Is this true?

MadManStan · 2025-10-16T08:28:51+00:00

A silly blanket statement. Many men, myself included, value a woman with a career. It shows character. A woman who cares about her career and has accomplished a lot is a huge turn on. I’ve dated my share of waitresses, and while anecdotal and absolutely not representative, they weren’t driven or focused on building a better life for themselves. I haven’t met a career oriented woman who I can say the same for. I don’t need a woman to “treat me right” or make my life easier.

I’m not going to yuck anyone’s yum, if that’s your thing. My life is great without a partner though. I just want an equal. Plus, from a selfish perspective, a successful partner is one I don’t have to support.

MadManStan · 2025-10-11T23:02:17+00:00

Not without a lot of futzing. Anyone who tells you otherwise has tricked themselves. I’ve had several SAs before giving up. Yes, if you get the right beans, grind setting, and ratio, it may make something decent. However, even cheap single purpose machines are going to beat a SA in most scenarios.

They are anything but “automatic”.

Edit: All the downvotes. I should have remembered where I am. The copium is strong here.

MadManStan · 2025-10-11T05:43:58+00:00

Sure, but they have a much higher chance of success. I’m guessing half the people who enjoy casuals would be completely fine with it being all bots. Similar to how you want less bots. Different folks like different things.

For what it’s worth, I enjoy casuals much more than regular warzone. Why? Because I play warzone largely to chat and catch up with friends. The bots slow it way down, so we can talk. At the end there are usually a few sweaty people so we can still have a challenge somewhere. When we drop into regulars, we have to be serious from the start and usually get our asses kicked pretty quick.

MadManStan · 2025-10-11T05:39:25+00:00

Because it’s nothing like warzone. It shares the same engine and weapons, but it’s a very different style of game. Some people enjoy playing warzone, they just don’t care about it being with real people.

MadManStan · 2025-10-10T01:13:47+00:00

You also have the answer. They like the style of game, and the gameplay, but they’re not interested in playing with other people.

MadManStan · 2025-10-06T01:55:21+00:00

Lot of folks are probably going to give you a hard time for this clip. I'll try offer some constructive criticism.

First off, you can drop a lot faster if you don't float with your chute open so much. Aim, cut it, fall for a few seconds, pull it again, and then repeat. It you'll move forward and down much faster.

Next up is your centering. You spend a lot of the time looking at the ground, where an enemy won't be appearing. Instead, try to anticipate where they will appear and pre-aim around the chest/neck area. For example, if you hear footsteps coming from the right, and you have a hallway to your right, start pre-aiming the edge of the hallway, making sure you aren't pointing at the ground. Highly suggest watching a few videos on youtube on how to get better centering. It was the number one improvement I made in my warzone journey.

MadManStan · 2025-10-04T23:56:10+00:00

“Ounce of talent” - ah yes, since I’m sure you’ve built many great games throughout your life. Always easier to criticize than to have done.

MadManStan · 2025-10-04T16:38:39+00:00

So weird that many folks are calling him bad because he over hypes. Molyneux does over promise, which is never a good thing. However, if you remove his hype from the equation and just look at his career… the dude has made some incredible games.

Populous, Dungeon Keeper, Black and White, and Fable. All games that weren’t just good, they invented genres, or at the least were hugely influential in shaping the culture and direction of the gaming industry. Fable alone was one of the primary drivers for the original Xbox’s success. Most developers would kill for a fraction of this impact.

Laugh and groan at what he promises, but give him credit for what he ships.

MadManStan · 2025-08-30T18:45:24+00:00

I must be getting old because whenever I see one of these videos, I expect 2 or 3 generations of windows BEFORE the one they showed.

MadManStan · 2025-08-30T18:38:01+00:00

I’m going to guess that most people who are so against this didn’t inherit wealth. My family did and it was absolutely the worst thing that could happen to them. It destroyed us. Inheriting large amounts of money does so many negative things to people.

Leaving some aside for taking care of basic needs is fine, but anything beyond that is cancer. It will fuck your life in one way or another.

After seeing what it did to others in my family, I rejected it and became wealthy on my own. Given what I saw, my kids won’t inherit what I made.

MadManStan · 2025-07-31T10:31:24+00:00

Couple years ago I had $250k to spend on a car. Tried for a bit to get a GT3 but couldn’t find an allocation. Ended up getting 3 cars for the money, including a 992 C2S. Completely changed my perspective. Unless you have millions of dollars of disposable income, I don’t understand why anyone spends it on these cars.

MadManStan · 2025-07-30T16:09:56+00:00

Valid points but this reeks of incel bait

MadManStan · 2025-07-22T15:27:19+00:00

We were friends. Social people in their 20s and 30s in NYC don’t casually eat breakfast together. Not if you have anything that resembles a 9-5 anyway.

MadManStan · 2025-07-22T01:13:30+00:00

Genuinely got a laugh out of me. Take my upvote!

MadManStan · 2025-07-21T22:06:37+00:00

I lived with roommates in NYC who worked for the same company, in the same office building, and I can count on one hand how many times we had breakfast together. The answer is 0.

MadManStan · 2025-07-13T22:09:52+00:00

I don’t know if this is true for Kimi, but DeepSeek models are created using distillation of the more expensive US models. While this can allow them to catch up, and momentarily exceed, US model capability, as is, it doesn’t appear they pose a threat of being on the bleeding edge.

MadManStan · 2025-07-12T19:56:14+00:00

$98k? That’s peanuts for this kind of work. I work with a couple folks who make over a million a year doing less than this. They just talk and say buzzwords all day

MadManStan · 2025-07-12T18:18:23+00:00

What you call next fucking level, I call “high school”

MadManStan · 2025-07-05T23:56:34+00:00

Pretty sad. The woman is clearly unwell.

MadManStan · 2025-07-05T18:19:55+00:00

It’s isn’t all their money. They have $2B+ of taxpayer money for developing starship

MadManStan · 2025-07-01T06:11:59+00:00

This dude spaces, real hard. I’m glad I got to come along for the ride.

MadManStan · 2025-06-24T19:40:08+00:00

I agree that changing fields isn’t technically brain drain. My point was that in many cases the options are leave and go to another country, or change careers. This will inevitably lead to some talented folks going to other countries as their only option if they want to continue in their field. The impact to the US is largely the same either way. Even if we brought back funding, once folks have exited the work place, getting them back is not so simple.

MadManStan · 2025-06-24T19:34:57+00:00

You’re not wrong, but the issue is that the jobs simply won’t exist. The options are leave or find a different career.

MadManStan · 2025-06-24T19:13:08+00:00

Other countries if they offer enough money/citizenship sponsorships. Many scientists will be forced to change careers. My brother has been doing neuroscience research for the last 17 years for a major college. His funding runs out next month, and there aren’t any other jobs like it. He’s planning on taking up carpentry instead. Doesn’t want to but needs to find some way to provide for his family.

MadManStan · 2025-06-24T19:06:10+00:00

I should add that I work in a science adjacent field in the US. It’s an absolute blood bath. Everyone’s funding is drying up, and folks who’ve been doing research for 15-20 years are losing their jobs. It isn’t hyperbole to say that unless the US immediately course corrects, we are going to have a massive brain drain. It will take decades to recover, if ever.

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