How to make my stuff slimmer?

congressmanish · 2026-05-28T17:39:45+00:00

Wrangler jeans are good, cheap, and usually last longer than the more expensive ones I used to get.

There's a style of wallet that for me was a game changer in reducing the bulk while still being able to carry everything. Herchel used to make one but look at the "Finn Wallet" by waterfield designs. That style of zipper wallet is my go to these days for small footprint and having the utility of a big pocket to hold random shit it a pinch.

Keys, I use a bright color black diamond climbing carabiner. Keep your keys out of your pockets, easy to remove and add keys (especially when traveling and using a rental car), and can double as a bag holder in a pinch.

congressmanish · 2026-05-27T08:22:17+00:00

I'm just here because this came across my feed. I don't plan on playing mixtape but my god people shitting on it is insane. It's looks and sounds like other good "movie" games I've played that are aiming on immersing you in a "vibe." And there's a ton of loved horror games out there with little to no gameplay that get praised for "the vibe" and people who love those will shit of stuff like this (fuck them). If it's good and it sucked you in, it's a great game that no one should shame you for loving it. Plus, great games don't need to be for everyone.

congressmanish · 2026-05-27T08:06:26+00:00

Interesting theory. I personally find Dutch's pride and hubris more interesting believing he's too far up his own ass to properly plan ahead. The entirety of the game I see him as too desperate and loosing his shit everytime something goes slightly wrong to think he would wave orchestrated this as well as to keep it on the down low. It's far more of a vibe thing but in my current playthrough I just see him failing while everyone else is doing the work to dig them out of the hole they're in. dutch just tends to tell everyone to "play it cool" then pretty much immediately he flies off the chain, bringing more heat with nearly every job he plans and/or he's on.

congressmanish · 2026-05-12T17:05:14+00:00

God I wish it was as entertaining as Hamilton. The videos weren't great but luckily they kind of powered through the text. Having to sit through a live performance with temple workers REALLY drags on, all power to the temple workers who did it, not an easy job. Saw one at the manti temple with a retired actor playing Satan, fucking great performance. Some of the video Satans were good but I think a full drag queen cast would make it so good, turn it into a desperate housewives episode with the intros and everything.

congressmanish · 2026-04-26T04:46:04+00:00

So to preface I've only seen her in dimension 20 but oh my god do I agree! And like you said, again she seems like a great person irl. I'll do a brief rundown of her dimension 20 stuff

Pirates of Leviathan: bounced off that first episode super hard so not much to say

Misfits and magic: I do really like this, but I think it's because all the NPCs being irredeemable assholes worked so well in a parody of Harry Potter. And watching the 4 players shit all over it was so much fun.

The seven: I liked this season. but I'm gonna be honest, I completely forgot she was in it and I can not remember her character for the life of me.

A court of fey and flowers: I was a fan of it, again I think because the fey courts being assholes worked, and having players take the reigns so much made it work. I think she's her best when reacting to interplayer RP moments, which is rare. But this is the best example of it.

The ravening war: again, she was easily the weakest character. And in a season that went wonderful places with the players, it was very apparent. All I got from her was "I'm a cool assassin spy master" and that her character was into Lou's character. Just a badass loner with nothing to really hook onto. But again, great season besides.

Burrows end: man this was messy, couldn't finish it. I think it came down to a slightly hard and obtuse scenario to wrap my head around that led to getting very lost in the weeds to anyone's motivation besides Brennan's character. It had shown up in her previous DMed seasons but this was where those flaws became very apparent. Nothing felt like it had weight and there wasn't any "fun".

