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2023.03.22 16:55 digital4kcollector (Offer) list (request) list

I split all splitable titles If you want a full code please let me know.
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2023.03.22 16:54 Glittering-Oil-4200 Leeching, Visiting JNILs

First time poster, recent lurker. I have a long history of JNMIL and JNFIL absurdities. My in-laws are emotionally manipulative with DH, cry poor, and don’t understand the concept of overstaying their welcome and personal boundaries. I also FULLY recognize I have a DH problem.
My DH (44m) and I (40f) have been together for 16 years and married for 12. ILs come to visit 3-4 times a year and stay with us for 1-2 weeks. They live several states away and drive by car for 18 hours to visit. Because of the long drive, they always feel they need to stay at least a week to make the trip worth it. They have never offered to get a hotel, as they are extremely cheap, and my husband insists they stay with us anyway due to their fixed income and financial woes (mostly crying poor- their house is currently for sale for over $1million). Years ago, BIL had a SO who was resentful when ILs stayed in BIL and SO’s NYC apartment. BIL’s SO made them feel unwelcome, and DH has sworn that his parents will NEVER feel unwelcome when they visit him/us. Even when we first started dating 15 years ago, when I lived alone in my house and DH lived with roommates in an apartment, he insisted that they stay in MY house with me when visiting. I was very uncomfortable with it, but being young and not fully aware of JNILs, I allowed them to stay with me. He would stay too. Over the years I have tried to put down boundaries as to when and how long they stay, but DH gets upset and mad at me because “they are his PARENTS” and he doesn’t ever want them to feel like they are not allowed to stay.
Currently, we live in a small one-level house with our children, who are 4 and 6. When ILs visit, they sleep in our playroom on a murphy bed, which means all the toys have to be moved out and it makes our packed small house feel even more chaotic. What’s most bothersome, though, is that they are a total energy suck. Their visits drain me physically, mentally, and financially. When they stay, they do not lift a finger to help or offer to buy anything. They do not clean up after themselves (even at meals), do not offer to cook, do not buy groceries (even when we go to the grocery store together- they will put groceries they want in with our order so we pay for it), and do not pay for meals out. They bring a lot of shit (rotting vegetables from their fridge that are going to go bad, 20lbs of grapefruit from their trees), take up a lot of space and are just generally gross. (FIL does not shower when they visit, and after their last visit, I found a full fallen-off toenail in their room). Their own house is dirty and they both have hoarder tendencies.
Before my LO was born, their visits mostly fell on me to plan meals and outings, cook, clean, empty the dishwasher, etc. After LO, I stopped. I silently let it fall on DH to take charge and care for them. I no longer clean up after them, help in the kitchen, empty the dishwasher, etc. and I cook very minimally now when they visit. I have my own two children to care for, I don’t need these leeches. DH is definitely now aware of how laborious it is to have them here, and he is frequently exhausted and grumpy when they come.
Another aspect that drives me crazy is that they sit around all day. DH and I both work full time. While we are at work and kids at school, ILs sit on their ipads or read all day. They do not take the initiative to do anything or go anywhere. They will also harp on what groceries we are low on/out of incessantly, but they will not walk to the grocery store (right up the road) to purchase it. When we are home, they do not take initiative to do anything with the grandkids either and they have never offered to watch the kids so DH and I can go out. Once, when I told them we had made dinner plans with friends on a weekend night, MIL immediately blurted, “but what are WE going to do about dinner?!” I can’t stand the helplessness (a JNMIL’s favorite). The lack of initiative also makes me insane, and I start feeling so claustrophobic in the small house with 6 people, so I end up being the one that plans and initiates family outings with the kids and they tag along. “Let’s go outside!, Let’s walk to the park!” I also utilize our zoo memberships and botanical gardens memberships when they are here.
I am not actively rude when they visit, but I do not engage much. Ever since I was pregnant with my first LO (and they still didn’t lift a finger!) I realized that they don’t really care about me, and I retreat to my room at night because I don’t have the energy to “entertain” in the evening after my kids are in bed. I honestly don’t care if it appears rude, as I think they are extremely rude houseguests. By the end of each night, I’ve had it. My husband frequently brings up that I am “not welcoming” and that they can sense that I don’t want them here. We end up arguing about it for days before and after their visits. Any normal person who picks up on those vibes would cut their visit shorter or stay elsewhere, but they don’t seem to care.
JYBIL and his JYwife live on the opposite coast in a big city and do not have to deal with ILs as much due to distance. ILs are too cheap to fly, big city is too much for ILs, and BIL has much stronger boundaries with his parents. When BIL had his first LO, ILs flew to visit for a week when LO was 2 (pandemic baby). JYBIL and JYwife paid for them to stay in a hotel and did not “host” them at all hours. BIL has said that he also never wants to bring his wife and children to his parents’s house because of the hoarding and filth. Therefore, JYBIL and JYwife have come to our house twice pre-pandemic to visit the ILs. JYBIL now has two children of his own (3 and 2 months). ILs have not yet met the baby. The thought of ILs coming to visit them again is so terrible that JYBIL and JYwife think it’s easier to fly their whole family to our house again and visit the ILs here. JYBIL and family are coming to town in May and staying in an Airbnb for 6 days. IL’s will stay with us. Because JYBIL and family will be here mid-week to mid-week, I know ILs will try to come for two full weeks. I’m already dreading the visit and want to lay down time limits for their stay. However, I know it won’t matter what I say and insist on, as DH is going to allow them to come whenever they want. Besides needing to vent and rant, I’m also seeking advice on how active I should be in this visit. I will be working and kids will be in school for the majority of it. Although I am looking forward to seeing JYBIL and family, I don’t feel as though it is my responsibility to entertain and host everyone. I am not a cruise director, and they are the ones that planned the arrangement to meet the ILs at my house. Any advice, suggestions, or commiserating is welcome.
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2023.03.22 16:54 StudentExchange3 Am I confused or did support just lie to me?

