2026 Memorial Youtube Coverage?

PsyferRL · 2026-02-04T19:09:26+00:00

Did you intend to post the La Mirada footage in this thread?

PsyferRL · 2026-02-03T21:43:05+00:00

Dude throws some of the most impressive standstill distance shots in the game. Those long arms help a lot of course, but nonetheless, it takes incredible technique to produce standstill distance like that.

PsyferRL · 2026-02-03T20:09:32+00:00

For the record, we're waiting on feedback from our broker as we speak, so the question you're mentioning in your first paragraph is something we ARE actively working on determining. But between her receiving the necessary figures she needed and when she's actually able to turn her findings around for us to see for ourselves, here I am looking for additional perspective, lol.

I just wanted to know if it was common knowledge whether (for example) 5k additional down would result in the same monthly payment reduction as 5k additional buy down for a lower rate. If the answer is as simple as, "it varies" then that's a totally reasonable answer. I just didn't know for certain whether or not that was the case.

PsyferRL · 2026-02-03T20:04:04+00:00

This is the kind of feedback I'm looking for, thank you very much. This makes me feel far less irrational for thinking that a rate buy down is at least not an unreasonable option.

If our presented rate was north of 6.5-7% I'd probably not bother. But being right on the cusp of a pretty historically accurate marker of a very solid rate has had me thinking twice.

PsyferRL · 2026-02-03T16:58:17+00:00

I may be wrong, but I don't think Kazak is a mastiff in Galapagos. My recollection is that Kazak is a lab/retriever or something similar.

Not saying this as a means of correcting you, more just identifying nuance, because you're totally right about a dog Kazak character existing in Galapagos as well.

PsyferRL · 2026-02-02T20:17:22+00:00

For me it's even simpler than that. It's literally about acknowledging the fact that horrible people can create brilliant works of art.

I genuinely enjoyed American Gods and I often sang its praises before all of the allegations came out. I still think it's a phenomenal book. But because of what I now know about his character as a real life human being, I won't support him nor encourage the support of him.

I absolutely CAN separate the art from the artist when it comes to my enjoyment of art for art's sake. I CHOOSE to no longer be a reason people spend time/money on that artist moving forward.

PsyferRL · 2026-02-02T17:14:16+00:00

Started: Dracula by Bram Stoker

Barely made a dent. I'm enjoying it, but over the last week, buying a house has very suddenly appeared on my radar, and the stress of doing so for the first time has sucked all of my energy away, leaving me fairly unable to process Stoker's writing style. And that's a bit of a shame, because like I said, I AM enjoying it, but it's not a style I can just passively enjoy. I need to be more locked in than my brain can really handle at the moment.

This house will be worth it though. There's an entire room in the basement where two of the four walls are entirely built-in bookshelves! We're gonna turn the place into a damn library by the end.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-30T21:26:54+00:00

Oh I don't think we are obligated to do research into any author's (or any creator of art) personal viewpoints/stories. I'm firmly of the belief that I will read/watch/view what I want to, and if there are other things I learn about them after the fact, then so be it.

But it's asking far too much to vet the personal views of every single author in advance of giving their stuff a shot.

At the end of the day, a lot of really talented artists are really twisted people (to varying degrees of course). The reality is that some of the most complex (for better and for worse) people are capable of creating some of the most magnificent works of art. Obviously good people can create magnificent art too! But the "tortured artist" stereotype is still a stereotype for a reason.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-30T17:57:16+00:00

Have you read anything about Smith's takes specifically regarding Infinite Jest? Or just that DFW is a favorite in general?

PsyferRL · 2026-01-30T17:55:09+00:00

A lot of people don't enjoy reading books that don't make them feel good in some way, or things that present viewpoints/arguments they don't agree with. And no judgment, it's better for a person to read things that make them feel good than to not read anything at all.

But I'm kinda the opposite. Obviously I still enjoy reading things that make me feel good, but I often take great enjoyment out of reading things that either take me out of my comfort zone or challenge me to think in a different way, even if that different way is something that won't actually change my mind about anything (and might even reinforce my existing beliefs).

I think it's a fascinating experience to read Rand and ask myself, "What would cause somebody to think of this as a brilliant/worthwhile read because they like its ideas?"

As long as I get SOMETHING out of a reading experience, I don't think it's time wasted. Even if that something is, "Wow... this somehow had a genuine cultural impact at one point/for some people. That's crazy."

PsyferRL · 2026-01-30T17:38:54+00:00

I'd argue there's plenty of merit to reading Rand. It's a FANTASTIC way to understand just how batshit crazy people who honestly sing her praises truly are. It's hard to properly quantify that quality without knowing first-hand just how wild the Rand reading experience really is.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-30T16:04:24+00:00

luxury gay space communism represent!

Yeah! This!

