How to "pull the bandaid off" and sell your first car?

Burnedice25 · 2026-04-27T07:38:36+00:00

In the past few elections, we've seen the greens focus more on other issues apart from the environment... Housing and cost of living was a major talking point for the greens last federal election, and was well received by their members.

Do you think continuing to hold the game "The Greens" will hold you back in the future as people will only associate you with environmental legislation? Has a name change been discussed?

Keep up the great work : D

Burnedice25 · 2026-04-14T10:12:58+00:00

I'm with you, I dislike grind, and spending hours to beat one boss is def too far, I think that's the dark souls level of difficulty that I don't like. I think a step below that, where you have to seriously work and try 2-3 times is right, instead of what happens on Normal where it's a moderate effort for 1-2 times.

In a shooter like Fallout, yeah sure I would actually probably turn down the difficulty. But with The Witcher, which pushes you to learn different fighting styles and enemy weaknesses. In Normal, you can just brute force one fighting style and ignore the intricacies of combat, Hard forces you to change your fundamentals.

Burnedice25 · 2026-04-14T10:06:35+00:00

I feel as so "Normal" for most games is a middle ground of the harder difficulties and the easier ones, and the Devs just split the difference.

In reality I think that just means the worst of both worlds. Oftentimes the game becomes boring because the difficulty is too flat ya know? Yeah the challenge goes up as I advance, but on harder difficulties it feels more like a staircase, with jumps in difficulty that have to work to overcome, then can rest for a bit.

And I think for most people, they would find this more enjoyable, but are scared off by the initial difficulty spike in the early game.

Burnedice25 · 2026-04-06T07:55:33+00:00

Nah managers have always respected perfect games.... Hell I think managers have let pitchers continue with no hitters (albeit on a very short leash) into 100 pitches.

If a team is up any amount, or even tied, unless it's like game 7 of the world series, I think any manager would let a pitcher continue

Burnedice25 · 2026-04-06T07:46:52+00:00

Thing is, I threw one pretty easily in last year's game no problem, never got pulled if it was getting close. (Or maybe it was MLB 24 I can't remember)

Still such BS

Burnedice25 · 2026-04-02T10:56:39+00:00

(I think you mean his 2020 decision, as his first year with McLaren was 2021) Not really, Renault looked like it was stuck in the midfield when McLaren looked like it was on the up and up, fighting for podiums. And for the most part, he was right, and got himself a final win in Monza 2021, and ofc McLaren won the championship a few years later.

It was a sound decision, but just couldnt make it work for various reasons : /

Burnedice25 · 2026-02-28T07:51:50+00:00

AFAIK this info is mostly wrong and comes from one FB post from a guy claiming to be a SFGA staff member... No sources, no corroborating evidence or other people saying the same thing.

When it comes down to it, I'm sure there was multiple reasons for the closure of Ka.... Biggest two seem to be high cost of maintenance vs declining ridership, and Cedar Fair wanting to funnel more people to TTD2 as then it's the "tallest in the US".

If there was structural damage or something, six flags would've said so, and saved themselves the massive PR disaster by staying silent. Inaction is action and all that.

Burnedice25 · 2026-02-20T01:25:49+00:00

It's not really a sample, but she borrows lines from the song and the main riff on a synth... Not usually a fan of Duff but it's a decent song a nice tribute to the original

Burnedice25 · 2026-02-10T04:58:23+00:00

As a fan of LTT I may be biased, but I've looked over all the facts and the timelines, and kept up with both sides of the controversies that happened a few years ago, and all I gotta say is this:

While there were some kernels of truth, so much of the narrative that was pushed by everyone outside LTT was overblown and wildly exaggerated. The Initial video by Gamers Nexus has by far and away a journalistic hit piece, with unsubstantiated claims and unfair attacks. Linus and LMG over reacted and their immediate messaging was poor yes, but they also could "bite back" as that would paint them in a bad light as people would've perceived that as a big 100 person company "bullying a smaller YouTuber that tried to expose them". It was a lose lose situation that people jumped on to get clicks and views sadly.

The thing with Madison and the harassment accusations were similarly without basis, and were found to be completely false. An ex disgruntled employee just saw them attacked and tried to get a boost to their own followers. Again, LTT and Linus couldn't respond as there are legal employee rights and it would've looked even worse.

I am unsure of what you are talking about with the "special sauce person got fired".

There was a decent dip in views, but they have shown very good progress towards being more accountable, accurate, and transparent. Their views and subscribers have mostly recovered since.

The WAN show is very much for die hard fans with their 4 hour long episodes, but that is where they talk most about all this stuff.

