, really made my night and it was the most intimate we had gotten. Few days later she completely ended all ties with me. Deleted me from all her social sites, and we haven't really talked since. The trouble here mainly arose from her wanting to get a boyfriend. She had a crush on a friend of a friend- I told my friend some ground notes he should know before dating her, nothing bad. Just some things like... she doesn't like to be smothered, she doesn't like whiney bitches, she likes to be a bit dominated, etc. She flipped the fuck out on me because I was talking about her to other people... I was actually completely for them getting together, but whatever. We still haven't talked since... she is now dating someone considerably younger than herself and has zero ties to her old group of friends, a lot more things have happened for other people to disown her too.\n\nMy advice? Kissing, cuddling, things like that usually lead to emotional ties. Straight up sex, I see no harm in it if the two parties are completely down for it. There will always be a change for an emotional bond though... \n\nAs for changing how I viewed the people after? Never really changed, they were my friends before hand, and were after the matter (until other shit arose). \n\nTo me, it already sounds like you have a bit of a tie with your FWB. Be careful... you two probably should discuss what would happen, theoretically, if that situation were to occur, or if one of you were to become involved with someone else or have a relationship.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Been in one for about a year. I liken it to having the fun of being in a relationship without the emotional commitment. We hang out just like we're normal friends and fuck when it's convenient. \n\nIn my opinion more honest then being in a real relationship since we both know what we're getting ourselves into with no backlash. And communication and honesty is big. If one of us were to develop real feelings for one another we end it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "On the one hand, I'm about to marry my FWB. We were only fwb for about 2 months, though, since he's not really that kind of guy (has never had anything but long term relationships) and we were basically dating and just afraid to label it as such.\n\nOn the other hand, my best friend has had multiple fwb, and it never goes well, and she ALWAYS ends up having feelings for him, no matter how much she swears to me beforehand that she's too busy for a relationship, can't have a relationship at this time in her life, and isn't interested in anything serious with this guy, and just wants to have sex. The truth is that she's not hardwired for that kind of thing and doesn't want to admit it because she has a hard time actually dating people for real.\n\nMy fiance's friend has also had multiple supposed fwb experiences that generally end in disaster, but that's because he's really bad at being able to tell when a girl has feelings for him and doesn't understand the difference between fwb and dating.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I believe there are so many different factors to being pro and sceptical, I think a great thing would be to put a chart together to somehow visually show all the different positions.\n\nOn a political level, global warming hysteria fits in well with those who want to use it as a tool to say there are bad effects of the free market, in fact I think the 'business as usual' approach in the IPCC scenarios roughly referred to a growing global free market initially. While for those who are anti central government and anti socialism it's natural to want to be sceptical about measures put in place in combat a threat which either doesn't exist, or where the uncertainties are so high that the costs make no sense.\n\nI believe there's an agenda on both sides, but the opinions between individuals are so varied. However, what people are pro and against are so complex from scientific to political level, I wonder if one could categorise belief over global warming a bit like Myers-Briggs style personality profiles or something, and perhaps name each type in a descriptive fashion. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "You should be bothered. This blog post details it broadly.\n\nhttp://lippard.blogspot.com/2009/12/who-are-climate-change-skeptics.html\n\nBut blog posts are nothing compared to empirical evidence.\n\nhttp://ucf.academia.edu/PeterJacques/Papers/71776/The-Organization-of-Denial--Conservative-Think-Tanks-and-Environmental-Scepticism\n\nA succinct summary of the above is here\n\nhttp://www.climatesciencewatch.org/index.php/csw/details/organizing_denial/\n\nMaybe you should examine the many conspiracy theories thrown at climate change scientists. Or the history of denial. Maybe even whats most likely about people with interests, networks, money and influence, as opposed to the actual science. \n\nWho promoted the science of global warming as a left wing ploy? Look into it. Climate change does not care about your political views. It will do it anyway if things go on. Question your sources and always examine them.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Couple of questions since I also want to be a physician:\n\n\n* How has your social life been since you started medical school, internship(s), residency?\n\n* What medical school did you go to?\n\n* Is medical school hard D:?\n\n* What exactly is the order of things to become a doctor? It's like...undergrad > medical school > residency > fellowship in specific area?\n\n* How old are you? ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "What was your GPA, community service exp/involvement and your interview process like before starting med school? Any advice before the applying/med school interview process? \nThanks!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "What are your days like? How long? What's your routine? How do you keep up with all that stuff? Do you have photographic memory or some other congnitive trait that makes it possible for you to digest all of that information and keep up?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "What are your thoughts on medical marijuana and marijuana use in general? \n\n(Please indicate if your opinion is based on actually treating patients with mmj; research; or personal use.)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "If you had a patient who complained about depression and anxiety... Possibly mood swings. What would you do? Because you're going to get A LOT of that", "score": 3 }, { "body": "How many times have you thought about giving up and going into another field? How did you pep yourself up again? Have you felt that all the pain and suffering of your education is not worth it?\n\nCurrent college sophomore who plans on attending medical school and luckily does not have any of the problems above (yet). Any advice for me?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I am applying to medical school this year. I actually have an interview at the military school (USUHS) this week. What do you think about military medicine?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm looking at the Physician's Assistant route... I have gotten a lot of medical experience through my job. I've been hearing that mid level providers are currently the way to go, as opposed to doctors and such.. because of licenses, and flexibility, what's your thoughts on this?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I went from mainstream to general electronic to trance then to drum/bass.\n\nActually, I only mix between trance and drum/bass.\n\nIf you like music, it is the only path to take. Anyone that doesn't enjoy electronic doesn't like music.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "My path seems to be similar to yours. I was big into rap/hip-hop and buying baggy clothes, wearing my pants around my ankles, etc (I was in middle school). Then I met some new people in the beginning of high school and they listened to techno and trance. At first I didn't like it, but it grew on me. Now, after 6 years or so I mainly listen to trance and progressive. I go clubs and shows (last time I got an autograph from Above and Beyond) and I even started DJing. I still like to listen other kinds of music from time to time, but my I love trance.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "i listened to 90's hip hop and then went to rock. i still love rock and went to countless rock concerts. i still think mosh pits and a crowded rave are the friendliest places to be. i found techno somewhere in the mid 90's. the beat of house caught my ear. i listened to bad boy bill, humpty vission, dj irene. then i gravitated towards trance. Children, For An Angel, Another Way, Ayla Part II, Xpander, Cafe Del Mar, Exploration of Space, 9PM, Out of The Blue, Communication, Flight 643. then seeing all the branches of trance develop. awesome stuff.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "When I was little around 10 years or so, I used to go to the mall in Dubai. There was this music/movie store that used to play music loud. \n\nI used to just look at movie/music (vinyls) covers and listen to the songs, most of them were 90's dance tracks, most of them were trance.\n\nI used to hang out there all the time to listen to the cool tracks. So eventually I found a friend in elementry that liked the same style of music. Back then it was Techno, then eventually dancish and now progressive trance / progressive house most of the time. I listen to Jazz and classical to, and a bit of old reggaton like bob marley and Police and etc..\n\nI'm very passionate about my music, and I hate explaining how it's not techno and how I'm not an X addict every time someone asks what I listen to.\n\nBtw where are these girls? I don't know a single girl that likes trance.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I had a girlfriend around 1997 that was into electronic music. She played a lot of The Crystal Method and Underworld. Dug both of them. Bought random electronic cd's, X-Dream, Juno Reactor, Aphex Twins. I was sold! Bought some 1200's a couple years later, and I'm still a bedroom DJ.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "once upon a time I stole a tank of nitrous oxide. (a big fukin tank, the 5 footers). At about the same time I started dating this chick (now my wife) and her and her sister were into raves and techno. Anyways we had a couple of hazy weeks completely fucked on nitrous listening to trance and I guess during that it somehow burned an impression into my psyche. \n\nanyone else dig philip glass? I've always thought that he was a classical analog to techno. \n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I played ASOT 283 by accident, it was a wrong link. The first track was Cape Town - Percivalesque, i loved it so much i listened to the entire episode and was in awe of this amazing discovery that was trance music.\n\nI still listen to that song once in a while, it's fucking unbelievable.\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNx0U66RNlc ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I wouldn't say stop playing metal, but don't fall victim to buying \"metal\" distortion pedals (like the Boss MT-2 or anything like that). They generally sound pretty junky and you can achieve the same tone more naturally. If you want a nice versatile distortion/overdrive pedal, take a look at the Fulltone OCD. If you have a tube amp you can use it in all kinds of ways, from a simple volume boost (which I use to boost my already-overdriven amp even further) to a full-blown distortion pedal.\n\nThe best advice I can give wouldn't be a specific pedal, but rather that you go to your local guitar store (or a nearby Guitar Center or something) and ask to try out various distortion pedals on an amp that is the same or similar to your amp. Trying it on a radically different amp is rather pointless because it won't give you an idea of the tone you'll be able to achieve with your own hardware, and different amps take pedals in different ways. Unless you plan to be a cover guitarist, one of the best aspects of electric guitar is crafting your own unique tone, and only you can decide what sounds best to you. But again, if you came here for suggestions, the Fulltone OCD is great, or you could look into a T-Rex Bloody Mary. Good luck!", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Boss DS-1 or Ibanez TS-9 or EHX Big Muff\r\n\r\nThe boss has a slightly more classic sound to it, the tube screamer has a slightly more edgier sound to it and the muff is probably the best thing for you since it can get that nice mid scooped sound quite easily.\r\n\r\nBut try all three on an amp thats similar to the one you use at home.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "A lot of people have mentioned some great pedals. I own more than a few of them, but most of them that have been mentioned are not metal pedals. This includes the DS1, Big Muff and Tubescreamer. If you'd said punk, shoegaze and blues or rock then sure...\n\nZoom Tri-Metal TM01. It's discontinued but you can get them on ebay. Very quiet. Almost no noise at all. Built like a tank.\nLine6 Uber Metal. Decent range of tones. Built-in gate for that tight palm muting. Tons of gain on tap. Nice stuff.\nElectro Harmonix Metal Muff. Does a good job at the \"rectifier in a box\" thing. \n\nStay away from the Boss Metalzone. It sounds like a tincan full of bees.\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You call to achieve a goal. You want to hang out with the girl, right? So figure out a plan that works for you to hang out.\n\nExample conversation:\nHer (picking up the phone): \"Hello?\"\nMe: \"Hey, it's ZanshinJ from the bar the other day. How's it going?\"\nHer: \"Oh hey! I'm fine, how are you?\"\nMe: \"I'm doing alright...so I was hoping to meet back up with you again sometime, would (time) work for lunch/coffee/grabbing a drink/cool place?\"\nHer: \"Yeah, definitely\" (OR) \"Shoot, I can't then...is there some other time?\"\nMe: \"Great, I'll see you then\"<hang up> OR <figure out time, then go to the first option of the previous line>\n\nDone. That's it. It's almost like business.", "score": 51 }, { "body": "calling for the first time is the easy part. She'll dig you just for calling. My trouble is finding what to talk about once the relationship starts. how do i confess to her that i'd like to watch tv and lay on the couch, with her at my side, all day long?", "score": 19 }, { "body": "When you call, keep it short. Invite her out to a cool place. Normally, the cool place should have plenty of conversational material. Good luck!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "> I'm not really an expert conversationalist with people I don't know in person for that matter.\n\nOn the phone, bear in mind you might be calling when she's busy, so be short, sweet and to the point. I'd go with something like: \"Hi, we met on NYE. It was nice meeting you. You wanna get some coffee or something?\" \n\nIn person, just relax and let the chemistry develop naturally. Enjoy the conversation, don't try to impress, don't act, don't be dramatic, show a sense of humor but don't put on a stand-up act, don't get worked over an issue or impose a view and pay attention to what she's saying. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": ">I feel myself quite worried, upset, bored, and lonely lately. I really want something to take my mind off of all the bullshit.\n\nSince you're feeling down, I'd recommend you watch anything from the 'Comedy' genre...That should pick you up. I always go for animated movies when I'm feeling down.\nBut stay away, I repeat, Stay away, from romantic comedies!\nSome Recommendations - Kung Fu Panda, Up, Wall-E, Ratatouille", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I'm self-employed, almost 10 years. I own a dog daycare right outside of Microsoft Main Campus. I get paid to play with dogs all day. It's awesome!", "score": 19 }, { "body": "Biomedical researcher, I'm working on explaining the biological processes behind osteoarthritis, and how to treat patients suffering from it.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Biology student. I take any part time job I can find. Right now I'm helping start an online portal for historical material relating to Charles Darwin. I have no idea if anyone's ever going to look at it. \n\nI have absolutely no idea what I'm going to do once I graduate. I'm trying to teach myself programming when I can spare the hours. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm a person trainer. I help people to lose weight and those that are already in shape, I pretty much torture them! :)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Currently a student. Hopefully an engineer working in project management sometime soon after I graduate. But alas the job prospects aren't stellar these days.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I've been self-employed most of my life, and done lots of different things. An entrepreneur has to try new things almost constantly, as old ideas usually run out of steam revenue-wise, eventually (or too much competition emerges, whittling away profit margins to sizes too small to sustain you). For quite a few years now the majority of my income has come from my writing and illustration efforts on my own web site.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I just finished culinary school, working full time in a national chain restaurant that serves higher class Chinese food. It's really fun and full of adrenaline, but there are so many lazy people and so much bullshit sometimes it makes me reconsider.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Well, see, they wrote all this bank software, and, uh, to save space, they used two digits for the date instead of four. So, like, 98 instead of 1998? Uh, so I go through these thousands of lines of code and, uh... it doesn't really matter. I uh, I don't like my job, and, uh, I don't think I'm gonna go anymore. \n\nIn all honesty, I'm a computer science student.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I work for a gas station/convenience store called Cumberland Farms. I am a counter jockey. I have fun and get to know the people in my town. Which is good because I am new. \n\nI'd like to think they treat their employees pretty well. Until you work there for three years and they fire you for something bs.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Ethical Hacker. Currently I'm freelancing in Bangkok, though also volunteering part time to help my girlfriend build a hostel here. \n\nPeople pay me to quickly understand their software, then find ways to do things one shouldn't. I get to legally hack cell phones, slot machines, electronic exchanges, power grids, etc.\n\nOccasionally I'm interviewed or speak on topics like information warfare, credit card fraud, or digital rights management.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Standup comic. I travel around the country to various comedy clubs and bars, stand on a stage with a barstool and a microphone, and entertain drunk people. Afterwards I stand around drinking beer and making awkward conversation - hoping that someone in whatever town I'm in knows where I can find some weed.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Police Officer/Field Training Officer, American Southwest.\r\n\r\n(For OP's sake, don't turn this into a Fuck The Police thread.)", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Upvoted because finding that would be awesome.\n\nEdit: When I think about it, this would be very simple to make. I would need help with all the different colors common in clothing though. If this isn't found I will take a jab at it.", "score": 22 }, { "body": "Closest thing I found so far... \n\n(Probably not quite what you're looking for tho...)\n\nhttp://www.freemanformal.com/en/virtual-mannequin.php", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Well, until you guys find or program such a program, you can always better understand the theory behind color/print matching. That way, all you'll have to resort to is your eye! Such things can be trained and developed....\n\nSee [here](http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69451) and [here](http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/forum/showthread.php?t=69480).", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Wouldn't the suit/tie/shirt store HAVE the combinations for you to see? This would be a cool program but never actually used in any real life scenario. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Being terminated after giving notice is common.\n\nWhat you'll have on your resume is three years of continuous employment at McDonalds and **no gap at all** between that gig and your next job.\n\nMost employers are savvy enough to know the **only** thing they can say about your employment is to confirm starting and ending dates. Saying another word opens them up to a shit-storm of potential legal trouble.", "score": 54 }, { "body": "Look at it this way. The asshole Manager who fired you has made a career of working at Mcdonalds, How Fucked is that. \n\nYou are leaving for better things. He is not. Laugh at that. A lot.\n\n", "score": 38 }, { "body": "You were participating in an 'at-will' employment, and they can fire you for any reason at any time (other than sexual/race/religion/age type reasons). You have little, if any, recourse.", "score": 16 }, { "body": "The whole two weeks thing is custom, not law or anything. \n\nWhen people call to check on your references, most employers just limit their remarks to \"he was employed from January 2008 thru Dec 2009\" or whatever, and they won't say anything else to avoid lawsuits. So don't worry about that. If you can get one manager to write or sign a letter of reference you can keep, do that. Otherwise write down chapter and verse on all your commendations etc because you'll forget the details sooner than you think.\n\nAs for why you got fired, the manager may be lying about the real reason. May be up against some hours quotas where he's got to trim hours to rock bottom if revenues are tight, so he may have seen you as an easy way to drop some hours he has to pay from the month's budget. So maybe it wasn't all that personal. Or maybe it was, he doesn't like having somebody around who's not intimidated. Whatever, don't take it personally, just be glad about the new gig! ", "score": 12 }, { "body": "It's pretty common to fire people who give two weeks' notice. The reasoning is that on your way out, you're not a trustworthy employee - you'll steal from the company, not work hard, etc.\n\nDon't give two weeks' notice.\n", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I'd let it slide and enjoy a few unplanned days off.\n\nListing McDonalds as a reference for a real job probably isn't the best idea to begin with... ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Your blantant, irresponsible, immature, and reckless disregard for the things that america holds sacred is inexcusable. These french fries were destined for a paying customer. And you stole. Like a thief in the night. Like a terrorist stabbing american values in the back.\n\nI think you should give up one finger for every freedom fry you violated. And hopefully that leaves human trash like you fingerless and dying next to the used oil bin out back where you can reflect on your heinous deed.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "i have handled the hiring at my restaraunt before, and i gave up calling old companies for references because they invariably say nothing. they arent supposed to give you a bad reference, and chances are they wont give you a good one either. the most you usually get out of a reference call is a confirmation of whether or not you actually worked at that location. no more, no less. dont sweat it man.\r\nand dont say that you got fired. never put your reason for leaving on your resume. when you have to fill out an app that requires you to answer that, just put that you found a better job. especially since it's not a lie, you did find a better job.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "You good sir, have just been classically fucked by the system. You rejected them and they got you back. Now how can they be required to tell people in the future the truth about the good that you did them? They don't have to, because they told a preemptive lie. The lesson the system wants in your head is this: If you reject our power, we can lie and hurt you.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Good riddance to that whole mess. There must have been people there who were threatened by you one way or another. You might be a smart guy that they think of as a snot-nosed punk. This is their last way to bring you down a peg. And that's it.\n\nNo charges laid, you have a new job... walk away. You don't even have to do your awkward two weeks, now.", "score": 3 }, { "body": ">I had quit, and that would like fine on my resume, now it's going to have to say I got fired.\n\nIts your resume, it says what you write on it!!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Unless you think you might ever use them as references, I wouldn't bother. \n\nOtherwise, I would at least write a letter to McDonalds corporate and state your case pretty much as you stated it here (all the commendations as such) and that you are saddened by their lack of integrity and pettiness and, finally, that you wish them no ill but that you expect that if McDonalds is ever checked for a reference that this last act of spite on their part will not be communicated.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "> I had quit, and that would like fine on my resume, now it's going to have to say I got fired.\n\nI'm an HR Directory and Talent Recruiter for my company.\n\nIn most states, prospective employers can't ask your priors much about the circumstances of your job; usually just start and end dates, maybe whether they'd reemploy you in the future. Even when they're allowed to, employers are leery about asking, as well as answering, anything more than that, for fear of wrongful termination or discriminatory hiring practices suits. So they keep it to that.\n\nAnd you shouldn't ever be asked about whether you were fired or quit. If you are, you should answer (truthfully) that you found a better job and left. I wouldn't sweat it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Sometimes, I like to create a Bosmer character identical in face and hairstyle to Fargoth. Then, in the dead of night, pick his lock and enter his house, completely naked.\n\nI murder him. I take his clothes, and dispose of his corpse.\n\nThe rest of the game is spent not taking quests, but travelling around Seyda Neen, simply being him. I sleep in his bed. I eat his food. I walk in the same aimless pattern he did.\n\nAnd I talk to his best friend, Arille. Though we maintain an air of friendly chatter, I can see the uneasiness in his eyes. All the villagers. They know. They're watching me.\n\nI've passed 100+ game days doing this.", "score": 99 }, { "body": "[Start here](http://morrowind2009.wordpress.com/). This will guide you through making Morrowind much prettier. Not only that but it has link to all the aesthetic mods such as wildlife and nature noises. It will take you through expanding most of the major cities so that they actually become city sized. That and a lot more. There are a few hiccups with the steam version so feel free to message me if you need some help.\r\n\r\nThere are also quite a few great mods not listed on that site so [swing by here](http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.List&game=3) and check out the hall of fame. I also suggest searching the database for the words expanded and texture which will net you additional high res texture packs and expanded canon content.\r\n\r\nAgain, let me know if you need a little help. I also have some older comments on the topic after the last time Morrowind went on sale, but damned if I can find them. \r\n\r\n*Edit: I forgot to mention that he includes a mod that gives all of the monsters and animals realistic behaviour. This means no more suicidal cliff racers.*", "score": 48 }, { "body": "* Easy cash: At the start of the game after picking your class and picking up your papers, steal the limeware platter on the bookshelf. Very quickly open your inventory and drop it on the floor. After triggering a conversation with the guard, pick up the platter. It's worth about 650, so you get a nice bonus bit of cash at the start!\n\n* Another way to get cash early is to talk to a guy upstairs in the pub in Seyda Neen. He'll offer you a quest and tells you he'll split the money you get. Do the quest to get the money, and never talk to him again.\n\n* Quicksave (F5) every five seconds.\n\n* Gold is everything. Get a stealthy character to enable you to steal things without killing anyone. The easiest way to make a bunch of cash is to get some nice loot, then go to caldera (you can get there from any mage's guild) and find Ghorak Manor. Upstairs is a scamp called creeper, who will buy your stuff for 100% value. He's got 5000 gold a day, so you can just sell stuff to him, wait 24 hours, sell some more, etc. To get you started, there's half a set of orcish armour hidden in a crate on the topmost floor of the manor.\n\n* There's a mudcrab who hangs around in the middle of nowhere with 10, 000 gold. To be honest, creeper is much easier to get to, and you can sell expensive stuff to him anyway (by buying back cheaper stuff).\n\n* Don't pick medium armour.\n\n* Agility is really good, because it affects when you hit and dodge. It's very satisfying when you can land nearly every blow.\n\n* Poor bonuses on level-up? Learn how the system works, then use all your ill-gotten gold to pay trainers, and turn your thief into a powerhouse. Basically, chosen skills level your character up, and all skills help with the bonuses, depending on what their governing attribute is. To know what your bonus in X attribute will be (maximum is 5), you take the amount of levels you've gained which are governed by X attribute and divide by 2. You need 10 skill increases for a bonus of 5, and can pick three bonuses. If you plan your levels, you can be ridiculously powerful early-on.\n\n* \"By the nine divines, STAY ON THE ROADS!\" It's better not to explore until later-on, because enemies aren't levelled.\n\n* Turn Tribunal off, unless you want to assassins to kick your arse every time you wake up.