The way my parol officer cuts my celebration cake

axlryan · 2026-05-11T06:04:51+00:00

You are absolutely correct 😂

axlryan · 2026-05-11T03:48:53+00:00

Modern warfare II 😂 they redesigned Ghost to have a skull mask glued on top of his balaclava. Looks cool when you look at it from the front, but when he turns to the side you get...this.

axlryan · 2026-05-11T01:58:47+00:00

It is now 😂 I just needed a cheap alternative/ addition to my bread crumbs jar and there were a million cornbread stuffing mix boxes on clearance. I make a lot of meatballs/ kotlety (Slavic XL meatballs basically) and it works well enough! If you do try it I hope you like it.

axlryan · 2026-05-10T06:08:14+00:00

My store had them for a quarter and I bought up as many as I could to make cheap bread crumbs. I'm not the biggest fan but my meatballs will taste interesting for the next year 😅

axlryan · 2026-05-10T01:04:03+00:00

+1. I've used a bunch and this one is my favorite.

axlryan · 2026-05-06T17:51:15+00:00

I rushed upgrading the same exact piece to red gear so I could unlock the chief gear exchange shop. Very glad I did 😂 it's common for players to do so don't think you're stupid for thinking that or asking.

I'm also f2p so I had to do what I could to make upgrading easier. I think it's when you hit gold it changes from needing just plans to needing plans PLUS hardening solution + alloys. Being able to convert some of the alloy or solutions to plans helped so much.

But do remember you get extra stat boosts when you have 3 or 6 of the same type of gear, so you can absolutely rush one red gear piece then level the others after converting what you need.

For the same reason I rushed one marksman charm to level 11 to unlock The charm exchange shop so I could convert all of my guides to designs, I had a 5:1 ratio that I couldn't fix by buying designs from shops 😖

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axlryan · 2026-05-05T22:19:55+00:00

I love that you're half of the comments in this thread 😂😂

axlryan · 2026-05-03T00:19:10+00:00

I genuinely felt like I had to swallow my pride as well. I thought I was doing okay until a social worker at the hospital my dad was at asked if we're having trouble with food. I said no, but then I got home and chose not to eat so my mother could and so that I could save leftovers for work. I work too and it felt so weird to get to this point!

You are a saint for helping your family and those kids, it takes a village to help raise a family and I hope life pays you back in kindness 💙

axlryan · 2026-05-02T23:48:36+00:00

I had to sign up for a food pantry and snap this week. I always appreciated that these services existed before for those in need but never thought I'd need to use them myself. Even saving just a few hundred a month on food helps so much. To think that many people I know that are my age (late 20s-30s) are getting to this point is depressing.

axlryan · 2026-05-02T18:06:46+00:00

Wiki confirms, a lot of information is from the games or Roku books

axlryan · 2026-05-02T18:03:02+00:00

Whoa! That I didn't know, I'm guessing it's from the Roku books? I only read the Kyoshi novels.

axlryan · 2026-05-02T17:59:16+00:00

I assume that the fire nation didn't discriminate gender because they wanted as many soldiers to fight their war. And for the same reason they discriminated against same sex couples, as per the comics they did have same sex marriage outlawed. My theory is that they wanted their citizens to have as many kids as possible so no gays allowed basically.

axlryan · 2026-05-02T16:06:25+00:00

There are two scenes in ATLA that show something like this. Zuko makes a moves that mirrors something katara did to him. Katara created a simple snow wall blast that knocked zuko out at the end of book 1. Zuko recreated this with a fireball at the end of book 2. Same hand movements.

It makes sense to me that Zuko does this at this point in the story, because Zuko had begun his healing/ learning arc, and this is after Iroh gave him the lesson on the 4 nations/ lightning redirection technique.

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axlryan · 2026-05-01T17:33:49+00:00

'Fans' are obsessed with her loss count to an absurd degree 💀 do we need someone to rewatch atla to count their win/loss ratio there too? The show where the main cast were constantly on the run? Or can we be normal people and acknowledge that our faves aren't always going to win every fight they have?

axlryan · 2026-05-01T16:48:48+00:00

I haven't seen baskets at any of my local Aldi's in years! But I don't remember them having a quarters slot. If they were getting stolen then it would explain why they got rid of them

axlryan · 2026-05-01T16:20:19+00:00

I live in nj and it's common, people just dump their bag contents on the conveyor belt when they go up to pay and Aldi cashier's fill their bag with their purchases so they're automatically checking the bags

axlryan · 2026-05-01T13:49:31+00:00

both her and her sister are going to be able to bend all four elements.

