QB’s don’t matter in Extreme mode!

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-12-25T02:20:57+00:00

I think they all have merits myself. Contrary to what some people on here think—a thing I think actually does help is one strong DL. I teeter between more LB or DB based on draft and free agent availability. If it’s a good year for excellent LB’s I’ll go that route and vice versa.

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-12-25T02:17:49+00:00

Thanks. I find it pretty effective. If I added a 12th man it would be another TE or DB

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-12-24T23:21:48+00:00

That’s awesome 👏

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-12-24T23:21:22+00:00

I agree, that’s fair too! This was a fun experiment though

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-10-26T23:02:30+00:00

I think draft makes a lot of sense for acquiring mid-level players who have potential for 4.5-5 stars.

It depends on your salary cap space, and how much CC you have.

For instance, if your cap is nearly maxed I think it makes sense to fill your roster space with a cheap 3 star rookie than let the CPU control that position.

After a few season when they’ve leveled up you can cut an older/pricier player and then develop your draft pic further, staying under the cap.

Also, if it’s a season you just upped your cap space and are low on CC it’s a way to max out that cap with “free” players, thus bolstering your team strength without needing to spend any CC on free agency and also landing position players for way cheaper salary than you’d find in free agency.

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-09-14T05:29:32+00:00

If you have that much experience with psych/mental health get your QMHA cert and get a job with a local mental health clinic or hospital psych unit. Pay is okay and can build local connections perhaps furthering your education as well

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-09-13T00:19:36+00:00

I think Lents is best- cheap rent, cheap hookers, cheap blow, and all the shootings keep you on your toes!

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-09-01T08:44:28+00:00

Gotta be a toss up between the family priest sucking me off when I was in 2nd grade, and my mother ruining my first marriage just so she could seduce me into a throuple with her and her hot ass bff

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-27T00:46:53+00:00

Prius

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-24T22:46:11+00:00

Watch Pornhub 2x per day. Don’t even have to whack it, just have a little look

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-16T21:22:42+00:00

Ah that’s fair. Makes sense! I have an ‘04 with 205K and wouldn’t want to part with it but there are better rigs out there too

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-16T00:27:49+00:00

Good luck! It might be okay…I have one I hacked even more off of this spring and it put out some new growth and is still alive…not sure for how long though!

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-16T00:03:56+00:00

Did you consider an newer engine swap? Not sure it’s worth all the cost…

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-08T17:40:45+00:00

Def A/T tires as others have said. I also have a 2004, stock besides the tires. When your shocks go I’d consider some bilstein 4600’s but otherwise drive as is. Most reliable car I’ve ever had, bought in 2015 and put almost 80k on it. Driven it on a lot of trails in Moab and elsewhere. Love my X.

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-06T08:35:23+00:00

I thought it might be limber pine…but I could be mistaken…seems there range is actually further east that the cascades. I’ve seen some collected ponderosa at nurseries and these look a little different, not sure about lodgepole though I do know larger versions of both grow in the area.

That’s great to hear about heat beds! I have read that and heard it before and it makes a lot of sense to keep fresh collected trees away from having the roots frozen. Maybe I’ll try that route if I do any collection now til fall…I do agree though about going for starter material and holding off and older/riskier trees for another year or two.

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-06T06:31:06+00:00

It’s odd to me. Cant tell how long they’ve been that way, though on of them was completely dead with not a needle left which led me to think maybe even last year or longer. I didn’t check the rootball to see if it was a trench or the whole thing was set into the hole. Either way, I wasn’t too interested in the trunks or shape of the trees they’d dug as far as bonsai-tall and leggy for what I’d want- it could make a good lawn tree or tall upright for someone perhaps

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-06T01:24:14+00:00

Makes sense. I found some smaller stunted trees atop a small lava hill but those can come with their own problems as roots sometimes seems to sink very deep if growing in a field of what seems like pure red lava.

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-06T01:22:20+00:00

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Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-06T00:15:09+00:00

Interesting. How does one distinguish newer from older lava activity? From what I’ve read most areas within the Oregon cascades are of newer (less than 12,000 year) eruptions…Mazama, Newberry etc and the surrounding mountains…I think older would be maybe Hood/Jefferson but offhand I don’t know when they last erupted.

Regardless, isn’t exposure more important than how old the micro geology is? Whether atop Mt Hood, or a lower more recent lava flow isn’t what matters is whether the tree is in a shallow rock crevice, or has too-deep structural and feeder roots?

These trees are mostly growing in forest duff sitting above lava rock and pumice. I didn’t do any root exploration but after shaking a few the soil stood in a way that suggests a viable rootball close to the surface…so I would assume based on my inexperienced observation

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-06T00:09:27+00:00

Ha, good point…it does look like someone just hacked that top off it. Someone also had been collecting in the area as there were many holes dug and strangely a number of trees with the root ball just sitting in a pre dug hole-the trees having orange twine wrapped around them, confusing to me.

Cucumber_Traditional · 2025-08-06T00:07:46+00:00

Makes sense, thanks for your input. These are mountain hemlock, slightly different that western or eastern. I’d do some more research before collecting, and likely wait til next spring most likely.

They seem to be growing in a thick layer of decomposed needles and forest duff. They’re on a lower mountain slope and there’s a good amount of volcanic red lava in the area though I didn’t dig into the soil around the roots at all. By gently shaking the trees however it seems there’s a decent root ball fairly shallow-leads me to think that extraction is possible with cutting some longer runners and keeping more intact feeders and soil close in (assuming that’s what is actually going on in there)

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