\n\n* Long blade is a nice skill, and you can get the best katana in the game pretty much straight away (I don't actually remember where, but there are guides for it if you're that way inclined)\n\n* Join as many guilds as you can, in order to make people like you and to have access to their services.\n\n* Want to kill someone legally? Taunt them until they attack you first! You need good personality and speechcraft to pull this off, though... And quicksaves.\n\n* At some point, get the boots of blinding speed. Temporarily cast resist magicka on yourself before equipping the boots, and you can sprint around at insane speeds without the side-effect of making you blind.\n\n* You can enchant stuff with constant HP regeneration. Get a bow and you're basically playing medieval Halo.\n\n* Get the unofficial Morrowind patch, it fixes thousands of small bugs and spelling mistakes.\n\nBy doing all this you can make a ridiculously overpowered character without any silly mods (I don't know why, but I like my ES games as vanilla as possible)... I went on for longer than I expected, sorry.\n", "score": 26 }, { "body": "If you see someone fall out of the sky, put on his hat immediately and never take it off. It is quite possibly the coolest looking hat that has ever existed. Trust me.", "score": 22 }, { "body": "First advice is get the mod that makes cliff racers non-hostile. My second piece of advice is don't be in a hurry to get powerful. It's a wide open game. This means you can use Google to find out where all the uber loot is hidden and run straight there at level 1. By level 5 you'll be killing everything in 1 hit and bored out of your mind.\n\nI'd recommend taking your time, playing the character you think will be fun, not necessarily who will be the most powerful. You can have a blast playing a diplomat who prefers fancy clothes to armor and a simple dagger to a Daedric warhammer. It's up to you.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "One more thing. Start hoarding pillows and make an igloo out of them. Sometimes you find a crate of 100 pillows or so, and this is igloo gold.", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Jump a lot. Jumping levels up your acrobatics skill, and it is entirely possible that if you run around jumping everywhere, by the end of the game you'll be able to leap on top of buildings. I did play as that cat character though so I'm not sure if other races can do this as well.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Dont try and do either of the expansions until you've finished the first MQ, and dont finish the first MQ until you've done a LOT of the side questlines. I'd recommend doing the imperial legion first, as its an easy way to level up and get a decent amount of money and armour early on.\n\nJoin the Morag Tong (if you can find them.) and join one of the 3 great houses.\n\nGet Morrowind Graphics extender package, and a Complete re-texture pack to make the graphics a lot nicer, and also, SAVE OFTEN. ", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Fuck what anyone else says. Get a WARRIOR and give him HEAVY ARMOR and give him an AXE. The end.\n\nedit: Before the downvotes start, let me explain a bit. I believe heavily in imagination in video-games. You can not just build a character without imagining him first. Just think to yourself \"What would this character do? (wwtcd).\" In my head, a fucking tank warrior would wield a fucking axe and have some mother fucking heavy armor. Intelligence? WTF do I need that for?? AXE", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Gamefaqs.com has all the guides, locations, spells, trainers that you need.\n\nExcept... don't do it!!\n\nPlay at own pace and do not power game - much more fun that way.\n\nIn the PC, no mods are truly essential (unlike Oblivion), I just installed better bodies mod, for, uh, a visit to Suran.\n", "score": 11 }, { "body": "If someone at some point tells you not to attack some diseased people in his weird cave, listen to him. ", "score": 10 }, { "body": "[this helped me](http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/aco1r/help_me_i_cant_get_into_morrowind/c0gxk2v) a lot in re-playing morrowind. amazing game.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Easy way to get established:\n\nSteal just about everything you can to get a couple thousand gold\n\nTrain up in Alteration (or Mysticism. Whichever one gives you the recall spell)\n\nSet your recall to the armor shop beside the orc building with the gremlin dude with all the money.\n\nGo steal the key to the Hlaalu vault from the dresser and loot the hlaalu treasure. Will net you close to a half million right off the bat. Can then go and blow your budget on training and be a total badass in the first 2 hours of the game. After that, go explore and find yourself some cool weapons and armor.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "There's a few places in this game where you can steal high-level armor with relative ease. There is this one shop in the middle of the map in Ghostgate (I think, it's been a while since I've played) where there is full glass armor sitting on a shelf. If I remember correctly, you can jump on the shop owners head and steal all the armor without him noticing.\n\nAs for you character, it might be best to start out with a Warrior type character. The Magic system can be a bit confusing for newer players. Hell, I barely understand it and I've got a ton of hours in this game.\n\nUnlike Oblivion, the monsters/enemies don't level up with you. There are certain places that you should avoid until you've leveled up. Just follow the main quest for a little bit until you've got some experience and good equipment.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Yeah, I purchased this item too - with the discount it was hard to resist since I'd heard such great things over the years. \n\nI've never kept a game diary before but after seeing the others posted for this and other games like this I gave it a try and to me it actually makes the game more fun to try picture what's going on in your characters head and I'll see if I can keep it up - \n\nFirst day's worth (minor spoilers):\n--\nWhat cursed joke has befallen me? I awoke this morning with no memory of who I am or why it is exactly that I found myself chained up below deck of some decrepit ship. Judging from the commentary of a fellow prisoner, we were lucky to be alive at all having only recently made landfall at the town of Sedda Neen? after weathering a terrible storm at sea. He also added that I had been in the grips of a terrible fever. I remember nothing of this. While trying to make sense of this all a guard came below and brought me up out on deck. Apparently they didn't know who I was either, for they asked me my name. \"Rk\" I growled. I think I made it up. Who knows, perhaps it is my real name bubbling up from some fogotten memory. I was lead ashore and there I was met by the local officials who declared to me that I had been \"freed\" on the orders of the \"Imperial\" Emperor, although freed from what they weren't quite sure off. This emperor apparently really really needs someone to carry a package for him to some guy called Casseus? in a nearby town of Balmmorra? that I am find a corner club in said town. Seriously! - that is what they have told me. It is very suspicious, for surely an emperor would find an easier means of having a package delivered than freeing some prisoner who has lost his memory for the express purpose of delivering something? I wonder if he's even a real emperor, or some local chief with with dreams of grandness. Then: they simply let me loose. I presume to get on with delivering this package. I'm not entirely sure I will comply with madness.\n\n--\nAnother odd incident that I forgot to relate but shall now record. While being processed by the local officials prior to being released - I was left unattended to walk through an interior courtyard of their compound. While traversing this compound I glanced into a barrel and noticed it contained a ring, which I found myself immediately pocketing. It had a feel of magic to it - but its presence in the barrel left me puzzled. Who would leave such a valuable item lying about in a barrel? Then - later, after having being released and exiting the processing compound I immediately encountered an individual of repellent appearance who claimed he was a local townsfolk and that his name was Fargoth. Out of the blue he mentions that the local guards had shaken him down and stole his precious \"heirloom\" ring. His over eagerness and the incongruity of my having so conveniently having found this precious item mere moments before leads me to beleive that clearly this is some kind of a setup or test, but to what purpose I cannot tell yet. I pretended to believe his story and handed it over to him, and he pretended to be grateful and to put in a good word with their local store keeper. I will definitely be keeping an eye on this individual.\n--\nI have spent some time wandering around the immediate vicinity of Sedda Neen getting familiar with both the local surrounding and myself. I discovered that I posses some knowledge of the magical arts, for the manner of casting several spells came to mind as I walked including one that proved quite helpful when encountering a belligerent crab of alarming size - I set it on fire by touching it! Although I currently posses a dagger it feels somewhat shorter in my hands than what I am used to, perhaps in some former life I was more of a sword wielder. The land itself here is muddy and boggy and filled with giant crabs, but does not seem too dangerous. The water itself a different matter. I took a brief swim just outside the town only to experience a most vicious pain in my leg. Turning around I found I was being assailed by a pair of sharp toothed fish. Flailing at the water with my dagger did not discourage them any, and indeed I wonder if I could have made it to shore if it was not for the local town guards who waded into the water to dispatch them with their long swords. From the smug smirks on their ugly faces I can see it was no accident they did not warn me when they saw me getting into the water.\n--\nFrom asking around I have discovered the whereabouts of Fargoths house. Trying to get to the bottom of the mystery of the ring I attempted to use a little piece of wire to open the lock to his house while he was busy elsewhere in town. I was determined to find whatever clues were in his house as to what he was up to. Unfortunately it was trickier than I had anticipated and I was concentrating on it so furiously I did not notice the local guard who had come up behind me until he tapped me on the shoulder. He had seen exactly what I had been trying to do and I was thinking I would be thrown back in jail again, but the guard seemed to think that if I handed him 5 gold coins everything would be all right in the eyes of the law. I handed it over - and he wandered off. I'm not sure if I bribed him or if that's just how the law works in this backwater. Definitely I will be more careful in the future. I am not going back to prison!\n--", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Best game ever made. Get the graphical fix updates before you play. hi res texture packs and all that. \n\nAlso, the strongest character builds do not put the main abilities into their main ability slots. Otherwise you won't be able to control your leveling, which is what it's ALL about. ", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Get Tower as your sign, as soon as you leave the begining building there will be a locked door on the right ( in the starting village, large building, something like customs office etc. ). Use Tower skill to unlock it, go inside and rob the place. Awesome start to the game. \n\nI wasted way too much of my life playing it, but i regret nothing :)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Get mods people are recomending but another improtant thing you need is time, learn to explore instead of rushing to the next objective. Pay attention to the story, read the dialouge and books it is all well written. Also try finding things like Morag Tong and the Daedric Crescent the game is chock full of hidden things.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Go to the console (by pressing the tilde button) and type \"ToggleFullHelp\" or \"TFH\". It'll display more information about items you look at, especially their owner, so you can either 1) know who not to stell stolen goods to, or 2) avoid taking stuff that looks like it's just laying around, but in fact belongs to someone. This command will also let you know if an item has a script attached to it, so you'll know it's a quest item and therefore not sell it or toss it away.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Moving diagonally is faster than moving straight. High level acrobatics can move you fucking FAR. Combine them to be ridiculously fast and spend less time traveling.\n\nShort blades are fast, but weak. Very boring. I suggest you go into Long Swords. Some of the best weapons are long swords. Other weapon types are not good.\n\nHeavy armor gets daedra armor, medium armor gets indoril armor (found by the guards in Vivec), and light armor gets glass armor. I would suggest light armor, because it weighs the least, good defense, and you can steal it from some places easy, like at Ghostgate. Daedra armor can be found rather easily when you enter daedra dungeons and stuff, but they may be hard to kill until later in the game, and they weigh a lot. Indoril armor can be gained from killing guards, but then all guards will become hostile to you if you decide to wear it. There is a quest in Vivec, where if you finish it, you will gain indoril armor.\n\nConjuration will allow you to summon golden saints, where you can soul trap it and then kill it to get easy golden saint soul gems.\n\nUnarmed is useless to kill things. High levels will let you mug people and steal their items, and then eventually be able to kill people to death.\n\nKeep most of your enchanted items. The ones that heal are very useful, as you simply just use the enchanted items to get your health back. Ones that do damage will help you a lot early game. They recharge over time.\n\nDon't kill the talking crab! He's located somewhere SE of Vivec, I would believe.\n\nBest skills:\nPersuasion\nAcrobatics\nLong Blade\nConjuration\nSneak\n\nAnd then I'd like to say that you should try to explore the game and enjoy the idea of it being a sandbox. I beat through the game using a Thief.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "1. Buy lots of Sujamma.\n2. Go to Vivec.\n3. Drink said Sujamma.\n4. Kill as many Ordinators as you can and take their gear.\n5. Mage teleport to Caldera.\n6. Go to Orc house and sell all of said gear to the Creeper.\n7. PROFIT.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "In the starting room, where the guy asks you personality questions, steal all of the expensive shit (like that giant platter on the shelf) and drop it on the ground before the guard tells you to put it back, then just pick it back up and sell it. easy money.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Just be a big dumb brute. You'll have a lot easier time of it. The magic spells are awesome but you won't be able to use them effectively until way later and by then you'll be able to use them even if your guy is a warrior. Don't choose the class that doesn't automatically regenerate magic when you rest. Find the boots of blinding speed and never try to go back to normal walking speed after using them :p", "score": 5 }, { "body": "My ritual for starting a new character, do the following as soon as you get your papers to hoard a shit-ton of gold:\n\n1. go to the right of the old man and the table to the book shelf (jars, limeware plate, etc). Go to your inventory and pick up everything on the book shelf and drop it. Everyone should freak out and you should get yelled at by the guard. As soon as hes done talking, leave all the stuff there for now.\n\n2. Enter the door and exit the building, grab the stuff out of the barrel because the tutorial says so, then enter the office. Do the same thing with this book shelf and the table, grab everything in your inventory and drop it. The guy should yell at you and you should be free to pick the stuff up. Don't forget the key to the warehouse too.\n\n3. Go back to the old guy room and pick up all the stuff you left there, then enter the room with the dagger in the table, steal everything there, dont forget the baskets, then head downstairs into the wine cellar and steal everything from there.\n\n4. Now head back to the office and talk to the guy there, give him your papers, then exit.\n\n5. Talk to Fargoth, give him the ring. YOUR RING! UNACCEPTABLE! You'll get it back later, he'll get his.\n\n6. Head to Arille's Store and sell everything, except the warehouse key, the package to mr. cosades, and whatever other essentials you want to keep. (I like to sell my clothes, and run around naked. It's amusing.)\n\n7. Head to the warehouse across the office you came out of, raid the barrels next to the staircase, but watch out for the guard thats lurking. Go back and forth selling stuff if you are overencumbered.\n\n8. Head outside, cross the bridge and head towards, i think, a swamp tree thats on a peninsula towards the sea. You should find a dead body. Take everythings hes got.\n\n9. Go see the old man who gave you those papers from before, talk to him about the murder of somethingsomething. Say you FOUND *NO* GOLD ON HIS BODY. If you say you did, he will take about 200 drakes off of you. UNACCEPTABLE.\n\n10. Go behind Arille's Store, where his door is facing, the swampy area with all the shacks. I forget his name, but the shack on the way left of the store holds the murderer. Head inside and talk to him, but prepare for a fight. Tell him youre going to SERVE JUSTICE. Now he will attack you. Kill him, rob his body (you should find a ring, DO NOT sell it), rob his house, sell his stuff, sleep in his bed if you need to and go see the old guy again. Talk to him about the murder, receive payment.\n\n11. Go back to Arille's, head upstairs to the bar, talk to the Nord. Talk to him about \"recovering some gold\". Say good bye to him because you're never going to talk to him again. \n\n12. Head outside, go to the light house east of town, i think. Talk to the girl inside about the ring of Processe' or something. If you have Processe's ring from the murderer's body, she should take it and thank you with a few health potions. What? Taking? UNACCEPTABLE. Kill her, rob her body, rob the lighthouse. \n\n13. Head upstairs and outside. Wait (Press T) until around 11 pm. You should see our old friend Fargoth hunched over with a torch down below in the village. Watch him. When he approaches the tree stump in the mucky swamp pool and walks away, drop down (like a man) or use the light house to get down safely (like a baby) and check the tree stump, hey! its YOUR ring! Told you so. \n\n14. Sell any remaining clunk in your inventory and you should be ranging around 4,500 - 5,000 gold. Get yourself something nice.\n\nSome optional things to do:\n\n- Break into the other houses, steal everything in there and sell it.\n- Pickpocket.\n- Explore the warehouse further, if you're sneaky enough you could steal 100-some gold off of a table near a woman. It's pretty hard though.\n- Raid a bandit cave near the silt-strider. It's a bit hard for a level one, but theres some smuggler's loot (random, valuable loot) inside and some slaves to free to up your reputation.\n\nThis probably seems messy and doesn't make any sense, and I apologize, which is why I suggest you should refer to this when you make a new character as a more experienced player.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "This is all about min/maxing and things I've picked up over a very long playtime, so get ready for something boring but helpful. \nFirst, your race, Imperials are a good pick. Khajiit and Argonians are cool looking, but you cannot where boots, a very stupid limitation. \nMajor Skills: Longsword, Heavy Armor, Alchemy, Security, Sneak \nMinor Skills: Merchantile, Speechcraft, Athletics, Block, Armorer \nHeavy armor and 1 handed swords are by far the best itemized. Alchemy, Security, and Sneak need high starting values to be leveled usefully. The minor skills are up to you really, but DO NOT pick Acrobatics. Acrobatics should start very low, and you should make sure to jump around everywhere you go to gain EXACTLY 10 levels of acrobatics each level. This gives you a x5 modifier on Strength, getting your carry capacity up quickly. \nYour birthsign should be \"The Lady\", it's a ridiculously huge stat increase. Most of the other abilities will be pretty useless. \nEach skill has a governing stat (stats being strength, endurance, etc.). At level up you get to increase three stats, and the stats are multiplied by the number of skillups you have of skills relating to a stat: \n1-5 skillups gives you a x2 multiplier \n6-7 skillups gives you a x3 multiplier \n8-9 skillups gives you a x4 multiplier \n10 skillups gives you a x5 multiplier \nTry to have 10 skillups for 3 stats before you level up. Get these skillups mostly from visiting trainers for your minor stats. DO NOT get more than 10 skillups per level of your major stats (the minimum). \nFor money: steal things. Steal everything. One of the best ways to start making stealing easy is to go to the fort outside of Balmora and speak with an Imperial who will give you a quest to kill \"bad people\" in Balmora. Kill the bad people as soon as you are able and he will give you a ring with a high magnitude of Camoflage. There is a vendor in the orc filled house in Caldera who has 5k gold and will take most crap you find at face value (this does not let you increase your Merchantile skill though, which is kind of unfortunate). \nThere is a shit-load of rare items with ludicrously high stat bonuses that really aren't that hard to get. There's a rare items FAQ on Gamefaqs iirc. The Sword of White Woe comes to mind a something good for a newbie to steal, it's just sitting in a guard house in Balmora. \nI honestly am realizing I have enough random tips to fill my own FAQ but I don't really feel like writing one here, good hunting! Last tip: I'm pretty sure there's a mod that removes the Cliff Racer from the game. Get that one.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Turn the difficulty slider down a bit. Combat is a good place to start with skills, as the rest of it can all be buffed later on. Magic is a little broken as your mana won't regenerate. Install Tribunal, and you'll get attacked by the Dark Brotherhood - you can steal their armour. Follow the story quests for a bit, it will get you experience, and stop you wandering into trouble too early on - take the silt strider to Balmora after you're finished in Seyda Neen to start some interesting quests.\n\nTLDR: Build for combat initially, the rest of the skills will build up later.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Join the thieves guild as soon as possible. It is the best way to get lots of gold early and the only way to get rid of your wanted level.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "This isn't quick nor easy but oh is it worth it!\n\nhttp://morrowind2009.wordpress.com/\n\nAn example of the huge, impressive diff :\n\nhttp://morrowind2009.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/muzgob-comparison.jpg\n\n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Just because I'm not seeing anyone else saying this: enjoy the universe of the game. You're placed in the middle of a tumultuous land with competing religions, noble houses, emperor's troops, guilds, and many more groups. Joining some groups will prevent you from joining others (join the thieves guild before you join the fighters, they're both good quest lines but joining fighters first usually precludes you from the thieves.)\n\nRead the books. It's staggering how deeply nuanced the world you will travel through is. You'll read about historical events in well written history novels and then once in a while you will occasionally come across an actual historical landmark and think 'holy shit is this that one place I read about weeks ago?' Seriously, it's amazing. The universe and the depth is what makes this game truly great. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Don't look at the console commands, nor learn how to mod until your well into the game. You'll ruin it for yourself by making uber weapons or going all god mode. Ruins the spirit of the game.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "my suggestion: don't take advice from people regarding the game. just start it up and do your own thing.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Have one of your skills be enchantment. Don't get any of the other magics, they're basically useless. You will never have enough mana to do anything useful. Make an item of on cast healing as soon as possible, spam it until the charge is out when you need health (fills your health back up all the way instantly) then just rest to restore it. Also make an item of on hit paralysis for 1-2 seconds or so, switch back and forth between it and something else to keep them paralyzed while you hit them. Its pretty easy to make an enchanted item to summon a daedric weapon, which is better than anything you'll probably find early on, so do that. Levitation + shooting arrows from above is useful too; you can kill anything in the game like that easily. Teleportation and invisibility are good next priorities. Being fast is also important; I'd reccomend The Steed as your star sign thing. If you need money, steal expensive stuff and sell it to the creeper. \n\nThats pretty much all you need to know. You can easily bypass all concievable challenges the game has to offer with cheap tricks using enchanted items. Your other skills should be stuff like running jumping sneaking and weapons, whatever you can't easily enchant your way into doing.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I prefer minimal mods, because I prefer to keep the game true to spirit, but I added the following:\n\n1) Using the editor, dropped a chest in the harbor of Seyda Neen with 1 million lewts, and custom-made Boots of Running. The former, because it's a pain to make money honestly, I'd rather spend my time doing other things, and this gives you a big head start. The latter, because you walk so damn slow otherwise.\n\n2) Join All Guilds mod. Because you want to play all the missions, duh.\n\n3) Prettification mods don't disrupt gameplay; have at them.\n\n4) Fast Start mod, so you can tweak your build without going through all that dialogue.\n\nDo every mission. When in a location, do everything, talk to everyone, do all the local missions. Plan your next destination to a place where you can knock out multiple outstanding missions. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Supposedly magic can be abused in this game like a motherfucker so its well worth investing in that.\n\nThe monsters in the game however scale to your level. Keep this in mind in that there is no rush to level up especially with crappy skills. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "After you've played for a while (like, beaten the main quest), take a look at [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mjgtpMKhIE), you will really appreciate it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[Morrowind Graphics Extender](http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=5535)\n\nInstall that mod (more of a dll wrapper than mod) and it'll render distant objects like it does in Oblivion. It'll make it much easier to get around (and makes it look a lot better).", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Is there an auto-installer for the hd res pack and other essential mods yet? I just always dread the troubleshooting bonanza that comes with modding. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Just a small note - there's a lot of talk about mods to enhance the graphics, etc, etc. If you can't get them working, for God's sake *don't worry*. Just play the game as it was intended. The only reason I say this is that some of the mods out there are pretty flaky, despite the screenshots, and there's no reason not to just be contented with the vanilla game, it's perfectly sufficient.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Get the boots of blinding speed ASAP. I had it hotkeyed along with my normal boots and would use them even while walking through town (As your magic resistance improves the effect of blindness reduces). Also I once entered into the dark brotherhood base with a level 4 character. After selling the looted armor I found myself with 40,000 gold.\n\nIf you want to make a powerful character read a leveling guide and understand how to get the biggest leveling bonus. Also Focus on your endurance because you the health points you get on a level up increase with your curent endurance score.\n\nIf you decide to powerlevel, don't forget to have fun. \n\nTry to do the divine temple quests early. Get a good feel for the world doing the pilgrimages, have some really cool powers for quite some time, and you'll have free heals, mana refills (especially useful for an atronach), cure disease.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[Illuminated Order](http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=732) i was honestly more enthralled by this than the entire stock story experience. Suran underworld and White Wolf of Lokken Mountain are also worth a mention.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "the azura's star is the best item in the game by far, allowing you to enchant some really crazy stuff.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Oh yeah - play as a sorcerer, and join Telvanni house and mages guild... while still having strength as primary skill to beat up on bad guys with your long blade...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "avoid stealth based characters, and if your making a magic character make sure you're willing to do a lot of work. And the temple missions are worth it.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Don't get too powerfull. If you want to you can finish the game in hours once you know the places to go and the things to do. Just really immerse yourself and preserve the experience.