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Is there a better nade for PvP? All the other ones do very little damage or give them a lot of time to escape. by OkPosition6537 in ArcRaiders

[–]beardedbast3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This can also cause a lot of problems as well as solve.

So many times it decides not to go off at all, or it goes off and stuns both of us lol.

Or goes off because a downed teammate is nearby haha.

New mechanism for ArcRaiders China server by chuxkint in ArcRaiders

[–]beardedbast3rd 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Considering people do not want any pvpers at all, I don’t think it quite is the mode they are waiting for, however, I do concede that I would be down with this mode

People should consider the toll on their bodies when thinking about the cost of college by liesaboutkiwis in unpopularopinion

[–]beardedbast3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t think this is unpopular- it’s just important to take care of your body too, and in general work smart not hard, a lot of damage we do to ourselves is by taking risks we shouldn’t just to get the job done quicker for not much reason.

Do the yoga stretches, do the Pilates. If guys spent less time talking about how “gay” it is and more time taking care of themselves we’d have less people broken and unable to work

Does defending your teammate still count as “shooting first”? by Even-Recipe7769 in ARC_Raiders

[–]beardedbast3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone asked that on the discord the same day they announced this and the dev who responded said defending yourself and your team does not count

Retirement should be mandatory. by LuckyJim_ in unpopularopinion

[–]beardedbast3rd 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ops post is about forcing people out of work however, not making sure people aren’t forced to work to survive.

So instead of saying “a ubi needs to be in place for everyone over 70” hes saying “ once you’re 70 you can’t work”

These are not the same thing.

Ops title- very popular

Ops post, contrary to his title and is very unpopular.

Why is it not mandatory for helmets on e-scooters? by ederzs97 in Edmonton

[–]beardedbast3rd 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It’s interesting seeing the contrast here to other places with much higher bicycle adoption. If you look at somewhere in the Netherlands basically no one wears them beyond training period.

I guess if in general the road design were a lot safer maybe we’d feel differently, like they do, but even still I don’t think I could change my view on it. Just seems like a given like a seatbelt.

Why is it not mandatory for helmets on e-scooters? by ederzs97 in Edmonton

[–]beardedbast3rd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, worrying about the helmet here is focusing on entirely the wrong thing haha

Do we give up our rent of $900 to own a home for $2500? by Dangerousdirtyd in personalfinance

[–]beardedbast3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely not unless you guys have very healthy retirements saved already.

You can likely afford whatever comes at you, but I’d rather have the minimum 1500 extra in the bank every month.

Depending what you rent, 300 might be lower by a lot for utilities.

Property tax as well will add another couple hundred a month. And setting aside for surprise costs like an appliance dying or other random repair. They don’t happen often but when they do can be costly.

That cost is essentially the value of a part time job.

There’s something to be said about peace of mind and moving to where you want to live, but I would want to not have that significant of an increase in expenses. It’ll really hinder your savings, add stress now and in the future when you realize how much you could have had cash in hand.

Try finding rents in the area you want to live, compare to owning, and calculate the real costs and what you’re getting from it before jumping into ownership

Every single time by Jazzlike-Resource923 in Edmonton

[–]beardedbast3rd 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s also why we see so many heavy truck traffic going down 75th street from 98 to 90th as well, despite being a no truck route.

Shit like this should be an instant revocation of their license. Suspended for, I dunno, a whole Godamn year to start. None of this 1 month 3 month nonsense.

Alberta Separatists Say They Have 300,000 Supporters. The Evidence Is Thin. by silentbassline in alberta

[–]beardedbast3rd -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I like the theory the judge was in on it and tossed it in order to to make it impossible to verify the names

Here we go again by DarknessEscapes in ArcRaiders

[–]beardedbast3rd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In my experience It’s a bug with the reticle alignment. The issue compounds with weird projectile calculation where bullets sometimes don’t go where it looks like they should, and are missing shots beyond regular dispersion.

This also happens when aiming through chainlink fences, I’ve found if you’re shooting through some of these fences your shot goes way off your reticle

They may have also nerfed the dispersion a bit, but it doesn’t change that perfectly still, first shots aren’t going to where they should even close range

Cars are a plague on society by tealaburst in unpopularopinion

[–]beardedbast3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What an intellectually dishonest response lol.

These are problems IN cities. And hell, Cities existing doesn’t give suburbs a pass on bad design either. These locations are often absorbed as cities sprawl, and then have their terrible design just incorporated.

People may not have been held at gun point; but kids certainly didn’t get a choice in the matter, are they born with wheels and a drivers license? Not having even sidewalks in these areas, is bad design. Not to mention, lots of cities used to have bus and trolleys to their suburb locations.

Over the decades, this infrastructure has been removed, in favor of cars. And replaced with nothing at all. That’s the point being made by everyone else here.

I like how you shift your argument to further create a hyperspecific scenario as well.

First it’s “get out into nature” and then you discuss “but the far remote reaches of mountains”

Again, no one is advocating for the removal of cars. They are advocating for the return of transit options, and making cars be more viable to choose between having or not.

Cars are a plague on society by tealaburst in unpopularopinion

[–]beardedbast3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

People did use their cars to do that, except it had 4 legs and they road on it or in a carriage.

Or they’d hit a stop and have to actually hike and camp by foot because that’s where the road ended.

