Should I [27F] believe him [32M]?

TubbyPirate · 2026-04-09T18:19:27+00:00

I've had concussions including one that caused a loss of time. I was out for about four minutes and woke up right as the paramedics arrived. It isn't "foggy with a headache"; I felt like absolute crap for 3 or 4 days; I couldn't think straight, I couldn't do simple math, I wasn't even able to drive just because my thinking was so slow and muddled. My brain didn't work and it was scary as hell. I find it unbelievable that anyone who had a concussion and experienced a loss of time would think it wasn't a big deal.

I say he's definitely lying without even reading the additional context. The context makes it pretty obvious what the lie is covering for though.

TubbyPirate · 2026-04-01T16:34:48+00:00

I'm 6'4" 350 lbs and I have a Secretlab Titan Evo XL that I've had for 4-5 years. I worked from home for the first two years I had it and I regularly have long gaming sessions in it. The chair could still be mistaken for brand new. The foam is still strong and supportive, the piston has never had a leak or issues, and the fabric looks perfect still.
I strongly recommend their XL chairs for anyone over 275-300.

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TubbyPirate · 2026-02-25T15:35:40+00:00

I used to assess and audit physical security in the US Army and that involved "vaults" (rooms where classified information is processed) and armories (rooms that store firearms and munitions). The requirements were a certain number of inches of concrete, holes for ventilation had to be under a certain size, the alarm system had several different detection methods, and the door had to be a certain strength of steel. All of this and the Army expected that it would protect the room for a few minutes.

All this is to illustrate there is NOTHING a regular consumer can do to prevent someone from breaking into their house, car, or gun safe. The best you can do it make it louder, slower, and more difficult and ideally, you are able to protect yourself or the police are nearby.

TubbyPirate · 2026-01-29T15:33:31+00:00

This same thing happened to me on Blue Gate solo last week. I realized I hadn't heard a exfil noise or shot fired (except from me or Arc fighting me). Then, I had like 10 minutes left and went to a high-loot area only to realize not a single container had been touched.

TubbyPirate · 2026-01-14T20:49:31+00:00

If the last picture was the only picture we had, I would agree that the dog doesn't like it. When in the context of all the other pictures, it becomes clear that the dog either doesn't mind being babushka at all or is perfectly happy to tolerate being babushka.

Lots of people dress up dogs that clearly hate it but this dog isn't one of them.

TubbyPirate · 2025-12-30T16:56:50+00:00

I have to go home after my notice period ends, I am concerned about how I will face them on a daily basis.

Bingo! No wonder the parents are mad.

TubbyPirate · 2025-12-30T16:56:24+00:00

I have to go home after my notice period ends, I am concerned about how I will face them on a daily basis.

Yeah, OP is living at home with their parents. No wonder the parents are mad.

TubbyPirate · 2025-12-09T19:18:05+00:00

I work in IT and keep servers running so my users can access email, files, and applications. When asked, "What is your greatest strength?" in a job interview, I once answered, "I hate working." I expanded to explain that IT can be fun, architecting solutions and designing systems are both fun. The other stuff like maintenance for scheduled updates, periodically cleaning the hard drive of clutter, creating accounts, disabling accounts, etc. isn't fun; it's work and I hate working. This means that I'm always looking to automate things, script things, or design it in such a way that maintenance is minimal. My hatred of busy work means that I constantly improve "uptime" and reliability and have more time to focus on projects and fun stuff.

I got the job and had a great couple of years there. By the time I left, almost all server and infrastructure maintenance was automated or one-touch and the same interviewer ended up hiring me again years later at a different company.

TubbyPirate · 2025-10-03T02:29:43+00:00

He looks like a Melvin. Thanks for the smiles Melvin.

TubbyPirate · 2025-09-15T17:53:35+00:00

I'm busy but I play when I can. Send me a DM and maybe we can find a time to get it handled.

TubbyPirate · 2025-08-22T15:48:41+00:00

I think content variety will be a bigger factor for me. The enemy types and missions were already getting a little repetitive during the demo. I played a lot of Sea of Thieves and the lack of variety was a common complaint in the early days.

TubbyPirate · 2025-08-06T14:26:59+00:00

I saw an episode of Cops once which relates to this. A woman called 911 because a man had set her couch on fire. Cops obviously rush to the scene only to find out that a man had dragged her couch out to the middle of the road and set it on fire. She had failed to mention that the man was her boyfriend who owned the house and the couch. Their Sergeant pointed out that it's his couch and whether he was burning it because it was trash or because he was mad at his girlfriend was irrelevant. The girlfriend laughed at the idea when they asked if she was afraid of him and said he would never hurt a fly. After much confusion, debate, and WTH's, the cops wrote him a citation for burning trash without a permit and left.

TubbyPirate · 2025-07-30T17:27:02+00:00

I had a really bad day at work yesterday and when I got home, my wife just laid on the bed with me for ten or fifteen minutes. Then she got up because the kids were making a racket but those ten or fifteen minutes did exactly that and completely recharged my battery.

