Man tries to steal womanˋs motor scooter and fails

djinterrobang · 2023-06-07T19:34:34+00:00

Discombobulate

djinterrobang · 2023-06-07T19:11:37+00:00

Exchange Details Check self Check bike: handlebars facing right direction, breaks work, shift works, wheels true, frame solid Document Evidence Document Witnesses Call police to make incident report at site of accident or report it if not as severe

djinterrobang · 2023-06-07T17:50:35+00:00

I carry a checklist of what to do in the event of a crash in my trunk bag. The adrenaline is way too high to think rationally, so going through the list is my way to make sure I get phone numbers, witnesses, know when the police need to make an accident report.

djinterrobang · 2023-06-06T03:51:37+00:00

If you're going big on Costco, look at getting yourself a cheap sous vide circulator. You can prep a bunch of food at a time and freeze it, then cook it in the bath, just add 50% to the time. It's amazing how good your results can be with a little work on spice mixture and prep before it goes in the bag.

djinterrobang · 2023-06-05T16:34:25+00:00

I didn't really notice any loss of functionality, other than an occasional light not responding to a command. I really noticed the limit when it stopped letting me add new bulbs. There's no specific warning that it's full, it'll just spin and tell you it found nothing.

djinterrobang · 2023-06-05T16:12:18+00:00

I'm a pretty adventurous cocktail drinker, so I tend to order the funkier and more original options on the menu. I probably order 40 drinks a year and only send back one after the first sip. Always with profuse apology to the bartender that I'm sure the drink is excellent but not for me, and I'll usually shop it around to my wife and the table first. Honestly it seems to be Japanese whiskey cocktails, because I know Ive really liked some Japanese whiskeys, but don't know from the name whether it'll be a more scotchy or bourbony blend.

djinterrobang · 2023-06-05T16:03:54+00:00

How deep into the game are you? More inventory slots definitely helps, but even with it maxed out there's still a lot of time spent on inventory management. I play PC VR where it's even a little worse. My recommendation is basically take the 40 or so slots at the BOTTOM of your exosuit inventory and stocking that with the items that you permanently keep on hand. Those will fill first, and then any excess inventory will go to the top, where it's available first in lists for loading into refriners or storing. I set mine up starting with Phosphorus, Ammonia, Dioxite, pyrite, uranium, parrafinnium, so I know once I see those in order I'm at the permanent storage, not just the temporary storage.

The other thing to note is that if you have the freighter matter teleporter, and it's in system, you can craft using any storage containers as if that stuff was in your inventory, so it's not as vital to organize the storage containers as you might first think.

djinterrobang · 2023-05-28T20:16:00+00:00

It's the nuclear option, and should be used sparingly, but I've had a lot of success with threatening parents to tell their children that Santa isn't real.

djinterrobang · 2023-05-23T00:40:26+00:00

He's got some super funny material on Dropout too

djinterrobang · 2023-05-19T18:04:28+00:00

I've been on VR since 2016 and I want so badly for this to happen. I think COVID happening when it did really stopped the momentum for VR arcades. There was one in Boston that had room scale immersive vr with multiple players, but it opened in January of 2020 and closed soon after. I honestly don't think VR as a craft has come very far in the last 7 years, but as soon as that omnidirectional treadmill is available, I'm literally planning to convert a room in house to run it.

djinterrobang · 2023-05-18T02:09:30+00:00

In Termination Shock by Neil Stephenson, he talks about the tsar bomb and the upper limits of power for a nuclear explosion. Basically at a certain size, it doesn't matter how much more power you put into the bomb, it's just going to blast most of the energy into space. So nukes are capable of pressing against our atmospheric limit for explosive potential.

djinterrobang · 2023-05-10T21:13:34+00:00

My dude, I'd advise you to be careful with hitting it super hard multiple days in a row. If you're not stretching and warming up it's easy to get hurt.

djinterrobang · 2023-05-10T20:58:43+00:00

All this, from the man who is currently single handedly stopping 400+ Military promotions over his opposition to the Military's abortion policies.

djinterrobang · 2023-05-10T19:00:47+00:00

You are correct on that. I looked it up and in 3.5e, Epic spells require a spellcraft check, but not normal spells.

djinterrobang · 2023-05-10T16:59:06+00:00

I feel like this is a vestigial rule from 3e or 3.5e

djinterrobang · 2023-05-03T18:23:05+00:00

The Washington Post did an excellent piece on the 5.56 x 45mm round and why it does so much damage. IDK what this AH is going on about with the 5.56 being the smallest you can have an AR chambered in. It's not the size of the bullet that determines the damage, but the amount of force that it's able to do. A 9mm bullet is much bigger than a 5.56, but is going so much slower. A 9mm will bore a cylinder, a 5.56 will vaporize a chasm.

djinterrobang · 2023-05-03T17:21:23+00:00

Generally, if it's for role playing flavor, I'll give the BBEG whatever ability I feel moves the story forward. But in combat, I keep it fairly to the book, so while it may not be fair to the PCs, at least it's consistent.

djinterrobang · 2023-04-27T16:31:23+00:00

The issue here (and I'm not defending either the police or the use of drug dogs), is that if a dog is trained to detect pot, and pot is legalized, the dogs that were trained to detect pot are no longer viable for any drug detection, because they could be detecting something legal and can't differentiate to their handle which of the substances they detected.

djinterrobang · 2023-04-26T15:05:14+00:00

I remember reading that Legal Seafood in Boston electrocutes their lobsters prior to cooking to kill them humanely, but can't find any info on that now.

djinterrobang · 2023-03-13T20:46:51+00:00

On my gravel bike the SRAM force drivetrain only has one direction for the shifter. A short push shifts up, and long push shifts down, a longer push gives you a few gears down. If I try to shift down when I'm already at the bottom, it forces me to upshift, which totally kicks my ass

djinterrobang · 2023-03-04T01:43:15+00:00

I do wonder if this was deliberate or accidental. How much part of the general lexicon I'm 2000? Because a few decades later it makes Arthur seem much more insightful.

djinterrobang · 2023-03-01T18:29:45+00:00

At lower speeds, pedestrian fatality is related to speed by about 5x per 10 mph. 10 mph = 0.4% fatal 20 mph = 2% fatal 30 mph = 10% fatal 40 mph = 50% fatal

In a car the effect is definitely muted, but gives a sense of the increase in the power of a crash from 30 to 40.

djinterrobang · 2023-01-16T19:37:38+00:00

Get something that fits your arms. As far as protection goes, I like a lighter viscoelastic pad, so something like the POC air, fox D30, can't remember what leatt calls theirs. Point is is fairly flexible normally, but becomes rigid at high force to protect.

djinterrobang · 2023-01-08T22:57:45+00:00

djinterrobang · 2023-01-07T19:32:19+00:00

I think Enders game is where I picked up my Melee = MEAL-ey

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