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "First up, mods. I haven't played it in a long while, but one mod I couldn't be without was [Private Mobile Base](http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=1368). Also, Balmora Expanded, Uvirith Unleashed (if you play towards Telvanni as I did), and [MTT](http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=2947). \n\nOf course, these aren't anything to do with the story or gameplay or anything. \n\nI was a mod freak, with Morrowind and Oblivion, with over 200 mods at a time. \nFor Quests, Quarl made an amazing amazing storyline in [The Underground](http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=Mods.Detail&id=240).\n\nIn terms of characters, use custom classes usually. I would play as as huge mix; sneak, archery, magic, short swords usually. I loved the versatility. Many people like to play a role-played specific class, that's fine too, you just have to know what the strengths and weaknesses are. \n\nSomebody mentioned playing a combat-avoidance role. The way to do this is to become proficient at command and calm spells. I believe these are illusion magic. Gain control of enemies, scare them away, stop them from attacking. It is possible, save for a few key enemies. Imagine you are a politician, amazing at swaying the mind and soothing the temper :p", "score": 3 }, { "body": "kill the occupant of House Hlaluu in Balmora and use the house as a cache to store all the weapons you collect. I had hundreds of weapons displayed on the tables and shelves there.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "there is armor in the ald ruhn guard towers that you can easily steal and sell to get a good supply of money started.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This \"[Let's reinstall Morrowind!](http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3015349)\" SA thread covers the matter thoroughly.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "some npc rumors in Ebonheart mention the kidnapping of the emperors son. This eludes to the plot in Oblivion, which, considering the game came out long before Oblivion was even announced, is cool.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "* A new player cannot simply follow the main quest straight through because the difficulty ramps up too quickly. You'll either have to do some free-form adventuring or join one or more of the available factions.\n\n* Consider making your first character a \"throw-away\" intended just for getting the hang of the game (especially how leveling works), then starting over with a character that better suits the way you want to play.\n\n* Unlike Oblivion's five-skill-per-level paid-for-training limit, MW has no limit except price.\n\n* You can store stuff in public containers. If you prefer using an empty house as your base, pick one with lots of crates. (There's an excellent one in Balmoral.) \n\n* Most magick in MW is not very useful until it reaches relatively high levels. Potions help a lot with this. Investigate the Mark and Recall potions as soon as you come across them.\n\n* Raise the Armorer skill as fast as you can. It's much better to buy hammers and/or tongs to do your own repairs than to pay to have repairs done.\n\n* Many of the spells for sale are not very useful \"as is\", but buying them allows you to have new versions made that better suit your purposes.\n\n* For leveling purposes, it is useful to create one \"training\" spell in each magical field. These spells should all act on Self and use the very minimum amount of magicka (mana).\n\n* There's a lot of enchanted weapons and armor, some a lot more useful than others. The most useful items will mostly be stuff you've enchanted yourself.\n\n* After about level 4, you will soon be attacked while camping. Kill and loot him (of course), and follow up on the new quest soon. This lets you reach some of the best vendors, especially for enchanters.\n\n* When you come across the Boots of Blinding Speed, get them. When you're done laughing, hang onto them. There's a good way to make them useful, and it only takes one second.\n\n* Golden Saints are the most useful opponent in the game.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[This](http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/aco1r/help_me_i_cant_get_into_morrowind/c0gxk2v) is a list of mods I put together for another person just starting out.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I run a wiki for a thread created over at Something Awful which lists things you should know before heading into a game for the first time. The Morrowind page has quite a lot of tips on it:\n\nhttp://wsik.centipeed.com/index.php/Site/Morrowind\n\nAlthough I'm sure most of it will be repeats of what is already here!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Protip: The scrolls of Icarian Flight seem like an amazing idea for those unacquainted with Greek mythology. They aren't amazing. They are INCREDIBLE.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Alchemy.\n\n 1. Make intelligence potion.\n 2. Get intelligenter\n 3. Make better intelligence potion.\n 4. ????\n 5. PROFIT!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "lockpick, lockpick, lockpick. It's very easy to train up, just by doing it often and you can get some of the best items in the game by doing so.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Me and two friends started watching man vs. wild while were about [8]. Suddenly one of my friends mutes the TV, and starts commentating on what is going on. I'll never laugh that hard again.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "One time I bet my friend $50 he couldn't run across a pool with a cover on it. He got 1/3 the way across before his shoe submerged and he tripped face first into the water.\n\nI enjoy nothing more than some good humor at another persons expense :]", "score": 8 }, { "body": "We were all sitting around watching the land before time. My friend became entirely convinced that Little Foot was a pothead. When he got the leaf he jumped up yelling \"Oh shit, oh shit. Little foots got that sweet green ganja.\" Later on in the movie my buddy kept telling me that little foot was going to rape Cera(the triceratops) if she didn't stfu....then we had mac and cheese.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "There's a few:\n\n1. In high school I got high and watched E.t. with my father (who doesn't smoke) while perching on my feet in the chair.\n\n2. My friends and I had to crawl in a basement window to get inside. I went first, started crawling in head first. My friend hoisted my feet up and dumped me through the window. I landed hands first on the couch, rolled over and ended up sitting on the floor. Being high makes dizziness a nightmare. My friends were killing themselves.\n\n3. Listening to Flight of the Conchords for the first time with another friend of mine. When Boom! came on I was on the floor\n\n4. Watching The Wrong Guy, a Canadian comedy starring Dave Foley. I don't know if it was the movie or the pot but I was in tears by the end.\n--\"You ate all the canned ham?\"\n\n5. Pootie Tang.\n\n6. The funniest thing I've ever seen. We were tobogganing on crazy carpets on a closed ski hill. about midway down it gets too icy to stop if you have any momentum. We had along with us a German exchange student, a girl, who was riding a rickety plastic sled, the kind that looks like a small boat with black handles. She and I started down about the same time and we both lost control of our sleds about the same time. I was trying to stop myself on a crazy carpet, digging my feet in the snow. I couldn't get any traction and ended up veering off to the right until I hit deeper snow. She veered off to the left, straight toward the dug out ditch where the tow lifts run. She went about two feet in the air and then another two down. All I saw was her leave the ground, separate from her sled and disappear over the edge. She didn't find it anywhere near as funny as I did.\n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "There's Roku: http://www.amazon.com/Roku-N1101-HD-XR-Player/dp/B002SFDJMQ/ref=pd_sim_e_7\nWDTV: http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-WD-Media-Player/dp/B001JZFQU4/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_2_0\nBriteview: http://www.amazon.com/Brite-View-BV-6000P-1080p-Multimedia-Player/dp/B002LTRCRW/ref=pd_sxp_grid_i_2_0\nAsus: http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Play-Media-Player-Black/dp/B002MCZJ3C/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_1_0\nAnd the popcorn looks interesting... Just don't know where to buy one new.\nAnyone have a preference? I want to stream VOB files from my mac.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Foreign films. That is the way. They are much more intellectually stimulating. They also capture real people's emotions to a much greater degree than hollywood's do. I truly believe the foreign movie scene (which is massive btw) has surpassed Hollywood for quality film making at this point in time.\n\nIt takes a bit more work to find the good one (cause there is not as much marketing). You also have to use subtitles (doesn't bother me though).\n\nLet me know if you like anything in particular, and I could possibly make a recommendation or two.\n\n**EDIT: Since people offered recs, I'll try to add a couple that haven't been mentioned and are varied in scope. In no particular order:**\n\n***The Proposition***: I like Westerns, and this is an Aussie version, scored by Nick Cave of Nicke Cave and the Badseeds. (edited due to comment by Forbichoff below)\n\n***Sheitan***: A very weird French movie with Vincent Cassel, one of my favorite actors. Definitely a little strange though.\n\n***Man On a Train***: Another french film with interesting character developing featuring another great French actor, Jean Rochefort.\n\n***Jump Tomorrow***: Not foreign, but an indie flick. Quirky romantic comedy that guys actually like! Girls like it too of course.\n\n***Death at a Funeral***: Good British comedy.\n\n***The Beat That My Heart Skipped***: French movie about choices in life, starring the impressive Romain Duris.\n\n***Gettin' Square***: Very amusing Australian comedy starring David Wenham\n\n***The Boys***: Gritty film about Aussie lowlifes, again starring David Wenham. Dark Film.\n\n***The Red Squirrel***: Older Spanish Film. Very good.\n\n***Das Experiment***: German movie based on the Stanford Prison experiment.\n\n***Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring***: Beautiful coming of age Korean film.\n\n***The Wave***: A german film exploring propaganda and the lure of totalitarianism. \n\n***Un Prophete***: A French gangster/prison movie with some phenomenal acting.\n\nThose are a few. I need to take a break now. :D\n", "score": 20 }, { "body": "Sometimes seeing a movie without knowing much about it is good antidote for a movie funk. Here are a couple of suggestions for something different..\n\n[Save the Green Planet](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354668/)\n\n[Ink - listing on IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1071804/)\n\n[Ink - trailer on IMDB](http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3411215641/)\n\nHave you watched LOST? It has excellent story and character development beyond what a 2 hour movie can achieve, imho.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I've noticed this happening to me to. I grew up in the 80's and 90's as well. The one that hit me the most is that action films aren't as good/smart as say Die Hard, Terminator 2, etc.\r\n\r\nBut anyway. I recommend District 9 and Avatar.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "It's not you.\n\nThe movies are not as good.\n\nSee the video for Cadbury Eggs\n\nhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FiA57ir5QM", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Try a different medium -- theatre! :) A good musical, or a small theatre play always picks me up. And nothing beats seeing Moliere or Shakespeare on a live stage -- unless, of course, the actors are terrible. Then there's nothing worse than watching a handful of people butcher Shakespeare. :(", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I would be in the same boat as you if I hadn't started reading about respected directors and working through their catalogues. If you're open minded to artistic cinematography, you can find a ton of stuff that barely gets recognition here. I also suggest reading a book or two to spark your interest. One thing that often goes unnoticed is the way the camera is used in the film. \n\nIn most modern popular cinema, great effort is taken to *prevent* the audience from noticing the perspective of the camera. This is a technique that has been distilled through many years of film production; however, the truth is that the camera is the eye of the film and as such cannot be entirely separated. Everything in a film is intentional and the director has the ability to make you see what he wants you to see. This is a powerful mechanism in film and really what distinguishes cinema from most other forms of art. An artistically minded director uses the technical capabilities of the camera to achieve very specific things, and it can be fun to read these things into a film and understand more about what the director is doing. I don't claim to be an expert on this stuff (a novice really), but it opened up a whole new world for me.\n\nAnyway, here's a list of some of my favorite directors and a film or two I recommend from each:\n\n* Luis Bunuel - Belle de jour, The Exterminating Angel\n\n* Jean-luc Godard - Pierrot le fou, À bout de souffle (Breathless)\n\n* Andrei Tarkovsky - Stalker, Solaris\n\n* Ingmar Bergman - Winter Light, Wild Strawberries, Persona, Through a Glass Darkly, The Seventh Seal\n\n* Lars von Trier - Europa\n\n* David Lynch - Blue Velvet, Lost Highway, Mulholland Dr., Inland Empire\n\n* Frederico Fellini - La Dolce Vita, La Strada, Juliet of the Spirits, 8 1/2, Nights of Cabiria\n\n* Jean Renoir - Rules of the Game\n\n* Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors, Bananas, Manhattan, Annie Hall\n\n* Akira Kurosawa - Yojimbo, Rashomon, The Seventh Samurai\n\n* Sidney Lumet - 12 Angry Men\n\nAlso check out the fantastic movie: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. You won't be disappointed.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "This came out a few years ago but got forgotten. If you can track it down go watch \"A Simple Plan\". Very very very smart psychological thriller right there. Directed by Sam Raimi (Spiderman).\r\n\r\nAlso, in the vein of Raimi go see Drag Me to Hell. Very much a revert to Evil Dead type Raimi. Enjoy!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Run Lola Run. It's an action/philosophy movie. If you haven't seen it, watch it. In German with English subtitles.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Also, see if you can get into Herzog's body of work, if you haven't already. Fitzcaraldo, Aguirre, etc. Though you've probably seen these if your parents owned a video store.\n\nThere are a few movies I can watch over and over. Godfather, Lawrence of Arabia, Star Trek II, most Kubrick, some Hitchcock, some (other) Lean, Matrix (which for some reason I hated the first time I saw it but now I find it extremely entertaining), some Coen (esp. Lebowski) but not a ton of films. I didn't like Avatar that much, D9 was OK... I decided to try to see a lot of films in the theater this year to \"get back\" my lost love of movies. I saw a TON. I walked out of several. But the only one that really did it for me was \"Up.\" D9 was more interesting than Avatar, and though I was not that excited by all of it, there were parts I found very ballsy and inventive.\n\nedit: I just noticed in another reply you mentioned Aguirre. It is in my top-10 list. I really recommend LOST, but try to get into it with low expectations, not expecting perfection (Mad Men seems to be consistently good, while LOST sometimes got, well, lost) but just enjoying the crazy places it goes. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\"To Live,\" a Taiwanese film detailing much of early communist China's history.\n\nhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110081/", "score": 3 }, { "body": "In Bruges was a fantastic movie that I thought would be total garbage based on the previews. Definitely recommend if you can appreciate a good black comedy.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Respectfully, your thinking is broken. The notion that you have to \"choose\" something \"to do\" for \"the rest of your life\" is one that has very few correlates in actual 3D temporal reality. \n\nThere is no end game, no goal, no career, that's magically going to transform your life into *something else*. What you're doing right now is just as much \"real\" as whatever job you happen to find yourself in after you graduate.\n\nBy postponing a meaningful reality until some later date, whereupon you're \"officially\" qualified to \"live\", you're missing out on any number of opportunities.\n\nIf you like History, stick with it. If you don't, change it. Don't let your guiding principle be that of a *career*, though. Because it's a sham. ", "score": 10 } ]

[ { "body": "You've done a great deed! I'm just curious why the bad rep for Craig's list though? I rescued a kitten and a dog last summer and found homes for both on CL. The kitten's owner even added me on FB and I see pics of him here and there. The dogs owner sent me some photos later as well. I had another friend rescue from this same kill shelter (every Wednesday 4:30) and she found FABULOUS homes for the cats... in a very rich upscale part of Raleigh. I also rescued an orange persian cat from that same shelter and a lady found the ad and adopted her. She even added me on facebook as well! I don't think you guys should dismiss Craig's List entirely cause it's treated me very well. My chihuahua is from Craig's list, and me and the owner email all the time, and I even send photos to her.\n\n I even got a massive cat tree for $25 on CL. Anyways, I hope your pup gets adopted, he's PRECIOUS! Thanks for fostering!!!!!", "score": 16 }, { "body": "I adopted a puppy from the human society local shelter just before christmas. it has been one of the most important and life changing events i have ever experienced. not only because of the bond and companionship, but also because we have a strict leash law in my neighborhood and thus it is getting me off my fat butt and outside a few times a day now.\nalready lost 10 lbs. thanks dog:)", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Better title:\n\nI've been fostering a great dog,\n\nbut I can't keep him because of my job.\n\nI'm returning him to the Animal Shelter tomorrow,\n\nand its bringing me great sorrow\n\nCan you take a minute to see\n\nif this little guy is \"the dog for me?\"", "score": 7 }, { "body": "His Contact Info is\n\nMy Contact Info\n\n * Animal Center of Queens\n * Rego Park, NY\n * 718-424-3340\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Because of this post, I'm going to be playing that Sarah MacLaughlin animal rescue commercial in my head all night and crying.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "He's adorable. I wish I could take him, and I wish you the best in finding him a nice home, as he deserves one.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I wish I could. I'm a dog lover and I had to give up 4 of my dogs when moving back down to Tx from MN. I only have one left now and I feel so bad that she's alone and has nobody to play with all day :(\n\nUnfortunately my husband is not a dog lover and has already refused letting me get another.\n\nStay away from craigslist...pleeeeeeeeease don't let anyone on there take him. I've had such bad experiences with animals on there! \n\nI wish you luck!", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I cant speak bad of craigslist, I got both my chihuahua and my labradoodle from there. They are both healthy and spoiled rotten and I saw the homes they came from and they were cared for there too. There is alot of creeps on craigslist but not everyone is bad.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Don't let it break your heart; you did a wonderful deed by fostering. It's a job that most people don't want b/c you help an animal get back on its feet only to give it away to a good home. Lets hope Reddit can find him a home!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I used to cruise around on my longboard baked all the time when I was in high school. It felt like I was floating above the pavement. Now I miss all those summer nights. :(", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "[The xx](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZzjHMfz4_E) was [pretty](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp9xHu8AA6Q) [damn](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HThCnCjikQ) [good](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2jmPoUK58s).", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Weed can definitely cause paranoia. The actual neurotransmitters involved are many: various neurotransmitters have more than one function in your brain. It's not so easily reducible like that.\n\nThere are some neurotransmitters that are more involved in fear than others, however. \n\n[GABA](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Aminobutyric_acid) comes to mind. It is an inhibitory amino-acid whose absence could cause anxiety or paranoia. This [list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotransmitter#Excitatory_and_inhibitory) may help.\n\nOther neuro-transmitters that are involved when smoking ganja are dopamine and serotonin. Perhaps the relative ratio of these, and not their absolute levels, is what causes the anxiety. Like I said, the brain is more of a soup of chemicals acting in harmony, and not a bunch of isolated \"levels\" of transmitters.\n\n*Edit: added links.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Spice has a CB1 targeted cannabinoid. CB1 has a few levels. 'nice', 'high', 'fucking high', 'paranoid' and 'completely fucking insane'. The thing about MJ is it doesn't just target CB1. It also has chems which target CB2. CB2 is has a few levels. 'nice', 'feeling sweet', 'no pain', 'drowsy', and 'put your ass to sleep'.\n\nWhen you had Spice, your CB1 went to level 4.2 most likely. Then I bet you had some sativa-dominant strain and nearly peaked a 3.9 on your CB1.\n\nResearch cannabinoid effects on the brain - and I don't mean 'smoke as much as you want'. Read the research reports.\n\nAgentLiquid's response is a good one too.\n\ntl;dr - switch to an indica blend and stay away from 'Spice' - there are some new legal blends out there which aren't so specific to the CB1.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "The release of norepinephrine in response to stress is the main thing that causes a panic attack. Having a bit of a GABA (gamma amino butryic acid) agonist such as alcohol will reverse a panic attack. Kava and theanine also work very well at reversing \"the fear.\"", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I haven't gotten 'the fear' on weed before, but I've encountered something similar on mushrooms. IMO it is related in some way to your ego. I just had to learn to let go of everything, go with the flow and not fight it.\n\nWhat kind of thoughts go through your head when you experience 'the fear'? What set and settings are you in?\n\nI've heard of strong pure sativa's giving a more psychedelic high than other strains.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Burning forests does twice the damage, adds CO2 and removes the CO2 scrubbers! Even Australia's major source of pollution is land-clearing!", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "We timelessly understand each other. Once we didn't speak for a year, and then hit it off amazingly the moment we did.\r\n\r\nWe're like permafriends.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Well, at this point my friend and I have so much dirt on each other that its a case of mutual blackmail.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I've known my best friend literally my entire life. We met in preschool - before I even remember meeting him. At this point we're friends just because we always have been.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "My best friend is my best friend because he never, ever, ever has said a bad thing about me, he listens to me when i need to vent, he's my running companion, he keeps me company when i'm lonely....yeah, my golden retriever is my BFF!!!", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Met my best friend in high school, had a few classes together, became friends talking about Morrowind and video games in general. I think we're friends because we have similar viewpoints about the world, people, and life in general. Also, neither of us have really made the best possible choices in life, and we're always there for each other and don't judge each others mistakes.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "She can talk constantly about the same topics and magically never be boring. It's a gift, and it works very well with my natural introversion.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I got him out of depression without knowing it, and he made me mentally older by 5 years in only 3 months. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My best friend, whatever that means, and I can have entire conversations that are simply movie, tv and life references over the course of our 10 year friendship. It's great.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "They don't judge you. They understand what you are going through. Easy to talk to. They are always there for you. Laugh together. Trust. Similar interests. Accept their flaws.\n\nThat's my best friend definition and unfortunately, I don't have one.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Life wasn't peachy growing up for either of us. It was nice for both of us to find someone who wouldn't judge us for our fucked up issues. We helped each other grow and if it weren't for my best (girl) friend, well I would have probably ended up in prison or dead. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Don't go back! Detroit is the armpit of America, and Chicago is one of the coolest towns in the land....", "score": 10 }, { "body": "I live in Chicago. Let me know what area you're planning on ending up in for the night and I can probably recommend a few places that are close.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "For the drive at least, rather than drinking a ton of coffee or beverages, just snack on coffee beans. You get all the caffeine but need to urinate far less on the way. Sleep is for the weak. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Portal and Paperboy.\n\nYour tests are genuine intelligence tests by an alien civilization. They submit all their captured species to these tests to learn about them and measure their potential. As a human, you don't do well on the tests, so at the end of them all you become a slave paperboy/dealer delivering experience cubes in their civilization. Everytime you start the game from then on, your minimalistic luxury cell fades in and a buzzer goes. You are let out and have to make your rounds in the massive open world. You enjoy the scenery, discover their technologies, do some snooping, and occasionally take a dump in some gelatinous treeman's seed launchers.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Starcraft and Warcraft.\n\nYou would play the terran army, and walk all over everything in Warcraft since they are so underdeveloped.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "It would be cool if they took the game mechanics from Dragon Age and applied them to a science fiction setting, possibly borrowing from a well known science fiction franchise. Possibly modify the engine so that players can choose between moral and immoral decisions, and change the abilities available to them based on these moral choices.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I would love to see like, an anti hitman game. In Hitman you always have to get your target but it would be awsome to have a game where you were after the hitman, sort of as a private high value target 'guard' and you need to look around for anyone who might attempt to kill your boss. The AI hitman should always change and be different and should have many different methods of assassination onto your target. The key is to make yourself seem inconspicuous so that that Hitman doesn't suspect that you are a high value target 'guard'. Killing the hitman or the hitMEN is your prime goal.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Street Fighter and Dragon Quest. \n\nSingle player \"story mode\" games of Street Fighter are boring.\nTurn based battles in RPGs are boring. \n\nA Street Fighter RPG that plays like Dragon Quest but with Street Fighter matches instead of turn based combat... AWESOME!", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "It might keep you out of particular schools, but not all of them. Remember a school's screening process is often just checking to see if you can pass your eventual character and fitness review. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Just don't get caught smoking pot...That'll ruin your career. Rape, Murder, Robbery..thats all fine..just don't get high.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Law School is not so much the problem. You have to be concerned about \"character and fitness,\" one of the final hurdles before you are allowed to practice law. You should Google the term and get an idea about what it all about. The character and fitness people tend to be more concerned about dishonesty, that is not informing them about that time you got caught lifting the baby Jesus.\n\nFor future reference [these words or wisdom](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IONyLZn0pLI) would be well worth considering. \n ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "No, you're fine. Trust me on this, I had a disorderly conduct charge and about 5 driving while license suspended charges (which all counted as arrests, unfortunately). I had no problems and am attending to a top tier school. When I brought up my concerns with my dean, her take on it was basically that unless it's a DWI or something involving fraud that I was good to go.