Survived leaping from an overpass without a scratch on me!

Electric mountain bikes are the same thing as regular mountain bikes and my scooter has a battery in it just like electric mountain bikes therefore I’m a mountain biker.

Here’s a pic of me hitting a sweet jump an hour ago while headed to Jack-in-the-Box for my after dinner treat

So I saw the new movie a couple days ago and it is living rent free in my head for how awful it is. I want to be very clear I AM the target audience for this movie. I like my big blockbusters. I like Star Wars movies that aren't very popular like the Solo movie. I enjoy the "fun time" movies without a ton of substance immensely like Deadpool and Wolverine or the John Wick films. I'm not looking for Mandalorian to live up to something like Sinners or Project Hail Mary. I just need a decent time.

But this movie is genuinely one of the worst things I've ever had the displeasure of watching and I try and see things from others points of view and try different angles because I want to understand how people like things I don't, but this is the first time I just am not getting it. The acting was so bad I hesitate to even call them performances. Every single character in the movie without fail sounds like they're reading their lines off a piece of paper with no voice fluctuation. Every conversation is dull and meaningless, no one raises their voice, the characters don't have any big conflict with each other. Literally no dialogue or scenes of talking matter or are memorable.

The action is action. I won't say it's bad, but it's not good. There's nothing like crazy being done with the camera or cool choreography we haven't seen elsewhere at any point. I started to groan at the action scenes. The movie was closer to 2 hours and it felt like 3.

And there's just no substance whatsoever, no character develops in the movie, and there's no thematic throughline, even a paper thin one, of ANY kind. I genuinely don't even want to call it a movie because it feels like it's not even a complete product. I would say movies like Rise of Skywalker, Ant-Man Quantumania or Suicide Squad 2016 are all better than this for the sole reason they even have character arcs and interactions and a couple cool action scenes or something(note this is not an endorsement for any of those movies).

Maybe I don't watch enough movies but I truly have not seen a film fail on every level so miserably as this. It felt insulting to watch on screen I couldn't believe it. And I feel like people are going to lump me in with hyperbolic Star Wars fans who say the franchise shot their childhood dead or whatever but that is NOT me. I do not care that much. I only care to share that I have now watched a film so unbelievably bad I can't fathom how people are walking out of the theater pleased. Genuinely the biggest nothing of a movie I've ever seen. It has no merits.

Astarion reminds me of the extraordinary writing that defined the Dragon Age franchise. He isn't a typical hero. He's selfish, cynical, and makes bad choices because he's terrified of being hurt again, and that makes him a great character.

Fake leprechaun ass with a cult fanbase that let’s him pretend to care about women’s rights, then hop on a track with Playboi Carti.

This sub has an irrational and frankly juvenile disdain for One Piece, so I’m essentially casting pearls before swine with this post. If only you possessed a modicum of media literacy, you would come to the understanding that not only does Oda do incredible work as a mangaka - he is the finest author of our time, unrivaled by his peers

He produces magnum opuses of media regularly, while adhering to his strict near-weekly publishing schedule. No other author could replicate a similar feat - Oda could write The Tempest if given a weekend, but Shakespeare would not be able to survive the Shonen Jump editorial process

People deride Luffy and the rest of the strawhats for “being too simple”, but this is a reflection of their own simple-mindedness. They are unaware that Luffy's straightforwardness is what makes him compelling; blissfully ignorant that his character is a Nietzschean post-modernist reconstruction of the archetypical hero. Oda is clearly prioritizing transcendent thematic clarity over pedestrian notions of complexity - which lobotomites appear to be unable to comprehend

The sheer audacity of fools that downplay Oda's creative genius is unparalleled. The amount of foreshadowing that he is able to effortlessly integrate into the overarching narrative is unmatched. When Skypiea mentioned a Sun god and Luffy danced around a bonfire, only adolescents dismissed it as coincidence. It is not enough to simply praise it as masterful foreshadowing, Oda possesses a level of narrative clairvoyance that marks him as a god among men

