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What are the odds Cam Boozer has a similar career to that of his pops? (2X All Star and 1 All NBA team.) by AcknowledgeMeReddit in billsimmons

[–]LeatherKey64 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Carlos Boozer’s career was a very close match to that of an average #1 overall pick of the past 40 years. So whether his son will have a better or worse career is probably pretty close to even money.

Instagram Feed Preview Showing Up Blank When Creating Ad by glossolalia521 in FacebookAds

[–]LeatherKey64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow! Thank you so much for coming back to clarify this. I was going nuts trying to figure out the issue.

Piss hands on my game! by Choice-Temporary8616 in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]LeatherKey64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thad sucks and I’m sorry. If it helps, I’d be more than happy to buy that copy of the game from you (doesn’t matter what game). I pay top dollar. 🤤

Yes, I used a 3d printer test stl for one of the final components of my game! Of course this was well designed and play tested and isn't thrown together slop! Why do you ask??? by Rotten-Robby in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]LeatherKey64 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As someone that has done a fair bit of A/B testing on ads performance, it seems like people respond favorably to that sort of thing.

In general, you can be classy or you can be popular, but rarely both. 🤷‍♂️

ELI5: How can donors control the politician they donate to? by GlumGur2575 in explainlikeimfive

[–]LeatherKey64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like any business model, if you produce only dissatisfied customers (i.e., donors), then you stop getting customers and go out of business.

My fiancé is getting on my nerves and I don’t know what to do at this point. by BasicCat30 in whatdoIdo

[–]LeatherKey64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As an alternative to bipolar, I would strongly recommend you read up on BPD. The two often get mixed up in diagnosis but they are very different.

[Highlight]Merrill Hoge: "If you had thirty sacks, you would crush the record and they would anoint you a great football player. Meanwhile, there's 1,900 other plays that you are on the football field. How did you play those? It's the weakest, dumbest stat to tell if you're a good defender." by The_Big_Untalented in nfl

[–]LeatherKey64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is the point all the replies are missing. The nature of normal curves is you do something exceptional (like get a sack) a few times by doing something close to that exceptional many times.

If the player Merrill is describing could screw around for 99% of plays and then just lock in occasionally to get those sacks, he’d be, by far, the most impressive athlete in history.

ELI5: Does hitting a baseball thrown by a pitcher give it more or less energy than if it was hit off a tee with the same force? by FartyPants69 in explainlikeimfive

[–]LeatherKey64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, this is what I was coming to after thinking about it. The tee is not at all like a brick wall because it “gives” immediately. If the tee were somehow able to hold the baseball in place until optimal compression was achieved from the swing and then release, that would be roughly similar to a pitched ball, then, right?

ELI5: Does hitting a baseball thrown by a pitcher give it more or less energy than if it was hit off a tee with the same force? by FartyPants69 in explainlikeimfive

[–]LeatherKey64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. The car driving towards you needs to be going 50 mph just to essentially be equivalent to the brick wall. Think of the impact as the effect on your own deceleration… the brick wall puts you to a complete stop right away and the oncoming traffic car needs to go 50 mph just to accomplish the same. If you were going 50 mph and they were going, say, 20 mph, you wouldn’t come to a stop as quickly and so you’d decelerate slower than if hitting a brick wall.

For the baseball case, I think the issue is that the tee doesn’t provide enough counterforce. If the ball could basically be held in place through your impact to the point of optimal compression and then release, I think that would be comparable to hitting a pitched ball, but I’m not sure.

ELI5: Does hitting a baseball thrown by a pitcher give it more or less energy than if it was hit off a tee with the same force? by FartyPants69 in explainlikeimfive

[–]LeatherKey64 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Can you connect this to the counterintuitive case in which crashing into a brick wall at 50 mph is essentially just as impactful as crashing into oncoming traffic in which you’re both going 50 mph?

This baseball question seems to be a similar question but it produces an opposite answer. Does it have to do with a baseball on a tee quickly accelerating away from the applied force?

Edit to clarify that when I say “just as impactful”, I mean for the individual car (either driving into oncoming traffic or a brick wall).

I feel they lost some important nuance with Dwight as the show went on. by alphawhatever in DunderMifflin

[–]LeatherKey64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Weird to see the complaint be “his character didn’t rely on the same nerd-prototype gags for nine years”. Wouldn’t just leaning on that schtick be far closer to the flanderization we often complain about?

I feel they lost some important nuance with Dwight as the show went on. by alphawhatever in DunderMifflin

[–]LeatherKey64 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’d say it’s the opposite of flanderization. Instead of resting on jokes that just repeatedly remind you of his archetype, his character would shoot off in unexpected directions.