I got an order to pick up two cookies from Panera and deliver them across the street to a gas station. The person that order does not work at the gas station and was nowhere to be found around there. This is my first time experiencing something like this, and after not being able to contact the customer, I called Support, they said to just follow the app instructions and take a picture and drop it off. They told me that they left a voicemail with the customer saying that I will do such.
Are we not allowed to leave voicemails for customers? I could’ve sworn I have before in the past. When I tried calling this customer, it went straight to voicemail and said the voicemail box was full. So did support just lie to me? I asked her about it and she said complete the delivery. Have a good day goodbye and hung up.
I had a stacked order, so I’m on the way back to the first place right now, another door dasher had an order for the same customer and was dealing with support her self. Hopefully I can just leave the cookies by the random chipotle bag. I might find there now. 😅
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2023.03.22 16:53 Matheff Divi contact form – I'm going crazy with this

Hi! I need some serious help… with Divi contact form. It feels soo unintuitive!
I want to change three things:
  1. The color of the checkmark, without changing the color of the text near the box.
  2. Make the box stand out, text shouldn't start below the box (the next line of the paragraph should start in line with the first, not with the box).
  3. The text should go a little bit longer, ending before the captcha. I see only option to go full or making it a miserably short (as on the screenshot).
Is it possible? I belive it is, but my knowledge in CSS is too basic for this and I can't find any answer on the web.
Here's how it looks now.
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2023.03.22 16:53 shoddy_boboddy Corporate Marriott WFH

Hi all of my Marriott International peeps! I started my Marriott career with corporate years ago and have taken on positions in sales, front office, and operations. I currently work for a franchise as it seems corporate owned hotels are disappearing. My goal right now is to get a WFH position with corporate but it seems nearly impossible. I have applied for a number of positions over the past year and I get passed over again and again. Could over qualifications be the reason? I’m applying for simple jobs that don’t need much experience. Is that working against me? Does anyone have any insight?
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2023.03.22 16:53 Loveforeugenia Feeling bored reading scripture and sitting through lectures

I can’t help but feel so bored. I started bible study fellowship on Wednesdays for spiritual growth for myself and my young children so we could grow closer to God as a family. I’m always falling behind on the lessons and catching up the day before when my leader texts me to ask if I have enjoyed the lesson. I enjoy the group meetings when I hear encouragement and talk with ladies about things they’re going through and getting to share what I’m going through, and just being able to have the power of a prayer group has been nice. I enjoy the community.
When we get to lecture I just feel so bored. They talk from 1015 - 11 and it’s basically a summary of the previous weeks lesson. When I read the lesson’s scriptures I could nearly fall asleep. Answering the lesson questions sometimes feels boring as well, I try to give my honest and personal answers but it is mostly simple Sunday school answers I give. I can’t help but feel it’s so boring. Looking at the lady giving the lecture she honestly sounds so miserable like she’d rather be doing anything else but give this lecture that feels more like a performance like she’s practiced giving this lecture at least 3 good times so by the time she actually does it she sounds bored with herself too.
I don’t want to feel bored but it is so boring. How can I make myself more interested?
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2023.03.22 16:53 jasonrulesudont I've been building my own private Toonami Aftermath before I knew it was a thing

Hey everyone. I just discovered TA today when doing some Toonami research. I'm a software engineer and in my free time I've been building something kind of similar to TA, without knowing TA existed. It's really cool to see that someone else had basically the same idea as me a long time ago and executed on it really well.
I wanted to share the idea behind what I was building to solicit any feedback or be pointed to any resources that can help me.
First of all, I am not building anything that will be hosted publicly or will "compete" with Toonami Aftermath. That being said I might share the source code on GitHub. What I've been building is a simple desktop application that is essentially video player that allows for dynamic queuing of content. The application is running on a laptop with Discord that is sharing the video stream in my private Discord server 24/7. Basically I want to be able to just queue up content for me and my friends to watch together. Could just be random movies or TV shows we want to watch, or a replication of what TV broadcasts used to look like. The main motivation was that I wanted to make custom Toonami broadcasts complete with bumpers and commercials, but have them be auto-generated. I started editing some of it together by hand but I found that to be super time consuming, so I want to automate it. I'm not there yet, for now it only allows for the playlist to be put together manually, but I'm working on extending the backend to make it much more flexible and support the concept of a "broadcast." Long term goals include hosting the backend on a web server with a web front end that allows us to create schedules, though the video would still play on one of my local machines and screen share through Discord.
I am curious about the setup of Toonami Aftermath. I did find a repo on GitHub that was last updated in 2015. I'm curious if that is the most up to date version of the codebase? I'm unlikely to use any of the code, I haven't touched PHP since college. But I do plan on reading through the code to get some ideas. I am a big fan of that old "guide" look that is reminiscent of what my DirecTV guide looked like back in the day. I'm also curious about how the site is hosted. I am toying around with the idea of doing web-based video streaming, but my concern is cost. What kind of service is Toonami Aftermath hosted on, and what is the cost? Maybe I can host my UI on a small AWS or DigitalOcean box but have the streaming come from my home network, hidden behind a login so I'm only exposing my IP to trusted friends.
Anyway, this all feels like a bit of a ramble with little in the way of actually asking a question. But I would like to know if anyone has any ideas for a project like this, or has any insight on how I could potentially do some web video streaming on the cheap.
Thanks.
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2023.03.22 16:53 Ok_Cartographer6328 Need Advice for friend

