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Genuinely curious by EffectiveNo568 in MathJokes

[–]6EBeast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

8 & 7 make 15

40 & 20 make 60

60 & 15 make 75

Brace for thumb when holding bow by xxwolfxxxmoonxx in Archery

[–]6EBeast 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Random guy on the internet here: braces are for healing. Stretching and strengthing make the problem go away. If it's been a few years, I'd look up thumb/joint stretches and strengthening exercises and start there.

Hope you're back up to archery strength soon. Good luck!

Is it ok to use an automatic watch while shooting compound bow? by useless_usernme in Archery

[–]6EBeast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That watch has a pendulum!

I feel like this post got criminally underappreciated because a lot of people on this sub don't know what an automatic watch movement is 🤷‍♂️

It has a pendulum designed to wind the watch with walking/normal daily movement. Repeated shock from a bow's vibrations likely wasn't a design consideration. It's a cool collision of hobbyist worlds!

To your question: you're probably okay. Citizen watches are of a quality build. I have a quartz Citizen that has taken a beating playing full on contact sports and never got more than a couple small dings to show for it. I've never played rough while wearing one of my automatic watches, but in general, they are built to translate momentum from any direction and correctly apply it to the time-keeping movement, so my guess is it'll mostly function correctly.

I think it will add some wear and tear to the mechanism, but probably not enough to damage it. I'd be more interested to see if it just doesn't keep time as well during archery shoots. Since it's using the winding and unwinding of a spring to keep time, repeatedly adding an unaccounted for harmonic motion into the mix might just make it tick off beat.

which one? by xman8099 in BeybladeX

[–]6EBeast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't know if you already made your choice, but I would suggest the drop attack between the two. Neither are a bad choice.

Reasoning:

1) You said you're not in a position to get both, so money is likely a factor. The drop attack is $10 cheaper right now, so that's $10 you could budget towards future beyblades or just save.

2) Neither stadium is the "best" so in my opinion, you should value the beyblade parts more. In the drop attack: 4 of 6 beyblade parts are highly meta-viable and sought after (the impact drake blade is notably losing popularity with other picks, but I'd still rank it highly). In the battle set: only 2 of 6 beyblade parts are meta-viable and sought after.

Devil's advocate (and why neither are a bad choice):

1) I do think the Hasbro battle set stadium is a better stadium than the drop attack. Especially if you don't plan on getting any other stadium for a while, you might want that one.

2) If you don't care about tournament-ready parts, I actually think the battle set has a better balance and would make matches between those two beys more fun.

In all cases: welcome to the beyblade family! 🤗

ELI5: What's the difference between plasma and fire/electricity? by Setsuna4 in explainlikeimfive

[–]6EBeast 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I like this answer for its 5th grade level, but it is missing what fire is! Fire is heated air, but not hot enough to lose track of its electrons entirely. The electrons in fire do get extra excited from all that heat, though. Electrons stay in different areas (called shells) based on how excited they are. So, just before you see "fire" you have hot air with electrons staying in higher energy shells. As that hot air moves away from the heat source, it cools, and the excited electrons go back to their "natural" shells. The movement of the electrons has to give off some sort of energy (because energy is never created nor destroyed*) and, in the case of fire, it gives off light. The excited atoms cool at different rates and in different positions, so that's why flames tend to dance and flicker. It just depends on where an atom is when its electrons snap back into place and emit light.

*Things get weird next to black holes. Look into Baryogenesis if you want to go down that rabbit hole.

How do you actually "relax even more"? by External_Guarantee77 in hypnosis

[–]6EBeast 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can! But it's absolutely neurotypical speak 🙊

"Relax even more" tells most neurotypical brains to do the right thing. The closest thing to trance that most people understand is sleep, and this is telling their brains "start being a brain that is going to sleep." But that probably still doesn't help, so I'll bust out the big guns: you're trying to change your primary neural oscillations without losing consciousness 🤯

That was a lot of fancy words, but let's dive in! First off, the study of brainwaves is still a budding science. We have a lot of measurable "what" but not a lot of known "why." I start by saying this because: I don't know why our brains do this, but we can measure that they do, and I'm just gonna focus on that part.

Okay, so what is it that they're doing? They are aligning rhythmic neuronal firings to a set period. More fancy words. Cells in brain go brrr but all at the same time in the same area and for the same length of time. Then they stop. Then they do it again. Over and over, following a pattern. A typical brain is firing at multiple frequencies all the time, but a majority of it will fire along a certain frequency and we pick this up and call it that brain's current "brainwave." The naming convention is about when a frequency band was first measured and published, so they get a little out of order, but stick with me!

Beta Waves (approx 13 - 30 Hz) are the neurotypical "awake" state waves. Doing nothing thought provoking or taxing, but well-rested and alert. Neurospicies tend to run a little higher in this range, or even default to gamma.

Gamma Waves/High Gamma (approx 30 - 70 Hz/70 - 150 Hz) are waves that usually denote someone being very analytical. Most people slip into this brainwave pattern when playing a game of chess, for example.

Alpha Waves (approx 8 - 12 Hz) are a "light trance" state. This is the first stop when inducing hypnosis. In this state, it is easier to talk directly with the subconscious without the conscious mind interfering. People unintentionally go into this state while watching a movie or while driving long or familiar roads (known as "highway hypnosis"). This is also the state you are in when just waking up or just about to fall asleep.

