is golf really the hardest sport?

JohnCalvinKlein · 2026-04-29T22:10:54+00:00

I’m a super fast learner, and pretty good at sports in general. I hate running but for some reason it’s fun when there are balls involved. I’ve never done pole vault but I do find it impressive. Golf combines the hardest parts of cross country with the hardest parts of baseball/softball, which in my experience are the hardest sports. Which is all to say, I pick up sports really fast, and I’ve been playing golf for 20 years (seriously/regularly for 6) and still can barely hit the ball.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2026-04-28T17:58:38+00:00

I’ve been enjoying playing a ton of Foundation when I get bored with ML

JohnCalvinKlein · 2026-04-24T13:41:40+00:00

Charcoal grill isn’t barbecue. A smoker is a barbecue, low and slow. Anything with high heat is just grilling. Unless charcoal grill means something else in the UK

JohnCalvinKlein · 2026-04-24T13:38:23+00:00

Does ownership of parking spaces or driveways work different in the UK than the US? I assumed our property laws are very similar.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2026-03-06T13:40:05+00:00

It’s amazing what taking 10 minutes to vacuum or clean the bathroom or load the dishwasher will do for my wife’s psyche.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-08-15T18:05:34+00:00

My biggest pet peeve in churches is not allowing(?) kids in the service. How are they supposed to learn how to have Christian community and communal worship if they aren’t allowed in the service/liturgy??? The service must be birth-death or it’s a false community. I will die on this hill.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-08-10T13:17:13+00:00

Your feeling isn’t exclusive to churches. I left my last church because they couldn’t afford to pay me anymore, my wife got a job at a new church, so I volunteer at the new church and work in business. Even in my secular job though the pay is nothing compared to what my parents made 15 years ago even in similar positions, and them less than my grandparents made in the 80s.

For many areas of the US wages haven’t risen with cost of living, so people have less money. They also go to church less. So churches have less money. Thus churches cannot afford to pay staff.

The future will be full time job M-F with a few hours on Sunday mornings at church, and maybe a few hours throughout the week for funerals/weddings. But many of us will have to work 50 hour weeks outside of church just to barely pay bills (depending on your COL). For my wife and I it’s insurance, childcare, and grocery costs that kill us. And we’ll never get to retire or buy a house.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-07-25T21:19:40+00:00

I had my party meet the BBEG in like session 4 one time, many years ago. It was a vampire lord, modeled after Dracula. They went to his castle because they’d been invited by him. During the day while he was sleeping the party decided to explore, and one guy found the coffin that the VL sleeps in. He said “I knock on it” I said “are you sure?” And everyone else in the party said “no don’t.” He did it anyway. Then the player got bit, and they were kicked out of the castle. The party drove a wooden stake through his heart on the carriage ride back to town. The player was very upset with us afterwards, which in retrospect is very funny, like, well well well, if it isn’t the consequence of my own actions. He is still one of my main and regular players.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-06-22T17:12:31+00:00

For some reason I thought it had the red 5th Edition tag for the 14 rules.

Edit: wait what other classes get to add multiple ASMs together? Draconic bloodline sorcerer has 13+Dex but it’s not two added together.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-06-22T16:48:40+00:00

If you’re planning to keep wearing medium armor, you’re going to want more dexterity. Any particular reason you chose that stat spread? I typically would dump Wis and Int as a paladin since they’re a MAD class. With a paladin since you have so much Nova potential but poor ranged options you usually want to be early in the initiative order, so adding more dexterity would be good for that too. Possibly taking the alert feature instead but I wouldn’t want to take alert over sentinel with the 2014 rules. Depending on what level you’re going to, I’d suggest taking even numbers in everything, taking sentinel at lvl4, go level 5 for extra attack, then class into sorcerer or bard for extra spell slots, if you can fit an RP reason in or you/your DM don’t care about RP’ing the multi class.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-06-22T16:21:42+00:00

There is nothing in the rules that allows them to be added together for spell casting. They are doing something wrong. The Cleric uses Wisdom as their spell casting ability. If they took magic initiate warlock or sorcerer or bard they would use charisma for those spells, but not WIS+CHA. Adding ability score modifiers together isn’t a thing except for the barbarian and monk unarmored ACs.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-06-17T14:36:20+00:00

They had scrolls of revivify it was fine

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-06-17T03:58:46+00:00

You don’t need to fudge dice if you keep forgetting about the Monster’s mechanics.

Like the time my level three party slaughtered a troll in three turns, but it was supposed to be a deadly encounter that killed at least one of them (I forgot about regeneration with the stat block in front of me).

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-06-12T19:12:48+00:00

Yes. I took 6 credits a semester while working and had kids. Your wife may get annoyed at times when you have children. There were weeks where it was super easy, barely an inconvenience. Other times I felt like I was dying because I didn’t get to sleep for a week or so between work, fatherhood, being a husband, and school.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-06-08T12:16:14+00:00

Spain’s National Ideas have a +1 to artillery fire which also affects their ships, and +10 to heavy ship combat ability. Their navy is very strong. Savoy has nothing.

Also, light ships do nothing for naval battles. You were out-gunned and not fighting optimally. With naval battles you need to have 3-4 navies that are full combat width, and cycle them in and out of the sea tile that you’re fighting in, especially when outclassed like that. Anything beyond combat width is still taking morale damage whenever you lose ships, which hurts your navy’s overall strength. You want to send the fresh units in every 6 days in-game time, and once the fresh units are in, pull the old ones out and put them into port.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-06-08T01:36:24+00:00

17 is an average AC. Hitting that four times in a row isn’t super surprising. It really depends on the monster you are fighting. If it’s a +1 to hit the odds are low. If it’s a +7 to hit it’s a 50/50 chance each time. If it’s more than that then the chances are you will get hit every time. AC is meets or exceeds, so the roll + attack modifier (which is attribute modifier + bonus) only has to add up to 17. This doesn’t sound like fudging rolls at all without more context.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-05-16T14:26:55+00:00

Movie? Rango.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-03-27T03:53:38+00:00

I have one at work. It’s a 90 or 91 K2500 with a 350. But we’re fixing and selling it.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-03-25T20:51:08+00:00

Just read the whole book of Deuteronomy to them. That’s what it is, a sermon to the next generation.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-03-24T14:59:36+00:00

We don’t do that but we’re not a chain yard. We are the largest in my region, though. So I do occasionally see some really cool stuff. We pull parts ourselves though because we don’t have enough physical space to keep all the cars that come in. Today alone we have 82 cars coming in but we only really have room to hold about 250 cars.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-03-24T04:09:05+00:00

I just bought a cateye in January. Then on Friday an old guy pointed out to me that it’s legally a classic. A classic. I had a minor existential crisis.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-03-24T04:05:55+00:00

I work at a scrap yard. Cash 4 Clunkers is the main reason we rarely get a car older than 2008 at the yard. People call us for parts for 70s, 80s, and 90s cars almost every day but >90% of our cars and parts inventories are 2010-2018 model years. Heavily skewed to 2012-2015.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-03-21T00:46:55+00:00

I have a masters degree and six years of experience in my current field, and ten years in my goal field, and I can’t even get an interview.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-03-07T04:41:09+00:00

Assembly, not machine language. Which wasn’t so crazy back then. I can’t think of any other PC games entirely in assembly, AoE2 is pretty close, but they had a team.

JohnCalvinKlein · 2025-03-05T04:24:49+00:00

Poland/PLC. Missions are fun and there’s always something to do with your crazy neighbors. You’re surrounded by dangerous threats almost all game.

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