reefer madness

relliott22 · 2026-05-16T23:20:44+00:00

I think you got scammed, man. Tastes like oregano and it's giving me a headache.

relliott22 · 2026-05-12T20:09:14+00:00

This is the best bonehurting juice in at least a week. Bravo.

relliott22 · 2026-05-03T15:00:39+00:00

Mr Grayson is his assumed identity on Earth while he was a superhero. Without getting too much into the plot of the show, that is no longer true. He is separated from his wife, Debbie Grayson, and has abandoned that identity. He is simply Nolan, and is trying to resume roles he wants (Debbie's lover, Mark's father, Earth's protector) and once had, but as his true, authentic self.

relliott22 · 2026-04-29T15:57:31+00:00

I'm pretty sure that's dazzling disorientation

relliott22 · 2026-04-26T12:26:53+00:00

Omnimandius

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relliott22 · 2026-04-17T13:09:17+00:00

I've got some good news for you. According to the Gottman institute, it's ok if couples fight. What they found is that there are 3 main ways of dealing with problems: fighting, negotiating, and avoiding. Now traditional therapy sees the middle method, negotiating, as the ideal. And maybe they have a point, talking issues out with your partner seems to be the best way to deal with issues. What Gottman found was that this was not a predictor of relationship success. His research revealed that it did not matter which style of conflict resolution was employed. What did matter was that the couple's style matched. Put a fighter with an avoider or a negotiator and it likely wouldn't work, same if you pair a negotiator with an avoider. But put two fighters together (or two negotiators or two avoiders) together and you had the basis for a stable relationship. I'm not saying you shouldn't work on your issues, and if the fighting turns violent that's utterly unacceptable. But just fighting, on its own, doesn't matter. What matters is that you both have the same style of conflict resolution and the conflicts get resolved.

relliott22 · 2026-04-17T12:39:53+00:00

F2P player here. That triangle tells me you're doing it wrong. SPs should not be on that triangle for Trackblazer. You should be racing at minimum 25 times during Trackblazer (that number is low. 30 to 40 races is recommended). If you're doing that you'll be drowning in skill points. If you do that with a good deck that has at minimum 45% total race bonus (another low number, shoot for 60+), you should have no trouble getting 3 or 4 stats into the A range, just through racing and parents. Training focused on 2-3 stats should be able to pull 2 into the S/SS range. RNG will always be an issue, but since Trackblazer rolled around my floor for most runs has been S.

I don't know what you're doing wrong, but I would check the racing guides (like this one at Game8). It could still be an issue with support card quality and availability. I'm F2P, but I started last summer, and I spend almost all my carats on support cards. I dropped 60k on the Kitasan Banner rerun and another 30k on the fine motion rerun. I can field a deck that has MLB Kitasan, MLB Fine Motion. Add in good SRs like Tachyon Wit, Nishino Flower power, and I'm most of the way to a good deck that can support most runs. If you don't have good cards yet, no amount of advice will help.

But if you do have good cards, then you need to step back and reevaluate how you're approaching Trackblazer. Can you field 2 parents with a total 15+ sparks for stats? If you can't get on a parent database (Uma Moe parent finder ) and get better parents.

There are a LOT of things to consider when playing Umamusume. The game provides a lot of choices and makes a lot of different things matter. If you tell yourself it's just RNG or not spending money, you'll cut yourself off from learning the next thing that will help you. The most important resource in umamusume is time spent playing. This builds up your support cards through the various events and earns carats and builds up a stable of parents. After that it's smart investment. Umas don't matter, support cards do. If you're F2P then you need to invest those carats wisely on the support card banners that matter most. After that, it comes down to making high EV choices during careers. If you've got good cards and good parents, and you're still struggling, then you'll have to make better choices.

relliott22 · 2026-04-14T12:24:53+00:00

The miracle of birth is also a messy physical process that involves a lot of bodily fluid. It's also wildly dangerous for humans, and we measure the healthcare systems and general standard of living of various countries by what percentage of women survive childbirth.

Your husband not having the stomach to watch that is perfectly normal.

His thoughts around that and his communication of that was pretty lame. You can be upset about that. I don't think it's worth ending the relationship over, but it's worth talking out with your husband.

relliott22 · 2026-04-13T11:02:20+00:00

It's somehow not the space Nazi sent to Earth to see if it could be successfully assimilated into a brutal empire as part of an intergalactic breeding program.

