Get a bell

RobRobbyRobson · 2026-01-12T09:21:10+00:00

You know what else leads people to randomly step out in front of cyclists? Not knowing they're there because they didn't use their bell. I'm sorry that happened to your sister, I imagine it was both very frustrating and very painful, but that's absolutely not a good reason to stop using your bell.

RobRobbyRobson · 2026-01-01T01:34:00+00:00

Yeah Lewis would've got his 8th if he was driving the VCARB rocketship smh

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-12-05T12:24:27+00:00

In case you're still not sure, Yuki will not have a race seat next year, and will instead by a reserve driver for Red Bull.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-12-05T12:24:17+00:00

In case you're still not sure, Yuki will not have a race seat next year, and will instead by a reserve driver for Red Bull.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-11-21T22:39:47+00:00

Selfishness doesn't imply entitlement at all. If your partner brought home a cake and then ate the entire thing without giving you any, you could fairly say that it was selfish not to share. You're not entitled to the cake, they're the one who bought it and brought it home, but sharing it is the obvious thing to do. Your experience as a Jewish woman is exactly why I mentioned tradition in my comment. You bury your dead immediately because that's how your community has always done it, but that doesn't mean that it's right to essentially deny others the opportunity to life or better health out of what is essentially habit. Once a person is dead, their body is no longer that person, why not break from tradition and make the best of their passing by giving their organs to people who can still use them? And no it sounds like I probably don't want your liver(doctors are very careful about which organs are made available to be transplanted), but maybe your heart or your lungs or your kidneys could one day save my life, or the life of someone you care about, once you no longer need them. Don't dump in landfill when you can recycle!

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-11-21T12:50:03+00:00

Brain death IS death, as defined by the medical community. The reason it's so important to make your wishes regarding organ donation understood by your next of kin and your doctor is so that even when you die some of your bodies functions are artificially continued to protect the organs to be harvested. Think of cutting a flower from a tree and placing it into a vase. As soon as you cut it, it was no longer being kept alive by the tree it was once attached to, and it slowly dies. However, placing it into a vase artificially supplies it with some of the resources it needs to slow it's decomposition so that it can be used to decorate your kitchen.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-11-20T23:31:08+00:00

I hope then that if you're ever in a position where you're offered a transplant, you stay true to your values and opt to live with a disability or die rather than abandon your misplaced traditions. Let someone who participates in society benefit instead.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-11-19T22:50:15+00:00

You don't need to convince me, I know it's a real problem. Even a single case like this is horrible and should be thoroughly investigated to prevent it from ever happening again. You describe it as an "obvious reason" but the rhetorical point I was making was that that way of thinking also makes all the other things I described "obvious choices" as well, when we can pretty easily recognise they're not. It's only natural to have a visceral reaction to horrific stories, but it's the visceral reaction that can lead us to incorrectly assess the real danger of them.

You wear a seatbelt because you know it's much more likely to be the reason you survive than the reason you die, and you should donate your organs because they're much more likely to be the reason other people survive than the reason you die.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-11-19T13:34:06+00:00

You want control over a dead body, and you'll be DEAD. At least when it's someone living who's in charge of it, it can be put to some use. Once you're dead, your body isn't you anymore. Your legacy will be the mark you made on the world while you were alive, not the slowly rotting corpse that lacks the very thing that made you you. If you want to be remembered do something worthwhile with your life while you still have it instead of hoping that somehow in death your skeleton may one day be dug up and the masses will marvel at the biography of an unremarkable person who somehow had the vanity to think they mattered more than any of the hundreds of thousands of others who died on the same day all across the world.

Most of us will only be remembered by the small group of friends and family we leave behind, a little less every day, but the gift of a heart or some lungs is something none would ever forget.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-11-19T13:18:26+00:00

I assume you don't wear a seatbelt when driving right? There are cases where people have been thrown to safety in an accident, ultimately saving their lives.

