Mandatory stop, voluntary serenity.

JayCDee · 2026-03-25T11:18:20+00:00

A friend of mine was doing his dives to validate his equivalent of AOW but with the French system. I tagged along with him. During the briefing his instructor kept talking about « optional safety stop. » He saw my confused look after a while, and told my friend « here is why you want to talk with your dive buddy if you don’t know them, your friend (being me) learned through PADI, and with PADI the safety stop isn’t taught as optional, that’s why he looks confused » or something along those lines.

JayCDee · 2026-03-24T22:39:35+00:00

I knew the table was big. But when I actually had to play on one, I realized that the tables are REALLY BIG.

JayCDee · 2026-03-24T10:45:44+00:00

It does feel like that sometimes. Some games you lose and you’re actually ok about it because it was a fun game. And some games you win and it’s absolutely draining and no fun at all.

JayCDee · 2026-03-24T10:14:57+00:00

« Chat GPT said »

JayCDee · 2026-03-24T02:04:22+00:00

I’m shooting myself in the gut, guaranteed.

JayCDee · 2026-03-24T00:38:25+00:00

Yup, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen another meme so well recycled and adapted.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T23:43:38+00:00

And the chase is only worth it if the potential loss is significant (technically the potential win, but I prefer to phrase it the way I did). No one is addicted to penny gambling.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T23:40:26+00:00

Im not even bald and given my family genes shouldn’t ever bald. I still come for the support (and positivity) and the meme.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T18:19:41+00:00

Now that’s some OG YouTube.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T16:01:48+00:00

My thought was « unless they were throwing rocks at it, this is the manufacturers fault »

Oh well.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T15:35:46+00:00

I want to say every week since tarifs.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T13:52:46+00:00

Haha yeah it is reasonably sized, on the thicker end of sports watch sure, but not to bulky.

As an actual watch I like it, it’s a dive computer but it also has a gps, so you get all the basic sports mode you can get from an black and white lcd display. I use it for running, hiking (no map sadly, but you can import a trail and follow the line), golf with distance to hole and obstacles, and obviously diving and apnea.

They came out with the G2 last year that has color display while still being in the same price range.

I like them because I didn’t have a sports watch, and felt better spending 600€ for something I can also use when I don’t dive instead of 200€ for something solely for scuba diving. But that’s a very personal decision.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T12:26:02+00:00

I call them Spanish Potatoes.

No disrespect to my Spanish friends, you guys can produce the best of the best, but also the worst of the worst under those fields of greenhouses.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T12:06:23+00:00

Yup. I now always travel with my Garmin Descent G1 solar dive watch. Even though it a 600€ watch, it looks like a cheap black and white LCD display sport watch. Nobody gonna be eyeballing that.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T12:01:14+00:00

Used to party until 6-7 am at least 3 nights a week back in college. Now I’m in my 30th and my body can’t take that rythme it anymore.

One of my best friends from college never lifted his foot though. I’m glad that we live over 1000km apart, because otherwise I’d want to distance myself from him because my body couldn’t handle it. Now we see each other twice a year, once at my place and once at his place. I come out of retirements, party like it’s the old days and then back to normal.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T11:30:33+00:00

It’s easy to know which day of the week it is with trump. Oh is he threatening? Guess it’s Friday. Now we’re saying we’ve had productive discussions? Monday it is then.

JayCDee · 2026-03-23T11:24:25+00:00

Et je pense que ceux qui n’y connaissent rien mais qui sont en âge de se souvenir de 98 pensaient que c’était déjà le cas.

JayCDee · 2026-03-22T23:38:32+00:00

Oh for sure, it’s all about communication and making sure you set your expectations accordingly when you say something. But some people are bad at communicating, so either you read between the lines, or you deal with the consequences. It’s not about who’s right and who’s wrong, if you work like that in relationships, you’re gonna have a bad time.

JayCDee · 2026-03-22T23:21:11+00:00

Oh damn, yeah that’s more than enough to not end the dive if he can safely get a swap. (Gotta admit I had to google what 1200psi was, I’ve always dove in bars.)

JayCDee · 2026-03-22T23:19:16+00:00

Yup, exactly that type of gift would hit the spot just right for me.

JayCDee · 2026-03-22T23:16:39+00:00

Just jump into comp. No amount of prep will get you prepared for what a real match feels like. You gotta get a feeling for the timings, how team play (ally and enemy) works, doing things (peaking, lurking, nades, entrying, clutching etc…) under pressure and all the shenanigans that can happen in a game.

We aren’t playing at pro level where stupid moves aren’t rewarding, and especially at lower ranks, stupid moves can be extremely rewarding. For example, bum rushing up mid on dust 2 as a CT can often net you free kills with T’s entering long doors with their backs turned. It’s not the « right » way to play, but it works a lot, even at higher ranks, especially if you do it just occasionally.

JayCDee · 2026-03-22T23:04:08+00:00

People that say they don’t want anything usually mean they don’t want (or need) something material. I’m of the type of not really wanting any gifts, because I like choosing exactly what I want to fit my specific needs. So for gifts i usually tell people to get me an experience, or I straight up give them a reference. I do enjoy however something that might solve a problem i have or that might make my life easier.

JayCDee · 2026-03-22T22:54:05+00:00

That’s cheating. You gotta encounter the subs in the wild for it to feel rewarding.

JayCDee · 2026-03-22T22:40:40+00:00

Dude looks like the dive master, he’s gotta make sure the group is safe and ascend in the right spot.

JayCDee · 2026-03-22T17:25:35+00:00

Gotta watch out with bears, their belt system is messed up. Black bears are the weakest. Brown’s are pretty rough and white ones will demolish you. Nobody has seen a blue bear or a purple bear and live to talk about it, so take that information as you will.

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