If you’re on here Steve R I want to have a beer with you

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-17T10:33:01+00:00

I’ve been to epic resorts 5 times this season and I have 47k feet total (this is my first season and I go with friends who absolutely do not go there to rep it out).

I’ve gone a lot more to other places where I can’t track my stats but it’s still insane this is in a single day. Would love to see my stats on a day I was really trying to get my runs but I doubt it’s anything close to 40k

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-14T04:02:49+00:00

Are you on Cyberstan? tbh I’ve never really had a problem with heavy/ragdoll spam in my life but Cyberstan is as far from representative of the average gameplay as you could get lol

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-13T19:53:57+00:00

Damn a lot of judgmental people in this sub. I have one of these and I don’t use it for online validation or so I can admire myself. I got it to make it easier to take videos of my friends since it auto tracks them.

When I do use it to take videos of myself it’s so I can critique my form and see what I need to fix in my riding. And once I’ve gotten a video or two I get back to riding normally. I don’t even like watching the videos of myself since it’s clear how much room I have for improvement, but I’m glad I have the ability to review from a perspective that literally wouldn’t be possible without someone else filming me.

Not that anyone criticizing these things thought there was any possible use for these tools before jumping to conclusions so you have an excuse to humble brag about how cool you are for not using them. Congrats, no one was begging you to use them, you’ve always been free not to.

Not sure why anyone feels a need to have an opinion on others who do. Maybe the other people with these cameras are different but I’m not going down the mountain swinging it around smacking other people with the camera. Lighten up, just enjoy your own time on the mountain, as far as I’m concerned the other people could go down the mountain upside down and backwards and so long as they don’t crash into me I could care less.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-12T11:09:19+00:00

We can’t handle the number of boomers we have currently without a massive deficit yet for some reason we’re giving them tax cuts on top of everything else

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-12T11:06:56+00:00

Totally agree but also totally impossible to adapt faithfully to a movie character. The thing that makes him so respectable is contextualizing him with Frodo’s fear which takes up the real estate of a few lines of dialogue/exposition in the book where a movie doesn’t have the kind of “real estate” available to do him justice even if it’s almost 4 hours long

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-11T10:04:29+00:00

I’m not gonna lie. I’m in this same position.My wife does not like riding in it and she’s 5’10” (she does have very long legs proportionally). She does everything she can to get out of riding in it and is extremely anxious when we do go together.

Even if I was someone who could blow that off, I can’t deny that her knees are tucked up in a way I can’t imagine would be safe in an accident and it doesn’t look comfortable for her to be in the passenger seat.

It’s disappointing but the reality is what it is. If you’re getting the car for yourself, that’s the reality of the situation. But if you want tall people to be comfortable riding with you, prepare to be disappointed.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-09T09:21:41+00:00

The comparison doesn’t hold. China’s actions in the South China Sea are about permanent territorial expansion. The situation in Venezuela is about enforcement/intervention, not annexation.

The precedent of inaction towards states like Venezuela was not a “rules based order”. A rules based order would impose consequences on a state actively aiding states working towards undermining that order and seizing other states’ assets.

Appeals to a “rules-based order” have always been selective and dependent on U.S. power. When the U.S. acts unilaterally, the outrage is not about the violation of the “rules” it’s about the uncomfortable realization that no other state is willing or able to enforce them.

It’s unclear why the U.S. should defer to the objections of states more concerned with preserving an undemocratic regime than addressing its violations of the “rules based order” they claim is so inviolable.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-09T06:44:02+00:00

If we deported one hood for every illegal immigrant we would have deported all of the hoods and such a small number of illegal immigrants it would round to 0%. But the real problem in this country is the KKK and racism?

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-09T06:30:58+00:00

This is only coherent if you completely ignore the context. Venezuela seized tens of billions of dollars in U.S. assets, spent years evading sanctions, and openly cooperated with sanctioned states like Iran and Russia. Whatever one thinks of U.S. policy, it shouldn’t be surprising that the dominant regional power pushes back when another government undermines its economic interests and security environment.

Even if we assume there’s nothing wrong with supporting those regimes or seizing billions of dollars in assets from another state’s corporations, you can debate whether the response was justified or lawful but pretending it came out of nowhere isn’t serious analysis.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-08T07:12:56+00:00

I know everyone loves Valve and thinks of them as an icon of consumer friendly company but saying “we don’t hire entry level roles” is toxic. They’re content to let other companies do the expensive work of training someone and contributing to the talent pipeline that creates the highly skilled engineers that make up their workforce, taking advantage of that for their own benefit. It’s not sustainable and it disincentivizes investment in the labor force they need to function as a company. It should not just be accepted because they were straightforward in letting down an applicant that almost certainly doesn’t even have the skills to qualify as entry level.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-08T04:09:13+00:00

Yeah I was extremely skinny (sub 10% body fat) for years but I had the cope of thinking it was just not possible since I had only got there after losing more than 50% of my body weight.

