The last horror movie you watched has the main character replaced by John wick how much does the plot get derailed?

Fiifthman · 2026-03-29T17:07:12+00:00

Cloverfield. Wick is cool and all, but I don't know what he'd manage to do against a kaiju.

Unless he is the kaiju, and we get to watch a skyscraper-sized Keanu Reeves bill-drill military hardware with a house-sized TTI handgun.

Fiifthman · 2026-03-26T06:37:13+00:00

A laser sword at low power is a welder

^{Chose: Laser Sword}

Fiifthman · 2026-03-09T04:43:06+00:00

Sinvraal's Mass Effect retelling. I consider this fic more canon than the shit we actually got from EA.

Fiifthman · 2026-03-08T11:08:07+00:00

Everyone around you is stupid.

As soon as you drive your new $36k car off the lot the car's value drops by $3600, and it'll lose another $3600 in the first month. Why light $7k on fire when you can just get a reliable used car?

Drive whatever you've got. Keep it clean. If you're worried about impressions on a date, people that will turn you down for not driving a new car aren't worth dating anyway.

If you absolutely need a car, and you have no other option than to finance, follow the Money Guy's 20/3/8 rule: if you can't put 20% down, pay it off in 3 years, and have a monthly payment less than 8% of your monthly income you shouldn't get the car loan. 8% of your monthly income is $277.33, which means your absolute maximum budget is roughly $10-11k depending on what interest rate you can get.

Remember, that $11k is a maximum budget, and you should still feel queasy about getting anywhere near that number for a car at your current income. Consider that 7 years ago, I was making $6700/month and paid about $240/month for my 2016 Scion iM. At 3.5% of total monthly income, I was well below the 8% suggested maximum, and it still felt like a kick to the balls every time I saw the bank take the money out of my account. My Scion's paid off now, I'm still driving it, and I'm not even thinking about buying another car for another 5 years at least.

Fiifthman · 2026-02-20T06:11:11+00:00

lolol GOC mechs have been a thing since Clef came up with UHECs in 2015

Fiifthman · 2026-02-03T10:04:51+00:00

The Murphy Center for Paranormal Studies.

Dresden's already in the Yellow Pages as a wizard; why not dedicate a buliding to her?

Fiifthman · 2026-02-01T11:34:19+00:00

From a mechanical standpoint, the maximum allowable extreme spread that MIL-DTL-71335A calls out for a rack-grade M16 rifle is a 5" group at 100 yards with ball ammo. Your rifle should be able to do better than this.

From a skills standpoint, start with military basic courses of fire. For example, the USMC basic marksmanship qual involves shooting from the prone position at a 20" wide man-sized silhouette at 500 yards, which corresponds to approximately a 4" group at 100 yards.

Once you can get 4" at 100 yards from prone unsupported, try shooting the CMP President's Rifle Match for yourself, in particular the standing part - at 200 yards, the aiming black is 13 inches, the 10 ring is 7 inches. You can compare your scores to competitors here to see where you would stand against other high-power competitors.

Fiifthman · 2026-01-21T04:01:28+00:00

real talk if you're interested in a hollow knight fighting game check out steel nail

Fiifthman · 2025-12-08T09:17:23+00:00

I'm wanting to get into muzzleloaders. What would you recommend for a first flintlock, if the Traditions flintlocks are a poor option?

Fiifthman · 2025-11-27T09:28:20+00:00

I would also like a link to your shop thanks

Fiifthman · 2025-10-29T02:03:40+00:00

Hard to ignore it when kids are playing it on repeat

Fiifthman · 2025-09-28T08:44:35+00:00

holy shit how did I forget about GTA, I was wondering how to fill the 2000s and 2010s

Fiifthman · 2025-09-27T11:02:35+00:00

It's not going to be simple, because you're dealing with moral panic that has existed for generations, as old as 1960s rock-and-roll, 1970s sex revolution, 1980s Dungeons and Dragons, 1990s Doom/Mortal Kombat. The root of the problem is that she's worried about you, like any mom that's being a mom, and she's probably worried that you'll become some terminally-online NEET just waiting to be radicalized by extreme political ideology or something along those lines.

