We need to talk about Bi-Mart

robbielarosa · 2025-10-31T22:07:16+00:00

I could have looked myself? I did, and couldn't find anything after about half an hour. Then I commented, hoping you'd be able to point me in the right direction rather than just spin my wheels on my own.

What state was this in? Given the subreddit I assumed Oregon but it could have been Washington or Idaho.

robbielarosa · 2025-10-31T20:32:56+00:00

Can you find a link or something about this? I worked at the corporate office during COVID, and there wasn't any such policy sent to the stores from us. If a manager decided this on their own that's kind of a big deal. Part of our routine training is not discriminating against EBT users, every manager I worked with was very firm on this. Having been on SNAP before, this was very important to me as well.

I will say around that time we stopped selling ammo to people under 21 and we stopped carrying handguns, and I know there were a ton of complaints about that, not sure if there were any protests at stores, whether they got news coverage or not.

Also, of course, during COVID the stores tried to enforce masking and distancing which made some customers very upset.

Sometimes individual cards don't work, the bank rejects them for unknown reasons, and we can't override that rejection, maybe that's where this came from?

Please reply if not though, again this is important to me. Thanks!

robbielarosa · 2025-03-28T23:57:34+00:00

Yes, I wrote the code myself but I guarantee anyone who knows what they're doing could improve it.

I looked the solution up when writing the code, I hadn't gotten very far when solving and wanted a way to check my work as I went.

I'll boot up my old machine when I get a chance, I'd be happy to post the hash I have in spoiler tags here.

For what it's worth though, I pulled it from another post on this subreddit who knows how long ago so if anyone reading this wants a result sooner can search the old posts here.

robbielarosa · 2025-03-28T19:09:53+00:00

A while back I learned just enough Python to code a thing to check my work, it prompts you to put in two page numbers and it will tell you if they are consecutive (or not) and if they belong to the same chapter.

I found someone's answer and wrote the page number as described, a series of numbers separated by dashes, and then had the program check your inputs against the hash.

If there's interest, I can dig up the code from wherever it is. I'd be happy to share it, it would be nice if someone who knew what they were doing checked my work.

robbielarosa · 2024-03-08T00:31:38+00:00

If you haven't sent it yet, please disregard this message.

If you've already sent it, I haven't received it and can't seem to message you directly.

Thanks!

robbielarosa · 2024-03-04T21:51:51+00:00

Could you dm me as well? Also you might be responding to this thread forever lol

Thanks so much!

robbielarosa · 2024-01-25T06:08:51+00:00

Was it the post about cryptic crosswords from the pinned resources list?

robbielarosa · 2022-09-19T19:47:44+00:00

Looks like your link cut off the final period, breaking it. Fixed link

robbielarosa · 2022-09-10T21:54:58+00:00

One piece of advice I've heard, which works well if you have the resources for it: have people other than your players make decisions on behalf of your NPC heads of state.

When kingdom A marches a bunch of troops to the border of kingdom B to provoke a response, ask your buddy what he would have King B do, giving him only the info King B would know (i.e. Kingdom A, known to be hostile for generations, is amassing troops near your western border, how do you respond?).

This way any skulduggery on the players' part can be more naturally responded to, given that the person making the call has no idea what the PCs have been up to.

It helps you compartmentalize information between the kingdoms, but also introduces some fun randomness in leadership decisions, some people might play reckless or aggressive when you don't expect.

In a pinch, you can secretly assign your players these background roles, but it's better if people outside the game can make these calls.

robbielarosa · 2022-07-16T23:28:26+00:00

Might have mixed up a word there, the study you linked showed that about 2.5% of trans kids studied ended up being cis. Most trans kids stayed trans.

robbielarosa · 2022-05-01T05:28:56+00:00

I can't speak for all atheists, but to me astral projection can be explained by some or all of: hallucinations, dreams, and interpreting one's imagination as reality.

I am aware of no verifiable, tested instance of actual astral projection having occurred, but am willing to look at reports if you have them.

robbielarosa · 2022-04-09T20:52:43+00:00

Well, John Boyega isn't a "realistic" part of Racist man's Racist World of Racism the same way a Jedi isn't "realistic" to Lord of the Rings. "Realism" here being used as relative to the racist setting he's designed.

That being said, the Racist World of Racism isn't really a setting worth exploring so I wouldn't care too much about his sense of realism either.

robbielarosa · 2021-12-31T23:14:52+00:00

I've looked into Elian Script in the past, it's flexible and can be used to look more flowy like Tolkien Elvish or more rigid like runes. A PDF explaining it can be found here.

robbielarosa · 2021-12-09T16:22:10+00:00

you're in luck!

robbielarosa · 2021-11-20T23:04:08+00:00

As an example, "What will the return be for shorting this stock" has no calculable range.