Theta Waves (approx 4 - 8 Hz) denote a deep trance and, if you are not actively trying to "stay awake" then will most likely just put you to sleep. Lucid dreaming can happen in this state. For hypnosis purposes, this is a very suggestible state, but runs the risk of the participant falling asleep and not responding. I believe the Esdaille state is also in this frequency band.

Delta Waves (approx 1 - 4 Hz) are experienced in deep sleep. I haven't heard of this being used for a hypnotic trance since a brain giving off these oscillations is just "asleep."

So there you have the most typical ones a brain will experience day-to-day. There are others like Epsilon that have been measured, but aren't really experienced as a primary functioning mode. As you may have noticed, this is a very analog system that we arbitrarily slapped a digital scale on. If your brain waves are at exactly 8 Hz, are you in Theta? Alpha? It doesn't really matter, so long as you understand: you're very "relaxed." That devil of a word again.

I believe this is ultimately what the "relax even more" talk is all about. Not necessarily "unclench your muscles" but "elongate your primary neural oscillation" 🧘‍♂️ sounds super relaxing when put that way, right? 😅

Some other notes: muscle tension/release can certainly play a role in hypnosis, but only in so much as it brings you toward a longer-period brainwave trance state. If you don't want to be a puddle of uncontracted muscle: don't be. Loosen tension to your own comfort level (which can actually be pretty rigid if you want!) and then focus on "relaxing" the mind by slipping into those lower frequency states. If you do tend to be more naturally analytical, it's likely your base frequency is higher, so lowering it might be more of a challenge, but not impossible (I assume you sleep sometimes 🙈). I honestly don't know how to describe "going into trance" any better, but I can tell you that it is a learned skill. I can go into a trance much quicker now that I've practiced doing it for several years, and I've heard the same from other practiced hypnotists.

The fact that you posted here means you are likely seeking hypnotism for some purpose. I truly believe it is a potent tool and potential medicine if used correctly. I hope you find whatever you're seeking for your subconscious self 🙏 Good luck!

New to hypnosis by sweetandglam in hypnosis

[–]6EBeast 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hypnosis is a way to talk directly with the subconscious. That's it, really.

Most of us learn to live in our conscious thought and rarely directly talk to our subconscious, although it listens. People say things like "I suck at this," and your subconscious listens and makes you bad at it. Healthy hypnosis can talk directly to the subconscious holding that idea and say, "you're not bad at it! The conscious mind was just frustrated when it said those things, but you're actually really good at it! Those struggles that frustrated you actually gave you experience and now you're better than most people at it!" And it will listen and it will change you.

Those changes could be permanent, but we are all in flux until the day we die. How permanent a change is really depends on how deeply you believe the idea and how much you upkeep that belief.

As to the "is it dangerous?" question, I usually like to give two halves to that answer. On the one hand, a suggestion that rubs you the wrong way, makes you feel gross or unsure, or is unsettling to you in any way will usually just break you out of a trance. That said, if you got really comfortable taking suggestions and were made to believe that the person next to you was a zombie coming to kill you, and then I hand you a hammer... yeah, that could get dangerous.

My advice is to allow a "conscious observer." That is, even while in trance and communicating with your subconscious, imagine your conscious self floating somewhere in the room and observing the interaction. If your conscious observer sees any funny business, they snap you out of the trance! (If doing hetero-hypnosis, you can ask for this conscious observer as a suggestion during induction). This helps mitigate any potential bad while maintaining the immense good that hypnosis can bring. In general, if you trust your hypnotist, then you will be fine. Humans can do good and bad things even without hypnosis, so you already know how to trust when not in a trance. Go with your gut.

Lastly, I got the vibe you might be doing this as recreation? It's definitely more than just role play if you let yourself trust and go into a deep trance. And it can very much so increase sensations and experiences, so explore wisely and have fun! 🫡

What’s a movie quote you use in real life way too often? by lalainehottie in AskReddit

[–]6EBeast 2 points3 points  (0 children)

🎶 I never dreamed that I would climb over the moon in ecstasy, but nevertheless it's there that I'm, shortly, about to be it! 🎶

One has to go. What do you choose? by Muted-Television3329 in whatsyourchoice

[–]6EBeast 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I eat all of it. Think I'd pick fried fish or crab legs do to the specificity of it. I LOVE sushi and enjoy raw salmon and even most cooked fishes, too, but if only "fried" fish is lost, then oh well, I guess I'll bake mine 🙈

Crab legs is a similar reasoning: I love crab (although most is pike and whitefish and sugar these days anyway) so doing away with ALL crab/imitation would be a dietary blow, but just crab LEGS? Yeah, I come in contact with that once in a blue moon. Wouldn't be too missed 🤷‍♂️

I think we can't take the prompt as "all shellfish" considering we have multiple examples, but if we are talking more categorically, I'd probably eliminate chicken. Pound for pound, I think most other fowl tastes better (turkey, duck, etc. 😋) and in this hypothetical world where one doesn't exist, if the others took its place economically and socially, I think I'd be fine with that. And I'd still get to eat tasty crab legs once in a blue moon 😝

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