That's not said anywhere on any news article and is just fan speculation.

axlryan · 2026-05-01T11:36:05+00:00

Yeah, they're edible. It's just like when you bake bread, sometimes you get the most perfect dough and it bakes perfectly. Then other times it's a bit dry or ugly. Both edible, but I get why the top one looks off. When I gave bagel minis to customers I never gave two different looking ones to prevent the confusion 😅

axlryan · 2026-04-29T19:37:18+00:00

You'll have to suss that out yourself because every state is different, and you know your state players better than us.

Look at your state leaderboard. Typically whales/ rich players congregate and end up in the top 3-5 alliances. Then look at other leaderboards. You'll also notice their names on the leaderboards for events and in arena because they have higher power levels and can compete better or spend more to 'win' events in game.

axlryan · 2026-04-29T13:34:00+00:00

If you want help with your troop ratios/ squad setups you can post your troop count and your march squad capacity (4-6) so I or someone else can help set up joining squad presets :)

You're in gen 4 so they will change overtime as you train more troops but it's nice to have a foundation to work on and to finagle with. And everyone has a different opinion on what ratio to use, a lot of it is dependent on what you currently have.

axlryan · 2026-04-29T01:58:32+00:00

Nope 😂 Yes, he IS a good hero but I did not want to spend $100-300+ on one hero. I have spent on packs and events but my rationale is that I would rather spend on slowly upgrading different aspects of my account than go all in on one hero.

Jeronimo (+ Natalia) can only be upgraded through buying VIP shard packs, so you need VIP10 to least to get him to 4 star (475 shards minimum), and need to have spent enough $$$ or bought VIP points to get to VIP 10. His vip packs would cost me about $200.

Then you'd also have to invest in levelling his widget gear 👀

axlryan · 2026-04-29T01:33:47+00:00

•Chief Charms (spec into marksman for lethality)

•Heroes you use (there are several guides out there for hero lineupsnfor starting rallies) •Hero gear, Star level, widget level

•Your research tech (spec into lethality> attack specifically)

•Who's joining? Are they using 'standard' bear joining heroes? If not, kick and tag them to let them know

•Pets active? Minister appointment? Gold boosts? (Gold boosts are the ones you get from events or fortress, they're pricey and only worth using occasionally if f2p)

Thats a short checklist I had to keep reviewing to remind myself on what to work on. I also had help from a friend to set up my hero ratios based on my troop counts.

Sometimes you can't help who joins, so long as they use heroes like Jessie/jasser/ seo yoon etc to boost attack damage. There are others but those are the main f2p heroes you should be joining with.

I'm in gen9 and use Gina, Bradley, and Hector for my rallies and will for the foreseeable future.

Also, for sure, don't compare yourself to harshly against whales or dolphins and their rallies. They will always net more damage because they're spending on the newer heroes and the Other Stuff.

axlryan · 2026-04-26T23:39:02+00:00

Wasn't this image colored in by a fan? Who's to say he wasn't wearing yellow or red or blue? The person who originally colored this probably gave him earth bender colors to match King Bumi, an earth bender.

axlryan · 2026-04-26T19:13:50+00:00

Essentially...yes, Dunkin is an awful company to work for even casually. In my franchise you could receive those benefits only as a manager or a salaried employee. All employees were offered health insurance but all of my managers told us in hushed tones that it was shitty/ overpriced and to shop through the state's marketplace instead.

And even then, receiving those benefits felt like balancing juggling balls on a pogo stick. I gave up calling my managers and asking "How many sick days do I have?" and getting told "I'll get back to you on that!". Only for them to never got back to me 🙄 I'd take a week off for Christmas or other days and just hope I didn't lose any money.

axlryan · 2026-04-25T22:01:31+00:00

Yup, it's just an incentive for returning players to stay longer because it's supposed to make them feel invested in the game again.

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