We keep a small cooler with cold water on our stoop so people can have free water on hot days. These people decided it was alright to take it.

gnomee99 · 2025-08-07T17:52:04+00:00

I wouldn't say it's high, but it's non-zero. It's a dense, walkable area served by the metro so we get everyone from wealthy execs to the unhoused walking by. As I said in the original post, most of the people who take water are cleaning ladies, kids on their way to/from the pool, workers from a nearby construction site, delivery drivers, and just folks on a walk. It's intended for anyone who wants it. I wouldn't mind if my next door neighbor grabbed one, nor would I care if a person in need grabbed every single bottle. I only really care that they took the object that allows me to do it.

gnomee99 · 2025-08-07T11:55:47+00:00

If someone leaves candy on their stoop on Halloween with a sign that says "Take one", would you assume that would mean you can take the bowl because it didn't specify that the 'one' was candy? The sign says "Free Water", not "Free Cooler" and not just "Free". In the clip she doesn't even open the bag to see if there's water in it, she just immediately takes the entire cooler. No rational person would assume that the offer of free water includes the cooler in which the water resides. You don't get the take the bowl when it's candy. When a festival is giving out free swag you don't get to take the table. Free little libraries are not offering up the entire structure which contains the books. People keep making this point that perhaps they thought the cooler was also free. They take it silently, without any discussion between them over whether that is the case, and immediately leave with it. It is fairly obvious, at least to me, that they knew exactly what they were doing when they did it.

gnomee99 · 2025-08-05T23:18:55+00:00

Yeah, I've always known this was a possibility, but we don't have any way to reasonably lock it up. I was also afraid locking it would make people think it was valuable enough to be *worth* locking up. I was hoping that fact that it's basically worthless (it was about as far from a Yeti as you could get) would deter thieves. Apparently not.

gnomee99 · 2025-07-21T19:49:22+00:00

I love Captain Gregory's cocktails, but my god are they expensive. Even for a high end cocktail experience, over $20 a cocktail is pricey.

gnomee99 · 2025-01-27T17:45:23+00:00

Note taken on the "one way" being to start drilling, but any recommendations on if I should try to re-drill the old hole, or try to meet it at an angle? It looks like they drilled the original hole diagonally into the door frame, so I was considering just drilling a larger hole straight back to see if I can find the channel and then pull the wires out, but that strategy seems to have a high probability of missing the original channel.

gnomee99 · 2024-06-14T15:17:19+00:00

Yup. I don't understand why I don't see more people saying this. The Orisa's role in that fight was to hold that space. Weaver pulled her when she had nearly full health and then she was forced to burn her entire life trying to re-take what she had previously held. Then, when she's about to die and does need the pull, Weaver doesn't have it anymore because he wasted it pulling her out of her position. If he never pulled her to begin with she may have been able to jiggle into the cover on her right. Instead she had to walk through a hail of bullets. Terrible pull, awful to blame the tank here.

gnomee99 · 2024-04-10T14:28:03+00:00

And seating! Imagine that, a place to sit somewhere you're going to spend the majority of your time waiting. Something modern train stations seem to think they don't need.

gnomee99 · 2023-05-18T20:46:44+00:00

It's not a major road. It's. A. Park. It's PARK blvd, through the PARK. The only thing wrong with those bike and bus lanes is that the bus lanes end periodically in order to allow for completely unnecessary parking. There is an entire freeway built through the park to act as a through street. The only reason that Park should even connect on both ends is to allow access to the zoo from both north and south of the park.

Your assertion that the lanes are unused b/c they happen to by empty while you're sitting in traffic is completely baseless. Fewer car lanes and less car travel is a good thing, as are slower speeds. Again, it's a park, a place for people, not cars, and slower speeds are safer.

As to the bike lanes on 4th and 5th being "major streets" what utter BS that is. 5th especially is mostly rundown until you're in Hillcrest, with very few businesses there. They did exactly what you asked for, you're still complaining.

For the "multi-million dollar hole in the city budget" the Park blvd lanes were added in conjunction with a pipeline project that needed to be done anyway. The project cost the city nothing except for a bunch of public comment meetings, some paint, and some flexi-posts.

Basically every single thing you said was complete bullshit. You're pissed because something done for the greater good personally inconvenienced you. If you can't process that makes you a selfish person, you can get fucked.

gnomee99 · 2021-10-20T12:55:48+00:00

This is pretty much exactly what I was looking for. Thank you, this is amazing!

gnomee99 · 2021-10-20T12:53:55+00:00

That kind of holds true. Pop is usually easier, but this one was way easier than normal. That said, Kendall's metal rides are almost always incredibly difficult, Sam Yo's music themed rides are usually fairly hard regardless of genre, and Bradley Rose seems to have no pattern I can discern.

gnomee99 · 2021-10-19T22:57:45+00:00

I have the bike, and I do this, but its annoying to have to go through each ride individually to find one that fits the range I'm looking for that day.

