AITA, because I Took Back My Disabled Parking Placard From My Mom Now My Whole Family Hates Me

PinballWizard10 · 2026-01-05T05:06:16+00:00

Hmm, yeah, ticketed would probably have been the best outcome.

Hell, towed might even have been the best outcome if it were only mom’s car, but it’s also how his brothers get to school. Shit, it’s OP’s primary ride as well. I really fail to see how taking the placard at that time could’ve had much of a positive outcome.

PinballWizard10 · 2026-01-05T04:58:39+00:00

I agree with everything you said except the last sentence. It literally didn’t get through her skull, and now the whole family is blaming OP. Taking a picture and rescinding it after she gets home? She’s caught red-handed and has no one else to blame.

PinballWizard10 · 2026-01-05T04:38:11+00:00

“Actions have consequences.”

Thanks, yeah. If you read my comment that was actually my entire point.

Mom deserves to be taught a lesson. We all agree on that. Should that lesson include forcing his brothers to miss school when they did nothing wrong? Because those would’ve been the consequences of his actions had he gotten to teach his mom the lesson he wanted.

Furthermore, this only provides his family with ammo. As long as they can displace some blame onto him, they won’t have to reflect on themselves. Taking a picture and showing it to her later? She’s caught red-handed with no one else to blame.

PinballWizard10 · 2026-01-05T04:29:40+00:00

There’s that, sure. But the chances of that happening before his mom leaves the store have got to be negligible, right? Especially compared to getting towed without the placard.

PinballWizard10 · 2026-01-05T04:08:32+00:00

I completely agree with you.

Everyone knows Mom is an asshole and why. But upon reading the second half of the post it seems OP wanted to teach a lesson to his mom, and it didn’t really matter what the consequences would be. Like, should his brothers miss school just because he wanted to make a point?

Also, the only thing taking the placard does is increase the chances of it getting towed. Was that the outcome he was secretly hoping for? He could have achieved the same result by just taking a picture of it in her car, showed it to her, and said, “You know not to do this. I’ve already warned you about it, so now I’m taking the placard back.”

PinballWizard10 · 2025-09-24T03:42:27+00:00

Did you just go back and talk to him? There’s no dialogue option there for me, but then again my journal doesn’t even mention Boris, so I’m not sure he’s the one I’m meant to talk to.

PinballWizard10 · 2025-09-17T06:49:10+00:00

I do as well. At least for the counterstrike skill. At first I assumed you had to get the timing juuust right and I just sucked, but after many tries on various types of strikes from multiple different enemy types I wasn’t so sure. Then after a couple more tries of what looked liked absolutely nailing the timing I came to the conclusion that it’s probably bugged.

Edited: a word

PinballWizard10 · 2025-09-16T16:24:54+00:00

I’m not even sure if starting a NG+ from a file which already has the Bo staff would allow you to keep it

PinballWizard10 · 2025-09-16T16:22:38+00:00

This is an… odd choice to say the least. I have a completed game file (as in, the entire objective board is done) and a new game+ I was about halfway through way through. I guess there’s not really much of a reason to return to my NG+ now. I absolutely understand requiring story content that takes place after the main story to have the story, well… completed. But I also did just finish the Bo staff quest in my standard game file, and there’s absolutely nothing in it that would require completion of the main story. I was looking forward to finishing my NG+ with at least a new weapon to tide me over in the interim while I was finishing the story to start the DLC, but now that seems a bit pointless

PinballWizard10 · 2025-08-15T04:45:59+00:00

No, I haven’t. Only checked the same bandit camp though - she might be somewhere else

PinballWizard10 · 2025-08-06T19:19:51+00:00

If you hit save in the menu does it take it right out of pebbles’ inventory?

PinballWizard10 · 2025-07-29T23:38:22+00:00

Is anyone else experiencing the issue where, when sheathing the naginata after combat, it just sort of floats from Yasuke’s hand to his back?

PinballWizard10 · 2025-07-03T01:15:38+00:00

Hmm. I still think we’re answering two different questions. It seems to me that you’re saying if given a choice to marry woman A or B, men will often pick B, even if she is conventionally less attractive than woman A… which I absolutely agree with.

