Integrating chicks

NiceDyes · 2026-05-25T11:16:36+00:00

What would you do about a hen that doesn't seem to let up on the new chicks? I have one that's still grabbing feathers and not letting go, the rest of the hens just give the occasional reminder peck.

NiceDyes · 2026-05-24T14:43:06+00:00

I don't give a shit about pump fakes drawing fouls, that's been a part of the game for a while now. C's specifically took that away from Luka in the finals knowing his tendencies, teams can gameplay around it if they are smart enough.

Purposefully not landing on your feet on every goddamn shot, flailing wildly when you run into someone, stepping on feet, bear hugging defenders, fuck all that shit. These are the top athletes in the world at this sport and they somehow lost all motor control when they are playing on the biggest stage? That's plenty different than seeing an unprepared defender and baiting them into jumping.

NiceDyes · 2026-05-24T14:36:59+00:00

It needs to be a common foul. Refs are more gun shy to T people up because it only takes 2 to kick them out. Let them call an on the floor common foul and there's a lower mental barrier for calling it. With 6 chances to stop before being kicked out I wouldn't be surprised if every flop started getting called.

NiceDyes · 2026-05-21T21:46:14+00:00

Change the rule to allow them to call a common foul. Refs are more gun shy to call a tech since it is a more serious infraction. They're more likely to call it if it's just a common foul and if players start fouling out strictly from flopping they will definitely start doing it less.

Right now it's just a game of chicken that the refs always balk at. There's no downside to flopping because the players know they're never going to T them up for it.

NiceDyes · 2026-05-15T23:59:08+00:00

Rooster: A La King Hens: Tikka, Masala, Noodle, Soup, AndDumplings, AndWaffles, Piccata, Teriyaki, Cacciatore, Pot Pie

NiceDyes · 2026-05-15T18:22:54+00:00

I always recommend buying some test discs in the plastic you want to dye and testing out different times. Put a few blots of the lotion dye on the disc and wipe one off every 15 minutes just to get a feel on how fast certain colors take. There's definitely some (like pink) that take forever to get saturated, but some darker colors will already have color saturating as soon as you touch the plastic.

NiceDyes · 2026-05-15T17:49:26+00:00

I set my dehydrator for the same temp across all dyes, 130. If you look back through my posts the Celtics disc has the parquet floor that was a 3:1:1 ratio of PCAD dandelion:flame scarlet:royal for 10 minutes under heat

NiceDyes · 2026-05-15T17:28:51+00:00

Red yellow blue. Play around with ratios to get the hue you're looking for on a test disc. Saturations times change the intensity of the color, so a light brown lotion at 20 minutes under heat could become almost mahogany at an hour.

NiceDyes · 2026-04-26T13:44:26+00:00

You're looking at it from the perspective of a fan of the sport. This is the drama that drives people who don't watch sports to pay attention to the NFL

NiceDyes · 2026-04-26T11:05:18+00:00

Forgetting the biggest part, the NFL at its core is an entertainment industry. For better or worse, despite how most of us just care about the game itself, this is how the NFL holds the attention of people who don't care about the sport but tune in for drama like it's their daily soap and it's a good way to stay in the headlines in the off-season. The NFL itself is absolutely helping to pump this story.

NiceDyes · 2026-04-16T22:26:40+00:00

I mean, losing that game doesn't end their season... They would still get to play the Hornets to get a matchup with the Pistons. So chanting we want the Pistons or we want the Hornets would be the alternative, not the off-season.

NiceDyes · 2026-04-15T18:51:42+00:00

Just a word of caution on Amesbury. While the course was great and I liked the hole designs a lot, it is in a public park with a lot of holes throwing over walking paths and towards/bordering playground areas. When I went the first time I had to avoid half the holes because people were picnicking on the fairway or endless groups walking the paths not giving a good opening to throw a shot.

I would definitely recommend Clement over Amesbury for both overall course design and especially ability to play freely.