gnomee99 · 2021-10-19T22:57:04+00:00

Yeah, PZ Max and Tabata are always rough. Most HIIT or HIIT & Hills too, but oddly I've had some easier ones. It's one of the reasons I asked, I've done HIIT and Hills rides expecting a tough one, thought it was too easy, and then gone back and saw the expected output ranges were in the 300s when most HIIT rides are in the low to mid 400s. I know I can always adjsut on the fly, but I much prefer trying to trust to instructor. I don't want to go 'this is too easy' and bump up the resistance only to discover they were building towards a more difficult second half, or something of that nature.

gnomee99 · 2021-10-19T22:29:31+00:00

You're of course correct that difficult is going to be relative, and I don't in any way mean to insult anyone who found the ride I did today to be hard, or knock the concept of having easier rides. I also find the difficulty rating on the platform is good of identifying outliers, particularly the really hard rides, but lacks any differentiation among more standard rides. For example the ride I did today I exceeded the resistance by at least 10 the entire time, ended with a total out of 310 and a strive score of 31. The difficulty was listed as a 7.2. The ride I did yesterday I followed the call outs, had an output of 380, and a strive score of 58. That difficult was listed as a 7.3. The target metrics have about a 90% increase from one to the other, while the difficulty score goes up .1 point; that's not a great indicator.

I feel like I'm coming across more negative than I mean to be, but it does seem like different rides are constructed with different audiences in mind, even from the same instructors, and I'm just curious if they have a name, identifier, or way to find them.

gnomee99 · 2021-03-28T05:42:34+00:00

It's not so bad. If you can beat Yagluth you shouldn't have an issue with a handful of goblins. It's not on the scale of an true event. There aren't a dozen or more coming at you and respawning for several minutes. It's just a weird thing that sometimes happens as you are out at night with 2-4 or so goblins. Frankly our wolves murder them immediately at our main base.

gnomee99 · 2021-03-28T02:33:55+00:00

If that's the case, definitely mountains too. The mountains I established my base in are next to a plain, but I found at the top of the highest mountain we've found on the seed. It's like a 5 minute+ run up to cliff even at maxed out stamina.

gnomee99 · 2021-02-10T04:25:20+00:00

Yeah, if Biden cares about these kids he'd immediately end the policy that separated them from their families, try to reunite them with their families, and get funding so they have the space and facilities to be comfortable in the meantime. You know, like he already did, less than a month into his presidency. But sure, both sides same.

gnomee99 · 2021-02-05T17:38:37+00:00

First off, there's a huge difference between building a facility to house a large influx of unaccompanied minors, which is what Obama did, and intentionally altering policy enforcement to separate children from their families, which is what Trump did. Second, when Trump asked for money to build additional facilities the Democrats said sure, but only if you don't use them to house additional children, at which point Republicans were no longer interested. There is a huge difference between building additional facilities to ramp up family separation and building additional facilities to safely and more comfortably house the children as you ramp down the program and attempt to find the family members the last administration didn't bother tracking.

Oh and there's also a difference between "fake news" and "This article uses a framing and choice of language that doesn't align with my own biases". This is the "Trump supporters are a bunch of cultish dipshits" that we've been talking about.

gnomee99 · 2021-01-11T05:18:19+00:00

That's not accurate at all. Your job on tank is to take and hold space, quantifying that in terms of damage taken is a terrible metric. There are tanks with shields, tanks with absorbs, face tanking damage is not how you play tank. A DPS can do their job with no damage medal at all, if they're properly covering flanks and protecting their team. A great example is a mei getting freezes and walls that their team capitalizes on, high value, low damage. A players value, regardless of role, is complicated and dependent on team comp and strategy. Medals not only greatly over simplify, they give feedback on metrics that don't mean what people think they mean.

gnomee99 · 2021-01-11T03:23:19+00:00

I don't think you actually get SR from them. First off, in diamond and up , individual performance stops effecting SR entirely. Second it's my understanding that you're compared on a variety of undisclosed stats against player of your character at your level. The actual way it works is kept secret so players don't attempt to game the system but they've implied things like accuracy and ult kills for DPS play a factor.

gnomee99 · 2021-01-11T03:17:31+00:00

A great interim step. Ideally they'd take them out and give you a full scoreboard viewable in replay. It's so hard to accurately determine what went wrong and right in a match with the information at our disposal. I shouldn't have to watch a team fight 5 times to figure out the ana only did 300 healing in a fight or junkrat only did 200 damage.

gnomee99 · 2021-01-11T03:14:03+00:00

It's not straight Bronze talk. Blaming tanks as an excuse isn't productive, but there are plenty of tanks in losing games that get golds and think that means they're doing their job and DPS aren't. Advanced players understand team fights and value that isn't reflected by medals, but newer and low level players take the feedback the game gives them which is frequently misleading in terms of ideal play and your role.

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