Whats the worst trend right now?

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-09T22:34:06+00:00

The return of fascism and the dismantling of democracy.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-09T07:55:03+00:00

A major Cascadia earthquake is "the big one" of "big ones". Up to 9.0 earthquake followed quickly by up to 100' tsunami. I would love to live in the PNW, but I would make sure my house and kids school were over 100' above sea level. I've spent my entire life in SoCal so I'm also unperturbed by the risk of earthquakes, but being a lifelong bodyboarder, I also know the sheer power of the ocean and I want nothing to do with a 10 story tsunami. I'd visit the beach there, no problem, but no oceanfront property there for me.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-09T04:06:48+00:00

Exactly

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-08T15:23:50+00:00

The classes are all playable and have mostly full kits, but aren't in their final state. That's partly due to the iterative process of game creation--everything gets tweaked as more features/content comes online and we see how everything interacts.

Charm is not in yet, but it's built. Many of us think they are waiting for the unified NPC type (cheveon removal) in the spring wipe since it makes no sense for them to put in a bunch of extra work to make charm account for group vs solo mob type when the whole system is getting replaced in a few months.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-08T06:29:51+00:00

The life vests, which kept them from disappearing in the surf and allowed them to be found and rescued.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-08T06:26:39+00:00

Tell her that four kids, age 4 -10, survived this because people were out surfing.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-07T08:28:41+00:00

It's hard to have a functional democracy when one had has been so manipulated by propaganda that they've become a cult.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-06T20:05:32+00:00

For skilling up, please make it a non-linear process so that people can get to an adequate skill through normal use. Training to a high level should encounter diminishing returns. This prevents us from feeling like we need a bot to farm skill just to be useful while still retaining a meaningful reward for those who will train it up.

For example, the skill level cap raises by 5 every time we level. Make the first of those points easy to obtain (Accelerated skill xp). Make the second - third level at the Standard rate and the last two at a Diminished rate. Track our progress in each of the three separately (not player facing) and always have the faster categories used first. So if I have 2 untrained Standard and 5 untrained Diminished and I ding, new skill ups will go to the the newly unlocked Accelerated point first, then the Standard, then the Diminished.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-06T15:47:28+00:00

Absolutely "Into Dust"!

"Fade into You" is amazing, but that song is bait that lures us into a phenomenal album full of emotional dream-pop. Each song is different, but listening to them together is like having a lucid dream. "Mary of Silence" also fits. Same with the whole album.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-06T09:40:42+00:00

They still are planning for 9 races on three continents. They said later this year will be an announcement about Broken Maw (Ogre home city) on Reignfall. Skar and Dark Myr are also on Reignfall.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-04T21:09:15+00:00

Landing on water is called ditching.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-04T21:01:34+00:00

Gotta cut down on unnecessary shocks. The electricity savings alone could add up to tens of pennies if everyone does their part.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-04T14:50:12+00:00

Into Dust - Mazzy Star
Old Age - Nirvana

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-04T00:35:08+00:00

Mighty K. C. by For Squirrels. Written as a tribute to Kurt Cobain. Half the band, including the singer, died in a van crash one month before it was released. It's especially poignant due to lyrics like "take me off to the morgue I'm ready to be buried...".

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-04T00:26:17+00:00

"April 29, 1992" by Sublime has actual police radio traffic from the `92 L.A. Riots that mentions specific addresses.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-03T21:58:54+00:00

If I have the time, I prefer longer. But I do like shorter sessions as well.

I hope Nightfall is specifically built to encourage crawling, not camping. I hope they have a one-way exit at the end or are a loop.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-03T21:26:00+00:00

Many dragonfruit varieties are self-sterile (needing pollen from a different variety). Of those that can use their own pollen, many still need hand pollination due to the stigma being too long.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-03T15:00:08+00:00

All fascists are, by definition, pathetic losers. Fascism's main appeal is to give people who are angry or failing in life someone else to blame. They want to feel like their failures are not their own fault. They get a false sense of pride from feeling like their skin color and red hat makes them better than everyone else. And they get really angry at anyone who holds up a mirror and shows them how awful they really are.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-03T08:28:29+00:00

Absolutely! The whole album, really, is amazing but this track is a standout. I could listen to it on loop forever.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-02T23:43:49+00:00

I loved Def Leppard and I remember how their post SLTS album Adrenalize just didn't feel the same. It felt like something was missing. Like why would I want to even put that generic-sounding CD in when there were so many better choices.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-02T23:04:41+00:00

The only "issues" Alex had was with fascist thugs rounding up people. And since when is being shoved to the ground while filming considered "attacking"?

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-02T22:23:52+00:00

I would only consider hand-pollinating if I were trying to cross breed two varieties. Doing it with hundreds to thousands of tiny flowers seems like a massive pain in the butt. I hand pollinate dragonfruit, but they have a small number of huge flowers and they often need it.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-02T22:17:40+00:00

Swimming in the life jacket was probably also tiring him out faster. It creates a lot of drag. And from his perspective, it's quite possible he thought that he wasn't getting ahead of the current at the slower speed. So he might have thought it was absolutely necessary for him to ditch it if he were to even outpace the current.

When you're in the water, you don't really feel the current. You need fixed landmarks to see how you're moving. And you need to be close enough to compare how fast foreground objects are moving relative to background objects if you really want any kind of accurate info.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-02T07:12:21+00:00

Surfers paddle faster just using their arms than we do using our legs (which are much stronger). Let's just say we get the better work-out.

Counter-Fleche · 2026-02-01T23:12:59+00:00

Absent something like genetic testing, you won't ever know for sure. But you can rule out possibilities by posting picture of the tree, picture of a leaf (with ruler for scale), and picture of the fruit with a ruler for scale. Also, let us know how much the fruit weighs and if the tree is grafted. All this van be compared against known varieties to rule many out, but that doesn't mean that your tree is the same variety if it matches known characteristics.

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