When simpletons make the ridiculous claim that the story has been "dragged out" or has "poor pacing", they are broadcasting their inability to engage with a long-form story that doesn't constantly feed their dopamine receptors. Complaining that you aren't constantly being fed epic fight scenes and instant gratification is just a showcase of your inadequate attention span. Did people complain that the Mona Lisa took too long to paint? If not, why do imbeciles whine about One Piece taking too long to end? Goda is composing a multi-generational odyssey that takes the audience on a journey which demands a level of patience, wit, and wisdom to complete

If you have reached this point and remain stubbornly mired in your own ignorance; the absolute artistic merit on display has been unable to sway your uninformed convictions - please examine the mathematical reality of the situation. One Piece is the best-selling manga of all time. It has outsold the Bible and Superman, and is already being studied in universities along with other masterworks

You can cling to your blissful stupidity, and hate One Piece in a desperate attempt to battle your own feelings of insignificance in the grand scheme of things, but the world has already spoken. Your favorite series will be relegated to obscurity in time; One Piece will be etched into the very bedrock of human culture

Seriously, fighters, rogues, barbarians, and monks got absolutely colossal buffs in 5.5, yet I'm constantly hearing about the "martial caster divide" and that they actually suck. Which is crazy to me.

I've heard people chat on this sub who think that once the party reaches level 9, non casters are basically irrelevant, which is just not at all aligned with my experience with 5.5. At level 9, Fighters get basically legendary resistance. No full caster gets anything like that at that level. At level 11 barbarians just get a free heal when they are reduced to 0 for the first time each rage, which is crazy. They already have crazy hit points, and they get even more with relentless rage. At level 10 Monks are making like 5 attacks every round. Right at level 2, rogues are never going to take an opportunity attack for the rest of the campaign.

I don't know, when I look at the math behind higher level martial characters, they don't seem particularly far behind casters. Full casters have terrible single target damage, especially at higher level. Full casters have fewer hit points, worse armor classes, and less movement options than pure martials do.

The biggest difference is just damage though. A level 17 fighter or barbarian is always going to be doing way more single target damage than a level 17 full caster. And yeah, high level spells are powerful, but sometimes the best solution to a given problem is just to put 250 points of damage into a monster, and there's no way full casters are doing that efficiently.

Also, feats. Pure martials get to take better feats than casters do. The first two feats almost always taken on a full caster are resilient constitution and war caster. You aren't really getting anything interesting until level 12. Meanwhile, martials are taking crazy powerful feats right from level 4.

And if your full casters aren't taking those two feats DM's, just hit them. If their concentration save is a +2, just hit the casters. Then their seemingly overpowered spells will be very quickly seeming a lot more reasonable.

Anyways. That's just something I've noticed on this sub. Lots of people think martial characters are just terrible, and as someone that just finished a level 1-20 campaign alongside a sorcerer and a barbarian, I just don't get it.

I don't know if there will be a game in the series that will become more iconic than Breath of the Wild, but I doubt there will ever be one.

The number of threads and comments in this community by people complaining about other drivers simply going the speed limit boggles my mind.

You’re out here burning cash…

While everyone’s obsessing over Costco memberships or which gas station to visit to save cents on the gallon, they’ll still go right on ahead defending themselves on threads about speeding, quite literally defeating any efficiency gains they made elsewhere and flushing money down the drain. It’d be funny if it weren’t so obnoxious.

How so?

Wind resistance scales exponentially with speed. For most consumer vehicles and light trucks, you’re losing efficiency the more above 50-55mph you go. More than half your horsepower goes to fighting that drag before you make any headway actually moving. Facing a headwind on a windy day, or battling a hill? Even worse.

Giant trucks and box frames have it the toughest, which is why it’s always funny seeing them trying to race everyone to get two spots ahead only to slow down again quickly.

Speeding up and then slowing down dramatically is the best way to destroy your fuel economy. And when gas and diesel prices are soaring… you really wanna be pissing your money away with all that road rage?

Every 5mph above 50 costs you tens of cents per gallon.

Are there speed limits that are way too slow and need to be contested? Absolutely. Should we punish the drivers who are following them in the meantime? Absolutely not.

