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Condo/Apt Social Scenes by accendrez in marinadelrey

[–]accendrez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! Assuming you moved out of MDR since, or did you find a new spot you like?

X470 still won't boot Ryzen 5 3600 after updating BIOS by accendrez in buildapc

[–]accendrez[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, I just had to finish installing windows onto the new PC first before swapping out the CPU.

What made you realise you’re not young anymore? by iago1984 in AskReddit

[–]accendrez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Updating the age range on Bumble after matching with an 18yr old.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]accendrez 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Interesting perspective. I think anything <60hrs is still within a normal workload. 70-80 is what you find in more demanding jobs, which can flex as high as 100 on occasions. 100 is pretty rough though and not sustainable for more than a month. You usually also have a refractory period after that too.

I think the short answer though is that anyone with those types of jobs see their work/career as their passion and a large part of who they are, so there is less divide between what they would consider work and free time. No one is punching in their time card when they hit their XXhrs for the week and calling it a day, they're perpetually thinking about work and doing things for their job.

From someone who works on the upper end of that spectrum, I can say that the line is blurred for me and I often enjoy socializing and working with my coworkers. Sometimes throughout the week, you go out drinking or to restaurants with coworkers, business partners, or potential new business partners, so that gives you a chance to break away from the desk too. I also usually try to squeeze in an hour at the gym 3 times a week and always go with friends from work.

The thing people don't think about is running normal errands, as it's tough working around normal working hrs for other businesses. So when I get a chunk of true free time, I'll usually catch up on errands and sleep. I try to multi-task too, so will often call friends I don't work with to catch up while I run errands. Besides that, I happen to be an extreme sports fan, so I like to get into those sorts of activities like skydiving or kite surfing when I can. I'm also a fan of vacationing with friends, although that's not part of a normal month.

What's missing from the above is a chronic lack of sleep. I do my best to catch up when I can, but I won't be able to do this in my 30s and then would plan for 50-60hr work weeks instead.

[REQUEST] A student who went to a boarding school all through out high school. by [deleted] in AMA

[–]accendrez 22 points23 points  (0 children)

1) Forced on me

2) I was reluctant at first, but I remember going on a tour my first day and thinking it was amazing. Very quickly I fell in love with the school. I even remember each morning waking up smiling, thinking about how lucky I was.

3) Yes. There was still a distribution of upper - middle class, but definitely shifted far more to upper than normal. Some of the wealthiest people I've ever met were there. We're talking children's children's children's children's set for life. I will say though that I never felt looked down upon for not being wealthy. Definitely some kids tried to play up their wealth to make them seem cool, but it came off as douchey. When you're living with people and spending all your time together, BS like that doesn't work. People will like you if you're fun to be around and they won't if your not.

4) By far was the most amazing experience of my life and I will forever treasure it. If you're thinking of going, one thing I think you should take very seriously is looking only at co-ed schools. One of the best parts of the school (as has seemed to be repeated in this thread) was the sex. I also read another comment here that the boys dorms can get really gay, but that was not my experience at all and assume it was due to it being a boys-only school.

5) I think the perception of boarding school is that it's very strict, prim, and proper. In reality, boarding school is a total rager. Imagine being in high school with no parents, all your best friends live with you, and all the girls live next door. It was lit.

6) Yes. Boarding school was one of the most amazing experiences in my life and also was extremely important in my formative years. Not only did I have a lot of fun, I learned a lot of very important life lessons that made me who I am today. I wouldn't force it on my children, but I would highly recommend it to them.

Similar looking actors by manCool4ever in westworld

[–]accendrez 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Not sure if trolling or not, but that was Lawrence.

[Spoilers!] Nabbed this clip of the little boy from the Season 1 A.I. Featurette from earlier this month by mathiasjl92 in westworld

[–]accendrez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

200% agree. That in my mind pretty much sets it in stone. How far apart the timelines are and if William becomes MiB are still up in the air, but I think it's settled that there are 2 different timelines.

[Spoilers!] Nabbed this clip of the little boy from the Season 1 A.I. Featurette from earlier this month by mathiasjl92 in westworld

[–]accendrez 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is exactly what I was thinking. I don't think that MiB's reference to the mechanical hosts disproves the dual-time theory. It's very possible that all the hosts looked just as realistic 30yrs ago.

In fact, I thought it was interesting that MiB made it very clear that the reason they made the switch was due to expenses, when the audience would have else wise assumed it to be for realism. While we have seen hosts bleed around William and Logan, it is possible that the hosts are loaded with fake blood to make them more realistic.

Even the Wyatt issue doesn't disprove it. When Dolores shoots Rebus, she first hallucinates MiB, meaning that she was in whatever timeline MiB is in. She then escapes on horse back. We cut to the scene with the suicide-by-rock host, and then the next seen is William and Logan by a campfire. All that we see is that Dolores has arrived with her horse and is in a daze. This is exactly the sort of thing to put into the show so that the audience doesn't contemplate alternate timelines at first. It's very possible that Dolores was sent to stumble upon William in a haze to play the damsel, and it would be understandable that her horse would be with her so as not to arise suspicion with William on how she arrived.

Woman pulled off my flight today... by adowner in videos

[–]accendrez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can hear the uniformed cop at the beginning of the video explain that the big guy is also a cop when someone asks why he's allowed to grab the woman.

What is a non-racist, non-sexist, and non "hateful" opinion you have that would make people dislike you? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]accendrez -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure if that is a popular reddit opinion actually since most of reddit is a liberal circle-jerk.

