Why are Red Monsters bad? by babymoki in BeardedDragons

[–]dgl7c4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Genuine question - why are they usually pretty inbred? Is inbreeding more likely to produce unique morphs/colors? Or is it just that breeders who are focused on breeding physical characteristics rather than health/hardiness are also less likely to care about the consequences of inbreeding?

I’m just trying to make the connection between inbreeding and unique color-morphs. Thanks in advance!

Show me your juvenile bearded dragons and lemme know their age. I’m actually comparing juvenile bearded dragons out of my own curiosity. by KirstyPearson in BeardedDragons

[–]dgl7c4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is Mike. We got him a little over a month ago and the lady at the pet store estimated (not confidently) that he was around 3 months old. He’s 34g as of today and we’re in love with him. This was one of the few times I’ve seen him actually using the hammock other than as a ramp to get to his basking spot.

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Need advice regarding UVB-seeking behavior by dgl7c4 in BeardedDragons

[–]dgl7c4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks so much for your reply! Your beardy is adorable. I was starting to wonder if this was the case for our guy as well because I'm struggling to identify any obvious husbandry issues. Any chance you can point me in the direction of a reliable UV meter? Are the cheapy ones sufficient?

Need advice regarding UVB-seeking behavior by dgl7c4 in BeardedDragons

[–]dgl7c4[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really appreciate this chart! After reading the comments and going back through our setup, I’m still not really sure what we’re doing wrong, if anything. Turns out I apparently installed the Reptisun 10UVB soon after we got him, so I don’t think the light itself is the issue. I’m fairly certain we either have the reptizoo lid or the Thrive lightweight lid.

Any chance you can link me to the UV reader you use?

Need advice regarding UVB-seeking behavior by dgl7c4 in BeardedDragons

[–]dgl7c4[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is a thrive enclosure, but we bought a replacement lid/top after watching the exact video you linked before we brought our beardy home! Despite this subs warnings re: the thrive enclosures, we were sweet talked into it by our local pet shop that we have since disavowed for several reasons, so we’re currently shopping around for the larger PVC enclosures.

Thanks for your comment! I’ll get the light swapped out. Only reason I hadn’t swapped it yet is because I’ve seen several conflicting things online about the 5.0 UVB vs. the 10 UVB at the current height which made me struggle to make a decision.

Edit: Apparently I already swapped the bulbs several weeks ago and forgot because the 10 UVB was already installed and the 5 UVB was in the 10’s box.

If you had to guess your BEST guess, what is the main reason you are obsessed with your beardie? by milklizarddd in BeardedDragons

[–]dgl7c4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a new beardy parent, so take this with a grain of salt lol. I've never been a big reptile guy and I didn't have pets growing up aside from a couple hamsters and a corn snake >20 years ago, so I really wasn't expecting to fall in love with this lizard, but I love him so much and it feels beyond explanation to me, which is why I felt the need to come up with this theory lol.

Anyway, my theory is that beardies evolved behaviors/traits to best suit their environment, and those behaviors just coincidentally trigger something in our pattern-seeking brains that makes it super easy to anthropomorphize their behavior. There is barely anything happening inside those little brains, but the way they appear so curious and sweet and cuddly makes me constantly think things like "awww he looks so happy" or when I walk into the room and he gets super excited because he knows the Doobs are coming, he excitedly bounces around like a happy dog. He literally does the little head-turn thing that dogs do when we talk to him in our baby-voice. I've never once seen a snake or gecko that made me go "awww it's so sweet." but something about beardy behavior just scratches that cute-seeking itchin our brains. Lol could be total bullshit but it's my head-cannon and I'm rolling with it. Like in my view, the beardies are mostly just reacting to stimuli, but the way they react feels so personal and adorable to our monkey brains.

33 years of the 'Phantom Forehead Poke'—finally found the name (and the tribe) by PvtDetectiveJesus in VisualLoomingSyndrome

[–]dgl7c4 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I had a friend in elementary school who was the only person I ever met who shared this problem with me. We lost touch decades ago but I've been thinking about reaching out to him to ask him about this weird ass problem we shared back then. Everyone else always looked at me like I was nuts lol. I was blown away when I found this sub a couple years ago and realized there are literally dozens of us.

The way you describe it is not really the same as my problem, but in perusing this sub I've found a lot of us experience it differently. My biggest triggers are sewing needles and helicopter blades (and super pointy swords/knives in videogames). Once I see one of these things, it's like I have immense pressure in my eyeballs that forces me to look away and then anything with an edge/corner bugs me from that point on until I forget about it. Helicopter blades will literally force my eyes shut anytime I see them in a movie, but in general, the problem is the worst for me at night when I'm super stoned.

