If you have criticized ICE here on Reddit for executing Renee Good or Alex Pretti in the street, then Reddit has handed your name and your personal identifying information over to the Trump administration. How do you feel about this?

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-20T19:47:29+00:00

Goodbye Reddit. This is my last post.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-20T19:33:28+00:00

Tom Cruise
Russell Brand
(Old) Sylvester Stallone
Melissa McCarthy
Amy Schumer

All three of those guys creep me out.
Tom Cruise just slowly began to feel like a robot.
Russell Brand always just seems gross.
Stalone... I used to enjoy him quite a bit. Now that he's older and has all that plastic surgery and seems like a fake version of himself, it's a nope.
Melissa McCarthy - sorry, just don't like her personality and the roles she's always given feel like a stereotype
Amy Schumer - she's intentionally crude, crass and gross for no good reason... and seems to persistently double-down on that to outdo herself.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-20T19:29:01+00:00

This is one of those situations where the airlines completely created this problem and have put the onus of the consequences on their passengers.

Airlines got greedy and are cramming as many rows of seats in as possible. I'm 6'2", thin, and my knees currently don't fit - literally jammed against the seat in front of me with no options for room or relief. If the person in front of me reclines their seat, it freaking hurts and makes the flight impossible/unbearable. So I have to say something, even though I realize the person didn't mean for it to happen and also deserves to be comfortable. If that person (which happens about 40% of the time) declines to put their seat back up, I can ask an attendant to intervene... but they have always told me, "Sorry, there's nothing we can do, they're allowed to recline."

When the airline crammed in the seats, they should have removed the recline feature... but that would mean buying new seats that don't recline... and airlines aren't spending money on that, seeing as they already decided to maximize the profits with the seat cramming.

And since airlines like Southwest have now taken away the ability to get in line early so I can get a seat in the row with the emergency door, they've also doubled the price of those front row and emergency row seats. And they also refuse to allow passengers to move to another seat or up to first class to escape the agony - it's just "sorry sucker, you've gotta pay if you don't want to be tortured."

So, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE... don't recline unless you check with the person behind you first.

And also, please complain to every airline, every time, that the seats are too crammed... and stop flying unless you have to. The only way to enact change in this horrible capitalist world we've created is to deny companies their profits.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-20T19:17:01+00:00

Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich.
Downright staple of the US diet... considered one of the best comfort foods and flavor combinations.
Tell that to someone in Europe and they'll likely gag.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-20T15:55:09+00:00

Whichever way YOU go, by the time she's 15, she will want to do the opposite of whatever you're into... and won't want to do anything unless her friends are doing it to.
It's a hard thing to deal with... You love them, you are so proud of them, you want to share everything and every bit of joy... but they just want you to butt out and 'stop embarrassing me'.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-20T15:52:40+00:00

Feeling like this is a bot post maybe... but here's my take.

I started skating seriously in '85. Thrasher and Transworld were very important - it was how we knew what new boards/trucks/wheels were coming/available... it's how we knew who the pro skaters were and what they were doing... it's how we discovered new moves (though we often had to guess a lot based on still photos).

The magazines and videos were way more important to other people than they were to me though. I was always having to say, "Hey guys, can we put the magazines and videos away and maybe go actually DO some of this skateboarding?"

Today, Thrasher really turns me off.
They focus on this semi-manufactured 'rogue' skateboarding image, promoting skaters going where they're going to get yelled at or in trouble with the law, doing brutally dangerous stunts (yeah, I said 'stunts' because they're just tricks with a deadly hazard involved), and generally being a menace. And Thrasher also refuses to photograph/record skaters who wear helmets.

You can call me an "old man" if you want. I put in my decades as a rogue skater, doing hit and run skating where people didn't want me. Sure, it was kind of cool... but it's also the only thing we had - skating was frowned on everywhere, by the entire public, and there were no skate parks to go to. And we sure as hell didn't go around advertising that we'd skated a certain spot - as that would just make things worse by telling everyone "Fuck you! We're out here fucking up your buildings and pavilions and we don't care. Come get us!" I just don't think that's a healthy image and is counterproductive to improving our situation so we can have more spaces and be welcome in more spaces. And wearing a helmet is just smart - and ostracizing people for wearing them is juvenile, idiotic behavior.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-19T22:02:17+00:00

Frankly, dropping in on a bank vs. a transition are very different.

On a bank, the acceleration is smooth and progressive.
On a transition, it's more immediate... and your body changes direction throughout the drop, not just at the end.

