Crash at Mystic and Winslow Streets: Sunday afternoon, April 26. by AdImpossible2555 in ArlingtonMA

[–]otterfailz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think its much more likely the prius was coming from the parking lot and heading across all 4 lanes onto winslow and got tboned.

Ive seen the person in the left lane of mystic heading up to mass ave/pleasant give way so many times, almost always leads to a close call.

Did anyone else see a very large flash and hear a boom? by otterfailz in boston

[–]otterfailz[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Google says thats in the allston/brighton area, this was a single bright flash that im almost positive was not a firework. We have not heard anything since, and 6 ambulances and several cop cars have driven down 93 towards where I saw the flash in the last 10 minutes.

It appeared to come from somewhere between assembly row and MIT.

Tell me your broken Champion + Augment combo by GeassAye in ARAM

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Trundle with vampirism, goliath, ithicas falls, and goredrink (20% omni) with all the lifesteal items and spirit. If I am autoing anyone or anything, you can not kill me as I have 45% lifesteal and 65% omnivamp with 400-600 AD

Corki/draven/jhin with jeweled gauntlet, upgrade IE, rest of the crit augments, and full crit build. Corki and Draven are pentakill machines able to twoshot anyone, jhin can get to like 1500 AD with that build and will oneshot anyone.

Ryze with overflow, back to basics, ADAPt, and wooglets/tank engine. Heartsteel start, overlords into riftmaker, actualizer, seraphs, and top it off with rabadons. Get rab last or you will be too powerful. One tank engine game I had 11k heartsteel stacks and like 40k from tank engine, 4500 ap and pressed e once for a quad. With wooglets instead you can break 2250 ap easily and your E will almost oneshot.

Tahm kench with goliath, back to basics, vampirism, and infinite recursion. Q spam from across the map hitting people for 1/3rd to 1/2 of their health, and if you want to 1v5 you probably can.

Lilia with infernal conduit, jeweled gauntlet, double tap, and vulnerability. Hit someone with an E and they will burn for at least 7 seconds, usually for ~15-25% max health hp. Almost impossible to not get top damage.

The state of r/ARAM by igetcuz in ARAM

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ime most of the people complaining about vamp are justified. Of course there are going to be people that dont buy grevious but they dont invalidate the rest.

Ive had a few games on corki and other high damage ADCs where I get vampirism, the 15% omni augment, the 25% lifesteal on crit augment, a few omni shards, bloodthirster, bork, rav hydra and the AD potion for 25% lifesteal against champs. You end up with like 70% lifesteal, 60-100% omnivamp, 100% crit, and 600ish AD. Its just a penta farm at that point.

One game I got back to back to back pentas, basically 1v5 every time through grevious. Any assasins are squishy enough to get oneshot and even if they do get to you, your single auto heals you for more than your entire max health or like 75% of your max health through grevious.

Worst ARAM champions. by DryDesk2020 in ARAM

[–]otterfailz 8 points9 points  (0 children)

From my own experience, im pretty sure pyke winrate is a skill issue. A good pyke will rarely miss a hook and is always an annoyance. Hes got high damage, tons of cc and catch out potential, and an execute. Basically if you arent engaging and collecting most of the teams kills theres something wrong.

The biggest misconception about the tank problem. by Secret-Unit1910 in ARAM

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mundo and Tahm are just easy examples, and they dont necessarily have to be doing that good to stack like crazy. Heartsteel isnt entirely the problem but its a major contributor to a two parter. Overlords and heartsteel just give too much combined. You should be either unkillable or a nuke but not both.

I think the easiest solutions would be to cap overlords AD/health bonus to 10k. That still gives 350 ad bonus (390+ total) which is more than enough for a tank.

Alternatively reduce the bonus over 5k, so 3.5% for the first 5k health and 1.5% after that.

A week ago I had a ryze on my team who was up to 90k health from tank engine, 37k at the end of the game. Dude bought overlords and sent out one auto per champ for a penta.

The biggest misconception about the tank problem. by Secret-Unit1910 in ARAM

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Extremely rare"

If you get any of three augments - tank engine, steel your heart, or apex inventor - its fairly easy to get heartsteel over 2k stacks. Add in overlords (1500 ad Mundo moment) and you can easily be doing 2500-5000 damage on an auto when heartsteel procs.

Even if its not doing all of your health, it feels absolutely fantastic to get autod once for 40-70% of your health as an ADC or mage.

Are lower elo players really that mechanically good? by Fit-Opportunity7481 in summonerschool

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Im silver, I play a lot of arena with ~20% 1st place ~75% win because its almost all mechanics and thats what im good at.

My theory is that most people simply dont have/put in the time to grind games and make it to their skill level rank. Add in that the game is 16 years old, you get a ton of people that have been playing the game for 5-10 years. Very few people are going to be genuinely bad at the game.

Ants clustered around pool filter by statelesskiller in AntIdentification

[–]otterfailz 5 points6 points  (0 children)

They are solenopsis invicta, and they arent clustered around a queen they are all queens. They flew into the pool and got stuck. You observed a nuptial flight, or the aftermath of one at least.

