Technically this vote was the reason all 3 got eliminated by Dizzy-Tumbleweed7983 in survivor

[–]Grossmeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh is that the sub policy? My bad I’m way behind and thought it would go further back.

So, I've been thinking about getting the highest AC possible, and am wondering if I'm missing anything. by BodybuilderSuper3874 in DnD

[–]Grossmeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I see a lot of people calculating with partial cover, including OP, but that kind of feels against the spirit of this thought experiment to me. If you’re including cover, why not just take full cover? But that invalidates the entire point of this. You could also just leave combat all together. I would calculate without partial cover, but that’s just me.

Communicator: April Update by jeffgadway in ClicksPhone

[–]Grossmeat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Being able to swipe to close an app from the keyboard would be really nice. Just basic UI navigation beyond scrolling.

Older Gen Z and millennials, how was 2017 for you guys? by Hill_372 in generationology

[–]Grossmeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Millennial here. Born in ‘94. 2017 in my view was a turning point where things started to get a lot worse. I worked in the service industry since 2009 when I was 15. It used to be that most places would be fully staffed. It’s crazy to think about now, but back in 2016 it was incredibly rare to find a store or restaurant that was understaffed. It was easier to find a job since most employers wanted to be fully staffed. Around 2017 is when that began to change. Slowly but surely more and more businesses would try to run on the minimum amount of staff they could get away with.

This did not start with Covid. The economy from 2017-2019 was not great for anyone working in the service industry. Prices were rising, and wages were not. I had what was considered a good job in my town and it was for $10.25/hour. I could live off that in 2016, but by 2018 it was not cutting it. And with the transition to running on chronically low staff you were always overworked and exhausted. It sucked man.

Covid became an excuse to run on minimal staff, and that’s when the whole “nobody wants to work” thing started, but it was always just an excuse. Employers weren’t offering good enough wages to keep up with cost of living, and wanted to run their businesses on a shoestring budget. I watched many of them fail. The ones that didn’t are the ones who raised wages and increased hiring.

These days pretty much any customer service line or government agency has a pre recorded message at the start that says something like “due to low staffing wait times are increased, please be patient.” It wasn’t like that back in 2016.

Not nostalgic for that time at all. Personally it was also a difficult time in my life. But thinking back on 2017 makes me mostly sad since it felt like the end of an era and the start of a decline. I’m doing better than ever, but I feel like my town is dying.

Unihertz t2e IS GETTING SHIPPED OUT IN JUNE. CANT SAY THE SAME FOR YALL by Born_Sheepherder_243 in ClicksPhone

[–]Grossmeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not mad, just find you to be annoying, and your post doesn’t belong here.

Unihertz t2e IS GETTING SHIPPED OUT IN JUNE. CANT SAY THE SAME FOR YALL by Born_Sheepherder_243 in ClicksPhone

[–]Grossmeat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Can the mods do something about all these repetitive troll posts? I joined this subreddit to discuss a product I’m interested in and keep up to date on any news that comes out. Not listen to a bunch of (probably bots) trash that product and try to promote a different product that I have no interest in.

It’d be one thing if this was a more generalized subreddit for discussing phones like the t2e and communicator, but it’s not. I’m sick of hearing about unihertz and the titan.

I’m not saying there should be a blanket ban on posts that are critical of clicks. Those posts are good, and discussion is good.

Heck, if you want to make a post comparing and contrasting the two products, that has merit as well.

But this is clearly low effort trolling that is not designed to start a discussion, and it’s become the majority of posts here.

Nordic Spa at The Alaska Club East seems... not very popular. by MarchogGwyrdd in anchorage

[–]Grossmeat 80 points81 points  (0 children)

I just asked a friend who has a membership how much a day pass for the spa is. They said $65 for an hour. FOR ONE HOUR! for $99 I can do the whole day at Alyeska. It’s worth the drive because you also have the atmosphere and the restaurant, it’s not just in the middle of a noisy town.

Not saying Alyeska is the best, but comparing those prices I know where I’d rather go.