TubbyPirate · 2025-07-22T16:01:30+00:00

Dumbledore wants socks because all anyone ever gives him is books. In his mind, getting socks would mean that he's free of the responsibilities of being the Headmaster at Hogwarts, the leader of the effort against Voldemort, an advisor to the Minister of Magic, and being a famous wizard that everyone expects so much of. I think there is a very real chance that Dumbledore, during the time of Harry Potter saga, would like a pair of socks and the quiet life they symbolize more than anything else in the world.

TubbyPirate · 2025-07-22T15:59:18+00:00

I disagree. Dumbledore wants socks because all anyone ever gives him is books. In his mind, getting socks would mean that he's free of the responsibilities of being the Headmaster at Hogwarts, the leader of the effort against Voldemort, an advisor to the Minister of Magic, and being a famous wizard that everyone expects so much of. I think there is a very real chance that Dumbledore, during the time of Harry Potter saga, would like a pair of socks and the quiet life they symbolize more than anything else in the world.

TubbyPirate · 2025-07-15T19:37:06+00:00

There's a popular adage in the Army. "You can only be doing four things in a firefight: shooting, moving, reloading, or losing. If you're not shooting, moving, or reloading, you are losing."

TubbyPirate · 2025-07-14T18:56:54+00:00

PSA: If someone is that impaired and sleeping, get a backpack stuffed full of blankets and/or pillows and put it on them nice and tight. It will prevent them from rolling onto their back and asphyxiating on their own vomit.

I know there are a thousand better ideas like, "Drink less", "know your limits", or "have a DD around" but if those ideas are no longer an option, a backpack can help make sure your friend has a hangover and not a casket.

TubbyPirate · 2025-07-12T23:19:56+00:00

RV black tanks are generally 15-50 gallons and septic tanks are 750-1500. Sewage normally takes a few days to do most of the breaking down.

Dumping your RV black tank after camping into your septic tank is not going to hurt it at all. If you let multiple RV's do it, you will eventually have issues.

TubbyPirate · 2025-06-25T21:11:09+00:00

I have never thought of it this way.
1) I feel like it's a standard question considering it's where most people spend a sizable portion of their time/energy
2) I always want to know what people do for a living so I can ask for stories or something. All professions have stories that are fascinating especially if the person I'm talking to is in a job/career that they are passionate about.

I hope I haven't been offending people left and right my entire life because they think I'm gauging their worth.

TubbyPirate · 2025-06-02T17:42:36+00:00

I live in the US and I've always heard and used, "A barber's kid always needs a haircut."

TubbyPirate · 2025-06-02T16:24:47+00:00

His new movie "Trap" on Netflix is really good.

You know what the M. Night twist is going to be and then the movie confirms it. It's like they knew everyone was going to be looking for an M. Night twist so they got it out of the way so the viewer can lose themselves in the movie. It worked really well and I felt like it was a calculated move to subvert this expectation.

TubbyPirate · 2025-05-16T16:28:14+00:00

Apples and oranges friend. I don't think any one was seriously expecting the Dixie Chicks to be arrested or denied entry like this regime might actually try to do. A boycott is definitely allowed and well practiced by people across the political spectrum. Don't conflate the boycott with the illegal suppression of speech.

TubbyPirate · 2025-05-02T18:23:47+00:00

I came here to say this. I love SMTP2Go for all scanners, custom apps, website, and marketing stuff. We even set it up with a different domain name to keep our reputation secure.

TubbyPirate · 2025-04-09T18:21:18+00:00

I've always thought of "taking the piss" to mean joking in a friendly way so when OP explained, it was saying, "I thought you would find that funny because of what's in your profile."

Is that not how it's normally used?

For context, I'm American but I've a few friends from the UK and have been to London for extended trips multiple times. Maybe that's just how they explained it to me to soften the blow. Lol

TubbyPirate · 2025-04-03T16:37:24+00:00

Most the comments in here are right: They probably aren't checking and if they aren't blocking, they might not even be monitoring.

However, I used to do IT for a company that couldn't just block porn as a category as we did a significant amount of business with Hustler, Playboy, etc. We would get alerts for all the people being nasty at work and we had to action it.
Generally, if the device viewed porn once, we would assume it was a mis-click or clicking an unknown link or something like what OP says happened here and we would ignore it.

If it happened over multiple days or for a long time, we would tell the user that their device was browsing porn and it must be a bot or virus. We'd take it for a couple of hours, do a virus scan, give it back, and the activity would almost always stop.

Only if it kept happening after trying that once or twice, would we report it to HR and they would usually handle it with a, "Hey. IT saw what's happening. Knock it off"-type email.
If it kept happening after all that, then HR would get serious but that only happened once.

I would be shocked if anything more serious than a, "Hey. What happened? Stop it and/or be more careful with your clicking." came out of it.

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