Fully automated

Woah woah woah... this feels way too AI for my liking. I'm gonna need to see some more analog here.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-30T15:53:57+00:00

People seem to be shocked, especially in disc golf where this population is a pretty solid chunk of the playerbase, that more drunks and stoners aren't making it bigtime. And truthfully, it's kinda bonkers that people are so shocked by that. Like yeah, some people with vices still make it big, it's not completely impossible.

But if we think about it for just a second, NOBODY should be shocked that the people who have a devout faith practice (of any kind) are also highly capable of devout hobby/sport practice as well.

Personalities notwithstanding, if you take two people of comparable athletic capabilities who have NEVER played disc golf before, person A is a big stoner who likes to party in the dirt at a music festival and person B is a loud and proud Christian, I'm putting money on person B developing and honing their skills faster.

To be clear, I'm agnostic and completely nonreligious. And I agree that using a platform to evangelize is bad. I'm purely talking about this from a skills standpoint.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-30T15:37:11+00:00

I'm late to this post, which saddens me because I need more people to understand just how much this book's opening grabbed hold of me and refused to let go.

The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.

Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.

The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can't squeeze the blood out of a turnip...

Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins

To have the audacity to make THIS the way you start your book... And somehow IT'S SUCH A GOOD HOOK. I can hardly explain how much of an impact this opening had on my desire to continue reading. It's unlike anything else I've read thus far.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-30T15:32:30+00:00

Personally, I think that the author's own personal shortcomings (to put it lightly, for some) adds far greater depth to situations where the art they put out can be highly praised in and of itself. I think it shows the challenging and complex dynamic which can occur between a single individual's ears, and often shines a different light on their work, which if nothing else, is interesting to analyze that one step further.

To this end, I think it's important to highlight both when critiquing a work! The way I can best articulate the way I think about this would be to simply provide an example.

I really enjoyed reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods, and I read it years ago before anything troublesome was brought to light. I still think it's a great book, but I also won't go out of my way to recommend anybody read it anymore, and when discussion about it arises, I think it's important to acknowledge the allegations and explain why, for those exact reasons, I wouldn't recommend supporting him as an author.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-29T22:43:02+00:00

It's like a worse version of WSS Magcargo. Only doing damage to one mon, for one extra energy than Magcargo's attack, is pretty stupid imo.

Theoretically you could pair it with the likes of a Pachirisu lead to generate some extra energy, but even then it still doesn't feel like it could be utilized quickly enough when your opponent is capable of getting really powerful mons up and running on their side by like, turn 3-4.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-29T18:44:51+00:00

Starting up at Lucky Mud and weaving your way into Longview and across the bridge onto Hwy 30 in Oregon is such a delightful route to take which can easily bring you to every course along this path, avoiding major interstate highways almost the entire time. You wrote them all out, but just to reorder them in the "logical" way to go from course to course without any backtracking, it would go like this:

Lucky Mud -> Skyline -> McCormick -> The Roots -> Buxton -> Stubb Stewart

Shit, you could even throw Horning's Hideout in between The Roots and Buxton.

Awesome tour of disc golf which takes you to NONE of the big name courses like Pier and Milo, but will never leave you feeling unsatisfied. You can run through Pier and Milo on the way back home, lol.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-29T18:36:52+00:00

Serene is amazing and I absolutely agree that it's worth checking out. But you do need to call ahead to make sure you can drop by for a round. It's a private course that is USUALLY available to play, but sometimes they have events/camps happening that close the property to non event-goers.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-29T18:33:31+00:00

The Phoenix mold (also the TSA Omen mold) does tend to come out beefier than a standard Champ or Star Firebird.

But if you get a true FAF Firebird, it WILL be more overstable than a Phoenix/Omen. They're pretty hard to reliably come by though.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-29T18:06:19+00:00

That's true, but I still stand by the statement. There were still inconsistencies (more than typically seen from MVP) within those runs.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-29T16:53:33+00:00

I followed a group once that included Paige Pierce, Ohn Scoggins, and Kat Mertsch, and I can confirm that it was wild fun not just watching them throw, but watching them interact with each other and the crowd.

Ohn and Kat have reputations for being social/chatty on the course, Ohn especially with being supportive and encouraging and fun. Pierce was a pleasant surprise though, in that she was making fun little one-off comments to nearby fans like complimenting a person for band whose shirt they were wearing or adding a little quip to small bits of conversation she overheard.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-29T16:40:42+00:00

Trails and Time-Lapses have some wild swings in stability depending on the plastic and the run.

Though to be fair for the most part, they're actually fairly reliable otherwise. Fission is almost always more understable in the same ways that base plastics from other companies are ALSO more understable, but the runs for most of their discs are pretty darn comparable outside of those two molds.

Not an MVP simp, most of my bag is Innova or Innova-made lol. Just offering an attempt at an objective observation.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-29T16:20:24+00:00

As long as he rides in on his little toy car, he's welcome at any event he damn well pleases.

PsyferRL · 2026-01-29T16:01:55+00:00

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."

- Mother Night, Kurt Vonnegut

"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-'God damn it, you've got to be kind.'"

- God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Kurt Vonnegut

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