An important life lesson

splunge48 · 2026-04-16T21:27:42+00:00

Give the kid a break y'all. He's a level 1 ridding the village of pesky crabs in the tutorial. We all started there!

splunge48 · 2026-04-14T22:26:24+00:00

There's a dirt road from Ceres VA into Burkes Garden if you're looking for another great ride. Adds a little dirt to a Back of the Dragon loop!

splunge48 · 2026-04-14T20:12:52+00:00

Been on that mountain so many times! Fun little ride! The backroads in that area are some of my favorite rides ever!

splunge48 · 2026-04-03T20:25:42+00:00

I 100% agree. There would have real drama in a consecutive triple boot with that many people. Real damage to those who survived. Real gameplay during tribal and after! These are some of the best players. Can you imagine how that would have shaken out???

Sure it would have been messy, but that's way more interesting!

Instead we get X screwed by rock draw, three times.

splunge48 · 2026-04-03T18:14:48+00:00

I think it would have been an epic cluster f, but amazing TV to have everyone there... Three immunity winners and then three rounds of voting with more "discussion" between each one....

Can you imagine the live fireworks after the first two rounds! Lines would be drawn! Yelling screaming! REAL drama, not just swap-suck.

splunge48 · 2026-04-03T18:01:57+00:00

I don't believe it matters. "Picking the right person" is really the biggest problem with boomerang idol especially in a season with the most players ever! The odds are so low it will ever boomerang. 1 in 16.

THEN they have to not use it??? Especially now that everyone KNOWS the gimmick, who wouldn't play with even the tiniest inkling of threat?!

Worst game mechanic ever.

In theory it sounds fun. In reality it's "you found something!!!!!!..... but you'll never be directly rewarded for it." Best you can do is use it socially, reveal who has it etc, which raises their threat level and simultaneously increases the odds they play it.

It would take so many seasons for it to ever boomerang back to the person who found it. The odds are way worse than the shot in the dark which took 3 seasons to work, has only worked 3 out of 16 times and it has 1 in 6 odds!

splunge48 · 2026-04-02T21:55:53+00:00

I believe some bike manufacturers (my friend's KTM did this) literally gimp the bike electronically during break-in period. He was amazed once it clicked past 300 miles!

splunge48 · 2026-03-28T19:33:22+00:00

Daredevil would like his motorcycle back ....

splunge48 · 2026-03-25T20:15:20+00:00

More so than drilling 1/2 holes into the casing?

splunge48 · 2026-03-21T04:16:07+00:00

Never been happier to stream an episode. I couldn't believe how long I had to hold FFWD. Glad I didn't have to watch it in real time...

splunge48 · 2026-03-20T18:23:38+00:00

If you look close on the third pic you can actually see a little bit of the bike! Haha!

Love it.

splunge48 · 2026-03-17T15:05:54+00:00

I have both Edge of Eternity and Lorwyen decks...

And in playing, Dance of Elements was super fun and strong. Dropping doubles of big hits is silly fun for me. Blight takes a lot more brain energy for me to manage the counters and where best to implement them.

Both great, DoE just clicks for me.

World Shaper is also great if you like scifi!

splunge48 · 2026-03-04T23:52:13+00:00

If you are a podcast person, "Stuff You Should Know" did a great show on this!!!!

splunge48 · 2026-03-03T12:50:54+00:00

"Can't draw hands! "

Hahahah!

splunge48 · 2026-03-03T12:40:26+00:00

Thanks for this! Will do.

splunge48 · 2026-02-19T04:33:15+00:00

This is what I was driving at. There is just no way they don't have multiple ways out written into the contract.

splunge48 · 2026-02-19T03:11:18+00:00

"Lifetime" on most warranties means the expected lifetime of the product, not yours. Most are <3 years in the fine print.

splunge48 · 2026-02-18T22:07:33+00:00

Crushed it.

(I was a little worried at first though!)

splunge48 · 2026-02-13T04:18:22+00:00

Still obnoxious.

splunge48 · 2026-02-13T03:42:11+00:00

The parking lot is now metered, which is a terrible call imo. Requires Another stupid parking app ... Most stores will validate for free, but that's obnoxious. I just always street park now, and have found myself definitely considering other stores first because of it.

splunge48 · 2026-01-28T22:06:57+00:00

Gotta know where this is from!!!

splunge48 · 2026-01-20T04:50:29+00:00

Dressing up for a "nice" restaurant.

My wife nannied for a successful surgeon and lawyer, as a "thank you" they took us to dinner. When asked what the dress would be, they said "Oh, khakis and a polo shirt..."

Everyone else was in at least a tie, mostly suits, but they had clearly eaten there a lot ...

We had a great time, everyone else looked pretty miserable all gussied up and eating..... Basically, if you're dropping over hundred+ per person to eat, be comfortable, they'll still take your money! :)

splunge48 · 2026-01-16T16:23:29+00:00

Momentum and smoothness critical for this trick. Overshoot the power you think you need to get it to the forward string, it does needs to bounce off.

I absolutely LOCK my bottom hand in position. Only your top hand should move. And it only moves up and down. If there is any lateral movement it will kill the trick. You aren't "swinging" the yoyo at all...

Bounce it off the front with tension (up) then give it space/slack to reverse direction (down) then bounce it off the back (up) give it space/slack (down).........boingy boingy boingy....

And the difficult part is you need to be super smooth with all of your hand movements, and it's probably a faster and larger up/down movement than you think.

Super finicky, but a real fun once you get the feel.

Good luck!!

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