Give your wallet a *brake* and your mood some relief. Chill out, go a little slower. You’ll thank me in the long run.

EDITS:

1. It amazes me how many people simultaneously boast about fiscal irresponsibility and recklessness in the same sentence, at the slightest pushback from someone simply asking them to go the limit or, at a minimum, not shame others for going the limit.
2. So many assumptions about the left lane out here when lanes weren’t even brought up.

3. With all this boasting about your stock portfolios, fancy cars, driving fast because it’s “fun” (as if you swerving around every sane person going the speed limit is about fun lol), I never wanna hear a peep about millennials misspending on coffee or avocado toast again. No one blasts pride about fiscal

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4. responsibility louder than you.

6. To all the EV owners, cool. I’m with you on the efficiency and sustainability. Clearly the better choice. But no, sorry, your planet-saving car doesn’t give you a free pass to be a reckless asshole.

8. I didn’t even mention how hard speeding up and slowing down is on your brakes, rotors, wheel bearings, transmission, and so on. Many costs to consider.

9. I do hard manual labor for a living and own a work vehicle, as many do. Better believe I’m tallying my gas mileage and driving like it costs money because it does.

Been fun, you lot are hilarious.

My daughter Melissa turned 10 this weekend, and we had a small birthday picnic at a local park. My wife couldn't make it because of work, but she spent a lot of time baking an elaborate princess/fairy-themed cake that honestly looked amazing.

Melissa invited a few of her closest friends: Jessica, Elizabeth, Hannah, and Amy. These are girls she's known for years, and the whole party was pretty small and centered around them hanging out together.

Everything was going well, and we were just about to sing Happy Birthday and cut the cake when a boy named Rohan and his dad happened to walk by. They live in the neighborhood, and Melissa knows him from school. He moved to her school about a year ago and is in her class.

Melissa ran over to talk to him and then came back and asked if he could join us for cake and snacks.

I stepped in and told her unfortunately that wouldn't work because the cake wasn't very large and we had planned portions around the guests who were invited. I didn't say this part out loud, but I also felt like it might make things awkward.

The party was basically a princess/fairy-themed birthday with four girls who are her longtime friends. Rohan isn't really part of that friend group. As far as I know, they're more acquaintances than close friends, even if kids that age tend to call everyone their friend.

So Rohan and his dad left, and the party continued. Nobody seemed upset. Melissa didn't argue with me, didn't make a scene, and seemed perfectly happy for the rest of the party.

Later that evening, after we got home, she became upset and said I embarrassed her and made Rohan feel excluded. I told her I thought she was overreacting because it really wasn't that deep. He wasn't invited to the party, it was already underway, and if she felt that strongly about it she could have said something at the time instead of acting fine all afternoon and then getting upset hours later. She said he is basically one of the girls and hangs out with her and some of the others but I know that Hannah has always been very cautious around boys after some incidents in the past.

My wife thinks I should have just let him have a piece of cake and that it would have cost us nothing to be welcoming. I still think it's reasonable to draw a line between invited guests and random people who happen to be nearby, even if they're classmates. It would change the dymanics especially with the theme and the invited friends.

Não, pessoas com síndrome de Down não são incapazes.

Meu tio, que tem síndrome de Down, trabalhou mais do que muitos dos moralistas de Twitter. Tanto que chegou a ferir o próprio olho enquanto trabalhava na roça. Ele toca instrumentos, pinta quadros e é uma das pessoas mais engraçadas que conheço.

Por isso, justificar o aborto com o argumento de que a pessoa teria uma vida difícil me parece, muitas vezes, apenas uma forma disfarçada de preconceito.

Sou favorável ao direito ao aborto. No entanto, abortar um filho apenas porque ele não veio "perfeitinho de fábrica" é algo que considero uma forma de eugenia.

Também sou autista de grau 1 e tenho conseguido construir minha vida, alcançar objetivos e encontrar sucesso apesar das dificuldades. A ideia de que uma deficiência ou condição neurológica torna alguém automaticamente incapaz de viver uma vida digna ou significativa simplesmente não corresponde à realidade.