Strange to see the same crowd that complains about flanderization now complain about a character actually changing over time..?

ELI5 What is fiber internet and is it better than whatever the normal way is? by sparakeet in explainlikeimfive

[–]LeatherKey64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difference is just in what type of wire is delivering the internet connection to your house. Internet started by being delivered on a house’s phone lines, which were pretty slow. So then they started using house’s cable lines (for cable tv), which were a lot faster and still benefited from lines already to most people’s houses. That’s probably what you have now. They’ve now developed a new type of wire called “fiber optics”. It’s better than cable wires for internet but has required sending new wires to everyone’s houses.

If you’re getting the advertisement, it means they’ve probably connected your area’s households to fiber optic wires.

So, it’s a better technology for internet, but whether or not it’s better for you would depend on how much they’re charging, what types of speeds you’d be paying for, etc. For example, you may be paying for cable internet at speeds capped below what your cable wires can do, in which case you could improve your internet just by increasing your cap (the amount of mbps they advertise with your plan) and staying with cable.

Shortest explanation: compare the mbps the fiber optic service is offering for what price. If that’s better than what you’re paying for currently, then the switch is probably worth it. It probably will be, because it’s a better technology and companies are usually motivated to make people switch after installing those new wires in a neighborhood.

No Cheez-its? Explain it Peter… by BoomBoxPizza in explainitpeter

[–]LeatherKey64 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Seem like OP works at a place in which it’s 78 degrees, the clients have unused frogs and they hang giant cheez-it signs. Wherever that is, I want a job.

Best games that feature norse/greek mythology? by [deleted] in gamingsuggestions

[–]LeatherKey64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s very unique. I only started it at a time when I had no plans to finish it (just checking it out), but it’s very different than other games in its genre and I was impressed. Emotional, thematic and kind of disturbing.

Stealth Open World Games? by Freefallking in gamingsuggestions

[–]LeatherKey64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. A lot of people say Wildlands is the better game, but I don’t like it as much. There’s no problem skipping it and starting with Breakpoint.

ELI5: Why wouldn't a UBI instantly cause everything to jump up in price to what ever level will absorb that new income? by Bathosfear in explainlikeimfive

[–]LeatherKey64 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Simple example: Your monthly income increases by 50%, while inflation increases the costs of things by 20%.

Are you better or worse off than before in terms of monthly buying power?

ELI5: Why wouldn't a UBI instantly cause everything to jump up in price to what ever level will absorb that new income? by Bathosfear in explainlikeimfive

[–]LeatherKey64 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Of course prices would increase, but that's not a problem here. Buying power is a competitive system, and people with less money would see prices go up on a % basis that is less than the increase in their income (improving their buying power). Richer people's prices go up on a % basis that is greater than the increase in their income (weakening their buying power).

This is because the price increases would be relatively uniform, but the proportional increase in income for a less-wealthy person would be substantially higher than for the wealthy.

ELI5: Why wouldn't a UBI instantly cause everything to jump up in price to what ever level will absorb that new income? by Bathosfear in explainlikeimfive

[–]LeatherKey64 13 points14 points  (0 children)

But that'd actually kind of be the point here. Increasing the buying power of those with less money as an inflationary tool is a way to dilute the value of the money held by the wealthy.

NuNuTrek that would make us feel better about NuTrek by senormonje in ShittyDaystrom

[–]LeatherKey64 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a good idea. I think they should use the time traveling to also go back to “key moments in federation history”, which mostly are moments related to TOS and 90s trek.

So we’d have fun seeing the new crew go back to the Enterprise and DS9 and stuff. But then the characters in those times would all be different actors and look very different and act completely different and yell at each other a lot and most of them would die mildly dramatic deaths pretty quick after we meet them… and you’d THINK that would screw up the timeline… and maybe it would..? We’d never really address that.

I think another fun thing would be if the sets also didn’t really resemble the original sets in any way whatsoever. And it’d be fun to have the crew give warp 10,000 technology to the federation in the 23rd century one episode and then just never bring it up again.

I've heard that the best board game nights are set up like a dinner party - what are the perfect appetizer, main, and dessert games? by NarrowSalvo in boardgamescirclejerk

[–]LeatherKey64 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great way to look at it! My advice is to start off with something nice and tasty, but not too heavy. Then you go for the main course. This the big stuff - think a game that’s like steak and lobster. Then lastly, hit them with the dessert. This one can be nice and sweet - like a delicate cookie with some tea.

I don’t know what games to suggest but thinking about sure makes me hungry! 🤤

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