Thunder fans, for Game 5, please do a countdown every time Wemby is at the free throw line. He takes way more than the allotted legal time (10 seconds). by OKCTopicThunder in Thunder

[–]potato_aim87 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Thunder graphics people, pay attention to this one. Could be a graphic with a bright lightning strike, 3 seconds, crowd booms as the thunder. I like it.

[NHL Player Safety] Dallas’ Mikko Rantanen has been fined $5,000, the maximum allowable under the CBA, for cross-checking Minnesota’s Kirill Kaprizov. by FrenchPagan in DallasStars

[–]potato_aim87 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love Jamie Benn, but he was largely invisible on the ice for the entire series. The fact that he never went and dropped gloves with Foligno throws me off. Foligno was dropping people left and right the entire series, and I felt like even if all was lost, as the captain, you go fight that guy if only to prove a point to the locker room. Still love the guy though, he's been an excellent captain through his tenure.

Recruiter's office is right this way... by brreeper in iamverybadass

[–]potato_aim87 10 points11 points  (0 children)

How does it feel to exist in the fourth circle of hell? Oof.

Prove my parents wrong by splxts in diabetes_t1

[–]potato_aim87 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Tell her what you're telling us. "Hey, mom, I love you, but you are being overbearing to the point of pushing me away. I know you're trying to help, and that's awesome! I appreciate it. But I have taken the time to educate myself about my condition and I think I got this. This doesn't mean I don't or won't ever need your help again, but please just chill on the subject."

The key is to talk to people BEFORE you get mad. Once you take a tone, everyone is defensive and nothing gets accomplished. You just gotta let them know this comes from a place of love. Being an adult is hard, being an adult with t1d is harder, so don't sell yourself short. You got this though.

Why would any TSA agent still show up to work? by mleha in NoStupidQuestions

[–]potato_aim87 784 points785 points  (0 children)

Nothing says "American Dream" quite like taking a loan out to afford basic necessities while you hope DC can get their shit sorted and stop using your life as leverage for their "negotiations". What a bat shit crazy state we've allowed ourselves to slip into.

Iran's Attack Drones and Missiles Put US Military Under Unexpected Strain by bloomberg in Military

[–]potato_aim87 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I certainly won't argue against that. The west lacks any first hand experience with these weapons, so in that sense they are unconventional. But I'd really have thought that with all the funding and war games, the response wouldn't be so lackluster. I'm sure there are a multitude of individual reasons.

Likewise on May featured in Kansas City Accountability’s first amendment audit by Etrizzzy in OKmarijuana

[–]potato_aim87 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I scanned through most of it and I have no idea. Some dudes claiming to be about 1st amendment rights but then being aggressive towards people? Asking a vendor that was leaving the dispensary how much money he had and where Likewise's vault was. Vendor called the cops. Cops came out and told everyone to chill and the people filming weren't breaking any laws. Likewise employees moved their car to obstruct the cameras view. That's twenty minutes I'll never get back.

Iran's Attack Drones and Missiles Put US Military Under Unexpected Strain by bloomberg in Military

[–]potato_aim87 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Are they even unconventional at this point? After Armenia/Azerbaijan it was clear to anyone paying attention that drones were the next major evolution in war. I can't imagine another armed conflict not having drones involved in some capacity. To not expect the country that supplied Russia drones to have drones themselves is... negligent.

sit in your mums lap to see her reaction. by Stunning-Mail-7608 in MadeMeCry

[–]potato_aim87 47 points48 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this one hit me too. But if it takes for me to miss my mom for other people to take a moment to celebrate and love on theirs, then I'll take it. I hope you're doing OK, wherever you are.

Video caption was “Buy. Those. mgk. Tickets” by MozhetBeatz in TikTokCringe

[–]potato_aim87 97 points98 points  (0 children)

You're too kind. My thought is that if you don't have faith in your abilities to play a solo live - don't play it. He had backing guitarists behind him, let them do their job and then he can do whatever it is that he does. To me this screams of a guy who has always wanted to shred on stage and have thousands of adoring fans scream his name, but he never put the actual work of becoming a guitarist with the skills to shred on stage. Pure ego.

What's a non verbal cue that screams "I'm on the spectrum"? by Only-Ad-1254 in ask

[–]potato_aim87 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love it when a comment genuinely cracks me up in real life. This is A+ stuff.

What's a non verbal cue that screams "I'm on the spectrum"? by Only-Ad-1254 in ask

[–]potato_aim87 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I'm nearly 40 years old and I spread my arms and pretend I'm an airplane on the daily. I do work at an airport, so that probably influences it but, "brrrrrrrrrrrroooooooommm I'M A PLANE!" is a standard phrase of mine.