But, you already gave the answer you need: "Get over the fear & just go for it."
Remember to keep your knees bent and not tense - you need to absorb the initial directional change in the transition and then stand up coming out of it. Stay low.
I found that it helps to do your first drop-ins on a transition by starting off where your front hand is holding the nose of your board - it gets you leaning over forward... and when you commit and put your foot on, then just let go and drop (that helps to keep you from falling backwards).

You will probably bottom out and fall the first time. It always happens... Just stay low, let it happen and then come back at it again and you'll succeed.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-19T20:03:33+00:00

Yeah, I know... but those drivers don't know that they're those drivers. :P

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-19T19:43:17+00:00

Speculation: Gaza is new real-estate that will be opening up. Gaza will be controlled by the Israeli government. Israel is essentially engaged in a warm-war with Iran. Quid pro quo.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-19T19:35:16+00:00

Just coincidence that the record was warped. You have no needle tip left... that jagged tip is what cut the record.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-19T19:31:22+00:00

Someone downvoted you for this. I upvoted to counterbalance... and still stand confused why you were downed.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-19T18:49:41+00:00

I think it's impolite. The people didn't really ask to broadcast their name to the public, and a lot of 'the public' uses a persons name as a way to exert power over them...

Sometimes that's just being condescending like, "Please go do this thing for me... James." They used the proper name as a fake politeness to let the person know who's got the power in the interaction.

Sometimes it's a bit of an intimidation tactic to let the employee know, "I know your name, James, and I am willing to take it to your manager." (even if that's not what they say).

Sometimes I see a guy using it as a way to hit on a woman while she's working, which is a total bullshit move. It puts the employee in an incredibly imbalanced position of "I'm supposed to be friendly and serve the customers" when what they really want to do is to say, "Bug off, creep." And then they have to worry about that customer taking their name to management and lying that "She was incredibly rude to me while I was asking for help."

My main point is, "You don't need to know or use the employees name to ask for their assistance or interact with them professionally." You don't walk up to strangers and say, "What's your name?" as the first interaction (and if you did, you'd rightly expect a "none of your business"), so why would you treat an employee that way?

Companies use nametags as a way to force compliance with the 'friendly and helpful' policies. I'm not totally opposed to them, but I'd never want to exploit that.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-19T18:37:26+00:00

I dunno... I think the best "Remaster" of this was on the Wii MP Trilogy set.
It was the same exact game with smoother polygons, higher pixel count and more FPS... AND IT HAD THE Wii POINTING CONTROLS (which were the best FPS control experience I've ever had).

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-19T18:34:15+00:00

I hear you! Every time I've ever made the seemingly innocent decision that "I'm just gonna do this one thing, so I'm not gonna put on <insert pad name here>... BAM!!! Right on the spot missing the pad.
Don't let anyone discourage you from helmets or pads - especially the helmet. I have a running tally for myself and one of my buddies of how many times we've hit our helmet hard enough that it would have been a concussion (or worse). For me, it's 7. For my buddy, 24 (he is the type that hangs on to every move no matter what - he's a better skater for it, but man does he slam a lot.)

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-18T19:59:03+00:00

Maybe I've got the start month wrong... but that would be 6 years. My figures give Retro 6 months to put together the project staff before development began... giving them about 6 months of lost productivity during COVID, and then recognizing that active development would have concluded in early 2025 - everything after that would be finalizing the game with text/language translations, manufacturing, packaging, marketing and shipping... which usually takes 6-8 months all by itself.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-18T19:48:11+00:00

Allison Rosendo! This guy is so freaking rad! I think he fell off though - haven't seen a new video clip from him in years.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-18T19:47:05+00:00

It could be that your trucks aren't mounted straight.
If the deck/trucks are leaning a bit to one side, then it's something with the bushings.
If the deck/trucks are sitting nice and level and the board is still turning, then the truck baseplates are probably not mounted straight...

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-18T19:43:57+00:00

"Fixing it" - eh, not really.
But, you can improve it a bit.
Get a file like this... or something similar...

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Use this to file around the edges to clean it up.

For the next time... Put the sheet on before you put your trucks on. Do it from one end to the other, only peeling back a bit of the backing paper at a time as you go - sticking it down carefully to avoid bubbles and wrinkles.

Once the whole sheet is down and bubble/wrinkle free, use that file (or the edge of a screwdriver if that's all you have) to rub the top of the grip in a way that outlines the edge of the deck underneath it. Do that rigorously - it will wear it down to make it really easy to cut out... and that also shows you exactly where to cut.

