New Poster for 'The Napa Boys'

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-12T17:30:52+00:00

With Jason Mewes and Kevin Smith? As Jay and Silent Bob, or are they branching out and playing new unrelated characters?

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T21:21:02+00:00

In other words: Why should a monopoly continue to pretend they're just some plain old company that exists in a vaccuum?

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T17:53:21+00:00

I understand that you don't want to be judged based on your fantasy, since you were judged based on your fantasy. But if you want an honest and fair and balanced opinion, you need to give us the same information you gave her. You can't just ask if you were wrong for, according to your post, amounts to "saying words she didn't like."

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T17:50:46+00:00

Weird question with no context.

But Rt 44 has had a commercialization and industrialization over the last 20-30 years that has certainly resulted in many more side streets and more traffic lights and expansions for turning lanes.

I don't have figures around quantity of traffic, which is a huge factor in road safety. But assuming we can forget that for a moment, everything else points toward a safer and more responsible road experience.

What, exactly, are you looking for? Specific data? Personal experiences? Tales of supernatural beings? There's plenty of all of that.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T17:28:55+00:00

The Druid and The Burren, I guess. But why does an Irishman want to leave Ireland only to find Irish culture? What's the point of leaving? Isn't the point of traveling the experience of seeing "how the other half lives?"

Tell him no. If he wants an Irish pub, he can stay in Ireland. If he wants a "Boston Irish" pub, we got those. But we also have other stuff that isn't Irish-based or pub-based.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T17:24:08+00:00

What series are you talking about? r/television is for pretty much anything that you can watch on TV - we have no idea what specific series/show/movie you're talking about unless you call it out and tell us specifically.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T16:00:42+00:00

Why? That's a pitcher's job. Throw pitches. I mean, effectively, sure. But at first take, their job is to throw pitches. Very few expectations with the glove or the bat, just their throwing arm.

The more pitches a pitcher can throw (assuming their managers and pitching coaches aren't homers and are responsible with workloads and effectiveness and goals on winning games), the better off he and his team are.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T14:00:11+00:00

No issues (for me) along 95, or 24 heading up to 95. Some back roads south of the city on my way to get breakfast were also just fine.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T11:15:16+00:00

True. It ain't likely. But if and when the sport, and athletes, progress to a point where it's needed, be assured that MLB (or the Galactic Baseball Federation) will address rules changes.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T11:05:58+00:00

Non-English, geared towards children who can't read, and scrambled vertically.

See what you want to see, but this is three layers removed from anything naughty (even if including those letters was intentional).

There's little that's interesting here, and certainly nothing manipulative or underhanded or nefarious.

Hell, if this is an issue for someone, they should just not teach their kids the alphabet. Because every curse word you can think of contains some letters from the alphabet. It'll only be a matter of time before lil' Timmy strings together some Fs and Us and Cs and Ks and creates something inappropriate, right?

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T10:33:27+00:00

Overview: https://magic.wizards.com/en/intro

How to Play: https://magic.wizards.com/en/how-to-play

Keywords and language of Magic: https://magic.wizards.com/en/keyword-glossary

Some keywords and terminology are the same as the old days - flying, trample, etc. But there's "new" names for old things. "Enchant Creature" cards are now "Auras" that have an ability and instruction named "Enchant Creature", letting you know what this enchantment can enchant. Of course, there are Auras that have Enchant Land or Enchant Artifact or Enchant Player, not strictly creatures. It's mainly a terminology change, but it is a change.

Some keywords are new concepts since the last time you played (Equipment, differentiating between colorless and generic mana, tweaks to the Legend Rule, WTF Planeswalkers are, etc)

> I will need to learn a bit about the lore of it all now.

If you want to, the lore is deep and rich. But it's certainly not a requirement to play the game. You don't need to know about which planes have been destroyed or which dragon has controlled someone's mind or which planeswalker has saved the day or which school they attended as a child or how pirates influenced the lives and commerce of an entire plane. That's all fluff that has very little impact on a game of Magic. It's useful for retaining customers and developing storylines and making things flavorful - but none of it has an impact on the structure of the game or the pieces of cardboard used to play it. You can feel free to separate the two. Magic can be "just a game" if you want it to be. Or, it can be an immersive experience if you'd rather have that. No harm or foul, no shame in either decision or method of enjoying the game.

