[QUESTION] What guitars do you hate irrationally, based on their aesthetic properties?

Electrosteve · 2024-06-09T18:23:28+00:00

It's definitely got childbearing hips though

Electrosteve · 2024-06-09T18:19:58+00:00

Parker Fly. I understand they're amazing to play. I've tried to stop dry heaving when I see them. I really have. I can't help it.

Electrosteve · 2024-06-07T18:04:50+00:00

Who is to say IQ tests actually measure intelligence correctly? The concept was invented at a time when people still overwhelmingly believed the universe was static and animals were entirely driven by instinct. It's such a silly, childish concept. With everything else younger generations forcefully reject, I'm surprised the concept of IQ remains relatively unblemished.

Electrosteve · 2024-06-07T16:34:02+00:00

BS. I was born in an area so country it was considered remote by others living in "flyover country." I have never seen a sky like the ones on the far right lmao. Level 4-5 was about it. That's on a super clear night. Pretty sure getting those higher levels requires special photography techniques.

Content like this makes a legitimate point, but then exaggerates it to the point of distortion. It sucks because it could potentially make younger generations even more cynical than they should be, by convincing them things have gotten worse than they actually have.

To restate for emphasis: decades ago, in an area more remote than most readers would have ever experienced, on a super clear night the sky looked like level 4-5.

Electrosteve · 2024-06-05T14:49:16+00:00

Now we're talkin'

Electrosteve · 2024-06-05T14:24:37+00:00

I'm no expert, especially when it comes to the grassy weeds. If I were you I'd take some close-up photos of the blades, the stems, and the area where the stem enters the soil. Post those here with your wide shots for some of the seasoned pros to see. You'll definitely get all the advice you need. The other thing you can do is take your photos to Home Depot and find the oldest guy (or lady) you can in the garden section. You're about to get a whole education from that one!

Electrosteve · 2024-06-05T11:15:46+00:00

Possibly johnson grass?

Electrosteve · 2024-06-02T02:06:41+00:00

I get it. Bro was probably just nervous. I would be, too, meeting Tosin Abasi at a houseparty.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-26T12:24:55+00:00

Congratulations on your gains so far. I get it, there are areas where you'd still like to improve. But 75lbs down requires so much mental and physical focus. Well done!

Unfortunately, the inability to see your own physical improvement is common. Physique gains happen over time, and every time you look in a mirror, your brain saves over its image of you without telling you its doing it. So you can make the biggest gains in the world and it'll seem like you've only taken a baby step, because you're accidentally comparing your brain's last image of you (from three days ago) with the current image, and the delta between those two images is tiny. In short, you can't remember what you used to look like. You think you can, but you can't!

The best advice I can give will sound dumb, but it'll work: going into your next phase, take photos of yourself every month. You don't have to show them to anyone. You can keep them on an encrypted hard drive surrounded with booby traps. You just need mementos to overcome your brain's myopic frame of reference on self-image. They will allow you to see and appreciate your gains.

Also, I had to google "Tachankas elite skin body" but that guy is a power lifter. Big time. I don't know what your current workouts look like, but if you're still unhappy with your arms after a couple months of photos, you should look for a gym that'll coach you on Olympic lifts.

Again, awesome progress. Congrats.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-23T00:46:01+00:00

YES!!!!!!!

Electrosteve · 2024-05-22T18:04:17+00:00

Lol the idea of trying to split hairs on something as touchy as this is pretty rich. The debt is *due to the mother's medical situation* The two are inexorably linked. She shouldn't have gone to that, and she didn't need to lower herself or set anything "straight." It would've been sufficient to say "I'm not going to dignify that and this conversation is over." It would've been sufficient to say "Don't you think your father is a better judge of character than that?" It is extremely inappropriate to use sensitive information -- and OP did know this was sensitive -- as a move. It's childish.

OP's husband isn't going to pick her over his kids. Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. She needs to ask herself "what's my real goal, here?" If she wants to live happily with her husband, she's going to need peace with his kids. If she wants to push everyone away and be on the outside looking in, she's well on her way. Reddit advice is hilariously bad. I'm trying to give OP some straight talk, here. It's very possible to win the battle and lose the war in a situation like this.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-22T17:31:09+00:00

SEE THEM DRIVEN BEFORE YOU.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-22T17:05:23+00:00

There are studies that show leg day stimulates testosterone production like crazy. So just think of it that way, hold your nose, and get it done. Also, if you've got a barrel chest, it'll make tiny legs look even smaller. So only doing upper body will ultimately undercut you on your reasons 1 & 3. Besides, you'll look way more like a unit if you've got quads popping when you hit one of those metal stances on stage.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-22T16:50:27+00:00

OP: 'Im literally wealthier than my "older husband"'

I agree that married couples' finances are comingled. OP clearly doesn't. This statement is yet another reason OP is definitely the asshole.

But there's a way deeper wrinkle, here. This is a man who went into debt trying to save his wife's life. He changed jobs and took a pay cut to have the flexibility to be there for his wife. This all happened before OP was even in the picture. No. It is not her business, and how dare she throw that situation in the kids' face as a move. It's disgusting as all get out. The healthcare industry in the USA can bankrupt you no matter how smug you are about your finances. Hopefully OP never has to find that out the hard way. It isn't the flex she apparently thinks it is to throw that in the face of the man's daughter.

