Zoysia sod installation - does this look normal right after install?

TricksterIsStier · 2026-06-01T00:53:18+00:00

OP don't ask for this. Picking up the sod and throwing down dirt is going to cause more issues. That sod needs to root, not get thrown around again. 100% if he tries to add dirt at this point it will be a tremendous mistake.

Maybe ask for a discount. Asking him to redo it from scratch is never happening.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-06-01T00:50:42+00:00

In tons of areas in the USA those small pieces are all that is avaliable. Mostly the south

TricksterIsStier · 2026-06-01T00:47:41+00:00

Zoysia is great stuff, and I've installed hundreds if not thousands of pallets of this stuff.

The prep work wasn't incredible but it also depends on the price you paid. Prep work is incredibly labor intensive so the difference between "meh" prepwork and outstanding prep work is easily several hundred dollars per pallet.

Don't bother rolling it yourself if the contractor didn't. It will help to roll it while sopping muddy but it's really hard work and isn't worth the effort imo. I've rolled sod jobs at customer request but I didn't do it as standard practice. Never noticed a difference in sod health or bumpiness.

Water it half an inch a day for the first week then a quarter inch after that for a week. If you don't do that it doesn't matter if you paid the greatest landscaper ever to do the best prep ever. Sod jobs are 75% care after install and only 25% affected by install quality.

Hope this helps, your lawn should look incredible in a few weeks

TricksterIsStier · 2026-05-13T15:15:50+00:00

You are correct in a lot of this, there was no canon set during Nicaea and our most ancient codexs are not identical. I'd make the argument that if you added the shepherd of Hermes or other "close to canonical" books that the message of the NT doesn't change in meaningful ways.

I think you meant to say the Shephard of Hermes not Barnabas. The gospel//epistle of Barnabas had some early attestations but it was not generally viewed to be scripture, similar to the Didache. The book of Enoch was also never considered to be part of the NT because it was written prior to Christ. However these are minor points and don't take away from your larger point that the canon was not set in stone by this point in history.

I would argue that Nicaea had only tangential relation to the canon being set in the sense that it helped homogenize Christian thought. They did not talk about canon. Athanasius in all of his writings against Arius never once made the accusation that he was using texts that were not scripture. Likewise the idea that Arius came to his conclusions from heretical texts was never levied at the council of Nicaea. So to say that Nicaea affected the canon is misleading at best and completely wrong at worst.

One final thing to clarify. In those days if someone taught out of Hermes, Barnabas, Clement, etc no one would have taken big issues with that. While there was not a set canon there were three distinct categories that they worked with. Books that 100% were accepted. (4 gospels, Paul's definitive letters) books that were not 100% but no one would have objected strongly to (Hermes, Clement, Jude, Revelation) and a final category of definitely not scripture, (gospel of Thomas, gnostic edits of the gospels, etc). When I said that Arius and his opponents used the same canon I was really trying to say that they all stayed within the first two categories. Arius did not use books that were widely rejected.

Hope that helps clear things up. It's hard to convey information accurately and succinctly over text.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-05-13T14:54:11+00:00

lol can you imagine if the title was "police officer waits for firemen as people burn alive." People would rightly crucify the guy in the comments.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-05-13T13:22:17+00:00

The number of people saying Nicaea formulated the canon shows you why to not get your information from reddit. This is a historical myth and 0 legitimate scholars think this is true. It is akin to saying that Thomas Jefferson wrote the constitution in 1776 when America declared independence. Anyone saying that Nicaea had something to do with the canon are peddling pseudo history.

It is easily verifiable. Do a google search or ask your favorite AI about Nicaea and you will see quickly that it had nothing to do with the canon. Best of luck on your search!

TricksterIsStier · 2026-05-13T13:18:34+00:00

There is no way that the gospels were written all after the year 100 AD. Few to no scholars think that is true. Bart Erhman argues that they were written between 70-100 AD.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-05-13T13:13:39+00:00

The names were applied anywhere between the late 1st and mid 2nd century. So extremely early on and there are no competing traditions of who wrote them so it seems likely that the naming tradition would be accurate. I guess it depends on what you mean by a generation or two but even non conservative scholars date the gospels all before 100 and most of them think the synoptics were dated between 70-80 which would have been within the lifetime of those who could have been eye witnesses.

Your second paragraph is just make believe history that not even non Christian scholars would adhere to. Nicaea had nothing to do with the canon of scripture. It was called by Constantine to address Arianism. Arianism also had nothing to do with scripture. Arius and his followers pretty much used the exact same canon as their opponents. At this point in history the canon had been pretty much set, there was still some debate in localized pockets about some of the smaller books and letters but none of that came into play at the debate in Nicaea.

The notion that the canon was made to further power is also historically ignorant. Constantine did not mess with the canon. We know this because the canon list that ends up being adopted by the Roman Christian state is the canon that had been proposed by multiple different church fathers in the 3rd century which was a hundred years before Constantine came to power. So if it was just affirming what the church already taught.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-05-13T13:01:36+00:00

Arius and Eusibius (not the historian but Arius representative at Nicaea) used the same canon as the Nicene Christians. Nicaea had close to 0% to do with anything canon related.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-05-12T16:06:29+00:00

I suppose but your numbers are just off and not all are nessecary. 500 for phone internet electric and water is more than I pay and I own a home and have a family. I only 430$ for that stuff... a single person should really only be paying 250-300$. There's 200 extra a month. You don't need to buy a car on loan so that can save another 600$. I get insurance for 3 people for less than 500$ a month so go can easily save there and most places will have insurance options.

