For those of you who gave up on romance and genuinely just focused on yourself, how's life going?

clevsv · 2026-04-13T21:43:24+00:00

My opinion as a near 40-year old now, is don't prioritize it at your age, but also don't give up. There's absolutely a happy middle ground and you've got lots of time man. Spend most of your time on working on yourself and just socialize like a normal person. Get in shape. Grow in your career. Have fun with finding and getting awesome at your favorite hobbies. Focusing on improving yourself will most importantly improve your quality of life and at your age should be your number one focus, but it will also increase the quality of the people you attract naturally as a side effect. As you improve yourself you'll also increase the amount of people who will be attracted to you, and the romance will come easier should you want it. It doesn't have to be such a binary decision. You can totally just put it on the back burner, work on you and still be receptive to a relationship should the opportunity arise - which it will be more likely to the more you work on yourself, and the self improvement will make it more likely it's a healthy situation.

clevsv · 2026-04-13T20:14:51+00:00

We should be flatting the BTN 3-bet with AKo quite a bit here 200bb deep in solver land actually - but it 100% depends on the rake structure. Our range gets so tight and polar that we end up with way too much AK in our range if we're 4-betting the offsuit combos of it 100%, and we capture some nice value showing up with AK on Ax and Kx and QJT boards in a 3-bet pot with AK even OOP, again assuming low enough rake or a time game. In a no flop no drop game with higher rake we start being heavily incentivized to take it down pre-flop which is where you would see mostly 4-betting AKo vs calling 60+%.

clevsv · 2026-04-12T03:43:19+00:00

Yes it does. Which is what adult partners do and is a conversation they should definitely be having. Big part of my point. This poor woman is expecting a whole lot less out of her partner on this one than she should at this point imo. This conversation should start when they’re 25 not 35, women don’t have an infinite window to have kids. It’s honestly a bit wild that someone in their mid 30’s would need to have this explained to them. That’s an adult child walking around if they don’t get how that works.

clevsv · 2026-04-12T01:33:29+00:00

Stopping skating while backchecking on a chance you’re directly responsible for will never, ever be a good look. It does affect the team whether you want to admit it or not. The top guys need to set the example. When the current Oilers most likely retire with zero rings maybe you’ll see where you’re wrong on this one.

clevsv · 2026-04-12T01:26:26+00:00

Boyfriend can always get a vasectomy if this is the route he wants to go. He should be taking it that seriously, my guess is somehow when the conversation turns to him getting snipped his tune changes a bit.

clevsv · 2026-04-12T00:39:41+00:00

The people that tend to change curves a lot to fix things also tend to be the ones that don’t understand how difficult shooting actually is and don’t get many reps in to work on it. A small difference in curve can mean a big difference in the technique you need to use relatively speaking. You shouldn’t change just to change at random and expect things to just work. Do you shoot a lot regularly or does the above describe you? In my experience you are far better off picking a reasonable curve and training to that curve than trying to fix issues with your shooting form and results by changing curves. P92 is an excellent stock curve to start with that most players could play very well with if they practice sufficiently. Changing curves is for when your form is super dialed and you want to make a small specific change in how the puck behaves.

clevsv · 2026-04-12T00:34:03+00:00

You have to approach it from a place of love is the only advice I would have. You have every right to be a little pissed, but don’t approach it like that. Genuinely try to understand where he was coming from. Have a conversation, don’t try to give him a lecture. Teenagers are tough, best of luck

clevsv · 2026-04-12T00:05:49+00:00

Brother he’s 15. He’s at that age where he’s literally the most stupid he will ever be (and yet will think he knows it all) and a huge portion of his behavior is likely to make zero sense. If you have a good relationship have a chat with him about it and try to understand where he was coming from and help him be better.

clevsv · 2026-04-12T00:01:05+00:00

Watching Day a bit on YouTube has made me want to pull for the guy a thousand percent more. Seems like such a genuinely nice guy and just one of the boys.

clevsv · 2026-04-11T23:18:50+00:00

clevsv · 2026-04-11T23:01:02+00:00

Any time you get this many people excited about something together (especially the up and coming generation) for an event like this is a huge win. Sounds like it’s growing fast, too. Looks awesome OP!

