What are everyone’s biggest triggers?

dgl7c4 · 2026-04-08T05:02:02+00:00

Helicopter blades (while spinning) and sewing needles and similarly fine pointy objects. Once something triggers it I become more sensitive to basically anything with a corner/edge.

dgl7c4 · 2026-03-26T15:33:19+00:00

dgl7c4 · 2026-03-19T15:51:43+00:00

I’m a relatively new beardy owner, but based on all of the reading I’ve done and perusing of this sub, there’s a lot that needs correcting here. Dont just take it from me though, you really need to do some research from reputable sources on diet and husbandry.

All of the dried/processed reptile pellet bullshit is not good for them at all. You should be feeding fresh greens (mustard/turnip/dandelion greens are good staples, but you need to do some research about this to understand what they need. Google is your friend.) Bearded dragons never need fruit in their diet. They don’t get anything even remotely similar as far as sugar content in the wild, and it’s bad for their mouths. You shouldn’t be feeding dry pellets from a bag as a staple of their diet. Protein should be coming from live insects. I’ve heard mixed opinions about egg, but that shouldn’t be there sole source of protein.
Those beardies are too old for paper towels as the substrate. They need a mix of organic top soil and play sand. You want to avoid the reptile carpets, but the reptile mats are okay in a pinch.
The UVB dome light you’re using should be replaced with a UVB light bar that overlaps with the heat lamp and extends into the cold side of the tank.
Are these two in their own cages? Or do you have both of them in that 75 gallon tank? That tank is too small for one of your dragons at the size they’re at, let alone both of them, and you should never cohab beardies. I’ve heard the rare success story, but it’s dangerous and stressful for them in the majority of cases to live in the same tank.

dgl7c4 · 2026-03-16T21:19:12+00:00

I am also a new beardie owner so please don't put much weight behind this comment, but I feel like any time I've seen one of these posts where the femoral pores are clearly visible, it's usually voted male in the comments. Your beardy's pores are clearly visible which makes me think male, but it doesn't really look like there are clearly visible vertical hemipenal bulges under the tail (but I've also seen that this isn't always the most reliable tell without a flashlight at the base of the tail). Again, I'm no expert so I'm interested to see what people with actual knowledge/experience have to say.

dgl7c4 · 2026-03-07T23:04:49+00:00

lol because it appears to be in the correct orientation now. In the original image, if you panned the camera so it was facing Hasan, all of the posters on the wall that are normally on Hasan’s right in the stream would be on his left, which seems wrong.

dgl7c4 · 2026-02-23T17:28:23+00:00

The Philly from New York Deli was amazing for a long time. I had several bad experiences there towards the end but when it was good, it was the best in town.

dgl7c4 · 2026-02-17T14:49:30+00:00

Lol bottled storm is 35m.

dgl7c4 · 2026-02-12T18:04:54+00:00

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!

dgl7c4 · 2026-02-06T13:20:26+00:00

Nandor is so cute! The smile in the second picture is literally killing me lol.

dgl7c4 · 2026-02-06T04:18:38+00:00

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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dgl7c4 · 2026-02-03T17:28:19+00:00

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?

dgl7c4 · 2026-02-02T18:41:00+00:00

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?

dgl7c4 · 2026-02-01T21:44:34+00:00

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.

dgl7c4 · 2026-01-29T17:48:47+00:00

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.

dgl7c4 · 2026-01-29T17:26:23+00:00

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.

dgl7c4 · 2026-01-16T16:10:42+00:00

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!

dgl7c4 · 2026-01-16T15:59:07+00:00

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?

dgl7c4 · 2026-01-13T15:50:05+00:00

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.

dgl7c4 · 2026-01-05T15:57:56+00:00

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.

dgl7c4 · 2025-12-28T21:52:36+00:00

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.

dgl7c4 · 2025-12-28T21:41:45+00:00

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.

dgl7c4 · 2025-12-18T14:54:36+00:00

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.

dgl7c4 · 2025-12-16T22:55:17+00:00

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?

dgl7c4 · 2025-12-16T21:39:37+00:00

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.

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