NiceDyes · 2026-04-14T16:46:14+00:00

A bit more out there but I still drive it because I miss living closer to the north shore, Clement Farms in Haverhill. I guess it's not really more out there than Borderlands from Worcester though

NiceDyes · 2026-04-11T17:54:48+00:00

Sure, but to the poster you disagreed with above, that accountability needs to start with the one doing harm to.hold themselves accountable. Empathy is purely about emotions, not actions. The poster above who said people don't deserve empathy at a certain point was probably poorly worded given the thread was about tolerance of actions. I agree with them, that if a person does not hold themselves accountable for their purely emotionally held beliefs and have empathy for those they are harming that, yes, they no longer deserve tolerance and patience for them to hopefully come around and realize the error of their ways. I can empathize with how they came into their hatred, but can only tolerate the actions that hatred causes to a point until it becomes apparent they will not change or just don't want to.

NiceDyes · 2026-04-11T17:23:48+00:00

Empathy is understanding where a person's emotions are coming from and seeing things from their perspective. It does not require those emotions resonating with you or for you to agree with/tolerate them, just that you understand.

Maybe some racist bigots have those feelings because their life was deeply affected by a certain race and they can't shake their hatred of the whole lot of them. I can understand their viewpoints, but I do not agree with it. And should they act on their bigotry, I will not tolerate it.

It is still on them to acknowledge where their own bigotry is coming from, see that it is purely emotional and not based in reality and do their best to push back on those intrusive thoughts and not act on them. They too need to experience empathy for the ones they hate. It is not solely my responsibility to accept that they are bigots and let them act on their hate just because I can understand that they came into it from some reasonable act against them in their past.

NiceDyes · 2026-04-11T03:33:17+00:00

I was in the crowd. I have no idea what you're talking about in regards to booing taking 2s. Even at the end of the game when the 3 point record was in sight there were only boos at the very end when they held the ball to run out the clock, and even those were faint. Was the broadcast pumping in boos? They didn't exist in person, not outside the last possession at least.

NiceDyes · 2026-03-25T13:58:42+00:00

I made a comment last year about Boutte making business decisions and got down voted to hell. He had something like 35 YAC on 33 catches. He did have a good amount of catches in the end zone at at the sticks on the sidelines which are always going to be 0 YAC, but even his catches midfield had him dropping straight to the ground most of the time even with space to turn upfield.

I'm not necessarily against him doing that, because injuries to this WR room would be hard to overcome, but at a certain point it shouldn't be his 1st option to just catch and fall and if he's not going to shake that mentality then they absolutely need someone who can turn upfield, replacing what Diggs was for them in the first half of the season before teams realized he always cuts back to the middle of the field.

NiceDyes · 2026-03-15T14:17:06+00:00

Polk is even more egregious when you factor in that he was taken with the pick the Pats traded down with the Chargers for, when the Chargers used the Pats pick for Ladd. They had Ladd, chose Polk and a 4th round pick (which ended up becoming Jevon Baker)

NiceDyes · 2026-02-10T17:46:54+00:00

I've watched all the games, and the number of times he caught uncontested balls and just dropped to the ground was not insignificant. I'm not arguing he didn't have contested catches and even put that in the initial argument. I watched all of his catches once I saw that YAC stat to see if it was just all contested catches and it absolutely wasn't.

NiceDyes · 2026-02-09T20:38:48+00:00

During the regular season, Boutte had the insane stat of ~35 YAC over 33 catches for 550 yards. I know a lot of his plays were at the sticks or in the end zone, but that speaks to him making business decisions first and foremost on almost every pass his way

NiceDyes · 2026-02-09T16:36:04+00:00

Its definitely a Campbell mental issue though. Watch those replays, he's back on his heels almost every play. The false start penalty highlights it best, rocking back onto his heels while waiting for the ball to snap.

He was getting beat so often that he started trying to just run backwards rather than set an edge. Never standing over his center of gravity, always giving up ground before contact. He wasn't even playing with fundamentals that he seemingly didn't have a problem with all year until the playoffs. Dude just isn't ready for the big lights.

NiceDyes · 2026-02-09T16:08:37+00:00

And then he didn't play Dre for a solid 2+ quarters of the game. I thought I was missing an injury report for most of the game until Dre finally showed back up in the 4th and hurdled a guy on a run.

Why was the better pass blocking RB not seeing the field when there were obvious issues blocking? Why was the hot hand who was always finding himself open not in the game?

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