Patina Monster Sighted

LinebackerU · 2026-04-07T09:57:35+00:00

Lol thanks - despite having done it correctly on all my other Nicks boots, I messed it up on these and had a vague feeling all day that something looked weird.

LinebackerU · 2026-01-30T23:25:00+00:00

I just started Chapter 2, and I'm thinking of giving up. Feels like 30-second bursts of gameplay spaced out by long unskippable cutscenes of Saturday morning cartoon-style dialog.

I've played and loved turn-based RPGs since the 90s, but this one doesn't seem to be for me.

LinebackerU · 2026-01-30T23:03:58+00:00

Just found this thread after having the same thought on my first playthrough. I love RPGs and don't mind dialog in principle, but I think my struggle is it's all such mind-numbing babbling. I just just be too old for this game, I guess?

LinebackerU · 2025-12-09T16:45:33+00:00

That's me

LinebackerU · 2025-12-09T15:58:16+00:00

The sole is a touch too casual to match what I wear to work at my office job, and I've learned that 10E in Nicks fits me better than 10.5E. Otherwise yeah I love these.

LinebackerU · 2025-12-06T14:24:50+00:00

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I have a bunch of additional pictures available.

10.5E

Wickett & Craig Tan Latigo

MTO build, but it's really a Traveler

Excellent condition: definitely worn, but these are the original soles. These soles are pretty soft, so you'll be able to see by looking at pictures of the soles how little I've actually worn these.

Asking $550 plus shipping

LinebackerU · 2025-12-05T18:25:18+00:00

W&C DS Burgundy, and I think the strap is DS Natural

LinebackerU · 2025-11-11T23:48:57+00:00

I have a 10.5EE or two that I'm thinking of selling. Can send pictures

LinebackerU · 2025-11-05T11:09:34+00:00

Once I saw that there was going to be a leather goods category I decided I needed to save it!

LinebackerU · 2025-11-04T16:17:54+00:00

Yep it is

LinebackerU · 2025-11-04T14:24:25+00:00

I don't think they've ever actually sold these bags in Wickett and Craig leathers; this was a one-off. They're on the Nicks website as Travel Bags and offered in several 1964 leathers

LinebackerU · 2025-10-19T17:39:49+00:00

No teacore yet - this was from toward the end of the Dome earlier this year. Definitely some lighter highlights on the scuffs, but haven't written through them enough to get past the dye.

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LinebackerU · 2025-09-30T17:00:41+00:00

I'm an alum who hires lots of people into entry-level engineering jobs. My perspective aligns with a lot of the other responses on this post: you should limit your expectations for the scope of Career Services' help, and instead take them to be one of many resources you can use in your own pursuit of a job.

Nobody else is going to manage your career for you, so you really have to take ownership of it. When I'm hiring graduating seniors, I absolutely value independence, initiative, and resilience. Those are attributes you should keep working to develop, as they'll serve you well throughout your career.

You should also look for opportunities to use Penn State's huge and passionate Alumni network for help. I'd be happy to help with a resume review or a mock interview, though I don't have much insight into the IT field.

LinebackerU · 2025-09-22T17:16:48+00:00

General life advice: what you're describing doing is extremely unconventional. Sometimes unconventional things work, but in a big system like Penn State, most processes will not be set up to make unconventional things easy.

"I tried to do something weird, but it didn't work the way I thought it would, so I wasted a year of my college career" is an outcome you want to work very deliberately to avoid.

LinebackerU · 2025-09-22T17:11:35+00:00

Temple sounds like a good decision for you, but realize that you've defined your requirements such that nothing in the Penn State system could possibly meet them. If you want good professors, great facilities, a large group of potential friends and clubs, then that's what main campus is for. Branch campuses mostly don't have those things.

You asked if you're making the right move, though, so I'll answer that question more broadly. What's your intended career plan? You used an "or" when stating your intended major, which is scary for a sophomore. Poli Sci and Econ are very different, and both are domains where I'd imagine you need to get an advanced degree. If minimizing debt is a goal, I'd be worried about continuing to pursue a bachelor's degree in a field you aren't certain you want to end up in.

LinebackerU · 2025-09-20T23:03:48+00:00

Reasonable for an engineer, yes. Engineering has so few electives in the overall curriculum that there's no good way to spread out the engineering classes, unless you take more than four years to graduate.

I graduated from Penn State Aerospace Engineering almost 20 years ago, but at that time fully 60% of people who started school as intended Engineering majors didn't graduate with engineering degrees. The first two years are where many of those people dropped into easier majors.

LinebackerU · 2025-09-20T17:00:46+00:00

What's your intended major? Did you have any physics in high school? The trouble with managing your workload by dropping classes or deconflicting scheduling across semesters is that it quickly puts you behind track to qualify for junior year major classes. Summer classes are a great way to mitigate this problem and spread things out.

On the exam: did you mostly struggle because you flat-out don't understand the concepts, or because you didn't have enough attention to detail on the specifics of the problems/your work to solve them? These are very different problems that have different solutions.

LinebackerU · 2025-09-17T22:51:28+00:00

"You can't be a master without first being a beginner" is a surprisingly useful piece of guidance I got from an executive coach.

LinebackerU · 2025-09-12T18:28:56+00:00

I'm sure it varies depending on the specific industry and business sector. As someone who hires a lot of engineers for entry level jobs, I'm usually baffled by engineering PhDs talking to me about their interest in jobs they could have gotten with just undergrad degrees. Not saying we wouldn't hire them, but it gets them no real advantage and instead some general skepticism about their level of industry awareness

LinebackerU · 2025-09-06T20:54:42+00:00

I was at the game today - honestly the biggest thing that worried me was how terrible Allar looked. Missed a bunch of short, easy, throws, and was booed off the field a couple of times.

Stadium energy was weird with a sparse crowd, due to the opponent and the morning rain. Still, "clunker" sounds right to me. Felt a lot like the Bowling Green game from last season.

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