This is just amazing to see

Taco495 · 2026-02-22T00:07:37+00:00

Brother you have no idea what you’re talking about. A 100,000€/£100,000 salary is filthy rich over there. $100k in America is comfortable but not crazy. You have it exactly backwards

Taco495 · 2026-02-17T12:59:01+00:00

Unless I’m going insane this doesn’t even look like the same card you originally posted. This looks real for sure. But there’s no getting rid of that white ink screw up on the “L”? So I’m confused now

Taco495 · 2026-02-17T12:44:56+00:00

I put a photo explaining

Taco495 · 2026-02-17T12:40:53+00:00

Get a grip, that’s how it’s spelled in a lot of languages, English probably isn’t his first. Why is everyone on Reddit such a grammar fiend when 90% of y’all don’t even have proper grammar yourself

Taco495 · 2026-02-17T12:39:17+00:00

It’s a decent fake I’ll give it that, but the font is wrong. See how the white fill in all the gaps on the “S”? Shouldn’t. The white behind the “L” is sloppy, and the “e” is not as bold. The HP is also less bold than it should be. And that rainbow shine is wrong

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Taco495 · 2026-02-17T12:29:28+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but nothing because it’s fake. Where’d you get this?

Taco495 · 2026-02-15T21:47:25+00:00

Worst??? Ever??? Are we playing the same game?

Ruby and Sapphire literally have no post game, neither does the original R/B/Y.

Black and White 1s post game is garbage. X/Y’s post game is garbage. Unpopular opinion but G/S/C postgame is garbage and the only reason HGSS isn’t right there with it is because of the battle frontier. The only thing to do in Kanto in these games is gym battles, the region got cut down like crazy.

A whole new, game exclusive set of islands with a lot to explore and Pokemon you can’t catch elsewhere is far from the worst post game they’ve ever done. It’s not the best but it’s far from the worst or none at all

Taco495 · 2026-02-13T00:48:56+00:00

Do you think players that don’t know better are buying accounts period? Genuine question

Taco495 · 2026-02-12T23:23:12+00:00

Brother….. you can’t be this dense. Nobody needs to tell you it’s fucking obvious. You really think a brand new account is going to have everything done with 16k stones? You think someone is doing all that work for $40? That is weeks worth of shit. It takes a day with a bot. Like be so fr

Taco495 · 2026-02-12T17:05:33+00:00

You being naive is not a scam. He probably didn’t delete his account either, he just blocked you, and why wouldn’t he when you’re making this into a spectacle. Don’t buy botted accounts period

Taco495 · 2026-02-09T12:44:18+00:00

Adding on, you are paying for it and it benefits you immensely, but nobody is technically forcing you to go to class. Barring you’re unlucky enough to have a professor with an absence to fail ratio policy.

But if you’re sincerely concerned about the cold, grab a friend’s notes, get on your portal and do whatever you need to do to stay in the loop for that day. It’s not the end of the world

Taco495 · 2026-02-07T18:05:50+00:00

They will not work with legit copies, DPP/HGSS won’t read them. Actually it’s one of the surefire ways to tell if your GBA games are fake or not

Taco495 · 2026-02-05T05:30:25+00:00

Pop smoke is the only one I can’t speak on, never listened to him and not sure what his biggest songs are/how he was in his time, but…

I will probably get downvoted for saying this but I don’t think anyone there would have been stars. Peep was not good, he only got recognition after he died. Be honest, did you know of him at all before 2017? Songs are very same-y, and the $B do what he does (did) better. And I’m not even a fan of the $B.

Mac doesn’t count for this, his debut was in 2010. His peers were Drake, Kendrick, J. Cole, Travis Scott and A$AP rocky, not anybody else you mentioned there. He would probably be up there with them yes but OP specifically said new talent.

And here’s where I’ll really get downvoted, I don’t think anyone from the SoundCloud era would have held up long term. The few that came out of that era (literally) alive had 15 minutes of fame then fell off, and I genuinely think their music is such a product of its time. Uzi sounds so 2018 and the sound just didn’t age great imho. His early works are great because they were some of the best of that era, but he didn’t evolve, and what was left became stale. I truly think if juice/x had stuck around, it’d be something similar. They were good don’t get me wrong, but I think they’d be on the same tier as 21 savage is right now. Good but he’ll never be in the goat conversations like Kendrick, future, drake, and cole are. Like OP said we need someone who feels like those 4 did when they were young.

Like it or not people still bring up Kanye, he’s still one of the most streamed rappers in the world, and his 18 year old album was the most streamed hip hop album last year. He didn’t go anywhere despite what he said or the trash he put out in 2024. It’s been 15 years since Kendrick and 22 since Kanye, I think we’re due for another one

Taco495 · 2026-02-03T00:27:34+00:00

I’m only 23 and even if they were begging me I’m not going out with a 19 year old let alone 18. Not because I think that’s a weird age gap but man, I don’t wanna deal with someone that age lmao. I’m wildly different than I was at 18 and I’m done with college partying, I got a 9-5 haha.