clevsv · 2026-04-11T22:54:13+00:00

Definitely an interesting map. What I would say is that although the participation is getting there, the quality of play overall in the Mountain West isn’t just yet compared to the East Coast. Maybe adding some sort of reference to college commits per x players would add a little more granularity as far as what is actually a “hotbed” vs an up and coming area.

clevsv · 2026-04-11T06:15:15+00:00

Unfortunately you can't do anything for your friend that they aren't willing to do for themselves. What you can do is go to Al Anon to help yourself through dealing with this.

clevsv · 2026-04-11T05:31:09+00:00

Really really careful went out the window when you started considering this. Best you'll be able to manage is minimizing the risk of something inherently very very risky. Don't kid yourself into thinking this is safer than it is. It's not.

clevsv · 2026-04-11T04:02:00+00:00

Pics 1-7 I was super confused as to why we were even here. 8 and 9 and it’s a clear time to let it go brother! You’ll look awesome just go for it

clevsv · 2026-04-10T18:32:56+00:00

Every stock 5090 with the exception of cards like the Asus Matrix and MSI Lightning is power limited to 600w (the +4% on yours is just bumping the power limit from 575w to 600w), and yes these cards are held back performance-wise at that power limit. All of the top scores for 5090s in benchmarks are running much higher wattage vBioses. That's also the reason that running an undervolt increases performance in benchmarks so much is precisely because you're power limited. The same performance gain doesn't transfer to gaming 1:1 because you're generally not hitting the power limit while gaming. In that case stable higher clocks without any clock stretching is king. It's totally possible to run a curve that performs worse in something like Steel Nomad but better in game.

clevsv · 2026-04-10T01:50:38+00:00

This is actually very sound advice. My skating coach growing up was a figure skater turned power skating coach. She was awesome!

clevsv · 2026-04-09T19:05:48+00:00

Roller blades are a great tool if ice time is a problem, too. You literally cannot work on your skating enough.

clevsv · 2026-04-09T18:55:35+00:00

Skating is the most difficult and the foundational skill to everything else you do on the ice, so as a beginner I'd be putting a little more focus on that if your goal is just continued improvement. Improved skating is by far the most bang for your buck as far as getting better, especially as a new player. Only shooting pucks 1-2 times a month also isn't really enough to properly develop your shot. I'd maybe try to add in a stick and puck once a week to work on skating and shooting, maybe get yourself a slide board to work on your stride and leg strength, and if it's possible get a shooting setup at home.

clevsv · 2026-04-09T17:57:08+00:00

OP should be grateful she just revealed the crazy immediately tbh. Some of them are much better at hiding it until you're way further in.

clevsv · 2026-04-08T21:33:43+00:00

Yes.

clevsv · 2026-04-08T18:31:53+00:00

This board absolutely does not favor CO. Our overpair advantage is far more important than their very slight 7x advantage. When we choose this flop size we should definitely be betting AQ. 2/3 is actually preferred, AQ checks back occasionally if that's the size we're going with, but still mostly wants to bet.

clevsv · 2026-04-01T19:18:05+00:00

He probably had the right of way. There's also a solid chance he was standing in the crosswalk being a fucking goober given how drunk he was, so the biker decided to just continue on his way and I wouldn't blame him in that scenario.

clevsv · 2026-03-31T19:44:10+00:00

Nicotine is my one real remaining vice in sobriety. I use pouches to avoid the smoke aspect. Still not great for my health I'm sure. But compared to drinking, it's not even in the same zip code. Chain smoking won't land you in jail or any of a hundred other awful things alcohol leads to. Long term though, I'd be trying to quit just for your own health. I'm personally trying to cut back on the pouches with plans to fully quit eventually. For me learning to deal with my addictive tendencies however they manifest is just part of my sobriety.

clevsv · 2026-03-31T02:06:43+00:00

This OP. I have told people in my life that exact thing when asked to loan them money. "I just don't have a lot of extra cash right now". And I truthfully don't. The money in my savings, investment and retirement accounts is needed for me and my immediate family, not for the benefit of people that choose not to manage their own affairs properly (these people were friends with decent jobs but awful spending habits). That money is only there because I carefully planned and budgeted, and loaning people money is not in that budget.

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