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I've bought guns in several ways:\n\n* Private Party Sale -- though they don't allow it, I have found guns on Craigslist. I've also seen them listed on local and regional internet forums. If the buyer and seller are from the same state and all other state/local/federal laws are followed, this can be a good option. No sales tax, no hassle, and most of the time the seller will meet you at a range so you can try it out.\n\n* Gun show -- there are 2 ways to buy a gun at a show. Buying from a licensed dealer is essentially the same as buying from a shop. You select your gun, haggle over the price, fill out the form, they call you in, you pay and take home your gun. The second way is to look for show attendees (not dealers) who are trying to sell. Most of the time they'll be walking around with little \"for sale\" flags in the barrels of their guns. If you're both from the same state, this is a private party sale. Either way you buy, never make a snap decision. Ask the seller to hold the gun for you for 5 minutes. Usually they're more than happy to do so for such a short period of time. Use the time to hit the internet on your Blackberry, or call a friend with a computer, and find comparable prices. \n\n* Online Auction -- The good part about sites like Gunbroker and Auction Arms is that you can sometimes find genuine deals. The bad part is that you usually don't get to see or handle the gun beforehand. That said, an auction with plenty of pictures and a reasonable seller can make for a great experience. Don't forget to factor in shipping and FFL fees when you're calculating your final price. If you have a $300 budget, the seller wants $40 to ship, and your FFL charges $25, you might only have enough left over for a nice Mosin or two (not that that's a bad thing)...\n\n* Gun Store or Range -- Pretty simple. Shop for your gun, try it out if you can, handle the paperwork, pay, and take your gun. Don't be afraid to bargain or ask for a better deal. Like buying a car, if buying new, know the gun's MSRP. Never pay MSRP - at least ask them to throw in scope rings or a box of ammo or something. If buying used, ask about a return policy in case it doesn't work.\n\nSince you've read this far, you get the prize. In my opinion, this is the best way to buy new (and sometimes used) guns:\n\n* Small FFL -- At the top of every gunbroker.com page, there is a \"For Buyers\" link. There, they have a \"Find a Transfer Dealer\" feature. Even if you don't buy guns from them, you can still use this feature to find a local FFL. I believe BATF also has a list somewhere. Sometimes these guys work out of their homes, or have small storefronts you might not otherwise know about. As FFLs, they can order your gun from any one of a number of suppliers (Davidson's or SOG, for example), or sometimes directly from the manufacturer. They almost always mark up less than the local sporting goods stores. My guy can beat pretty much any price. Usually my end cost out the door (including tax, etc.) is lower than anything I could find at a gun show, in a sporting goods store, or online -- BEFORE tax and transfer. My guy doesn't have a fancy showroom or a private range. He does have 30 years of experience and a low overhead...\n\nSo... If you're looking to buy a gun and you're new to the firearms scene, I'd suggest you call a few local FFLs and see what they can do for you.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "1) Decide what type of gun you want.\n\n2) Determine the top three guns in that particular space.\n\n3) Go to a shop/range and try to rent each of those. Be sure to make sure that the range ammo is not +p.\n\n4) Try/buy.\n\n5) Don't listen to schmucks on the internets, most of them know what they know about guns from playing games.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": "I hate to say this, but your mom needs to:\n\n1. Talk to a proper counselor/peer/friend/etc. (Not her kids)\n2. Get past the initial emotional response\n3. Decide on a plan of action:\n a. Can't handle it, we're gettin' a divorce.\n b. Can handle it, let's talk it over, form an workable partnership\n c. Suppress it all, never speak of it again. \n\nI'm impressed you feel you can reach out (to reddit?) but the hard part is your mom needs a peer (not a relative) to give objective advice. I'd strongly suggest she talk this out with her best friend, or go see a counselor of some sort. (Sometimes this stuff is too hard to expose to people you have to interact with everyday, it turns into a shame/guilt burden.)\n\nAs for you, well, you get to decide what kind of relationship you have with your father. Clearly he is gay, or at least bi, but regardless of that he's chosen to lie and engage in hurtful behavior. So yeah, he's a jerk. If you're feeling enlightened, feel free to confront him and explain how you feel. Some tips:\n\n1. Write down the main points of what you want to say and bring it with you. \n2. Don't do it angry. If you're angry, you lose. And won't learn anything. \n3. No matter what the outcome of your process, your mom and dad need their own way to reach understanding and that's something that you can't ever fully engage in, or understand. It's just one of those things. Your questions above indicate that you're searching for a \"cause\" to your father's actions. Well, there may not be one, and if there is, there may not be a \"solution\" so don't dwell on it. The important bit is regaining trust and honest communication, even if it means divorce. \n4. Don't feel bad about talking to someone yourself, even if it's just an anonymous hotline. Speaking stressful things outloud has an amazing ability to make things seem less scary. But I'd advise a proper counselor. Your college probably has one through student services. \n\nKeep your chin up. Remember, even though you love these people, this is not your fault, and it's not your job to \"fix\" it. My personal advice is to adhere to strict honesty through the whole process, without anger if you can. ", "score": 16 }, { "body": "Not saying this to be mean, your Mom should consider getting tested for AIDS and other STD's. The reality of going through that will help her in her future decisions when she realizes that her husband is putting her and your families future at risk.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Sounds like your dad is depressed, and you're right - this is an outlet for him to ease the sense of failure and despair he's feeling. Often times people go to the extremes in things so they don't have to think about the reality.\nTell your dad that you are all going to see a family counselor. If he refuses, you might have to either trick him into it (NOT ideal) or your family will break apart eventually. I would say now is the time to act, but you all cannot do it alone - professional services are definitely required here.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I have to agree with Cullpepper, your mom is not acting in an age-appropriate manner (regardless of what your dad is doing).\n\nIt is selfish and inappropriate to burden children with the parents' relationship problems. This isn't a cultural issue either, but it does happen all the time.\n\nObviously your mom needs help, and you love her and want to help her, but you're in a nearly impossible position here. You can't fight this battle either, even if you wanted to. You also can't \"fix\" your dad or your parents' relationship (so it's unfair of your mother to turn to you).\n\nIf she's turning to your siblings, too, you need to ask her to not do that. When I was off at college, my dad [insert marriage shitstorm here] and my mom turned to the younger sibling, and it really fucked them up, to this day, and they resented me and our other younger siblings since we didn't get the same burden placed on us.\n\nYou say you don't know how to handle the situation. But there isn't a lot you *can* do. You can support your mother (by just reminding her that you love her) as she files for divorce or separates from him, but try to not feel responsible for fixing things, because you can't.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "You should support your dad when he settles on a sexual preference. Just because of how it affects your family shouldn't be a reason to disapprove of what he's doing (not that you are). This is probably a very hard thing for him to be doing and he knows the consequences, so try and help him through it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Most government departments sell their old computers by the pallette load through auction, they rip the hard drives out though so you usually have to buy a couple of parts to get them working. Its the same deal with old coporate gear, and repossed stuff. The cops auction off their confiscated stuff too. \n\n If you can't be bothered refurbing them yourself, the same computers usually show up at a computer fair a week or two later for 50% extra. Those guys tend to buy a whole pallette and fix them all up and sell them one by one for a few hundred bucks. \n\n If you want a real cheap computer, you can't go past [msy](http://www.msy.com.au/SYSTEMS/system.html)", "score": 4 }, { "body": "In Victoria we have computer swap meets all over the place. I haven't been for a while but there was quite a lot of second hand stuff last time I went. I have also been to the auctions at pickles in Tullamarine and there was a heap of second hand stuff there as well.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Casually drop something like \"Yeah, maybe we can go hang out after this tonight...\". Any hint that you two will be alone doing anything afterwards should be deniable, but still enough to clue him in. You can add or remove a sense of certainty to tune the line: \"MAYBE if we're both still not tired later we can go hang out somewhere else after this.\" or more certain: \"Let's go hang out after this at my place. I have lots of pot/alcohol/toys/whatever.\"\n\nAs always though, it's really best if you're just direct about it...easier for everyone really.\n", "score": 30 }, { "body": "I think men are basically stupid and don't pick up on hints. I am a man, if you don't SAY IT i won't catch it. Here is a good line that should work well for you.\n\n\"Okay Tom. I like you, you seem nice. If you play your cards right you may get lucky. Adversely, you might not.\"\n\nDon't forget to smile :) and touch his arm.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Politely excuse yourself for a moment. Quickly walk to the bathroom and remove your undergarments. Once you have returned, use one of these handy excuses to rub your freshly-removed undergarments on his face:\n\n\"I'm thinking of sewing a ski mask out of this fabric. Do you think it's soft/warm enough?\"\n\n(If it's hot out, and you see sweat on his brow.)\n\"They really need to crank up the A/C in here!\"\n\n\"Did you just eat some chocolate? Here, let me get that for you.\" (Extra points here if you first lick the fabric of your undergarments before wiping his upper lip.)\n\n\"The girls at the store told me that these will still smell like strawberry, even after repeated washings. Here, smell these. Do you think she lied to me?\"\n\npinkwendy100, I apologize in advance for the unhelpful and immature nature of this post. I actually thought it was a funny idea. I hope you at least find it a little silly.\n\n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Offering to buy him a drink is nice, especially if you need an ice breaker.\n\ni think good contact is the most important thing. What's always clued me in is when a gal has found me, then excused herself for whatever reason (another friend, etc)... and then found me again to chat. Without a doubt, that's been the most effective and subtle communication. \n\nThe danger in it is that while the you're away, another may capture his attention. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I think you should say exactly what you said here...\n\"I'm not a slut. But if you play your cards right you might get lucky.\" ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I believe Microcline is disabled for usage by default. Go to the 'z' menu and go to 'stone.' There are other worthless minerals like Olivine that are the same way, I think.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "There is a subreddit made specifically for people like the OP: [r/NewToTF2](http://www.reddit.com/r/NewToTF2/). You might want to check it out and ask there if you have any specific questions.\n\nOne of the things you'll find in TF2 is that every so often, you'll get a random item drop. (Items drop an average of one every 100 minutes.) Each class has around 35 achievements specific to that class, and there \"milestones\" for unlocking 5, 10, and 15 achievements (or 10, 15, and 20 achievements in some cases). Each of these milestones is tied to a specific weapon, so it's possible to get any weapon through achievements. However, if you are a new player, chances are that a significant portion of your weapons will come through random drop. As an alternative to achievements, specific weapons can be crafted if you have extra duplicate weapons to smelt into scrap metal and tokens. [This is explained here.](http://tf2wiki.net/wiki/Crafting)\n\nThe following weapons are basically straight-up upgrades and should be equipped as soon as you get them:\n\n* Equalizer\n* Axtinguisher\n* K.G.B\n* Ubersaw\n\nAlthough these weapons are \"better\" versions of the ones you start off with, they're used infrequently enough that it's probably not worth your time to go out of your way to get them. (The Ubersaw is a better melee weapon than the bonesaw, but in reality a medic will rarely need to use his melee weapon.) If you happen to get them through normal gameplay by achievements or the random drop system, equip them right away, but if you don't have them, don't worry about it.\n\nThe following are unlocks that, while not strictly \"better\" than the vanilla weapons, are still rather nice and quite useful in many situations:\n\n* Force-A-Nature (better against individual foes than large groups of enemies, people will hate you for using this, though)\n* Gunboats (these can be quite useful once you learn how to [rocket jump](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN2LQbvcN_Y) effectively)\n* Direct Hit (useful against buildings and slow-moving enemies, deadly if you can airshot people with it)\n* Targe and Eyelander (two different weapons that are best used in tandem, good for offense when you don't need to be able to kill sentries)\n* Sandvich (being able to completely recover your HP in 4 seconds can come in handy if your team is lacking medics and you can get by without the shotgun)\n* Kritzkrieg (useful if your teammates are good enough to make use of it and you don't need to take out sentries)\n* Jarate (good on spammy maps)\n* Dead Ringer (this allows you to effectively cheat death on maps that have lots of ammo)\n\nThe unlocks listed above are worth doing the achievements for or crafting if they are for classes that you enjoy playing. (If you don't play spy, you would have no need of a Dead Ringer, but if you are a heavy player, you'll want to get yourself a sandvich ASAP.) Everything else you can just wait to get by random drop or craft if you happen to have a lot of extra weapons.", "score": 60 }, { "body": "Honestly TF2 is the type of game you can just jump into, but i'll give you a few tips.\n\n1.) Play medic, follow the team leaders for a few rounds, you will be useful to your team, gain lots of points, and most importantly watch the offensive classes to see how they play. In addition to the above, Medic is the most important class on the team, and one everyone should master, Also as medic, your life is always more important than the person your healing. REtreat if you have to, even if it means leaving teammates to die. As you play you will learn to anticipate people better and ultimately \n\n2.) Soldier and heavy are good easy classes to learn. Spy and Scout are much harder. Engy if your the defense type. If you use Pyro DO NOT run straight into enemys like a moron, its all about that ambush.\n\n3.) stick to 24 player games, 32 is just a spamfest.\n\n4.) Enjoy yourself and don't be afraid to ask questions. The TF2 community is generally one of the most newbie friendly, and polite communities. Unless your a spy/scout/sniper, its almost impossible to literally be useless to your team.\n\n\n", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Start with a medic first and stick with your team. It's a great way to see the flow of the levels without feeling pressured to perform amazingly well. Everyone loves a medic. :)", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Hop on over to r/tf2. We're fine fielding questions by new players (there's also a subreddit specifically for new players), and the servers are new-player-friendly :)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Note that I haven't read through all of the responses, so some of this may have been stated already.\n\nMedic is easy enough to play as a beginner and still help the team; even if you die a lot, you're still healing people. Keep moving and stay out of the line of fire to the best of your ability to build up your uber-charge (which gives a few seconds of invulnerability to you and your healing target when deployed via M2). If you're healing somebody who has a mic, and you have the time to do so, let them know that you're a new player, and would appreciate it if they could tell you when to uber... but by all means, if you're at risk of dying, deploy that shit and live to uber again another day. An uber \"wasted\" at an inopportune time will allow you to keep healing... dying with a full ubercharge does nothing good. An extra benefit to playing Medic is that you'll have an opportunity to watch how more experienced healing targets play their class and respond to different situations.\n\nI actually learned the game by playing Pyro, which is the class that made me want to play in the first place. It's a great beginner class as well... he's fast, you don't have to worry a whole hell of a lot about aiming, and you don't have to worry at all about reloading. Do your best to sneak up on people and flank, or ambush from around corners. Running straight into a fight is suicide 90% of the time. Also, M2 fires a compression blast from your flamethrower... use it, it's one of the most versatile mechanics in the game. It can put out flaming teammates, reflect non-bullet projectiles, and knock back enemies, which is great for hamstringing ubers. There's a good chance that you'll die in the process, but you'll probably respawn before the Engie would have had time to rebuild his sentry gun, dispenser and teleporter entrance. Related: When you find the Backburner, no matter how tempting it may be... do. not. equip. it.\n\nAs far as Engie, hold off. It would seem easy enough to park a sentry down and babysit it for a while, but you'll be way more effective when you know the maps a bit better... and you won't learn them as quickly with Engie, as it tends to be a somewhat stationary class. If you do decide to play a bit of Engie, don't be afraid to ask your team where they think you should drop your toys, and for Crom's sake... don't build your SG right next to another SG. One uber = two dead sentries.\n\nSoldier is also fairly easy to start with. Point your rocket launcher at somebody's feet, make them dead. Avoid the Direct Hit till you're better at aiming your rockets. You can focus on more advanced Soldier tactics when you get more comfortable with the class as well.\n\nThe most important thing: Have fun. It's a great game, and the learning curve feels nowhere near as steep as other first person shooters. Just jump in, make people dead, and enjoy yourself.\n\nEdit: Typos and such.\n\nEdit 2: I skimmed a bit, and a lot of people brought up the TF2 reddit. It's definitely worth subscribing to, but the [New to TF2](http://www.reddit.com/r/newtotf2) may be even more helpful for the time being.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I tend to buy bulls-eye. Not necessarily my favorite but it's at all supermarkets, reasonably priced and HFCS free.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I make my own (albeit with ketchup as the main ingredient). However, it's easier to find ketchup without HFCS than it is to find BBQ sauce. Plus, when I make it myself, I don't add nearly as much sugar because I don't like things sweet. And finally, I can add as much \"zip\" as I want. It only takes a few ingredients and about 15 minutes on the stove. If you want the recipe, let me know.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I'm not sure if President's Choice (brand) is available outside Canada or not, but my 2 favorites are:\n\n- [PC Smokin' Stampede Beer & Chipotle Barbecue Sauce](http://www.presidentschoice.ca/LCLOnline/products.jsp?type=details&catIds=cat40002&catIds=106&brandId=4&next=73&productId=17861)\n- [PC Smokin' Habanero Barbecue Sauce](http://www.presidentschoice.ca/LCLOnline/products.jsp?type=details&catIds=cat40002&catIds=106&brandId=4&next=37&productId=18652)\n\nHFCS free, and very tasty. The Habanero one may too hot for some palates, though I personally love it. And they come in ginormous bottles.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I wouldn't really consider Psychonauts an indie game, but yeah it's a lot of fun. The main attraction of this game for me is all of the different, imaginative levels in the game. When I played it, it was like nothing I had ever seen. Capsid has some valid points, but a lot of those things can be forgiven if you happen to find the game fun enough. ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Psychonauts is a great game, I heartily recommend it.\n\nIt's one of two games that Yahtzee couldn't complain about. (although he still complained about people not buying the game and not having anything to complain about).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Pysconauts is a good game. The story and uniqueness of the characters is very well done. It is more of an action/platformer than an RPG.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "There's a kid who wears a tinfoil hat to stop himself from accidentally blowing up people's heads, and is convinced that squirrels are liars and are conspirating against him.\n\nThat's what convinced me. But yeah, it's a fun game.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Is it just you? My former band got an offer from Sony and that is where everything went downhill very fast. They demanded so much out of us that I got so frustrated just writing music. That and they got us a replacement bass player who was a TOTAL DOUCHEBAG. After that, I decided that is not what I want to do for a living, lol", "score": 4 }, { "body": "are you worried about losing any of your fans who might think you're selling out? I'd imagine most people aren't especially fussy about it, but some of my friends who are really into electronic music seem to hate every musician/band on a major label just because they're on a major label.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Have you read [Courtney Love's article](http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love) about the messed up math the record companies use? ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "As a musician who was signed to a major label, have you thought about licensing your music to the label and signing non-exclusively? ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "When you're performing live, is it mostly done on the spot or is it more like \"press play and dance\"? Do you use Logic 9 itself for performing or do you use the mainstage thing? \n\nAny software plug ins you could recommend?\n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I really would like you to post who you are after you sign the deal. Or at least make a quick sample for us so we can get an idea of the kind of music you make.\r\n\r\nAs an electronic music fan I really enjoy the 'different' unique sounds, which is what you implied that you have.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "what, to you, is the advantage of signing with a major label rather than self-promoting and publishing?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I think she kind of transcends gender due to her out-there style and unorthodox behavior. She's definitely got a feminine vibe but definitely follows the mold of David Bowie (and to a lesser extent Boy George, Marilyn Manson, etc.) and has that androgyny thing going that gives her a polarizing popularity", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Living by **proven** rules, that have gotten us through issues like the Civil War, slavary, two world wars, segregation, women's suffrage, the Cold War, and still manages to address issues like Net Neutrality which I'm sure the founders could not have even imagined... is quite logical to me.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "The Constitution does not so much make rules as is specifies what laws can and cannot be made. For the most part, it's a basic set of principles intended to protect the fundamental rights of the citizens from oppression by their government.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "A few things.\n\nFirst, the Constitution established the OLDEST democratic republic in the world. That's the US.\n\nSecond, it established a separation of powers and system of checks and balances that, with the supreme court's claim on Judicial review by Marshall, makes it difficult for any branch to run over another.\n\nThe theory remains accurate (and has been corrected in most places where it wasn't); the problem is in the application, such as the electoral college.", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "kdbg is a nice lightweight front-end to gdb. You need to compile and link *your app* with debug info enabled for gdb to work at the source level.\n\nFor source editing and compiling, I use Kate with the Build plug-in. You have to create the Makefile by hand, but I prefer that. If you really want a full Borland IDE replacement, you might try looking at Anjuta, Codeblocks or geany.\n\n\nedit: more detail.\n\n", "score": 5 }, { "body": "gdb is your friend. And Eclipse does have the features you're looking for (I'm 97% sure C is fully supported), through gdb.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "kdevelop + kgdb(i believe that's the name). Basically integrates gdb into kdevelop for some visual debugging ala Visual Studio (Although not nearly as feature complete) still nice.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If I really must step through a program I use [Nemiver](http://www.gnome.org/projects/nemiver).\n\nHowever, for segfaults I prefer either gdb or valgrind.\n\nFor logic bugs adding printfs is usually easier and faster.\n\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "It sounds electrical, not mechanical (i.e. you may have replaced all those for nothing). Details please?", "score": 10 }, { "body": "It is an 88 Volvo station wagon. I replaced them because the radiator and pump were leaking. I checked the fuses and replace fuse 12. It actually does control the some aspect of the heater fan. Battery seems OK. It will start fine, just can't keep it going.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "From the sounds of it, the problem is electrical. It might be a problem with the heater fan, the alternator, or the battery. I'm thinking alternator or that there is a weak connection or short somewhere associated with the heater fan switch.\n\nAt minimum, get the battery tested and clean the terminals. \n\nGood luck. Old cars can be a drag, especially in the winter. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "It dies a few seconds after I turn on the fan. If you couldn't tell I am inexperienced when it comes to mechanical/Automotive things. Is it pretty easy to adjust the carburetor? ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "First girlfriend, kiss and sex at the ripe old age of 20, porn at 19 and masturbation at 17/18. First digital camera at 21. First played a TCG at 17. No lasange until I was 20, chicken korma at 19. First drink at 18. First crush at 17. MSN at 18. Sky at 17. Cigar at 21.\n\nBasically, I was boring until 17 and then had 4 years of getting corrupted and twisted. Life fucking rocks now.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I didn't have porn on demand until I was 19! You spoiled kids today, I remember when I was still squinting over shopping catalogues with tiny pictures of porn tapes.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I didn't have Internet until I was 13. \n\nThats pretty much the worse I got. I got lucky and ended up with a mom who tried her best to give me what I wanted. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "This thread made me realize that although I wish I could say I didn't have [thing] until I was [age], I really can't. I'm 19, and I kinda wish I didn't have all the things I have now. My brother and sister never got the privileges I got/get. I have my own laptop, my own cell phone (nothing fancy, just one that works). They didn't need e-mail and all that stuff when they were in school. Now our professors only communicate through that :(\n\nI CAN say that I didn't get my own room until I was 18. But I think that's common. When we first came to America, my parents had their own room, but me, my brother, and my sister all shared the living room in the apartment. Part of the living room was curtained off for the bunk-bed me and my sister shared, and the sofa was turned in to a bed for my brother. We lived like that for about 6 years, and then moved in to a house. I still shared a room with my sister though. My parents don't care to say \"I didn't have this when I was your age\" because whatever. That makes me grateful for what I have now. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "The refractory period doesn't apply to all people equally.\n\nI can have sex, complete with the awesome squirty orgasm, and two minutes later be ready to go again...\n\nWomen seem to find the surprising, but I've always been the same. I figured it was normal until my early twenties when more and more women acted surprised that I wanted to have sex again after a few minutes.\n\n*shrugs*", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "[This](http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/06/ubuntu-as-mac-file-server-and-time-machine-volume/) will tell you how to set up an Ubuntu server as a Time Machine backup drive. I use this to wirelessly backup my MBP. You could hook your WD into an Ubuntu server and use it.\n\nUnfortunately, Time Machine only wants to use AFP, so it won't work on a standard NAS. If you can plug your WD into an Ubuntu server and follow the above it should work.\n\nAlso, if you can plug it into another Mac, I **think** if you share it and run\n\"*defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1*\"\nin a Terminal it will recognize Mac shared drives.\n\n*Edit: formatting", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "Does the sequence formed by iterating: \n\nf(n) = \n\n* n/2 if n≡0 (mod 2)\n\n* 3n+1 if n≡1 (mod 2)\n\nalways return to 1 given any arbitrary natural number n?\n\nAlso, do you like kittens or puppies more?", "score": 44 }, { "body": "Hi little girl! Which do you prefer, Spongebob Squarepants or The Simpsons? Do you feel that television for girls your age is too dumbed down? Would you prefer more intellectually challenging material for 5 year olds?", "score": 26 }, { "body": "What does she think was the most exciting scientific development of the last 5 years? \n\nWhat does she think will be the next big scientific development?", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Is your father going to answer questions?\n\nWhat's your favourite TV show?\n\nWould you like to either: bring world peace, or be famous?", "score": 9 }, { "body": "* If you could be any animal what would you be?\n* What would you like better: to be able to fly or to talk to animals?\n* What is your favorite story?", "score": 7 }, { "body": "What is your opinion on the impact of globalization on the free-market economies and the transcendance of the individual identity to a technologized network node to better suit a more revolutionized and futuristic society? And the related question: Do you prefer the Flintstones or the Jetsons?", "score": 6 }, { "body": "A girl that age just moved in down the street from us. She wears a princess gown all the time.\n\nQuestion: What's the deal with dressing like a princess all the time? Sub-question: have you seen *The Princess and the Frog* yet?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "What do you think of reddit and of all of us talking to you and your dad here today? Do you have a question for us?\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "1. When you grow up, would you rather be at home with children of your own or would you rather be a succesful businesswoman?\r\n\r\n2. Would you rather be (*answer to question 1.*) or a princess? Why?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Okay someone is gonna have to say it, so I'll get it out of the way so things can get serious. \r\n\r\nIT'S ASTEROIDS", "score": 14 }, { "body": "Go to the Doctors, this can be the start Hansen's disease (Leprosy).\n\nhttp://skin-care.health-cares.net/leprosy.php", "score": 8 } ]

