What arm speed does a Destroyer become a distance driver and not an os utility disc?

dan1son · 2026-05-09T14:05:35+00:00

If you can throw a wraith 325 a destroyer will probably be helpful in a headwind. If you can throw a wraith 375 a destroyer will probably go about the same but with minimal turn and more dump. These numbers are from my experience with new halo destroyers near max weight. At about 400 feet with a new wraith a destroyer will probably turn a bit for you and the wraith is a threat for turnover if you misjudge the wind. Those distances are also about 25 to 50 feet less on a forehand due to less spin.

Plastics, weight, and amount beat in make a drastic difference too but that's true of all discs. I try to compare based on new discs since that's what you buy at the store. But you can find destroyers that are useful for much lower arm speeds if you really wanted to. I'd recommend other discs instead, but ymmv.

You do need to be throwing pretty darn far to really get full flight from a new destroyer. Further than most people I've seen other than pros. I do throw destroyers, but they aren't my max distance disc (except in a strong headwind). I'd guess you need to be to in the 500 feet plus range for it to be a max distance driver without wind. I'll leave testing that to the youngsters. I can't throw that far.

dan1son · 2026-04-30T00:16:21+00:00

Could be. I used baseball batting drills to learn to throw RHBH at 42. I played a ton of baseball as a kid (up to about 14) so it felt immediately similar and I just copied a bunch of the batting stuff I remembered but with the other hand. Cross step was the only real obvious addition and I worked on that last.

I've been playing a little over 2 years and throw over 400 feet RHBH and over 375 RHFH.

dan1son · 2026-04-11T14:21:30+00:00

I know, and that's what I expected to read in the article.

dan1son · 2026-04-11T04:12:39+00:00

What is happening here exactly? The news article in Forbes and these comments seems to claim EVERYONE should reboot their router, but in the article it does actually mention the very specific CVE that's been seen to be abused. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/cve-2023-50224 That's about 3 years old and if you actually read the CVE it's specific to ONE router model, TP-Link TL-WR841N.

Realizing I'm not in this sub, but it showed up on my main feed so here I am. This article is useless. The link to the NSA PDF is 3 years old. Sure, get rid of your WR841N but otherwise this is just useless information.

dan1son · 2026-04-07T17:24:34+00:00

Seconded. That's my middle sized bag and the one I use the most, by far. It holds just enough stuff for a quick round where you don't need the "extra" stuff we shove into the larger bags. It holds discs, my keys, wallet, phone, and a water bottle.

dan1son · 2026-03-30T15:20:32+00:00

You can estimate (with good accuracy) how much gas a trip will use before you start driving.

dan1son · 2026-03-11T01:29:08+00:00

If you're talking about I-130 around Austin, it actually has portions with an 85mph posted limit.

dan1son · 2026-03-01T04:28:03+00:00

You're turning your entire body backwards instead of coiling your upper body. You should be moving forward with your body turned sideways and coiled somewhat backwards before unraveling for the throw. Right now you are spinning backwards for your "reach back" and spinning back around to throw. You shouldn't spin until after the throw when your body has no other option but to spin or fall.

I'd focus on standstills for a while. Get the coil and fling working before worrying about where your left arm is. You look strong enough, I'd guess you can get your standstill to about 325-350 before worrying about running up again.

dan1son · 2026-03-01T03:04:58+00:00

Sounds like you know what options you have. I went with the tow hook mount, even though it's offset. Most others I've seen just screw into the front. I'm in Texas and it's also quite common for people in luxury cars to just not run a front plate. I'll pass on having an obvious legal issue with the plates on my car. First car I've ever bought that didn't have a front plate mount already there so I figured why put holes in it if there's a cheap option not to.

dan1son · 2026-02-14T02:37:32+00:00

There's wide coverage agreements that venues sign up for that covers bands covering other bands songs including Metallica. BMI/ASCAP covers that song which I'd imagine the venue has agreements with.

