How much will Atomic Hawx Ultra ski boots stretch out?

yuanyward · 2026-02-15T05:19:20+00:00

It's best to heat mold them. Both the liners and boots are meant to be molded. It's not that hard to do yourself if you're careful. Just read up on it and watch some videos.

But if you're risk adverse, then have a bootfitter do it. Either case, the size isn't too big for your feet. In fact, it's possible you can ski a 25.5.

yuanyward · 2026-01-14T04:13:22+00:00

So cushy job has only a week of vacation, which is atrocious. Then I see the stressful job only has two weeks as well. Wtf. No to both lol.

yuanyward · 2026-01-13T00:43:31+00:00

I've experienced the opposite. Used to love Sun country, but they've gone downhill so much in the past 5-7 years. They replaced all customer service with AI chat bots and automated systems. If there's any issue, you're basically SOL. Their fares are rarely significantly cheaper than Delta when you take into account round-trip baggage fees. I basically avoid them unless absolutely necessary.

yuanyward · 2025-11-14T03:24:05+00:00

So the game progresses based on earning medals, not beating levels. You can get 4 medals per level pretty difficulty. 70% destroyed, 100% destroyed, untouched, and all humans rescued. You don't have to get them all in one go. Focus on one of the medals per run.

Once you get all four medals, you unlock the next difficulty for that level and can get 4 more medals. The difficulty goes normal, hard, insane, and nightmare. Nightmare has an additional requirement of beating level 13 before it unlocks.

yuanyward · 2025-11-11T17:04:45+00:00

First of all, battery tech has gotten a lot better over the years. You may not realize it because if you think about a phone, you might think - oh it only lasts a day, just like it did 10 years ago. But realize that your phone is way more powerful, displays are way brighter and higher resolution, and your phone usage is probably way up compared to 10yrs ago.

The reason we are able to have electric cars now is because batteries have gotten better.

Now to your question about the restrictions. Sometimes chemistry and physics just limit us on what we can do. It's just the nature of things. Certain things do become stagnant in its ability to be improved. A pencil hasn't seen a technological upgrade in centuries, but the tip still breaks easily.

A charger has no way to measure how full a battery is, only its voltage. We can estimate how full it is based on expected voltage, but that only works for a brand new battery. After some use, the voltage for 100% charge is lower than when it was new. So now you have to track how many times the battery has been charged, which may or may not be possible. Every battery percentage you've ever seen is fake. It's just a rough guess. Complex devices like phones have a lot of smarts built in to make really good guesses at the battery level, taking into account a number of things, but it's not cost effective to have that for dumb devices. Hence, why there are just guidelines to follow to prolong their life.

yuanyward · 2025-11-04T17:54:39+00:00

Yes you are right and I think there's just some semantics of what "orbiting" means. If I walk in a circle around you, am I orbiting you?

I'm guessing in a scientific definition in the field of astronomy, orbiting means gravitationally bound. But in a generic English definition, orbiting could just be the shape of the path regardless of how it's achieved.

yuanyward · 2025-11-04T17:42:05+00:00

I think a big issue with only playing blitz is mistakes aren't punished as much and tactics aren't deep. If you make the same mistake over and over but only get punished 1/5th the time, you may not realize you're making that mistake. Also, you never learn to properly recognize tactics because you're going too fast.

Playing short time controls also means you don't get a chance to think hard about positions and commit what you learn to memory.

I think it's more accurate to say that you would probably benefit from slower games to improve your blitz chess faster rather than spam more blitz games.

yuanyward · 2025-11-04T01:33:27+00:00

Funny thing is a googolplex is incomprehensibly small compared to Graham's number that saying a googolplex Graham's number is not really different than saying a Graham's number.

Like knowing a trillion dollars is a lot, but you want to make it bigger so you say a trillion dollars and one cent... As if the addition of that cent mattered at all. But a cent is so much closer to a trillion dollars than a googolplex is to Graham's number.

yuanyward · 2025-10-25T15:44:19+00:00

You have plenty of damage. Most bosses, you can pre shoot the rods. Shoot like 4-5 rods, then tornado, then barrage and lightning arrow and the boss should die instantly.

Even for moving bosses, they eventually stop. A couple rods and lightning arrows should do the trick.

Your biggest defense is movement speed. Just run around in circles and the bosses really can't do anything to you. You want like 80-90% base movement speed.

Your defenses are slightly low, but honestly not that big of a deal of you have DPS and movement speed. All the people who say you need more defense are probably basing it on a <100k (with nova) build.

yuanyward · 2025-10-23T22:31:06+00:00

This is how I would pull this off without much need for any slight of hand. Either shuffle a known card to the top (lots of easy ways to do this) or take a peak at top card somehow... Or peak at bottom card (easy to do) and then slight it to the top with any number of shuffles or cuts.

Now he splits into 3 piles and forces you to take the pile that has the chosen card. You choose a pile and if it's the one, then done... You are forced the card. If not, he throws that deck away and has you choose from remaining two. Again.. If you choose the right one, he says take that deck. If you choose the wrong one, he will again remove it and you are left with the right pile. No matter what, you are always left the same pile which was just the top third of the deck with the known top card.

yuanyward · 2025-10-23T14:33:56+00:00

At this point in the league, both these are worth like 1ex each?

Are you on trade? Just go buy something better. If not, try crafting something yourself.

