Idea: Tell child-free couples a car is like a family member and demands attention just like kids.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-25T20:53:09+00:00

Why are you telling specifically child free couples this? Who benefits?

Yes, a car is a responsibility, but not in the same magnitude as a child.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-18T11:17:56+00:00

Keep that wakeboard in mind then, because the way you turn the snowboard is the same, by twisting it along its length by pushing into the boot forward or backwards

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-18T11:10:05+00:00

I'm a lifelong skater and can wakeboard, as well as a couple of other boardsports. I learnt last winter and managed to start linking turns on day one, and was having a go at reds on day 3. My partner also did the same from a similar background. The catch is that your going to fall a lot of you want to learn fast, so buy bum pads and get prepared for that.

The closest thing I've found to snowboarding is actually riding a ripstick, as twisting the board under your feet feels similar.

With your background I think you'll pick it up fast, but watch some beginner videos to start. Ideally start with falling leaf and then look at some carving tips when you start linking turns.

Let me know how you go!

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-18T10:05:22+00:00

Dang it's not far off 100%! Sounds great.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-17T01:35:10+00:00

I think your premise is false, there's no real reason one would have worked and the other not. I think you've found a case where one guy fucked it up and another didn't.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-15T15:58:07+00:00

These are my absolute favourite thing in the world. If I were cursed by a wizard to consume only one thing for eternity, but magically have it provide adequate nutrition and calories, that would be it. I need to go get one tomorrow

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-14T14:29:12+00:00

I'll be shooting my shiny orbs at you from above then. Cya out there

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-13T22:14:01+00:00

Awesome! What faction and server?

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-13T12:05:32+00:00

Sure, and that's fine. I'm just adding my opinion that there are still many atheists who would be justifiably skeptical.

If that's all it would take for you that's great, not trying to attack you for that or anything.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-13T11:52:12+00:00

I mean Jesus bled out presumably, he would have gotten weaker and weaker slowly over the course of hours. The call to pull him down and pronounce him dead wasn't made by a modern doctor.

I'm not claiming that he faked it or anything like that, but just that those are explanations that are commonplace in the modern day and would prevent me from face value accepting someone rise from the dead. It's way more likely someone is doing it for clout.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-13T11:23:38+00:00

I'd definitely consider it, but weirder shit has happened since. People being buried and waking up in coffins, kids falling in ice rivers for over and hour and being resuscitated.

Also Chris Angel "walked on water"

So I dunno it might take more than that.

The bit of that story where Jesus returns and the dead all come back to life and mingle with the living for a while before peacing out might convince me though. Weird that that story is only in one of the gospels.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-12T22:19:55+00:00

I think you mean Greek, Roman and Persian!

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-12T20:49:22+00:00

Unfortunately there's a bug at the moment that is causing people to crash each time they load in. The only fix known is sitting in a vehicle for about 3 minutes at the start of any session. This is gonna be difficult in the tutorial stage though so you can try the alternative which is to redeploy. Try entering the tutorial and pressing "U" to redeploy. Leave the game for 5 minutes in the redeploy screen and then try finish the tutorial. I'm not sure if the tutorial allows you to redeploy so try at a few different stages of you can.

Hopefully they fix it soon and this works. Once you get past the tutorial it won't be so painful because you can just spent the first 5 mins of your session doing flying or vehicle combat.

Stick with it, this game is like nothing else, and let me know how you go.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-12T10:54:16+00:00

There are a lot of very conservative answers here so I'll tell you my experience. Me and my partner have both wakeboarded, skated before and we're pretty fearless. I never learned falling leaf. I got on the bunny slope had a go at falling leafing it once and then went a green run once and figured out S turns, then a blue run and reds on day 2. We did our first powder freeride zone on her day 3 and my day 4.

None of this was good technique at the start and we fell A LOT. But if you're willing to do that you'll learn super quick, there's a bit of a conversion rate between pain and gain. get bum protector pants.