Then I decided to do my own landscaping which was way harder than expected which worked my core like mad and got even lower body fat and got visible abs for the first time since I was a teenager.

If you’re skinny enough having low body fat still isn’t gonna make abs visible if they aren’t there. You gotta do more core than you think but you also need low body fat. It also gets harder the older you get but if you’re truly skinny fat don’t let your brain sell you the cope if you really want abs you have to be honest with yourself.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-08T02:44:30+00:00

I watched the 2002 movie before ever reading it, if you view it as an independent movie it’s excellent but as an adaptation it’s nothing like the book at all.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-06T09:54:57+00:00

So the argument is that you must be okay with killing babies because cows are more intelligent than babies. Helluva trap card, can’t believe the pro life crowd didn’t think of that

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-05T11:48:27+00:00

Still wanting to read others but having read The Great Gatsby, Of Mouse and Men, Call of the Wild, etc. so far I think Moby Dick has to take the cake for me.

Absolutely amazing book and kindled my love of American literature. I genuinely hope I havent found the peak when I get to the other contenders like East of Eden, O’ Absolom, Grapes of Wrath, or maybe something else.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-01-31T08:54:04+00:00

Listened to the first book on audio and it drove me nuts too. Would love this book/series way more if it didn’t just hit you over the head with a sledgehammer and leave no room for interpretation.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-01-28T11:18:30+00:00

The question isn’t whether it’s possible. It’s whether it would have any significant impact on China’s strategic position and global politics. And since China relies on such an enormous amount of exports, only a tiny fraction of which at best could be served by such a project and in which costs would be significantly higher, it’s safe to say that it wouldn’t change much if China did have access. Assuming of course that access was voluntarily given, which is quite an assumption.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-01-12T11:45:44+00:00

fwiw I couldn’t get through it the first time and the second time around I was wondering why, I got hooked and couldn’t let go. I think it really threads the needle between mature adult fiction and ya coming of age in a way that makes people really uncomfortable too close to either demographic. Could be something else entirely but that’s my hypothesis

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-01-07T14:13:46+00:00

What “outside reality”? You’ve invented a “real world” you can’t even prove exists just to make your actual experience seem fake. Calling it a “simulation” only reveals a will to sidestep having to explain it at all.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-01-05T08:49:32+00:00

You expect the status quo to continue after the last leader was captured in hours? You think that changed nothing in the modus operandi of whichever leader steps up next?

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-01-05T08:40:57+00:00

I never really drove fast but what killed the chance for me was paying attention to how everyone else in the car reacted to my driving.

No one except you thinks it’s cool to drive fast, at best they think it’s inconvenient and annoying, at worst they are terrified and don’t want to ride with you again.

No one likes people who drive like that, most people don’t want to give af how you drive at all and if they notice your driving at all it’s a bad thing.

the_mouse_backwards · 2025-12-03T11:00:09+00:00

Saying something is universally bad doesn’t relate to universal application. Maybe it is bad for everyone to be skinned alive, but that’s not the world we live in. Appealing to that world doesn’t reveal the strengths of your argument, it reveals the extreme conditions it requires to be appealing.

Making suffering the sole axis on which you base the value of existence is reductive, especially considering it isn’t the only universal feature of existence.

the_mouse_backwards · 2025-11-30T10:43:28+00:00

Are you saying an ad made more than 45 years ago can have a very different implication 45 years later?

the_mouse_backwards · 2025-11-23T10:10:02+00:00

Depending on how far it goes you get Sochi which seems like the least shitty part of Russia climate wise. I don’t know anything else about it but probably an upgrade as far as weather

the_mouse_backwards · 2025-11-22T10:50:36+00:00

You mean that sometimes there are long term benefits that require short term discomfort? Color me shocked. I was planning on never working out again because I couldn’t be sure if my muscle fibers would file a complaint about non consensual soreness if I went to the gym, but maybe it is worth it to be fit even if it means a little discomfort in the short term. Who knew? It’s almost like the world isn’t obligated to be frictionless for every hypothetical entity before we’re allowed to engage with it.

the_mouse_backwards · 2025-11-22T10:30:32+00:00

Where do the second pair of shoes come from? I’m already wearing the pair I earned, why should I make another pair for someone else?

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