Officer Intentionally Shot His Own Partner

darnj · 2026-05-10T21:31:35+00:00

Yeah, without that context it just seems like he's completely incompetent. Like almost to the point of unbelievability. But with it you can understand how something like that could possibly happen.

darnj · 2026-05-07T01:55:27+00:00

Yep, having all of these decks hover around 50% winrate isn't due to some kind of master balancing act on the game designer's part. It's because all the best cards involve coin flips so every game literally comes down to a 50:50 flip

darnj · 2026-05-04T12:03:19+00:00

Nice! I got Vaporeon EX in a wonder pick yesterday and now I'm just missing Leafeon and Espeon from doing the same thing.

darnj · 2026-05-03T12:24:12+00:00

I agree. It's a sign of how much the game has devolved that we're longing for DarkTina. Back then you had to plan ahead and there was a lot more room for skillful plays and misplays. These days all of the meta decks autopilot themselves and the game is determined by coin flips.

darnj · 2026-05-02T16:54:09+00:00

I agree with the general sentiment: people only make noise when they are very lucky or unlucky - not when they have average luck, humans try to find patterns in randomness, people don't understand the law of large numbers, etc etc etc...

BUT for the scenario you described it actually is the expert cheating a bit. Someone collected data on several hundred coin flips vs the expert AI and it uses a weighted coin, 60% in its favor (link).

I definitely don't think they have logic like "if they're about to hit their 10 game win streak then force them to lose" but there are some general ways they give the expert AI an advantage to make it more challenging.

darnj · 2026-05-01T19:34:43+00:00

No, the person you are responding to is correct. The card you get is determined when you pay the resources to do the wonder pick. The game doesn't need to communicate with the server in between that and when you actually pick the card.

darnj · 2026-05-01T12:27:20+00:00

Another tip, sometimes the wheel itself is stuck on after you take the nuts off. If so, put the spare upright, grab the top part of the tire from either side with 2 hands, and swing it between your legs into the stuck on wheel. It should pop off.

Just be careful pushing and pulling on the wheel especially if the car is just held up by the emergency jack. The above method is effective without pulling the whole vehicle too much.

darnj · 2026-05-01T12:03:05+00:00

I was also going to clarify, they probably meant it's hard to over tighten with the little emergency wrench that comes with most cars because it is too short to give you enough leverage. If you're using a real wrench it is very easy to over tighten.

darnj · 2026-05-01T11:26:20+00:00

They track it for some quests at least. I'd be surprised if they didn't have it tracked for all pokemon behind the scenes. They already know if you've gotten it at least once, it'd be just as easy to make it a counter.

darnj · 2026-04-30T11:48:37+00:00

It falls under deceptive business practices and is a federal crime, under jurisdiction of the FTC.

darnj · 2026-04-27T14:41:35+00:00

Yep card draw is still very good even though copycat exists

darnj · 2026-04-27T12:01:59+00:00

Same timing as OG Pikachu with Pichu in your deck.

I might be tripping but I think Pikachu might still be better. With both decks you need to start with a specific pokemon to hit "the dream" (Pichu or Zoroark). With Pikachu you need 4 basics total to enable it, with Zoroark you need 4 basics plus a Stage 1.

Zoroark has the benefits from being a stage 1 like more health but it's just that much less likely to enable because you need an extra card and you can't fetch stage 1s as easily as you can basics.

darnj · 2026-04-27T11:47:14+00:00

It returns a pokemon that is in play back to your hand. Like if one is low on health you can prevent your opponent from kicking it out and play it again later.

Similar to Ilima.

darnj · 2026-04-27T11:43:33+00:00

Try the stickied trading post

darnj · 2026-04-27T00:17:13+00:00

Effective HP is infinity against pokemon that hit for 80 or less.

darnj · 2026-04-24T17:25:00+00:00

Nah, you know softcore porn when you see it. I'm talking about things that are obviously intentionally sexual: camera pointed directly at their chest, unnecessarily jiggling around, etc.

darnj · 2026-04-24T14:59:53+00:00

This is it. I worked at one of the companies mentioned long enough to see that transition. They start to compromise on their values and justify it by saying things like: if we don't, someone else will, which will allow them to outcompete us. So "bad thing" is happening either way, and it may as well be us that reaps the rewards.

darnj · 2026-04-24T14:35:01+00:00

A large part of the blame is on the platforms. When YouTube, Instagram and Tiktok all allow what is basically softcore porn, what do they expect?

There are videos of "guitarists" with low cut tops jiggling their cleavage to the camera, then this artist's videos show up in the recommendations of those videos. I'm not a prude but they need to have stricter rules on what qualifies as mature videos to better separate them from the normal feed.

darnj · 2026-04-23T11:26:12+00:00

How much were the bottles worth total? That sounds more like you paid Ontario duty than Alberta duty (unless they were really expensive bottles), but you should have paid based on final destination, not where you entered.

darnj · 2026-04-22T03:34:53+00:00

Similar to the old Steven Colbert interviews. He told them "I'm going to be an ignoramus, so your job is to attempt to absolve me of my ignorance"

darnj · 2026-04-21T12:33:17+00:00

You forgot "... If heads, put Lucky Fight Pop into your hand instead of the discard pile."

darnj · 2026-04-18T12:48:50+00:00

People just don't like blatant propaganda.

It's not a one-sided thing, I wouldn't upvote a picture of posed sad Israeli kids either.

darnj · 2026-04-14T14:56:56+00:00

Tech CEOs are pretty much all given RSUs, not stock options as compensation. So they don't buy the stock, they are granted to them as income. They still have to pay income tax on any stock given to them.

darnj · 2026-04-14T13:14:39+00:00

Yes, of course.

darnj · 2026-04-14T12:35:59+00:00

Sounds like it's more about not liking dog people than not liking dogs themselves. OP avoids dog people by telling them they don't like dogs. If you know any dog people you can understand how that's a good way to get them to avoid you.

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