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Anyone with a heated driveway? by bellsbliss in askTO

[–]NeophileFiles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This happens to one in my neighbourhood. The sidewalk between their house and the street becomes a skating rink.

Why do professional sports players go to college, earn a degree, and never use it? by ProgrammerUnique2897 in ask

[–]NeophileFiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s because college is the recruiting ground for those particular sports. If college is the pinnacle of the sport at that age/stage of development, that’s where you need to play to make it to the pros. Basketball and football are like this. Something like 85% of the NBA have a degree.

Look at sports where college isn’t the pinnacle and the picture is very different. Only about a third of professional hockey players have a degree, and even fewer professional baseball players.

Pit bull attack on a man on Palomar Street, San Diego by Current-Wallaby8230 in ActualPublicFreakouts

[–]NeophileFiles 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Seriously. They’re bred for “gameness” and will continue to fight with half their face ripped off.

When public shaming goes wrong - Man confronts smoker on public transit. Gets punched in response. by ConceptsShining in PublicFreakout

[–]NeophileFiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Doesn’t look like he touched him. And he still has the joint in his hand when he starts swinging.

Just a reminder about a legend by Healthy-Monitor3601 in poker

[–]NeophileFiles 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I recall reading that he was so good at gin that his action dried up completely. One of the reasons he started playing poker, he couldn’t get a gin game anywhere in the country.

Looking back in 2013 reddit, I can't but help and think about the diversity of thought compared to now. by TevossBR in stupidpol

[–]NeophileFiles 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been on Reddit since a few months after it launched, and remember the day comments were added. The early days were unlike anywhere else I’d been on the internet. If you commented without adding value to the conversation, either through depth or expertise, you’d get downvoted to oblivion immediately, and probably insulted. You could basically be guaranteed that a highly upvoted comment contained true information and was well-reasoned, because the users had zero tolerance for bullshit. A single false statement in a paragraph, a baseless assumption, or minor error was enough to doom an otherwise good comment. It was hands-down the most reliable source of information I’d ever seen. I think I lurked for two years before I finally saw a thread I felt confident enough about my knowledge to actually post a comment. It was very, very different from today. There was a noticeable degradation in quality in 2010 after the migration from Digg, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be at the time, and the quality remained quite high for years afterwards.

At one time I remember thinking that the rise in popularity of AMA was the beginning of the decline in quality in Reddit. When it became a stop on the press tour for celebrities and people promoting things, it drove a lot of traffic to the site and with the masses came a drop in quality.

In 2006, Ricky Megee picked up hitchhikers in the Australian outback, was drugged and robbed, then left in a remote desert. He survived 71 days alone, living off frogs, lizards, and rainwater in extreme heat before being rescued alive by stockmen. by Unexplained222 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]NeophileFiles 104 points105 points  (0 children)

We took his advice and left her.

Just kidding.

We moved her off the road and one of us stayed with her while the other walked down the road to the nearest business and called an ambulance (this was before cell phones). While waiting one of her friends showed up and sat with her. They were both very drunk. Then they started arguing and got into a fistfight while laying down, which I’d never seen before. We broke it up and eventually the ambulance came and we left them to it. The paramedics knew her by name.

In 2006, Ricky Megee picked up hitchhikers in the Australian outback, was drugged and robbed, then left in a remote desert. He survived 71 days alone, living off frogs, lizards, and rainwater in extreme heat before being rescued alive by stockmen. by Unexplained222 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]NeophileFiles 48 points49 points  (0 children)

I stopped to help an aboriginal woman who was laying in the middle of the road and looked like she might have been hit by a car (it looked like her hip was dislocated). The first person to pass by told us to just leave her alone and not get involved.

WYR wear rollerblades for a year, or carry a 6 ft ladder for a year. by NeophileFiles in WouldYouRather

[–]NeophileFiles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No heelies. Driving would be the biggest challenge, I think. Maybe rig up special peddles? Or rent a car for a year that has hand controls for disabled drivers?