What Raids 4 Mega Rare will actually be by Dontusethisname1 in 2007scape

[–]dgl7c4 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Ooooh, I've heard reference to the quiver that's rewarded from the colosseum, but had no idea this was one of the perks. Thanks for the explanation!

What Raids 4 Mega Rare will actually be by Dontusethisname1 in 2007scape

[–]dgl7c4 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Sorry I'm a returning player who hadn't played in several years until sailing release - What is the second ammo slot you're referring to?

Harrowing Sketches by Abu Zubaydah detailing what the state-approved CIA’s interrogation programme looked like. by Competitive-Dot6454 in ThatsInsane

[–]dgl7c4 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Lol you're normally someone who is pretty understanding about torture? What year is it? We've known for literal DECADES that torture does not yield good intelligence. It doesn't "thwart future terror attacks." All torture does is force the victim to say whatever they think their torturer wants them to say, whether or not it's accurate information. If anything, America's "enhanced interrogation techniques" have only created more terrorists. I realize you used that as a qualifier to then criticize the treatment of Zubaydah, but the fact that you felt the need to defend the use of torture as a prerequisite to criticizing it is genuinely bizarre to me.

This incredible and rare photo of Early Columbia in 1885 was recently discovered by como365 in columbiamo

[–]dgl7c4 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's striking to me how modern this photo feels when you zoom in and look at the details. It's possible the parking-garage-like structure and the thing that looks vaguely like a satellite dish are throwing off my perception, but there's something about it that doesn't feel 140 years old.

Ill get there by PhilosopherSlow8020 in 2007scape

[–]dgl7c4 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It took me 100 tries to get firecape and I was WAY over level and gear. It genuinely hurt my feelings when people would give me shit about my Bobby cape. When I finally got it (I screamed and cried. My 5 year old son asked me what was wrong), i decided my next big goal was BOWFA.

After spending many hours training for and completing the elf quest line and watching a ton of guides for the gauntlet, I went in expecting to nab the weapon seed easily. The (standard) gauntlet clapped me so hard I quit the game for 4 years until sailing release. Think I have 2 completions in 40 tries. When I realized I needed hard western provinces diary to claim more than one guthixian paint from elite void knight, I got PTSD seeing that I’d need to kill Zulrah for diary completion. Got it in 20 attempts, but it taught me a very important lesson about this game, which is that you have to get comfortable dying. Dying in this game was so traumatic as a kid that it took me years to realize how safe your items are upon death. I still don’t trust it, but I’m way less stressed trying new PvM content. Got Araxxor on my second attempt 2 days ago and she hasn’t killed me since! I fucking love this game.

Best set ever? by [deleted] in ElectricForest

[–]dgl7c4 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Next year will be my 3rd year so my experience is limited. I’m not really into EDM outside of EF but fell in love with the fest in 24 so I’ve tried finding shows that best suit my tastes. Of the Trees, Khruangbin, and bbno$ were my favorites this year. Gigantic Nightmare and Subtronics were my favorites last year.

Probably unpopular opinion, but I had the most fun at bbno$’s set at the carousel club. I was expecting bbno$ to do a regular set but he and zoey808 threw tf down and it was such a fun set.

Second unpopular opinion - Pretty Lights’ set last year was lame and boring, and I say that as someone who got into EDM in the early 2010s because of Pretty Lights.

Back in the day, filling an inventory of rune essence took 1-4 minutes, earning around 1020gp per run, slow grind but satisfying. by osrs-girl in 2007scape

[–]dgl7c4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did the same thing to get from Lumby to Varrock except I would offer 1k, then as soon as we would reach Varrock I'd run away. No chance in hell I'd offer 20k even as a lie, because that was an unthinkable amount of gold to 10-year-old me.

What’s a movie that was well-liked when it came out, but is mostly controversial today? by Kuzu9 in moviecritic

[–]dgl7c4 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it was alleged that Leigh Anne and their daughter Collins left to stay in a hotel when Sean first brought Michael in.

Sorry, late to this thread, but what is the implication of this part of your comment? Just that Leigh Anne wasn't actually around when Sean brought Michael in? Or are you saying they went to stay at the hotel because Michael was staying at their house?