Attached to friend with said disorder. She’s never been involved with anyone before. She never gave a commitment, and according to her we were “just friends”. But I could tell, and everyone around us could tell there was something going on between us. Her parents, sister, everyone noticed it.
She hardly texted and even ignored texts. But we exchanged snaps daily 2/3 times. And there was some texting at night. And we copied each other’s snaps, I think in a way it was like confessing love for each other.
Got blocked after confessing love directly on text. She gave warning before doing so but I doubled down on the love lol.
6 months later, she came to my house while I was blocked. ( for a family function, as our parents are close) Acted completely normal, and was only interested in spending time with me, and no one else at the party.
That day I could notice the signs of disorganised attachment and dissociation. Snapping at me, look of frozen terror when I was being romantic, laughing like a five year old girl when I was being flirty, zoning out etc. And she was confiding in me like a friend that day.
And before I got blocked and things were normal(relatively lol) she told me her deepest secret, even if it was just in a few words.
She has all the signs of a horrible childhood. After I got blocked I messaged using brothers phone like once a month but no reply. But she saw them. And never pressured her to unblock.
But after she came to my house, I added her to WhatsApp group with just us two, told her she was behaving bad, she left the group. Also told her she can say goodbye anytime, but DIRECTLY. But no goodbye, just left group. I Got brothers phone and told her to stop running away as that won’t solve anything. Then she accused me of harassing her( lashed out and wrote paragraph long texts to my brother about how I don’t respect her etc.) Told her sorry, will never message again. Then she said she will unblock me but to respect her boundaries as friend. Bullshit, as deep down she knows it’s more than that. But I’ll comply.
She’s Still unresponsive after getting unblocked.
My question is, is it better to keep sending texts periodically or to let her isolate completely and wait for her to come to me. I know the relationship is alive, I could feel it when she met me recently.
She’s in a very bad place and I’m ready to wait cause love. Lol.
It’s been 8 months since she initially blocked me. I’m still blocked everywhere except WhatsApp.
This is a very serious level of mental illness, I can tell. Even I’m somewhere along the lines of crazy , that’s why I understand her a little but nowhere near her.
Fine with being just friends as long as I’m there for her. Idk how that will work as it’s weird for a guy and girl to be just friends, specially near marriageable age.
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2023.03.22 16:52 Accomplished_Art_724 Ate ni jowa nangugutang

Boyfriend went near our house to quickly see me and also said to me na kinausap daw siya ng ate niya. Ang asawa ni ate (lets say si kuya riz) ay pupunta na raw ng Australia sa Monday for work.
I was surprised pero mas nagulat ako slight sa sumunod
Ang sabi ng ate niya baka daw pwede makahiram sa amin ng jowa ko ng 50k. So tig 25k kami at kahit daw tubuan niya ng 5%.
Di ko alam pero sobrang nega ko talaga pagdating sa pagpapahiram ng pera. Di ko naman akalain din na ganon kalaki ans hihiramin. Tapos kelangan sa Monday na. Ilan araw lang pagitan.
So I said no. Ang dami ko pa sinabi like sabi ko kung may mangyari masama sa relationship namin ni bf (like breakup) paano ko sisingilin ate niya.
Sabi ko sure din ba yun na may trabaho si kuya riz sa Aus. Magkano ba sahod niya, kasi besides supporting himself, kelangan niya supportahan yung asawa at 4 na anak at isang magiging apo niya (buntis kasi yung isang anak na 18 yo). Tapos sabi ko rin yung ate niya, magkano lang sahod. Sabi ko rin eh paano kung takbukhan siya ni kuya Riz
Ang daming nega parang all negative posibilities naisip ko.
Ewan ko kung gago ba ako sa part na to or what kasi kapatid yun ng jowa ko eh.
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2023.03.22 16:52 NaXter24R Small OLED options in 2023

After dozens of reviews I think I'll pass on the LG 27GR95QE. I need something with good image clarity, colors, true blacks, fast refresh and high resolution that could serve me well for both productivity and gaming, all in a decent size package (27 is already a stretch but is the max I can get). This almost fits all but the brightness paired with the text blurriness concerns me quite a lot, especially considering the price tag on it. For 1100€ honestly there shouldn't be drawbacks like this. So what's next? As far as I know there isn't anything beside this panel. There are Asus and Acer if I remember correctly but they both should use the same panel so we're back to square one. Is that really it? No other small size oled monitors in the near future?
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2023.03.22 16:52 Ok_Cartographer6328 Need Advice for friend

Attached to friend with said disorder. She’s never been involved with anyone before. She never gave a commitment, and according to her we were “just friends”. But I could tell, and everyone around us could tell there was something going on between us. Her parents, sister, everyone noticed it.
She hardly texted and even ignored texts. But we exchanged snaps daily 2/3 times. And there was some texting at night. And we copied each other’s snaps, I think in a way it was like confessing love for each other.
Got blocked after confessing love directly on text. She gave warning before doing so but I doubled down on the love lol.
6 months later, she came to my house while I was blocked. ( for a family function, as our parents are close) Acted completely normal, and was only interested in spending time with me, and no one else at the party.
That day I could notice the signs of disorganised attachment and dissociation. Snapping at me, look of frozen terror when I was being romantic, laughing like a five year old girl when I was being flirty, zoning out etc. And she was confiding in me like a friend that day.
And before I got blocked and things were normal(relatively lol) she told me her deepest secret, even if it was just in a few words.
She has all the signs of a horrible childhood. After I got blocked I messaged using brothers phone like once a month but no reply. But she saw them. And never pressured her to unblock.
But after she came to my house, I added her to WhatsApp group with just us two, told her she was behaving bad, she left the group. Also told her she can say goodbye anytime, but DIRECTLY. But no goodbye, just left group. I Got brothers phone and told her to stop running away as that won’t solve anything. Then she accused me of harassing her( lashed out and wrote paragraph long texts to my brother about how I don’t respect her etc.) Told her sorry, will never message again. Then she said she will unblock me but to respect her boundaries as friend. Bullshit, as deep down she knows it’s more than that. But I’ll comply.
She’s Still unresponsive after getting unblocked.
My question is, is it better to keep sending texts periodically or to let her isolate completely and wait for her to come to me. I know the relationship is alive, I could feel it when she met me recently.
She’s in a very bad place and I’m ready to wait cause love. Lol.
It’s been 8 months since she initially blocked me. I’m still blocked everywhere except WhatsApp.
This is a very serious level of mental illness, I can tell. Even I’m somewhere along the lines of crazy , that’s why I understand her a little but nowhere near her.
Fine with being just friends as long as I’m there for her. Idk how that will work as it’s weird for a guy and girl to be just friends, specially near marriageable age.
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2023.03.22 16:51 RagingBuddhist59 Hate hammering in a bunch of tent pegs?