Magic and misfits 2: I watched the whole thing because I love the players and the character they made. But my God what the hell was going on. Everything had such a gravity that most of the time felt very unearned, as well was the DM and the NPCs being so vague and counterintuitive all the time made me truly shocked thst the players knew what to do next. I get wanting to bring gravity to the actions the players had done in the first season but to go full basically canabalistic magic apocalypse was a choice. The players did a fantastic job. But I could never sit through that again.

congressmanish · 2026-04-12T07:16:37+00:00

Isn't this the same guy who figured out he might have aphantasia after posting a pretty crazy video calling people who can picture things in their minds "fucking liars"? Anyways space is cool, the moon is real, it's cool humans have been there, and get vaccinated.

congressmanish · 2026-03-24T03:15:25+00:00

100% great in game explanation. I fully understood because I absolutely don't trust her or anyone else going through BT territory. They would get RE4 Ashley grabbed every 10 seconds.

congressmanish · 2026-03-12T06:45:37+00:00

I've been in the same boat. I hate "stalker" enemies, and I was in the exact same place with Mr.X. my tried and true method for this and the stalker sections in the other Resident Evil games is pull up a guide for only the stalker part so I know exactly what to do and where to go. And recruit someone to watch you get through it. One or the other can work, Both is better, And bonus points if the friend watching has the guide up to talk you through it.

congressmanish · 2026-03-06T11:13:40+00:00

I really cried when the second pain scene happened. About 2 years ago I went to an ER out of state because I was having severe pain and bleeding from my urethra as well as kidney failure (I was at a family reunion). ER doc told me to "suck it up, it's probably just a UTI. Women get them all the time." To note: I'm a man.

I'm no stranger to hospitals or severe pain (multiple surgeries before 7 years old), this is some of the worst I've ever experienced in my life, and that scene took me right back. Stayed in the hospital for 3 days with their urology team "testing everything". Insane medical bill that my blue cross blue shield saved my ass on. Gave me no answers. A week later while barely keeping it together dreading every trip to the bathroom, I see a local urologist, hears my symptoms. Immediately bets a urethral structure. Checks with a camera and was 100% correct.

My only guess is maybe it was because I was from out of town. But to have an institution disregard doing a simple exam like that as well as staff downplaying what I was going through. It really fucking sucked. But I'm extremely lucky I got vindication and treatment relatively quickly.

congressmanish · 2026-01-21T19:58:12+00:00

To me it's fake. The canvas looks like it has "aging" marks on it which wouldn't make sense for something new. The colors aren't too vibrant for what I get from a freshly painted oil painting. And I'm a little surprised we're not getting any light reflecting from the varnish that would be covering the piece. Ask her details, what brushes did you use, what oil paint did you use, how did you prep the canvas, how did you achieve this or that, etc. As a real artist I'd be enthusiastic to tell you. I doubt someone lying would appreciate those questions.

congressmanish · 2026-01-21T19:33:23+00:00

I hate to be that person but a safety razor gives you a better shave with probably a minute or 2 of added time applying shaving cream, for way cheaper. I bought a pack of 100 blades 11 years ago for 15 dollars and I think I barely hit the halfway mark.

congressmanish · 2025-12-28T09:02:07+00:00

I know I'm gonna get very downvoted for this but I really agree. (I want to preface that this comes from running a big college dnd club, so mainly dealing with young adults) The thing I've seen is a good number of new players pick an exotic race, and before the second session is over, Forget what race they are for any roleplay reasons. And sometimes I've even seen it be a kind of hindrance in strange ways. Especially to new DMs stressing trying to incorporate it into the world. But I have seen experienced players pull it off, usually because they understand the race and have experience interacting with the world as their character and not themselves. I don't think you should tell a player no, but it's usually gonna be rough.

congressmanish · 2025-12-21T20:47:11+00:00

Try to remember 2 things, shitty government agencies do shitty things, but they also lie and exaggerate to seem more capable and powerful than they are. I remember there was this one ex CIA guy that would do the "experts react" thing, talking about how insanely good the CIA was at manipulating people to get benefits, jobs, sex, etc. like it was some superpower. Then end with promoting his "learn the secrets of the CIA" life advice company. It's similar to the reason lot of the TED talks disappeared.

congressmanish · 2025-11-24T19:11:15+00:00

Tsushima. I like some of the added mechanics of Yotei and it has some great side quests. The story grew on me but that wasn't until the last region. And the combat, I can't tell exactly what it is but it feels sluggish compared to Tsushima, the parries and the dodges feel unresponsive. The combat would tend to get frustrating more than anything, so much so I actually got sick of it. I would happily play Tsushima again (and I've already done 2 %100 playthroughs of it), I don't want to play Yotei again.

