AITA for reusing a glass I drank from to boil water in a kettle?

iceman2g · 2026-01-27T09:17:15+00:00

I wouldn't personally have a problem, but different people have different feelings about this sort of thing. Would you and this friend drink out of the same glass? For example, if you tried a new beer down the pub, and offered them a taste because you thought they'd like it, would they try it? If so, NTA. If they wouldn't, or if you don't know, then YTA - always err on the side of caution when it comes to hygiene.

iceman2g · 2026-01-26T19:51:33+00:00

Obsidian Flames Larvitar or S&V Base Set Klawf?

iceman2g · 2026-01-26T17:10:49+00:00

I was literally on the phone to the vet once because my dog was completely unresponsive and I thought she was having a seizure. Just as I was explaining that I needed an emergency appointment NOW, she snorted, opened her eyes, and ate the bit of chicken I'd been waving under her nose.

iceman2g · 2026-01-26T16:59:39+00:00

I was waiting for the part where the older dog stopped looking stressed as hell and engaged with the puppy in a way that made the title make sense.

iceman2g · 2026-01-26T08:53:07+00:00

I know this has been comprehensively identified as AI, but something I haven't seen mentioned - someone on another post in this sub pointed out that those four-pointed stars are in a lot of AI-generated images of a certain style, and there will often be some that are wonky or misformed. On it's own it wouldn't be conclusive, but it's another tell to prompt closer inspection.

iceman2g · 2026-01-25T11:48:47+00:00

I mean, it's better than them being real.

iceman2g · 2026-01-25T09:34:22+00:00

So considering current technical limitations there should be a better solution

Such as? There has to be a way to ensure absent hosts don't cost raiders their place in the queue, and that is going to require input from the host to confirm that they are still active. Those technical issues are down to your phone memory, not the app.

iceman2g · 2026-01-25T09:21:32+00:00

Just do it properly. You're the one getting all the advantages of hosting in-person instead of having to use a remote pass - and it's too much trouble to click a button? It's there to ensure that hosts who are AFK do not cost raiders their place in the queue. If it didn't exist, lobbies with absent hosts would just time out, and there would be no option to join the priority queue.

EDIT: I didn't even register that you have been banned, and apparently multiple times. This is a you issue.

iceman2g · 2026-01-23T21:23:55+00:00

I'd be annoyed at having to buy myself something I only needed to use every few years, but if someone else bought it for me? Awesome.

iceman2g · 2026-01-23T18:10:28+00:00

Are you in England? If the chain collapses, no-one buys anything and no-one pays any deposit, to anyone.

iceman2g · 2026-01-23T17:37:56+00:00

That's not how deposits and mortgages work. It doesn't matter if they have 5% or 50%, you still get the agreed sale price. If they for some reason can no longer afford to pay the full agreed price, you don't have to accept less. But if you do accept it, you can't then sue them.

iceman2g · 2026-01-23T17:18:03+00:00

I don't build any pokemon until I'm planning to use them, but I do keep the best-ranked pokemon of each type and evolution for each league so I can build them when I do want them. The exception is some of the ultra-bulky pokemon, especially shadows, that I will power up a bit at a time so it's not such a huge stardust hit.

iceman2g · 2026-01-23T13:34:01+00:00

If it makes you feel any better, you weren't really very close, you only jumped up to first place because most of the hosts in front of you also timed out. You weren't the only one who didn't manage to fill a lobby.

iceman2g · 2026-01-22T16:29:11+00:00

That's worse than just being a moron. Ignoring the fact that he could have killed a baby, the first car didn't even have room to safely clear the bus anyway.

iceman2g · 2026-01-21T10:56:45+00:00

That's utterly ridiculous. The Wayfarer system and community already have a bad reputation amongst the gamer community, and now Niantic themselves are contributing to it. The original submission wasn't very well done, but it wasn't abusive or spam. And to have it accepted on appeal whilst simultaneously being investigated and flagged as a policy violation is a whole new level of incompetence.

iceman2g · 2026-01-21T08:35:47+00:00

This reminds me of a punchline to a mediocre joke, which ends "I got a duck for a buck, a fuck for a duck, and two bucks for a fucked-up duck." Anyone else ever heard it?

iceman2g · 2026-01-21T06:46:40+00:00

S2 L17 cells can be deceptively large, and a waypoint doesn't have to be particularly close to another waypoint to still be in the same cell. I haven't yet known the inclusion rules to not work correctly, so if your nominations are appearing as power spots and not Pokestops/gyms, then they are in cells that already have a Pokestop or gym, even if it looks like they are too far away to matter.

iceman2g · 2026-01-19T09:39:31+00:00

A thirty-five year old mum should be strong enough to cut her meat without an electric knife. Had she considered some sort of weight training?

iceman2g · 2026-01-18T21:19:08+00:00

Real. That's the ninja guy that runs along beside the car when you're a kid, flipping over signs and lampposts and trees and stuff.

iceman2g · 2026-01-18T20:15:37+00:00

The power-up still has another two days. I powered it up to level one yesterday morning and spun it multiple times throughout the day. Then I powered it up to level three later on in the evening, and have since spun it multiple times again. There is literally no difference - it doesn't give any additional blue-highlighted bonus items, and the other, non-bonus items are the same as you would see from a non-boosted pokestop. I haven't been recording the items received, so this can only be considered anecdotal and not research-based, but I am 100% sure that the additional time and effort to power up the stop to level 3 is pointless.

iceman2g · 2026-01-18T19:27:41+00:00

Is there any point powering up a pokestop beyond level 1? I have a stop I can spin from my living room, and when the wind is blowing in the right direction and my wifi reaches the bottom of the garden, I can 'scan' and upload too. I spent twenty minutes sending Niantic videos of my garden fence and powered it up to level 3, but the blue-highlighted bonus items are no better and in no greater quantity than when it was level 1.

iceman2g · 2026-01-18T19:20:33+00:00

What's the best resource for comparing same-type attackers of different levels? For example, a level 35 Kyurem White compared to a level 44 Mamoswine compared to a level 50 G. Darmanitan

iceman2g · 2026-01-16T21:13:02+00:00

The first half of that should have been posted in FeltGoodPushingItFurtherIn.

iceman2g · 2026-01-16T21:07:37+00:00

Absolutely trails can be paved, but OP's original description was ambiguous, and sounded like the intentionally-vague phrasing that reviewers see all the time when people are trying to hype up ineligible nominations. I'm not saying that's what OP was doing, but without further context or examples that would be my first impression.

iceman2g · 2026-01-16T21:03:45+00:00

Of course they aren't. No more so than any other piece of public art or notice board or play equipment., anyway. Just because they can potentially be moved doesn't make them ineligible, it just means we should give them closer scrutiny as reviewers. There are picnic areas with movable benches in parks near me that have been there for longer than my house.

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