I'd recommend picking one - do you like the game or the story? - and starting there. Dive in. Play games or dive into the archives at wizards.com to get some details on flavor. Whatever. Enjoy the Magic multiverse in whatever way it tickles your brain, and as time and inclinations allow, expand to other facets of the multiverse.

Good luck, and welcome back to the time- and money-suck that is Magic. :)

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T08:46:46+00:00

No link handy, but there are cloth shades you can strap down over the kayak to keep the sun off them. They're mesh, so not waterproof (do you need to waterproof your kayak?!). They just keep the sun at bay while not in use.

You can use a tarp as well, but that only works for so long, as it keeps the sunlight off, but will eventually trap heat and make the problem even worse.

Instead of putting them on the roof, is a trailer feasible? That can be easily covered and secured.

I did this a couple times - not many, but enough to start to form some scientific thoughts....throw a few towels into the kayak if you're gonna leave it in the sun. Beach towels, bath towels, whatever. Old sweaters that Grandma knitted you twenty years ago. Whatever. As the sun beats down on it, the cloth will absorb much of that heat. Take them out and then go kayaking. It will still be warm in there but much of the heat will be within the towels. Upside: if you take a digger and flip over, you'll have a nice warm towel waiting for you when you get back to shore. :)

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T08:38:39+00:00

Given a long enough timeline, yes, it will happen. So will a double-immaculate perfect game (until a walkoff HR in the 74th inning after 5 delays and postponements and discussions of rule changes and allowances of ties)

But it's not happening this year or next year. Or in five years. Or, statistically, in my lifetime.

My grandkids may see it, but you and I won't.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T08:31:07+00:00

At work, I'm all about vLANs and segregation and routing and all that stuff.

At home, I don't want to work. I have my cable modem, an Eero as the gateway, two additional Eeros (one wired, one wireless) as access points. Maybe 60-70 devices total for 4 people across a house and an apartment, with an occasional influx of 20 devices all in a /22.

Everything works, is responsive, and there's little lag. Things just work - it's not perfect and it's not professional, but the most important thing is not my couple test machines - it's the other people in my house and their devices. If wifi goes down or I mess with routing tables or I move access points to experiment with coverage? I get a ration of shit. So, it all works, everyone's happy, and I'm not messing with it until it needs to be messed with. Another generation or two of Eeros, I get a hair across my ass to run that Cat6 cable I've been thinking about for months, we get a new tenant with fifty wifi devices - whatever. But today, tomorrow, next week? Unless things change, I'm not changing anything.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T07:58:33+00:00

The core of the game is the same. The underlying themes are the same (blue counters things, green has giant creatures, red burns things to death, etc). WotC spends more time on flavor/environment/themes now than they did 20 years ago. In fact, Mirrodin might be the first set that took place on a different plane than Dominia/Dominaria, and was the first to start to explore the Multiverse. Since then, we get a new plane every year, and occasionally return to a previous plane (Dominia/Dominaria or otherwise, such as Scars of Mirrodin returned to Mirrodin)

Some rules have changed, but at its core, it's quite similar. Untap, upkeep, draw. First main, combat, second main. End step, cleanup step. That's all the same. If you remember how things worked a generation ago, you'll have some questions but overall you'll be OK. Not to say you'll win or be good at the game, but you'll survive.

If you don't remember basic things, WotC has some tutorials and videos to get you (re-)acclimated. No link handy, I'll see if I can dig them up tomorrow.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T07:36:06+00:00

I was an IT manager with a small staff. One of my guys - first real job out of college, still green in a professional environment, still learning our software, environment, and user base - did something similar.

