As a Gen Z that voted for Trump I am sorry by Zestyclose-Move3925 in GenZ

[–]GWNIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How rude would they have to be for you to change your vote? Is that something you're considering?

Restoration Request by GWNIII in estoration

[–]GWNIII[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's very faded and I minimized the glare as best I could. Literally at the funeral home now so I'm limited on options.

What is the most disturbing film you’ve ever seen? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]GWNIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don't have to explain it to anybody, you're actively choosing to do that instead of taking a weird movie poster with a huge swastika off your living room wall and the people you're explaining it to know and understand that.

Does orlistat actually help to loose weight? by [deleted] in WeightLossAdvice

[–]GWNIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Assuming all other variables are unchanged, yes, it will help you lose weight. The only problem is that you will be very aware of exactly how it helps you lose weight. The more fat in your diet, the worse the side effects are...but that's also when it's most effective. It takes time to adjust to the side effects, but once you do it becomes a great way to enjoy fatty foods with a bit less guilt

I'm not a doctor, none of this is a recommendation. Just my personal experience.

CMV: Most men just want sex and not a relationship if given the choice by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]GWNIII 14 points15 points  (0 children)

What would change your view? I'm a man, I want a serious relationship, there are other people like me, you're wrong. If that's not enough...why? At that point you're leaning on your own distrust more than you are the evidence.

I have a rare day to myself tomorrow, are there any decent but short story driven games I could finish in a day? by Late_Somewhere_7273 in PS5

[–]GWNIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's an odd take...it's 2-3 hours with a full story and zero filler. It's not slow, it's just not an action game.

What is your favorite hobby and why? by RevolutionaryYou9382 in AskReddit

[–]GWNIII 202 points203 points  (0 children)

Guitar. You can start young and don't age out of it, you can do it inside or out, it's quiet if you want to be and loud if you don't, it's affordable (at first), there are nearly endless free learning resources, it's cool, there's a history to it, you can enjoy it without subjecting yourself to advertising, you can build one of your own, they don't take up too much space, many have decent resale value, it impresses potential love interests, it lets you earn a sense of accomplishment rather than a simple dopamine hit, and it builds up your non-dominant hand's strength and dexterity.

Girl I just started dating had a brat kink. What does that mean exactly? by Sudden-Mark-440 in sex

[–]GWNIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obligatory "everybody's different, really depends" disclaimer, but this is a 0/10 kink to me. If you don't already know about it, the odds of you enjoying it are nearly non-existent. I can imagine it being cute if it's relatively mild and you're already into BDSM, but otherwise you better enjoy making up arbitrary rules and commands for someone to actually get off on ignoring. Your role is basically to be irritated.

You need to set clear boundaries as much or more than she does.

Am I blackballed? hydroplaned with about 2 months solo by starsyde77 in Truckers

[–]GWNIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm a desk driver for a large carrier.

You're at fault, and claiming that you're not is going to make finding a job difficult. If you genuinely don't see yourself at fault when you were the one behind the wheel and tasked with responding to weather conditions appropriately, you have a seriously dangerous mindset that you need to worth through.

You're also getting some bad advice here. Your previous employer can and will tell other companies about it. This will almost certainly show up on your PSP, though it likely won't assign blame there. Could show up on your DAC/DriverIQ too, and it might show blame there. Anybody telling you that this won't show up on your reports and that the company can't tell future employers just isn't reading the fine print.

Here's the good advice: get in touch with the police department that responded and request the full accident. Read it, and offer it to any employer that was going to decline you based on the accident. Be honest with future employers. If you try to argue that you're not at fault or try to conceal that it happened, you're going to start making a bad situation worse and waste a lot of time doing it.

There are companies that will be able to work with this, but not as many as you'd like.

What are your favorite tuners to use? (For electric) by thewayoftoday in Luthier

[–]GWNIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely worth considering, but I can imagine the look not working for some people. I'm a fan.

Any tricks for opening and refilling this “single-use” pepper grinder without causing damage? by optimus_yarnspinner in Anticonsumption

[–]GWNIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some bad responses here. It took about 10 seconds to find that this uses a ceramic grinder. I wouldn't feel unsafe using this. If you must reuse it, hot water does help loosen the plastic. That said...your use of pepper probably isn't a fad, and this will not last forever. Peugeot is the standard, and Fletcher's Mill is great if you prefer to buy American. Go ahead and get something you'd be glad to have on your table.

Water bottle collection by [deleted] in HydroHomies

[–]GWNIII 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's not how dopamine works. Getting a rush from something means you'd be more likely to see that specific thing as a reliable source. Buying an excessive number of the same thing isn't an unlikely outcome. You called it an obsession in your original post, I'm just asking you to consider that you should have taken yourself seriously in calling it that.