Hate hammering in a bunch of tent pegs?
I've posted this on every camping forum I've been on so here goes for Reddit. I wrote it for Kodiak Flexbow owners but it's also good for anyone who hates driving in all the pegs.
As I've gotten older, I've found the worst part of setting up a Kodiak, or any large tent for that matter, is staying bent over while trying to drive in all the stakes. With the Kodiaks the pegs are way oversized IMO at 12 inches - especially since where I usually camp the ground is all rocks and clay. Well... I was at Home Depot several years back and I saw these modified lag bolts from a company called Spax. I instantly figured that, if I put a fender washer on one, a drill would easily drive into just about anything - including roots. I was right. Even if I did manage to hit a rock, I could usually angle the bolt a bit and drive it right to the ground with very little effort. Yes, you have to carry a drill but, at least to me, that a small price to pay for knocking the setup time in half AND not killing my back and knees. If a drill is out of the question, a speed ratchet would probably do the job, just not quite as fast. The threads hold better than a straight peg so you don't need anything near the 12" standard Kodiak pegs. I use 8"x 3/8ths and they hold just fine. I've been out in sideways rain and neither of my Kodiaks ever budge.
I've come up with two upgrades since then. An online company called BoltDepot sells stainless double thick washers. Highly recommended over the slim washers found in most big box stores.
The other upgrade knocked off some weight when I found another type of bolt from a company called GRK. Slimmer shaft with a flatter head and Torx drive. They do just as well holding things down.
Quite a few people have told me they've adopted this method and thanked me for suggesting them, so it can't just be me and my crazy way of "roughing it smoothly".
https://preview.redd.it/ik9eq97rabpa1.png?width=763&format=png&auto=webp&s=d69bdcb172beacdd6fffbea8467f945e83d9e280
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2023.03.22 16:51 snoopyonderdonk [WTS/WTT] M16A4 Clone parts! Plus others: Rainier 12.5" socom at home barrel, Advantage Arms Glonk .22LR mags, Gas system assembly, AK dust cover/sight bundle

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2023.03.22 16:51 pawprint554 AITA for dropping a friend for what she did to her cat

This happened a while ago but has recently come back up
A close friend of mine wanted to get a cat. Since I’m a big cat person she came to me for help choosing a cat and to ask for tips on cat care. About a week of her having the cat she came to me and asked about declawing because the cat was scratching everything up. I told her that you should never declaw a cat. I made sure to tell her all the negative side effects such as heavy biting and peeing everywhere. I also made sure to tell her some alternative solutions such as clipping the nails or using nail caps. At the time it seemed like she got the message.
A while later I heard from someone else that she went and got him declawed anyway. When I called her to confirm she said yes, apparently he had scratched up her favorite shirt and that was the last straw for her. Of course I was very upset with her since I directly told her not to do that. She didn’t see the big deal and said there have been no negative side effects. After this incident I distanced myself from her, we didn’t talk as much and I was more reluctant to be around her. She noticed my changed and told me this was something stupid to get so upset over.
After a month I found out she was looking for a dog. The reason she was looking for a dog was because she gave the cat away. When I asked why she gave him away she said he refused to use the litter box. I then told her that was one of the side effects I tried to warn her about. She just brushed me off and said it’s not her problem anymore. I tried asking who she gave him to because I wanted to make sure he was in a good home and I’d be willing to take him if things didn’t work out. She refused to tell me anything. There is a small part of me that still thinks she didn’t give him away and either threw him out or something worse.
This left me heartbroken, the poor cat was punished for something that was in no way it’s fault. After this I completely cut her out my life. I didn’t answer any calls or text and always declined when she wanted to hang out. She called me out for caring more about an animal than her. The rest of my friend group took her side and shunned me. I had to find new friends but if all my old one saw nothing wrong with what she did then it was for the best. When I told my new friends this story they were on my side.
This person is now trying to insert herself in my life again and is saying I’m an a hole for treating her so cruelly and that I need to apologize. I really don’t think I was in the wrong for dropping her but maybe it’s weird to put an animal over a person.
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2023.03.22 16:51 f1newsbot Hamilton won’t be Mercedes’ lead driver until F1 car changes