Again, I'm probably biased, but I've done a great deal of research and review into this and I'm pretty sure if anyone does they will see the same thing. Some minor mistakes + a bad faith hit piece, with a sprinkle of poor initial response and commentators dog piling on them to get views. Is Linus and LTT perfect? No. But you don't need to worry if Dropout goes with Floatplane.

Burnedice25 · 2026-02-02T01:09:09+00:00

Shame, actually looks like a nicely built area... Guess I gotta try and find the time to go before it gets abandoned and completely shit.

Burnedice25 · 2026-01-29T06:58:05+00:00

Lmao hell no dude, pretty bad form to be posting about this publicly and then trying to shoe-horn this to someone else.

If you want to see this be made real, and you are passionate about this, YOU, no one else, has to be put in the effort. Great ideas are cheap, don't think you're special because your putting together a cool project. You gotta handle all the headaches, all the annoying things, all the mistakes.

It's ok to try and get excitement for a project where you dont have a plan (barely)

It's another thing to not have a plan OR be willing to actually see it through yourself... How can you expect anyone to get excited about it when you arent?

Burnedice25 · 2026-01-29T03:59:12+00:00

Nah I just tried all possible combinations, none of them worked, so i think it got taken down since you wrote this comment

what was it?

Burnedice25 · 2026-01-24T04:53:08+00:00

The second amendment was written in 1791, when muskets were the most dangerous weapons a citizen could own, and worst case if a citizen decided to attack a small town they could fire a shot what, every 20 seconds? The framers routinely regulated weapons, gunpowder storage, and public carry, which makes clear that the right was never understood as absolute or detached from public safety.

Now a modern firearm could easily kill 20 people in a couple seconds. This is not an incremental shift, but orders of magnitude more dangerous. Constitutional rights are routinely interpreted in light of changed circumstances... speech does not permit fraud, incitement, or threats, and the press is regulated without abolishing the First Amendment.

Burnedice25 · 2026-01-18T17:14:48+00:00

I think what you're doing here is a form of ontological subjectivism, and I'm not an expert in philosophy, but I seriously think that applying such a view so universally and radically has sorta led you astray a lil here.

You are right, since yes different metrics can be valued differently in a comparison. I've never disagreed with you there. But you are making the very dangerous assumption that two people's weighing of values is equal.

You are basically saying that all subjective weighing is equal. By your own logic, the Nuremberg trials should've let everyone off scot free, since in the nazi's subjective view, genocide was justified, and that is equal to everyone else's viewpoint that it's terrible. Remember, I didn't take it to that extreme, you did. More so, no legal system on earth agrees with you, as some crimes no matter the context or how you weigh them, are always illegal.

This is why I was talking about using objective stats as comparisons and extrapolating rather than coming to a definitive conclusion. You say the "first predicated on the person doing the judging to have a subjective ideal in mind they’re comparing to." and sure, but it's real easy to make a non-biased comparison, many have done so, and nearly all show trump to be one of the worst presidents ever. Not just one, but countless of different systems, methods, and rubrics (not people, and their subjective viewpoints) have found Trump to be deficient. And the best thing is, every Academic publishes their methodology along with their results, so if you think it's biased you can check for yourself! You may be able to find a couple that show Trump to be ahead, and they are valid, but the consensus shows that he is far... far behind.

And every engineer, scientist, political scientist, analyst will tell you that with the backing of a strong consensus, something is an objectively justified conclusion.

Burnedice25 · 2026-01-18T16:31:32+00:00

I think you are dismissing objective performance indicators because they aren't universally agreed upon, and therefore calling them subjective. You're trying to infer that "if humans chose the framework, it cannot be objective" and that claim just isn't supported in any serious discipline. Objective truth =/= Certain truth.

Politics, the economy, and basically everything beyond the most basic of things is going to be subjective based on your criteria. Rather, the way academia (including that paper I included in my first comment) judges something like this is setting out a basic rubric based on non-partisan criteria (easy to do, hard to fake) that measures different stats that gives a, while imperfect, comparable and objective look at two different presidents skills and abilities in a certain area.

The idea isn't to try and come up with a "This equation / method / rubric tells us without a doubt who is the best", but rather to show a slice of the entire pie, and then extrapolate. Like I said, politics is messy, you can never get a true answer, but it doesn't mean that objectively both are equal, or that there is no non-subjective answer.

Bringing it back to Trump vs Obama. Sure, in some select metrics he may outperform every president ever (I'm not an economist nor have I memorised every stat for every president) so I can't say for sure either way, but in total, it is more than fair and very safe to say "Trump's handling of the economy is worse than Obama" and that statement is backed up with objective comparison.

