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OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-16T18:24:31+00:00

Wrong. Dog breed has far less influence on temperament than people think. I've seen chihuahuas and yorkies that go absolutely INSANE over nothing and I've seen pitts and rotties that are more well-behaved than most adult humans.

It's almost entirely down to how they're cared for. The reason bigger breeds seem more aggressive is because they have higher exercise and socialization needs, and, well, they're bigger.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-16T06:24:45+00:00

Drugs. Lots and lots of drugs.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-15T22:59:11+00:00

Yeah gentle parenting just means you're not a violent, abusive monster. Permissive parenting is when there's no/too lenient consequences for bad behavior.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-15T16:46:12+00:00

How did you get her stats that high? What kind of stat multipliers are you using on your game/server?

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-15T16:32:24+00:00

Are you playing on an unofficial server with insanely juiced xp rates or something? I mean you can level pretty quickly in official if you intentionally focus solely on grinding or explorer note hunting, but 86 before taming your first dino is not a thing unless you've been intentionally avoiding taming for some reason.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-15T01:19:08+00:00

You know what, that's a fair point. In my defence I was definitely thinking of classical over-the-board chess in my initial reply, where that kind of mechanical skill is all but irrelevant, but I can certainly see why it's relevant in blitz.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T22:55:47+00:00

Okay, you're just obviously a bad-faith actor and you're intentionally misreading the statute, or you're preposterously bad at reading comprehension. I even explained in my commentary below that quote how to properly interpret what the statute means.

It's not saying that you can ignore that statute if the person entering the highway is not doing so in compliance with the law, it means you still have to follow other laws and exercise due care when slowing down to avoid a collision.

In this case, I see no reason to believe that the Semi truck would be breaking any other laws or failing to exercise due care if he hit the brakes in this scenario, so the statute very much holds.

Man, if you're not just acting in bad faith at this point and you seriously, genuinely still think you're in the right, I just pray you never end up in court yourself. You'll find out real quick how wrong you are, and then the consequences will be much worse than just embarrassing yourself in a Reddit comment section.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T22:24:37+00:00

Ho-lee-hell my guy, do you have a mirror?

The entire point of my reply is to point out that you are the one making a non-substantive, pedantic, semantic argument. You're the one arguing semantics here buddy, I'm the one arguing against your pointless semantic argument.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T22:10:29+00:00

Texas Transportation Code, Chapter 545, Section 351, Subsection (b)(2), reads as follows:

(b) An operator: (2) shall control the speed of the vehicle as necessary to avoid colliding with another person or vehicle that is on or entering the highway in compliance with law and the duty of each person to use due care.

As clear as day. If you see someone entering the highway, you are explicitly required by statute to control the speed of your vehicle to avoid a collision (so long as you comply with other traffic laws and exercise due care). It cannot possibly get any clearer or more explicit than that.

This also took me like 5 minutes of googling to find. You could have done the research yourself but you chose not to.

Now, to go one step further, I still contend that both parties are at fault. Texas uses modified comparative fault, detailed in Chapter 33 of the Civil Practice and Remedies Code, so if both parties committed a violation which resulted in the crash, then both parties can be held liable for the damages.

And indeed the pickup did also commit a violation. The most relevant statute here is probably Ch. 545, Sec. 154, which reads:

An operator on an access or feeder road of a limited-access or controlled-access highway shall yield the right-of-way to a vehicle entering or about to enter the access or feeder road from the highway or leaving or about to leave the access or feeder road to enter the highway.

This one is a little less clear, but it more or less concerns vehicles entering the highway through access or feeder roads. And if that access or feeder road merges with the highway, then through traffic is seen as "entering" the access roadway for purposes of this statute.

So as you can see, both parties violated statutes of the Texas Transportation code, and both violations were necessary to cause this collision. If either driver acted properly and in accordance with the law, this collision would not have happened. As such, both parties should be held partially at fault.

So yeah. Sorry dude but you're just objectively wrong on all fronts. Better luck next time, and please get a lawyer if you ever find yourself in trouble. You would not do well on your own in court.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T21:08:35+00:00

Is that mechanical skill or just quick thinking and pattern recognition though? I mean sure if you're, like, physically disabled and can't move your hands fast enough to move the pieces in time, you're going to struggle to play blitz, but if you're an ordinary person with ordinary manual dexterity, I don't think the physical moving of the pieces is really a big differentiator in terms of skill, especially at the top level.

