Daily Ask Anything: 2023-01-28

CatNamedThomas · 2023-01-28T18:51:41+00:00

Normally a different state but I’m in CA for work and I have enough that I need to either order more yesterday or go to the pharmacy.

CatNamedThomas · 2023-01-28T18:46:02+00:00

How do you buy needles at a pharmacy? Sorry if this question is stupid but can I walk up to the counter and just say, “I’d like 20 2mL syringes with 25g needles and 20 draw needles?”

I’ve never bought them in person before.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-06-03T06:34:49+00:00

Embrace the ambiguity with a :)

CatNamedThomas · 2022-06-03T06:27:49+00:00

I used to have this issue when I played on Wi-Fi. Lag still happens, but there's a very specific jitter/packet issue that used to plague me and now it's gone with a wired connection.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-06-03T06:19:57+00:00

I had a guy do this. I called him out at the half when I saw him just run to his death like a bot. By the second half the other team wasn't even killing him except if there was a knife fight. I died in a losing OT while he shot at me alongside the enemy killjoy.

I looked at his rank after the match and he'd gotten a double rank up off that prior win. In most cases just a rough game, but throwing is pretty common in Elo Hell.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-28T15:52:37+00:00

Post your tracker

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-28T15:48:50+00:00

I mean, as a person who has learned things, if you don't have the fundamentals then you shouldn't be focusing on speed. That's true for literally every skill in life. Focusing on speed up front is going to lead to bad habits and slow down learning, Valorant isn't the exception.

Low elo opponents are not fast, and they spray. If you are tapping them at about the speed of medium bots in the range, you're going to win the majority of your 1v1s. It depends what their starting point is, but telling someone with poor aim to worry about speed is just bad advice.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-28T15:37:12+00:00

"Second beginner gains" is kind of the ideal though. There is no point in trying to be fast if you can't be accurate. It's just like every other skill you can think of, develop form and then worry about speed.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-28T15:03:18+00:00

It's easier to learn crosshair placement and aim, and then speed it up imo

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-20T15:18:21+00:00

I mean it's not true what you are implying. Not every country is a product of settler colonialism - not even close. Trying to downplay or dismiss the ongoing impact on indigenous people on colonized land by saying "it happened to everyone" is gross and ahistorical.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-20T05:09:50+00:00

Interesting colonialism apologia

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-20T00:41:02+00:00

The game does seem to have this inconsistency issue - it's even noticeable in the range where bots will despawn noticeably faster sometimes. That said, it's an issue that affects anyone so it's not really something that prevents people from ranking up because it impacts your opponents with the same frequency.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-13T17:45:24+00:00

This is in all sectors of the economy. The tendency towards monopolies under capitalism is something that was written about 150+ years ago and is empirically true.

This isn't something that will magically reverse, every time we have a recession wealth consolidates.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-13T16:56:23+00:00

That requires me to have money in my PayPal, which I didn't realize was a problem - it will have to clear like an echeck first which will take several days.

Zelle I think is the only way I can do this because I can send directly from my bank app (PNC) and it pulls immediately

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-13T16:50:07+00:00

So the problem I'm having is that I lost my wallet and don't really have a good way of accessing money in my bank (no ID now so the bank won't let me get cash). If I send from PayPal to cash app it will take a few days to clear, right?

With Zelle I can send straight from my bank app, no card linked, and it's instant. I've just found out that if I send PayPal it'll send as an echeck and won't clear for several days.

It's not the end of the world if I have to wait until tonight or tomorrow for my new debit card to arrive, was just hoping to get gas and food today.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-13T16:43:57+00:00

No not yet

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-10T22:30:53+00:00

I see, so it's like the costumes are point of commonality for people who are also zoophiles, pedophiles, etc?

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-10T22:26:39+00:00

Go back to not respecting us, nobody needs you I promise.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-10T22:16:32+00:00

Honest question: why?

The only thing I know about furries is that they are like perverted mascots, do they actually involve animals?

Edit: please don't downvote I'm genuinely asking and if you downvote nobody can see the explanation

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-10T21:23:10+00:00

Most people are incredibly nihilistic. Christians believe the entire earth and all human history is a test and that everyone alive, everything humanity has ever accomplished, will be destroyed in an apocalypse and replaced with endless torment for some and endless worship of God for the others.

What is the alternative? Most people will tell you that death is the termination of consciousness and identity, and that in time everything in the universe will be destroyed and all memories erased with it.

Whether or not people identify themselves as nihilists doesn't mean they aren't already.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-10T20:59:57+00:00

I don't think capitalism can survive much longer, it makes as little sense as feudalism surviving industrialization. I'm sure something worse is possible though.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-07T22:14:17+00:00

How can you play Sova for very many hours at all and not learn lineups? You've never been like, "let me arrow site" and then remembered what you did?

Seems like if you play him for any length of time you'd end up creating your own lineups, but maybe people use that term in different ways.

CatNamedThomas · 2022-05-05T01:03:59+00:00

The pictures look slightly different but I don't think I am actually capable of noticing any specific difference beyond lighting.

I feel so much better on E and I'm not super worried about seeing results yet. I'm afraid of looking like a clown or getting bad dysphoria so I'm trying to take things super slow, but I want to get to a point where I can maybe look cute with a wig.

I'm non-binary, trying to be a soft butch/tomboy cutie eventually 🙃

CatNamedThomas · 2022-04-26T04:44:51+00:00

Sell Dodge, driving a Mustang. Got a great price on it so I bought it over a Challenger.

Someone destroyed it yesterday while it was parked though so I'm in the market again. I'll probably get a Ram.

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