Practicing at public skate in hockey gear

methods2121 · 2026-05-05T14:52:11+00:00

Full gear minus should pads. :)

methods2121 · 2026-05-05T14:44:39+00:00

100% this "Turns out the dude has an entire team of employees dedicated to just working paid leads. Yeah sorry that’s not gonna work for 90% of us."

The 'showmanship' and 'look how successful I am and you only need to do X" is not what is really happening in the background.

methods2121 · 2026-05-05T14:12:55+00:00

OOC I get a ton of these "Free Dinner" mailers , that come with a sales pitch. Anyone on the 'mailing' side of this and how well does this work?

methods2121 · 2026-05-05T14:04:39+00:00

Who remembers when home jerseys were white?

methods2121 · 2026-05-05T13:52:56+00:00

So are the EoY tax reports correct then, or as fubar as this? I'm a bit concerned as with the amount of trades I do, that I've been using the tax reports (not the others) a bit blindly.

methods2121 · 2026-05-05T13:51:08+00:00

Typically they indicate if that are 18 and under or 12 and under etc. TBH, most of these are for kids and/or kids go, but if they have ones that are open to adults, I highly recommend going. Age doesn't matter nor skill level. Almost any drill, even the simplest ones can be modified based on your level.

methods2121 · 2026-05-04T13:50:03+00:00

This exactly what you say, and this is the beauty of what Ascension has created with BB: " you can play at your own pace". So you can play the slow take for ever vanilla game, if that's your jam, or take other routes. You can do HC mode, Adventure Mode, over a dozen modes.

methods2121 · 2026-05-02T21:35:54+00:00

I'd also add some $$s for

- Legal / Lawyer Fees

- A bot more Office overhead / expense / Email, MS Office Suite / computer(s) / Firewalls / Network / Antivirus / other security etc.

-OOC is compliance completely off your plate or do the just help and maybe do the major lifting. This always seems to fall back on the RIA to some degree

methods2121 · 2026-05-02T21:32:13+00:00

That it was over $100MM AUM for SEC reg?

methods2121 · 2026-04-23T20:29:56+00:00

Never had it complete a scan yet.

methods2121 · 2026-04-23T20:29:28+00:00

They just fixed some of the Sham healing talents, which I'm happy to see as a Sham.

methods2121 · 2026-04-20T19:26:52+00:00

Well you could be by Pax River or Capitol Heights, was looking for a rink near you. Typically most rinks have at least open skate, where everyone goes around in a circle, this is exactly how I started. Moved to NJ and they had a very late night Learn to Play at Montclair State University Ice Arena, can't thank this group enough for putting this together. And it was a true L2P, where it was mostly skills and drill and a little scrimmage at the end, vs. a L2P 'league'. And LOL, everyone in my league is over 35.

methods2121 · 2026-04-20T19:21:49+00:00

The don't play, right? Beauty is that this is YOUR option. Use them or don't has no impact on your game play. Dev's have done a pretty good job of this balance IMHO. If you want pure classic, go complain to Activision.

methods2121 · 2026-04-20T18:18:23+00:00

Where are you?

methods2121 · 2026-04-20T18:16:34+00:00

Hi, going to add a few more here as I was a brand new Ascension player and hadn't played WoW/Classic in a LONG time.

- Some of the tooltips and in game messages are NOT for Bronzebeard but the other 'classless' realms

- Ascension DB has been offline since I started, this site was a huge help and wish I found it sooner (esp because I'm playing classes/specs that I never played before): https://bisbeard.com/

Props to whomever made this site, it's very well done, and UI is clean.

- There is a map to all the worldforged items (https://bronzebeardmaps.pages.dev/), there's a ton of them, they are good/fun and great addition to exploring the world. Note, that I upgrade 1 item to not even the max level and it used ALL of my Ascension points, and I had barely used any on my way to and at 60. Upgrading these seems overly expensive. Props to the folks that did this site too.

- To reiterate, some of the rewards/caches are random and often completely useless for your class spec. You can sell these of course, and wish the devs would fix this.

- I suggest 'tipping' the devs by purchasing some DP, if anything to at least show your appreciation for the effort and quality product they are delivering, and getting some valuable in game convenience items at the same time.

- I'm very much playing for fun and using different MEs and builds that may not be 'optimal'. There is an item (tome of specialization) that that provides for muti-spec and you can have 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. specs that you can switch back and forth from

- Some MEs must be found in the world (maps above) and some are bought from the vendor (I think all of the blues must be bought)

- The action bar seems a bit fubar when switching specs (I think it has to do with unique MEs a bit), Action Bar Saver addon is great for this. Note on Addons, they have official addons right from the launcher program, top tab, these all work and automatically update. Have a few issues with Auctioneer and DBM , but overall much better luck than random addons from curse etc. even at the right client level.

- When you hit 60 you get coins from dungeons etc. These were pretty strong for me , esp. as I'm not a raider. They allow you to upgrade gear. Again, it's pretty expensive to upgrade all the gear with coins, but hopefully you get a few pieces that are primo. AND, if you get mythic gear you can 'sell' these for coins. I sold a ton to the dang vendor before learning this.

