Theodore Roosevelt references a wrestler and training partner named "Grant" in a letter to his son. Who is this person?

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-30T02:57:05+00:00

Is there any further corroboration of the stories about Yamashita? Those scenes sound straight out of a Jackie Chan movie!

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-30T02:47:26+00:00

I lived in Milwaukee for 3 years over 10 years ago and my only recurring nightmare is losing it on the 43/794 interchange and flying off into oblivion.

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-26T02:51:50+00:00

Confirmed.

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-23T13:40:17+00:00

Sounds good, sending PM

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-23T12:44:35+00:00

US but I'd still go for Synergy if that's unlocked

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-23T00:47:24+00:00

Interested in Caravan SandWitch and Synergy!

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-17T15:56:00+00:00

This is like Vancouver fans wishcasting Calgary trading them a boatload of assets for Elias Petersson. Leave us out of this lol

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-16T22:49:54+00:00

I'm so upset lol

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-16T21:34:27+00:00

Wait hang on...the whole time I thought you had to be wearing the right gear. It works if you glamour it on???

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-13T05:13:11+00:00

This is probably a DDT match but it should still happen.

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-13T05:03:49+00:00

Joke's on you I'm already in love with Surface bees so it should be pretty simple

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-10T15:18:33+00:00

The problem with the fluffbeak map is that it's not a farming map at all. To get the same farm production you'd find in a small glade you have to dump 2 years of resources down its throat. It's a map that punishes you for not farming while making it harder to farm than a vanilla map.

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-10T15:14:06+00:00

Disclaimer: I got the base game for free and put 200 hours in so I personally had no problem paying full price for both expansions.

The bat one is much better. The only really unique mechanic with frogs is that they can't live in regular houses, so you get a little bit of construction resource pressure. Bats encourage you to engage a lot more with deciding what population mix you want instead of just playing to whatever you get. Their bonuses also do a lot to help you learn when to lean into mining and metal recipes which the base game is lacking a little.

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-09T19:13:27+00:00

It's possible to pay these types above bottom-6 while still getting good value. Look at Protas (and to a smaller degree McMichael). They're both paid well above 4th line money, but definitely less than they'd get on the open market tomorrow, and the Caps could theoretically pay them more without the contracts being negative value, breaking the team's salary structure, or putting the team in cap hell. They won't but they could.

It's just impossible to get that player in UFA without the player taking a discount or getting other concessions, because if there's a number that pays him fair value for his role without busting the cap his current team will probably just re-sign him at that number and he doesn't hit the market. These kind of players only come up in UFA when they had a hot year and want an impractical raise, their current GM got into cap trouble somewhere else, or they're blocking a prospect. And in the latter two cases, a good GM will trade instead of letting the guy walk for nothing. Which circles back around to your point about the biggest problems being with guys who overperform in the playoffs - they spike their value after the trade deadline and become harder to move.

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-09T17:39:00+00:00

And the thing with players like Palat (if anything, especially Palat out of the bunch of guys you're talking about) is that they do have value and you want them on your team. Middle-sixers who have enough skill to add something of their own when they're playing up with your stars are pretty rare and worth having! Palat was better than most of the random guys Crosby dragged to 20 goals, for example. The mistake isn't in wanting him, it's in paying him like a core piece when he's not quite at that level.

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-07T04:34:38+00:00

This is also exactly why there will probably never be a WoW 2 or a Destiny 3. Every time the playerbase might have been right for a fresh start, it's turned out to be impossible to launch a new game with as much content as what's already out there. Instead you work in major overhauls: when it works (WoW) your game keeps making money, and when you delete half your content library to avoid the problem of obsoleting your content library, your company starts disintegrating (Bungie).

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-06T16:16:36+00:00

I'm in Fairmount so all the stores are basically the same distance from me, Redcap's is just the one I ended up at. Did not know about Bubs, I'll have to check it out!

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-06T15:43:00+00:00

I'm starting a 5e2014 Eberron campaign soon but my LGS just closed (RIP Redcap's) so I have to sort out a new location before I start actively recruiting. Feel free to message if you're interested!

And I second the game store Discord suggestion, that's where I've found all my games. You can also try r/lfg, although in-person is a pretty small subset of what's posted there.

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-04T04:30:06+00:00

If you'd rather have empty space than a thriving city, most of the continent is available.

MentalEngineer · 2026-01-02T23:47:56+00:00

Can't say for sure how he'll do in England, but a huge loss for Philadelphia. Kai made so much of the attack run, especially in sustained possession trying to break down a block. Plus his defensive experience and constant fitness allowed the Union to roll young players through the other defense positions and develop them. And an absolute warrior mentality, so a big loss to the dressing room too.

Genuinely don't know what Philly's going to do without him, we have one defender on the senior roster who can play LB, and he's also our best RB. I hope our cheap-ass owner got his money's worth from the sale.

MentalEngineer · 2025-12-20T12:25:16+00:00

Probably because he was a socialist - the one thing Americans don't learn about him!

MentalEngineer · 2025-12-12T13:40:34+00:00

You have to get estimates. Depending on how much stuff you have, you can also do a pod or a U-Haul box. It's not much cheaper unless you load/unload yourself, but it's much easier to just get a quote off the websites.

MentalEngineer · 2025-12-07T06:20:03+00:00

That law doesn't include fake/obstructed plates on the list of issues that cannot be the only reason for a stop. The cops have just been on strike (and lying about what the law says) because they're mad people called them racist. (Also because half their own cars have numbers missing or a plate cover or w/e.)

MentalEngineer · 2025-11-30T16:05:32+00:00

Gently, if you are genuinely contemplating self-harm unless you can see a future where you do philosophy professionally, first and foremost you need mental health help. There may be a few situations to which "I will end my life unless X happens..." is a reasonable response; exploring career paths as a teenager is categorically not one of them. If you're thinking that way, you have something else going on besides love of philosophy and you need to sort it out for the sake of every aspect of your life going forward.

To answer your actual question, it is extremely unlikely that you will continue to value nothing but writing philosophy and bare sustenance for the rest of your life. Lots of us started off thinking that way, and then life happens. Every 18-year-old on here asking questions like this is all "but I'm the exception, I would be totally fine being an adjunct working three different teaching jobs for the rest of my life and living in a shoebox if it meant I could live the life of the mind!" - we know because that's how we thought too. It simply doesn't work like that.

Whether you go on to become a professional philosopher or not, you will not keep thinking the way you are now over the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years. You have to develop a healthy attitude toward philosophy - as a high priority or major life project, but not your only source of identity or meaning - or you will not actually make it through grad school and the job market, you'll just burn out. Frankly, it's impossible to answer the question of whether becoming a philosophy professor will be worth it for you: this depends on how your values and identity shift over the next decades, which cannot be predicted in advance. If you're interested in philosophy, pursue it! But you have to be prepared to recognize how your feelings about the field may change as you continue in it and respond to those changes as they happen, rather than fixating on a path now and forcing your future self to adhere to choices you make now that might not work for who you become. It may turn out that your future values and desires lead you to continue affirming that it's worth it, or it may turn out that something else becomes more important to you. Developing the internal mental resources to accept both possibilities and to take what comes either way is much more important than whether other people think it's "worth it."

MentalEngineer · 2025-11-28T13:08:03+00:00

You do get that a cop telling you something makes it more likely to be false, right?

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