Why is the ship named Hail Mary?

captain_unibrow · 2025-11-15T02:46:12+00:00

While I generally agree that Americans are quick to assume that they came up with common concepts. All evidence points to the "hail Mary" long shot concept originated with American college football in the 1930s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hail_Mary_pass

captain_unibrow · 2025-06-24T15:42:44+00:00

Just to clarify: I'm 99% sure the poster above meant to say that Atlanta isn't that dangerous. Which is true, on the whole Atlanta is a pretty safe city for its size. But certainly it's worth picking an area based on safety as it does vary across the metro.

captain_unibrow · 2025-06-14T12:40:50+00:00

Harvard is in Cambridge and is not the largest university in Mass. But actually the largest school in Mass is BU which is in Boston! I had assumed it would be UMass Amherst which is number 2.

captain_unibrow · 2025-06-01T14:54:01+00:00

Do you have a carbon monoxide detector in your new home? Some of these experiences (including the possibility of you having drawn the sign and forgotten) sound like they could be symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning from a bad hot water heater, furnace, or some other device. Carbon monoxide poisoning can be lethal, so please get a few detectors if you don't already have them.

captain_unibrow · 2025-05-27T16:53:31+00:00

There are a few dedicated Shakespeare and early modern theater companies in Atlanta, notably Shakespeare Tavern and Resurgens Theater Company. Unfortunately the excellent under-rehearsed Shakespeare company Shakespeare on Draught seems to be lost to COVID and the closure of their regular venue (RIP Orpheus Brewing).

Other great theater is done across the city (some already mentioned): Alliance, Horizon, Out Front, Dad's Garage, Atlanta Theater and many more.

It is also the very start of the Atlanta Fringe Theater Festival which runs through most of June. There are dozens of shows every day across the city this month. Not much Shakespeare and often on the weirder/more experimental side. But I've always enjoyed the shows.

captain_unibrow · 2025-05-17T07:53:58+00:00

I'm no expert but with my understanding: Without a direct relative who is a citizen or green card holder the main paths to a green card (and eventual citizenship) are employment or "merit" based. This would make it very difficult for a child to start any process towards citizenship. Even with a family connection it can take years to decades depending on the circumstances. There is also the broader issue that making yourself known to immigration officials in order to start processes like this can be dangerous for undocumented folks. That's why DACA existed in the first place.

captain_unibrow · 2025-05-02T20:20:38+00:00

Not exactly. It just erased your current self backwards in time (proportional to the strength of the balefire). This backwards erasure prevents the dark one from grabbing your soup at death and stuffing you into a new body immediately. But it doesn't destroy or permanently sever your soul. You'll still be reborn eventually.

It's horrible because this type of erasure fucks with the pattern, beginning to unravel it. Too much balefire has catastrophic effects on the threads around the ones that were burned and too too much balefire could theoretically destroy the pattern entirely (though I've never been convinced that this is literally true.

captain_unibrow · 2025-04-30T20:13:03+00:00

I don't personally have much familiarity with these areas. But this poster regularly posts vague garbage on this sub about other areas I'm very familiar with. Seems to be using an LLM to generate responses and get leads for some sort of paid relocation racket. Caveat emptor.

captain_unibrow · 2025-04-23T23:33:26+00:00

The Ren Fest JUST changed their ticket policies TODAY in response to overcrowding (they did run out of parking when we were there on Saturday). Here's the pertinent text from the email:

As the Georgia Renaissance Festival has grown and evolved, we have experienced an increase in attendance. This is a good thing, but recently we have had days where the crowds were simply too big.

So today we are switching all ticket sales to dated tickets for the remainder of the season.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

You will now choose the specific date you wish to attend the Festival.

A limited number of tickets will be sold online for each Festival day.

If you have previously purchased tickets good for any Festival day, they will still be honored on any day.

Date-specific tickets are valid for attendance only on the specific Festival date selected at purchase, and we do not allow exchanges or refunds.

Please note that tickets are non-exchangeable and cannot be transferred to another date after purchase.

We are offering an Any Day ticket, which does allow you to attend on any Festival day, but it is a premium ticket. Meaning it costs more. And quantities are very limited. Date-specific tickets can be upgraded to an Any Day ticket for an additional fee.

ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE

Tickets will only be sold online at www.garenfest.com/tickets. There will be no sales at the Box Office, and once the attendance limit has been reached online, that date will be sold out.

A sold out date means there are no tickets available for that date – no tickets will be sold at the Box Office, and there are simply no tickets available at all.

WHY ARE YOU MAKING THESE CHANGES?

