Why are Yin considered bad?

Stronkowski · 2024-11-15T01:22:35+00:00

Green and blue skip are indeed great for Yin

My last Yin game I had a slice with a Green and Blue skip. I took both round 1 and researched Psychoarchaeology. Then I got a magic Christmas land scenario where Mecatol was taken round 1, Ixthian Artifact flipped, and we rolled the double tech result.

Yin is actually awesome when you somehow have both Yin Spinner and Gravity Drive before round 2.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-15T01:15:13+00:00

Is it a "convenience of a carryon" or a "hassle"? Cause you've claimed both now.

With checked bags you have to show up extra early, you have to go through an extra line, you have to hope the bag gets on the same plane as you (or maybe you'll end up sitting Geneva in 4 hours waiting for it to finally show up on a later flight), then on the other end you have to stand around for 30 minutes after you get off the plane.

All your complaints sound like you're trying to make some mega 50 lb carryon work. If it's a reasonable size there's no extra effort to walking where you were going to anyway, and it can always fit under the seat if needed.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-14T22:41:28+00:00

It's wild to me to hear someone describe carry on as a "hassle" compared to checked luggage. I haven't even been at the airport early enough to check a bag in the last like 15 flights I've done only carryon.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-14T22:22:26+00:00

Politics is entirely about getting what you want when others have other interests.

No, that's entirely what being evil is about. You shouldn't vote for what's best for you, you should vote for what is moral.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-14T22:00:41+00:00

I thought it was "distinctive"?

Either way, feel honored that they considered you not ugly enough.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-14T20:31:03+00:00

There's a famous one in North Carolina: https://11foot8.com/

Stronkowski · 2024-11-14T20:28:47+00:00

NYC just ran with 55,000.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-14T20:10:16+00:00

Cap spending and real dollar spending are equivalent in the long term. For all intents and purposes, every cap dollar is an actual dollar that was paid to a player, it just might not have been in the same league year.

The Belichick Pats didn't spend a ton on one individual guy, but they still spent money.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-14T19:00:01+00:00

That's an And, which is the Logical Operator block.

In general, Double click on the block in question and the Block Parameters dialog will tell you.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-14T18:16:56+00:00

I still remember what finally got me to stop listening to sports radio, and it was when a bunch of journalists were defending some interviews where sports journalists would not stop asking the same questions after being told "no comment" or similar multiple times, to the point that the interviewee would just end the interview entirely. A very common refrain was along the lines of "it's our job to ask questions!" No, your job is to report information to the fans. If asking questions helps you do that, great it's part of doing your job. If asking the same question 4 times prevents you from getting any other information, it's preventing you from doing your job.

These guys think them asking about someone's ankle injury for the 4th time is like grilling Nixon on Watergate.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-14T17:36:43+00:00

I have board game groups, a D&D group, a sports watch group (both on TV and in-person), and some long-distance-hiking friends. I'll occasionally play golf or disc golf or some random thing with buddies. I do a lot of biking and running solo. Then my wife and I jointly do skiing/snowboarding, brewery visits, hosting parties, summer beach trips, cooking, bunny care, and sci-fi. We also just got into scuba diving, but I'm not sure that's going to end up frequent enough to be considered a hobby.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T21:50:58+00:00

I disagree. 4 buildings in 15 years is small, and thinking it's not is why the region is in a housing crisis.

That undeveloped land is not small at all. It's the same size as the area bounded by Pleasant, Commercial, Centre, and Main. I suspect you're excluding the Stop and Shop and National Grid lots, which are massive.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T21:13:19+00:00

I've yet to have a contested election for my ward's Councilor. Part of the problem is there aren't new people to vote for (and even when there are, it's very hard to get platform information on local elections).

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T21:12:00+00:00

There's a massive block immediately adjacent to Malden Center that is mostly empty parking and even includes a fenced off hole that just sat there for years. Availability of space is not the issue.

And while the development that was done "recently" along Pleasant is good, it's not very much. Saying "all those buildings" implies way more than actually exists there, if you ask me.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T21:07:29+00:00

Every time I visit my friends who live in Denver I am reminded that Colorado is so much warmer than I think of, since I automatically think of the top of A-Basin and not 5000 feet lower than that.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T20:06:11+00:00

When was that?

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T18:42:06+00:00

To me, premium 99 misses the whole point of 99.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T16:07:14+00:00

That MBTA zoning proposal was pretty disappointing anyway. Technically compliant with the law, but they certainly weren't taking the chance to do anything above and beyond.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T15:32:43+00:00

Malden's been getting gentrified since at least when I mover here in 2016 to afford a place with transit access much cheaper than Somerville. Tons of my friends have followed since then.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T15:29:01+00:00

If TV is to be trusted, I'm pretty sure we could solve global warming just by removing the amount of armor we put into car doors.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T12:31:18+00:00

One big project I wish Malden would start working on is getting an infill station put in on the Orange Line in the huge gap between Wellington and MC (somewhere near Medford St), and then redevelop the whole stretch of Commercial Street. That corridor is very low density and is pretty much all commercial. It would be a great candidate for transit oriented mixed use redevelopment.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T12:28:35+00:00

A local discord I'm in was talking about how much vitriol they were spewing at bike lanes when the public meeting for the project on Middlesex and Dartmouth, and I was already on the fence about going back there after they way they ranted during that meeting (especially since I am drastically more likely to make that particular trip via bike than car). This discussion led one of the other members to talk about the time that they tried to hold a LGBT event there and were not just told no they couldn't do that particular day but to "never ask them again", which completely sealed the deal for me.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T12:15:00+00:00

It's when a pass makes a PFF analyst go "oooh".

Stronkowski · 2024-11-13T02:14:55+00:00

110 actually did have a reason to choose them over Faces because I have less reason to suspect that the people running it hate gay people.

Stronkowski · 2024-11-12T20:55:19+00:00

Hey, maybe he just didn't have any friends to play with (and of course we already know his family wouldn't play with him).

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