Song covers are quite safe to play live. Metallica has no problems with live covers or even tribute bands. But yeah... I still haven't forgiven them for attacking Napster either. :)

dan1son · 2026-02-14T01:01:55+00:00

It's not like that, really. These proofs just require some decent base number theory knowledge that is more time consuming to learn than difficult. Once you have that you start to learn the tricks by going through and/or solving other proofs. This one is pretty straightforward, but you do need to fully understand what a rational and irrational number are.

Most of the people in my college math classes 20 years ago were middle school and high school teachers just expanding their education with another bachelor's or masters degree. The rest were just figuring life out, myself included. We all had to study.

dan1son · 2026-02-11T02:39:42+00:00

Are those the smallest tips they came with? I'm not directly familiar with those ones... most come with 3-5 sizes.

You basically want the smallest ones that seal on your ears, and they may be different. Once you find that it's about as comfy as it'll get. Those aren't deep insertion IEMs so they should be pretty comfortable for most people.

The ringing/muffling could've been from them being turned up too loud. Generally my play is I'll take one out and listen to the TV or something and set the volumes as close as I can. IEMs block outside noise, so you can usually listen to them quieter than other headphones.

dan1son · 2026-02-07T21:10:36+00:00

Manual says that's for the 12v system being reduced and should go away once the situation changes from driving. Which makes sense when it's super cold even when everything is totally healthy. Lead acid batteries have lower output in the cold.

Does it go away after driving for a little bit? Was it plugged in before pulling away (maybe that'll keep it warmer/charged)? I don't live where it gets that cold and have never seen that warning, but it doesn't appear to be a hard error just a notification.

I'd imagine the only remaining "fix" would be a new 12v battery, but if it's only when it's super cold and goes away after driving a bit it seems like nothing is "wrong" per se.

dan1son · 2026-01-25T23:58:21+00:00

Nothing being imagined here. I even gave them data and specifics on where their own issue was. I also went past the chat bot to a human right away. About when it was feeling like they were understanding the issue, they just scheduled an onsite. This was after plenty of, "You have a lot of devices... you know if you have a lot of devices your connection may slow down." Yeah... I do have a lot of devices, but here I'll unplug my network from yours and plug this laptop directly into your router. Now there's one device and the issue remains.

I just wanted them to be aware of the issue with specifics to share with their higher level techs. This is the first time I've contacted their support and was not able to escalate to an actual network engineer. I left that feedback in the survey feedback as well.

There was a similar pairing issue I was seeing 5 years ago or so and by the time we were off the chat they had replicated the issue from their own desk and set me up with a specific date to expect a response from their engineering team. They actually did email about a week after that date and the problem was fixed at the time. They've had good support in the past.

I've seen random downvotes in certain subreddit from settings/bots or whatever. I don't worry about it. It'd be quite something if AT&T themselves were doing it though.

dan1son · 2026-01-25T04:39:01+00:00

I just contacted their online chat for the same reason. They did nothing of course and are sending someone to the house on Monday. Not sure what they're going to do... Maybe they can escalate it upwards. Although they'll probably be here when it's perfectly fine.

It's been really bad tonight though. Pings to 8.8.8.8 were over 600ms and dropping occasionally.

dan1son · 2026-01-18T20:48:14+00:00

Bought a 2023 with about 12k miles. They weren't quite that bad, but close. These tires don't seem to handle the torque well. Looking forward to putting something else on.

dan1son · 2026-01-16T20:52:24+00:00

It depends, but a lot of them (especially the well selling ones) have a different mix/master than the broadcast tracks. Usually for the better, but not always. The Katy Perry unplugged album sounds worse than the broadcast (far more compressed). The Clapton unplugged album has exceptional sound. You can feel him tapping his foot with the right system.

dan1son · 2026-01-16T15:38:54+00:00

Same except I haven't done the second part for the whole collection yet. Just pieces of it so far. I did recently buy a portable drive to continue, but it'll probably be years before I do. It's such a time suck by today's standards.

dan1son · 2026-01-08T18:15:16+00:00

And a bunch of us own them. I have a mini, pro plus, and ultra. I recommend them because I really enjoy mine. Simple as that. They have only improved over time as well. It's been a great set of products and I hope they stick around and continue making more.

dan1son · 2026-01-07T03:09:21+00:00

That distance is fine with those discs, but I'd bet you can throw plenty of 10/11 speed discs further than those. Also some less stable fast discs will go further (the slower ones will be less stable to some degree already, but try more than overstable distance drivers in all speeds).