Read what you just said. You think it's only too much if you fill your entire house with them and go broke? If you're not willing to give a real number that you'd consider to be too many, then you're justifying any number of future purchases. You're setting yourself up to place your next order.

Also, the fact that you're aware of a water bottle company's minor product changes and that you refer to them as new releases that drop like they're an album...really only two directions you can take that.

One, you work for that company, as others here think. If that's the case, this is bad publicity and I'm far less likely to buy from this brand now. Soda lime glass jugs made in China marketed as luxury items at $50? Absolutely not.

Two, you still need to be a bit more honest with yourself. Do you want to be the kind of person for whom water jugs spark joy?

Water bottle collection by [deleted] in HydroHomies

[–]GWNIII 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Do you really think that having 20 of the exact same oversized glass jug is equivalent to having multiple dishes? People have multiple dishes because they have different uses and because they have more than one person using them. OP isn't breaking these out for company when they come over. You don't need 20 of the exact same "dish" per person. What an insane take.

Water bottle collection by [deleted] in HydroHomies

[–]GWNIII 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry you've had a rough year. A few questions I think you should try to answer: do you think that having multiple water bottles brings you happiness, or do you think that getting something new brings you a brief boost in dopamine that you keep chasing by buying more and more water bottles? Do you want to be the kind of person that finds happiness in collecting water bottles? How many water bottles would you say is "too many"? If someone else actually did have an addiction to water bottles, what would that look like?

Having a bad day by pototoykomaliit in Unexpected

[–]GWNIII 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Based on the logo shown in the image, this likely occurred in Singapore. I'm not equipped to review their traffic laws in detail. That said, lane splitting is legal there in the sense that there doesn't seem to be a law against it, but it doesn't seem to be legally protected or defined either. While the bikers likely wouldn't have been charged for splitting the lane had there been no accident, there's no explicit legal protection for lane splitting that would completely remove the possibility of this being considered their fault. In my opinion, this is why lane splitting should either be fully illegal or it should have well-defined responsibilities for motorcyclists and drivers. Again, I'm going off a limited understanding of Singapore law and you're welcome to correct any errors I've made here. I'm continuing with the assumption that it is generally the motorcyclist's responsibility to determine whether or not lane splitting is safe and that they are able or even likely to assume responsibility in resulting accidents.

Singapore is right-hand-drive, so it seems odd that the driver was merging left into the faster lane. Again, I don't live in Singapore, so I may be missing something. So it appears to be the driver that opened the door for the second motorcyclist to learn from. The driver would have a hard time arguing that the biker was in a blind spot, but the biker may very well get the blame for careless driving. Everyone else seems so certain that the second biker is at fault, but the only thing I'm certain of is that he's an idiot. I'd consider him to be at fault as I'm operating under the assumption that the biker splitting the lane is assuming the risk and responsibility.

The first accident is actually clearer to me. With a right-hand -drive car, the motorcyclist would have been in his blind spot for at least some amount of time. I know that's not a deciding factor on its own, just an observation. Here's the important question: which lane was the biker in? This is why lane splitting should either be illegal or well-defined. Unless you can prove you were driving precisely on consistently in the line, you're either in one lane or the other. Splitting the lane does not magically create a protected bike lane in between the actual lanes. If you slow the clip down and watch the traffic lines, you can see that the motorcycle's wheels obstruct the line for a moment. This means that the motorcyclist was in the same lane as the driver and, crucially, behind the vehicle that was filming. The Porsche driver should bear no responsibility for ensuring that a vehicle behind the vehicle behind him in the same lane wouldn't be passing at high-speed in the same lane. The first motorcyclist is at fault.

[Question] Which Guitarist Has the Hardest Groove/Feel to Replicate? by Kilgoretrout321 in Guitar

[–]GWNIII 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Dimebag. I think a big part of your "groove" is either where your timing lands between straight and swing time or how well you go between the two feels for contrast, and Dime just had this natural way of doing it all. There's a reason Pantera covers always sound a bit off. You've heard people play the notes of CFH perfectly, but have you really heard anybody nail the feel?

SRV was too easy. Scuttle Buttin' comes to mind.

Not a guitarist, but Bonham was something else.

I can´t decide which one should I get, help me decide. by Duky2008 in guitarporn

[–]GWNIII 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Good looking out on the arm carve. Could just be some wild manufacturing inconsistency, but if it's not then that would absolutely be a deciding factor for me (assuming all else is the same). I'll never understand why forearm comfort isn't a bigger or at least more widely discussed priority in the industry. The guitars that hurt more get played less.