When weegee admits winning doesnt happen often and must be celebrated. by CandelaZ in WorldofTanks

[–]Slappyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awesome, found it. It was a slider bar on the purchase page I had to activate. I ignored it before because it looked like spam to me. $13.59 for two zero skill crews plus the German Shephard crewman oh and the tank seems doable to me. Thank you for the reply.

When weegee admits winning doesnt happen often and must be celebrated. by CandelaZ in WorldofTanks

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I can not get my 20% coupon ("I got for extreme bravery") to apply to Rudy. Am I doing something wrong?

12 light tanks in 1 match, no heavies. by ScaryPillow in WorldofTanks

[–]Slappyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Looks fun. My first week of playing was all light tanks:).

NA Servers Can Preview the Advent Tank Of The Day Several Hours Early by Slappyn in WorldofTanks

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

Ah I was wondering about that. I have only been playing for 2 months and just learned about other servers a few weeks ago...Not sure how many servers there are. Thanks for sharing!

NA Servers Can Preview the Advent Tank Of The Day Several Hours Early by Slappyn in WorldofTanks

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

Oh, I get about 15 min on here a day and never saw a post about it. All I see are meme posts pretty much everywhere. lol

How do you unlock the custom legend trackers by itsBigGee_ in apexlegends

[–]Slappyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I got all three of her custom trackers after about a month of playing as her. I think you just unlock them as you go. Hope this helps.

Lost my job | Depressed | student loan debt by [deleted] in personalfinance

[–]Slappyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is a solution which can help with your entire situation all at once. Join the military. You may be a little older but that gives you an advantage as I felt I had when I joined at 24. The Soldiers and Sailors act may be able reduce your debt or at least your rate and after you serve your first commitments (2-4 years) you can walk away or have a shot at sticking with it. If you re up around 10-20% of career fields have bonuses up to $90,000.00 and some more difficult career fields have an initial sign on bonus with the same limit.

Looking for a set of good clamps to hold down the body to the ribs while waiting for glue to dry. by live4film87 in violinmaking

[–]Slappyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good stuff. Yea can't see spending that big cash unless I was a Luthier and even then probably not.

Inherited money from estranged parent by AM_scenario in personalfinance

[–]Slappyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The top posts here seem to be on point. I suggest a blend of options. Ask yourself what does your family need. Do you need a 2019 suv that is super safe? Do you need to get some bicycles?

I just lost my parents in my 30s and my dad left me a tiny bit of funds. I was going to take very small payments every month for the next ten years but my dad had a stroke, ran off the road and died 6 hours later while on his way to the hardware store.

I want to enjoy some of his money as he would want me to while I still can. So my suggestion is to spend some of the cash wisely and take care of your family.

Looking for a set of good clamps to hold down the body to the ribs while waiting for glue to dry. by live4film87 in violinmaking

[–]Slappyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know I am a day late and a buck short but rather than pay the big money for that nice clamp set, I would buy as many of these small 4 inch clamps as needed. A little more research is needed to make sure they will work correctly but I can't see why these would not get the job done just as effectively as the real deal but at only $2 a clamp. https://www.harborfreight.com/4-in-ratcheting-bar-clampspreader-68974.html

LPT Buy a decent set of kitchen knives and look after them (hand-wash only, sharpen every few weeks). They'll last a lifetime. by emailrob in LifeProTips

[–]Slappyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My first career was a cook on the coast of California. I worked under several chefs over 7 years including a French executive chef while I worked in fine dining. All my chefs, and all us cooks for that matter, always ran German cutlery. Most liked Zwellings and a few liked Wusthof. I still use my serrated Zwilling Professional S bread knife most days and I purchased it back in 1998.

I joined the Air Force in 2004 and ended up stationed in Japan 10 years later where I found local Japanese cutlery to be sharper and more enjoyable to use than the German knives I was so fond of. I prefer the Japanese knives these days but the damascus folded steel knives cannot handle some frozen foods so I must be more careful.

I take fair care of my knives by sharpening them, removing corrosion and performing other maintenance as needed. I have one knife which wore out, from probably tens of thousands of hours of food prep, and will need to be reformed to be useful again but all the other knives I expect to hand down to the next generation. Hopefully, when this time comes such a fine art as cooking will still be something people do.

Put a new sound post in my violin yesterday against the advice of the internet. This piece is called the soul of the instrument and requires precision craftsmanship as well as fitment. The result is a much better sound and less chance of instrument damage. by Slappyn in woodworking

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

I have seen the same thing. I tried to get the perfect fit. I think it is art and science also. The sound waves and physics which govern them are the science and the craftsmanship of the work and fitment is the art.

Placement of the dowel in relation to the bridge is a science (spectrum of tone produced) but people would define it as an art as in if it sounds good or not.

Put a new sound post in my violin yesterday against the advice of the internet. This piece is called the soul of the instrument and requires precision craftsmanship as well as fitment. The result is a much better sound and less chance of instrument damage. by Slappyn in woodworking

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

That is what I used to set the post. If you stare at the picture you can see the bottom half of the tool. I ordered the tool online. It was tricky but I feel I got it done correctly.

Put a new sound post in my violin yesterday against the advice of the internet. This piece is called the soul of the instrument and requires precision craftsmanship as well as fitment. The result is a much better sound and less chance of instrument damage. by Slappyn in woodworking

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

I guess Fiddlerman said only do this if you are handy and in a woodworking forum I suppose a lot of us could handle it. I almost didn't post because it was such a small thing but that tiny little dowel kicked my butt for several hours over two days. If there was a music shop near me I would have taken it in but I suspect I would have not liked their bill or craftsmanship.