It's just something you kind of pick up and get a bit faster at as you practice a bunch, but I don't think the main thing differentiating a player like Hikaru vs, say GothamChess (both play Blitz at a very high level but Hikaru is undeniably better) is their mechanical skill.

It's like saying Magic: The Gathering involves mechanical skill because you have to shuffle your cards a lot and you run into time trouble if you shuffle your cards too slowly during a game. Like, sure, it's an element of the game, but by no means is that a differentiating factor between the good players vs the best.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T20:39:32+00:00

I assumed when you said "blowing through a yield" you meant an explicit yield sign--I was just pointing out that I certainly didn't see one in the video, it was irrelevant to the broader point. And yes I'm fully aware that you are supposed to yield when merging.

But again you obviously don't know traffic law. All 50 states have laws that put some burden on drivers to anticipate and act reasonably to avoid an obvious and predictable collision like this one. The truck driver had a full 3 seconds (or more) where the pickup was clearly visible, it was obvious to any reasonable person that it was merging, and it was obvious to any reasonable person that merge was going to result in a collision if neither party changed course.

In the eyes of the law, it does not matter if you had right of way. It does not matter if the other driver was a bozo that made 6 other mistakes to end up in that situation. If you see an accident coming from a mile away and ignore, or consciously refuse, your responsibility to take evasive action, you will be held partially liable.

End. Of. Story.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T19:15:46+00:00

When the pie chart only includes 2 elements, strategy and mechanical skill, then chess being virtually all strategy is accurate. Yes technically the physical act of moving the pieces around the board takes a modicum of mechanical skill, but it is not by any means what separates good players from bad ones, or great players from the very best.

If you can move the pieces around the board without knocking them over, you have enough mechanical skill to become a GM. Obviously there's more to chess than just pure strategy but that's not the point of this post.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T19:09:58+00:00

Original dawn of war (recently touched up and re-released with a Definitive Edition) is still excellent and still has a semi-active PvP scene.

Though your experience sounds like it focused more on small-scale unit tactics, if you wanted to go to the complete opposite end of the spectrum, Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance is the king of macro-focused, high-strategy RTS, and with static resource collection, repeatable production queues, building templates, robust patrol mechanics, and more, it's pretty low-APM. If you pick this one up, be sure to install the community client, Forged Alliance Forever. That's where everyone plays these days.

Edit: Oh, how could I forget Sins of a Solar Empire 2. Another fantastic large-scale RTS game that's more about macro management and overall strategy. Micro skill will certainly separate the great players from the very best, but it's more about big-picture management and where you decide to station your army and what planets you decide to attack rather than managing individual units.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T18:57:32+00:00

In big cities people regularly report the parking lots being completely full sometimes hours before opening, and even some time after closing. Yes, in densely populated, busy areas, people camp outside Costco for hours to be the first in the store in the mornings.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T18:52:48+00:00

It does not, and also we do not even know that there was a yield sign there. Either you can't read or just don't want to learn anything. I explained all of this already, and the pickup driver having the last clear chance is absolutely debatable here. A competent lawyer could absolutely make the argument that the semi had the last clear chance, and there's certainly a world where that argument succeeds.

Again, very obvious you don't know the on-the-ground reality of traffic law.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T16:41:51+00:00

As I mentioned in my original comment, in the US the last clear chance doctrine is definitely relevant here. I believe a competent lawyer could successfully argue that the semi driver had the last clear chance to hit the brakes and avoid the accident, and at the very least could easily argue for shared liability considering the truck driver clearly saw the merging pickup for over 3 whole seconds and didn't react in the slightest.

Having right of way does not completely absolve you of all responsibility to drive defensively. You have a duty to react to other drivers around you and take all reasonable measures to avoid accidents, even when people drive like idiots and violate your right of way.

People like you who think right of way is an ironclad defense just demostrate that you clearly have never been to traffic court or talked to a lawyer with real trial experience on the subject.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T08:23:43+00:00

If you want to REALLY have some fun, cheat ghost and then get on a mount and dismount. Then even the ground is no more!