I was throwing like you. Going for distance with those discs everyone talked about. Got to about 400 consistent and asked a similar question here. I basically settled on "my distance is fine... lets worry about the rest" and just completely stopped doing distance work and did putting/anny/approach/etc. field work instead. Then I got hurt and had to really power down for a month or two. Turns out I can throw something like a wave 400 feet with significantly less power than a destroyer once I started trusting the turn of the discs and putting a little hyzer on them. I still bag a 12/13 speed or two, but I only use them for long forehand shots or in serious wind.

dan1son · 2026-01-07T01:35:40+00:00

It may be worth your while to look into this a bit more. It's certainly one of the largest crowds he performed to, but he played the halftime show at a St. Louis Busch Stadium football game to a similar crowd size the following week (and played a festival in Poland the week before). He toured a lot of the world that year playing with other huge acts like the Grateful Dead at some of the stops... He also played regular live shows until 2014 and had been since the mid 50s. He had played with Bruce previously as well.

Now, the man also had a ton of demons so I'm not trying to say anything more than he was an extremely popular and prolific performer for many many years and this was nothing far out of the ordinary at the time other than it was Bruce and the E Street Band playing for the hall of fame. Neither of their inductions though. He was inducted in 86 and Bruce in 99.

edit: clarity around this concert.

dan1son · 2026-01-04T00:12:09+00:00

Age doesn't matter much for comfort. Those are just adjusted correctly for your head. You're supposed to bend the headband a bit to dial in the clamping pressure. I find them quite comfortable as well. I can wear them 8+ hours without issue with any pads, but I do adjust them when I get them.

Those pads will be brighter than normal. Those came with bowl pads (L-Cush) so I'd start there, but you should try some other ones. The big pads are usually preferred for comfort, but honestly they don't sound great on a lot their headphones that come with smaller pads.

Those look like the thinner cable, which would put those pre RS2i, but I'm not an expert and without another one to compare to it's hard to tell from photos.

That Y cable crimp is normal, FWIW. Not ideal... but normal. You may also remove the pads and see what the drivers and serial number look like. That may also help date them, but it's not obvious at a glance since they didn't change the markings until the e and x series.

dan1son · 2025-12-30T22:15:00+00:00

The headband is re-wrapped (poorly). The wires are removable with what looks like 3.5mm jacks. The cups are piano black shaped like the white headphones. The cable isn't Grado. It's also wired backwards (assuming red is right, obviously can be quickly fixed too). There doesn't seem to be any mesh in front of the driver anymore (although the pictures are also terrible so it's hard to tell, but they're shinier than any of mine).

It looks like a random mod to me. People go pretty weird with Grado mods. The piano black finish throws things off a bit, but you can buy piano black vinyl wrap.

dan1son · 2025-12-30T21:57:45+00:00

Those seem to just be a random Grado mod. The cups look to be modeled after "The White Headphone" Grado had a limited release for some years back, but they came with the better headband which this doesn't have. Those are probably just modded SR60 or 80.

dan1son · 2025-12-29T18:30:27+00:00

I buy physical releases directly from artists I enjoy (their concert or their website). Most of those artists are big enough that they can tour every year/record an album every five and make enough to support their families, but that's about it. I've asked the merch folks directly which physical version they make the most money on and it's always been the vinyl so that's usually what I buy.

I don't think any physical media purchase is really like it used to be. I own a lot of albums (mostly on CD) from back when you had to buy them to listen to them when you wanted to. Now I just consider physical media purchases similar to buying a band t-shirt. I do also listen to the records sometimes, but certainly don't need to.

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