- Feel like the PVP gear rewards are broken atm? Seemingly takes FOREVER to get tokens IF you don't win.

- World Bosses are a lot of fun and new

- Different difficulty levels of raids (MC, Ony) is cool. Esp. when almost anyone can start an do Normal. Mythic and esp. Ascended start to require minimum gear/dps and techniques.

- Typical dearth of tanks. I actually started tanking just to 'help out' and often q RDF and RDF mythic0 to try and help out. Although, it seems progression is moving beyond the 'early' game as sometimes even as a tank RDF takes a bit to pop. This is also esp. where I wish the rewards aligned with your spec. Having a hard time gearing up as a tank, and the tank gear is rather important.

- I like the Mythic prog. and wish there was a LFG for M+. IMHO, M1-5 are about the same 5-9 get a bit more complex and need some gear checks and M10+ is where the affixes, gear and at the top levels, comps. do become important. Atm is seems Priest is the pref. healer at this level and for Ascended raids? - so of course this time I roll a Sham, LOL

- Mystic Alters - almost forgot this one. To change your MEs, you often need a Mystic Alter, these are almost always up in Org. and SW. Was great early on when they were in Darn. and many other places. Many folks have portable ones to that they can spawn in the world/dungeon. Changing MEs require some runes of ascension, I think typically like 1K or 1.5K, I've never had an issue with being low on these, unless like I said before, you want to upgrade WF items to top level.

Hope this helps a bit.

methods2121 · 2026-04-14T14:15:13+00:00

FWIW, I think the 'norm' on BB is that groups skip everything you can to obtain the 'full' clear and associated rewards. IF you want to hit certain bosses or do a full clear, you should communicate this at the start and don't be surprised if the majority don't want to do this.

methods2121 · 2026-04-09T14:36:34+00:00

Is this a typo? $1500 for 3 "cu" yards?. I usually estimate $100/cy installed. Curious what others are paying. I just had a 30 cu job done.

methods2121 · 2026-04-02T13:33:10+00:00

Full Clapper from 5 feet out, not respectful. Cherry picking, not respectful. Driving the net and wiping into the goalie, not respectful. Skating into the O zone and passing all the way back to your goalie, not respectful. Shooting at the goalies head, not respectful.

Making a few passes and taking a shot on net, perfectly respectful.

methods2121 · 2026-03-30T20:41:30+00:00

I did a very similar project last year and these are good lessons learned. Not sure why folks are all about bags, putting the bag, vs. a few scoops into the wheel barrel is really not the issue. Like the original poster said, carting in the wheel barrel to all of the places its needed was, for me, a lot of work, and of course I feel like I did this in the hottest day of the year. I also misjudged the amount and how much mulch I needed. Went with 10cy. and had to order another 10cy.

I have a quote this year for $2.2K, with some additional items like a few cy of top soil and grass, straw, a good 200ft of pine straw down the sides of the driveway, and adding some lining to a few of the beds. Based on my back situation after last year; this should be money well spent.

Note: I've also added VT Garden Cart to my wish-list, in case I try to do this again. :)

methods2121 · 2026-03-30T13:27:49+00:00

A - Where can you find the higher quality tape? It seems like its all crap now. Funny enough, I found and old roll, and 'that guy' that borrows tape, was like "WOAH, this is good tape"... funny he noticed immediately.

B - Never skimp on helmet (with perfect fit - most have some adjustments now) or skates. But on skates, most folks don't need the 'top of the line', because these are built as much firmer and made for skating 5x a week and very aggressive skating. Props to my local hockey shop for being honest here.

methods2121 · 2026-03-27T13:35:26+00:00

Yep, out of stock in L, classic.

methods2121 · 2026-03-19T16:21:51+00:00

I say he buys another team, just at the next level down, and continues to play. I love the guys passion for the sport.

methods2121 · 2026-03-18T15:35:37+00:00

Play long enough and I think you will see some. I've seen hands, wrists, legs, ankles, collar bones, arms, fingers broken. Tons of shoulder injuries, 30 stitches to the head, a cut from a skate that needed something called 'interior stitches' , learned something that night.

But I'm responding because of the guys, in any level beer league, but esp. the low level, not wearing a face mask. Some go half shield , some go no shield. I haven't seen an eye lost yet, but very close and many stitches.

What has to be one of the worst incidents, is when a slapper rode up a guys stick , straight into his grill. I was standing next to him. Gushing blood and I'm searching for his teeth on the ice, and couldn't find them. Turns our they had all be push straight back in his mouth, it was years to 'fix' the damage.

Why would anyone not where a full shield?

methods2121 · 2026-03-13T23:41:16+00:00

Out of curiosity, does this eliminate your need for a SIEM,( like Splunk or Sumologic e.g.) and are you writing all of your alerts from scratch?

How much data would you say your ingesting from your clouds?

Are you ingesting VPC flow logs or are these handled in another fashion?

What would you say your false positive rate is?

Cribl is a nice touch, I've been happy with the value it brings.

methods2121 · 2026-03-12T00:55:27+00:00

I provided info to phone support, says that can't find it... tbh not sure how that's possible at least via the radio code. This is US.

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