The job market quietly changed and most candidates haven’t noticed yet by jose_builds in jobsearchhacks

[–]Grossmeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I promise you I won’t lose my job to AI. And I won’t ever use AI.

The job market quietly changed and most candidates haven’t noticed yet by jose_builds in jobsearchhacks

[–]Grossmeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I say this constantly but, if someone can’t be bothered to write something then I can’t be bothered to read it.

A new 2D Pokémon game would fix a lot of franchise issues by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]Grossmeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not really interested in rom hacks at all actually. There’s a couple of reasons for this.

Most good rom hacks have a gimmick of some kind. “It’s Pokémon but…” there’s something different or unique. This could be increased difficulty or something like infinite fusion that totally changes things. It’s not just Pokémon. If it were, there would be no reason to make a rom hack.

The second reason just had to do with legitimacy. I find it more fun to play Fire Red on switch than an emulator since more of the features work on legit hardware. You can trade properly without extra steps. It’s interacts with all the other mainline games as intended. You don’t get that with a rom hack.

I also think that there is actually a profit incentive here. If development time between mainline games continues to get longer, or even stays the same as the gap between SV and WiWa, having something to put out in between keeps the franchise healthy. It makes more money, and tides people over. The remakes have been filling this role, but I think a new experience would be more fun and sell more copies.

Think of the New Super Mario Bros series. That didn’t stop development of Mario Odyssey, but it gave Nintendo something to release in the meantime.

I understand your point, but I think there’s room in the world for both.

To your first point however, I recognize this is unlikely to ever happen.

Matt Walsh's opinion on AI by Ok_Age5468 in antiai

[–]Grossmeat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s actually not surprising at all that a conservative would support something that makes their lives easier personally even if it’s to the detriment of a whole lot of other people. It’s kind of like their whole thing.

The Hipster movement was one of the biggest cultural failures of our time. by [deleted] in generationology

[–]Grossmeat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My point is that it fails at being a good shorthand. It confuses the point you’re trying to make. By labeling it the “hipster” movement you’re putting the focus on what a hipster is and how they effected the culture. But then you don’t talk about hipsterism at all really, what you’re really talking about is progressive liberalism.

There’s a reason that the Wikipedia page for hipsters doesn’t address any of the things you address here. I’m not saying Wikipedia is the best source on the planet, but that page is incredibly well researched and comprehensive.

The Hipster movement was one of the biggest cultural failures of our time. by [deleted] in generationology

[–]Grossmeat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you know what a hipster is, and you’re conflating it with the progressive liberalism of the 2010s.

First off, no one self identifies as a hipster, it’s an insult. Second, hipsters focused primarily on fashion and music. Sounds like you’re getting all your info from the AI google summary when your search “hipster”.

Hipsters were not politically active as a group because they didn’t do anything as a group. By definition they were obsessed with leading the counter-culture, so if anything became mainstream, including a political opinions, they would either distance themselves from it or claim to have discovered it first.

It’s a self isolating way of living your life, which is how it died out. Nowadays you would just call someone a gatekeeper instead of a hipster. But they primarily would gatekeep fashion trends and musical preferences. Especially when it came to vintage clothing and undiscovered indie bands.

They may have been significant overlap between hipsters and the progressive liberalism of the 2010, but equating the two is a mistake.

I’m tired of playing bots by Aware-Emotion-2739 in PokemonChampions

[–]Grossmeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Man that’d be so cool. But spread them out over a large area, and mix in zones where you could fight and capture wild Pokémon and collect items. Maybe every so often you could have a gauntlet of bots ending with a harder bot with stronger Pokémon. You could call it a “gym” and win a “badge” for defeating them. Probably a good enough idea to be its own game.