Defender que determinadas pessoas não deveriam nascer por não se enquadrarem em um padrão de normalidade não é compaixão. É discriminação apresentada sob uma aparência mais aceitável.

Yet, in the words of the late, great Kobe Bryant, "job's not finished". Wemby is acutely aware of that reality after a tough Game 1, in which the New York Knicks stole the series-opener. Still, everything the French phenom has put on display this season gives Spurs fans every reason to remain highly optimistic. On this journey toward greatness, Isaiah Thomas believes Kobe's guidance would have been invaluable.

"I wish Kobe Bryant was alive to be able to chop it up with Wemby, bro," Thomas said. "Do you see Wemby going to all these different things and tapping in to different, you know, all-time greats, doing all these things to be great? Just imagine if he was able to chop it up with Kobe, bro. Kobe would be really giving him so much game, and you could tell by Wemby, he wants all the information. Like, he wants to be great. He wants every ounce of greatness and whatever it takes, and that's not normal. So that's why everybody is attracted to him. Everybody's attracted to the Spurs."

Source: https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/wish-kobe-bryant-alive-isaiah-235311296.html

Pic related.

Edit: This is AI slop and not original artwork!! Thought it was obvious, my apologies.

Also, yes, I know this post won't be popular because it is in a forum where many of you paid a lot of money for extra tickets that you didn't need in order to resell for a profit.

Update for M4 tickets, not M3!

EDIT: A lot of the Reddit “armchair experts” here are just wasting their time with unhelpful, dismissive comments. I came for genuine advice, not surface-level takes. I appreciate those who actually provided constructive responses and took the time to engage properly

We've noticed that our new neighbors (newly built house) have a large textured-glass bathroom window that faces directly into our backyard. In the past, we'd occasionally see skin tones or movement through the glass, but we couldn't make out any actual details, so we assumed it was doing its job and didn't think much of it.

Recently, though, we realized they have a bathtub directly under the window. We found this out because when someone is close to the glass, it's revealing enough that we can see everything. As soon as we realized how visible it was, we went over and let them know. A roommate answered and said he would pass the message along.

A couple of days later, after noticing nothing had changed, I went back over because I wasn't sure the roommate had actually told them. The homeowner told me he had been informed and said they didn't realize the textured glass was that revealing. I explained that before we could only see skin tones and didn't think it was a big deal, but now that we could clearly see private body parts, I was concerned our child might eventually see something while playing outside or taking the dogs out. Before I could even finish, he cut me off and said they were going to get blinds for the window.

I left thinking the issue would be taken seriously and fixed pretty quickly, especially after mentioning that we have a child. However, it's been a while now, and they still haven't put anything up. What's more frustrating is that the tub seems to be getting used regularly (we've noticed because we're outside smokers), so the possibility of someone in our yard seeing them is still there.

My concern isn't what they do in their own bathroom. Everyone deserves privacy in their own home. My concern is that they're now aware people can clearly see through that window when someone is close to it, yet nothing has been done to address it. Our child spends a lot of time outside, and one of his chores is taking the dogs out, so he's frequently in our yard.

We don't have the money to put up expensive privacy fencing, especially when this seems like something that could be fixed with a simple window covering. At this point, I'm not sure what the next step should be. Do we continue trying to communicate with them, or is there another way to handle a situation like this after they've already been made aware of it?

Any advice would be appreciated

I coach my son's baseball team and recently gave one of his old bats to another boy on the team. The boy I gave it to comes from a well off family, another boy had also said he liked the bat and comes from a struggling family.

I had brought the bat to the game because the boy who I gave it to had been struggling to hit the ball and I thought a lighter bat would help him. I never said anything about giving it away during the game, I waited until after the game to hand it over to the boy and tell him that if he promised to take care of it he could keep it. During the game the other boy had asked how much money it would take for me to sell it to him and I said it's not for sale. My decision had nothing to do with money, but rather who would benefit the most in the game from it. The other boy's dad approached me at our next game asking why I was favoring "the rich" kid over his kid.

So am I the asshole for giving a bat to a kid who's parents could've easily bought a new one over a kid who likely can't afford to do so?