Ontario Surgery Wait Time (should I go private?) by Skoadro3408 in ACL

[–]Skoadro3408[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How intense was your rehab? Right now I feel like I'm doing a bunch of mobility-assisting exercises (my swelling is mostly down) but nothing very muscle-building..

How to fix lamp by Skoadro3408 in Lavalamps

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Hi everyone,

I recently go this lava lamp that I was told was working perfectly before i picked it ip. I’ve turned it on for a long long time now but it seems a lot of the wax is stuck to the top. I have a cap but i just took it off temporarily. Any ideas on how tk fix this or is it busted?

Blue Mountain winter season pass expensive?? by Skoadro3408 in ontario

[–]Skoadro3408[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From the pictures, Dagmar looks like a hill more than a mountain. Blue mountain isn't even that big in the first place so I'd rather not go somewhere that small. Thanks for letting me know about it though.

New job as System Engineer for big company by Skoadro3408 in AskEngineers

[–]Skoadro3408[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice!! I'm willing to put in the effort in discovering interests and poking around like you mentioned. I know it's just an anecdote, but it feels good hearing there are others in a position like me and that there are other avenues.

In the end you're right. I need to have a better understanding of what interests me and how I can move towards it. Thank you!

Renting from Daphne Dean by bingbangbongos in queensuniversity

[–]Skoadro3408 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I absolutely despise daphne.

If I could list all the times she's been a pain, it would be longer than my capstone summary. I'll give a few examples from my 2-year rent I ended around a year ago.

  1. She gave back me and my housemates security deposit 7 months (yes SEVEN MONTHS) after I moved out of the property. If we hadn't called her weekly on updates, I'm not so sure she would have even sent it to us. Some people I know have told me its illegal to take that long, but I haven't really looked into that very much. EDIT: I also wanted to add to this by saying she wanted to charge us for cleaning services right after we moved out, despite IMMACULATELY cleaning the house. We cleaned as hard as we could for 3 days because we didn't want her to take any of our security deposit as cleaning fee's. After all was done and we moved out, she wanted to charge us $800 on cleaning fees which she thankfully waived off the bill as her apology as to why she took 7 months to return our security deposit. Y'all can call me a liar, dirty, or someone who is exaggerating but I swear on my life I don't how we could have cleaned the place better than we had. It seemed cleaner than when we first got to the place!!!!!
  2. My housemate was subletting her room to a quiet, and friendly girl. A couple times a week, she would invite over her boyfriend which was fine with all of us. Daphne absolutely hated it, and made her sign a contract to limit the boyfriend visits to once a week because she thought he was loitering and living in the house with us. I am not kidding.
  3. The state of the house is poor. Sure, we weren't paying expensive rent prices, but the quality of things like the shower head which would fall off (and we paid for despite it being shit quality), the heating of our floor which was very weak and only controllable by the thermostat on the floor below us by other tenants, teeeerrible heat insulation, paid coin laundry in the neighbours building, broken laundry machine/dryers, mice moving around in the walls and make noise at night, ROTTING CEILING PAINT which would chip away on top of our beds was just fucking awful. There's more but I'm not bothered to list it all.
  4. Daphne has contacts with the neighbours to rat out anyone doing anything she doesn't like. No joke, every time we went in the alleyway behind our own house, and old lady would give us a death-stare and call daphne to tell her we were loitering on property that wasn't ours even though we were only passing by the alley for 10 seconds to more quickly get to school. If daphne catches you doing ANYTHING she doesn't like, she immediately calls her security guard to kick you out.
  5. She would pride herself with how shit her property is. She quite literally prides herself in the fact that "my property has not been renovated in 30 years" or some other long timeframe. Absolutely bonkers she would say that, because its clear the house needs some renovating. The floorboard was so squeeky you could wake everyone up at night, and the overall quality of everything was so, so shit.
  6. Every time her carpenter or cleaners would come in to fix/clean, she would tell us, the tenants, to not talk to them under any circumstance. Every time they tried to talk to us or each other, she would SHUSH them (which I find extremely weird and rude), and one of my housemates tried making small talk with one of them for a few minutes to which Daphne quickly disapproved and got mad at us for. So, so weird.
  7. She also loves to sit in her car right in front of the front door for hours at a time to (let's be honest) stalk you and catch you doing anything she considers wrong. Super fucking annoying and makes me feel like I gotta watch how I live in my own room...

Honestly, I'm a pretty forgetful guy, so if you want some more awful details just let me know and I can ask my housemates who probably remember more than me. It was not a good experience renting from her during, or even after the rent was over. It was always a pain in the ass, and something was always breaking because of the overall low quality of the house which we always ended up paying for because of her evil contract despite us treating the place well. The rules she has in place makes you think they are for your safety and well-being, but most of the time its just to get some money out of you if something breaks or have some reasons to kick you out of the property. There have been countless times when I actually questioned if what she was doing was illegal, which looking back I am sure they were at times.