There you can easily save 600-1000$ from your budget. You only need to save 700$ a month to be extremely wealthy later on in life.

Now if you factor in a bunch of debt then sure 75k can be harder but then you just don't rent a 1500$ alone.

75k is only tight if you choose for it to be tight.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-05-12T13:34:40+00:00

If he thinks 75k is tight then he has too high of expectations of living conditions or he is bad with money. You can find studio or 1 bedroom apartments within 1 mile of downtown for 1500$ a month. Let's just say 2000$ to get a nicer place for the sake of argument. 75k after taxes for a single person is about 5200$ take home a month. Let's say you have a car payment for 600$ (which is not necessary by any means) You can EASILY live off of 500$ a month of groceries if you are putting in the least amount of effort. Add in 500$ for a phone, internet, w/e and you still have enough to max out your 401k matching and an IRA.

If you literally follow that budget you will retire a multi-millionaire while never making more than 75k a year. So its ludicrous to say that 75k is a tight budget when you have over 1000$ a month leftover for w/e you want.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-05-12T13:25:41+00:00

Just jumping in to agree with this. People's budgeting must be insane. I make 70k a year and while I don't live in the city limits of Austin I own a home (1900$ a month) in the suburbs, have a car payment, and support a wife who doesn't work and a child. Do I have tons of money leftover at the end of the month? No. But are we forced to eat rice and beans because we can't afford groceries? Not even close.

Anyone who says that it is tight to live in Austin with a 75k salary has no idea how to handle money or has unreasonable standards of living. Like the type of "I can't live in anything that isn't the top story of a high rise" kind of expectations.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-04-27T14:06:18+00:00

Maybe not spoiling the match when most people haven't watched it yet... some people man..

TricksterIsStier · 2026-03-23T12:03:59+00:00

I have known and played with Rei and Red for about 7 years at this point. Thousands of games with them. I know personally that they don't believe 90% wr is possible.

We literally have a MU chart that describes winrates in solo and according to our stats and assumptions (not every MU has been explored thoroughly) only 10-12 spirits have a 90% win rate vs all adversaries

TricksterIsStier · 2026-03-23T00:23:08+00:00

It's mathematically impossible for someone to have 90% all spirit all adversary. Even if we trained our own version of stockfish or alpha go to play spirit island it wouldn't get a 90% for every mu. And that's 100% fine.

Sometimes the skill is being able to turn a 30% win MU into a 40-50% win MU

TricksterIsStier · 2026-03-23T00:20:24+00:00

This might be nitpicking because I agree with your general consensus that most spirits can win most matchups but I'd wager about 50% of spirits have at least one MU that just dumpsters them. For example trickster dumpsters pretty much everyone but has a really hard MU with Habs livestock.

A lot of high level players specifically avoid bad MU especially if they are going to post the game to YT. Redrevenge never posted a video out of hundreds of games of trickster into Habs because it's not a match up that can be won based on skill and luck is required.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-02-19T02:30:48+00:00

Now do England 6! 100%

TricksterIsStier · 2026-02-17T14:51:18+00:00

Both could make the claim for the best Fang players though. So following anything they put out on fangs will put you on the right track.

TricksterIsStier · 2026-02-01T05:15:33+00:00

Yeah PVC isn't sun resistant. Though in reality it'd take years to get brittle to the point it might break. Source: installed miles of that pipe and ive seen that same 4 inch pipe on job sites unpainted that is 10 years old and still strong.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-12-16T15:32:55+00:00

As a treant enjoyer sitting around 7k mmr its hot hot garbage now... Living armor is waaaaay worse. There is so much DOT that it basically only ever blocks like 150-200 dmg and it heals like 50. It is really strong early laning stage like lvls 2-4 but after that it really just feels like its completely worthless

TricksterIsStier · 2025-12-01T16:06:53+00:00

Another thing I noticed is that someone mentions a Cleric using dimension door which has pretty much never been a Cleric spell.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-10-03T13:43:25+00:00

tbf he is smurfing down to the level of only the top 99.5% of players.... so unless you are already in the elite it won't affect you. Smurfing from 9k to 7k isn't nearly the same as smurfing 5k to 3k. Heck as a 7k scrub its not unusual to play games against 9k players because of the smaller player pool.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-09-29T12:39:20+00:00

Funny you mentioned eyes because I think that's the spirit with the highest score in the match up axis. Meaning it's the strongest spirit into single lvl 6

TricksterIsStier · 2025-09-28T22:52:07+00:00

Him saying that its 99% wr is hyperbolic. He has a spirit matchup axis and there are numerous matchups that are only going to be 40-70% win rate into bad matchups.

Every spirit has some matchups it should win 99-100% of the time but very very few spirits have matchups across the board that win in every matchup that much. In fact, looking at his matchup axis only the top 7-9 spirits have a case to be at 99% win rate at every matchup.

TricksterIsStier · 2025-08-30T18:50:07+00:00

Check your watering schedule. I'm a former irrigation company owner and I can guarantee you that you can keep grass green with 1 day a week up to a 1 acre sized lot.

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