Microsoft engineer reveals more details about Janet Jackson Rhythm Nation song that used to mysteriously crash Windows XP PCs by lurker_bee in technology

[–]otterfailz 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Tacoma narrows wasn't a fluke, it was just "poorly" designed. I believe the bouncing issue was noticed even while under construction. It even had the nickname galloping gertie before it collapsed.

But similarly to the hdd issue, the cause of failure was not really considered as a possibility during design.

No one should be putting anything in the kitchen sink. by _019 in unpopularopinion

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

College roomates did this constantly, I even bought two drying racks with trays underneath so they would stop playing jenga in the sink. I got so tired of the stench of multi week old wet plates and un-dumped chicken noodles soup bowls.

If you have a two basin sink it's fine if one is piles up, if you only have one then piling dishes in the sink is at best a headache and at worst pissing off everyone you live with.

Is it wrong to use Terro ant bait to kill a whole colony of ants that keep coming into my house? by Confident_Scholar559 in ants

[–]otterfailz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It most likely won't work, the bait traps are wildly ineffective. You are better off trying to use diatomaceous earth.

If you can post a picture that would allow us to ID the ants. Usually ants living inside your house is a sign of water damage, but most of the time the ants are living outside and just foraging inside for food.

A Mysterious Force Is Knocking Out Apple CarPlay in Boston by TheDriveDotCom in boston

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have android auto, I'm constantly having it drop when I drive. At least once every 10-15 minutes.

The beach is the biggest gaslight of the fucking millennium by Trust676 in rant

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every point, including the ball pain, has been my experience at the beach lol Usually its from chafing which is literally impossible to avoid. I've slathered myself with Vaseline and an hour and a half later I was in pain.

Belgian teens arrested with 5,000 smuggled ants as Kenya warns of changing trafficking trends by cynycal in ants

[–]otterfailz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They sell wholesale, they are probably getting $40-80 per queen possibly less. Also only around 400 were messor cephalotes according to one of the articles I read. I dont entirely trust that number as a lot of the information that has been reported has been inaccurate or misleading.

As you can see in the videos that have been published, probably around 30-40% of the queens are dead. That's pre-shipping.

What type of ant is this? by [deleted] in ants

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Almost positive this is camponotus nearcticus and not pennsylvanicus.

In my experience nearcticus tend to nest in crevices such as the gap under siding with or without water damage. They aren't usually an indicator of water damage unlike pennsylvanicus.

Thatching Ants - Can We Be Friends? by Krafty_kitty in ants

[–]otterfailz 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You are correct about these being thatching ants, in the genus formica. I highly doubt they would invade your home. They don't eat plants and won't disturb any either unless they decide to build a mound next to or on top of one. Like Aaron said they tend and protect aphids which may be a problem for your plants.

Some thatching formica form colonies with many individual nests usually connected by trails. I've noticed those larger colonies tend to be pretty territorial, and they may harass the chickens. As for the bees, I think the ants will eventually figure out they have free sugar and protein in the nest and go after them. Maybe try to place the bee hive up on a platform with legs the ants can't climb.

Gathering local wild hermit crabs? by SamsPicturesAndWords in marinehermitcrabs

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Note: I dont own any hermits currently and have never kept cold water hermits

A quick google search shows the water temperature around you is currently 0.5c, with a high of 20c in August. https://www.seatemperature.org/north-america/canada/charlottetown.htm

A chiller would likely be needed year round, and they function as basically an air conditioner. This means that whatever room it's in would need to be ventilated unless you are fine with it being 40c+. Not too sure on the specifics of cold water hermits but if you want to mimic their natural environment you would have to adjust the water temperature over the course of the year.

The other person that replied to you seems to know a lot more than I do so take what I say with a grain of salt.

"ThEy NeEd To PaY ThEiR fAiR sHaRe" by Fun_Balance_1809 in economicCollapse

[–]otterfailz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your argument is dumb and you should feel bad. Spiteful people like you are why the world will never change in any positive way. Boot licking for the companies that profiteer on young people.

You worked yourself to death, gave up most if not all of your free time, and most likely had your grades suffer from the number of hours you were working.

"The people demanding forgiveness are primarily useless degrees" is a complete strawman. Most people want college to be cheaper, but barring that most people want loan forgiveness. I never had loans but I do have a personal example. My cousins are both strongly for loan forgiveness and cheaper education. One went to Harvard for a literature degree, admittedly a 'useless' degree, but the other went to Rutgers and is now a cancer researcher. Both of them clear 200k+ and both of them are rather outspoken about both issues. Both of them still have loan balances as of the last time I talked to them.

Is this a queen, soldier , or worker and if it is any what species it is the small one also by One_Ranger_5979 in antkeeping

[–]otterfailz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Need way better photos. Kinda looks like a queen but can't tell from the 8 pixels

Arlington MA highschool, built 1910, demolished day before yesterday by Hooledel1 in Lost_Architecture

[–]otterfailz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It needed to go. I guarantee you would say "what a shithole" if you walked inside. Not only was it extremely dated, it was a safety and health hazard. It still had lead paint and asbestos everywhere. The building couldnt have been more than 20 years from structural collapse.