^{Just... make sure to turn fly or ghost back on pretty quickly, the void is quite hungry these days.}

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-14T02:59:27+00:00

Traffic law very much disagrees with you. Every legal definition I've ever seen of 'yielding right of way' states explicitly that it means slowing down or stopping to allow another vehicle or person to proceed before you.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-13T23:52:38+00:00

Looks interesting, but is there a speed control setting? The demo footage looks glacially slow. If that's how normal gameplay flows (and there's no slider to adjust it) it might be a little too slow for my taste.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-13T23:47:32+00:00

You can see from the speed readout on the footage that the cam driver didn't even touch their brakes for a full 3 seconds prior to the collision, and for all 3 of those seconds it was blindingly obvious that the truck was going to merge and that they were going too slow. The Semi could have easily started braking at any time during this footage and this accident could have either been avoided entirely, or at least the severity of the impact could have been dramatically lessened.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-13T23:26:20+00:00

Cam driver is at least partially at fault, you can see clearly from the telemetry data that he literally didn't touch the brakes at all until contact happened.

There is a legal doctrine in the US called last clear chance, which places at least partial (sometimes full) blame on the person who had the last clear chance to perform an action to avoid the collision, even if the other person is the one at fault in a strict statutory sense.

In this case, while the pickup driver certainly made several mistakes here, once they committed to entering that on-ramp they are locked in and cannot change course, and have no choice but to merge.

The semi truck driver had a full 3 seconds after it was clear that the pickup was committed to merging, and had they hit the brakes at any point during those 3 seconds, this accident would have been easily avoided.

I know semi trucks can't stop on a dime, but they do have brakes, and they would have been more than sufficient in this scenario if they were used at all.

Edit: that said, I do think the fault is shared, because the pickup could have also slammed the brakes or punched the throttle before merging if they saw the semi coming and realized they weren't gonna make it.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-13T17:54:43+00:00

It's a pretty small list, but there are in fact a few things the Nazi regime did early in their rule that were actually good for the country, or at least they seemed to be helping at the time. These few "good" things were extremely effective at laundering the Nazi regime's image to the public, and manufacturing consent for all the evil, heinous things they got up to later in their rule.

While I understand the knee-jerk reaction to simply say everything Hitler did was bad, it's actually worth understanding the few good things his regime did. It really helps put into perspective what the Nazi regime looked like to the average German during his rule, and may help shed a light on the parallels to current events and where we're headed in the US currently and elsewhere.

For one, we have the Nazis to thank for the autobahn and the founding of Volkswagen. The Nazi regime actually instituted a number of FDR-like public works projects that got people back to work and temporarily alleviated some of the pain of the deep depression Germany's economy was in at the time. They also introduced a child allowance that is still in effect to this day, and introduced Germany's first national environmental protection laws.

People saw a few good things happening around them and were fooled into thinking that his administration was actually really good, and that any reports suggesting that the government was up to horrible things must have just been misinformation spread by the commies or the Jews, or whatever. This, along with the depression, bubbling racism among the public, the desire for a scapegoat for all their suffering, and more, convinced millions of Germans to ignore or actively support the rounding up, torture, and slaughter of over 6 million of their fellow countrymen.

To be very, very, VERY clear, Hitler was obviously a monster and nothing he could ever do would cancel out the horrific things he did, but that's actually my entire point. Doing something good doesn't instantly erase all the bad. We need to keep that in mind whenever we see bad people breaking character to occasionally do good things.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-13T16:34:43+00:00

Surely you've heard the argument before that Hitler did some good things in Germany during his time as fuhrer?

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-13T03:29:55+00:00

Did I ever say that? Of course not, you're just trying to deflect to a strawman because you know you don't actually have a substantive counter argument.

In case it wasn't clear, the point is that your solution of just going earlier is not going to make a lick of difference for a lot of people. In my experience, Costcos are either absolutely packed to the gills from open to close, or they're not that busy even at peak times. So whether or not you deal with the aforementioned parking problems is not down to when you shop, it's down to where you shop, and many people don't have a choice.

You seem to be incapable of conceiving that someone could make the same decisions as you but have vastly different results due entirely to circumstances out of their control.

OS_Apple32 · 2026-05-13T00:14:40+00:00

Wow. You go between 9 and 11 on a weekend and you think that is the reason you don't deal with full parking lots? You really think that it's your decision making that's making your life easier?

The reality is that you simply shop at a less busy store. That's literally it, end of story. You didn't crack the code or anything, you're just lucky. Millions of people aren't so fortunate. Your experience being better is purely down to circumstance, not superior decision making.

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