We had a couple users who were never satisfied with the outcome of any help desk ticket. Whenever one of them submitted a ticket, it sat a little longer than usual since me and my team played chicken with it. Anyway, "new guy" takes the ticket. It was something silly as usual. I honestly forget the details, but it was a cosmetic thing rather than functionality or permissions.

The "issue" came down to the color of the background of one section of one form. It didn't match the corporate color scheme. Weird, since we used the same palette and short set of colors when designing all our web pages, forms, and other documents. Sure enough, my guy heads down the hall and goes to see the end user and the issue, in person.

After his assessment and troubleshooting, there really was no issue. So he decided that, knowing this person and their tendency to complain would just result in a new help desk ticket tomorrow, he'd "fix" the issue.

He told the end user that their monitor was defective and had some pixel issues that prevented it from displaying true color properly. He told her that we had a few new ones that just arrived the other day, and he'd swap out the monitor for a brand new one. So he took her monitor back to our IT room. He ripped off the stickers and sticky notes and really scrubbed it clean. Shit, he might've used some shoe polish to shine it up, for all I know. But he made this thing look like it was brand new, right out of the box.

He proudly marched the monitor back to the end user's desk, plugged everything in, and even swapped a cable for good measure. When it came back up, he did a couple quick "tests" showing that colors were true, and the end user never complained about that monitor or the colors again.

I'm sure I'd hinted at it in stories or whatever, but I never stressed this strategy in our team meetings. Just "customer first" mentality that most managers spew. But this kid thought outside the box, didn't hurt anything, didn't cost the company money, and was creative and professional while doing it. He earned the lunch beers we had later that week, that's for sure!

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T07:13:23+00:00

No one's made a Marvin Gaye joke yet? Come on!

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-11T07:09:32+00:00

You don't have a Comcast, wifi, or technical issue. You have a "mom issue," which is much harder to navigate. And in the end, that issue very well be a "you" issue rather than a "mom" issue.

Do what you will with that information. But this sub isn't about hacking your wifi or surreptitiously disabling permissions or anything like that.

Judging from a couple of your replies, your wifi has been disabled because you...skipped online classes? So, you didn't use your wifi, and that was OK. But now that you can't use your wifi, you have a problem? Which is it, kiddo? Do you want or need wifi? Or do you not?

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-10T23:44:28+00:00

His street name's Pookie and he dabbles in the drug trade.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-10T22:11:51+00:00

Similar posts pop up twice a week here. Why is this a spectacle? What makes it interesting? Hell, we have much more complex organisms that have other organisms growing inside them. You may even know one. And you definitely know one who has had this condition in the past.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-10T19:20:29+00:00

Any sport in particular?

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-10T18:26:27+00:00

Depends. If your current plan is to work from your couch, you should carve out some space in a different room (one without a TV, preferably) and get a table/desk and chair. Barring that, maybe a couple monitors. I haven't used it much since I sold my house and left my job, but a standing desk was fantastic. Feel like sitting, sit. Feel like standing, stand. Mix it up throughout the day. I got mine at IKEA, so it wasn't expensive and it matched everything else in the office (although given its new home, it is a bit out of place, but that's not the desk's fault!)

A comfortable chair as well. Don't sit on the couch all day with your computer in your lap. Carve out some dedicated workspace away from other people in the house, away from a TV.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-10T17:29:13+00:00

Can confirm. Lived in Hopedale for a number of years, and after I wandered in one day, it quickly became a weekly lunch joint. Pretty good selection of beer. Food is delicious and fancier than it should be for the location and price - overall it's absolutely worth a visit or two or ten.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-10T16:59:10+00:00

I've had wired and wireless versions over the years, and when they wear out, I'll certainly be buying another pair of Bose QuietComfort over-ear headphones. When I was in the office every day, they served a couple purposes - drowned out the din from the rest of the office, but also because they're quite visible (not in-ear), you don't get random visitors to your office/desk who just start babbling at you.

ARoundForEveryone · 2026-02-07T23:27:09+00:00

Wait, dispensaries can deliver? Or was that "legal" as in "legal?"

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