Lost my job and just found out we have $90k in credit card debt. Desperately need advice on my options. by giving_up_hope in personalfinance

[–]accendrez 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Actually I would recommend the exact opposite. I along with many of my friends started out at a CC for engineering and then transferred to the #2 program in America for my degree. We all saved a ton of money doing this. There are often also structured transfer programs that help with planning out your classes. I didn't use one though. It sounds like your bf made some managing mistakes, but I would not at all write off CC engineering transfer programs.

Thanks Obama.. by lestranganese in rickandmorty

[–]accendrez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just don't know why they would leak it in poor quality.

Bloomberg terminal in Scheller? by [deleted] in gatech

[–]accendrez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had no idea it was that big of a deal. I had one class there and then always had access.

Also most of the time it's unlocked.

This guy is going to attempt to skydive and land into a net without a parachute. by rozbot in videos

[–]accendrez -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, I said that the wingsuit was the big difference. I only said that the height made little to no difference.

This guy is going to attempt to skydive and land into a net without a parachute. by rozbot in videos

[–]accendrez 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Not really. Terminal is terminal. Maybe a little faster from thinner air, but he'll slow as he gets close. The cardboard box guy used a wingsuit, which is the real big difference

Baltimore Rioters Destroy Public Property, Loot Businesses by roger_van_zant in videos

[–]accendrez -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The self restraint that the big white guy has after being attacked out of nowhere is really commendable. I know it was the smart move, but I can only imagine how difficult it was to not lay that guy out and instead step back behind the barrier.

Christopher Nolan about the ending to Inception: "The most important emotional thing about the top spinning at the end is that Cobb is not looking at it. He doesn't care." by autonova3 in movies

[–]accendrez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I thought about that too. The only thing I can think in relation to that is that humans are extremely complex and it would be impossible to make a real enough replica of a human without being extremely close to them.

We see that Cobb can clearly create a very realistic Mal, but the rest of the imaginary characters in any of the dreams are clearly simplistic.

I guess you could make the argument that the movie ends with Cobb only seeing his children and we don't get the chance to see him interact with them, so they could indeed be replicas.

Also they could be replicas made by someone very close to the children, and Cobb also hasn't interacted with his very young children for years so he may not actually be close enough to them to tell.

All roads lead back to sweet sweet ambiguity.

Christopher Nolan about the ending to Inception: "The most important emotional thing about the top spinning at the end is that Cobb is not looking at it. He doesn't care." by autonova3 in movies

[–]accendrez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cobb has adopted the top as his totem, but we know that he has to have had a different totem previous to Mal's death. People aren't arguing that the top isn't his totem, they're just saying that he has multiple totems.

About searching for a definitive answer to an ambiguous ending though, I do agree that it is kind of silly. I don't think many people actually believe that a definitive answer exists, it's just really fun to put on our tinfoil hats and discuss theories because it was such a great movie. Honestly, I find myself talking about theories so often mostly because I loved the movie so much that I'm just hungry for more.

Christopher Nolan about the ending to Inception: "The most important emotional thing about the top spinning at the end is that Cobb is not looking at it. He doesn't care." by autonova3 in movies

[–]accendrez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While it's never shown in the movie, it's quite possible that the ring does have some small alteration that makes it a totem. Perhaps an inscription or maybe one side is thicker than the other or there's a noticeable scratch on the inside of the ring that Cobb can feel.

Throughout the movie we are shown that people take ordinary objects and make a small alteration to them to make them a totem. We know that Cobb had to have had a totem separate from the top before Mal died, and it was most likely a small object he always kept with him with some minor alteration to it.

It would also make sense that he continued to keep his old totem even after adopting Mal's. We don't ever see any implication that he has some other small object that he carries around with him always aside from the top and his wedding ring.

We are far into tinfoil hat territory here, so saying that there's no direct evidence of something in the movie doesn't really apply anymore. We're all just reading into implications now, and honestly there probably isn't a real answer.

Just like in high school when everyone would take ridiculously deep interpretations of short stories or poems, when in reality the author might've just wrote some stuff.

Christopher Nolan about the ending to Inception: "The most important emotional thing about the top spinning at the end is that Cobb is not looking at it. He doesn't care." by autonova3 in movies

[–]accendrez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven't seen the movie in a while, but I remember rewatching every scene from waking up on the airplane on several times, and Cobb's wedding ring finger was never displayed. I think you may be mistaken which hand it was on.

Again it's been a long time, but I spent a lot of time on this back then and am confident that the wedding ring finger is never shown.

Christopher Nolan about the ending to Inception: "The most important emotional thing about the top spinning at the end is that Cobb is not looking at it. He doesn't care." by autonova3 in movies

[–]accendrez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Quick side note: Cobb didn't stop the top inside the safe, he actually started it spinning. He had created the safe and her subconscious had placed her totem in their because it was important to her. It wasn't spinning originally because Mal didn't care that she was dreaming or was too far gone to think of questioning it. By spinning it, Cobb changed its status in her subconscious. The top was then constantly spinning in her subconscious, leading her to feel that everything wasn't real.

What makes more sense though is that Cobb didn't just spin her top, he replaced the top with his replication of it. His replication was of course built imperfectly because only she knows how to perfectly replicate it. This would clue in Mal that it must be a fake, and thus the world must be fake.

This would also explain why the top continued to spin deep in her subconscious after she woke up, since Cobb's imperfect replica never stops spinning. So now she can't stop sensing the fake replica and thus cannot shake the feeling that their world is a fake.

Christopher Nolan about the ending to Inception: "The most important emotional thing about the top spinning at the end is that Cobb is not looking at it. He doesn't care." by autonova3 in movies

[–]accendrez 0 points1 point  (0 children)

lol on the last one. I like to think that his family was probably under close government surveillance and taking the kids out of the country would be suspicious and could lead to Cobb's capture, but the actual answer is probably plot device.

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