[ { "body": "I'd have to say that would be the Fed. Inflation is going to be a bitch. The alternative is a federal default which would suck much worse.\n\nBTW It's time to start the riots.", "score": 22 }, { "body": "Same who have bought it before. ~25-30% is bought by foreigin governments and international investors, rest is bought by insurance companies, pension funds, mutual funds, banks and federal reserve. \n\nI expect interest rates to go up.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "tldr answer: US\n\nLong answer: Debt is artificial. You need it to balance books but in reality, debt is its based on future production, and the only ones that can produce in the future are you, me and our children. The national debt is just an (artificial) account of how much we must dig ourselves out. The powers that be have found that people are much easier to control when we are perpetually in fear.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Well, a good portion of it will be repurchases of expiring debt. For example, if someone holds a treasury bill and it's expiring, there's a decent chance they will purchase a new one to take its place. The important question is who's going to buy NEW debt.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "why is the dota community the only game community that makes big ban lists and adds any player who makes a mistake?", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Are you one of those dicks who freaks the fuck out when a new player finds himself in one of your omg epic games?\r\n\r\n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Obligatory: \n\n[Basshunter - Vi sitter i Ventrilo och spelar Dota](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OzWIFX8M-Y)\n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Shit yeah son.\r\n\r\nI started playing DotA since before guinsoo gave it to icefrog. Really fun game. I haven't counted the amount of games I've played but I gotta be getting close to that number.\r\n\r\nNote: DotA is much more enjoyable when you have a ghost++ bot. The ability to filter out the 10 year olds is the only thing that keeps me coming back.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I cut my cat's hair if she gets into something like that. The reason being that while it might not be directly poisonous, a cat's digestive system is really small and I've heard of cats needing surgery for eating things like... foam.\n\nI might be overparanoid, but I'd rather have a cat with silly looking patches than a dead cat.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Whatever you decide to do, get rid of the goddamned candles afterwards.\n\nYou dont want to burn the cat next time.", "score": 6 } ]

[ { "body": ">Reddit has **always** been an unoriginal and smug group of people.\n\nExcept now it's become a much dumber, less original group of smug people.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I recommend 'Root of All Evil?', Dawkin's movie accompaniment to The God Delusion. It's about two hours long and viewable on its entirety on google video.", "score": 22 }, { "body": "[Letting Go of God](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXaH003lZJo) might be good, but it's probably a better fit for Catholics.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I very much recommend the following talk by [Sam Harris, Faith vs. reason in the Modern World](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baAg6k4c1Jg&feature=PlayList&p=0A31B762B4FF00B9&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=48). \n\nWhat Sam does best (and why I recommend this talk for your parents) is that he has a real knack for asking the right sort of questions that causes people to confront for themselves what they believe.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "I suggest BBC 4's Atheism: a rough history of disbelief.\n\nIt's in three parts, each about 1 hour long.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/7y8qc/400_atheism_vs_theism_debates_sortable_by_column/\n\nMight I suggest Bart Ehrman, Dan Barker, or Richard Carrier\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "If your parents were Catholic I'd have suggested the IQ^2 debate. That being a non-option, the Dawkins \"Root of All Evil\" is a good one to go with.\n\nA less \"hostile\" approach would be most any videos by Sam Harris.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "[tenet](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tenet)s vs [tenant](http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tenant)s\n\nI agree with the cites of Ehrman and Barker as being probably closer to what you're looking for.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Looks like [*Prince Ombra*](http://books.google.com/books?id=7PRcR6NfBjIC) by Roderick MacLeish. :-)", "score": 9 } ]

[ { "body": "wtf. As a female its never occurred to me that men have this...dilemma.\n\nI learn alot of things in reddit.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Study a little physiology with that chemistry and you'll learn that it will depend on the substance in question.\n\nFor example, a particularly greasy molecule will often be better absorbed when consumed with a fatty meal. If you just google you can find numerous examples of pharmaceuticals that are absorbed more efficiently when taken with food.\n\nOr, conversely, look at examples of drugs that interact with food components such as calcium or dietary fiber, blocking their absorption.", "score": 17 }, { "body": "My anecdotal evidence suggests that you are right. Every time I dose on an empty stomach, the effects seem to potentate themselves a lot faster.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Eating drugs on a full stomach causes the blood plasma concentration of said substances rise and fall much more slowly due to a lower rate of absorption as well as a longer time to absorb all of the drug, making for a longer duration with a longer time coming up, but the peak concentration is usually lowered by this, as well, so intensity is lost. Efficiency of absorption, of course, depends on the substance in question, but the you will definitely be \"higher\" on an empty stomach when you drop.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "It depends on your definition of \"efficient\".\n\nEmpty stomach = absorbed much quicker, possible small losses.\n\nFull stomach = absorbed much slower, less possible losses.\n\nSince when you take drugs rate of absorption is a major contributor to the effects (ie no one takes coke orally, everyone rails it), you are concerned with absorption speed. Railing coke might lose you a bit, but it gets you the effects you're looking for. Eating coke might result in more efficient absorption overall, but it happens at a slow pace that makes it effectively useless.\n\nSo: it depends, and you're both using the word \"efficient\" in the context of your respective area of expertise. It's not about data, it's about semantics.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Differential equations is a vast field. The main point of view for studying them is functional analysis. However, there is for example a Galois theory of solutions of differential equations -- an algebraic theory.\n\nWhen all the derivatives are with respect to the same variable (typically time), you have an [ordinary differential equation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_differential_equation). The existence and uniqueness of solutions is given by the [Picard-Lindelöf theorem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picard%E2%80%93Lindel%C3%B6f_theorem). Since you are interested in discrete systems, you may be interested in [Lyapunov theory](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov_stability), which characterizes the stability of solutions of ODEs as well as solutions of difference equations. A basic theory of ODEs can be developed just using real analysis (and in particular, the [Banach fixed point theorem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banach_fixed_point_theorem)). *References: Real Analysis by Rudin; [Solving Ordinary Differential Equations](http://books.google.ch/books?id=w-iZ2LmIDUgC&dq=ordinary+differential+equations+hairer&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=tuQ_S4_OGIn8_Abm2qCJCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false) by Hairer and Wanner; [Ordinary Differential Equations](http://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Differential-Equations-P-Hartman/dp/0817630686) by Hartman.*\n\nIf you are trying to find solutions of specific ODEs given by formulae, then you are essentially trying to solve a problem which is harder than symbolic integration. We have a bunch of methods such as the method of the [variation of the coefficients](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_variation_of_parameters).\n\nIf there are derivatives in many variables (typically space+time), then one has a partial differential equation. The first PDE that was really solved was the heat equation. It was solved by [Joseph Fourier](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Fourier), and his work led to the development of modern mathematics. *Reference: [Mémoire sur la propagation de la chaleur](http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k33707/f220n7.capture), J. Fourier, 1807.*\n\nLinear PDEs are divided into three categories: [parabolic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabolic_partial_differential_equation) (heat equation), [hyperbolic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_PDE) (wave equation) and [elliptic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_PDE) (stationary heat and wave equations). Incidentally, my area of research is close to elliptic PDEs. The existence and uniqueness of solutions is established using fancy 20th century [Sobolev space](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobolev_space) techniques.\n\nNonlinear PDEs are more challenging. One theory for first order PDEs is the [method of characteristics](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_characteristics). For general nonlinear PDEs, there is no good theory. For example, the PDE that describes incompressible viscous flow of a fluid is the [Navier-Stokes equations](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes_equations). It is currently an open problem (one of the seven [Millenium Prize Problems](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems)). There is a cash prize of one million dollars to show the existence and uniqueness of solutions to this PDE.\n\n*Reference: The main introductory text for PDEs is [Evans](http://books.google.ch/books?id=5Pv4LVB_m8AC&dq=partial+differential+equations+evans&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=nJ98nPUOyU&sig=siE9yb8cjIiFZqg9COlCKsU8-nc&hl=en&ei=Nuc_S4bZJsaGsAbvxMW-Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false).*\n\n", "score": 14 }, { "body": "There has been an ongoing shift away from teaching analytical solution techniques to focusing more on qualitative analysis coupled with numerical methods. \n\nSome older books are more of a grab bag of analytical tricks than anything else. I'd recommend a recent book with an emphasis on qualitative analysis. It will still cover some of the analytical tricks, which is good, but won't get bogged down. The one I used was like that, but I wouldn't recommend it. \n\nAs far as software, you are spoiled for choices:\n\n1) ODE Architect (cheap, easy, beginner tool).\n\n2) Sage\n\n3) Scipy/Python\n\n4) Maxima\n\n5) pretty much anything else. Look to [netlib](http://www.netlib.org/) for solvers in various languages.\n\n\nI'd stick to 1-4 because you get easy graphing and quick REPLs.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "Perhaps you could go with theory of dynamical systems (sometimes more popularly named \"the chaos theory\", although they aren't really exactly the same). On a basic level, it tries to avoid the (often difficult) problem of solving for trajectories of the model, and instead focuses on inferring qualitative behavior of trajectories by analyzing the differential equations directly. Nowadays, numerical integration of equations is a close companion, providing either intuition or a degree of confirmation of analytic results.\n\nGood references to start with are:\n\n[Strogatz: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos with Applications...](http://www.amazon.com/Nonlinear-Dynamics-Chaos-Applications-nonlinearity/dp/0738204536/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262478718&sr=8-1)\n- this is (in my opinion) math-light, and \"application\"-heavy textbook, assuming undergrad calculus/basic physics as a prerequisite. When I say application, I mean that there is a lot of models derived from physical problems as opposed to \"here's a differential equation from my magic hat, let's look at it\".\n\n[Alligood, Sauer, Yorke: Chaos](http://www.amazon.com/Chaos-Kathleen-T-Alligood/dp/0387946772/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262478740&sr=8-1)\nThis is a book that got me interested into the field. I remember I liked it when I was in undergrad, but haven't held it in my hands in a while, so I can't compare. \n\n[Devaney: An Introduction to Chaotic Dynamical Systems](http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Chaotic-Dynamical-Systems-2nd/dp/0813340853/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262478761&sr=8-1)\nThis was supposedly a standard intro text, but I've never held it in my hands nor do I know anyone who actually went through it. If your library has it, perhaps you could browse and see for yourself.\n\nAnyway, if you're into more rigorous treatment, you could start with Hirsch and Smale, Wiggins, Perko, Guckenheimer and Holmes, or even Hasselblatt if you're courageous enough. These are more grad-level courses, and pretty much all of them are standard in some bigger universities' math/phys/engineering programs.\n\nA good resource is also P. Cvitanovic's [ChaosBook](http://www.chaosbook.org/), an online textbook, but beware - it's very extensive, and I'd consider it a more advanced text really.\n\nSome links:\n\n[A course based on Alligood, Sauer, and Yorke](http://www.math.tamu.edu/~mpilant/math614/)\n\n[Strogatz's experiments](http://ecommons.library.cornell.edu/handle/1813/97)\n\n[Scholarpedia](http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_dynamical_systems) - peer reviewed wiki on dynamical systems\n", "score": 8 }, { "body": "This is somewhat tangential to your query, but I keep returning to the following essay by Danny Hillis, [Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine](http://www.longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-connection-machine/). I envy those who read it for the first time!\n\nSays Danny Hillis, \n\n> By the end of that summer of 1983, Richard had completed his analysis of the behavior of the router, and much to our surprise and amusement, he presented his answer in the form of a set of partial differential equations. To a physicist this may seem natural, but to a computer designer, treating a set of boolean circuits as a continuous, differentiable system is a bit strange", "score": 5 }, { "body": ">What does differential equations feel like to you?\n\nI suspect this entirely depends on whether you're coming from analysis or computer science/discrete math.\n\nFor the former it feels like a cluster-fuck of intractable and contrived nonsense. For the latter it feels like a description of recursive gradient flows used to model physical processes.\n\nDifferential computation is largely trivial to implement. If you write a computer game, you're likely implementing difference functions, whether you know it or not. You don't even have to know how to write a solver, merely know enough to use it to be able to work with ODEs/PDEs. In fact you should not write your own solvers. Even though a working implementation is trivial to create, an optimized one is not (this requires an understanding of computer architecture rather than differential equations themselves). The complexity can arise in dense multi-dimensional problems, however the burden is largely on computer hardware rather than human comprehension.\n\nIf you have taken/read discrete mathematics material, you should have been exposed to them already. Beyond that you should try something application specific, such as computational fluid dynamics or n-body to really make sense of their utility.\n\nIt has been mentioned elsewhere, but it's worth emphasizing that you should study from fairly recent material. Older books/lectures on differential equations (from back in the day when these things couldn't be tractably computed) will focus far too much on analysis and not enough on implementation and application.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Check out these [lectures](http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-03Spring-2006/VideoLectures/index.htm). You will be hard pressed to find anyone to explain such complex concepts so intuitively and thoroughly. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I would enjoy reading something like this. I'm 18, currently exploring various careers, so this would be very interesting.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "Nice job guys, two downvotes without comments.\r\n\r\nIf you read about his case, he was extradited from Ireland to the UK under charges relating to him sending his movie, the British equivalent of \"loose change\", to the judge presiding over the case of the 7/7 bombers. Google shows me nothing about what happened next... nothing from two days before *his* trial in march 09. I think this a valid question and the right place to ask it.\r\n\r\nSo any other down-voters please say why you want this buried.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Yes i too would like to find out what ever happened. As far as i know he was from Kells, in the Irish Republic, a very small town. Im from the North but i lived down their a few years ago. He also sent the vid to the jury. But whats so fucked up is basically his movie was a compilation of TV News clips and Newspaper Reports with his voice over. Nothing that wasn't already in the public domain. So it could never have contaminated the jury which was the case i think the UK Gov was trying to make. Very good movie would love to know what happened to him.\n\nHe's maybe away for 'RE-EDUCATION' In 1 of those CIA Black prisons in Eastern Europe/Paki ISI Detention Facility courtesy of MI6.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I tend to just go ahead and believe people when they say they have these things, easier to avoid putting my foot in my mouth. \n\n\nHowever: Peanut allergies. Everyone and their dog has a fucking 'peanut allergy'. Any time I hear someone bitching about there being a peanut product within 300m I have one question for them:\n\n\"Where is your EpiPen, motherfucker?\"\n\nI have only had one person actually able to pull one out and show me their medical alert bracelet. Far from being an awkward situation, he fully commiserated with me.\n", "score": 64 }, { "body": "As someone who was diagnosed with OCD and ADD by a psychiatrist using a few separate batteries of tests, I have a few things to say on the matter:\n\n1. Occasionally I'll tell people that I have either or both disorders. Sometimes it comes up in conversation, and is relevant. I don't wear it on my sleeve, and I'm neither proud nor ashamed of it. It's just the way I am.\n\n2. People who self-diagnose are full of shit. People who diagnose medical disorders have years and years of medical training, not to mention professional experience.\n\n3. That being said, it's kind of a dick move to doubt people who claim they have a disorder. Just throwing that out there.", "score": 34 }, { "body": "I totally agree with OP. I think that people claim they have disorders because it makes them seem more interesting. Everyone wants to be a damaged hero (Jack Bauer, Gregory House, Monk).", "score": 33 }, { "body": "I worked with someone who loved to blame everything on A.D.D. He apparently didn't know that there's therapy and medication for A.D.D.", "score": 31 }, { "body": "I used to think people with A.D.D. were just looking for an excuse to be lazy, but I recently found out one of my best friends has it, and I've been around him when he's off his medication. I can now say that it's definitely very real. :-/", "score": 23 }, { "body": "If I may, I think there are a couple of key points that you need to know before judging people who say they have some sort of affective disorder (as a premed student and someone with an affective disorder, I feel obliged to respond):\n\nFirst, nobody can diagnose themselves properly. Except for very obvious physical ailments (i.e. a broken arm), medical knowledge is necessary in order to correctly treat any condition. If somebody thinks they have a mental health problem and tries to self-diagnose, they would be wise to schedule an appointment with a psychiatrist.\n\nSecond, there is immeasurable hard evidence that there are biological bases for psychological states that are considered \"normal\" and states that are considered \"abnormal\". There are numerous mental conditions that have been researched thoroughly. For example, Schizophrenia is known to be caused by three dopaminergic pathways, the mesolimbic pathway and the two mesocortical pathways. The Biological basis of affective disorders are researched as much as physical ailments, if not more. To doubt medical science is rather silly; if someone displays the characteristics of an affective disorder, the chances are that they should be examined.\n\nThird, the medications currently prescribed for the majority of affective disorders are researched thoroughly, and major affective disorders are NOT necessarily over-diagnosed. Generalized disorders like GAD (generalized anxiety), SAD (seasonal-affective) or simple depression are another story, as physicians normally diagnose these conditions without consulting a psychiatrist. The case may be the same for ADD. However, Bipolar Disorder, OCD, and Aspergers Syndrome are all thoroughly researched, their biological basis is scientifically sound, and people who have those disorders do suffer.\n\nIn short, watch what you say. If someone self-diagnoses, suggest they see a psychiatrist before making a judgment. If they truly do have a mental health problem, the posters attitude is both callous and ignorant. Your idea of someone's \"pet disorder\" may be someone's real mental anguish, and it is absolutely wrong not to give people the benefit of the doubt.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "I'm bi-polar and I never believe anyone when they tell me they have a mental || psychological disorder =]", "score": 12 }, { "body": "No one with bipolar disorder goes around telling people about it. it's generally something they hide, because to someone who has it, it's the most frightening part of themselves, the thing that usually makes others back away, and the cause of most of their personal discord. I've yet to meet a bipolar who announces it to ANYONE. When someone calmly tells me they have it, 99.9999% of the time, they are full of shit.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Bi-polar seems to be one I am skeptical of. It seems so many middle class white females scream I'm Bi Polar! and use that as an excuse to slut around. I seriously doubt Bi Polar only effects a large number of white middle class females...", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Leave the final word to the psychiatrists. You have every right to be skeptical, but you're no more qualified to definitively say that a diagnosis doesn't fit as they are to say that it does. So unless you have a degree in psychiatry, keep your mouth shut.\n\nIf they've misdiagnosed themselves, so what? It neither picks your pocket nor breaks your leg. At least it shouldn't. But I suspect that those who are outraged by supposedly attention-seeking behavior are themselves eager for attention and bitter someone else might receive it.\n\nIf you express your doubts and you're wrong, you're likely to cause serious psychological harm to an emotionally fragile person. And don't convince yourself that it's okay if you feel sure. You can't be. A person may genuinely suffering from one of the aforementioned disorders and display attention-seeking behavior. It may be a cry for help, which wouldn't be uncommon for someone suffering from mental illness. It may be self-deprecation, which many people use as a defense mechanism to cope with their inadequacies. Or they may simply want attention; it still doesn't invalidate their diagnosis. *Whatever it is, you don't know and cannot know.*", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I'm skeptical of anyone who describes anyone as \"OCD\". Whether or not someone *has* OCD, they cannot *be* OCD.\r\n\r\n\"I'm so OCD\"... I fucking hate that.\r\n\r\nIt's like saying \"I can't go near smokers because I'm so fucking asthma.\"", "score": 8 }, { "body": "My brother suffered from bi-polar disorder for over thirty years. He was originally diagnosed when they still called it manic-depression. He suffered as much from the stigma of the disease as the actual symptoms. If it is now fashionable enough that people more easily and with less embarrassment seek help for it or other mental illnesses, I don't think that's a bad thing.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Well I was diagnosed as bipolar and am on medication for it, and I certainly hope that people don't go around thinking that I made it up. But if they do, whatever, because my friends know and are there for me during hard times.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "It pisses me off the number of people who self diagnose. My son is high functioning autistic, tested by one expert and diagnosed by a second. I regularly run into people who roll their eyes at me when I try and explain his odd behavior. It is the people who are self diagnosing that make people react that way regardless of the validity of their condition. I am sometimes skeptical when people tell me they have what ever condition. So I ask where they were diagnosed.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I'm mostly just skeptical of people who say they have ADD. The reason I'm skeptical about ADD is because *everybody* seems to have it and they try to use it to their advantage.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I think the issue is that these conditions are not black or white. Everybody falls somewhere on a spectrum. There are many people who exhibit signs of one or more conditions beyond the theoretical \"average person\" but still fall short of clinical illness.\n\nMy dad had the compulsion to check the stove dials every time he left home. He methodically touched each one from right to left and then again from left to right. If he did it \"wrong\" he had to start over again and occasionally he had to turn the car around and check one more time.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I have ADD (officially diagnosed) and take medicine to help. Nothing pisses me off more when people say \"Ohhh emm geee I sooo have ADD lol!\". ADD sucks. I went from being a C student, and not understanding why I couldn't remember the most basic things my parents and/or teachers asked me to do, to becoming an A student with help from my medication. \nAnd I don't like to admit to it, because then people ask me if they can buy some from me. Grrrr.