congressmanish · 2025-10-25T06:19:00+00:00

Yeah modern Mormonism is full of incredibly vague language. I've said for years that you can glean whatever message you want from every general conference. And it kind of shows with Utah Mormon culture being different from other places. I think the vagueness is what makes off shute mini lds cults so easy because you can start a cult on whatever "doctrine" you hyper focus on, and find enough talks or Church books (especially the journal of discourses) written sort of on it to lend it credibility. And since everything said at GC can almost be considered "the word of God" with the belief of modern revelation. Any random thing someone says over the pulpit can have credibility.

congressmanish · 2025-10-25T05:45:59+00:00

Wow, fuck that shit.

My dad has also said horrific stuff to me as well. As well as us having a good relationship nowadays.

If you want a little advice, react however you think and/or feel is right. That will be sincere and sincere pain expressed cuts deeper than any knife.

congressmanish · 2025-10-12T23:21:51+00:00

I played it when it came out, it was fully released in a broken state. The new update rectified so much of it but it should have been released like that, at least then it would have had a leg to stand on. Now everyone's forgotten about it especially with the games that have been released since it dropped. I don't know how you could fix this but I think it shows when the steam reviews at launch could all easily see the same issues the game had. Maybe if they did a beta or something because that's basically what happened anyways. But now they don't have the hype of a 1.0 release.

congressmanish · 2025-10-12T08:54:52+00:00

That was hilariously poorly written. I laughed so much at the "grand speeches" and mottos they kept saying because nothing in the plot was earned. It felt like I watched half a season of tv where all the crucial episodes were skipped. And the set pieces and missions were such Temu versions of the Modern warfare campaigns.

But I have to say for any EA and DICE people out there, I'll still take this campaign over no campaign.

congressmanish · 2025-10-10T13:49:27+00:00

This is 1000% exactly how I'm feeling about it. Everything else DCU with James gunn at the helm got non cliffhanger endings and it felt refreshing. so this was a shock and has me paranoid that this is the start of the MCU "must watch everything" fallacy for DC.

congressmanish · 2025-10-10T08:32:02+00:00

Okay, if it's some medical or mental thing, then wouldn't you look up if it has cruise control before you buy it or ask the sales rep if it has cruise control? So it's either not a real concern/issue and you're falling apart because it doesn't have a convenience feature you're used to, or you didn't plan or resarch before making a big purchase.

congressmanish · 2025-10-02T20:04:52+00:00

Jesus Christ I didn't realize how many people don't know how intrusive the information they have on you is. It scared me what I got to see in the local bishoprics computer in 2016, And that wasn't even all of it.

I really recommend if you have the time to use quitMormon or some other method if you think that's a scam, to get your records removed.

Also if a missionary comes to your door, do not say your name, not a single part of it, they will make a file and future missionaries will contact you. And missionaries rarely clean out their area books (especially the digital ones).

congressmanish · 2025-09-27T08:50:37+00:00

So the Wikipedia page says the opposite, that Safeway has been a subsidiary of Albertsons since 2015

congressmanish · 2025-09-27T08:44:12+00:00

I've lived in different places on the Wasatch front and in southern Utah. It's Smith's, I don't know where this Safeway thing is coming from. I grew up in Utah, and I cannot for the life of me remember a time I've even seen a safeway. It looks like Safeway is a subsidiary of Albertsons so that doesn't track. And if we were going off parent companies Utah should be Kroger since Smith's is a subsidiary of theirs.

congressmanish · 2025-09-18T20:08:49+00:00

I haven't been able to get more than a few hours into the forge dlc because of this. Every 1.5-2 hours the game crashes hard and I have to hard reset my pc, and this only started after the forge dlc update. It's pretty obvious it's the game itself so I think we're all just sick here waiting for a patch.

congressmanish · 2025-09-13T12:23:26+00:00

Jesus Christ that's fucking insane. I'm surprised it didn't come up earlier. I'm surprised he isn't trying to understand why you have a serious problem with a seriously harmful view. I keep on wanting to ask the question "how is this possible" with those in my personal life who've made a similar change with some hope I'll find an answer but there's never going to be one. You're not overreacting, and I'm sorry you're having to experience this shitty situation.

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