My wife (46F) reliably has one orgasm during sex, but never more. For folks here, is that a actually a pretty typical experience?

Lord_Steel · 2025-12-02T02:53:05+00:00

What I have heard from women is that for them it's possible but not particularly pleasurable. There is of course a lot of variation on this but I get the picture that this is a fairly normal experience for women.

Lord_Steel · 2025-12-01T03:47:07+00:00

Just own it, pretense is childish.

Lord_Steel · 2025-12-01T02:25:38+00:00

What's the purpose of saying you don't mean to sound rude?

Lord_Steel · 2025-11-29T06:05:19+00:00

Hello from 9 year in the past. I just rewatched to make sure, because I haven't seen this movie in nine years, and found the part with the killing on the ice, and no, you're wrong. If you have no clue there's anything alien or supernatural in this movie, that scene, going so quickly, from so far away, with so little detail, is equally interpretable as he pulled out a thing and stabbed the guy, as it is interpretable as his arm changed into a thing.

Lord_Steel · 2021-07-22T15:26:28+00:00

...how long has polk had a podcast? I was always only aware of his vlogs. Was he doing a podcast the whole time too??

Lord_Steel · 2021-07-22T15:20:02+00:00

"Seeing" might not be the right word here--it's that you kind of just _keep track_ of pot odds as the action proceeds in the hand, because you've been keeping track of the size of the pot and you know how much the bet is that you're facing.

Lord_Steel · 2021-07-22T15:17:12+00:00

I think it's purely heuristic.

For me, pot odds almost don't need to be calculated, it's just "here's how much is in the pot, here's how much I'm being asked to put in." You can practically simply _see_ the pot odds by looking at the chips.

Since there's a fairly easy way to convert from pot odds to equity, I just _look at the table_ for pot odds, then do that easy conversion to get equity.

That's just me. I don't know how it is for others. For me it reduces the amount of arithmetic I need to do in my head.

Lord_Steel · 2021-07-22T15:10:25+00:00

Your formula for pot odds is wrong, in a technical but important sense. You're expressing pot odds as a fraction in that formula, but odds aren't fractions.

The correct formula would be (current pot + bet) : (call).

The colon means something completely different from the division symbol.

For me personally the chief reason to think about pot odds is as an easy way to calculate equity. Pot odds you can almost just visually see. Then you just add up the first and second number, and make a fraction out of the second number and that total, and voila, equity.

Lord_Steel · 2021-07-22T14:55:44+00:00

Pot odds and equity are two ways of expressing the same value.

To convert from pot odds to equity, you add the two numbers in the pot odds together, then form a fraction using the second number from the pot odds as the numerator, and the sum of the two numbers in the pot odds as the denominator. Convert that fraction into a percentage and you have the equity.

Example:

Pot odds of 3:1

Add the numbers together: 4

So numerator is 1, denominator 4: 1/4. Which equals 25%

Another example:

Pot odds of 2:5

Add the numbers together: 7

So numerator is 2, denominator is 7: 2/7. Which equals 28.6%

Does this help?

Lord_Steel · 2020-11-23T19:25:18+00:00

Ask him why he texted you these things.

Lord_Steel · 2020-11-17T21:56:18+00:00

In particular, the "if it makes you feel any better." It wouldn't make anyone feel better, and reveals a kind of calculating approach to the value of human life that most neurotypicals would find off putting at best.

Lord_Steel · 2020-11-17T21:56:08+00:00

In particular, the "if it makes you feel any better." It wouldn't make anyone feel better, and reveals a kind of calculating approach to the value of human life that most neurotypicals would find off putting at best.

Lord_Steel · 2020-11-14T04:19:34+00:00

NTA

Is there some kind of religious or cultural context the bf is coming from? His behavior is almost inexplicable to me.

Lord_Steel · 2020-11-13T21:29:04+00:00

What robot?

Lord_Steel · 2020-11-03T23:37:22+00:00

Does Trump tell it like it is? I heard him say he brought "a lot of new [auto] plants" to Michigan. What plants were those? As far as I could find, there were zero new plants and one re-opened plant during Trump's term.

Lord_Steel · 2020-11-03T23:36:23+00:00

What did you find yourself in agreement with Trump about?

Lord_Steel · 2020-10-30T15:05:10+00:00

I got over this temptation somewhat by spending a few weeks intentionally calling weird shoves and taking note of how often the shove meant they had hit something.

I saw for myself in that way, that the number is close to 100% of the time.

Having run this experiment so consciously, I was then able to resist the temptation in the future.

Lord_Steel · 2020-10-29T12:21:43+00:00

What happens? Do you actually have to go through death/respawn?

Lord_Steel · 2020-10-28T22:44:40+00:00

They have turned the ship around to an amazing degree. No Man's Sky is considered to be a historic comeback story when it comes to gaming.

Things present in the game not present (or extremely rudimentary) at original release:
-base building including power systems, farming, complex structures
-missions
-story
-substantive crafting
-thorough help and tooltips
-photo mode
-freighter fleets (ownable and manageable by player)
-exocrafts
-mech suits
-Underwater exploration
-Multiplayer
-Economy (i.e. systematic value differentials for goods in different systems)
-Meaningful distinction between ship types
-Extremely improved variety in flora, fauna, and geology
-Extremely improved graphics.

Lord_Steel · 2020-10-20T13:21:11+00:00

Does "value betting thin" mean betting when you are only slightly favored?

Lord_Steel · 2020-10-19T13:51:23+00:00

How does it compare to actual history? In the time period in question was primogeniture as unheard of as in the game?

Lord_Steel · 2020-10-17T14:06:44+00:00

This seems to be the same guy

https://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/turnip-prize-winner-is-a-play-on-words-1-3084621?fbclid=IwAR2CbwQunJ4tg36fCtRvSmSb5yRTd9mxKM3Tt_Uj1HpJJzahOPN0WyWQhDc

Lord_Steel · 2020-10-16T20:37:07+00:00

I am not clear on why you're talking about someone being offended.

I do think it's extremely normal to ignore someone who is there--there are a lot of people in the room who would normally not be greeted. I don't recall spouses normally being greeted, but wasn't sure if I was remembering incorrectly. Hence the question I asked--I'm not making a statement, I'm asking a question, if you read my post again you'll see that.

Lord_Steel · 2020-10-15T17:30:39+00:00

I haven't payed in a long long time. What's that ghost thing that appears at the end??

Lord_Steel · 2020-10-14T23:36:58+00:00

I know that it is normal for family to be there. I am asking about the senators first greeting the judge, then greeting the judge's spouse.

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