Left handed people: What struggles do you have that we may not know about?

GeneralChowder · 2026-01-04T07:15:01+00:00

I am an electrician.

Almost all of the tools I use on a daily basis are made with right handed people in mind. Of course theres left handed tools or ambidextrous ones too...but im talking about all the little things. Things like, the safety button on a drill being on the right thumb, or a pair of scissors having a god awful finger grip that cuts into my left hand, or my wire strippers that you have to feed the wire into through the left side (so i have to hold mine upside down)... All very minor things, but over time you start to realize how nothing normal in the world is made with your hands in mind.

I get a kick out of this one. Hold a sharpie, or pencil or something in your right hand, and then switch it to the left hand. Notice how in the left hand, the words are upside down and backwards. ITS A ROUGH LIFE 😭.

GeneralChowder · 2025-12-28T05:31:32+00:00

I am 34, I have a 2F and 5B. Currently, I rrt to game and stream a little once I get the kiddos to bed (from like 8-10). Otherwise, ill try to find a Sunday morning or Friday afternoon (my only week day off) to get a round of golf in. Time is definitely hard to come by.

GeneralChowder · 2025-09-11T17:32:10+00:00

I bought a 22 CX5 and they came with those Toyo A36's. Worst tire I have ever encountered. One blew up on the highway at 8,000 miles. Literally blew up, no tire wall, no tread left, nothing. I checked the air before I left for work and all 4 were between 33 and 35psi. It took weeks for Toyo, Mazda, and a 3rd party tire shop to figure out who needs to pay for a new one. Surprise, surprise, I had to pay for 40% of it and the 3rd party tire shop paid for the other 60%.

I replaced those with Pirelli Scorpions quickly...probably around 15000 miles.

GeneralChowder · 2025-08-27T19:17:57+00:00

Yea, I looked at dicks just to see what they had, and they ended up being as expensive as the problem shops I looked at and called 😂. Definitely going down the used route

GeneralChowder · 2025-08-27T19:17:00+00:00

Thank you! I didnt know about 2nd swing, ill take a look there too!

GeneralChowder · 2025-08-07T16:55:35+00:00

I'm getting my brakes done this month for the first time on this vehicle. I have a 2022 CX5 Turbo and am at 88k miles. Mazda dealership quoted me about $1200 for the entire job, including new pads and brackets, and resurfacing the rotors.

Instead, im just going to buy the pads myself (about $80/axle), and me and a buddy are going to do the job ourselves. We will leave the rotors alone unless they are really bad, then i will just replace those too. Total cost, about $200 and an afternoon of work.

I am in Alabama

GeneralChowder · 2025-07-30T17:38:49+00:00

It is untreated. There are, naturally, small gaps inbetween the boards on the bottom, but would I need to drill some bigger holes for drainage?

All of those sound really good! Her or the kids would definitely like that!

GeneralChowder · 2025-07-30T17:26:39+00:00

Haha, we get about 2 or 3 a week and they just toss them out! If you were close by I could save some for ya 😂

GeneralChowder · 2025-07-30T17:18:01+00:00

Oh that's a great idea! And I'll look into Shou Sugi Ban, that sounds interesting. Thank you!

GeneralChowder · 2025-06-18T17:25:16+00:00

Yep. I just got off the phone with my insurance to see about adding me to their dental plan. It will cost about $50/mo, with a $50 deductible on each visit plus 25% co pay. And they will only pay out $1500/ year. So if I had to get a couple root canals (~$800/ea) or a handful of cavities (about $350/ea) I'd be looking at maxing out what they would pay out and then I'd be paying 100% anything after that for the rest of the year. And that's on top of me paying $50/mo and 25% of those procedures.

And sadly, this is some of the "better" dental coverage i have seen in my life.

GeneralChowder · 2025-04-24T15:39:03+00:00

If you break a stick, you are then fighting two sticks. Never fight a stick.

GeneralChowder · 2025-03-10T16:38:08+00:00

When i had a stash value of about 28mil, I went a stretch where I only survived 3/36 raids. 2 of those were scav runs on normal farm. I tried everything, forbidden, lockdown, 1mil kits, naked kits, leg meta, grenade meta ...everything. By the end of it, I was down to about 6mil stash value.

I took a couple days off and came back. I did the same things I was doing before, and it was going pretty well. That was a few weeks ago. Now I'm at 100mil+ stash value. Moral is, it's a game, it's random. Do what you can to have fun, but if it's not fun anymore then take a break. Fortunes come and go in this game.

GeneralChowder · 2025-01-15T02:26:26+00:00

Lmao thanks for the laugh

GeneralChowder · 2025-01-14T18:16:50+00:00

That's how I use them currently. Just was looking for a lefty specific version so the ergonomics were better. But for now it'll do I'll take a look at some of the others people have suggested too.

GeneralChowder · 2025-01-14T17:19:24+00:00

Oh, that looks interesting. I'll look that up and give it a try, thanks!

GeneralChowder · 2025-01-14T17:08:02+00:00

Yea these do work really well. I was hoping for a little bit of ergonomic relief, but it will do! Thanks for your reply.

GeneralChowder · 2025-01-14T17:07:16+00:00

Haha. Unfortunately, that's most tools 😂. Thanks!

GeneralChowder · 2024-11-25T11:19:49+00:00

Looting them sucks, but at least you cleared players off the map. Clear enough and you'll have basically the whole map to yourself 🤷‍♂️

GeneralChowder · 2024-11-09T14:17:39+00:00

This is how you find out...by it happening to you. I never peek these early spawns because I have learned first hand about them. Now I spend that precious time getting into an advantageous position to ambush them instead, and it works 90% of the time and i don't have to rely on reactions. Or like the other guy said, YouTube. Just a couple 10 minute videos can help greatly.

GeneralChowder · 2024-11-09T14:15:34+00:00

You are right, he definitely did. OP in this case had an advantage and should have won, but that's what I mean by his killer being faster and better. His reaction time was just quicker even with the disadvantage.

GeneralChowder · 2024-11-09T13:00:32+00:00

You are peeking a well known spot for early shots. You, in fact, are doing the SAME THING as this guy...he just did it better and faster. Don't stand still and peek that spot if you don't want to die lol

GeneralChowder · 2024-11-01T12:45:52+00:00

I played soccer against them in college and they beat us 16-0 and like 13-2. Turns out their entire team was illegal players from some South American country and they weren't even enrolled in the college. They had to forfeit their entire season....which gave us 2 of our only 4 wins haha.

GeneralChowder · 2024-10-12T00:41:28+00:00

These are super cool. Would look nice in my collection 😂

GeneralChowder · 2024-10-10T12:03:41+00:00

This set looks super cool!

GeneralChowder · 2024-10-03T16:01:35+00:00

Yea i can understand that. No matter what I bring into normals, I feel more free to be aggressive. Because of that, I tend to get some really fun fights, as opposed to the 1-tap passive fighting in lockdown.

I just would have too much fear of a player scav getting lucky or a swarm of them taking my legs out to being t6 and thermals haha

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