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "there is no normal. a lot more people have disorders than you think. get over it. a doctor tested me for my disorders. i am tired of people claiming they have these disorders but are actually self diagnosed.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Everyone I know thinks they have ADD. I'd be surprised if they've ever actually met someone with ADD. Just because you get distracted once in a while doesn't mean you have ADD. \n\nMany girls claim to have OCD as well. But normally their OCD involves straightening a book on a desk or moving something slightly on occasion. Once again, no OCD. And people with OCD I don't think would go around telling everybody their affliction.\n\nAspergers and bipolar I would believe if someone told me. You don't go around happily proclaiming you have those. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Some of these disorders make me wonder if we are idealizing some norm and labeling everything else as a disorder. I find it curious that no mention of these issues every came up in history ever. When psychology became a profession, terminology to categorize people was invented. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "All people are afflicted with infirmities, way, way, way more than people admit to them. All is on a continuum. If it seems like there are many its because there are many. To underestimate the amount of human distress going on helps nothing. If people have a \"pet\" disorder and you don't like it unless you have spoken to a doctor who has examined them carefully any expression of right or wrong is the definition of \"blowing it out your ass\". You cannot tell most infirmities from sight or sound.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "All of those exist as real disorders. And all exist as self-diagnosed situations which may or may not actually fit the criteria for the disorder. ADD and Asperger's, in particular, have been \"popular\" and so commonly applied misdiagnoses. Bi-polar, though, is the goto these days for crime shows to say someone is likely to commit a crime. I doubt many are seriously self-diagnosing as Bi-polar.\n\n", "score": 4 }, { "body": "It depends on the person and context. However, there has been a huge uptick in most mental illnesses in the last few decades; depression rates have doubled in each of the last three decades, for example. And there's a huge stigma attached, as if someone whose hormones or genes are screwed up in such a way that they have a mental illness is to blame for it. Sure, some people claim to have something to get sympathy, but such problems are far more common than people think.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I can't agree more on this post. This is how I see it:\n\nNot only do I not care that you \"have\" OCD or ADHD or ADD or whatever, but I'm actually embarrassed for you. Nobody thinks its cute or quirky than other airheads like yourself, who are by no means hard to impress. Just tell them you backpacked through Europe since you're lying anyway. At least that way there is something to talk about other than \"LOL Im soooo messed up!\"", "score": 4 }, { "body": "At least you don't have to live with a child with one of those disorders. You really don't know how lucky you are.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Apparently you've never seen someone disabled by one of these diseases to the point they cannot hold a job, go to school, take care of their family, or maintain a friendship despite desperately trying. These things are real and dysfunction in life is the key indicator. Furthermore, those around them can tell instantly when they're on their meds or not.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm most of the way to a social work degree, so I usually have a pretty good idea. When people tell me I have general curiosity, and ask a lot of questions. The first question I usually ask is, \"Did a doctor diagnose you or did you diagnose yourself?\" It weeds out those who are sad, and introverted from those who have depression and Asperger's.\r\n\r\nTrue story though, my ex told me for years he had Asperger's. Once I stepped back from the situation, I realized what he really had: Anti-social personality disorder. Creepy.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "i think there's a big difference between self-diagnosing and being diagnosed by a medical professional. if someone claims to be suffering from whatever, maybe they are or maybe they aren't. perhaps they're actually trying to describe some facet of their personality so you may better understand where they're coming from. perhaps they're just trying to make themselves appear more interesting.\n\nfor the past 10 years, i'd gone through wild mood swings, periods of complete darkness and self-harm, being unable to wake up and spending upwards of 18 hours in bed, finding no motivation to put any effort into feeding or taking care of myself, got hooked on drugs and was just generally miserable sometimes. i thought i was just being a basket case, being totally lazy and wallowing in my own self-pity. i thought that i was a weak human being, that i took my relative good fortune completely for granted, so on and so on. i thought that i just sucked. i never really realized that something might really be wrong with me.\n\nthen last fall, my doctor diagnosed me with major depression, and suddenly all the symptoms seemed to fit. and now i wish that perhaps i might have self-diagnosed earlier and made the effort to get treatment earlier as well.\n\ni don't boast to people that i have major depression. i've mentioned it to my manager and my co-workers in an attempt to explain why i am sad and quiet on some days. and often i fear that they think i'm bullshitting. there's a history of suicide in my family, i have suicidal thoughts nearly every day, though not nearly as bad as they once were. but i do often fear that people are thinking exactly what you are when i tell them this extremely personal information. \n\nso, in summary, i guess it can go both ways.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "People who have real mental illness, generally don't talk about it in regular conversations. This is because if its present enough in their lives to affect their ability to function they won't want to broadcast that to the world. The first time a client sees me they will often say things like \"I think I'm OCD\" or \"I think I have Bi-polar\" or that their mom/grandma/wife whatever thinks they have it. Very rarely do those people actually have that disorder. Many people like things around them to be neat and \"perfect\" to help ease anxiety about other things in their lives. OCD is a totally different thing. Bi-polar as well isn't just having mood swings or getting angry easily. It's a complicated diagnosis with some pretty heavy medications associated with it. ADHD for sure was a buzz word for a number of years. Every kid was getting that diagnosis, but again...if they really have it (and are an adult) they don't go advertising it. Most people with mental illness do their best to fit into society and not have people know they struggle with something. The only thing that I see as an exception is those in recovery from addiction. It's part of the recovery process to be up front about it. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Yes these disorders exist. Yes they are 1000% overdiagnosed. For instance, as a child I (just like every other adolescent boy these days) was diagnosed with *severe* ADD. I am doing just fine without meds, recently having graduated first in my electrical engineering class a couple weeks ago. For the 90% of the diagnosed who do not have these things, they serve as an excuse for what the people do not have the motivation to accomplish.\n\nEdit for another example: I had a roommate who claimed he had OCD because he liked to vacuum once a week. Seriously what is wrong with out society when keeping a semi-clean house means someone thinks they have a mental disorder?", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Obviously these disorders are real and some people have them, but there do seem to be a lot of people who claim them without even knowing what they really are. I've noticed that I show some signs of Aspergers and ADHD but I don't claim them because I've never been officially diagnosed (probably wouldn't trust a diagnosis anyway), and while I have some symptoms, I never seem to match up enough to convince myself.\n\nI think some people claim to have these disorders in order to set themselves apart, they think it makes them seem unique. Ironic since so many people claim to have these disorders that it hardly counts as unique anymore. Plus it's easy to claim something like that without any proof.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I can't remember who said it or what the quote is exactly (useful, i know), but it pretty much said that those who are, never advertise, and those who aren't, tell everyone. \n\nMy father's side of the family is chock full of fuck-ups and ugly traits, most of them I have seemed to inherit. One of loveliest diseases I possess is Major Depressive Disorder. I have learned to cope with it and try to find happiness in everyday (cheesy, but true). It always angers me beyond belief when people wallow in their 'misery' when they have no perspective on the situation (i.e. wasn't able to afford that handbag, stepped in a puddle, has a cold, etc). Maybe it is just because I have somehow been able to cope with my (real and uncontrollable) situation so that I am able to enjoy every day, but it always gets under my skin when others let the stupidest things get to them.\n\nedit: attempt to clarify", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Also, remember that some of these disorders can come in different grades. It's very possible that a large percentage of the population has the same \"issue\" as someone with more noticeable condition, but it doesn't interfere with their life to the same extent.\n\nAlso, I think that these words are thrown around a bit. I believe that most of those who claim they \"are a bit OCD like that\" are aware of the hyperbole.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Given enough time, They'll come up with clinical names for all of the different ways that different minds work. Sort of like \"career chips\" in futurama. But they'll be \"disorder chips\", that everyone gets at a certain age and you just start taking whatever drug for the rest of your life.\n\nGod forbid there be any differences in the way we think or behave. We all must be medicated so that we all act \"normal\".", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Unless they were dragged in by their parents, everyone with a mental disorder at one time diagnosed themselves and sought professional help and \"official\" diagnosis. I think when people causally talk about the disorders they think they have they are really asking, \"Hey, do you think I need to see a shrink?\" There is so much stigma with mental illness, it's hard to flat-out ask this. Next time just say \"Wow, you could've fooled me\" if you're skeptical. If you're uncomfortable with the subject, just say you're uncomfortable. The worst thing you could do IMHO is judge people silently and then try to justify your discomfort on Reddit.\n\n\"Be Kind For Everyone You Meet Is Fighting A Hard Battle\" is the best advice I can give. No mater how they act, you really don't know what's going on inside their heads.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "ADD is a joke. I \"have\" it and have been diagnosed with it by many doctors. Fucking go be yourself and stop looking at \"successful\" people and saying \"if only I didn't have ADD I would be even better!\" Just dig the ride your on and stop trying to justify what needs no justification.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I hate emo kids. I really fucking hate emo kids.\n\nHow is this relevant? Because I'm talking about the kids running around talking about death and depression, taking medical focus and attention away from people who actually HAVE depression, bi-polar, etc. I've seen two many of these assholes, and too many truly troubled kids who go unnoticed and unaided.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You make a good point. I know people who \"brag\" about how they have this or that, and make it as an excuse for their laziness and stupidity.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I really hate to say this, but I am skeptical until proven otherwise with certain types of people. And it's only because of the people I've met in my life, the same types seem to be very vocal about their \"disorder\", and make it sound like an excuse to act the way they do. \n\nIt always seems like the same types of people are always saying they have ADD, or they're Bipolar, or they have Aspberger's. In my life, it's always been the dropouts/stoner kids in high school saying they have ADD, the weird/kinda gothy/sketchy girls saying they're bipolar, and the weeaboo/awkward types with Aspbergers. There are also a lot of people I've met that say things like \"Oh man my room/desk/whatever has to be organized all the time, I have OCD way bad lol\", although I highly doubt they actually have OCD. Now, I'm sure out of those SOME of them actually could be diagnosed with whatever disorder, but to me it seems like many are exaggerating or using it as a crutch.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Alot of girls I know love to blame their emotional instability on bipolar. I just cringe every time. I don't think it's possible that I know 7 different girls with bipolar.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I've met a bunch of people with Aspergers. And it's pretty clear that they're not normal.\n\nWith Asperger's at least, you can most definitely tell.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Granted there are a lot of people who claim to have a disorder when they really do not. And it does piss me off cos they are in a way taking all credibility away from people who really do suffer. I still feel i have to explain what it is like living with bi-polar disorder. \nWhen i feel down it feels like the whole world is out to get you. I for one can not leave the house for fear of running into someone who i have wronged in some way, and i feel i can not cope with confrontation with this person who does not exist anywhere except in my mind. I have to have my phone turned off for fear of a phone call from the same imaginary person. I can not talk to friends of family for fear of something terrible i may have done to them, witch i have not done. as time passes it gets more difficult to meet people or leave the house cos you know everybody is worried about you and you cant cope with the stress you have caused your loved ones, cos the depression makes you sort of feel nothing. No emotion and that only makes the worries and paranoia worse when somebody finally gets a hold of you. I would also like to say that i am a professional actor so generally being around people and interacting is not a problem unless when i am down.\nWhen i am manic nothing matters but having fun. This has caused me to spend stupid amounts of money on impulsive stupid things that couple of days later leave me flat broke, with no bills payed and a whole month of instant noodles to look forward to. Which only makes things worse when the depression kicks in.\nThis is a very isolating situation to be in and makes it very hard for anyone suffering to find a job and keep it or deal with the bills or any other responsibility´s hence the isolation and despair. And no matter how much you want to go and deal with the problems, you cant cos your own head wont let you. And that is why this is a disorder.\nSo to anyone who falsely claims to have a mental disorder or does not believe in them. Give the rest of us a break. It is difficult enough as it is.", "score": 3 }, { "body": ">its ridiculous to believe such disorders are so prevalent in society.\n\nWhy is it ridiculous? The human mind is far from a perfect machine. \n\nThat being said, screw the people who claim their pet disorder as an excuse for shitty behavior after saying it is 'self-diagnosed'. \n\nWe live in a society of victims. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "If I'm drunk and can't get it up, it is NOT because of you. Believe me, I am doing everything in my power to get this stubborn traitor up. ", "score": 232 }, { "body": "> I get it, you're sensitive about your body. But I wouldn't be fucking you if I wasn't into it.\n\nDamn straight.\n\n\n\nAlso:\n\n2 minutes of giving me head after I just slurped away for upwards of an hour and through 2 orgasms **IS NOT FUCKING RECIPROCATION!**", "score": 203 }, { "body": "The worst is when they're chained up in my basement, they're terrible at dirty talk. \"*Help me, help me, please don't kill me...*\" How am I supposed to get off to that while I choke you wearing this clown mask?! What a horror story, indeed.", "score": 143 }, { "body": ">When I say I'm close, that is not the time to change the rhythm or motion.\n\nWord. On a related note, orgasms are not instant. If you stop doing whatever it is you are doing (usually a blowjob or handjob in this context) the nanosecond you see cum or the guy says \"I'm coming\" then you've just ruined it.\n\nOnce it starts, ease up on the pressure (not the rhythm), but DON'T STOP until either we say so or collapse into a limp bundle of bliss. Usually 5-10 seconds. But it's a *very important* 5-10 seconds. Thanks.", "score": 120 }, { "body": "I dated a virgin. As many virgins are, she had a natural curiosity about the penis, it's feel and shape, slight arc. After a few months of what was natural exploration for her, she thought herself a PhD of the dick, but when I inquired about oral, she didn't know the mechanics. \n\nI gave her a few pointers. Avoid teeth, work the base, play with the balls a bit, tell me when you're uncomfortable or tired. She smiled, and away we went.\n\nI noticed a problem about a minute in when I glanced down, and her pale face starts turning red. I said, \"Um. It's not a snorkel, you can breathe through your nose or something.\"\n\nAnd out of her nose came a rather peculiar noise. It sounded [like this](http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/soundfx/animals/animals_sounds/safari_sounds/safari_elephant8_wav.shtml).", "score": 72 }, { "body": "1. Despite what you have read and been told by everything everywhere, I am a man, not a machine. I am not always ready for sex. I may always *want* sex, but I take some time to warm up, just like you do. Don't expect a rock-hard erection by the time you have your shirt off. Gimme some damn foreplay. \n\n2. My penis is a sexual organ. Which means it is sensitive. If I'm not responding, yanking harder is not the way to go. That just makes me numb. Or hurts like hell. \n\n3. Condoms suck. Seriously, we can't feel a damn thing in them. If there was a birth control method that reduced your pleasure this much, you'd all have rioted in the streets by now. So if I want to find ways to avoid using one, try to work with me on alternatives, instead of thinking I'm irresponsible. \n\n4. We hate condoms. So if I'm having trouble putting one on, it's probably because I can't stay hard while doing something I hate. Don't just lie there waiting for me to figure it out. Help me stay aroused. Say something. Give me something to watch. Touch me.\n\n5. We really hate condoms. If I've been pounding away for an hour, and you've come three times, and I haven't... then I can't. Take it off me and give me some reciprocation, preferably with your mouth. Be gentle, because by that time I'll be sore. \n\n6. My semen is not made of spiky acid that's on fire. Your discomfort at touching or tasting it is nothing compared to how I feel when you flinch away or make disgusted faces. I don't treat you like a leper at your moment of orgasm. \n\n7. Every woman has different little things that make her come. Some of you *need* certain things to come. If so, you gotta tell me. I'm not a mind reader. Expectant looks, eyerolling, and sighs do not contain information. \n\n8. Yes, you're going to get semen in your mouth. Best way to deal with it is to swallow quickly. Whatever you do, don't stop what you're doing. My orgasm is not as long as yours, but it can last a good five to ten seconds. Speed up *slightly*, use a *slightly* firmer pressure, but whatever you do, don't stop. Spoil my orgasm, and you'll leave me unsatisfied and frustrated, and I won't be able to sleep. \n\n9. It is far better to keep going too long after I come than to stop too soon, while I'm coming. If I need you to stop, I can tell you. \n\n10. I am not just trying to get you into bed because I want an orgasm. Sex is a *very* important part of dating and relationships for me, and as part of getting to know you, I need to find out what you're like in bed. If you're not ready to go yet, then you need to at least talk about it and provide me with some information. Leave me in the dark, and I have to assume you're prudish or like to withhold. \n\n11. For the love of all that is holy, shave! Legs and pits are mandatory, as well as plucking any stray hairs in places women ain't supposed to get them. Crotch not mandatory, but highly recommended. And don't give me a discourse about how it's inconvenient or unnatural. I cannot repeat said discourse to my penis if it decides not to work because I don't like what I'm seeing. \n\n12. You can't fit it all in your mouth. Not going to happen. That's okay, just go as deep as you can without getting toothscratchy. Most of the important business is in the first three inches, anyway.\n\n13. Those long fingernails? They're sharp. Keep them the hell away from my skin. \n\n14. It's a tongue. It's for licking, not for tensing into a spearlike point and jabbing. \n\n", "score": 70 }, { "body": "As a woman, I found this thread pretty informative. I found a couple of things that I do and now know I shouldn't do. My husband and I have relatively good communication, but some of these things he might not have wanted to tell me. Thanks!\n\nP.S. Not every woman doesn't want to learn. ", "score": 51 }, { "body": "As much as I'd like to rattle off my list of gripes about guys, I'll save that for another thread and give this piece of advice to girls who play with girls:\n\nAs we're getting naked, I don't want to hear you whining that I'm skinny and you're fat. You may think you're complimenting me, but your self-consciousness is killing the fun. We are two naked chicks playing with each other. It is inherently hot. Relax and roll with it. Tonight you are a supermodel!", "score": 51 }, { "body": "I like a rough, aggressive woman. Don't fucking lie there and think you are doing me a favor. \n\nI've actually had sex that was less satisfying than masturbation.", "score": 46 }, { "body": "* If you think your period is done, but it turns out there's still a little bit of leftover blood once the sex begins, it's all good. No need to get all self-conscious or flustered. It happens. \n\n* You don't have to shave yourself bald, but at least trim and maintain your pubic hair. It looks better and makes going down on you easier. People groom their body hair everywhere else, no need to make this area some big philosophical battleground. As a guy I think we owe you the same. \n\n* Don't do that weird thing where you like what we're doing to you, but you're a bit conflicted about how good it feels, or you have issues with being on the receiving end, so you stop us halfway through. ** We're happy to do it, relax and enjoy and 'take'. \n\n* People have said this already, but if I cum on your belly or tits or something, don't be all, \"Ah!!! Ewwww!!!\" and rush to get a Kleenix. It's not that bad. And it discourages us from wanting to do it again, which is never good of course...\n\n** Not to be confused with she doesn't like it, or wants to pace herself.", "score": 42 }, { "body": "Amen.\n\nInitiate. If you're not jumping me as often as I'm jumping you, I am secretly disappointed.\n\nTell me what you like. Instructions are FUN so long as you're not being a drill-sergeant about it. If you ARE being a drill-sergeant about it, well I'm down for that game also.\n\nWe go to all manner of lengths to perfect our oral technique. I can't think how many hundreds of hours I've spent practicing, reading up, etc. There is more to a blow job than moving your mouth up and down in synch with your hand.\n\nEYE CONTACT, ladies. \n\nIF you're on top, don't just bop up and down like a carousel pony. DANCE. It can be loads more fun for both of us.\n\nEdge me. For many of us, the sex is all about the journey, not the destination. If time permits (and let's make sure it does), I like to tease you for a good hour before you're allowed your first. Don't assume it's all about the orgasm for me either.\n\nThere is no one way to approach ze balls. Mine are sensitive. If you try to pop one into your mouth it's gonna hurt. \n\nMy arse is sensitive too. Make a note of that and use it for good, not evil.\n\nI get it that you're pretty and that you're used to guys falling over themselves because of that. Be aware that pretty gets old, fast, if you've nothing to back it up with. A body is just a body. \n\nAnd to be contrary to the op: It's cool that you're loud. Feel free to wake the neighbors. If granny is in the next room, be loud but let me muffle you with my hand. Bite down on it if you want to. \n\n", "score": 37 }, { "body": "> Handjobs: You suck at them. That's just the way the world works, so plan accordingly.\n\nTo be fair, you really suck at these too. At least I know I won't compare to your own hand. Protip: Try not to actually touch my clit. It's really, really sensitive, and if you rub it directly, it hurts! Always rub on top of the labia. This does not generally require lube; don't stop in the middle to dip for more. That's weird.\n\nAnd please don't freak out if I'm on my period or if whatever's leaking out of me is a little different than normal. As long as it's somewhere on the white-clear spectrum, it's probably fine. If you get grossed out and tell me so, I end up feeling gross and bad.\n\nAlso, what's the stoplight system? I am intrigued.\n", "score": 25 }, { "body": "> If I push your hand away, take a hint. I don't care what you read in Cosmo, my balls don't like that.\n\nOh, FSM!. Please understand that my balls are not a loaf of bread dough to be kneaded.", "score": 24 }, { "body": "Rather than have an open and honest discussion with our partners on what we like and don't like, let's bitch about it on the internet. ", "score": 18 }, { "body": "Fucking you *WITHOUT* a condom? And on a related note, some solid points made here.\n\nI used to get down with a girl who thought it was super sexy to spit every 5 minutes on her hand or just try and aim for the action. Maybe not true for all, but a hocking, saliva-slingin' woman just doesn't do it for me.", "score": 15 }, { "body": "* Don't start and stop sucking my dick every 6 seconds. Do or do not. There is no try. \n* Take the fucking initiative on taking off of clothes - we like to see you on your knees unbuckling our belt and pants. \n* Don't tell me my penis is big - I know it's not ]=\n* Don't get so damned pissy if I really do want to eat/sleep after. We just shot out a load of essential chemicals and hormones - we need to repair. \n* I don't want to have to shove my penis in your face to get you to suck it. I did you. Please do me. \n* You probably don't taste wonderful. Don't ask - it's not important. (unless.....)\n* Whether I like it shaved, trimmed, or bushy, please don't leave it at stubble. I promise to do the same. \n* Let me know if your asshole is exit only. I'll let you know about mine. \n* Swallowing is only fair since I somewhat have no choice in the matter.\n* You don't want me to cum on you? Would you rather I stick where we can spawn a lust child? \n* For maximum splooge please craddle the balls without involving your nails. \n* If the boys go on strike for a while don't take it personally - everybody needs a vacation. \n* Rhythm is important...and unless it's you're on top it's my problem. Don't fuck with it if you want a good hammerin'. \n* It's ok if my.your roomate(s)here us. They know we're together. They know we fuck a lot. \n* Don't fake it. Just let me know what you need to have a real one. \n* I don't care who you think about when you fuck me, just don't scream their name in bed. \n* Wipe real good if you are going to take a dump right before we get it on. \n", "score": 15 }, { "body": "I once got a handjob that was so bad that she left a rugburn on my dick. I couldn't even touch my dick for five days without it hurting.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "I once dated this girl with a really sharp pelvic bone. When she was on top she would grind that pelvis into my pubes until they were about to catch fire. Here is a [youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jIqttbRlFA) of what it felt like. We broke up and a few years later I found her hooking on CL, and I wondered if I should warn the fire-marshal or something", "score": 12 }, { "body": "[Rebuttal](http://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/al5g7/rebuttal_to_girls_can_be_bad_at_sex_too/)", "score": 12 }, { "body": ">I'm totally down with biting, but if you're going to leave a mark, do it somewhere my boss won't see it.\n\nNo way. Give it to me like an animal. Fuck my boss.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "touch me while we're going at it. when you're on top my hands are everwhere. why? because there free to do whatever i want and i like the way your skin feels and i know you like it when i touch you too. it feels good when you touch me too. if i'm on top i want you to explore my body. grab my ass. maybe smack me across the face a bit if the moment calls for it. just fucking touch me.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\"Your tongue is not a phallus. Stop trying to rape my palate with it.