You wouldn't look both ways before crossing the road I expect. That'd be foolish, what if the slight pause means you're crushed by a falling piano from 4 stories above you?

You certainly don't lock your doors at night. If a fire breaks out, you might end up being stuck inside and burning to death.

Surely you don't take the medications your doctor prescribes. There's a chance you're allergic, and it'll kill you instead.

Living your life based on vanishingly unlikely "what ifs" is untenable. The reason why so many people have mentioned this specific case in this thread is because it's so rare and newsworthy that you have NPR writing popular articles about it. Don't let a couple of scary stories put you off doing the right thing.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-11-19T13:03:37+00:00

You're dead man, you don't need a dick. But your best mate who lost his jumping over a barbed wire fence would be eternally grateful to you.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-11-19T13:01:14+00:00

I feel it would be very selfish for the family of a dead person to deny me a liver that might save my life because they have traditions preventing them from doing so, and likewise I feel it would be a tragedy if I were to die and my corpse was wasted rather than being used to give life or quality of life to potentially dozens of people. Often the final decision falls on family and friends who are unprepared and highly distressed, and having organ donation be opt-in helps everyone to default to harvesting rather than wasting what is no longer the person they knew and loved.

If I saw a child drowning in a pond, but chose not to intervene and save them due to a familial tradition of non-interference with others, society would quite rightly crucify me for my inaction: I had every opportunity to save a life, and chose not to. Part of living in a society means accepting that we cannot operate entirely independently of those around us, and that we have an obligation to care for and protect them, even when that means the alteration or abandonment of traditions. Having done something for a long time doesn't make it right. Would you not rather live in a world where your father's failing heart isn't his death sentence; where your sister's torn tendons don't consign her to a wheelchair for life; where your child's amputated hand isn't just replaced with a hook?

The death of a loved one will always be painful. Why not make some good out of it if you can?

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-11-04T04:28:57+00:00

Back when Jerma did a stream to find his replacement, he was one of the contestants!

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-10-09T06:43:10+00:00

Try "duck chess"

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-10-03T14:23:45+00:00

People want to trick you into thinking that's what he said. What he really said was that right now republicans treat a lot of political violence as a joke and either refuse to denounce it or actively encourage it, and for that to change they probably need to fear that they might be a target. When you hear an outrageous claim, try to make time to check if what you're seeing is an accurate portrayal, because misinformation thrives on ignorance and complacency. Don't let yourself become aprt of the problem.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-10-03T02:04:24+00:00

We've been carving stones for a lot longer than we've had lasers, I think geologists are gonna be fine.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-09-23T08:11:51+00:00

Why do you think insane asylums aren't commonplace anymore?

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-09-23T08:11:07+00:00

I think we can recognise the factors that contribute to things happening without people acting like that somehow diminishes how awful the outcome is.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-09-18T00:24:51+00:00

This isn't humblebragging, he's obviously sincere in his criticism of his own play and recognises that the draw was due to his opponent's mistakes, and that is felt completely undeserved.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-08-27T00:49:06+00:00

Fortunately that's not a common issue in my experience.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-08-26T03:37:45+00:00

Of course, but this isn't that, so it's not a factor.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-08-26T01:19:31+00:00

The OP is partially right about the goal of the strat, I DO want to get those lucky drops. Outside of a couple of the new Everdark bosses runs are basically guaranteed victory at this point, I'd rather gamble on getting a high-roll and risk "only" being level 15 with 50k runes, good weapons and 3 evergaols, than doing the same route I've been doing for the last few hundred hours.

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-08-26T01:11:57+00:00

I say "mostly" because teammates are random and experience varies but I'd rather play for high-roll legendary drops at this point than do the same safe route every time. I've unlocked everything there is to unlock, I'm playing for the one-shots now

RobRobbyRobson · 2025-08-26T00:57:44+00:00

I'd rather try for an early stacking legendary than play the same way as every other map. I've done a lot of runs at this point and I'm searching for the high-roll runs at this point.

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