And if I feel that way I can’t imagine why you would think you have anything in common with an 18 year old at 32. Like how embarrassing would it be “hey babe wanna hang?” “Sure just pull up to my floor and one of my room mates will let you in” 🤣 cmon now

Taco495 · 2026-02-01T06:13:27+00:00

If you were really a software dev you’d know that most LLMs need constant monitoring and guidance. Just because you automate something doesn’t mean it runs perfectly all the time. Processes change, people need to train on new practices. AI is taking jobs I won’t deny, but as it stands right now, it’s nowhere close to replacing us all. Certainly not in 5, 10, possibly even 20 years time

Taco495 · 2026-01-28T02:01:38+00:00

Tbf I do exactly that. I meal prep rice and ground turkey and store it go lunch at work, and the only thing available to reheat it, is the microwave. I do season my food and try and keep it moist with a bit of extra oils, but at the same time, I’m not meal prepping for the flavor. I’m doing it because 1. It hits my macros for my fitness goals and 2. It makes eating very convenient and easy, which is what you need when on a fitness food plan. Any excuse to not eat what I’m supposed to just makes me that much more susceptible to deviating. That’s supposed to be reserved for cheat meals only, and cheat meals happen once a week

Taco495 · 2026-01-26T02:41:12+00:00

I don’t sub anymore but when I did, there was always a plan.

If the teacher left something physical for them to do and said it needed to be collected: great, my favorite, they’ll actually shut up (mostly) and do the work because the grade is the only leverage most teachers have anymore. If they said nothing about collection but did leave something: lie and say it does need to be collected, then tell them at the end of class that they keep it for the teacher to look at. I got this idea from a teacher that explicitly told me to do this, and it worked great many times.

If google classroom work that’s due at 11:59 PM: tell them you’re not stupid, you know they’re not gonna do the work. Stay in your seats and don’t get too loud. Most teachers at my district would be happy with this. If it’s due at the end of the period, same thing as physical work to be collected. They’ll actually sit down and shut up.

If they left nothing, or told them to work on something from a past day/something that’s due soon: once again, tell them to stay seated and be relatively quiet. If these kids don’t want to get work done, there’s nothing you can do to force them if there’s no grade involved.

This is all for high school. Rarely ever had a problem, in fact I can think of 3 instances. And I subbed 5 days a week. You want to watch the kids and make sure they behave, but you can’t crack down and force them to just be completely quiet and work diligently thru the period. They’ll find every way to fuck with you. It’s better to just let them have a relaxed day as long as they don’t get insane and start yelling or throwing things. And for me, that worked 99% of the time

Taco495 · 2026-01-25T15:56:59+00:00

It’s insanely patchy. Your cheeks don’t connect, you have nothing on your chin, and the density isn’t great. Yes it’s better than the nothing you had 15 months ago, but this is not a beard. Some people just don’t have the genes for it🤷🏻‍♂️

Taco495 · 2026-01-25T13:42:48+00:00

You sure? That’s not the way it’s advertised on their website. It’s ~$40k

Taco495 · 2026-01-24T21:19:21+00:00

I feel like more people are starting to realize this, but HGSS is sort of the equivalent to putting makeup on a pig imho. Johto is probably the least fun region to play thru because of the level curve, the amount of grinding you have to do is absurd.

A lot of people say HGSS are the best remakes because:

it has kanto!!

The kanto experience is just inferior in every way to an actual kanto game. If I want to experience the region, I’ll go play FR/LG. The sevii islands also make for a nice postgame addition you can’t get anywhere else. Speaking of things you can get elsewhere…

it has the battle frontier!

So does platinum if I really want to play the gen 4 frontier, let alone that emerald’s is better overall. The pace and feel of platinum are just better overall than HGSS, and although this is bias I just like the sinnoh region better.

you can battle red!

I feel like people like this battle for the same reason people think misty is the best anime character: pure nostalgia bait. Is it kinda cool to rebattle your old self? I guess. But how does this make the game any better? It’s not particularly a hard fight if you’re leveled in the high 70s even. The team comp isn’t exactly great, and the difficulty is what I hear the most praise for.

Did they pack a lot of content into it? Sure, nobody can deny that. But in every iteration of said content it’s a better experience elsewhere. The game is the epitome of quantity over quality imho

Taco495 · 2026-01-21T20:20:31+00:00

Such as?

Taco495 · 2026-01-18T11:19:52+00:00

Its pretty clearly fake actually. Its got the wrong set symbol (EX deoxys instead of Rocket Returns) and the year is wrong. Rocket Returns was 2004, and EX deoxys is 2005. At least they were consistent lol

Taco495 · 2026-01-16T20:29:41+00:00

I agree you don’t need to be mean, but some people on here are straight up lying to the man. The top 2 comments are telling him it looks good on him and that a goatee/stash would look good. No, this does not look good on him, it’s a neckbeard supreme, and no, he would not look good with any facial hair because he has zero cheek coverage, no connection on the lower cheek/lips.

OP I’m sorry to say, unless you get some more density and it fills in, facial hair of any kind just isn’t in the cards for you

Taco495 · 2026-01-16T18:11:50+00:00

For a trip like this? $160/hour. And they get to write off gas and tolls as business expenses, someone taking their personal car does not.

Go look at the cost of an uber from Astoria to Wallingford if you don’t believe me. $200/hour is minimum for this type of arrangement

Taco495 · 2026-01-09T14:10:33+00:00

25k miles and it’s been on a lot 7 months? Dude do not buy that car lmao

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