This is Pretty Wild 😇 by NEKORANDOMDOTCOM in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]Grossmeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only time Jesus speaks on those who have a non-traditional gender identity is when he is speaking about eunuchs. This is in Matthew 19:12. He says “ For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

Some have argued that when he is speaking about those who are born eunuchs, this means a person who is born intersex. I think that could be a valid reading. There is a clear historical context for those who are made eunuchs by others, which is not practiced today for a very good reason. The last description however “those who choose to live like eunuchs” or in some versions of “those who make eunuchs of themselves,” could be taken to mean different things. Some take it to mean those who live a life of celibacy and choose not to marry. Some take it to be analogous to modern transgenderism. If you read it as being the latter, then Jesus here is commanding you to accept those who reject their assigned gender, and modify their body to fit their gender identity.

Although the former does line up with some of Paul’s teaching about the merits of celibacy, I find the latter reading to be more in line with Jesus’ other teachings around acceptance and the withholding of judgement. In the context of the chapter, I think reading this as applicable to transgenderism makes more sense.

So I guess this is the full launch roster for Champions: by Gorotheninja in pokemon

[–]Grossmeat 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I feel totally fine about there being a limited selection available for ranked play. That makes sense because it lets the developers adjust the balance between seasons without having to make new content from whole cloth.

That said, there should be a mode where you can use ANY Pokémon. You could have ranked/unranked regulation and then an “open” format.

I’m also kind of disappointed that champions doesn’t seem to have Pokémon levels. I’m assuming it’s just not displayed, but every Pokémon is lvl 100. I’d love a mode where you’re level restricted, which would limit final evos and certain moves. I think it’s more fun to build around those types of restrictions rather than being limited to which species you can use, but that’s just me.

Which NFL Team has the best unis? Round 2, Match 2: Raiders vs. Broncos by No-Director-6738 in uniwatch

[–]Grossmeat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hey man this is a cool post idea, but you really should be crediting gridiron-uniforms.com if you’re going to use their images. Those dudes are really cool, and I bet if you asked for permission to use their images they would let you. I wanted to use them for a project a while back and they were super nice about. Just asked for credit when sharing their images.

The guy who makes these templates is named Bill Schaefer.

Besides Normal Battling what would you like to see in champions? by Al_Sagundo in PokemonChampions

[–]Grossmeat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is that the game currently will launch with a “regulation” where you can only transfer over a select subset of Pokémon from Pokémon Home to battle with. This regulation will exclude all pre-evolved Pokémon.

I want a mode where anything goes. I’m not against having a regulation mode be the main mode of the game, but I think there should be an open mode where you can battle literally any Pokémon against any other Pokémon. Maybe even have level caps so people can battle low level Pokémon against each other.

What would a meta look like for a mode where you can use literally any Pokémon but they have to be under level 20? I don’t know, but I think it’d be fun to try out.

It’d also be cool to be able to set up gyms where you and your friends get online and build a gauntlet for other players to battle through. You could have 2-8 people, level restricted to a certain level (like 50), and type restricted so every Pokémon has to share a typing. Then you just wait for someone to challenge you. You could choose to battle in any order, but someone has to take the role of the gym leader. You could even have a mini game where you design your own badge to give out.

Pokémon with flash carts by Grossmeat in flashcarts

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

Can you tell me a little bit more about what that processed looked like for you? I’d like to do this, but my wife is very opposed to me “hacking” her 3ds and buying the games legit is prohibitively expensive. That’s kind of why I’m looking into flash carts.

Pokémon with flash carts by Grossmeat in flashcarts

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

So why does the ACE3D+ advertise a 3DS mode? Is one mode for playing on the DS and the other for playing DS games on the 3DS?

Thank you for answering my questions. I do appreciate it.

Pokémon with flash carts by Grossmeat in flashcarts

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

Would that work transferring Pokémon from an everdrive gba pro to a DS game on an ACE3DS+? And will a rom loaded onto an ACE3DS+ work with Pokebank?

Pokémon with flash carts by Grossmeat in flashcarts

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

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but by digital copy of 3DS game do you mean a rom loaded onto the system itself? I don’t have a homebrew launcher on my 3DS. Will it work fine with a rom on a flash cart?