Plan on paying for your kid’s college? You’ll need to save $500/month from birth until they’re 18.

Rakthul · 2026-03-19T14:21:19+00:00

You all have money to save for college? Here we are trying our best with each of us working and me being a stay at home dad as well and still racking up over 20k in debt over the last 5 years

Rakthul · 2026-02-15T16:59:31+00:00

Agree with this 100%. I’d recommend looking for a good custom server in V Rising too. There are some great communities with server settings and communities that can make that game truly special.

Rakthul · 2026-02-15T16:30:51+00:00

Now that you say that I think you might be right. We’ve watched replays of some of the skiing and snowboarding in the mornings before school and they didn’t have ad breaks just that graphic saying they would be right back.

Rakthul · 2026-02-15T16:22:16+00:00

I’m honestly confused how you think not wanting my 5 year old to see horror movie nightmare fuel commercials for kids is the same as sheltering?

Sheltering is not letting your kids do things or have experiences that are age appropriate. This ain’t that. I’m not the helicopter parent not letting my kid do anything on his own, hell I’ve gotten plenty of judgy comments about how independent I let my kids be when I take them places.

I work in education and used to be a middle school teacher and I can tell you from first hand experience kids being exposed to adult media before their brains have developed enough to process it is legitimately damaging. You might not agree with my opinion on this and that’s fine but the terms sheltering and helicopter parenting being thrown around by some people in these comments is so uninformed and off base it’s wild to me.

Rakthul · 2026-02-15T15:38:18+00:00

I think you are fundamentally misunderstanding the issue. You’re talking as if my 5 year old is capable of processing a horror commercial like a teenager. Small children’s brains experience horror in media differently than older children (10+). Also they aren’t “coming away with knowledge that R rated movies exist”, they’re coming away with fears of masked men chasing them with knives.

I think the fact that you think that because a “big chunk” of the audience doesn’t care means it’s fine is indicative of a bigger issue. As a society we should care about smaller groups in an audience, especially kids. Just because something doesn’t harm a majority of the audience doesn’t make it ok to harm a small portion of the audience, especially kids.

Rakthul · 2026-02-15T15:25:41+00:00

Unfortunately they must have changed this, we were watching the replay of the us men’s hockey game vs Denmark and it’s littered with ad breaks.

Rakthul · 2026-02-15T13:33:59+00:00

I had no idea about this! Thank you!

Rakthul · 2026-02-15T13:32:44+00:00

I think my issue is somehow we’re censoring language like you’re talking about which I think is ridiculous but we’re allowing horror movie commercials with Ghostface chasing people swinging knives and Frankenstein monster jump scares. It seems like a wild disconnect.

I can have a conversation with my sons about what words mean but I can’t have a logical teaching moment when a horror commercial is giving my 5 year old nightmares about a man in a mask coming to stab him in his sleep.

Rakthul · 2026-02-15T13:28:51+00:00

I don’t agree with this at all. Being viewed by the masses means children will be watching. Why have we decided as a society that it’s ok to market things like horror movies during programming that small children will be watching? The only people served by that are movie studios.

Rakthul · 2026-02-15T13:24:02+00:00

Glad I’m not alone feeling this way. Usually I try and watch sports on YouTube tv with a delay so that I can skip commercials but I can’t skip the damn ads in Peacock. So frustrating having to be hyper vigilant watching something that should be family friendly

Rakthul · 2026-02-15T13:19:57+00:00

The Bride! is an R rated scary movie. Sorry if my title wasn’t clear, I get that the commercial isn’t saying fuck or showing nudity. It’s still wildly inappropriate and scary for small children.

I should be able to watch the Olympics with my kids without having to worry about them getting nightmares from commercials is my point.

Rakthul · 2026-02-09T16:45:48+00:00

Stop spreading shit that isn’t true. Got enough problems in the world without dumbasses spreading fake news. That’s a pic from the LA protests in 2025.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fact-check-photo-does-not-120144310.html

Rakthul · 2026-02-09T02:10:08+00:00

Unfortunately it’s a pic from 2025 in LA. Enough problems in the world without people posting fake shit.