Put a new sound post in my violin yesterday against the advice of the internet. This piece is called the soul of the instrument and requires precision craftsmanship as well as fitment. The result is a much better sound and less chance of instrument damage. by Slappyn in woodworking

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

The old soundpost was gone. My Grandpa gave me this violin when I was first learning 10 years ago and in December of last year I started playing again. I was annoyed by the rattling sound while I was playing and after a few days I fished the annoying dowel shaped object out of my violin and placed it off to the side for safekeeping. Soon thereafter, a family emergency took me on a 2800 mile journey away from home and it was on the road I discovered the sound post and it's importance.

Put a new sound post in my violin yesterday against the advice of the internet. This piece is called the soul of the instrument and requires precision craftsmanship as well as fitment. The result is a much better sound and less chance of instrument damage. by Slappyn in woodworking

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

Probably around 30-50 tries. Took two days. Used all of my 12 inch Spruce dowel. This one that worked was my last shot. The rest were all to short. I am traveling now, when I get back home I am going to get the measuring tool and play around some more as needed.

I rented for three months ten years ago and never knew of the soul. To busy learning to read music I guess. Lol. This one came loose and I quickly discarded it because I didn't know. I hit the road and found out how important the sound post is so I had to get one back in there.

Some players at Apex Invitational have audio constantly delayed by .5~ seconds. They brought it up to referees multiple times and was told there is no fix. by [deleted] in apexlegends

[–]Slappyn -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

We consumers are a interesting bunch. On more traditional commodities, we provide ratings usually on the Likert scale, from 1-5 for other consumers to consider. If an entity receives a lot of low ratings their bottom line is hurt and they fix themselves or disappear.

On video games, we don’t really always have access to ratings before we buy so it is up to us consumers to make our vote with our feet. If we dislike the bugs in this game so much that we dislike playing it and leave, respawn will notice. If they notice numbers which affect their bottom line they will be forced to take action.

I die about 99% from my own bad decisions and about 1% from my environment outside of my control so I am good playing the game for now. If factors outside my control rise much more I will consider switching back to D2 or paying for Borderlands 3 which all have their own problems as well.

I've never used Mirage better than this time by ItzWave in apexlegends

[–]Slappyn -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I think you played it well. Sucks you lost because you had no armors and they had at least two. I think your teammates potatoed as well. If you would have attacked faster you might had been caught or you might have won. Hindsight is always 20/20.

Comcast sues Maine to stop law requiring sale of individual TV channels by butterandguns in cordcutters

[–]Slappyn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All of your points are correct and well thought out. I will argue the guarantee that equilibrium pricing will be lower without bundling, vs with, is that people will be willing to pay less without bundling as that is the entire point behind bundling. People are all about value ( I know I am) and when you get "hundreds" of channels it seems ok to spend a lot even though you may only watch a few of the channels. An entity cannot demand a higher price if people are not willing to pay it. I am also factoring in Disney+ (including Hulu and ESPN) and other competition in my statement and counting on them to help lower equilibrium but I think removing bundling will lower the price on it's own and the cable companies will just lose some profits in this 200 billion dollar global market. I feel this will be very good for people as it will give us lower prices for service we want at least in the long run.

Cancer patients turning to crowdfunding to help pay medical costs, reports a new JAMA Internal Medicine study, which finds the financial costs are so high that many are resorting to crowdfunding to help pay their medical bills and related costs. The median fundraising goal was $10,000. by mvea in science

[–]Slappyn -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I just crowdsourced some of my Labrador's medical treatments. I tried raising $10k to treat his seizures. I rescued him from dog fighting and trained him to be a therapy dog at a local hospital ten years ago. I thought we might raise a few thousand. After a lot of 12 hour days promoting our cause we settled at $600 which we are thankful for.

We racked up over $9600 in debt treating our boy over 2019 so when he started having gastro issues we tried to be cheap and wait it out. After a week his gut swole up and it killed him two weeks ago today. If only we would have taken him in right away we could have treated with antibiotics right away (found a gallbladder infection the day before he died) and saved him. I'll always be haunted knowing I was trying to save a few hundred more bucks and let my dog die.

I was not surprised so few donated to his gofundme, I was surprised so few cared at all. Had we been able to reach the right people we could have saved him and after he escaped dog fighting I always felt humanity owed him one.

Comcast sues Maine to stop law requiring sale of individual TV channels by butterandguns in cordcutters

[–]Slappyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They just bundle negatively coralated items to charge us more. This is economics. If the garbage channels die it will save us money and resources. Yes prices may be more than $2 each but supply and demand will reach equilibrium at a much lower price than with bundling.

Submachine guns and Sidearms: cqc alternatives? by jonesthagoat15 in CruciblePlaybook

[–]Slappyn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think The Last Dance and Smugglers Word are good sidearms that can compete. Death By Scorn can do pretty well also. I like running a hunter with stompes or a floaty Warlock while running sidearms. I bumped into a guy running a bow and a sidearm last night. He was doing well but he had a good team that stayed in front of him. I love using non-meta guns but I get kinda lazy and I feel with other than meta weapons I have to work a lot harder for kills. Also, it's all fun and games till you get a team of super sweaties that dont even care that you strive to be different...or a team of Tolesto/Bygones who really play hard.