With Mercedes so far away from race-winning, let alone title-contending, form and Lewis Hamilton not having a 2024 Formula 1 contract yet, ‘Hamilton mood watch’ would be a popular pastime even without him being as – relatively – outspoken about the team’s efforts as he has been lately.
He’s also not even been the team’s top performer. Yes, he led George Russell home in Bahrain, but it’s 2-0 to Russell in the qualifying battle (the Saturday gap nearly four tenths of a second in Saudi Arabia last weekend) and Russell finished ahead on race day in Jeddah too.
Sunday was still better for Hamilton in Saudi Arabia than Friday and Saturday. Only eighth in qualifying, and off the pace on hard tyres in the first stint, when he was overtaken by both Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc, he benefited from being able to clear his pitstop under the safety car and then being on mediums for the second stint when most others were on hards. That allowed a move on Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari to secure fifth place.
It was enough for Hamilton to declare he was “generally happy” and that there were “lots of positives to take” from the Jeddah weekend. He was pleasantly surprised to beat both Ferraris in the race too, though Ferrari’s take on this was that it was just the vagaries of race circumstances such as safety car timing for its strategy and then it faring badly on hards, rather than a sign that it was now behind Mercedes overall.
But even amid his relatively content end to the weekend, there was a strong hint that Hamilton’s not going to be Mercedes’ main hope until something changes with the car.
There was a degree to which Hamilton said the disparity between him and Russell was just down to set-up choices, and Hamilton certainly did seem to go awry on that front relative to his team-mate.
But both Hamilton and team boss Toto Wolff spoke of there still being a fundamental issue with the 2023 Mercedes that’s going to limit what Hamilton in particular can do with it until a major change is made.
“We’re a long way down on downforce for one, we have to pick up the rear end on downforce particularly,” said Hamilton when asked what needed to happen for him to get more confidence in the W14.
“The more rear we gain, the more stable the rear becomes, the more confident we’ll be to be able to attack.
“But I think in general this car, even if we change that, there’s a specific thing with something on the car.
“It’s a position I’ve not had in previous years’ cars. For me, it’s the thing that is making me uncomfortable so I’ve just got to work hard with the team to make sure that’s changed.”
Russell clearly got the car into a better working window in Saudi Arabia than Hamilton did.
I got the impression that Lewis just went in a set-up direction that wasn’t vastly different to Russell’s but was different enough that it just seemed to not be right.
He didn’t have confidence in the car all weekend. Russell did a better job, he probably didn’t manufacture in his own problems whereas it sounds like Hamilton did a little bit with the way that he wanted to try to adjust the car’s set-up.

But overall it’s just broadly where Mercedes is at the moment: the best case scenario is if something happens to the faster cars it might be able to steal a podium.
Asked by The Race if the Mercedes was more manageable in race conditions than when on an all-or-nothing qualifying lap, Hamilton agreed that heavy fuel and the more measured demands of race pace tamed the car to a degree.
“It’s on a massive knife-edge when you’re above 95% but when you’re in the race stint, it’s much more controllable, more predictable,” he said.
We’re still very early in the 2023 F1 season and only have small sample sets to judge relative performance on. The set-up success Russell had relative to Hamilton may have been specific to the asphalt demands of the Jeddah streets, for example.
But Hamilton’s recent talk of feeling ‘disconnected’ from the car and complaints that his feedback last year wasn’t heeded support a feeling that there’s a particular gap between what he wants for his driving style and preferences and how the W14 behaves, an added layer of personal discomfort beyond the car’s overall pace deficit. And a fundamental one too, not something that a set-up tweak or a different circuit will erase.
That was inferred in the way Wolff summarised Hamilton’s feelings about his 2023 car as well, his description carrying a clear hint that this is not just a bad car but a bad car that specifically does not suit what Hamilton needs.
“I think we have a fundamental issue that he’s not happy with and is linked to the way he feels the rear end of the car,” said Wolff.
“And that’s not something that can be cured quickly.
“But the drivers are the most important sensors in the car and if they tell us that’s what they feel, we need to consider that.”
On The Race F1 Podcast last week, Mark Hughes explained how Hamilton’s apparent complaints had steered Mercedes in the right direction with its previous-generation cars.
“Sometimes what the numbers say doesn’t tally with what the driver is trying to tell you and the driver will be overruled because the simulation says another thing and the engineers are working from numbers. But sometimes the reality’s not quite like that.
“Hamilton’s always asked for a car with which he can take corner approaches very, very aggressively, with very late braking, geometrical lines but very aggressive input and a rear that will keep up with it.
“When Mercedes had the diva car of 2017 (above), Hamilton was saying he would prefer a different aero balance. And over the next few years, he gradually convinced the team to keep moving it in the direction that he wanted it and from 2017 to 2020 it got better each year.
“If Mercedes looks back on it, it might actually see that there is a correlation between what Hamilton’s been asking for and performance, because the car did generally get better between 2017 and 2020 as it moved in the direction he was asking for.
“Having his input placed higher up the order of priorities is probably one of the lessons to learn.”
Source: https://the-race.com/formula-1/hamilton-wont-be-mercedes-lead-driver-until-f1-car-changes/
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2023.03.22 16:50 Fabulous-Chairs-1046 Should I [21 F] Move In With My Partner [25 NB]?

I met my current partner online back in September of 2021. We shared some friends and some interests. I was soon to be turning 20, and they had recently turned 24, so our gap is 3.5 years. We spoke infrequently and were cordial, but it was nothing more than that. We talked maybe once or twice a month until February, when some drama between mutual friends led to us having a long conversation. We ended up bonding and began speaking more frequently. In May, it was nearly every day, and in June, it was every day. It remained friendly until I amicably split from ex in July, and soon after that things between my partner and I got flirty. Neither of us wanted to be serious, as we didn’t want to do LDR again, but January 1st we made it official. We couldn’t deny that we felt committed to each other and that we cared deeply about each other, so we decided to see where it goes.
I flew to their home state 2.5 weeks later (something we planned a couple months prior) and we met in person for the first time and spent an entire week together. We had an amazing time and it was the best vacation I’ve ever had. I have another trip planned for four weeks from now and I’ve already booked my tickets. I can’t wait to see them again. I’ve never been so happy or felt so secure in a relationship. A couple weeks ago, though, they told me that one of their roommates had sat them down and suddenly informed them that he doesn’t want to live there anymore. Their leases are all up in July, and my partner isn’t sure if their friend will want to extend his lease so he can have more time to apartment hunt, or if they themself with renew their lease (it’s dependent on if their other roommates want to stay or not). They said if they stay, and if their roommates are cool with it, they would like to offer me the potentially open room. Today, while they were looking at new places in case they have to move, they mentioned tentatively considering some 2br units.
Nothing is set in stone, and we’re both hesitant due to how new our relationship is, but I’ve been planning for years to move out of my area of the US and into theirs. The fact that my partner even lives in the area I’ve always wanted to is just a bonus, and now there’s a real possibility I may get the chance not only to move but to do so under nice circumstances. My original plan was to move once my lease runs out in 2024, but I would break it if this opportunity comes to fruition. But I want to hear, honestly, from people who have moved in with their best friends and their partners, if we’re moving too fast or what we should consider first before seriously considered moving in together?
TL;DR - There may be a chance for my partner and I to move in together 4 or so months from now. Am I moving too fast or should I go for it?
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2023.03.22 16:50 TheChineseGeneral 36 [M4F] Portugal - Searching for a friend, and who knows what else