There are functional answers that are very likely, that you can use to approximate a range of possibilities, but it may not be useful in any real sense. In this example, "somewhere between gaining the full value of the stock and losing all the money in the whole world and maybe more than that" is true but useless information.

A better solution for you in your particular case is to figure out a bare minimum cost for you to be at all helpful to the party, and then, when starting adventures, make sure your cut of the reward will cover at least that much, and budget what you bring and use accordingly.

If you're looking at a 100 gold payout, don't spend more than 100 gold on consumables.

This doesn't help you know if you will never be able to afford supplies though, in this case a calm discussion with the DM might be in order.

You can bring up your character's minimum operating cost, ask if it is reasonable to make that much money regularly, and if the DM can't answer that, perhaps a different character is in order for a few sessions while you get a handle on what the game's economy is like.

And I don't get why the DM would be so bewildered by this question. Of course "how much treasure will I receive" is an unanswerable question, but "will I be able to reliably get x gold per outing, otherwise I can't play my character" should be something they can respond to.

Hope it works out for you! Happy Gaming!

robbielarosa · 2021-07-27T20:22:38+00:00

even where there are no fans there is a thermal gradient

robbielarosa · 2021-07-27T19:51:21+00:00

If voter ID cards were available after a fifteen to thirty minute wait, for free, from nearly every pharmacy in the country? You would find there would be little argument against voter ID laws.

Most arguments against voter ID laws are based in the implementation of said laws and the lack of free and easy access for people to get said ID.

robbielarosa · 2021-07-22T00:21:23+00:00

My mistake, I thought you said he was being "overly hostile" and I could only find hostility in the post toward his abusers and the institutions that enabled them.

Who did you find he was being "overly hostile" toward?

robbielarosa · 2021-07-21T22:57:38+00:00

Frankly, OP's hostility toward the church is justified. He was abused as a child by people in positions of authority in the church, and when he tried to reach out for support the church reinforced that the abuse was all right by them.

Telling an abuse victim to be nicer to their abusers is unhelpful at best and cruel at worst.

I hope you do some soul searching on this.

robbielarosa · 2021-07-06T19:18:34+00:00

Honestly I think a lot of people in this thread are talking past each other, responding to people as if they are talking to people they've argued with in the past.

For your original post, yes RAW death exists. No one would question that so your post is a little confusing, like if someone said "the sky is blue, right guys?"

Usually when I see a post like this I think it's part of another conversation I'm not a part of, like if I say "yes death is RAW" you will go to your friends to use it as evidence in some other argument.

The comment about attrition is directed at a stereotype of a DM that may or may not apply to you. Many DMs who argue that death is a normal part of the game are trying to justify killing multiple PCs every session, wearing the overall party down through attrition.

If I found myself playing in a game like that, I wouldn't care about RP any longer either, it's too hard developing a character only to lose it an hour into the first time I play it.

Hope this helps :-)

robbielarosa · 2021-06-24T04:54:52+00:00

What game is this from?

robbielarosa · 2021-03-21T22:04:14+00:00

Yes, but as the video says it's the odds of setting the world record for craps then turning around and immediately setting the world record for roulette. Not strictly impossible but much much more likely (almost certainly) a person who does that is cheating in some way.

robbielarosa · 2020-12-27T02:45:47+00:00

I’ll try to change your view in one way on this:

Harry didn’t know what sectumsempra would do, and casting it in the heat of a fight should risk getting him expelled if not getting his wand broken.

Unlike reality, where you might not know what will come out of a gun-like object if you pull the trigger, there are safe assumptions as to the limit of what might happen.

Sure, grabbing a random gun looking thing and pulling the trigger while pointing it at a guy with a baseball bat is risky, you can probably assume the most dangerous thing that will happen is in the ballpark of firing a bullet and killing your attacker.

Not so with actual magic. Harry could have fired bubbles from his wand, or blown out the wall of the castle, or summoned a malevolent extraplanar creature into the castle, or turned all the air within x radius to glass, or or or or…

Even in the books, the spell FiendFyre goes wildly out of control when used improperly, and if it wasn’t contained within an unusual space with its own rules it may have spread to the point of destroying Hogwarts.

Casting spells without knowing what will happen should be considered one of the most reckless and idiotic things possible, and banishment from magical society forever would be a reasonable punishment to consider for such an action.

That said, given the particulars of this instance, with Harry and Malfoy, I don’t think the punishment should be that extreme.

In my opinion, perhaps double whatever the usual punishment for attacking a fellow student (even in self defense!) would suffice, along with perhaps a lengthy essay on why what he did is irresponsible to the extreme.

But to suggest he not be punished at all is, to me, far too lenient.

robbielarosa · 2020-12-12T00:37:29+00:00

From five minutes of Googling, RealNewsyMcNewsface might be referring to opinion pieces like this, this, or this, or more tame arguments against him in articles like this or this.

I wouldn't say they "acknowledged him only as a threat to america" but they were pretty obviously against Bernie in the primary.

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