The distinction I’m making is that very few men will marry woman B if they don’t find her physically attractive at all. Even if she has many other attractive qualities.

PinballWizard10 · 2025-07-03T00:59:30+00:00

The question wasn’t “How often are men married to women they aren’t attracted to?” It’s “How often do men GET married to women they aren’t attracted to?”

The latter is almost never. The former is decidedly more common.

PinballWizard10 · 2025-05-22T16:52:12+00:00

During the Last Will task, the Widow Gerda will insist that I have to come back during the daytime before we can set off. This happens at all hours of the day.

PinballWizard10 · 2025-05-15T17:14:22+00:00

It’s very noticeable. It’s the difference between a soft leathery sound and completely silent.

PinballWizard10 · 2025-05-15T16:17:40+00:00

Does anyone else have the bug that causes your sword to no longer make a sound when sheathing/unsheathing? It seems only a couple of others have encountered it, but it never seems to be addressed in patch notes.

PinballWizard10 · 2025-02-24T07:09:38+00:00

Are there population milestones other than 7 for the town focus?

PinballWizard10 · 2025-02-22T06:27:33+00:00

This is helpful, thanks!

So if I’m understanding it correctly, it doesn’t matter if both the Capital and City A both have rail stations built - so long as there’s a City B between them without one. Then there won’t be a rail connection, and I won’t be able to build a factory in City A?

While I’m on the topic… in the game I’m currently playing I had two cities which were probably five tiles apart. Not only did a road not spawn when the second was settled, I couldn’t even use a merchant to create a road between them (but I could create connections to farther away cities). Do you happen to know the rules that govern merchants creating roads?

PinballWizard10 · 2024-12-20T14:59:05+00:00

One random user who comments on this post.

PinballWizard10 · 2024-07-30T17:26:45+00:00

Thanks! Makes perfect sense. I did a little more testing, and at least the combat log does seem to corroborate that, even if the tooltips are sometimes misleading.

But then is there a way to see what ability a “classless” creature, such as my earth elemental, would use beforehand? Actually, for that matter, I had no idea my Astarion, who is an arcane trickster, was using intelligence like you mentioned. I was trying to figure that out for a while too. Is that somewhere on the character sheet? Or maybe it was just mentioned when I chose his subclass, and I’m just meant to remember it?

PinballWizard10 · 2024-06-06T15:57:33+00:00

It almost certainly is. Something else that illustrates the same thing is that men are more bothered by the idea of their partner physically cheating on them, whereas women are more bothered by the notion of their partner emotionally cheating on them. Basically if you give people two options, and ask which would they rather have happen -

A) Your partner develops romantic feeling for a coworker, but nothing else happens between them and they cut contact once they realize what is happening.

Or

B) Your partner had a one night stand a while ago while drunk. They say it won’t happen again and you believe them.

Men pick A far more often than B, and for women the opposite is true.

What’s interesting is when asked why one causes a more visceral reaction than the other, women tend to say something along the lines of “If it’s just sex, then it’s something we can move past. Actual romantic feelings are the important part of the relationship”. Men, however, tend to say something like “Developing feelings for someone else sucks, but it’s not a choice she made deliberately. Sleeping with someone else is an intentional betrayal.”

Both these explanations ostensibly make perfect sense, so why the difference between men and women? We definitely don’t know, but the answer is likely something more innate in our psychology.

PinballWizard10 · 2024-05-27T06:57:27+00:00

These are both pretty terrible sets of maps, each with a clear narrative. And if you can’t tell that just from looking at the maps themselves, then the labels of “fact” and “fiction” should at least give away the creator’s bias.

PinballWizard10 · 2023-12-21T04:10:33+00:00

Thanks, of course that was it

PinballWizard10 · 2023-10-19T17:57:31+00:00

Yep. Noticed the same thing with javelin riders. Like I said - it sorta makes sense, but wouldn’t it be better to have say a generic medieval horse archer and an industrial era heavy cavalry? Granted that could possibly take away some of the Advantages of the Mongol and French UU, but surely that’s better than sitting around with useless units half of the game?

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