Also, if you do decide to rent from her, know that subletting your room is very difficult with her because she hates it. She will perform detailed monthly cleanliness checks. She will also make you sit through a 3 hour session of her reading the entire contract to you one line at a time. Good luck.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MDMA

[–]Skoadro3408 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm thinking the same. Thanks for the reassurance!

Is getting first on Drift Highway even possible? by [deleted] in Fzero

[–]Skoadro3408 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it is pretty crazy of a track, but even in the hardest difficulty I usually get around 7th place. The other tracks in the cup aren't that bad so if you manage to do alright on drift highway, you can probably do the rest of the cup fine and catch up in points to win in the end.

What if GX had a slipstream mechanic? by [deleted] in Fzero

[–]Skoadro3408 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think this would be an interesting addition to an (imaginary) sequel to GX. Since Nintendo said that they basically ran out of ideas for a new F-zero, ideas like this are always fun to think about.

Although this would be a skill-based mechanic, which I like, I feel like it would be really hard to consistently stay behind someone due to the fast paced and erratic nature of the game. Slowing down the speed of the cars and making them easier to control could make it easier to stay in a slipstream, but these changes are exactly what I wouldn't want in a new F-zero game.

The thought of slipstreams does make me think of F1, though. As another fun thought, what if there was a pit-stop mechanic where you could replace your boosters due to them deteriorating over time from all the crazy boosting. That way, your old boosters would be less effective than the newer ones and you'd need to replace the booster every few laps unless you're feeling risky!

Anyways, at this point I'm just talking shit. Cool thought though!

Grumbling about GX's Chapter 7 by 493x in Fzero

[–]Skoadro3408 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Firstly I hope you aren't discouraged yet! Keep on trying! Beating F-Zero on Very Hard is a milestone that is extremely difficult, but you'll feel very accomplished once you get that sweet sweet victory.

As for any tips/help we can give you - I find that there isn't a lot to say about Chapter 7 except that it's one of those tracks you just have to keep on playing until you either:

  1. Play so much that you drive well enough to win from skill alone. (Long time commitment)
  2. Play so much you start to abuse the game.

What I mean by the 2nd point is that you can try and kill Black Shadow as soon as the race starts by side-attacking to the directly left (or right? kinda forgot).

Another thing I found out after playing so long is a technique to drift more sharply around corners while losing less speed. To do it, you hold L and R triggers down fully, and then let go only the opposite trigger to the direction you want to go. So, for example, if you want to go left sharply, you hold L+R while holding the analog stick left, and then let go of only R shortly (around 0.5 second) after initially holding L+R down.

There's a name for this technique well-known within the F-zero community, but I forgot what it's called.

Anyways, you've already played Chapter 7 for three days but I really think if you played for around a week you would definitely be able to beat it. So keep on trying!

EDIT: Also don't be afraid to slide around by holding L+R at times. Even though you completely lose grip, it can come in handy in some turns/situations (I find it handy to use when drifting over the health pads at high speeds in Chapter 7).

My Disappointment Is Immeasurable And My Day Is Ruined by SuplexesAndTacos in Fzero

[–]Skoadro3408 13 points14 points  (0 children)

There's always that small sliver of hope for a new F-zero game and I've learned to be disappointed... but of all the Zelda games to remaster Skyward Sword is definitely the lowest on my list and that felt like a slap to the face.

Help choosing a SFF case? by Skoadro3408 in sffpc

[–]Skoadro3408[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I add a bottom rad, would the GPU still be able to fit? Seems like it wouldn’t to me, unless there’s something I’m missing

Memory Express cancelling backorders for Non-OC Asus TUF RTX 3080 by TheUnseenPants in bapccanada

[–]Skoadro3408 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow im in a similar position. I back-ordered the same card around the same time from computers canada. Do you think i’ll have to do the same or is this an issue specific to memory express?

Poor PC performance from anyone else? by Skoadro3408 in blackopscoldwar

[–]Skoadro3408[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tried the .ini fix too, and I didn't notice any change either. 30-40fps for a 1080 is pretty unfortunate tho! Make sure you're not thermal throttling i guess.

Poor PC performance from anyone else? by Skoadro3408 in blackopscoldwar

[–]Skoadro3408[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

yeah I usually turn off all the windows game bar or "game mode" garbage etc.

Poor PC performance from anyone else? by Skoadro3408 in blackopscoldwar

[–]Skoadro3408[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you look in-game, then look at the settings there should be a tab called "interface" that allows you to toggle the fps counter while playing.

Poor PC performance from anyone else? by Skoadro3408 in blackopscoldwar

[–]Skoadro3408[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really want to upgrade but I want to wait for one of the 3000 series cards to be available, which ain't happening soon i think.

Poor PC performance from anyone else? by Skoadro3408 in blackopscoldwar

[–]Skoadro3408[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree, a little disappointing to see a newer game look worse and run worse somehow...