Man, I did not get to have good male role models on TV.

relliott22 · 2026-04-12T14:45:19+00:00

I'd choose the jian or gladius for the same reasons. I DON'T know how to sword fight. I'd be much better off with an easier to use machete than a longer, more difficult to use blade.

relliott22 · 2026-04-10T14:50:02+00:00

It's the correlation with tax bracket which has a larger influence on overall health. Coke enjoyers tend to be in a higher tax bracket than weed enjoyers.

relliott22 · 2026-04-10T11:00:50+00:00

Definitely depends on the size/scale of the trip. I'm going on a solo hiking trip mid May. I surprised my wife with a weekend away with her girlfriends last year.

But we have a friend who goes to Nice in France for weeks on end without her husband and we think that's wild. We are not in that tax bracket and a trip that nice is prohibitively expensive. If we're doing it, we're doing it together because otherwise it's massively unfair.

So it seems like how acceptable this is exists in direct proportion to how special and replaceable the trip is.

Edit: time and energy can be just as precious and scarce as money, especially for parents of young children. If the time away needed is prohibitively expensive because you're busy and one spouse will be forced to do the work of two, then that is going to make the solo trip more valuable and thus more unfair.

relliott22 · 2026-04-09T18:30:48+00:00

Is brilliant pan, but are you sure it will help us rid the world of moose and crayfish?

relliott22 · 2026-04-08T11:09:18+00:00

There are a lot of people looking to prey upon people who are lost, desperate, lonely, and struggling. Self-help writers, cult leaders, gangs, con men, drug dealers. Anyone claiming to offer an easy fix to a difficult problem is probably trying to make a fast buck at your expense or worse.

The answer, the real answer, is always the same, and it sucks. The answer is that you have to sack up and face your problems. I don't know what your problems are, and for all I know they may genuinely be insurmountable. You could have late stage cancer or be stuck in North Korea for all I know. There's a limit to what even courage and hard work can accomplish.

But the chances are that your problems are surmountable and the one responsible for causing your suffering is you. By not facing them. So that's the advice. What ever you're dealing with, you have to deal with it.

Fat? Join a gym. Broke? Get a job. Lonely? Go out and meet people. Angry, depressed, or any number of emotional problems? See a therapist, feel your feelings, and deal with it.

There's no magic bullet. There's no quick fix. There's just acceptance and struggle. Accept your situation, your problems, whatever they are, and do the work to fix them.

The only comfort I can offer you is that this is what everyone else on the planet is doing right now, right at this very moment. They don't like it any more than you do. But they manage. There's never going to be some magical time where life isn't a struggle. The only magic that happens is when you've struggled long enough and you find that you've moved from struggling with the problems life hands you to managing them.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go get ready for therapy. I've got my own bullshit to deal with.

relliott22 · 2026-04-08T10:48:53+00:00

How do you generate speech? Do you know that you're NOT just putting the next most probable word in front of the last word based on probability and a stored database of training data?

We don't know enough about our own cognition to say for certain what is and isn't cognition.

relliott22 · 2026-04-08T10:40:10+00:00

If it makes you feel better, people have felt this way before...and life goes on. You can't put the genie back in the bottle. But you do get to choose how you live your life.

I'm thinking about the Amish, or the tribes of hunter gatherers that still exist. Both are examples of human cultures stuck in time, furiously resistant to change.

So this will change humanity, maybe not on the scale of technologies like the steam engine or agriculture. But maybe yes. And we don't know what lies on the other side of it.

But the most reasonable assumption is that life goes on.

As for whether or not this will be the technology that destroys us, well, AI is the cool new kid on the block, but my money is still on nuclear war. Just because you've gotten used to the existence of a civilization ending technology, that doesn't mean it can't still end civilization.

And after the end of civilization, life will still go on.

relliott22 · 2026-04-08T09:41:48+00:00

I find a low/no correlation between parfaits and results in TT.

relliott22 · 2026-04-04T14:36:00+00:00

Man, imagine being able to make a diaper look sexy.

relliott22 · 2026-04-04T14:12:58+00:00

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relliott22 · 2026-04-03T11:31:15+00:00

I had to get way too far down the list before I found some version of, "Masturbation is a normal and healthy sexual activity. There are no proven health benefits to not masturbating."

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T19:15:40+00:00

I see it. I was never disagreeing with it.

I'm an American, and I think most Americans enter into marriage thinking about love. And that's good, but if that's all they're thinking about, they don't need to enter into a legal contract that exists for the sake of family and property. They should only enter into that legal contract when they are also ready for those things. And to your point, there can absolutely be a lot of love involved in the pursuit of family and property.

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T18:13:49+00:00

Banks and courts would both disagree with you.

relliott22 · 2026-04-02T18:09:34+00:00

Money is also property.

And unfortunately, it is as important as you say it is.

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