Bruno, 36, from the sunny Portugal.
My job is pretty much what makes me travel the whole country, as I am a truck driver.
As for what i like to do in my spare time, i enjoy the following:
Reading, Taking hikes, Playing League of Legends (i know, my mental sanity is going away), Manga and Anime I would prefer to start via Reddit Messages and as some sort of friendship, and we would see how it goes from there. Not limited to any specific region, age, race, etc.
Hope to hear from you soon.
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2023.03.22 16:50 WreckageHothHead Flaws/insufficiencies in RLM's spacewar commentary: paaaaart 1(?)

So just for a bit of context here, I recently rewatched Mauler's "TFA critique", and while it contains a whole lot of precise analysis that I couldn't really find any problems with, his utter obliviousness to the huge amount of logical/continuity problems in ANH (incl. the almost identical ones in the "corresponding" plot points!), which he repeatedly brings up throughout his review while praising its plot as logically consistent where everything makes sense and every event/action are justified / in line with the characters' characterizations (with I think the sole exception of Motti starting out as ignorant of Vader's powers; and something about how bad the Stormtroopers were while showing exclusively Endor footage), made me go on an autistic multi-(for-now-7-)part rant on the Mauler sub going through most of the major logical issues found throughout ANH and ESB.
The ANH ones have some overlap with Plinkett's audio commentary, but also contain lots of points either not brought up there at all, or expanded versions of some of the points that Plinkett touches on.
There's no necessity in reading them for this particular thread here or anything, but here they are regardless lol:
https://old.reddit.com/MauLecomments/115yiq7/spacewars_hackfraudery_how_esb_is_a_lot_closer_to/ "SpaceWars HackFraudery: How ESB is a lot closer to TFA and TLJ in terms of "undoing the victory from the previous movie" and Mauler was WROOOOOOOOOONG"
https://old.reddit.com/MauLecomments/11fytsc/an_example_of_mauler_as_well_as_plinkett/ "An example of Mauler (as well as Plinkett) significantly overestimating the OT's "cause&effect motivation consistency sense-making" - and what possible implications this could have"
https://old.reddit.com/MauLecomments/11fytsc/an_example_of_mauler_as_well_as_plinkett/japzym (bit of a correction/expansion of the OP in an added comment - I should probably post a revised version of the OP somewhere at some point)
https://old.reddit.com/MauLecomments/11hki5e/ot_discontinuity_thread_number_3_schroedingers/ ""OT discontinuity" thread number 3: Schroedinger's gigantic space distances"
https://old.reddit.com/MauLecomments/11q2vwl/ot_discontinuities_thread_4_magic_invisibility/ ""OT discontinuities" thread 4: magic invisibility charms, except not; + First Empire competence issues"
https://old.reddit.com/MauLecomments/11uhedc/ot_discontinuity_thread_5_sending_x_number_of/ ""OT discontinuity" thread 5: sending x number of TIEtroopers + the homing beacon plan"
https://old.reddit.com/MauLecomments/11vbnud/6th_and_probably_almost_last_thread_anhtfa/ "6th (and probably almost last) thread: ANH/TFA opening plot holes and Tatooine/Jakku comparisons"
https://old.reddit.com/MauLecomments/11xl040/a_new_plot_hole_thread_7a_trip_to_mos_eisley/? "A New plot Hole thread 7A): trip to Mos Eisley, Luke/Rey skills + retroactive arcs!; + huge hyperspace retcon tangent"
https://old.reddit.com/MauLecomments/11xl55a/a_new_plot_hole_thread_7aa_lukerey_skills/? "A New plot Hole thread 7AA): "Luke/Rey skills + retroactive arcs!" post-hyperspace-retcon-tangent section"
https://old.reddit.com/MauLecomments/11xl7wy /a_new_plot_hole_thread_7b_leftover_points_not/? "A New plot Hole thread 7B): left-over points not covered in the previous ones (Lando System suddenly pops into existence?; Emperor retcon; and 2 unprecedented Obiwan/Leia problems?!!!)"
So naturally being on a bit of an inertia from this, I thought I'd go over here and also highlight various problems I've found with RLM's spacewars coverage in various places;
in this thread just 1 relatively small point, and if I end up posting others, probably also just few points at a time (to prevent long OPs or whatever):
Plinkett audio commentary: SW Ep4
But really, a space station the size of a small moon? And they just happened to get pulled into the exact hangar bay which is located right near all the things that they need to get to.
But they do get back to the Millennium Falcon on foot, right? Like right after when they rescue Princess Leia and get all showered up; so the prisoner room and the garbage dump that's like one floor below it - is like right near where the hangar bay is?
Same with all 7 power reactor control things that shut off power to the main tractor beam...
Why is this Death Star so big again?
Oh right, the giant space laser. Ah, whatever...
The Death Star is silly and nonsensical; each set is designed for the purpose of the movie's needs:
The prisoner cell block only has one way out; which is great by the way, in case a crazed prisoner escapes and corners a guard?
There are giant steel doors everywhere, that close to block off hallways - utterly pointless, except it's neat to have Han and Chewie jump through a door as it's closing while they're being chased by Stormtroopers.
"Open the blast doors! Open the blast doors!"
I guess they're blast doors...
What are they blasting against? [...]
I guess they're like watertight bulkhead doors? - like on the Titanic? You know, in case the Death Star hits an iceberg.
And then you got the extendable and retractable bridge over the cavernous pit; this serves no purpose? - unless we want a scene where Luke has to swing across the pit heroically with Leia.
And don't even get me started on the fact that there are no railings anywhere on any of the [?] walkways, that go above endless pits to nowhere...
It's all very stark, and abstract, and science-fictiony stuff.
I guess the Empire's so confident in its efficiency, that it doesn't need shit like safety railings - they've been accident free for over three years now!
Now you might be saying to yourself, well, I did complain about the Theed power room, right?
But I never really complained about the look of the Theed power room - or the fact that they didn't have no railings either!
And they have these silly rotating force field doors, that led to a little room with a pit in it for no reason...
It was like that little Keymaker guy from the Matrix sequels showed up - and he opened up the door to a completely different fucking world.
I guess George wanted them to have a fight scene on a Star Wars looking set, or something that looked like the Death Star kind of environment? - but he couldn't get them onto one storywise, so he just said that there would be one underneath this old quaint city.