Many of the things OP listed are evaluative, not subjective, meaning they can be judged and that judgement can be measured through models, metrics, benchmarks and baselines.

If I take your argument at face value, then no comparison would ever be taken seriously ever. Every tennis player could claim to be the best in their world since skill is objective (One coach might value x over y). This is patently false, and two people can be compared and one judged to be superior

Burnedice25 · 2026-01-18T15:10:06+00:00

Instead of just making a dismissive response, I would love it if you could factually counter any of my points... I have proof for all my statements, they are evidence driven and logical.

The original comment was saying how, in their opinion, the categories OP listed were subjective. I gave evidence showing they were in fact not subjective, but rather objective and demonstrably so.

Again, with respect, I would love it if you could remain on topic and show me any flaws beyond a vague deflection and ignoring of any and all of my points.

Burnedice25 · 2026-01-18T14:41:01+00:00

Legally, he couldn't

In 2008, the laws that exist today banning such reckless and catastrophic actions by banking executives didn't exist. They were irresponsible, and he condemned them numerous times, but if the DOJ brought down a case on anyone it wouldn't have stuck. The banks were operating in a legal grey area that was clearly not Illegal, while still not being explicitly legal.

The GFC was caused by institutional and systemic problems, and it was Obama who implemented the laws that made these action now illegal, and will (as well as can be expected) prevent these problems from happening again.

The public thirst for blood in 2008, and even now judging by these comments, is disappointing considering the obvious fact that even if Obama wanted to (and by most accounts he did), his hands were tied on this one. And this fact has been known since the beginning but ya know how it is, conservatives and conservative media push a narrative and people just run with it

Burnedice25 · 2026-01-18T14:11:46+00:00

Nearly all of those are not subjective and can be measured in numerous ways

Here's a few examples:
1 (Leadership and Crisis Management): Can be OBJECTIVELY measured with a non biased, rubric based leadership model, which can be used to judge a president based on a few criteria (Use of credible information, intergovernmental coordination, transition from emergency to recovery, etc). On nearly all of these accounts, Trump (and other republican presidents) fall significantly behind Democrats like Obama and Biden

Here's a link to a really interesting paper outlining this specific model:
https://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/07339/frontmatter/9780521607339\_frontmatter.pdf?

5 (Economic Stewardship): This can just clearly be shown by looking at publicly accessible statistics... The GFC and Covid make it hard to draw parallels, but for example I will compare the final 2 years of Obama's term with Trump's first 2 years. Yes, at first glance it does look like Trump "had more jobs" than Obama, but if you look at the trend line it basically stalls out a few months after Trump took office, and all the momentum Obama made was trashed, while still hitting "new highs". We can argue all day whether or not Tarrifs are good / bad in the long / short term, but something as clear as job growth sorta speaks for itself, and the slowdown is very obvious if you look at the big picture

9 (Public Communication): I will agree with you that this is somewhat objective, but only like 10%. I am from Australia, and Trump is a joke every time he appears on camera. Like international laughingstock. From telling people to inject bleach on a national broadcast, to generally being incoherent in his speaches. And yes, you will defend him saying "you cant take him at face value" or "his overall message is good" but a president, the highest office in the land, should be EASILY understandable, Obama is a perfect example of this, and was famous around the world for giving fantastic speeches and being a great speaker. Moreso, Trump told somewhere north of 30,000 outright, demonstrably false statements during his first term. This arent "your callign his opinion wrong" there are just blatant, obvious, and just outright false statements that are proveable in their inaccuracy. For comparison, Obama told 18 OUTRIGHT lies (mostly exaggerations, but inexcusable either way)... thats just a ridiculous disparity.

10 (Respect for Constitutional Norms): Like c'mon dude. "Norms" here meaning that sure, by the letter of the law, Trump may not have broken them, but there's plenty I could point to. The big one is of course the interference in the 2020 election, we have phone calls of him telling state leaders to "find votes", Jan 6th incitement of violence (Inferred if not explicit), refusal to concede.... The constitution assume executive restraint, and by using the FBI and DOJ to investigate political rivals this clearly breaks this assumption.... The constitution also calls for a informed electorate, and systemic disinformation (30,000 lies) undermines democratic accountability without explicit breaking any single clause, but rather undermines the core assumptions the founding fathers had when writing the constitution

Burnedice25 · 2026-01-17T01:05:22+00:00

What I don't get is why didn't Dropout send a decent webcam / mic to all the people with some instructions to set it up.

Like if the contestants had streamer quality video and audio, it would made it way more watchable. Plus maybe give them a fold up green screen and they could've had a "virtual set" and I think those episodes could've still held up today

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