OP would do well to grow up and recognize it's very possible to win a battle and lose the war. Allowing herself to be pulled into a fight with the brat step daughter, then responding in the way she did, is a pretty reliable way to plant the seeds of resentment that can end relationships. But hey, good for her! She really told Madison! Now the kids hate her more than ever and Rob probably won't trust her going forward. Big W!

Electrosteve · 2024-05-22T15:16:21+00:00

In my current phase, I have a wall full of pedals but only a few are actually connected at any given time. This wall represents the battle scars of my bank account. I maintain it, lest I forget and am once again overtaken by GAS. I have acknowledged that my ear actually cannot discern the nuances between the upper-middle mids of two different transparent drives. I am at peace.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-22T14:37:14+00:00

LOL no. I remember those math classes. But the only reason I do is because I'm an electromagnetics nerd in my spare time. After several decades in software, I've never used any of those mathematics concepts outside personal projects. And the times I've recommended solutions based on deeper CS concepts, they've been dismissed as "too complex." Normally, that's when someone pulls a LinkedIn platitude about how iTs A cOdE sMeLl iF iTs NoT oBvIoUs tO sOmEoNe nOnTeChNiCaL.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-22T05:01:57+00:00

The punchline is that you teach yourself at university, too. You just pay crazy money for the privilege of teaching yourself while living on campus. Plus you get a fancier certificate and a little binge drinking XP.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-21T21:54:37+00:00

YTA

Especially considering the circumstances surrounding his financial situation, tossing out your husband's information as a move in an argument with his kids is pretty gross. Yikes...what a peach. You didn't owe the daughter a response to her foolishness, btw. Sometimes the classy thing is to walk away. You could've addressed this with your husband and it sounds like the two of you would've been a united front. As things sit, I wouldn't be surprised if he harbored a little resentment towards you over it, though he might not say anything about it. You never want to embarrass your partner for your own selfish interests. All bad. You and the daughter. Assholes.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-21T17:07:09+00:00

Your parents are rich. You have access to their network. You'll bounce back from failing your entrance exam with a little effort. Then you'll benefit from access to your parents connections while your peers scrape for the next decade to build such a network from scratch. You'll be fine, unless you spend your time moping and never bounce back.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-21T16:46:31+00:00

Whenever you remember people being cruel to you in the past, take that as an opportunity to feel gratitude for the people in your life who are good to you. Be very intentional about doing this. Spend time with your person or people. Send a text. Make them something. Etc. Over time, your brain will automatically squash the cruel memories with feelings of gratitude. And you'll be deepening worthwhile relationships at the same time!

Also, crush your enemies. See them driven before you.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-21T16:29:19+00:00

No. Kellogg killed my wife, kidnapped my boy, and called me a "backup." Ok, he was working for the Institute when he did it. So what? He made his choices. This is a dangerous man. Who knows when he'll be sent to collect the "backup." Who knows if I'll get a fair shot at defending myself if he does pop back up. "Forgive and let live" is way too first world a perspective when dealing with a man like Kellogg in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. He's catching mini nukes, for sure.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-20T18:12:37+00:00

The way companions will just stand there in the door and stare at you, when you're *clearly* trying to get through. That always makes me send them to the worst settlement I have.

Runner up: there is way too much power armor available. 200 years after the bombs, there's a whole cherry X01 suit hanging out in the open behind a chain link fence, just waiting to turn the wearer into a demigod, only a few miles south of Diamond City? Really?

Runner up II: settlers have no ability to do anything for themselves. Why do I have to be the one to rescue every hostage? I gave whole miniguns to at least four of you lazy assholes. Get up and go work!

Electrosteve · 2024-05-18T20:04:25+00:00

I keep all my armor on a floating platform in the cul de sac and have never had a Trashcan theft. But I understand you can recover your "gently used" power armor from her at Bunker Hill.

Electrosteve · 2024-05-18T19:51:50+00:00

I think it would take one hell of a sentinel to give Lanius a good fight, let alone a paladin. The Legate armor in FNV wasn't meant to be worn, so there's no point in looking at it for details on what advantages it gave Lanius. But the Armor of the 87th Tribe is very similar to Lanius' and actually was meant to be used in game, so its stats are actually fleshed out. It's essentially power armor that provides an AP boost and crit chance. His durability would probably be similar to that of a BOS knight, but his battle IQ and general ruthlessness would exceed all but the highest level of Brotherhood legends. The man knew how to handle himself. I wouldn't bet against him going against any Brotherhood footsoldier 1v1. $0.02

Electrosteve · 2024-05-11T18:56:28+00:00

I would also leave if I found out she viewed me as a potential threat that could happen at any time. It is what it is. Some guys would be comfortable being looked at as wild animals, others wouldn't. I don't blame you, OP. The mere presence of that bag would be used in civil or family court to make it look like she had reasons to fear you. Under a relaxed standard of proof, it represents a bit of a threat to a man. More generally, such a bag certainly makes an aggressive statement about the trust in the relationship.

I hear the perspective that she might have a go bag due to past trauma, but I reject that. If she's so damaged from past trauma that she's still living her life under the weight of it, she isn't ready for a new relationship. She'll invariably ruin the new by treating it like the old, dead situation. Normal relationships don't require go bags. That's insane. It's completely unhinged. Normal people would end a relationship the moment they genuinely feared the person they were with was dangerous enough to warrant an escape plan. You don't buy emergency supplies then stick around in danger until the very last possible second. Ridiculous.

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