\"\n\nWhen I was younger and inexperienced a few of my female friends complained of guys being a little too eager with the tongue action. I grew up thinking it was only something guys did wrong and women all naturally knew better. \n\nThen I made out with a few girls who tried ramming their tongues down my throat within seconds of kissing me, or even worse, doing the rapid action flicking snake tongue version. \n\nI mean I get that French kissing is hot if you do it in the right way at the right time, but Jesus...", "score": 9 }, { "body": "My $0.02:\r\n\r\nTip 1: If your partner asks you to do something, don't think \"Oh, I don't want him/her to know I like that. What will they think?\" and say no. Your partner obviously likes whatever it is to some degree, otherwise they wouldn't ask. Constantly telling your partner \"No\" can ruin things, and it can spill out of the bedroom.\r\n\r\nTip 2: Pay attention! If your partner doesn't respond or responds negatively, try something else. If they do respond positively, try it again next time. You'll be amazed with the results. If you can't tell, talk to them. Make sure to give your partner feedback. It is mutually beneficial. \r\n\r\nTip 3: No always means no. The whole no means yes mentality is bullshit. If you want to be overpowered, you need to let your partner know and come up with some verbiage other than \"No.\" Also, if you want to be overpowered, know when to stop fighting back. If your partner wants to do something to you, but you don't stop fighting, they will give up. This leaves both of you disappointed and can poison the relationship. Also, your partner may not always want to dominate.\r\n\r\nTip 4: Variety is the spice of life. Remember that. If you do the same damn thing every time at least one of you is going to get bored. I'll take no sex over boring repetitive sex, and I'm sure there are many men and women who feel the same way.\r\n\r\nTip 5: If you are going to have anal play learn how to do it right. The anus is extremely sensitive and can enhance or ruin the sensation. USE LUBE! Penetration isn't key, and will be uncomfortable if you do it wrong, or even at the wrong time. For some anal penetration only feels good at certain points of arousal. Try to learn them for your partner. Try rubbing / licking the anus without penetration. More than likely you'll be pleasantly surprised.\r\n\r\nTip 6: When fingering curve your damn fingers! The shocker is bullshit. If your partner is doggy-style, curve your fingers down towards the bed. If you are fingering vaginally, you will hit her G spot. If you are fingering her ass, you can still hit her G spot. (Takes practice. Wear gloves.) If you are fingering a guy you can hit his prostate. If your partner is up on their knees doggy style and you can't make them collapse after an orgasm, you still need practice. Fingering may not be enough try it with something else your partner likes.\r\n\r\nTip 7: Vibrators on women work magic. Vibrators on men do almost nothing. (Or at least this has been my experience / reaction)\r\n\r\nAnd finally a tip for the guys: Foreplay is key! Make her want it! Learn where she likes to be kissed, learn what gets her horny. Be a tease. Try to get her wet before you get into bed. Bonus points if you can get her to jump you.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "> I get it, you're sensitive about your body. But I wouldn't be fucking you if I wasn't into it.\n\nTo be fair, some guys will do just about *anybody*. Any port in a storm.\n\n> I can't enjoy myself if you aren't\n\nNever have truer words been spoken. All the technique and artificial enhancements in the world won't make up for lack of enthusiasm.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "A friend of mine and I both dated the same girl, about a year apart from each other. Shortly after I called it off with her, me and him discussed some shared experiences. \n\nI was shocked to realize that one of the mutual experiences involved what I called the \"claw of misguided passion.\" You know those chinese relaxation balls that people squeeze and rotate rapidly to relive stress? Yeah. This chick did that to testicles. About the only time I've ever said \"Let's just cuddle tonight.\"", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Dropping your first 'I love you' during pillow talk is not cool. Double negative points for during the deed.\n\nWe love bouncing boobies. Why the fuck is your shirt on?\n\nBy all means, go ahead. We love it when you play with yourself, especially while we're doing you or helping to get you off. Teamwork is awesome here.\n\nIf you spend the whole threesome giving death glances to the other girl we're not having fun. Why did you even agree to it?\n\nComing at the same time is pretty much the best feeling ever, and it does amazing things for you in our minds relationship wise.\n\nYou wanting to be dominated, called a whore, pushed around and choked during sex usually means you have some serious emotional issues and are slightly fucked up in the head. However, crazy girls rock in bed.\n\nIt's really (like, really) not a good thing when we bend you over and maybe spread the cheeks a little only to be greeted with the smell of shit. Please wipe.\n\nYour cum tastes gross. I've learned to love it when I'm horny because it's become synonymous with sex, so yeah, suck it up. (See what I.. nevermind.)\n\nBlueballs suck. Bad. I get off quick the first time around if I haven't done it for awhile, so I spend my time eating you out in between goes, but the second time is where I have all my fun. If you look at the clock and decide it's time to stop after I've just gotten hard again I'm going to be a dick and call it good next time I come in five minutes.\n\nIf you have some issue.. typically involving bodily fluids or waste matter during sex, don't freak out and try to hide it. Stop, clean yourself up and make sure you're okay, this stuff happens. As long as we know you're all good, we'll get back to it in a second. If you need to sit this one out, we understand. The guilt of hurting you is going to be far worse than the blueballs.\n\nYour tongue being at work on our balls or the head of our dick should be the only reason for your hand working it. However, these moments rock. For bonus points, lick our balls while we do it ourselves.. teamwork again.\n\nComing on your face is fun because we feel like a pornstar. It's juvenile, and pretty much pointless, and is a pain for you (cum isn't fun to get out of hair I imagine) but just once.. please? :D\n\nSlow blowjobs are pointless.\n\nYou're not as good as you think you are. We come every time, sure, but we can do that with our hand and an underwear ad in two minutes flat. Give us something to remember.\n\nRoutine is boring. Guys should take the initiative here, provide a new setting to seduce you in and such, but girls should do something new and fun once in awhile to keep sex fun.\n\nLiking sex doesn't make you a whore.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "I agree with most of the post, but 2 points:\r\n\r\n>It'd be a lot better for both of us if you were willing to mix it up a bit. I can get in a lot deeper with your ankles behind my ears.\r\n\r\nFor some women (esp if the man is of a certain size), it can hurt if you get in too deep.\r\n\r\n>When I say I'm close, that is not the time to change the rhythm or motion.\r\n\r\nThe sex is over after you cum. Depending on how many times she has gotten off (or whether she has even gotten off yet), she might want you to last a bit longer. Just a possibility.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Oh yeah, finally: Just because you've been with a lot of guys, doesn't make you queen of sex. In fact, I've had better sex with those who had fewer, but deeper relationships.", "score": 7 }, { "body": "So after a late night sojourn at the uptown bars of New Orleans, I ended up with a female acquaintance of mine at my apartment. We were both a bit tipsy, but not drunk by any means. So, we get down to business, the usuals happen, until she's reaching her \"climax.\" When this happens, she literally projectile squirted a mix of blood and vaginal fluid across the bed, straight on my white canvas pants (which, I adore). The conversation after went something like this:\n\nMe: Are you on your period?\nHer: No! Okay well, this just happens sometimes. Nothing's wrong with me, it just happens.\nMe: You just squirted blood across the room. How is that normal? \nHer: Listen! I've been checked out for STDs and everything recently, it's just something that happens every once in a while\n\nThree bleaches and one dry clean later, my white pants have somewhat recovered, minus a brown spot near the knees. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Best part of hooking up with a girl who is bad in bed, is teaching her how to do things right....The rewards are just so satisying, in more ways than one!\n\nEdit : Takes a lot of time, energy and patience though...She'll obviously have to be worth it.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "[Blowjob tutorial](http://collegecallgirl.blogspot.com/2007/11/blowjob-tutorial.html)\n\n\nI secretly sent it to some girlfriends of my friends.\n\nAfter they found about it after a while (one asked his girlfriend if she's been with somebody else, because wow, what a change), I didn't have to buy myself a beer for a month.\n\n\nRead it and forward it.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "yeh but a lot of people are learning about sex from the internet (when watching pr0n on a betamax cassette like my generation did is the only tried and true method!) so they think in terms of visual performance and have no idea of sensitivity to their partner (both men and women).\n\nanyhow it's been over 10 years since I had sex with a woman who wasn't a prostitute (relax, its legal in Australia). Sydney women are more interested in wallet lingus than anything else and at least a whore will leave when the credit runs out hahahahahahahaha the best sex I've had has been with hookers- they're there for my needs and that's that. \nWomen (here in Sydney anyway) don't have the same impetus cuz they'll get another guy by hanging slutty at a bar. So it all boils down to a case of why bother....", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Know what this is! If we're not together and this is the first time (or an early time) for us, don't get sweet and lovey. I'm not in love with you. I don't want you to stare into my eyes and tell me your deepest secret. I want you to fuck my brains out - that is all you mean to me right now! When we're done, feel free to leave.\r\n\r\nAnd if you already have a girlfriend/wife and are in an open relationship, don't you dare start texting me every 20 minutes while I'm at work asking how I feel about you and asking me if you can come \"see me\" every single day then making me feel guilty when I tell you I have shit to do and will get back to you later. Yes, I'm probably avoiding you. It's because you're acting crazy. I only got into this situation because I assumed your relationship status precluded that we would be purely physical. I'm not your girlfriend. Call her if you want to have this talk!\r\n\r\n(I know I sound like a bitch, but this hits home right now)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I stopped reading after the coccyx part. Not because I think any of what you're saying is wrong or stupid, but that brought back a horrible memory and sent fear through my body.\n\nAll I have to say is woman suck at sex for the most part. I can only remember 2 girls I've been with who really knew how to make it 100x better. One girl, I guess, studied sexual positions or something because she always had a new idea, that was fun.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "On new years I had to deal with a girl (fuck buddy) that was REALLY insecure about giving oral because she really had no clue what she was doing and apparently some douchebag had given her a complex about it. It leads me to wonder if girls ever really look for information on what to do. Just speaking for myself, but because I didn't get into the game until I was about to turn 21, I read the damn manual so when my first time came around, I was scared and excited, but at least I had SOME plan of what to do! Luckily, the lesbian I was with took pity on me :P\n\nWe have the internet nowadays so there really is no excuse for a girl NOT knowing whats going on down there (for both of us). It's not like in the old days when you had to talk to a real person about this shit and face getting embarassed...the info is just sitting out there.\n\nIs it just that the source of info the girls have tells them these things? or do they just plain not look for it, thinking they don't need it?", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The key here is communication. Yeah, it can ruin the mood, but after the first time then you know what each other likes and don't have to worry about it ever again...", "score": 4 }, { "body": "if you're giving me a blowjob, don't stop to talk about what your roomate was saying to you earlier that day, or whatever meaningless small talk you have on your mind. it takes the focus away from the blowjob and I'm left with a sub-par handjob while being annoyed.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "> It'd be a lot better for both of us if you were willing to mix it up a bit. I can get in a lot deeper with your ankles behind my ears.\n\nI am so turned on right now.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "\"EDIT: I'm not bitter or anything, I'm just naturally somewhat of a caustic ass. I sound like this when I talk about anything.\"\n\n\n\nyou sir, win ten internets. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Women CAN be good at handjobs - there's an entire black market industry (the proverbial Rub and Tug industry) around this concept.\n\nMy question is - why are instructions for that not online like instructions for blowjobs?\n\nI dated a girl who'd been an erotic masseuse in her wilder younger days. Freakin' amazing handjobs - I mean incredible better than I could do it. I dated a massage therapist of the licensed variety - same deal. I also dated a college professor who blew the both of them away with her handjob abilities. Better handjobs than blowjobs out of the prof. I kinda miss her, now that I think about it.\n\nMen have tons of training manuals, videos, websites, etc on how to properly get a woman off, why the hell don't women have the same? Outside, of course, of slut shaming.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "What kind of car? Year, make, model? It's probably a build sheet punch-card. They use them to track the progress of a car's manufacture process down the assembly line. A lot of the time, factories will stash the build sheet under the carpet or somewhere in the interior.\n \n I found the one for my 80's Chrysler under the front seat carpet. Mine was more of a written out form on side hole computer paper, not a punch-card.", "score": 18 } ]

[ { "body": "Amsterdam has great public transport and virtually everyone uses bikes so you wouldn't be out of place if you wanted to cycle.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Seattle and Portland are quite good, but perhaps a step below larger, more expensive cities like San Fran, Chicago and NY. \n\nI've lived in Portland for 5 years. I have a car, but I only drive on average 2 or 3 times a month, usually when going out to a shop in the suburbs which I could easily get to on public transportation if I weren't so impatient. Grocery stores, restaurants, bars, movie theaters, etc. are all within walking distance.", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "[Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic](http://store.steampowered.com/app/32370/) $4.99\n\n[Medieval II: Total War](http://store.steampowered.com/app/4700/) $4.99\n\n[The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition](http://store.steampowered.com/app/32360/) $4.99\n\n[Indigo Prophecy](http://store.steampowered.com/app/9740/) $3.39\n\n[Evil Genius](http://store.steampowered.com/app/3720/) $1.99", "score": 8 }, { "body": "[Plants vs Zombies](http://store.steampowered.com/app/3590/) for $7.49, awesome tower defense game (I guess that would be the genre) that's fun and funny at the same time. ", "score": 7 }, { "body": "[Rome: Total War](http://store.steampowered.com/app/4760/) - US$2.49\n\n[Medieval II: Total War](http://store.steampowered.com/app/4700/) - US$4.99\n\n[Empire: Total War](http://store.steampowered.com/app/10500/) - US$24.99\n\n[Company of Heroes: Gold](http://store.steampowered.com/sub/553/) - US$14.99\n\n[Unreal Deal Pack](http://store.steampowered.com/sub/683/) - US$13.99\n\n[Braid](http://store.steampowered.com/app/26800/) - US$2.49\n\n[Eidos Collector Pack](http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2687/) - US$49.99\n\n[Borderlands](http://store.steampowered.com/app/8980/) - US$33.99\n\n[Star Wars Jedi Knight Collection](http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2103/) - US$9.99\n\nI'm not getting any richer tomorrow, that's for sure =(", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Just Harvest: Massive Encounter so far. Everything else has been a daily deal. Tomorrow's my big Steam shopping day. I'll be picking up Riddick, Ghostbusters, Braid, Rome Total War, the Freedom Force pack, and The Witcher. Hopefully one of them will be a deal, but I won't pass them up either way.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Several I've been pondering:\n\n* [Indigo Prophesy](http://store.steampowered.com/app/9740/) - $3.40\n* [Dark Messiah Might and Magic](http://store.steampowered.com/app/2100/) - $5\n* [Heroes of Might and Magic V](http://store.steampowered.com/app/15170/) - $5 (expansions are also $5 each)\n\nI recently got Heroes of Might and Magic Clash of Heroes for DS and enjoyed it a lot, but from what I'm told it's drastically different from the rest of the HoMM series. Dark Messiah is a first-person RPG/adventure game, sort of like Zeno Clash from what I've seen.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "[Batman and Deus Ex](http://store.steampowered.com/sub/2687/) for $50, I think they give you a few other games as well.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Ocarina of Time. I find playing games (especially RPGs and adventure games) while stoned increases the immersion in the game substantially. \n\nConker's while stoned is also hilarious.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I'd go with a [6] while playing orcarina and super mario, but you'll need to be at least at [9] to enjoy majora's mask", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "I've read Timeships and most of Baxter's other works.\n\nHe is best at writing when he places an ignorant character with a smart character such that long explainations can be given justification by using the ignorant character's objections to segue from details to big picture stuff. I think there is jargon for this style of writing but I can't remember it right now (classical greek, simplicitio vs. smart guy). He is able to do this many times covering many unique topics with different 'smart' characters by using alterations of the timeline by way of timeship.\n\nI particularly liked the discussion of orbital transfer from rotating spheres.\n\nI have copies of the books here: http://superkuh.ath.cx/users/superkuh/Library/000-Fiction/", "score": 7 }, { "body": "I've read it three times. I keep going back to it. Although there is a little bit of a Deux Ex Machina ending, the ride there is lovely big sci-fi at it's best. And you can tell he's gone to pains to make it dovetail with the Time Machine in terms of plot and tone.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Baxter captured the feel of the original extremely well, I thought. Love Baxter, love Wells, love *The Time Machine*... all around a great book. \r\n\r\nOn a related note, there's a chapter missing from the canon copy of Wells' *The Time Machine*, called \"The Final Men\", and it fits quite nicely with the Baxter book as well. Having a hell of a time finding it online, though, which is distressing. If no one else can find it and I get some interested upvotes, I'll OCR and upload it.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Sorry if this is inappropriate, I just felt this was a place I could avoid, well you know. I'll delete if it bothers people though. I'm a guy, also.", "score": 24 }, { "body": "Just be honest and up-front with your partners, and knowledgeable about your condition. \n\nFirst and foremost, protect yourself. Whether it's HIV, HPV, or HSV (the three major \"permanent\" conditions), you are at risk to contract additional STIs by virtue of your condition. This means, even if you're with someone who has the same condition as you, you are still at risk and should use condoms and lubrication.\n\nSecond off, protect your partners. Same above applies - even if they have the same condition, they are at-risk for co-infection or re-infection. So use condoms to protect them. If they do not have your condition, but upfront about it and tell them before you're in a situation in which you're about to have sex. Use your judgment here. It doesn't have to be within the first 5 minutes, but it should be before you're unbuttoning his pants.", "score": 9 }, { "body": "i'm so sorry for what you are going through. \n\nhave you thought about seeking some sort of therapy? i am not a psychiatrist, but i know that you have suffered two very traumatic experiences--being date-raped, and being infected with an STD--that commonly cause those affected to feel terrible shame, despite having done nothing wrong or shameful. i believe that cognitive behavioral therapy, when done correctly, can help people change their patterns of thinking, which might allow you to re-define how you feel about yourself and shed the shame that you (may) feel but do not deserve. \n\nthe other thing you should take at least some comfort in is the fact that no matter how isolated you feel as a person with an STD, that couldn't be farther from the truth. somewhere between 20 & 30% of the adult population has genital herpes and for HPV, it's closer to 75-80%. while it is true that many people do not know that they are infected, it is also a fact that millions of Americans do know that they are infected and are still able form loving, lasting relationships. but in order for this to happen, you have to understand that your STD in no way changes who you are and does not reflect anything about you but your bad luck--which is why i really hope you seek some form of therapy. you are worthy and deserving of love, and others will know that about you, but only once you know it about yourself. i wish you the best.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "I think a lot of this will depend on which STD you have, I started to write a reply assuming you were gay and HIV+ but I don't know that for certain. More info would be helpful. =)", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Fear of STD's is a healthy thing but there are many many men out there who know how to play safely and would love to get to know you. Be fearless, be frank; you'll be surprised, once you're out of your shell, how easy it is to have a fun social life. STD's are unfortunate but not jail a sentence.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I met my current boyfriend on Adam4Adam.com. Check it out - it was quite busy in the Santa Barbara area at least. \n\nTo be frank, gays have much higher rates of STDs than the general population for obvious reasons. If 20-30% of the general population tests positive for herpes, then you can bet the rate is significantly higher in gay men (perhaps even double). Strangely enough, I have never seen a man identify himself as having an STD on the dating sites I have used, so I think it's fair to say most gay men either don't know, are lying, or simply don't care about their STD status. I wouldn't mention it in my profile, and if what you're looking for is a relationship, would be certain to mention it before sex. I don't think I would react very well if a potential boyfriend told me about his herpes after I had sex with him even if he was a great guy.\n\nBest of luck to you. I sure do like my men nerdy. :)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I too was date raped and contracted an STD. I was really nervous at first that no one would ever want to be with me, and as a result I shunned away any opportunity to meet someone. I became rather depressed afterward. \n\nThe first thing that helped me was doing a lot of research about the disease I had. Reading about other's experiences, and seeing the statistics showed me how, unfortunately, common most STDS are. This gave me a kind of confidence. I thought, hell, either they've got it too, and if they don't, they'll either like me enough or I'll find someone who does. I don't know which STD you have, but you need to remember that that is not your identifying factor. You don't need to join some site for people with STDs like a leper. There's a lot more to you, and you will find someone who appreciates those things. Everyone have medical problems. \n\nWhen I finally met someone I liked, I waited a while before doing anything sexual. I made sure they saw me for my personality, my attributes, and not something that is some other asshole's fault. Once I had established myself, I told him the truth. It didn't change the way he felt. It was such a relief to have someone to share this experience with, someone who could be understanding. \n\nSince my relationship began (2 years ago), I haven't had any outbreaks. Stress really triggers any disease you have lying dormant in your system, btw. Good Luck!!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "sudo find / -newerct '1 minute ago' -print\n\nPrints out a list of all the files whose inode change time is more recent than the current time minus one minute.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "The Finder's built in searching works fine for this. You can even save your searches in the sidebar. Go to a folder you want to track, get your search just right and hit save.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Your animal:\nWhat you need to do, if I recall, is build a cage (b, v) and then inspect the cage (q), and deselect the animal (select it and hit enter, it's probably the only one in there). Also, I don't think animals ever eat or drink, although cats will kill vermin.\n\nYour (Hypothetical) Magma:\nMagma workshops (a different building than normal ones) must have at least one of the outer 8 tiles over (not in) magma to work (you can build over open space and let the magma flow in later). I've always interpreted it as drawing the magma up from the z-level below it. Some people I've seen build over a large pool of magma (either over the edge or on floors built out on it), but I prefer to pipe the magma down a tube from the source do under wherever my workshops are going, and then just dig one little hole over the tube.\n\nGood luck with your fort!", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "You've said you're \"not incredibly computer savvy in this regard\" so don't even think about going down the RAID path.\n\nGet a large external HDD and back everything up to it. You may like to look at the Windows command line utility 'robocopy'.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I have 8x1.5TB internal HDDs in a box at a mate's place, with a complete backup of my media & files. He has a (smaller) set of HDDs at my place. When I add files to this backup, I just take the last disk, put it in a USB enclosure and add everything from the \"UNSORTED' folder before sorting it into my primary archive.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you decide to store them on permanent media, like blank DVDs, use the USENET trick to be able to recover them from modest to moderate damage, like a scratched DVD.\n\nFirst, store them in WinRAR volumes. This splits large, single files into a group of RAR files each about the same size. Then, use the freeware program QuickPar, to create several PAR files for the group of RAR files. This makes good insurance against scratches on the DVD you have burned with your files.\n\nFirst of all, a PAR file can *reproduce* any one of the RAR files that are damaged. This is real mathematical magic. And because the large, single file has been split into a bunch of smaller ones, if there is damage, it will just affect one or two of the RAR files, not the entire big file. So you can copy the good RAR and PAR files to your HD, and reconstruct the RAR files, then recombine them into a working large file again.\n\nEach PAR file will be the same as the largest RAR file, so if say you have a movie that is 2Gb, and you split it into 20 - 100Mb RAR files, then create 3 - 100Mb PAR files, the total storage space you will need is 2.3Gb. This means that even if three of your RAR files cannot be copied from your DVD to your HD, you can still reconstruct your entire movie.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Sounds like he's being a brat. If he won't eat what you make him, he's being ungrateful, especially if he isn't even helping you with ideas of what to cook.\n\nLet him eat at McDonalds, then, and save your own money. ", "score": 9 }, { "body": "2 cans kidney beans\n2 cans of chicken stock\n2 cups of rice\n1 package of smoked sausage\n1 red onion (cut into bite size pieces)\n1 bell pepper (cut into bite size pieces)\ntony chachere's creole seasoning and salt to taste\n\n - Cook it all together in a crock pot, or on slow boil in a pot until all the liquid is absorbed by the rice.\n\nYou'd be amazed how good this turns out... If you want to try it with spice (without the BF), just use hot smoked sausage and add a small pepper to the dish\n\n\nAlso, you cant go wrong with chicken and dumplings (you can buy frozen dumplings) \n\nBBQing is really simple if you have access to a grill, just remember any meat tastes good when it is cooked slowly with BBQ sauce :]\n\n - Dont forget about breakfast for dinner (aka \"brinner\") every man LOVES it.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Get some flour, panko bread crumbs, chicken breasts, heavy whipping cream(16oz), chicken base, jalapenos, rotella, cream cheese,eggs.\n\nmix flour with whatever seasoning you prefer, but salt and pepper is just fine. Beat an egg in a bowl. Roll chicken in flower mix, dip chicken in egg, bread chicken with panko bread crumbs.\n\nPreheat oven to 450, let a stick of butter melt in a pan(enough butter that is rises about 1/3 up the hicken breasts). Heat for 20 minutes, flip breasts and heat another 20 minutes.