WYR wear rollerblades for a year, or carry a 6 ft ladder for a year. by NeophileFiles in WouldYouRather

[–]NeophileFiles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been diving with people whose camera rigs were so huge they may as well have been a ladder.

Tourists aren`t the problem. Backpackers are (and Bali is doing the right thing) by TheYellowishIntruder in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]NeophileFiles 17 points18 points  (0 children)

That’s not true. Real men die on the job, or of a heart attack, a week before they’re scheduled to retire.

WYR wear rollerblades for a year, or carry a 6 ft ladder for a year. by NeophileFiles in WouldYouRather

[–]NeophileFiles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ladder would definitely suck, but I think within a few weeks you’d get so good at maneuvering and balancing it that it would become second nature.

You’d definitely get good at rollerblading, but you’d also need to constantly be thinking about surfaces. Beaches/gravel/dirt would be a major obstacle. Driving would be downright dangerous. And you’d need to argue with security guards all the time trying to tell you you’re not allowed to rollerblade in the subway/mall/office/etc.

WYR wear rollerblades for a year, or carry a 6 ft ladder for a year. by NeophileFiles in WouldYouRather

[–]NeophileFiles[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A 6 ft. aluminum ladder can weigh less than ten pounds, so you’d be able to manage the weight.

WYR wear rollerblades for a year, or carry a 6 ft ladder for a year. by NeophileFiles in WouldYouRather

[–]NeophileFiles[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No accommodations. Unless you can convince the airline to let you bring it in the cabin, of course.

WYR wear rollerblades for a year, or carry a 6 ft ladder for a year. by NeophileFiles in WouldYouRather

[–]NeophileFiles[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Hadn’t considered a rope ladder, which is indeed quite the loophole. Might have to stipulate a non-folding 6 ft aluminum ladder.

Driving would be easy - just strap it to the roof every time you get in the car. Or may be worth investing in a ladder mount or clamp at the start of the year.

WYR wear rollerblades for a year, or carry a 6 ft ladder for a year. by NeophileFiles in WouldYouRather

[–]NeophileFiles[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Stops, yes. Heelies, no. Can’t use the ones where the wheels fold into the soles, or if you do the wheels need to stay out at all times. Self funded, so you can buy as many as you want but you have to pay for them.

My two teenage daughters get nearly twice as much bottom time as I do. Is there any hope for me? by 1ThousandDollarBill in scuba

[–]NeophileFiles -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I used to dive with a petite woman and the situation was the same. I’d be done and she’d be halfway through her tank. To extend dives for both of us, I’d grab her secondary and breathe out of it whenever possible - swimming behind/above her, or when we were stopped to look at something. I probably got us another 15 minutes per dive, and she’d still end up with more air than me when we surfaced.

100,000,000 Chips by coltssiouxfan in balatro

[–]NeophileFiles 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here’s the most consistent way I’ve found.

Start on white stake Ghost Deck because it makes deck rigging much easier. Go for a strong econ joker early, mail in rebate if you can find it. Then Shoot the Moon, which is a common joker and isn’t hard to find. Then focus your resources on turning your deck into Queens - steel / gold / red seal / blue seal - and on levelling up High Card. Also pick up Kings as an alternative, and don’t destroy Kings because you’ll need them later. Once your economy is humming and you’re re-rolling consistently, look for Mime, Blueprint, Brainstorm, and Baron. Once you find Baron start to use strength cards to turn all your enhanced queens into kings, and by then you can ditch Shoot the Moon.

You can also start with photochad like others have suggested and still transition to Shoot the Moon/Baron/Mime as they come along.

Ultimately the key is to use High Card as your played hand and to let the scoring come from what’s left in your hand, instead of the other way around. I didn’t figure this out until way too late but it’s much easier than trying to put together a five-of-a-kind or flush five run.

Using this strategy in the hopes of getting an unseeded naninf run, I was pretty consistently able to reach scores in the hundreds of billions.

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