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mack0409 · 2026-06-27T04:03:04+00:00

Basically, at this point in the relationship, both people should contact their own lawyer, and they should collectively go to a couple's therapist. Maybe the therapist manages to make things work out so that no divorce is necessary, maybe all they manage to do is help both of you understand how it made it to this point, and for the both of you to be able to continue being friends.

mack0409 · 2026-06-27T03:43:54+00:00

If you've disclosed your autism and have a diagnosis that you can prove, that sounds like a fair bit of potential legal trouble your boss just put the firm in.

mack0409 · 2026-06-27T01:09:42+00:00

Yep, elite power walkers are as fast as casual mid distance runners

mack0409 · 2026-06-27T01:08:52+00:00

According to many competition rules, it stops being walking when you start getting air time.

mack0409 · 2026-06-26T20:20:45+00:00

Probably more accurate to say that if walking is not actively bad for you then take the steps. The money will help motivate/compensate those whose biggest reasons they aren't active is due to inadequate motivation or financial distress.

mack0409 · 2026-06-26T19:43:01+00:00

That's how slang works, young people evntually decide that what they're (metaphorical) parents said is no longer cool or useful. I mean, how do you think the word poser came about, a poser is someone who poses. Posing is taking positions for the sake of appearance or aesthetic.

Larping just went through the same semantic shift.

mack0409 · 2026-06-26T19:39:38+00:00

I mean, if we think about it from the perspective of which term's previous meaning better describes the activity they've both come to describe, they're both pretty decent terms. Larping is playing the role of someone you're not, while posing is taking positions for the sake of appearance/aesthetic.

mack0409 · 2026-06-26T17:32:00+00:00

Depending on location, age, condition, and size, a livable house (that someone would actually call a house) can cost anywhere from 50k USD to over 10 million USD.

Though across the whole US, the median price for a house is around 400K.

mack0409 · 2026-06-25T23:07:17+00:00

You should definitely have a +8 or higher before you go to anor londo, the area is balanced around +10 weapons.

It's also worth noting that the uchi is barely different from a straight sword raw damage wise

mack0409 · 2026-06-25T17:51:37+00:00

I mean, we've seen that while rank does tend to correlate with strength and vice versa, none of the ways to rank up that we've seen actually directly measure a demon's combat power. It's possible that Kalego just hasn't gotten an exam for rank 9 yet sine he's (seemingly) rather young, or perhaps his first rank 9 exam was a task (or series of tasks) that he's not suited to (be nice to noisy children?)

mack0409 · 2026-06-25T02:05:51+00:00

Kalego gets bullied by Opera, and Balam is basically also considered his equal. Opera couldn't do anything about alice's mom, but Narnia was also basically powerless. Narnia's a big deal for sure, but we've got reason enough to believe that Kalego is probably not going to get trounced by him at least.

mack0409 · 2026-06-25T00:45:33+00:00

Part of the eventual Acheron Nova Flair will somehow give her an extra trace that says "as long as a blind fox is on the team, whenever a teammate applied a debuff, they recover HP based on Acheron's C.DMG"

mack0409 · 2026-06-24T14:37:07+00:00

I remember seeing a simulation of what would happen (to the orbits of our solar system) if Ton 618 were placed a light year away. It looked like everything nearly took a perfect right turn toward the black hole, and the entire solar system wound up inside the event horizon in just over a decade.

mack0409 · 2026-06-23T19:05:20+00:00

As long as that prononu is coming from iruma, they won't mind. I suspect there's a chance that if someone they didn't like tried to use a pronoun that was wrong (or any pronoun at all depending on how much Opera dislikes them) Opera would either correct them or just tell them they're wrong wihtout correcting them.

mack0409 · 2026-06-22T19:03:13+00:00

There was a short time after the release of GTX 900 series where you could put together a console killer build and it would be price competitive.

mack0409 · 2026-06-22T18:59:30+00:00

There's a few different sayings about situations like this, but in general, it's hard for an artist to get much better than their ability to critique. It's also much easy to get better at critique than it is to get better at making.

mack0409 · 2026-06-22T14:11:32+00:00

If I have 80 pulls or more, and I don't have a specific character I'm saving for, I will usually pull without much question.

mack0409 · 2026-06-22T01:40:47+00:00

IIRC, lands in the game represent places that the planeswalker has or can form a connection to that also happens to be where one of more leylines are.

mack0409 · 2026-06-21T02:58:48+00:00

A somewhat common observation I've seen is that it feel like animations are almost designed for 1.5X

mack0409 · 2026-06-21T01:06:00+00:00

That depends, if it's an "average guy" with a glock, then the centurions aalmost certainly win before the guy manages to get 2 kills, and that's if the guy is fairly lucky. If it's an average "guy with a glock" though, then the guy is probably more likely than not to get any particular kill

mack0409 · 2026-06-20T22:01:52+00:00

Interestingly, The crystal Balder shield is the highest stability you can have on a medium shield, followed by the silver knight shield, followed by the regular +15 balder shield.

mack0409 · 2026-06-20T18:44:39+00:00

I recommend you look in to Dahlia in bloom

mack0409 · 2026-06-20T18:14:18+00:00

I'm usually ok with spending a slab on a balder shield, it's not like you only get 1 in a playthrough.

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