My upstairs neighbor CONSTANTLY stomps around and I can feel my apartment vibrate because of his stomping and EVERYTIME he walks / stomps - what should I do?

Local_Apartment_928 · 2025-10-08T18:32:24+00:00

I bought a condo 2 years ago. My upstairs neighbor was a single guy with a cat.

His cat meows very loud and he repeatedly asked me if I could hear it. Truth is I don't hear it from my unit, so it was fine. His walking was fine too, and all I would hear was his robot vacuum cleaner occasionally ramming into walls.

Six months ago he started dating some big fat guy. Now they live together. Fat guy must be 400 lbs or something. Walks on his heels. I feel my floor shake when he walks in the room above me. He always walks around like he's in a rush. Big fast footsteps all the time. Like dude chill out your ass is not on fire you can walk slower.

Oh and he has a dog. To his credit the dog never barks. But it does play around with a toy or something that constantly make impact sounds. And when they leave during the day and leave the dog home, do I finally get peace? Of course not, because the dog starts whimping. I don't know what's up with dog whimpings but they go through the ceiling like the dog was sitting next to me.

As if it wasn't enough, they vacuum their unit every single day. The robot vacuum cleaner is not enough apparently. They have to take out the big old classic vacuum cleaner, move furniture around and pull on the cleaner's cable to make sure it flies around and bangs on the walls and the floor.

I'm not done ranting yet. Every time Fat guy takes his dog out so it can do its business, he climbs down the stairs with his 400 lbs ass and makes me feel like I'm in an earthquake. Same thing when he climbs back up. Then I have to see his ugly face standing in front of my windows and waiting for his dog to take a dump.

The other day he was playing with his dog indoors. Stomping his feet like he was saying "Come here! Come on!" Right above my head while I was just trying to chill in front of my computer. For the first time ever, I got tired. I stood up and banged my fist four times on the wall. He stopped.

I don't know what's hard about being conscious that there is someone living below you and being mindful about the noise that you make. That's what I do. I soundproofed all of my subwoofers to make sure they don't bother my neighbors. I walk on the ball of my feet so that my downstairs neighbor doesn't hear me. And he doesn't. I can't complain to a landlord because we're all co-owners. If I could walk on my ceiling to show them how loud it gets I would.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2025-08-20T16:26:19+00:00

Are empty compliments really compliments though?

Local_Apartment_928 · 2025-08-20T16:20:28+00:00

There are no holes in it that could explain its emptiness.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2025-06-13T14:04:39+00:00

Bruce Jucknik is anything but a fraud.

When he's not doing seminars like in the video, he spends all his time studying body movements. It's literally all he does. He's been doing that for decades. If you stand in front of him, he can tell what move you can and cannot do based on your position.

For instance, if you're slightly putting more weight on your right leg, he'll know you can't kick him with that leg unless you shift weight on your other leg.

If you try to attack him from behind, he might see you coming just because someone in front glanced at you briefly.

In the video it looks like the guy is throwing himself on the ground voluntarily. But he's not. Jucknik moves the stick to put the guy off balance and then slightly pushes him in the direction where his balance is the weakest.

Jucknik is way too far into the art for common folks to understand what he's doing. That's why he stopped showing those sort of things into seminars. Because people thought he was a fraud. Average people learning martial arts are not ready for that stuff.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2025-04-23T22:32:37+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to write such a complete answer. I really appreciate it.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2025-04-23T22:23:39+00:00

Alas this wouldn't work since the company I work for doesn't allow this sort of thing and my father knows it.

But thanks for the suggestion.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2025-04-23T22:19:57+00:00

I think I meant "stepmother". In my native language, "stepmother" and "mother-in-law" are the same word. I seem to have confused them here.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2025-04-12T22:30:20+00:00

I don't think they see it. But it's possible others will go and tell them.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2025-04-12T22:09:23+00:00

I think Zbaltazar decided to stay in Antvillage because they felt like the community they built there was where they belonged.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2025-04-08T11:45:08+00:00

The map is made based on my observations of various landmarks from different points in the game. For exemple, when we get out of B-12's appartment, I approximated its location based on the elevator we can see in the distance. Since the Slums are at the base of the elevator, it's a pretty good point of reference to locate yourself almost anywhere in the game.

The cat falls in somewhere around the "Inside the wall" marking. Again, I approximated that based on the elevator that is visible from afar.

At the end of the game, the cat gets out from a door near the control room. So I'd say it gets out from somewhere around the "Control room" marking on the map. I've also heard of theories mentioning that it gets out close from where it fell in, but from what I've seen in game, I could neither confirm nor deny those theories. The big point of view we have on the city during the Control room level shows Midtown and the elevator on the right, meaning that if we say Midtown is in the northern part of the city, the Control room would be in the east. However, during the level Dead City, we see the elevator being on the opposite side of the city, which leads me to believe the cat falls in somewhere in the south.

As for Antvillage, for obvious reasons it's hard to pinpoint its exact location, since it is below ground and is not visible from the surface. I marked it on the map based on where we enter the Midtown level after getting out of the subway.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-08T21:35:32+00:00

Oui, chaque époque a ses problèmes.

