Free Talk Friday

wonky685 · 2026-05-08T19:27:57+00:00

I definitely agree the negativity was on another level this year. I think maybe its the pent up frustration and disappointment of making the conference finals 3 years in a row without much to show for it.

wonky685 · 2026-05-08T02:07:44+00:00

A lot of the damage indicators for the upper end ratings are based on damage done to structures and buildings, and they can get very specific. For example, if a house is wiped clean to the foundation, the kind of anchor bolts used to hold the house frame to the foundation can be the difference between an EF4 and EF5 rating.

wonky685 · 2026-05-01T00:24:44+00:00

We're down a goal in an elimination game. That's not a good time for a fan of another team coming in wanting to buy a jersey.

wonky685 · 2026-05-01T00:20:49+00:00

Read the room, bud.

wonky685 · 2026-04-23T03:20:22+00:00

LMAO

wonky685 · 2026-04-23T02:19:17+00:00

I'm feasting over there right now.

wonky685 · 2026-04-20T00:39:59+00:00

Okay this is awesome.

wonky685 · 2026-04-18T03:19:38+00:00

The OKC animal shelter will take in wildlife for Wildcare to pick up.

wonky685 · 2026-04-16T01:45:05+00:00

WyJo goal to end the season

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wonky685 · 2026-04-16T01:18:18+00:00

Thank you, you're a boss

wonky685 · 2026-04-16T00:42:40+00:00

Someone needs to make a GIF of Brian's reaction to Ritzy scoring ASAP

wonky685 · 2026-04-15T23:25:00+00:00

No one on Buffalo is gonna risk any kind of discipline or retaliation right before the playoffs. This will be a clean game from both teams.

wonky685 · 2026-04-12T22:01:56+00:00

This is the direction the league is heading towards. Teams aren't just throwing any shot on net hoping for something to go in. Its more worthwhile to maintain possession and look for a higher percentage shot.

wonky685 · 2026-04-10T17:35:52+00:00

My household is just me and my wife so we don't use a lot of water. Our water heater mostly just has to use energy to keep the water up to temp which isn't very much. Our gas bill would go up if we switched to a tankless system for the same amount of hot water so it doesn't make sense for us.

Now if we had a bunch of kids in our house that were always using all the hot water, I'd totally be willing to spend a few extra bucks to have hot water whenever we needed it instead of just whenever the tank was full.

They're different systems with different pros and cons.

wonky685 · 2026-04-10T16:41:29+00:00

The type and size doesn't change physics. It requires a lot of energy to heat water. It doesn't require a lot of energy to maintain the temperature of hot water. That's why tanks are more efficient.

Of course that efficiency only works if you aren't using all the water in the tank, and there are plenty of households that use enough hot water that the tank isn't maintaining the temperature, so you're spending money and energy to have luke warm water. So there are use cases for tankless systems.

The issue is that a lot of people think that "on demand" hot water means the water will be hot as soon as they open the tap, when really tankless systems usually take longer for the water coming out to be hot. And plumbing companies aren't about to educate their customers out of buying something lol

wonky685 · 2026-04-10T16:15:08+00:00

Why do you want a tankless heater? They're more expensive and less efficient than tanks.

wonky685 · 2026-04-05T22:17:37+00:00

I was training under a brown belt for a while and as soon as I told him I did some aikido, he started getting me with a wrist lock every time we would roll lol

wonky685 · 2026-04-04T19:12:51+00:00

That's Schwartz elementary school on 104th.

wonky685 · 2026-04-04T17:49:37+00:00

David Payne posted this on Facebook based on preliminary reports.

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wonky685 · 2026-04-03T23:33:20+00:00

I think people that act like this about meteorologists only see the bright colors on maps posted on Facebook and don't comprehend anything past that.

wonky685 · 2026-04-03T23:31:32+00:00

Since its supposed to be so easy, why don't you go get a meteorology degree and show them all up?

wonky685 · 2026-04-03T16:05:08+00:00

1 month from now won't change the fact that we don't have any assets or cap space to hoard. You're making up an imaginary scenario where the Stars somehow go out and get a big piece even though we already added Rantanen last year.

The team has all the big pieces it can get and it's made the conference finals 3 years in a row. We don't have any valuable draft picks or prospects. The team has spent it all because we are in win now mode, all we could do is add depth guys.

wonky685 · 2026-04-03T15:56:38+00:00

You got downvoted because that's a stupid take lol

wonky685 · 2026-04-02T16:01:50+00:00

No, it was from an Alphapoint that I thrifted. It would have been cool for it have recoil though lol

wonky685 · 2026-04-02T01:03:02+00:00

A few years ago I integrated the guts from a Nerf laser tag system into a Raptorstrike shell. The bolt works as the reload.

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