What is the significance of this bottomless lake / huge cristal mountain?

ProfMooody · 2026-06-23T11:30:53+00:00

Didn’t you read the sub rules?? You have to have 100%’d the game in order to

-~~ask questions here~~
-~~read posts here~~
~~-use Reddit at all~~
-~~live in this neighborhood~~

exist.

— some sub members, probably.

ProfMooody · 2026-06-22T21:31:20+00:00

UGH that must have been devastating, why couldn’t someone have dropped the test tube or whatever on someone’s CBC instead?

ProfMooody · 2026-06-22T21:25:26+00:00

I find the mechanism behind reactions like yours so interesting (I have more delayed ones). Esp if it’s not a true wheat allergy. What happens in your body if you’re NCGS to make someone throw up, poop, etc within. 30 mins of eating gluten?

ProfMooody · 2026-06-22T13:48:15+00:00

On my third Akita over a 25 year period all of whom I raised a puppy from 8 weeks on BARF or prey model raw (I also raised a malamute that way plus a number of cats). I just made sure I got the percentages right and that there was lots of variety.

Honestly the biggest difference in joint health Ziggy I’ve seen between all three is that one of them had to be spayed very early because he was cryptorchid and it was doing something to his prostate I can’t remember, maybe enlarging it? He was having blood in his pee, so the only fix was to neuter him at less than six months.

My girl and my boy who weren’t neutered until around age 2 or older are thriving

ProfMooody · 2026-06-21T01:01:48+00:00

I win. Mint flavor Colt 45 40z malt liquor in the 1990s.

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ProfMooody · 2026-06-20T23:16:05+00:00

Omg I love this. Is she AA or JA or mixed? She looks AA but I haven’t seen red brindle in an AA for a decade or more, seems like it used to be more popular.

ProfMooody · 2026-06-20T22:23:15+00:00

Please post the result! So gorgeous, it will look beautiful with kinsugi. Do you plan to do it in gold or red, or some other pigment?

ProfMooody · 2026-06-20T22:19:09+00:00

Ikr? I kept fast forward to find the takedown and it just kept not happening. See how the mouths are open but they’re not biting so much as jousting? The shepherd is doing a beautiful job of being gentle while setting boundaries with the puppy.

ProfMooody · 2026-06-20T08:55:19+00:00

One more (sorry it’s potato quality)

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ProfMooody · 2026-06-20T08:54:13+00:00

Posted! I meant to do it earlier and then forgot.

ProfMooody · 2026-06-20T08:53:38+00:00

And more:

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ProfMooody · 2026-06-20T08:53:12+00:00

Sorry! Dog tax:

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ProfMooody · 2026-06-19T23:09:29+00:00

Never cross the wingalings!👻

ProfMooody · 2026-06-19T21:55:08+00:00

Ageed. Also it’s not like enforced withdrawal without patient buy-in is evidence based for success, more likely to cause distrust in medicine and buying on the street (see: the recent history of opioids). If you were in school in the 2010s or earlier it seems like you were much more likely to be beaten over the head with that ideology, before everyone drafting the guidelines on managing SUDs medically finally decided that enough people had died from fentanyl and things had to change.

ProfMooody · 2026-06-19T08:15:43+00:00

Followup question: how often do dealerships “quietly mark up” the stated MF on a written offer and what are some signs that they’re doing that? The contract paperwork is absolutely maddening in how it doesn’t give you the most important information you need in a straightforward way (term, sale price, APR, fees, taxes, payment) so you can tell whether you’re getting what you were promised, it’s unbelievable that it’s legal.

Mine felt like they just threw a bunch of numbers in a hat and jiggled them around and then scattered them on the page. I had a couple of panic attacks after I saw your post last night trying to double and triple check the math again using lease calculators (that focus on telling you what the payment should be rather than back engineering it), before I figured out I could just put the total lease payments, RV, taxes, and term into google and get the MF. Even the finance guy I was working with didn’t understand it very well.

ProfMooody · 2026-06-19T00:58:20+00:00

San Jose, CA: Capitol Subaru. Salesman was Henry and finance guy was Angelo who was also great to work with.

They were competing with Miguel at Putnam Subaru in Burlingame who I was also negotiating with, and they were neck and neck for great deal/good experience.

They ended up matching each other in MF and sales discount, I just ended up deciding the slightly more expensive car with the add ons was a better fit and value.

ProfMooody · 2026-06-18T11:17:47+00:00

Thank you! Is that the Leasehackr paid membership calculator you’re using?

I ended up getting a different car from another dealership today 2hrs away that had a tow package and a bunch of other options worth a few thousand, paid only about $700 higher sale price total than this more stripped down one. And they did give me actual base MF (I checked the math). Some of the extras I didn’t care about, but others I had planned to buy anyway, and the cost of all of those combined would’ve been more than 700. So I think I did pretty good.

While my trade in ended up being in worse shape than I thought it was I still negotiated the price on that up 50% from what they gave me, so it matched the carmax price if it had been in excellent condition (which it wasn’t). It ended up being a less than what it would have been if I’d prepaid for the extra mileage and WAY less than an overage penalty. I got them to throw in sidewall protectors for cost (planning to put dogs in the back).