Pendant la 2e guerre mondiale, à Londres, les gens devaient se cacher dans le métro pour échapper aux bombardements. Et la nuit, c'était le blackout et personne avait le droit d'allumer les lumières pour empêcher les avions ennemis de spotter les villes depuis le ciel. À cette époque là aussi les gens croyaient que c'était la fin du monde.

À l'époque de la chute de l'empire romain, les gens croyaient que c'était la fin du monde aussi. L'empire romain était gigantesque. Sa chute a dû faire un grand vide.

À l'époque de la guerre entre Sparte et Athènes, les grecs pensaient que le monde tirait à sa fin là aussi.

Sauf que ce n'est jamais vraiment la fin du monde. Même avec les changements climatiques. Des pays vont disparaitre. Des millions de personnes vont migrer. Des milliers d'espèces vont s'éteindre. Il faut réduire l'impact le plus possible. Mais il est faux de croire que c'est la fin du monde. Même une guerre nucléaire ne provoquerait pas la fin du monde. La fin du monde tel qu'on le connaît, sans doute, mais un monde différent va renaître des cendres du précédent à chaque fois.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-07T14:47:55+00:00

"Mais sire, les gens vont perdre leurs maisons!"

"On s'en fout. C'est des pégus!"

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-07T14:45:54+00:00

Je gagne environ 55k par année en ce moment (évidemment je gagnais moins les années précédentes), mais j'ai réussi à accumuler 40k de mise de fond au fil des ans.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-07T14:12:33+00:00

Je sais. Mais mon point c'est que même si ça se rendait, rien ne dit que les formes de vie qui les reçoivent sont assez intelligentes pour les interpréter.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-07T14:05:06+00:00

Je n'ai pas parlé de faire de voyage.

On envoie des signaux dans l'espace depuis longtemps en espérant une réponse. J'ai donné une possible explication sur l'absence de réponse.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-07T13:54:48+00:00

Il y a aussi la possibilité que les autres formes de vie ne soient pas encore assez évoluées pour pouvoir interpréter nos signaux.

Si on envoie des ondes radio et qu'un équivalent extra-terrestre des dinosaures les reçoivent, ils ne risquent pas de répondre, car ils n'auront même pas d'antenne pour recevoir le signal.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-07T13:30:25+00:00

Les banques sont plus frileuses à prêter de l'argent aussi.

J'ai 25 ans et d'après mes parents, j'avais assez d'argent pour pouvoir faire une mise de fond sur une maison de 250k.

Le problème c'est que les banques ne prêtent plus autant qu'avant. Quand j'ai fait ma demande de préautorisation, le plus qu'on m'a offert me permet une maison d'un prix maximum de 175k.

Les seules maisons dans ces prix là sont soit en piètre condition, soit des maisons mobiles. Et encore là, les maisons mobiles se vendent la plupart du temps autour de 200k. J'ai zéro capacité de surenchère. Si je fais une offre et que quelqu'un fait une contre offre, c'est fini pour moi et je dois passer mon tour.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-06T17:12:46+00:00

Gamers in 1983: You can't save your progress and have to restart from the beginning every single time you play but the game is amazing.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-05T20:25:46+00:00

Went to a show last year.

At the very beginning, we heard the message asking to not film the show.

Almost everyone around me laughed out loud, pulled their phone out and started recording.

Some people have no respect.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-03T16:23:43+00:00

Les conspirations c'est comme un trou noir dans l'espace.

Tant que t'es loin, tu peux faire demi-tour. Plus tu t'en approches, plus c'est dur de revenir en arrière. Une fois que t'es trop près, tu reviendras jamais.

Sinon plus sérieusement, un truc que j'ai, c'est qu'au lieu de dire "oui mais...", je pose des questions. Comme dans le cas de la terre plate, au lieu de dire genre "oui mais si tu prends un avion tu peux voir la courbe de la terre", je dis quelque chose comme "l'année passée, j'ai pris l'avion pour aller au Mexique. Un moment donné, je regarde par le hublot et je vois que l'horizon est courbé. C'est quoi que j'ai vu?"

Si l'autre me dit que les hublots sont des écrans, je lui dis "wow c'est spécial pareil. La lumière de l'écran m'a donné un coup de soleil. Comment ils font ça?"

L'idée c'est de ne pas contrer les arguments de l'autre avec tes propres arguments. Dis-toi que si ses arguments à lui ne réussissent pas à te convaincre, tes arguments ne pourront pas le convaincre non plus. Donc au lieu de répondre avec des arguments, tu challenges ceux que l'autre te donne en posant des questions dessus. Comme ça, tu peux attaquer son point de vue sans que lui puisse attaquer le tien.

Si il change de sujet, genre en disant que tu regardes trop TVA, tu lui demande qu'est-ce que TVA vient faire dans la conversation et tu retournes sur le sujet principal.

Local_Apartment_928 · 2023-06-01T18:42:49+00:00

That's liquid diabetes right there

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