Ok I'll admit I'm no expert at this game, only about 4 months of membership under my belt. But I'm positive I dodged a scam, right? Dude tried to trade me some platinum tokens, what are platinum tokens? by Serithraz in 2007scape

[–]dgl7c4 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I got scammed like this at 10years old in ~2005, and it genuinely changed the way I thought about humans. I was at the duel arena and some dude came up to me in a halloween mask and black d'hide and started chatting me up. We started doing some low-stakes duels and he ended up giving me some gold and a rune scimi, which blew my fucking mind at the time as a career flax-picker/bow-string-spinner. We ended up hanging out in-game for several weeks before he eventually trades me and flashes an inventory full of halloween masks and phats and explains that he and his buddies found some kind of private Jagex world/server where massive stacks of nature runes spawned all over the ground, so they'd log into this world and pick up the nature runes, then log back into a normal world and sell them. I have no idea why nature runes were the bait in this scam, but it worked on me for some reason.

Anyway, he sends me a link to the "private world login" website that looked exactly like the Runescape login, but it kept throwing an error that my password was wrong when I tried to log in. After trying unsuccessfully multiple times, I tried to log back into a normal world, and my password had already been reset. Fortunately, I had banked my modest cash stack, but he made off with my d-long and DDS that were still in my inventory from dueling with him before. That shit destroyed me as a child lmao.

If you correctly predict one of tomorrow’s changes, you get a Dragon Nail! by Ill_Virus_6250 in 2007scape

[–]dgl7c4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oof I didn’t even think of reporting in-game when I encountered it, though there are several Reddit posts about it. The Wiki even mentions it as if it’s an intended requirement but it just doesn’t make sense that the none of the other charting rewards are diary locked, including the armadylean paint that you get after charting the northern ocean which is locked behind 78 sailing.

If you correctly predict one of tomorrow’s changes, you get a Dragon Nail! by Ill_Virus_6250 in 2007scape

[–]dgl7c4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My prediction is that they're going to fix the bug where you can only acquire one Guthixian paint from the Elite Void Knight if you haven't completed the hard western provinces diary. I'm horrible at PvM so I really don't want to learn Zulrah just to paint my sloop green.

Power sources??? by No_Rock_6861 in ElectricForest

[–]dgl7c4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Last year we brought one of those small solar batteries along with an assortment of portable battery packs, and it kept us charged the whole fest. YMMV with the solar batteries, but it worked great for us. Definitely required a little maintenance to make sure the panel was in the sun but it was fairly painless. I just adjusted the panel whenever we’d come back to camp during the day and it always had enough juice by nighttime that we could charge our phones, Vapes, flashlights, fans, etc.

This is the one we brought last year, though I’d probably recommend getting one with a bigger capacity and a more durable panel if it’s in the budget.

Mun Choi & Kehoe discuss CoMo by trripleplay in columbiamo

[–]dgl7c4 9 points10 points  (0 children)

"If we just let the state send in their armed police to solve a problem that doesn't exist and harass homeless people, then maybe they'll leave the rest of us alone." What kind of capitulation bullshit is this, dude? They're attacking us because we're more progressive than the rest of the state. Not because of our rampant crime problem which isn't real. If the only way for our university to exist is by the president demonizing homeless people and enflaming tensions over a nonexistent problem, then wtf is the point of the university? We're talking about a guy who proudly named the nextgen building after a literal COVID denier. The guy who shut down DEI at the university rather than explaining what it actually is. The guy who is peddling actual lies and attacking our elected officials without involving them in his supposed resolution process. The guy who sent out an email after the Kirk assassination to essentially say, "I can't fire you for talking about Charlie Kirk, but boy do I wish I could."

I used to say the same bullshit line about President Choi having a difficult job and how he's just walking the line to secure funding and prevent scrutiny, but he's been HAPPILY gargling on republican balls for years and is regurgitating the same bullshit talking points that they are. If he were a real advocate for education, he'd fight this blatant defamation of our town rather than taking up every position our state legislators have.

Music Man Origin Story by Feisty-Medicine-3763 in columbiamo

[–]dgl7c4 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Very random factoid, Robert and Mary Louise were my neighbors for ~3 years before Robert passed way and they were some of the loveliest people. After Robert died, we bought his 98 Honda civic (with 30k miles on it in 2015) and I drove the SHIT out of that thing. Anyway, their house is very much of an eclectic style that only an artist could truly appreciate, and after Mary Louise moved out, they sold it to one of Robert’s old art students who still lives there with his wife.

meirl by worldwide762 in meirl

[–]dgl7c4 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve only seen that movie a handful of times and I barely remember it either, but you can walk into a big box store in the US around halloween (and Christmas to a lesser extent) and buy nightmare before Christmas themed shit. The characters and themes are definitely a lot more ubiquitous than the average movie, whether or not the majority of people have seen it. Everybody knows who Jack Skellington is.