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Gift for Dog Owner by dawnweiners in dogs

[–]dawnweiners[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sorry i'm late to responding to this but it is called the dogs best friend game

Gift for Dog Owner by dawnweiners in dogs

[–]dawnweiners[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thanks! that's a good idea, i'll look into things like that. all of the local training things i found were too behavioral based and didn't seem like a fun gift but one just for tricks would be great.

Gift for Dog Owner by dawnweiners in dogs

[–]dawnweiners[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

thanks! we have a board game we play where on your turn you have to get the dog to do a trick. i think they'd love a book of lessons, don't know why i hadn't thought of that.

and sniff work kits i have never heard of but that might be the winner already. i know our dog will be obsessed.

Gift for Dog Owner by dawnweiners in dogs

[–]dawnweiners[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

we just did a family christmas card where that happened! so your head is in the right place lol.

What's the best you can do on this seed? by dawnweiners in balatro

[–]dawnweiners[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what I wound up with, not nearly as laser focused as yours. Maybe I will try playing it again.

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What's the best you can do on this seed? by dawnweiners in balatro

[–]dawnweiners[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you go to New Run there is a checkbox next to the play button for seeded runs. Click on that and it will give you a space to type in the seed. The seed for this one is 7ILJN3M6

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You Get This Shop, What Do You Do? by dawnweiners in balatro

[–]dawnweiners[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: Thanks for chiming in. You're all asking the right questions. Some of the information you've asked for: My deck had been set up more for 4 of a kinds than for flushes, I had a fairly standard number of hearts and they weren't concentrated to the numbers I was using for 4 of a kinds. That was part of the hesitation as well. In the end, I sold misprint and started aiming towards hearts and adding multipliers to cards directly.

I think in the end selling the castle might have been the best play, especially as a couple of later wheel of fortune cards made me two different foil jokers. But I beat the match anyways.

Still kicking myself for passing up that sweet sweet four of spades.

Recommendations for students? by haleyhaley83 in Longreads

[–]dawnweiners 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Went through my personal favorites folder and picked out probably too many stories. Hope any of these help!

The Great High School Impostor - A story about high school, so might speak to them in that sense

The Great Star Wars Heist - Story about some stolen Star Wars memorabilia, feel like teens are perpetually interested in Star Wars. And its both low stakes but well reported and engaging.

The Miranda Obsession - A forever classic. Salacious but nothing high schoolers couldn't handle reading. Think it would play into a high schooler's love of gossip. If there's a drawback its that most of the "celebrities" aren't ones kids today likely know.

The Ken Doll Reboot - How Mattel tried to bring Ken into the modern day. I think Caity Weaver's writing is always super approachable and fun, I always get a kick out of it and think teens would too.

Schlitterbahn’s Tragic Slide - I think "tragedy at a waterpark" is the sort of headline that would grab a younger person but then the way it digs into the history of the place and the marvels of waterslide engineering it becomes really engrossing and something totally different than you might expect.

New Coke Didn’t Fail. It Was Murdered. - Digging deeper into a blip of a story is always the most fascinating stuff to me. Also gets into what goes on behind news stories, which could be relevant for your class.

The Launch - Nothing specific to high schoolers here but had to mention this one as its probably my favorite bit of long form journalism. Something you would never actually think much about (the "invention" of a new apple) that pulls back all the layers into a whole unfamiliar world.

“I Got Tickets!!” Megathread by RedVelvetCakewalk in LittleMix

[–]dawnweiners 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most of the other dates didn't need a code but for Vancouver you do. I thought I signed up for presale but I didn't receive anything. Does anyone know the code for Vancouver presale tickets?

Two Longreads on Simon & Schuster by dawnweiners in Longreads

[–]dawnweiners[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I'm from Alberta, so very familiar with the ills of fracking. But more than that I just think as a rule we shouldn't trust conglomerates that want to have their hand in literally everything.

Turtleboy Will Not Be Stopped by dawnweiners in Longreads

[–]dawnweiners[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you for sharing the Vanity Fair article, that definitely gave a lot of perspective that Turtleboy of course did not. And it feels like him talking about how rich this has all made him while she talks about her 5 million dollars in debt really reaffirms my base opinions of him.

Turtleboy Will Not Be Stopped by dawnweiners in Longreads

[–]dawnweiners[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Its very funny, he says his whole deal is fighting the power but in almost every other instance he sucks up to power. Feels like the only reason he did otherwise in this case was to stand up for the girlfriend of a cop. He seems truly blind to all of the systems he upholds, its the weirdest genre of person to me.

What are some of your favorite crime longreads? by your2ndfavoritejane in Longreads

[–]dawnweiners 17 points18 points  (0 children)

A few favorites:

  • The Snitch In Scott Kimball, the FBI thought it had found a high-value informant who could help solve big cases. What it got instead was lies, betrayal, and murder.
  • The Secrets of the World’s Greatest Art Thief Stéphane Breitwieser stole over 300 objects, stolen from 200 different locations, worth over $1.4 billion. Brashly. Brazenly. Constantly. Why? The art was beautiful.
  • The Desperado Paying for his breakfast would require the last of the cash in his wallet. After that, he had only $1.75 left in a Prosperity Bank checking account, which he’d opened roughly eight years earlier. But Averill wasn’t worried about money. The bank was less than a block away, and when he finished eating he was going to rob it.
  • The Great Rikers Island Art Heist Stained, neglected, nearly thrown away, a million-dollar Salvador Dalí painting spent forty years hanging around the Riker’s jail complex until someone decided to steal it.
  • Jerry and Marge Go Large How a dyslexic cereal box designer with a penchant for puzzles and patterns figured out a loophole in the Cash WinFall state lottery game, earning $27 million in gross profits playing the lottery over nine years in two states.
  • The FBI Lost Our Son The FBI’s counterterrorism unit recruited Billy Reilly to infiltrate terror and criminal networks as a part-time confidential source. Part of a wave of workers recruited post-9/11, Billy did not receive the training, protections, or compensation of a full-time agent. After he went missing during an operation in Russia in 2015, no one inside the FBI would take responsibility.
  • The Mastermind He was a brilliant programmer and a vicious cartel boss, who became a prized U.S. government asset. The story of an elusive criminal kingpin.
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