You see we need some kind of connection to reality?, and as absurd as a planet-sized space station with a giant laser is - it's still much more believable than the fact that Naboo has a gigantic power generator under its city;
accessible through doors in some kind of hangar bay for some reason.
And it's like underneath the main palace? And not like a 100 miles away in the middle of nowhere.
It's like having a nuclear powerplant under the White House - not necessarily the greatest idea....
If I owned a nuclear powerplant, I'd probably go and touch the Uranium rods. I'd rub my face against them.. in hopes that I would get superpowers and be able to shoot laser out of my eyes... But I'd probably just get horrible cancer.
You know, I got something to admit - I got cancer once? But I was cured of it... Because you see, once the cancer cells saw what I did in my basement at night? - they all killed themselves. They said they didn't wanna bring their children into a world such as mine.
This of course being an expanded version of a point that touched briefs in the Ep1 review:
Plinkett: SW Ep1
Oh, and then they go from the palace to this room, what is this room? Is this in the palace??
I mean I know George wanted the Jedis to fight in a cool place that's really Star Warsy? - so.. so what this is like a power generator? What does it power, the Universe??
So you're expecting me to believe that the people that built this technological wonder were dying without space supplies for 2 days??
One additional plot hole I seem to have found here (at least haven't seen anyone else mention it) is that at the beginning of Ep1, the hangar with the ships quite certainly was not in the palace (the Queen's group looked like it had walked quite a distance away from the palace before the 2 Jedi freed them - and then Panaka's like "the hangar, this way" and next second they're at the hangar; no way they made the whole trip back to the palace during that cut?) - however at the end, they enter the palace via the hangar.
Either way this aside, while the comparison in that commentary section is accurate, the big problem here is that a much closer and more natural comparison to what happens here with the Theed hangar->"powerplant", is not the Death Star here, but rather the Bespin duel - and Plinkett doesn't make that obvious comparison anywhere.
As an environment, Bespin is a direct predecessor to mainly Coruscant (i.e. the exterior) as well as to a lesser extent the Naboo capital - its interior doesn't directly look like the Palace (if anything that one's much more comparable to the Yavin throne room), however it's an exotic, idyllic and embellished, arguably "aristocratic" looking environment built right next to the hellish looking carbon freezing chamber, a junkyard featuring a conveyor belt leading into an inferno, and probably other industrial areas;
this in itself is not yet "unjustified" in any way - Cloud City is a "gas mining colony" after all, and as James Cameron is well aware, smoke-filled metallic industrial environments already have an inherent tendency to look like Hell on Earth and serve as a perfect setting for climactic showdowns against creepy villains and monsters.
However Han's group never visits Lando's moody looking industrial facilities before being taken there by Vader - so from their perspective, and the way it's conveyed in the movie (starting even with the room Threepio initially enters), these industrial and engine rooms represent the "evil underbelly" of Cloud City, hidden beneath and inbetween the picturesque city and the soothing bright hallways that serve as a "front" for this hidden truth;
even the gnome-like aliens first found by Chewie in that junkyard, and later seen participating in in the carbon freezing procedure, while literally just being industrial workers there, come off as malicious, almost demon-like creatures who're seemingly exclusively found in these grim underbelly rooms.
Then, even though it's reasonable to expect a city with a police force to feature prisons and detention centers, the one that Chewbacca gets locked in has an emphatically grim and evil look to it - a complete contrast to the public areas.
That's not what the Enterprise's detention cells look like?
Moments later, Han is strapped into a torture contraption, in a similar room with a dark red ceiling - one might assume the Empire brought the torture equipment with them, but really this place increasingly starts looking like an evil Imperial fortress rather than a benign, idyllic city built around some factories.
And if the initial scenes inside the freezing chamber didn't outright confirm that this place exists right "next" to the bright hallways, then certainly that's exactly how it turns out to be when Luke arrives and is lured into this trap - one moment he's in the white hallway, the next he enters a door and is pulled into the hell room with Vader.
Plinkett's "Keymaker from the Matrix" comparison becomes more and more applicable here - even though the believability isn't stretched as much yet, since why shouldn't there be quick and easy access to the industrial/engine rooms from the public hallways?
And the Empire just happens to be using this room, since Vader wants to use this otherwise normal industrial facility to freeze Luke so he doesn't try to escape during the trip to the Emperor... or something.
However as Luke starts following after Vader after pushing him off the platform, and walks through a creepy tunnel into what seems like a level of control rooms connected by darkly lit hallways, the place becomes hard to distinguish from some of the interiors of the Death Star - especially the Emperor's throne room from the 2nd one;
and then Luke is blown out a window that looks like a spider web (not quite unlike the one seen behind the Emperor's throne in the next film), into a vast, round bottomless pit with walls that look like the surface of the Death Star.
Sure - if that long shaft emerging from underneath the city and reaching down into the clouds (possibly connected to the "gas mining" somehow) were to be hollow inside, then it would look like a gaping bottomless pit - but why does its wall have to look like the Death Star's surface? And also evoke the bottomless pit that was surrounding the tractor beam controls for some reason?
So at this point, Luke and Vader have gotten from a smoky industrial facility that you would expect from an industrial city like this, to what looks indistinguishable from the interior of an evil Imperial station or fortress - even though these interiors have been here for years, way before the Empire arrived here a few days ago, and effectively made it into its temporary evil space station fortress;
they hardly could've revamped the design of all these rooms and chasms during the short time they've been staying here, to make them look like an Imperial base instead?
Really by all looks, these levels beneath the carbon freezing facility, as well as those "prison rooms" from before, look like this for no other reason than that the Bespin city functions as a honey-trap Imperial fortress in this film;
