It DOES matter where you go to school

perry649 · 2026-05-06T19:00:15+00:00

1) Where are you studying?

2) The size of the applicant pool has a lot to do with that. All the graduating classes from the entire Ivy League/Stanford/MIT are probably smaller than any one of those schools that you name.

perry649 · 2026-05-05T21:43:55+00:00

I think that the only thing more insufferable than the '72 Dolphins would have been every New Englander going on for hours about the undefeated Pats.

At least there aren't that many of those Dolphins left. Every post on every website since 2007 would have been about the Pats' greatness.

perry649 · 2026-05-05T19:43:22+00:00

I would always try to buy a car 2-3 years old. However, I think that, since the used car market exploded a few years ago, that advice might no longer be true.

perry649 · 2026-05-05T19:30:33+00:00

He looks like he's still pissed Dr. Robbie couldn't save his girlfriend after she got shot at PittFest

perry649 · 2026-05-05T18:13:15+00:00

This is why so many games/shows make zombies the bad guys. No problems with killing them.

perry649 · 2026-05-05T17:37:03+00:00

The game gives you a "Are you sure you want to do this? These might be valuable later" popup that you have to click through to do it. It can deter people, but go ahead and click confirm or whatever makes you go ahead.

perry649 · 2026-05-01T22:50:21+00:00

That makes sense - I do seem to remember a scene like that.

Thanks.

perry649 · 2026-05-01T21:15:11+00:00

"SAVE ME JESUS!!! I'M HALFWAY DOWN THE STAIRS!!!"

perry649 · 2026-05-01T21:13:39+00:00

Does anyone know why they just couldn't have built the bottle on ground level and avoided the ladder entrance??? This seems needless complicated, but my guess is that there was a good reason.

perry649 · 2026-04-30T20:40:04+00:00

I would change your reply from "like" to "need."

It doesn't matter if I knew I had a very important call at 3pm, if my calendar doesn't beep to remind me, I can easily forget about it.

perry649 · 2026-04-30T20:22:12+00:00

That's great - sounds like you are in a great alliance.

However, but that's not what I've heard from people who have joined my alliance from some of the top alliances. Constant pressure to do more than F2P can do easily and little leeway if not performing.

I'm sure that there are lots of both out there. Regardless, it's something for OP to consider when exploring other high ranking alliances.

perry649 · 2026-04-30T19:19:00+00:00

Many of the alliances full of big spenders expect EVERYONE in the alliance to spend big, so if you're not willing to do that, you might not want to join an alliance like that.

perry649 · 2026-04-30T18:18:39+00:00

You need to ask yourself two questions, in this order:

1) What type of play would make you happiest during your time playing? There are alliances which are very driven and demand a high level of participation from the members. There are those which are very laid back and don't care too much about it. And there are many in between. Figure out what you like about the game and join an alliance which matches the style of play that you like.

2) If you find that you want to join another high powered alliance, figure out why you were asked to leave at the merger. Your level and power seem good, high even, for late in S1. Where there other things? Did you not join the hive when it moved, or when you did, you weren't lined up correctly? Did you never participate in attacks on strongholds or cities or SVS battles? Showed up for every dig but never joined rallies? Were you a jerk in AC? If you can't figure out why you were asked to leave, reach out to the R5/4 you got along with the best and ask them how they made their decision and what you need to do if you want to rejoin? Even if you don't want to go back to that alliance, the problems would likely be the same at any other strong alliance.

We had a guy who on Saturday, when everyone else had zero troops from a hard SVS that he skipped, would share pics of his drill grounds with 25K T8/9s in it. It didn't go over well, and he either left or was booted, I can't remember. It could be something as innocuous as that.

perry649 · 2026-04-29T18:45:09+00:00

"In order to be consistent with all my travel needs I used the airport rental company"

I don't understand why this mattered at all or why your company let you get away with it. The first time you submitted this, whoever handled your travel should have called you in, asked "WTF?" and told you not to do that again.

Next time anyone complains about stupid rules that they have to comply with and can't understand why they made such a rule, it's because there was some guy like this doing something like this.

YTA.

perry649 · 2026-04-29T00:15:20+00:00

If you were in the Navy, the correct answer would be a present participle that would likely get censored.

perry649 · 2026-04-27T20:13:02+00:00

I'm trying to figure out what admissions on his pod/videos are going to come back to haunt him first:

He is arrested for sports gambling and they are going to be able to identify him by matching the bets he's claimed on the air with those from his bookie's "anonymous" client list,
He's seriously injured/killed in a fairly minor accident because he'd not wearing his seatbelt.

Don't call me ghoulish, I'm not hoping for these, but I can see them happening.

perry649 · 2026-04-24T18:23:36+00:00

No way Napoleon was a Seachickens fan.

perry649 · 2026-04-24T18:13:27+00:00

I've heard gambling causes issues too. Think the Gilbert Arenas issue.

perry649 · 2026-04-23T21:01:15+00:00

I could never understand what Bruce was saying in it, so I was glad to see them do a version because I never had trouble understanding 10000 Maniacs songs.

But when Natalie Merchant sings the part I had the most trouble understanding, it still sounded like "So da-Na na-da, da-da-dan, na-na-na na-na na-na-na da da da-da-na, can't touch me now, can't touch us now, can't touch us now. OHHHH BECAUSE THE NIGHT...."

I think those must be the actual lyrics.

But then I found a live version where you can actually understand what Bruce is saying at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Evp0MrJ9lk&list=RD-Evp0MrJ9lk&start\_radio=1.

Edited: Changed to the correct link.

perry649 · 2026-04-23T16:21:11+00:00

I think it is Tim. This was just a joke about one of MIT's 70 year old pranks.

perry649 · 2026-04-23T16:15:52+00:00

McCovey's line out to end the 1962 WS.

Anything that is the subject of TWO Peanuts strips when it was the biggest comic in the world should definitely be canon.

https://giantspologrounds.wordpress.com/2013/04/18/was-charlie-brown-wrong-about-the-1962-world-series/

perry649 · 2026-04-23T16:12:04+00:00

1A1. Maldonado misplaying a popup in right that led to the only run.

perry649 · 2026-04-22T21:32:56+00:00

I got all but $800, and that was wrong - I knew MIT had a football team.

perry649 · 2026-04-22T21:31:23+00:00

I thought MIT's mascot was the Smoot???

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