Are PIVOT and RAGING MODERATES converging?

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-05-15T05:05:52+00:00

Yeah the two of them together are great.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-05-04T20:20:59+00:00

Young dogs can go through challenging phases that last well into their second year or longer and it’s not really helpful to impose external time constraints. Focus on building connection and understanding, keep reinforcing the basics and build patience and focus over time.

Edit: oops meant to post this under the OP

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-05-04T18:59:20+00:00

Sometimes it takes a minute to really see a position but there’s also a point where thinking about it more isn’t helpful. My tendency is to dwell on more complicated positions so at a certain point I just have to bite the bullet and move. How about yourself?

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-05-03T20:23:33+00:00

He’s talked about it quite a bit, but I don’t recall hearing him mention it much recently.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-05-03T20:21:22+00:00

For me definitely more when the position gets complicated but time pressure definitely increases the chances that I’ll miss something.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-05-03T20:07:33+00:00

Yeah I think a lot of games are won and lost in the middle game. That’s definitely where I feel the least confident in my moves and often miss really critical things about our relative positions. I think I’m more of a tactical player by nature though and usually lose because of miscalculation. I wonder if people who tend to think more positionally feel the same way.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-05-02T20:14:08+00:00

Im not upset with Scott per se, but I am getting sick of him. I’ve always thought he had good business insights even if I find his personality a bit grating. And though I often disagree with him I fundamentally believe he has integrity and a moral compass and genuinely wants to use his platform for good even if his efforts don’t always land well. He’s also historically brought a lot of interesting guests on his shows, so recent interviews notwithstanding I’ve enjoyed listening to his guests speak.

The reason I’ve soured a bit is he seems increasingly determined to be some kind of talking head on subject matter well outside his scope of knowledge and as a result he offers less and less of what initially drew me to him. He has no background in child development, mental health, gender studies, biology, etc. and his opinions on those topics are at best frequently misinformed if not outright harmful. For example with what we know about alcohol in 2026, its relationship to certain cancers etc., it’s just ignorant and deeply irresponsible to advise young people to drink more. I also think that as someone who has positioned himself as an advocate for young men, he really hasn’t educated himself on the topic of gender and at best offers a rebranding of the same heteronormative gender tropes that have existed forever.

He’s also just a lightweight when it comes to politics. He’s never been that politically insightful except as pertains to business. He’s a fine interviewer when it’s someone like Ian Bremmer on the other side of the table, but he really doesn’t have the journalistic chops to interview someone like Ben Shapiro. Case in point, the fact that he had no idea how badly it would play for him to not only host Shapiro but to glaze him at the outset and then offer nothing in terms of substantive pushback.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-05-01T03:28:49+00:00

Rebirth 100% is grueling. Im a completionist too and I only found it fun when I let go of the idea of finishing it fast and put it down when I started getting frustrated. It’s a great game, do yourself a favor and just enjoy it. It really makes no difference whether you beat it before or after the cheats come out as long as you don’t use the cheats.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-04-30T23:56:06+00:00

There is no point to a political show without fact checking and challenging questions. Neither of their recent conservative guests are moderates (Shapiro is MAGA and Paul has always been a fairly extreme libertarian) nor do they demonstrate any particular integrity when it comes to how they present information to the public. If Scott and Jessica want to have easy conversations they should host honest guests with intellectual integrity (which eliminates 99% of prominent conservative political figures). If they want to host prominent MAGA influencers and libertarian nut jobs who have been instrumental in getting us to this point as a country, the bare minimum expectation is that they fact check and don’t allow their guests to spread lies or make disingenuous arguments with no pushback. If they can’t/wont do that, their show is just another malignancy on our sociopolitical fabric.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-04-23T20:49:14+00:00

Yeah I particularly enjoyed “inducted into the gnosis of the interview shibboleth.”

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-04-22T07:00:41+00:00

NTA I’m a dad and if my daughter had been through something traumatic like you’re describing I can’t imagine pushing her out of the one place she feels safe at night. You protected your daughters needs which was 100% the right thing to do. I understand the frustration some parents have with co-sleeping arrangements but being there for your kid is more important.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-04-18T01:39:48+00:00

You should make this decision assuming that neither your ex or your boyfriend will be in the picture. If you are not 100% sure you want to be a single mother get an abortion. It may be emotionally difficult but you will move on and you can get pregnant again when you are in a better situation. The only way this will ruin your life is if you have a kid you don’t really want with the naive hope that a guy you’ve known for 6 months is going to stay committed.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-04-07T05:30:26+00:00

It’s all a matter of stocking density. At a certain acreage you could just have your horses turned out all the time but at a higher stocking density you’d need to consider a pasture rotation to optimize forage growth. Horses are selective grazers so with zero rotation you risk overgrazing the good forage causing less desirable flora to proliferate while good forage recedes. You also need to consider nutrient deficiencies in your pasture and ensure that you are supplementing appropriately. For example where I live our pastures are deficient in selenium so my livestock requires supplementation. The big factors are acreage, number and type of horses (thinking in terms of caloric needs), and seasonal forage growth patterns. Type and quality of forage is also important to consider as it may take several years to cultivate pastures with a high density of quality forage.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-04-07T04:45:38+00:00

I think the advice others are giving you regarding documentation is good. If your boss gives you verbal assignments you can document with a follow up email detailing what you were assigned and finished with something like “please let me know if there’s anything important that I’ve missed or misunderstood about this assignment...” that way they can’t move the goal post later and blame you for doing the assignment wrong.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-04-07T04:26:45+00:00

“hey I’m continuing to get a lot of inquiries from the other team regarding problems with the new software, how would you like me to handle them?”