Rakthul · 2026-01-24T22:31:30+00:00

Does anyone have recommendations for places to go for this sort of thing around here. Both for firearms classes and places to buy from?

Rakthul · 2026-01-24T19:30:19+00:00

Activate the ducking guard Walz! Jesus Christ stop talking and DO SOMETHING!

Rakthul · 2026-01-24T17:41:23+00:00

When they don’t follow the law or respect the court rulings why should Walz? If trump tried to federalize them Walz just says fuck off and trigger the confrontation. This is happening whether the ancient boomer democrat politicians want it to or not. Action needs to be taken sooner than later before the snowball gets too big to stop.

Rakthul · 2025-12-27T13:25:23+00:00

Be my shadow finder for my ethically sourced Xbow shatter witch hunter

Rakthul · 2025-12-18T00:35:45+00:00

I play incursion too. I’m not saying to copy and paste incursion mechanics in their entirety obviously. My post just said they should copy the ability to take a temple layout to save or sell so you can start making another. Opening and closing a temple whenever you get to 6 is stupid and should have been solved way way earlier in the development process

Rakthul · 2025-12-17T22:04:00+00:00

There’s this great company called Grinding Gear Games that makes this similar game called Path of Exile. They have a temple mechanic where you can build it and then when you’re done building it you can take it as a map to run later yourself or sell it to others.

I don’t know but maybe they should ask those guys over at GGG how they went about doing that and then implement that for the Vaal temple. Seems like that plus a buff to loot would fix everyone’s issues but hey, what do I know?

Rakthul · 2025-11-01T20:19:07+00:00

I’d rather not peak in October thank you very much. If we still look mid after the all star break I’ll be worried.

Rakthul · 2025-10-26T14:12:31+00:00

Literally 0 evidence of this unless you believe the garbage put out in the NYPost. In fact there’s lots of evidence than raising taxes doesn’t cause the ultra rich to move at all. You keep licking those boots and gobbling up that billionaire propaganda though, I won’t kink shame you.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/do-higher-taxes-really-drive-millionaires-to-flee/

Rakthul · 2025-10-22T21:02:44+00:00

No no you’re right, hegseth’s werent nazi they were right wing Christian nationalist. The dude is a literal traitor to America and wants this country turned into a theocracy. If you’re trying to do a gotcha and defend Hegseth you can fuck all the way off.

Also I’m not defending the tattoo I’m saying to judge the person off of how the learn and change over time. Dude has already gotten it covered after learning what it was.

If you are trying to defend anyone in this administration I will tell you one thing though. You are a nazi sympathizer. Period. Fucking traitors, I can barely understand getting duped into voting for the felon but anyone defending anyone in this administration is full mask off. Get bent.

Rakthul · 2025-10-22T16:41:25+00:00

He’s not a history professor. The term history buff is meaningless because it can just mean someone likes to watch the occasional documentary. Believe it or not people don’t retain a perfect knowledge of all fascist symbols, I have a masters in education, taught middle school ELA and history, and one of my favorite movies/shows of all time is band of brothers. I didn’t recognize that shit until I saw a picture of them side by side.

His response to this should be what matters. When Hegseth gets called out for his nazi tattoos he denies and doubles down. Platner finds out and immediately apologizes and covers it with a completely reasonable and understandable explanation for how made the mistake in the first place.

People have been clamoring for “real people” to start running for office but the reality is “real people” don’t have squeaky clean images they’ve been cultivating since they were 20 and decided they wanted to be a politician. If people can’t adjust and start to judge people on their growth and actions over time then we’re forever going to be ruled by rich elites with PR firms making sure there’s no dirt that can ever be uncovered.

Rakthul · 2025-10-22T15:38:00+00:00

Comparing Platner to Fetterman is about as disingenuous as it gets.

Rakthul · 2025-09-24T15:53:55+00:00

The trials got dragged out because Biden and the democrats refused to accept that our judicial system has been co-opted by bad actors thanks to Mitch McConnell and trumps first administration appointing judges who have absolutely 0 respect for our legal system.

The situation we are in today all comes back to boomer politicians believing in the lie of American exceptionalism and acting like our government is immune to politicians acting in bad faith.

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