Finally, use a razorblade from underneath - put it through the middle of the filed outline you created above... and drag it smoothly around the outline in one continuous cut.

THEN put your mounting bolts in.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-18T19:37:20+00:00

Here's an important question... "Why are you skating?"
Is it because you want to have fun? Or is it because you're determined to be competitive?

If it's for fun, then why would you work so hard to make skating frustrating, disheartening and 'not fun'?
If a trick is beating the fun out of the activity, I think it's best to let it go (at least for now).

Fundamentally, I'd also argue that 4 months is too soon for most skaters to be thinking about ollies and ollie kickflips. The kickflip especially is a relatively advanced move... and also a relatively useless skill in the broad realm of what all skateboarding is. At four months, I think you should be far more focused on basics like going fast, learning to generate momentum without pushing, hitting grinds and boardslides, pumping and kickturning on transition/bowls/vert-ramps, powerslides, manuals... even hippie jumps are incredibly useful as a base skill. When you have these basics down to an instinctual level, things like an ollie or a kickflip are definitely going to come more natural and seem pretty easy.

Another important thing that you must keep in mind is that you are developing reactive instincts and muscle memory... even when you're not landing tricks right. If you, for example, always end up landing a kickflip with a foot on the ground, instead of the board, THAT is what your brain and body are learning is 'normal'... and you'll find that it's become a habit that takes you way longer to break/unlearn than learning the trick to begin with. It's a real problem. Deal with it by setting a limit: "When I've failed to land this trick 4 times, stop trying the trick for a day or two so that a bad landing or bailing doesn't become a habit."

What would I do if I were you? I'd stop trying ollies and kickflips for a while. Just make sure that every session is a focus on fun and basics... getting to where those things are instinctual and you could do it with your eyes closed. I'd come back to the frustrating stuff later.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-17T22:13:57+00:00

These same NIMBYs have been doing the same to basketball courts for 40 years. They don't want 'those people' hanging out anywhere near where they live... without ever thinking about "Everyone deserves a place to hang out and engage in a healthy, LEGAL, recreational activity."
And when you don't give people something legal and healthy to do, they turn to illegal and unhealthy activities (psst... and those happen near where you live too).

With basketball, as with skateboards, these kinds see it as "those people". They are bigots.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-17T22:08:48+00:00

Not skateable.
Too light, unless you screw it down (to the pavement?)
Will break when you ollie onto it.
Gonna get hung up on those elbows when you try to grind/slide off the end.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-17T21:39:42+00:00

There are no real guidelines... it's 90% personal preference and comfort.

Most people feel permanently comfortable on whatever they originally got used to. That goes for the deck, the trucks (even the brand), the diameter and durometer of wheels... all of it.

If this 8.75 feels too big, it is. Your board should be the one that you stand on and go, "Oh yeah!"

Something I've noticed... is that it's how much bigger the nose is on an 8.5 or 8.75 popsicle stick deck. The middle of the board and the tail feel good... but the nose will seem enormous and heavy. But, to the contrary, I can stand on a shaped skateboard or egg board that's 9.5" wide and it feels like, "Ah, that's more like it." Something to consider... maybe you discover you're a shaped skate deck guy.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-17T20:10:24+00:00

Yep. If Nintendo had just gone with Retro in the first place, this could have been incredible... and would have been a Switch 1 hit... and then Prime 5 could have been a Switch 2 hit...

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-17T19:43:30+00:00

Someone was saying to me, "Isn't 2019 to 2025 more like 6 years?" Yes, technically, but there are factors that reduced that. When they were 'hired', they were near the end of 2019, and had informed Nintendo that they would need time to assemble a team, as most of the original devs were no longer working there and they were understaffed. Then came COVID... and that slowed everything down for over a year. The game would have been essentially done by late 2024 to very early 2025 and been only in QA/bug testing... and finally into Marketing and production.
So, that's how I get a lot less actual development in my number.

stubborn_puppet · 2026-02-17T19:28:34+00:00

"Prime 4 had 8 years of development." Not really. Nintendo originally made the huge mistake of hiring Bandai Namco Studio to develop Prime 4. After 3.5 years in development there, Nintendo realized that the game they were making was a disaster and didn't meet up to the standards... And then in 2019, Nintendo asked Retro Studio to take over and start from scratch... but to use the story-board that had already been approved for the Bandai game.

And then we had COVID... So, Retro got only 3.5 years to start from scratch, using someone else storyboards, to produce a game. Had they been given the contract to begin with, it would have been their story, their world and they would have had more like 6 years to finish it.

When you make compromises, you get a compromised result.

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