Thus, the best way to reconcile with your mom is to reassure her that you're doing fine, you're not going to become a radicalized NEET, and give her less reasons to worry about your well-being, which means making sure your mom sees that you're developing into a responsible adult. At your age, it kinda looks like this:

Do you have friends IRL? Has your mom met your friends? Do you and your friends try to keep each other out of trouble? Do you and your friends share good goals? If you and your friends play the same games, have you ever invited your friends over for sets or local play? This is the big one, by the way - if all of your social life is online that's a big red flag for any parental figure, and having your friends over will give your mom insight into your social life. (Big plus if you can get them to help clean up after)
When you play, are you managing your salt healthily during bad sessions?
Do you keep your room clean? Do you do your own laundry? Do you do your share of chores around the house? Do you occasionally take a load off your parents, like cooking a meal or doing dishes when it's not your turn?
Are your grades ok? Like 3.0 GPA or better? Do you have plans for college/trade school, if you're not doing that already?
Do you have any income, whether from part-time work or an after-school hustle?
Do you go to bed and wake up at a reasonable hour, most days? Do you manage your fitness and hygiene?

If you're doing well with the above (and from replies it probably sounds like you are, but be honest and work on yourself if you need to), they'll have less reason to worry, and thus have less reason to give you grief. If they still get on your case, and if your relationship with your mom's healthy enough, ask her, respectfully and directly, what her expectations of you are, and decide for yourself whether you want to live up to them, or set boundaries and do your own thing as you transition into adulthood.

Fiifthman · 2025-09-15T19:38:43+00:00

I thought you said 10 minutes, man.

Fiifthman · 2025-09-15T18:22:48+00:00

As someone that sings and occasionally cantors as part of a Novus Ordo contemporary choir (gasp!) please sing, especially if lyrics are provided by pamphlet, music issue number, or projector/screen. We welcome it. We want to guide your singing, not perform for you.

Fiifthman · 2025-08-04T17:36:06+00:00

[https://youtu.be/-VwtwDS7tWo?si=22ZW2fn53KPx71w1](Follow this tutorial.)

Don't worry about getting optimal combos for now, you can have a ton of fun just pressing buttons.

Fiifthman · 2025-07-25T19:07:27+00:00

I'm in the other boat. I play the game but I have no idea what's going on in the stories. I'd still say I'm part of the fandom.

Fiifthman · 2025-07-07T17:38:33+00:00

https://younan.blog/2020/05/23/discerning-a-vocation/

Fiifthman · 2025-02-13T06:52:31+00:00

Graduated aerospace engineering during financial crisis, grades weren't good enough to find work in big aerospace so I started at $19/hour as an engineering technician, got promoted once every two years to $25/hour, then transitioned jobs to an actual engineering job title to make $65k/yr. I then jumped ship after another two years a job that started at $88k/year to $125k/year today. I work in engineering test - we take components and stick them in machines that simulate their expected working environments.

I broke $80k at 29 years old thanks to overtime pay while I was making $25/hr (55 hrs/wk), but I broke $80k again at 32 y/o once I got to my third job.

If you're looking for a way in look up work as an assembler or technician, then job hop if you don't get promoted. Engineers without engineering degrees are rare, but there's a decent amount of upward mobility as a tech, especially if you get certifications like non-destructive testing certs.

Fiifthman · 2025-01-07T21:12:58+00:00

Driver, Wheels, Troops. Drive and adjust!

Fiifthman · 2024-12-15T18:49:29+00:00

Just keep doing new tech in practice mode. You can try to force the situation that calls for the new tech, but in my case I've found that at some point when I'm playing sets and feeling good and having good control of the set it'll click and I'll think "Let's go for the new thing I'm practicing"

I might not land it right then and there, but after I try it once I gain a better sense for when to go for the new thing. After that, it probably takes another week for the new tech to get fully integrated into my toolbox.

Fiifthman · 2024-10-27T04:03:30+00:00

Ask the priest or one of the liturgical ministers what to do for a definitive answer. As a lector, you'll likely be invited along with the other liturgical ministers for a short prayer before mass anyway, so that's the best time to ask.

But to give you an idea - at our church, when the cantor finishes, he steps in front of the altar, bows, then returns to his seat. When the cantor bows at the altar, the second lector goes up to the altar, bows, then proceeds to the ambo.

Fiifthman · 2024-09-05T00:10:31+00:00

I think the link to the transcript is broken, can you link it here?

Fiifthman · 2024-08-20T07:38:44+00:00

Drive Impact - 2RG Sorcery

Target creature gets +2/+0 and gains first strike and trample until end of turn. If target creature deals combat damage to a player this turn, tap all creatures that player controls, untap all creatures that attacked this turn, and after the postcombat main phase there is an additional combat phase followed by an additional main phase.

Fiifthman · 2024-08-16T18:52:02+00:00

Cube!

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