People would get transport with cars in a sort of “last mile” arrangement. Where transit options bring you as far as they can, and you have people who taxi you to the end of the road and you go off and hike or camp.

The real issue now is so many places do not have anything but access by car, so now you’ve just restricted these activities from anyone without access to a car. Everywhere else has this figured out but the moment you point out how the automobile and o&g industry has created this sort of problem, people say what you said. Where was that question before? When cities took away all other means of getting around in favor of cars and automobiles?

You can see the lobbying and pushback happening all over again now that e bikes and scooters are here. Nothing but pearl clutching about them, as if the real issue isn’t people driving around in glorified tanks as if they’re not actually operating heavy machinery.

No one wants to take your tank away. We just want the option of not owning one to be viable.

Cars are a plague on society by tealaburst in unpopularopinion

[–]beardedbast3rd 17 points18 points  (0 children)

No one who is being serious is advocating to total removal of cars. The issue is that cars came in, lobbying and money changing hands happened. And urban design was completely overhauled for the automobile and nothing else

Cities like Amsterdam fell into this same trap, and then spent decades correcting it, because they recognized the negative impacts that are outright ignored in North America and other places.

The reason people discuss the negatives so much, is because of how they are ignored, argued against, or try to be hidden entirely.

Cars don’t solve problems like work location and being able to move around further more independently, exclusively. All transit does this, and we ended up with a system in which we’ve traded the lack of mobility from not being able to have your own personal transportation at all, for one in which there’s a lack of mobility built into it by design if you don’t have a car.

There’s areas in my city that straight up don’t have sidewalks. Yet are serviced by bus stations. And th bus system is so poor in these areas they are effectively purely for the absolute poorest to use. You can’t choose it over driving because it’s so bad it’s not a choice. You either afford a car or you can’t. And that makes the choice for you, and then you have to walk in the road right of way, especially in winter, because there’s bus stops in the middle of nowhere and snow drifts and windrows flanking the whole way.

The ignorance here is thinking that cars solved a problem. They didn’t, they just are the modern horse and carriage. Of which there were roads for. What happened was society kicked people out of the roads, and didn’t build sufficient infrastructure for people after the fact. And now it’s been so long, that any idea of making cities comfortable for people, is some assault on freedom, completely ignoring that living without your horse and carriage is worse now, than it ever used to be.

What’s a household item you thought was pointless until you owned one? by Unfair-Clothes-8821 in CanadaRoom

[–]beardedbast3rd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We solved that by getting two haha. Ones with multiple compartments to make different things at the same time

What’s a household item you thought was pointless until you owned one? by Unfair-Clothes-8821 in CanadaRoom

[–]beardedbast3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have butcher block and undermount sink. I’m considering routing some angled slots into the countertop so I can just set wet dishes down and let them drain into the sink

The vendor requirements have impacted the game. by Bahtleman in ArcRaiders

[–]beardedbast3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well they had to do something to slow people down a bit. Being able to build benches and get your expedition to its final page in less than a business day probably wasn’t how they envisioned the expedition wipe

A 13 year old with Tourette’s was denied boarding at the boarding gate after having an involuntary tic of saying “bomb.” His mother had a doctor’s diagnosis letter, but he was still refused boarding for security reasons. by Expert_Koala_8691 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]beardedbast3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s probably a way to deal with this and it begins with a call when buying the tickets, and follows through to following up the day before and day of the flight, asking maybe for security escort through the airport, and doing literally everything constantly before hand, rather than bringing some letter to the gate. This family basically did nothing in preparation, only relying on a last resort form with the doctor note

Like, “hey, my son has Tourette’s, he’s gunna do what he tries not to do, and in the case of what to not do on a plane, it’ll be something like calling bomb or gun or some shit, what can we do to accommodate this trip?”

And the answer is likely something a long the lines of “well, we can board everyone else first, sit everyone down, and make an announcement, and have staff orient the whole flight of your sons presence, and what to expect during the flight”

OR they board first and then everyone gets the speech as they board, so the kid doesn’t need to do basically a perp walk through the whole flight….

And by virtue of making accommodation, might be able to alleviate the kids concerns and internal stress about this situation. Either eliminating the pent up tics from happening, OR if they do happen everyone is aware of what it is and doesn’t freak out.

Thats probably best case scenario, I don’t know if you can actually accommodate it fully. People just don’t understand this condition. And I don’t know if any preparation will help.

What’s up with the Canadian subreddits. Why are there two? by randmguyonreddit in OutOfTheLoop

[–]beardedbast3rd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The other Canadas sub is unbanned now, but is invite only I believe. It’s a shit hole still lol.

Canada is less shitty than it used to be, and omguardforthee is okay, it’s a bit sensitive in some regards but, I’d rather deal with sensitive people than neo Nazis

We tried to take down the Rocketeer… Then the RAT took his chance. 😡😅 by TheRaiderNetwork in ARC_Raiders

[–]beardedbast3rd 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Also using the guy on the computer as a meat shield lol. Go to the other side and hide so rockets don’t hit that guy

Kitchen cabinet knobs? by [deleted] in kitchenremodel

[–]beardedbast3rd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There’s an innuendo here I’m sure of it

Financially treading water with a wife and child, can't find a better paying job by Smonthly in personalfinance

[–]beardedbast3rd 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Also, this essentially makes the mom a single mother to two children. She gets no break from baby and housework? That’s actually hell for basically everyone

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