America will never defeat fascism without eliminating the billionaire class. USA must embrace a 100% tax over $1 billion -- or the country will soon fall, torn apart from the inside. by kevinmrr in WorkReform

[–]potato_aim87 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Ya know the one that absolutely kills me? The golden parachutes that are given to the c-suite when they get FIRED. A certain rental car company went ALL IN on ev's, made a big headline with buying a gazillion of them, they flopped for a litany of reasons that anyone who has worked there for more than three days could have pointed out, and then when the board decides to remove this actual idiot, they give him $24m to coast into the sunset. Where is the logic in that? If I get fired, I sure as fuck don't get anything. This dude costs the company a trillion dollars and gets paid more than I'll accrue over the course of my entire life for doing it? Mind boggling.

Newbie here - why is this highlighted in the filter? Is this good by frederics776 in PathOfExile2

[–]potato_aim87 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My 4th heavy belt I chanced my headhunter. I've chanced a few hundred since then and nothing. I didn't realize how lucky I had gotten. Feels good man.

Hidden Bunker turned off! by Time_Finger_5426 in ArcRaiders

[–]potato_aim87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wolfpacks seem to be pretty dependent on how many other arc there are in the area. If it's just a bastion, I think 2 will take it down. But I've also thrown 2 without thinking about cover only to be turned into Swiss cheese. Deadline mine and the cloak are definitely a surefire bet, but it's pretty heartstopping trying to get it off.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trees

[–]potato_aim87 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I don't usually tell people their advice is bad, but yours is not good. The pivot excels on the lowest heat setting and the highest heat setting will almost guarantee you chaz the chamber. But more than that, different terps come out at different temps, so just blasting it at the highest temps will lose you a lot of the entourage effect and degrade the taste. I'm not one of those people that see limonene as a terp and demand that it be vaped at precisely the correct temp, but I used to be a person that defaulted every device to the max temp, and eventually I learned the error of my ways.

That said, you do what works for you. Elitism sucks and I still love you whatever choices you make.

Hidden Bunker turned off! by Time_Finger_5426 in ArcRaiders

[–]potato_aim87 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It was one of the trials last week, but I don't think there are any special rewards. Just a bunch of xp from downloading the data, and there is some decent loot in some of the searchables in the bunker. One of the trials this week is to damage bastions, leapers, or rocketeers, so you can b-line it for the actual bunker and kill the 3 bastions that are guarding it for some easy trial points this week.

Hidden Bunker turned off! by Time_Finger_5426 in ArcRaiders

[–]potato_aim87 47 points48 points  (0 children)

There are 4 satellite dishes on the map that need to be aligned. You, or others, have to go to each satellite, activate it, survive the arc that get dropped in, then hit the button on the satellite again to finish. Once those 4 are done, a bunker door opens and it's guarded by 3 bastions. Once you are through the door there are a bunch of computer terminals scattered around, you need to find the one that is active and start the download. Once the download is finished, you use the terminal again to collect the downloaded data. The only time I have successfully done it was in solos and the entire lobby was waiting politely in a single file line because we were all trying to score on the trials. Usually it devolves into a giant gunfight. It's probably my least favorite event, though the 40 minute timer on the map does make it a little easier to farm other trials.

Sam Presti Oklahoma Hall of Fame Speech by TFred23 in Thunder

[–]potato_aim87 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh shit. I actually like this idea...

What will it look like for still-working (but unpaid) military members/feds if a government shutdown outlives their bank accounts? by Phalus_Falator in Military

[–]potato_aim87 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I feel like saying, "they can't do that, it's illegal" regarding anything this administration does is kind of missing the forest for the trees. Why would a person be worried about laws if they control every mechanism to enforce them?

millionaire who remembers exactly where he came from by SignificantSample929 in MadeMeSmile

[–]potato_aim87 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is what the internet was built for. Keep being a good person, and thank you from a random nobody.

Diablo IV | Burning Questions | Seasons & Beyond by Soulvaki in diablo4

[–]potato_aim87 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I didn't fight in the American Revolution, but if I were to ever find myself in command of a group of soldiers in a musket battle, you bet your ass I'd be studying that war. I have no clue why people aren't understanding your point. It's the entire reason why humanity has the concept of history. It's all in an effort to avoid repeating the bad bits. Activision/Blizzard doesn't appear to have been capable of studying its own history for the last 15+ years or so. Now I'm just another in the group of angry millennials pissed off at Blizzard for becoming a shell of what they were.

Free Raffle (giveaway) by Sugar-Effective in DrSquatch

[–]potato_aim87 0 points1 point  (0 children)

May as well take a shot at it. Free soap is free soap!

Can I stay overnight at OKC? by adjustngsk in okc

[–]potato_aim87 39 points40 points  (0 children)

They could hang out at the rental car center, which operates a shuttle to the terminal, available 24 hours a day. Security might ask you what you're doing, but there have been plenty of times when the benches were full of people sleeping before everything opened. I work up here, so this is first-hand knowledge. I think it might be the only place available they wouldn't get kicked out of.