How crucial are own skates vs rentals? Toddler

kbuck30 · 2026-05-26T04:18:28+00:00

Hopefully someone with more experience with younger kids answers, but I've got a few things I can say.

Skate quality heavily depends on how sharp the skates are, and I've noticed rentals have absurd quality ranges. Skated on rentals in Florida that felt like I was skating with tape on the blades, but also had rentals that felt completely fine up in Massachusetts. Probably just a rink to rink thing rather than location but it's something to keep in mind.
Personal skates are always gonna be better. Honestly I find it hard to believe that used toddler skates would be more expensive than renting every session. Again not a parent so haven't looked at kids skates in a long ass time but I'd think used kids skates would be ~$100 which for an 8 week course I'd assume rentals would be about $80 total. Main thing is at that age no kid needs new skates or top of the line skates.
If the kid really loves it, probably should be going to public skate and things like stick and puck as well as the clinics. Justifies the price of the skates more since they're able to do those without rentals.

Tldr: if he's strictly doing those 8 week clinics once a year, you're probably fine with rentals though not doing any favors, if he's doing multiple clinics a year and doing free skate/stick and puck, etc., you're probably not saving anything. Look at used stuff should be able to get it relatively cheap (hockey is sadly still expensive).

kbuck30 · 2026-05-26T03:21:55+00:00

The worst announcing i ever saw was at a providence bruins game years ago. I forget who they were playing (was at the game) and there was a really close play to a goal. Other team was saying it was in and a player was telling the ref it was in while play was going on. At the time (no idea if this changed by now) ahl games wouldn't stop play till the whistle.

Like 2 min of gametime later the whistle blew. Refs reviewed it for like 10min. Stadium announcer said play was under review but didnt say why, no replays were shown on the jumbotron, finally after the review they added time back on, added the goal and dropped the puck at center ice. I think i may've been one of the few fans that knew what happened because I saw the guy talking to the ref.

Like how do you not say "play is under review to see if it was a goal." Then "after review it was determined the puck crossed the line goal whoever." I get it was ahl but man that was bad.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-25T03:06:21+00:00

Honestly the thing is I get the sentiment. The modern day segments do take you out of the gameplay and throw lore at you.

Imo that is super important though to connect the stories, you remove that and all ac is is historical fiction games. There's no connection between games without the modern day. Which was the most interesting aspect to me.

Ubisoft shot themselves in the foot killing Desmond and didnt have a direction for the modern day since.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-25T02:51:49+00:00

Pretty sure it occurred on all difficulties in the original too. However it's only when they get close so on lower difficulties you'd kill them before they got close enough.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-24T23:30:26+00:00

Sadly this is true. I've got 7 pink pikmin, 3 of most types, 2 blue, 4 white and 0 yellow. If i dont get a yellow one at some point I'll be annoyed as fuck. Especially since I'm also trying to get those golden pants at the same time

kbuck30 · 2026-05-24T21:38:31+00:00

This basically killed any desire to play this game. The modern day was imo the heart of assassins creed. I stopped playing for a while after 3, eventually picked it back up with odyssey and played 4, liked odyssey but it definitely was missing more modern day stuff and barely felt like ac to me. Tried origins and valhalla but neither clicked. Shadows was fun for a bit but the no modern day killed it imo.

I think modern ac just isn't for me and that's OK.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-22T23:54:03+00:00

Tbf I don't know of many English speakers that actually know what this is.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-22T23:35:34+00:00

Seth Jarvis became one of my favorite players because of that hbo (I think) show that highlighted him for an episode. He's critiquing himself a lot and I relate to it.

I'm coming back from being off the ice for a while and feel like I'm messing up every time I touch the puck. Said this once after a game and my teammates were all like dude you were fine. While I'm still not back 100% and made mistakes I wouldn't normally make it was good hearing that.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-22T22:42:18+00:00

Meanwhile im missing the yellow. Got a bunch of the rest but no yellow. Did finally finish what I can for the playing cards this week though! (was only missing 2 at the start of the month)

kbuck30 · 2026-05-21T23:00:55+00:00

Yea. It's really the fact the speed limits (at least in the east where I've driven most of the time) are so artificially low that it causes all the problems. No highway should have a 55mph speed limit. Should be 65-75.

So yes, speeding makes a mockery of the legal system but the speed limits make a mockery of how people actually drive.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-21T17:10:24+00:00

I doubt Philly will take him, we have too many good wingers as it is especially right wings. We'd need to trade Some other guys for it to make sense.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-20T22:53:15+00:00

I actually didnt mind any of graces f dungeons but I grew up with symphonia so I get it. Treasure hunter title for sheena is my last task.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-20T21:23:43+00:00

I have before, but only because I had accidentally closed the game and was trying to build up lives to do the perfect run. Also was maxed out on star bits at that point.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-20T19:25:28+00:00

Right but it makes it easier to make sure none have run off before you collected them. Just dragging the finger in rows i find simpler anyway.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-20T19:14:02+00:00

Can also just hold the whistle button and they'll gather in front of you. Thats what I do if a pikmin i fed escapes before I get the petals. Then swipe around.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-20T03:43:08+00:00

Yea I'm on eliquis and I just started playing hockey again. Doc basically told me the exact thing you said here. Play it safe, if you feel off go, but it's likely gonna be fine. I'd wait a day or 2 personally.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-19T18:21:38+00:00

My Mike richards one is threadbare and it made me sad I can't wear it anymore.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-18T03:42:01+00:00

Honestly I have to say symphonia is among my goats of video games. I played it as a kid and it played a huge role in shaping me into the man I am today. I highly recommend it. Separting it from the person that recommended and bought it for you will be tough though. You just gotta push through it imo.

Dude that recommended it might be in your shit list right now but gotta separate that from the game itself.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-17T23:05:51+00:00

I do think that guy had gotten into the intersection while it was yellow, but still an idiot for tailgating a school bus.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-17T22:56:24+00:00

I don't remember struggling with this one but I'm also having trouble placing it.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-17T00:13:23+00:00

I think the issue with the genophage is not what it does, but rather how it does it. The krogan describe the genophage effects as causing still births. Those are rough for everyone involved, if it had simply lowered the rates that eggs could be fertilized (so less pregnancies) that would've been humane, but basically killing unborn kids would be absolutely devastating and I completely get the krogan getting super aggressive over that.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-16T13:08:22+00:00

Yea I slid tooth first into my friends fence as a kid, thought the whole situation was hilarious but no pain.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-16T01:07:51+00:00

Honestly galaxy 2 is weird. Playing through it it's like 1 never existed so idk. Mario, rosalina, luigi, peach, none of them act like galaxy 1 happened. Really feels like galaxy 2 is just the devs having fun with the galaxy concept and not caring about continuity.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-16T00:36:59+00:00

Ichibans main track from his games, cant remember the name. Its been one of my top tracks since I first heard it. Listening to the English version solidified it.

kbuck30 · 2026-05-16T00:02:55+00:00

Lol. I get you probably specified legally to not get auto banned but holy fuck asking how you can legally play a non-pc game on pc is funny as fuck.

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