\n\nMix the heavy whipping cream, cream cheese, jalapenos and rotella into a gravy like cream. Pour over chicken.\n\nI could eat this all day every day.\n\nIT'S SO FUCKING GOOD!", "score": 5 }, { "body": "you sound amazing. Dump your boyfriend and we can go on crazy spicy eating adventures every night. Lets throw meat, bread, and cheese to the wind & live forever together in every meal.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Cheese on toast. Meat and cheese on toast. Meat on toast. Cheese pizza. Cheese and meat pizza. Meat kebab. Meat and cheese Kebab. Meat on naan. Cheese and meat on naan. Pitta bread and meat. Pitta bread cheese and meat. \n\nThe choices are endless. Seemingly. ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "I hate to ask the obvious question... but why do you feel so responsible for what your boyfriend eats? I mean.. i realize you're trying to be nice and all... but do you do ALL of his cooking?... Why?... \n\nI guess my point being: .... since you're doing all the cooking... he pretty much has no responsibility for his own eating habits (You're making it easy - AND - reinforcing his picky habits) .... \n\nWhy not just stop. .and see what happens? ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "There isn't much he can eat, so either he changes his tastes or keeps eating the same stuff. Nothing you can do, i'm kind of the same way, just not as bad.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "My wife and I have been dealing with this for quite some time. I'll see if I can't coerce her to share some recipes.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "[Art of Manliness - Man Cookbook](http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1843380/Art-of-Manliness---Man-Cookbook)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Not spicy Indian food. I have a friend whose boyfriend is the same way, she eventually got him to eat some chicken tikka masala or something, it was sort of a revelation for him.\n\nThere is also some Chinese food that should fit the bill, for example BBQ pork Bow and other steamed bread and meat products.\n\nYou could also try beef stew + bread:\nBUY:\n1 loaf of bread (or for extra cheapness (and goodness) make it from scratch.\n1-2 lbs of chuck (either marked as stew beef and cut up or in a big chunk)\n1-2 onions\nsome potatoes.\nbig carton or two small cans of low sodium Beef stock.\n(any other root veggies he will eat, carrots and celery being traditional)\n(spices he will tolerate, salt, pepper, thyme, oregano whatever basically) \n \nget a big pot:\n\n1. Brown the beef in a little oil. Pull the beef out.\n\n2. Put in an chopped onion (and if he will eat it, carrot, celery, garlic) salt (pepper) and cook scraping up the little bits of brown beef undoubtedly stuck in your pan.\n\n3. Add the stock (the extra classy would splash in some dry red wine here)\n\n4. Add the potatoes\n\n5. Simmer for an hour or so until the beef is tender.\n\n6. If he will eat them add frozen peas right at the end.\n\n7. Serve with bread! (and probably salt and pepper on the table since you can't really adjust seasonings to taste since you are a vegetarian.) \n", "score": 3 }, { "body": ">I can't keep making the same stuff, he will get bored\n\nYou know there's a reason why he eats the same stuff, right?\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Have you tried tortellini...easy to make and isn't bad for you. I'm quite a picky eater but never had a problem with pasta.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Feel free to ignore this, it is impossible to get an accurate description of your relationship from little bits of info but it sounds a lot like he is not appreciating your efforts a whole lot. When my girlfriend or friends cook for me I appreciate the food, even if it was not perfect I enjoy it because they made the effort. I just hope he appreciates all the work you do for him and you are not cooking for a spoiled kid...", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Nip it in the bud now and try and encourage him to try new foods. My husband was just like this (still is to some extent) and the major effect that it's had on my life: I have gained about 40 lbs in the 12 years that we've been together. I used to eat mostly veggies, rarely ate fast food and over the years his bad eating habits have rubbed off on me. It's happened so gradually that I didn't even notice it until I had developed some really bad habits. It started out because I'm not a picky person and it was just easier to cook the things he liked and go to the restaurants that he liked rather than argue about it. I certainly don't think that I'm blameless, I could have stuck to my guns but I didn't. Now instead of just one of us being unhealthy and a bit overweight, it's both of us. After all this time he's finally becoming more adventurous with his diet and willing to try new things and we're slowly getting back to the way that I used to eat but now it's hard because I'm used to eating more junk than I used to. It's much easier to develop bad habits than good ones, don't fall into the same routine that I did. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I'm going to try to avoid making judgements about your boyfriend because I obviously do not know either of you but if I were acting in judge-book-by-cover mode I would have a few choice words about him. I will however tell you that my fiance was very picky when we met. I consider a broad and healthy diet to be very important to a good long term relationship so in order to get her to try different things I would make dinner an event instead of a chore. I made a big deal about being excited when she tried and enjoyed new things. I had all kinds of things I would do for her and I was always willing to make something else that she liked as long as she made an effort to try the main meal I made. When we would eat out I would have her order something that she had never tried and I would order something that I knew she liked so that if she didn't like what she ordered we could trade. Now she has a very broad and healthy palette even though she is still on the picky side of the dinner table.\n\n Its much harder to refuse food when someone has made a solid effort to prepare something for you while looking at the sit down portion of your meal as quality time together and if he does not respond to this he is likely being selfish and not respecting or appreciating you (ok maybe just one judgement). Fortunately my significant other appreciated all of the culinary effort I made for her and it is just one of the many reasons that she is now my fiance. ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I used to be a seriously picky eater. Then one day at around the age of 19, I realized I was acting like a giant pussy. I was having dinner at a GF's parents house and did not want her father to think(or know) what a child I was by refusing what his family had offered me.\n\nEver since then, if Ive never had it, I will try it. If someone is cooking me dinner and it's something I don't like, out of respect and thanks I will politely eat it.\n\nIt helps to remember that vegetarian Buddhist monks who begged for their food from villagers would eat meat if that's what was given to them. Mind over matter, respect and a bit of gratitude makes it a lot easier.\n\ntl;dr: Ask him when he expects his balls to drop.\n", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "You'd become internet famous. TV infamous. Newspaper infamous. Prison famous. And finally butt raped.", "score": 29 }, { "body": "Well, you'd be considered an embarrassment to the country by a majority of Americans, I'd imagine. Even if it was someone generally disliked. ", "score": 15 }, { "body": "A bit of superficial research on this subject.\n\nFederal law addresses this subject under 18 US Code § 1116: Murder or manslaughter of foreign officials, official guests, or internationally protected persons.\n\nThe statute does not mention any heightened consequences for assaulting an \"internationally protected person,\" which includes heads of state. Basically, the statute appears to have been crafted to extend Federal criminal law to these acts.\n\nFurther, \"In the course of enforcement of this section and any other sections prohibiting a conspiracy or attempt to violate this section, the Attorney General may request assistance from any Federal, State, or local agency, including the Army, Navy, and Air Force, any statute, rule, or regulation to the contrary notwithstanding.\"\n\nIn other words, you'd be prosecuted by the Justice Department, backed by the full weight of the US government, and you would most certainly be looking at federal prison. Nothing to sneeze at.\n\nThe Second Circuit observed that \"The statutes in question . . . were enacted in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on the Israeli Olympic Team at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich for the purpose of extending the protection of federal criminal law to 'resident diplomats, consular and other foreign government personnel and their families . . . '\"\n\nSo you would be in a whole hell of a lot of trouble. But the basic crime would be nothing special: assault, murder, manslaughter, or what have you. Maybe treason in some bizarre circumstance.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "yup thats a scam. I had 2 ps3 auctions end with me getting that fucking message.\n\nI was so fucking angry. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Would I be able to tell you're autistic by talking to you? Are you a full-time student? Do you take classes with other premed students? Do you get good grades? What's your major? When did you know you wanted to be a doctor? And, if I can ask, what state are you from?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Has this also gotten on [your cat](http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/akw5d/askreddit_my_cat_just_tipped_over_a_candle_and/)?", "score": 5 }, { "body": "try sliding a knife back and forth underneath the wax, slowly cutting it out, i had to do the same with melted plastic on my carpet ", "score": 3 }, { "body": "If you can't iron it out go into a closet and cut a 4\"x4\" square from behind the door where you won't ever see it. \n\nPlace it on the spot. Cut out the old carpet. \nSUPER glue the new carpet in the old carpet's place.\n\nI did this a few times when moving out of apartments.\nIt works best for newer carpets. \nDon't sweat it - it works (really) and this is what a carpet installer would do for a fee.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Please TEST the hot iron on an inconspicuous spot first. Those plastic fibers can very easily melt if the iron is too hot.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Put a brown paper bag over the wax. Iron the bag (low temperature) until the wax melts and soaks into the bag. Replace the bag with a new one. Repeat as needed.\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Tease a couple of fibers from the carpet up through the wax. Light said fibers and enjoy your CarpetCandle!", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Ocarina of time.\nFavourite level: Pretty much the whole game was awesome.\nLeast favourite level: The water temple. Filled me with rage ;(", "score": 53 }, { "body": "Goldeneye. Best mission: facility, a very fun experience in SP and so much fun for proximity mine multiplayer\n\nWorst mission: Control - My god. The screaming and the tears...", "score": 15 }, { "body": "Favorite game: Final Fantasy VI\n\nFavorite scene: the opera house\n\nLeast favorite: Anything that required splitting the party into three groups. Seriously, some of the characters were almost useless and ended up 20 levels behind everyone else.", "score": 13 }, { "body": "I have too many favorite games, but Sonic Adventure 2 could have been so much more.\n\nFavorite parts : Most of Sonics/Shadows Levels\n\nDumbest parts: The fact that you have to rotate characters and any of the levels for the other characters . . .especially knuckles/rogue.\n\n", "score": 13 }, { "body": "Super Metroid\n\nFavourite \"level\" - Ridley's lair in Norfair. \n\nLeast favourite - The parts of Meridia where you're in the large under water caverns. I never liked water levels. The later parts of that area of more fun and atmospheric though. ", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Majora's Mask. Favourite level: Stone tower. Least favourite: Great bay temple.\n\nP.S. I liked how much more, let's say, emotionally rich and mysterious Majora's Mask was than OOT.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Shadow of the Colossus.\n\nFavorite level(s): Sand dragon/Sorceror for the sheer awesomeness. Giant in the Colosseum for gameplay.\n\nLeast favorite(s): Sand worm/Turtle for frustration. Sea monster for gimmicky-ness. (Still had fun on these though.)", "score": 10 }, { "body": "Chrono Trigger\r\n\r\nFavorite Level- The Kingdom of Zeal was just a great idea, and being cast out and stealing the ship was a lot of fun. The Black Omen fights at the end were pretty epic as well.\r\n\r\nLeast Favorite Levels- While the fights with Magnus are epic, his lair is fairly annoying the first go around, as well as parts of the Reptites Castle, and the future sewer. Basically anywhere there were a large number of traps or repetitive scenery, (although these parts are still miles above levels in many other games.)\r\n\r\nFavorite Game This Year: Red Faction Guerilla.\r\n\r\n-Best level: Anything that involves multiple explosions and enemies.\r\n\r\n-Worst level: Anything that does not involve multiple explosions and enemies, (aka the races.)", "score": 9 }, { "body": "Deus Ex. Loved Hell's Kitchen for being a classic and Hong Kong for atmosphere. Hated all those levels that are essentially just warehouses of different kinds.", "score": 8 }, { "body": "Batman: Arkum Asylum (not my fav, but top 20)\r\n\r\nThe last time you fight Scarecrow. The last hallucination he hits you with before the usual hide/run stage truly scared me like no game ever scared me. \r\n\r\n", "score": 7 }, { "body": "Super Smash Bros. Entire series, but more so Brawl.\n\nAs for the latter question; favorite level would be stock matches with all explosive items on high, least favorite would be coin matches. (Does anyone even play these?)", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Final Fantasy VI for the SNES. The developers were able to cram so much story and emotion into that game using just sprites. The music was also really good. I still listen to the piano collection for nostalgia. \n\nFavorite level: Beating the game and watching the epic ending.\n\nLeast favorite level: Trying to save Cid after Kefka screws up the world. I kept feeding him fish, but he still dies. *sniff*", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Mass Effect. My favorite parts are either the last mission when your character is an unstoppable force and you can bypass the second-to-last battle (trying to keep it spoiler free) or when you find out about the Reapers.\n\nMy least favorite part was fighting the Matriarch on the ice-planet. I was playing on the hardest difficulty and ran out of med-packs before I fought her, so I had to drive all the way back to my ship, pick some up, and drive back. It was very annoying.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Rome Total War.\n\nBest Part: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. \n\nWorst Part: Rebellion!", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Not _technially_ my favourite but It fits the theme so well.\n\nPsychonauts!\n\nBest level:\nAny of the three inside the asylum:\n\n* The milkman conspiracy\n* Napoleon\n* The Opera\n\nLeast Favorite:\n\n* The fucking meat circus!", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I'm going to pick one that's really under the radar: SaGa Frontier.\n\nThis particular RPG had a unique way of weaving the story of several different heroes together to make a coherent world. \n\nFavorite Hero Storyline: Red\nLeast Favorite Hero Storyline: Riki", "score": 6 }, { "body": "We <3 Katamari\n\nFavourite level: One Million Flowers. It's relaxing. Also, the one where you have 17 minutes to roll up the world is extremely fun.\n\nLeast favourite level: EVERY OTHER LEVEL. Especially the goddamn cow level. Not so much the levels themselves (except the cow level, that was horrendous), but the NPCs who set the quests. \"Oh,\" she says, \"that's a lot of money,\" she says, plucking out three dollars from my pile of rolled up goods over thirty thousand dollars in value. \"Well that's a lot of light,\" he says, \"But now it's too bright\". \"Oh you've made me feel really big,\" says the bird atop the elephant, \"but I don't need to be big come to think of it.\"\n\n**[screams]**", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Favorite game: Xenogears\n\nFavorite Scene: The invasion of Solaris\n\nLeast-favorite Scene: The entire part of the second disc where I did not have control of any of my characters.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "Either Deus Ex or GTA: San Andreas.\n\nGTASA doesn't have levels, but I loved all the missions from Mike Toreno and The Truth, especially the flight school, where I got the Hunter; and didn't like San Fierro much.\n\nRegarding Deus Ex I think I loved everything, my favorite maps were all the military maps (Naval Base, Vandenberg, and Area 51), and the least favorite one was that map with NSF snipers on rooftops (Hell's Kitchen I believe, it's been 10 years, memory is getting fuzzy).\n\nEDIT: To the OP, I found it amusing to watch Milbots destroy themselves with Aggressive Defense System 4/4, they'd try to hit me with rockets and blow themselves up as my augmentation destroyed the rockets as they were exiting the tubes (this also worked very well against MJ12 Commandos).", "score": 5 }, { "body": "i know ill be downvoted for this, but i thoroughly enjoy playing modern warfare 2. Civilization 4 is just the bees knees. Dragon Age: Origins has provided me with lots of fun as well. sorry if i lack a lot of nostalgia with my choices as they are relatively new for the most part, but i really love the way games are being made these days.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Fallout. Can`t believe I`m the first saying this on this post.\n Favorite: Exploring and random encounters. I just loved to find a highwaymen gang or some bounty hunters out for my blood and exploding their torsos with my Gauss Rifle. Then looting them and leave a trail of corpses behind me.\n Least favorite: The Temple of Trials. It was kinda lame.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Hitman Blood Money\n\nFavorite Level was the witness protection level.\n\nLeast favorite was fucking Marti Gras. ", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Tribes 2. Favorite thing - the extensive mods and the jetpacks\nLeast favorite thing - nobody plays it anymore", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Contra III The Alien Wars is one of the coolest videogames ever. The only levels that sucked are the top-down levels. All others rocked. The only downside to the game is that it ends.", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Super Mario Brother 3.\r\n\r\nFavorite Level: The one with the tanookie suit. I always loved wearing it.\r\n\r\nLeast Favorite: World 8 boats. Really? You can just swim in the lava under the boats?! ", "score": 4 }, { "body": "Age of Empires 3. I loved the multiplayer online and LAN parties that I had. I didn't like when people quit as soon as things started to look bad for them.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Natural-Selection.\n\nco maps. i like pulse(fast paced, fair map), hate kestrel(boring stalemate) \nns maps. i like caged(esp. as a lerk at marine start-vent) don't like veil (overplayed)\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Metal Gear Solid:\n\nFavourite bit = the overwhelming and utmost urgency I felt whilst running back to grab the sniper rifle to fight Wolf, because MERYL WAS BUSY DYING GODDAMIT!!\n\nWorst bit = Getting back and finding Meryl's body gone :( Either that or running up and down the endless steps in the comms tower, especially the sets with the ever increasing number of wall mounted sentry guns :@", "score": 3 }, { "body": "The Bard's Tale - Apple IIe version\n\nFavorite level - Kylearan's Tower. Just the right mix of challenging level design, artifact hunting, and monsters.\n\nLeast Favorite - The Sewers. What a boring maze. Ugly colors, nonsensical arrangement, and maddening spinners.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Doom! Favorite game. \r\nFavorite Level: E3M2, Slough of Despair. The level is brilliantly fun. The first level of the episode is incredibly stingy with the ammo, so you always come to this one with a couple of pistol shots left. This is where the \"despair\" comes in, because you're constantly trying to scrounge for ammo checking around every rock. The shape of the level works perfectly with this gameplay style. It's a completely non-linear grotto, and you can play it any way you want. You can stay towards the outside and not aggro too many monsters, searching the perimeter for ammo and the exit. Or you can systematically clear out the level, carefully finding monsters one-by-one and ambushing them. And since the level is so open, it's very alluring to simply run and gun to the back of the level, and try to find the exit. But this method is likely to make you miss a lot of the goodies hidden towards the center of the grotto, and you might back yourself into a corner, because here's the twist: the entire level is shaped like a demonic hand, with slightly curled/gnarled fingers at the back of the level. Check out this map, of course the level feels much deeper in-game...And of course with doom's automap system, you don't realize it's a hand until you're almost done.\r\nhttp://doom.wikia.com/wiki/E3M2:_Slough_of_Despair_(Doom)\r\n\r\nLeast Favorite Level: E3M8, Dis. The last boss of the game, and its disappointingly easy, unless you die the first try and you have to take a pistol start. She dies in a couple BFG shots if you have one.\r\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Final Fantasy VI.\r\n\r\nBest part: The Opera. My mum played through the game before I did, and we still laugh about the Wah wah voices.\r\n\r\nWorst part: Fanatic's Tower. Only because of [the music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FT6OsSHcQ)", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Starcraft. \n\nFavorite Level: Couldn't pick one.\n\nLeast Favorite: Every single one where you're given a set number of troops and expected to finish the level without building a base.\n\nGranted I much prefer SC for the multiplayer than the campaigns.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped\n\n**Most Favorite Level:** 17: Bye Bye Blimps\n\nMaking Coco fly around and shoot blimps is very fun. \n\n\n**Least Favorite:** 2: Under Pressure\n\nShitty under water level, you moved as slow as hell and doing the time trial was torture. ", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "In the case of Ottawa, there's something really nifty for this exact question: http://www.volunteerottawa.ca/vo-clean/", "score": 5 } ]

[ { "body": "The more you know, the more you realise how little you know.\n\nAlso - the more you know, the better you are at concealing the fact you know better than everyone else.", "score": 12 }, { "body": "This reminds me of the [Dunning-Kruger effect](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect). ..\"less competent people will rate their own ability higher than more competent people.\"\n\n", "score": 9 }, { "body": "I don't think so, I have a pretty big ego and I like to think I understand modern science fairly well.\n\nInteresting topic though.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I'm in college, and i can definitely sense this in the douche-baggery around campus. This however could also be due to priorities of the individual, aka partying.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "I find that the smartest people actually have the biggest egos. To think of popular examples you may be able to relate to better, see \"Sir Isaac Newton\" aka \"that raging pompous prick\" (apocryphal maybe even fabricated, but perhaps attributable to Leibniz?) or \"Alexander Grothendieck\" aka \"Mister solitude-is-better-than-deigning-to-mingle-with-the-normies\". The two people my age I know that I would consider geniuses have commensurate egos. Maybe out of ego, I consider my Dad to be pretty genius-y, yet I guess he's like one of the most humble people I know. Although he could just be epic trolling me, like how he made my mom think he was christian for 20 years. I never let on to my ego in real life, so he might just be doing like me.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "This is not the same. The quote refers to the elders' disdain for the youthful. This is likely universal.\n\nWhat we have now (and probably not unique in terms of history) is a generation that grew up in a time of large financial growth and spoiled by the lack of a major war or knowledge of physical hunger.\n\nFat and religious. They will die, and we will be better off.\n", "score": 15 }, { "body": "“shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.”\r\n\r\n“The father buys, the son builds, the grandchild sells, and his son begs.” - Scottish Proverb \r\n", "score": 6 }, { "body": "I generally see it that the elders of today and the privileged few that hold Trust at the top of Society have abused their position of \"authority\", used Torture, started wars by deception and without consent, and want to take more centralized power and control through maintaining and heightening fear and increasing security measures and extending the police state.\n\n", "score": 3 }, { "body": "You are absolutely failing to look at any demographic information. The Baby Boomers are called that because it was a literal baby boom - a massive population bump. This group carries enough power by sheer numbers that it can sway the entire of society to serve it. The entire political process over many years has been shaped by this group.\n\nWhen you see low tax rates for retirement investment funds that put money into housing, you can blame the Baby Boomers. They made the rules, it benefits them the most and the younger generation are getting fucked because they'll never be able to buy a home to live in.\n\nRight now in Australia we're moving into having a grey population. There will be more retired people than working. Old people will control the policies and taxation, etc, through sheer numbers. Guess what will be happening then? Low tax rates on retirees. High tax rates on the young. Medicines subsidised at the cost of say, education and primary schools.\n\nThe Baby Boomers have had a very real demographic effect.", "score": 3 }, { "body": ">I'm a Gen Y kid\n\nWait until you have to actually find a job, make car payments, raise children, etc. and generally pull your own weight for once and you'll resent the boomers as much as us Gen-Xers do. They're the 1st generation to hand a society and world to their children in worse shape than when they got it. Fuck 'em.", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "He predicted the Icelandic banking collapse and most of his predictions are in line with Peter Schiff and Ron Paul. I like him.", "score": 11 }, { "body": "Love him. He makes it all damn entertaining. And his girlfriend Stacy. And he rants hard. Like saying bankers should be lynched. ", "score": 4 } ]

[ { "body": "Upvoted for being correct.\n\nHowever, in alot of cases it's still cheaper to buy the Bundle and take the hit on the one or two games than it is to complete the bundle with seperate purchases.", "score": 109 }, { "body": "Not completely true. I previously owned the Tomb Raider games. When I bought Underworld I received Legend for free. I bought the Eidos pack during this sale and received an extra copy of Tomb Raider: Legend. http://i.imgur.com/U9dy5.png", "score": 17 }, { "body": "The gifting if for buying packs, not bundles. People buy the 4-packs of games like L4D or Shattered Horizon. You CAN gift the other 3 copies you get... that's the entire point.", "score": 10 }, { "body": "\"When Steam released The Orange Box it wasn't long after they'd released HL2:EP2 as a stand alone game, people who'd bought EP2 felt hurt that Steam would then sell The Orange Box at a similar price; allowing those who waited to purchase HL2 with Portal and TF2 at a similar price to they paid for HL2. Steam felt bad, they decided to offer users who bought The Orange Box and already owned HL2:EP2 the option to Gift the \"spare copy\" to a friend, as a good will gesture.\"\n\nBut you *can't gift the spare copy of HL2 Ep2.* It's just HL2 Ep1 and HL2 that are giftable.", "score": 6 }, { "body": "About half a year ago I bought TF2 on sale then shortly after I bought Orange Box. I assumed that I would get a gift copy of TF2 since it was already included in orange box and I received no warning like:\n>>† Note: You already own the following items in \"Complete PopCap Collection\". You will not receive extra copies of these items when you complete this purchase: * Plants vs. Zombies\n\nI emailed valve and they ended up refunding me the amount I bought tf2 for because at no time durring the buying process they made me aware I WOULDN'T get an extra gift copy.", "score": 5 }, { "body": "Wow, I'm a big Valve fan, so I'd be surprised if my memories are so blurred for this part of history: I could swear that Valve released the Orange Box as a whole bundle and together with EP2. It was more so that OB included *EP1* and HL2 and there was no way to purchase OB without these two at a cheaper price (just EP2, Portal and TF2). Instead of releasing a cheaper version without HL2 and EP1, Valve allowed people who already owned the two games to gift them away when purchasing the OB.", "score": 3 }, { "body": "Couldn't you theoretically buy the bundle as a gift and then gift yourself the games you don't have, saving the rest?", "score": 3 } ]

[ { "body": "Its not a true rolling update like Arch, no. You'd have to do a apt-get dist-upgrade whenever they jumped a version - after changing the package sources. So its similar to Ubuntu in that respect. The only trully rolling updated distros I know of are Gentoo and Arch. Arch is a very nice distro and one I'd highly recommend if you fancy taking the plunge.", "score": 3 } ]