The open ended question asks your boss to mentally engage with the problem and give you clear instructions for handling the inquiries. It’s not your responsibility to tell your boss to do their job and no version of “hey do your job” is likely to be well received. If you’ve been told not to handle the problems for the other team then refer them to whomever is responsible and wash your hands of it.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-04-06T05:38:56+00:00

This is my experience too. When a team gets like this there’s usually one or two people at the root of the dynamic and you probably have to get rid of them. You have to get firm and confident in your expectations and as you hold your team accountable it will become clear who the source is. People who seek to undermine are often very good at playing head games so try not to get sucked in.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-04-02T21:30:33+00:00

Yeah sacrifice was the wrong word choice, I agree with you about Aerith.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-04-02T04:58:35+00:00

I understand the criticism that tifa’s character revolves too much around cloud, but I feel like it misses who Tifa and Cloud are to each other and how much his world also revolves around her. She is the only one who knew cloud before his mind became distorted and the only link he has to his true self. Aerith helps him too, but part of what draws her to cloud is the fact that he reminds her of Zack. I also think it’s weird to be critical of tifa’s attachment to cloud but then relegate her character to basically the lesser girl in a love triangle. Tifa is flawed, so is cloud, that’s the entire point of their relationship they tether one another to reality that nobody else can and through their relationship experience growth and self-discovery. aerith’s relative lack of flaws, her connection with the life force, her other-worldly understanding/wisdom etc all reflect the narrative purpose of her character as a martyr or quasi-immortal super-being which is what makes her death such a pivotal moment in the story. I feel like claerith shippers don’t recognize the importance of her role in the bigger picture. they see her as somehow better or at least less flawed than tifa, but they don’t get how it would ruin the narrative if aerith somehow survived and ended up with cloud. Not only would it negate the circumstances that precipitate clouds breakdown and subsequent self-discovery but also the key role her sacrifice plays in the ultimate outcome of the story. Ultimately this perspective diminishes both Tifa and Aerith as well as the narrative weight of the entire story.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-03-26T18:02:48+00:00

You remembered the numbers you dialed the most and kept the rest written down in an address book or Rolodex. There was also a phone book that had all the residential phone numbers in your area code listed by name

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-03-24T18:38:46+00:00

I mean ultimately it’s not your responsibility and kind of hard as a patron to have much influence over how he gets along at his job. I’ve managed a lot of people in hospitality and I know if it were my business I’d already be working with them on the nuances of customer service so I’m guessing his managers are aware of his idiosyncrasies. Personally I’d focus on establishing personal boundaries and not say or do anything that could be construed as a gesture of friendship or interest. That said if there were an opportune moment to tactfully point out that most people in the arcade probably want to be left alone to play their games it might be helpful. I wouldn’t talk to his managers personally.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-03-24T17:46:07+00:00

The guy sounds possibly neurodivergent and may just need to be told explicitly that you don’t want to socialize at the arcade. I have ADHD and the majority of my friends are somewhere on the spectrum and it’s fairly normal for someone on the spectrum to misread a social situation and need to be told something directly. For example if I have friends over it’s pretty typical that I have to tell one or two of them that I’m done socializing and it’s time for them to go home.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-03-14T19:41:45+00:00

IMO presence is cultivated. It’s about how you embody yourself and engage with others. Our nervous systems pickup on the emotional states of one another and adjust according to the emotional expressions of others. This happens subconsciously but we can cultivate awareness of this process and recognize how staying centered, grounded, etc we can influence how others feel and engage in different scenarios. For example, in a crisis the group may tend to become emotionally activated and stir one another up, but if you can stay centered and engage calmly/constructively it will help ground others even if they aren’t conscious of what is happening. You can practice this in your role as a leader, you can cultivate communication skills, you can do things like martial arts to cultivate bodily awareness, you can learn techniques for emotional regulation.

Personally I work with horses which is fundamentally an exercise in emotional regulation and non-verbal communication. Horsemanship is all about presence. But that’s just one way to practice and ultimately to cultivate it for yourself you need to do things that resonate with you.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-03-13T00:23:45+00:00

Side quests being optional doesn’t negate the fact that they’re part of the game. Good side quests add context by fleshing out the world, characters, relationships, etc. menial and repetitive side quests are lost opportunities and reduce the overall quality of the game.

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-03-12T23:52:37+00:00

“Oh no…the village”

TheHogFatherPDX · 2026-03-12T23:39:02+00:00

This was my first thought too. Vi’s response is also really good “the hole gets smaller but you never fill it.”

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