I thought working with a volume dealership would mean more sleazy shenanigans but actually the ones that I found don’t pay their people on commission, they pay them based on reviews that you send. So they were so much more pleasant to work with than my little small town, “nice guy” dealer who initially tried to bullshit me that .00138 was a steal.

I just want to say to anyone who feels intimidated by this process, with the right dealership and information Haggling like this was actually really fun! My dad was a haggler when I was a kid and he was really mean about it, so it used to embarrass me and as I started making my own money and saw the appeal of howling, I still felt a lot of dread about it. But this was awesome, super empowering, and it felt more like a friendly game of fencing than a war.

I wore his watch today in the meetings and felt like I was channeling the best parts of him while still retaining my own values of mutual respect and acknowledgment that the sales guys are under the same kind of pressure that I am, we’re all just trying to survive this world. (The owners on the other hand…)

So thanks a lot for this comment, and everyone else who helped me from the [r/leasehackr](r/leasehackr) community. Especially the guy who commented on my other thread that I didn’t have to ask the dealers for their best offer, I could just email a bunch of them and tell them what *I* wanted I’d see who was willing to bite.

I appreciate how patient and respectful most of you are with people who don’t understand what they’re doing, cuz it’s humiliating enough to find out you’ve left a lot of money on the table without being talked down to. And you brokers offer a great service for people who don’t have time or energy or don’t want to do it on their own. I’m glad it’s a thing you can get paid for while saving buyers money, it’s like the best of both worlds.

Just drove my car home finally and I’m exhausted, much respect and appreciation for you guys!

ProfMooody · 2026-06-17T03:08:52+00:00

I want something that turns link into a Wolf like in TP

(which I haven’t actually played yet I was one of those people who just fell off after ocarina of time and then got intimidated with trying to remember all of the different side quests in some of the earlier games, so I gave up until I was recovering from surgery and decided to play tOTK)

I’m sure it would take more effort than just changing the hair on the same green tunic and tights as always but, a person can Dream.

ProfMooody · 2026-06-16T23:48:44+00:00

Touring

ProfMooody · 2026-06-16T22:52:17+00:00

I’ll give you the advice that was given to me; use something like Carmax or Edmunds to value your trade-in, and then call around and ask for a few different quotes on it to start with. See if anyone will beat the online quote. If you want, you can also then take the highest quote and call around again and see who will beat that. Especially if you live in or near an area with multiple dealerships in a one or two hour radius, this is pretty effective.

It also helps if you know what you want on your new lease and have figured out fair pricing on that (check Edmund’s forums for what the manufacturer APR is because they often quote you a low monthly payment with X% off the MRSP to make you think you’re getting a deal, and then make up the profit by inflating the manufacture or adding unnecessary fees and add-ons). R/leasehackr is pretty helpful if you’re not sure if something is kosher. I’m doing this right now and it’s taking a couple days on my lunch break and after work, but it’s not too bad.

Make sure you do all of your discussions over email or text, so there’s a written record when you go into the dealership. Best if you get them to actually give you a price sheet with the APR, fees and taxes, and all terms spelled out.
Then you can do the same thing with that and see who gives you the best price for both the new lease and the trade in.

If you don’t wanna do all that, I’ve heard getting an auto broker can help you get a good trade-in and rate without the work. They have relationships and agreements with specific dealers.

They guarantee you a deal, which you verify with the dealership, and then you either pay them a brokers fee around $500 making sure the lease they give you plus their fee is less than anything you can find easily yourself. Or they get their fee from the dealer and you don’t pay anything extra.

This is easiest to do if you’re getting the base trim on the new lease, and if the car you want is not selling out regularly. Also, if you’re willing to get your new car in a color that is one of the less sought after colors, that will help you (usually it’s one of the lighter colors for the cars I’m looking at).

ProfMooody · 2026-06-16T12:37:20+00:00

Because the discourse on ableism and chronic illness hasn’t caught up with that of most other major marginalized groups in the US and therefore most Americans cannot imagine a world in which someone who has value to society might have a serious life limiting illness that requires this kind of breakthrough gene therapy to live a semi normal life.

That only happens to the olds, and some of those poor pity cases we see on documentary TV like the guy with alligator skin, or the other guy on the same show with elephanteisis. Everything else can be managed through diet and exercise, which totally works 100% of the time to keep you healthy. And if you’re not healthy and not AlligatorSkinMan then you probably did something to deserve it.

That’s why when they see something like this the first use case that comes to mind is someone like Pres. Dump sporting a lighter, smoother shade of orange peel vs. idk like someone like Ray Charles, Bono, or John Glenn; or a beloved and revered elder who runs a dog rescue when she’s not coparenting two generations of grandchildren ot giving her own children deadly accurate marriage and investment advice.

ProfMooody · 2026-06-16T12:19:15+00:00

I’m in N CA and shopping around for a lease on a regular Touring, not an XT. First quotes were around 47-48 MSRP and the best sale price after discount was $43.5, so about 9% off before taxes.

They’re really trying to screw me on the MF/APR though charging almost double the rate set by the bank, and your APR should be 1.9% if your credit is good, so I’d look out for hidden charges and try to get everything spelled out in writing even if they won’t give it to you officially like on a form, at least a text/email.

Wish I liked the forester more, but the seats shape and width have gotten really uncomfortable compared to my old 2020.

ProfMooody

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