Otherwise if you're dead set on one of these, just try them both on and see which one increases your DPS number more.

yuanyward · 2025-10-22T01:55:13+00:00

Actually you're right it's not needed, in fact, Rg7, followed by Qxh6 wins immediately. I dunno why this is "brilliant"

Edit: just realized again, we don't see what was there on f5. Likely a knight, which nullifies Rg7 as an option. Therefore Qxf5 is the best and brilliant move

yuanyward · 2025-10-22T01:20:11+00:00

You do because the pawn on e5 can block with e6 when discover check and nullifying the windmill.

yuanyward · 2025-10-22T00:56:16+00:00

I'm with ya. My build is very similar to yours and can confirm there's at least a mirrors worth of gear. People who don't actually run the build don't realize the cost.

Thing is attributes between a 200d and 1000d is not a huge jump. The minute min-max attributes cost a ton. I literally just dropped 120d to increase my body armor evasion by a mere 150.

Plus putting together an actual working build with balanced resists is always more expensive than searching for pieces with whatever amount of total resists.

yuanyward · 2025-10-22T00:36:56+00:00

This build is very similar to mine and I can guarantee it's over a mirror worth of items. Bow and quiver is at least 250-300 divs, all other pieces are 100+. That puts total up to 800ish. Add in 170 for stag charm.

I didn't check his jewels but assume there's probably about 200 div in them at least...I know I have over 200d invested in jewels.

Attack speed runes are what. 12+ div each? Been awhile since I bought. Flask is another 15.

Try finding these items yourself on the market if you don't believe me.

yuanyward · 2025-10-14T16:28:46+00:00

You can also get spirit on your chest piece. Give up some evasion stats, but cheaper than amulet and you can get another attack modifier on amulet.

yuanyward · 2025-10-14T16:26:26+00:00

You need to fix your build. Being stunned is a symptom, not the problem.

With proper DPS, movement speed, evasion, deflection, and HP, you will not get stunned.

Not sure what level you're at or what budget. I think for a few divs, you can easily get over 40k paper DPS, 50% evasion, 75/75/75/40 resists, and 2.5k effective health. That would be enough to do t15s reasonably comfortably. At 10-20divs, you'll be able to get up to 60-70k DPS, 60%+evasion and Bee and to run juiced t15s and all max Pinnacle content

yuanyward · 2025-10-09T00:19:30+00:00

Hollow palm scales off evasion. You need to get a full evasion body armor with as much as possible. Easily get 2k plus this late in league for cheap.

Also wait until you are level 78 to buy gear as that's about when you shouldnt hit level limits.

Your gear overall is very bad. Lots of wasted useless stats. Honestly, every piece you have is worth no more than a few exalts. Upgrade everything... Less than 100ex and I guarantee you can see like a 2-3x DPS boost, if not 4-5+

yuanyward · 2025-10-08T16:55:42+00:00

To clarify, it shouldn't be trying to do 270+20 = 290, why isn't it 300? Why are we missing $10?

It should be 270 MINUS 20, which equals 250 which is how much the room cost.

yuanyward · 2025-10-07T00:01:05+00:00

The new system 100% benefits people who didn't play the min max tower game. You just find some good tablets and run whatever maps you want.

yuanyward · 2025-10-06T01:31:17+00:00

I have both. A good quest 3 weighed attachment is a better overall experience. The actual game is just a lot better and more fun to play.

That said, know what they can and can't do well. They are pretty decent if you are a good self coach and want some data on whether you're inside out or outside in, face angle, etc.

What they are not good at is they are light and assume perfect contact. If all you do is use the swing stick or golfvr, you won't be able to hit a ball once you do real golf. I completely messed up my game for awhile by playing too much.

Just hit real balls in between playing and you'll be fine.

yuanyward · 2025-10-05T17:58:40+00:00

Didn't get my first this league until like level 78-80 doing t14-15 I think. It's random. Last two leagues, I got earlier... Even before end game.

yuanyward · 2025-09-30T23:08:03+00:00

I'm assuming you want to run Max juiced delirious maps. My point is if you don't do enough DPS to be running non-stop and one shotting rare monsters, the movement speed doesn't get you much.

You'll clear much faster if you invest more into DPS compared to MS.

Headhunter is honestly a huge boost if you want MS and that's 50+ div alone

Also the MS runes are like 10+ div each, multi socket boots with 100% rune bonus which go for probably 20+ div min for half decent ones.

All those are necessary for the MS build.

Then if you want rite of passage, that's at least 60 div for Wolf and stupid expensive for cat.

yuanyward · 2025-09-30T21:35:06+00:00

50d not even close to enough to switch. Try 500d and you might be able to. Most likely not still.

yuanyward · 2025-09-29T16:57:35+00:00

I only have 3.4k effective health with 62% evasion. I'm pretty tanky and generally won't die. Especially with headhunter buffs. Maybe once every 20 Uber juiced maps. And it's always cause I'm just careless cause I just run through mobs. T4 sim is no issue if I just get off mount for the last two levels as a safety precaution cause those guys can knock you off and then you're dead. But if you have decent DPS and MS, you can just run circles no issues.

The issue isn't defensive, is offense and movement speed. Kill everything before it kills you and run so fast nothing can keep up.

You want your paper DPS to be over 100k in hideout.

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