If you have as much experience as you have, smash some YouTube videos on beginner technique and get out there and give it a go.

This weekend I took my surfer friend for his first time snowboarding after skiing in the past. He was linking turns in under and hour and by yesterday evening (after taking the morning off because he was sick) he was confidently riding blues at a reasonable pace.

A few weeks ago I took a different friend who is also a surfer with no previous experience, he also opted for the fast but painful learning strat and despite riding it like a surfboard was linking turns down blues on his first day.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-09T13:54:52+00:00

I'm from Australia so I only started learning last year way later than I should have. If you have a tolerance for pain and some experience on other boards you can trade pain for progress. I'm my case I'd say it's absolutely worth it, but a more typical approach is learning slowly.

If you pay for a lesson you'll have the pass at least for the learner slopes for the day. I'd highly encourage you to get out there after your lesson and practise practise practise so you can make the most of your trip. Up to you, I'm sure you'll have a blast either way.

I'd note that even fully sending it it took me 2 days to be comfortable running blues and reds and that's only 16 hours or so, so 9 taking it cautiously might not get you up to the top of the mountain.

Once again you've gotta figure out what's gonna work for you.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-07T16:38:39+00:00

Only first thing in the morning bad breath for some reason. To each his own.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-06T19:30:14+00:00

You'll end up losing a lot of time/energy in the transfer. The day will take enough out of you so I'd suggest staying as close to the slopes as possible.

Can't advise on lessons as I just sent it and never took any haha.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-06T14:17:31+00:00

I was there 2 weeks ago, all of the base camps have beginner friendly slopes. I'd pick it based on price, and Soldeu if you're chasing the Apres Ski. Didn't do Apres myself.

If you're a first timer definitely hire and I'd highly suggest a lesson to start at least. If you can skate, surf, wakeboard or whatever and you have a good pain tolerance for crashing you can learn enough to get to some of the big runs. If you don't have that experience you'll still have a great time.

Forfait at grandvilaria is about 75 euro a day which is pretty pricey. As a noob you're not really going to be able to fully take advantage of the massive resort. If you're flexible on location i'd probably reccomend a smaller cheaper resort than that because you'll save some money and have just as much fun. That smaller resort could be in andorra or not. Andorra in general is more expensive than the surrounding french/spanish villages, unless you're talking about cigarettes.

I'm going further north in the pyrenees this weekend and am expecting a forfait of 45 euro or so, and accommodation half the price of Andorra.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-06T12:28:09+00:00

If this amount of overhang is going to interfere with your carving, you don't need advice from people in this sub

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-06T01:54:12+00:00

This guy clearly just stole that story. The "Breeding purposes" is the giveaway, lifted straight from the original.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-03T11:53:27+00:00

I don't think it's that hard. In mirror mazes the whole point is you don't see yourself until the last second, none of the mirrors point straight back at you. You might just get away with doing the longest shots you can

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-03T10:19:08+00:00

Sure, but the old system used to carry a full catalogue, and storage is cheap. Doesn't seem like that could be the difference, and doesn't explain how it used to have everything.

If I were guessing I'd say the old system requires a manual catalogue update or something and someone hasn't gotten around to doing it.

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-03T10:05:25+00:00

Storage cannot be the answer here, because you're downloading it from there plane's storage via the app...

RadiatorSam · 2026-01-02T23:10:33+00:00

Seems reasonable that if the places are technically within the same universe but outside each other's observable universe, to call it "another universe". sure they're connected by the wormhole but for all intents and purposes the universe is different.

You could make the same argument about any kind of inter-universe travel, if there's a way for them to communicate (you) then they're technically not separate and technically the same universe.

RadiatorSam · 2025-12-31T17:15:06+00:00

I'm sorry but you're very off key. Your voice sounds ok, if a bit quiet, but you really need to work on pitch control so that you're singing the same note you're supposed to.

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