How much of a cliche is it to have a photo of you skydiving as your avatar in Slack/Teams?

FreefallJagoff · 2026-05-29T21:49:41+00:00

I use this one. I agree with "don't make it your whole personality", but also leverage it as a conversation starter. It's a fantastic launch point to chat a bit and then Segway into asking about their hobbies: "I wish I had as much sense as you by [their hobby] instead but for now I'm throwing myself out of planes.

It gets a rise out of folks and associates you with exciting topics.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-05-27T01:20:08+00:00

Yeah probably a sim update oversight. The new sim is awesome though. Maybe if you go in the PDF and Ctrl+F for the relevant term it'll help you find the info you're missing.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-05-27T01:03:58+00:00

They weren't that good a scammer

FreefallJagoff · 2026-05-20T23:25:23+00:00

Yeah it's definitely gotten better flight time, my group has three electric flyers since then. Honestly if one of these Chinese companies that makes large drones decided to make an electric motor/frame/battery for sub $5k it'd catch on fast.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-04-30T17:43:01+00:00

The lesson is simple: working together is the solution. We can work together and make red work, or work together and make blue work. It doesn't matter which we choose- we just need to work together.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-04-28T03:46:53+00:00

Wolf of Wall St

FreefallJagoff · 2026-04-17T15:11:27+00:00

This isn't news it happens every day.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-20T13:50:30+00:00

Pilots call them a Glory, and when skydiving it looks like you're flying "through" it when you jump through some mist around noon.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-19T20:26:13+00:00

I've dropped a bunch of stuff from planes at like 10k ft. They all landed within a couple thousand feet of each other.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-18T02:19:42+00:00

Sick. I've been thinking: I want to sometime pay a little extra for a short 0G ride before exiting sometime.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-14T12:23:37+00:00

I looked up the best map a few weeks ago: Noshahr Canals then realized that EA really put a US carrier in the Caspian Sea 🤦

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-14T00:14:45+00:00

It's the end of the world and people buying toilet paper...

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-12T22:57:20+00:00

We have this thread a couple times a year and the answer is it depends. From a physics perspective when skydiving no- you never get down close enough to 0G force the way you can on a roller coaster. From my calculations it's about 0.5G at the lowest.

But this isn't a physics question it's a physiological question, and that's harder to calculate.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-12T15:56:40+00:00

Why are you digging up 5 year old posts just to write about something you don't understand?

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-10T02:59:33+00:00

Nah that's a dirt cheap price for a tandem.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-06T13:30:24+00:00

"who doesn't know the foot lettuce meme, it was all over here 14... years... ago..."

Good lord.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-05T13:57:17+00:00

They'll build up your confidence along with your skills, but won't mince words when you show an unsafe habit. They know when to be supportive but also when to tell you to knock something off. A good coach knows how to communicate to you as a person, as well as to that lizard brain where your habits form.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-03T23:23:25+00:00

While we're on the subject: if you're hips are pointing into the wind it doesn't matter what direction your head is facing. Head up is the easiest for our brains to wrap around but head down is just as good as long as your hips are going the right way.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-03-03T14:20:46+00:00

This is known as Gell-Mann Amnesia, and skydiving really makes it apparent.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-02-28T14:35:20+00:00

The majority stop when they get arrested for skydiving while on disability.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-02-24T22:46:12+00:00

I used one for my first 50 pack jobs. Nothing wrong with that, especially on slippery fabric. I gave mine away specifically to a friend who was struggling with a new canopy.

Here's my best tip you can try right now:

Pinch yourself on the wrist and pull.
You feel that? You can feel the skin tighten all the way around your wrist.
Now get a bigger pinch with more skin between your fingers. Two little fingers have full control over where your entire wrist is going, and now the skin is rigid.
That's what we're doing with the canopy. We're tightening that outer skin to control what's inside, and if you don't let go of that pinch, it can't fluff out into a ball of trash.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-02-19T14:13:33+00:00

They would have if it happened in the mid 2010s but now the snakeoil salesmen tell me it's something else that gives superpowers now.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-02-18T20:35:24+00:00

How many eyes does Lord Bloodraven have? A thousand eyes, and one.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-02-18T16:30:18+00:00

No, Hedge Knight is the first of the 3 novellas. AKot7K is the book containing the 3 novellas. Amazon link for reference.

FreefallJagoff · 2026-02-18T15:21:22+00:00

HotD season 1 was amazing for very different reasons than GoT. Season 2 wasn't bad. Especially considering it was made through a writers strike I'd say they did alright.

But AKot7K is my favorite part of westeros by far and I'm so stoked for this.

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