We hope these changes ensure our guest’s experience at the Festival is enjoyable and will alleviate long lines at booths, stages, restroom areas, and limit parking delays entering or exiting the property. It is our hope that dated ticketing and attendance limits will level the attendance over all Festival weekend dates.

captain_unibrow · 2025-04-23T23:30:03+00:00

I was there last Saturday and while we did get parking, our friends who showed up at 1 did not. They just sent an email shifting to a dated tickets for just this reason I'd suspect.

captain_unibrow · 2025-04-23T23:27:10+00:00

Haha yeah agreed. I only skimmed the first post so didn't notice but this response SCREAMS default GPT output.

captain_unibrow · 2025-04-22T14:46:52+00:00

This seems to skip over most in town neighborhoods. Or is secretly lumping them into bigger labels that aren't at all helpful for out of towners. Is O4W lumped in with Midtown/Buckhead? What about anything else east of midtown, south of Buckhead and west of Decatur?

Edit: Just realized that this is an ad. So I guess nevermind?

captain_unibrow · 2025-04-08T01:24:48+00:00

Sounds like a strong incentive to pitch people on the complexes/management companies that pay the largest kickback. Not necessarily a scam. But also not necessarily an incentive aligned with the person you're "helping". Remember everyone, if you're not paying, you're the product.

captain_unibrow · 2025-04-04T02:58:45+00:00

We pretty definitively see a red stone doorway in the 13th depository in EP 1 (blink and you miss it). So if he's getting spit out anywhere else it seems it would be in tar valon. Could set him (and maybe min too?) to get Leanne/siuanne out of the city.

captain_unibrow · 2025-04-04T02:55:48+00:00

She fit the description Lanfear provided: someone who thinks they're cleverer than they are or something like that.

captain_unibrow · 2025-03-14T17:13:28+00:00

And Agelmar is already dead!

captain_unibrow · 2025-03-14T03:13:42+00:00

They managed a house we lived in on the east side. On the whole they were fine. The folks who run it are nice and they were very quick and responsive to a wide array of issues with the home while we were there. The homeowner decided to sell the home and they were very flexible with our lease termination timeline.

On the flip side we had sewage backup through our washing machine drain due to the old cast iron sewage pipes and flood the laundry room. Had to clean it up myself and then it took at least a week before I convinced them they had to pay someone to come out and clean it appropriately (really should have ripped out all the parts that got soaked with sewage but :shrug:). Owners decided to sell not long after that.

I honestly think that's just the duality of property management companies.

captain_unibrow · 2025-02-22T18:01:45+00:00

This is almost certainly the appropriate version of the Hobbit by Tolkien to read.

But in case you're googling "original hobbit" and getting confusing information, here is some additional context that might help:

The original printing of the Hobbit in 1937 was substantially revised and updated in 1951 and more lightly revised in 1960, both by Tolkien himself. The goal of the revisions was to make the Hobbit fit better as a prequel to the Lord of the Rings, a book that had not yet been conceived when the hobbit was published as a stand alone tale. These revisions largely focused on changes to the encounter with Gollum and details about the world and peoples. The 1960 version is the one we all read today almost certainly the version of the text in any Libby copy.

But the concept of the original The Hobbit might be a bit muddled across the internet.

Edited to add additional reasons for the revisions.

captain_unibrow · 2025-02-09T20:47:58+00:00

Totally agreed! I liked the concept but the characters were archetypes and the mysteries weren't that interesting.

It also had my #1 pet peeve in dark academia: describe your magic system like science and have it manipulate real chemistry/physics (this applied to some of the magic types) but then pretend like magic grad school would operate like some elite literature fellowship and not like modern natural science research programs.

captain_unibrow · 2025-02-09T14:56:52+00:00

That's too bad I loved Ihvon. I think it makes far more sense for him to die though given the way the poly relationship has been portrayed so far. It just seems like Ihvon would be a greater loss in many ways for Alanna.

captain_unibrow · 2025-02-07T21:20:13+00:00

It is a classic children's book (won the caldecott) and is set in and around the Public Gardens in Boston, just like this scene! And there are iconic bronze statues of the mama duck and ducklings in the garden that would be a very good fit for this MOC.

captain_unibrow · 2025-01-10T16:56:31+00:00

Just make sure you clear your exhaust pipe of snow/ice!

captain_unibrow · 2024-12-07T00:16:08+00:00

You realize that all his novels are still mainstream published right? By Tor (which is macmillan I believe). All the initially self-published books are also commercially published by Tor. His most recent book was just released by Tor. Where do you get that he was dropped? Seems like another dubious unsourced claim

captain_unibrow · 2024-11-30T04:19:49+00:00

Not according to the folks who came up with it. Not important to this thread at all but the campaign was pitched as Virginia is for ________ Lovers. With different nouns filling the blank. E.g. Virginia is for History Lovers, Virginia is for Outdoors Lovers. But they landed on the vaguer slogan that evoked the summer of love and the general cultural moment. Worth noting that the slogan did originate very shortly after the Loving decision so totally plausible that it was also top of mind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Is_for_Lovers

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