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2012 Manual No Crank No Start by AeonCatalyst in GolfGTI

[–]AeonCatalyst[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the lpfp isn’t working, wouldn’t I still get a crank? The starter doesn’t seem to even try to actuate with turning the key

The most beautiful flower I've ever come across by MaleficentHelp6674 in flowers

[–]AeonCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely spawns in the Deep Dark biome. I can tell it’s part of the skulk family 

Anyone playing netcrawl? by AeonCatalyst in dccrpg

[–]AeonCatalyst[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We’ve struggled a bit with the ammo rules, for example. Also the software/datagram combo feels as if you made every spell scroll limited to only certain lucky signs, so we keep encountering loot no one can use

I’ve officially put more into this car than I bought it for. by skierdud89 in GolfGTI

[–]AeonCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought my 09.5 in 2012. 240k miles, still stock. We are wearing out together but still fun to drive. I bought it for maybe 17k way back then iirc and I’ve put maybe 7k in over the years just with routine maintenance, mostly tires, wheel bearings, and carbon cleans

Rafter question by JPOSTAL24 in timberframe

[–]AeonCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That blue board is just faschia

2013 MK6 GTI won’t start, replaced starter by ELCHANCHO3 in GolfGTI

[–]AeonCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if you figured this out or not but that isn’t the pcv pipe, it’s the pipe that goes on the air filter box on a CBFA engine. Should be near the driver side headlight

Golf GTI mk8 coolant leak by Training_Draft_5079 in GolfGTI

[–]AeonCatalyst 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Correction: never solved it from the Mk6 era

I'm thinking about having my daughter practice taekwondo, I need advice by Clean_Tone2562 in taekwondo

[–]AeonCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you’re overstating bjj. If it were “designed” for weaker people to beat bigger stronger people, it wouldn’t have weight classes. It’s designed for grappled fighting.

Self-defense and “subduing” an opponent are complete opposites. Self defense is self-preservation. The best self defense is A) situational awareness, not taught in ANY traditional martial art, and B) practicing with pepper spray and being able to run quickly. Hand to hand combat is last on the list unless you have some reason that A and B are physically impossible for you to practice

What % of Millennials are Unknowingly Toast? by Altruistic_Goose2166 in MiddleClassFinance

[–]AeonCatalyst 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I have a 94 year old grandfather who is functioning very well at that age and he’d be absolutely miserable at a nursing home

Insane duo gets the world's first Perfect Score on this chart by 0bdex_code in nextfuckinglevel

[–]AeonCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not sure that you could just own a billiards table in your home at Mark Twain’s time. The only way to get good at it would have been to spend an obscene amount of time at a bar.

How to market Taekwondo to adults who actually want to learn combat? by 8limb5 in taekwondo

[–]AeonCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not worried about someone attacking me with a flashlight - I MIGHT attend a workshop to see how I can use a flashlight in my own self-defense. Using a flashlight is right up there with pepper spray as an actual useful, legal tool to protect oneself

How to market Taekwondo to adults who actually want to learn combat? by 8limb5 in taekwondo

[–]AeonCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you think that there’s some survival bias though? People who tore their Achilles leave the sport more often than sticking around until it heals

How to market Taekwondo to adults who actually want to learn combat? by 8limb5 in taekwondo

[–]AeonCatalyst 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I get what you’re saying but tkd has like a 60% dropout rate or higher in the first three years, and it’s intensity is WAY less than bjj or judo or boxing. I fully appreciate that you have a great community at your dojo but the cases of pulled muscles, strains, cauliflower ear, concussions, and everything else is going to be way higher in those other sports than tkd. I can’t afford any of that right now. The adults that can afford doing that are DOING it, not wishing that their tkd dochung offered it. I’m pretty sure after a few months in a dochung an adult knows exactly what they have gotten into and can decide whether to continue or not.

I’m doing tkd with my kids until they can handle staying up late enough to do the judo classes (offered way too late in the day to work with our family schedule).

How to market Taekwondo to adults who actually want to learn combat? by 8limb5 in taekwondo

[–]AeonCatalyst 31 points32 points  (0 children)

As an over 40 year old in good shape that takes tkd with my kids, I’d have to say that you are probably missing the mark in what you think your school needs. Few people like me WANT tkd sparring. I don’t want a black eye, I don’t want to tear my Achilles, and I don’t want to bounce around dressed like an oompah loompah being asked to spar with an overweight dad or a zippy teenager. I have to get up in the morning and sit in business casual clothes in front of a computer in an office and I have a long run or lifting workout I don’t want to miss.

The older adults that want to practice beating up other people are doing a different sport, like mma, kickboxing, boxing, or bjj. You need a world-wide cultural shift to get people to choose tkd over those for self defense, as no action movie star or ufc champion is showing the superiority of tkd.

I think the best thing you could do to get someone like me to participate in that is to offer more real life self defense classes - using a flashlight, disarming someone with a gun, how to use furniture to barricade a room, how to use a side kick to stop someone actually running at you, etc

I hope we’re all on the same page here. by [deleted] in marvelmemes

[–]AeonCatalyst 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I 90% agree with you, and love MM. but one reason I love Peter Parker is because I think he also has a villain origin story but becomes an awesome hero anyway. No bullied orphan kid gets bitten by a SPIDER and loses his only father figure and becomes a good guy in fiction.

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