and as the duel starts protruding into the increasingly Deathstarish looking environment, it seems like dream logic starts completely taking over any pretenses the environment initially had of "making sense in-universe":
each set is designed for the purpose of the movie's needs:
What's happening on a small and not even anywhere as immediately noticeable scale in Ep4's Deathstar, is taking place on a much larger scale here - the environments are designed according to the needs of the film, as well as to reflect the meaning of what's happening in the story as well as the protagonist's mental state:
the "control room level" looks like an Imperial fortress because it's functioning as one here, and exists as a representation of the dark place (morally and mentally) Vader is trying to lure him into; and the claustrophobic hallways, spider window and gaping chasm reflect and intensify Luke's bleak states of mind during those respective moments - the unfamiliarity of the environment reflects the hidden knowledge that he's about to discover, the hallways and thin bridge intensify his "trapped in a deadly situation" situation, and hovering above a gaping pit into nothingness is seemingly how he feels about having learned what he just learned: that his entire aspiration to go after his father, and what his trusted mentors had been telling him, were all lies, and he seemingly has way to escape the "dark abyss" that Vader is trying to pull him in (ironically the literal dark abyss is what he jumps into to escape it - having changed into representing the preferable nature of death/uncertainty to what Vader is offering him).
So how does this all compare to the Ep1 counterpart?
You see we need some kind of connection to reality?, and as absurd as a planet-sized space station with a giant laser is - it's still much more believable than the fact that Naboo has a gigantic power generator under its city;
accessible through doors in some kind of hangar bay for some reason.
And it's like underneath the main palace? And not like a 100 miles away in the middle of nowhere.
It's like having a nuclear powerplant under the White House - not necessarily the greatest idea....
To get this one thing right out of the way out of the bat, there is no indication of those power beams or anything else in this place somehow being hazardous like the fissile radiant material in nuclear powerplants - so at least there's that.
However the believability is certainly stretched a lot farther here than anything in Bespin - for one, Theed is not a relatively small city built around an industrial function, it's just a regular royal capital; so unless the Naboo culture has some kind of "the kings are also the producers of goods" thing going on, this "power plant" being right in the palace building seems like a non-sequitur;
being next to the fighter jet hangar might make a slight bit more sense, but still not really at all - plus the hangar's in the palace now, unlike the start of the film.
Another big difference here is that the "powerplant" area is not just extending downwards into bottomless chasms, but also upwards towards the unseen ceiling - and one might ask oneself whether the buildings seen from outside were really high enough to contain that massive area, although the Palace (despite not being a skyscraper) just might.
And also while there's nothing inherently absurd about underground levels, or a round bottomless pit leading underground, the latter hadn't been set up by an exterior shot of the station, with the "bottomless pit" axis growing out of the flying saucer's lower half and reaching into the clouds/gas below (in what had been established as a "gas mining facility") - this time all that stuff is literally coming out of nowhere.
However ultimately what really doesn't make sense, analogously to the Bespin "control rooms levels" beneath the freezing chamber, is it looking like an evil Imperial fortress - Naboo isn't an evil fortress, so why would it have an evil looking interior like this?
However, a major difference here is that while the Empire had only occupied Bespin for a short while, was intent on leaving again (unless Lando refused to cooperate, that is), the Trade Federation has been here for quite a while longer - certainly in "film time" terms it takes up the length of the entire movie, even if the in-universe time that passes between the invasion and the return to Naboo might be ranging between a significantly long period to a few days) - and by all looks they were planning to stay and had some kind of huge sprawling plans in mind that involved the entire planet:
"Is the planet secure?"
"We have taken over the last pockets of primitive life forms - we are in complete control of the planet now."
"Good."
And in this movie, the Trade Federation is a proto-Empire of sorts - not only collaborating with the Sith and led by the literal future Emperor, they also seem to be a dystopian megacorporation of sorts, who've already (unofficially?) taken over significant Republic territory:
"You can't take Her Royal Highness there, the Hutts are gangsters! If they discovered her-"
"...It'd be no different than if we landed on a system controlled by the Federation; except that the Hutts aren't looking for her - which gives us the advantage."
"Your Highness - with your permission, we're heading for a remote planet called Tatooine; it's in a system far beyond the reach of the Trade Federation."
Their ships literally look like mini Death Stars (with Saturn rings around them, to make it slightly less obvious?), and their interior generally looks very Empirey as well.
So, compared to the idea that one might easily think of to try and ground the Bespin look in the universe, namely that "the Empire has started changing this place they're occupying into their evil fortress", such a notion certainly makes a lot more sense in the context of Ep1's plot.
Additionally this is somewhat supported by the visuals of Gunray riding around on a crab-throne while in a darkly lit looking Palace interior at night - even if only in this scene here:
"Your Queen is lost, your people are starving... and you, Governor, are going to die much sooner than your people, I'm afraid."
"This invasion will gain you nothing! We're a democracy - the people have decided!"
"Take him away."
"My troops are in position to begin searching the swamps for these rumoured underwater villages. They will not stay hidden for long."
This also conveys some kind of notion of "them remaking the place into their own", even if technically it's just a creepy looking robot chair and this scene (along with the later Sidious scene where they tell him they've taken over those primitive lifeforms) happens to take place at night.
Ultimately though, even if making more sense than Bespin by comparison, it's still a heavy stretch on rational world believability - and, of course, there's no direct hints at this actually having physically taken place there.
Similarly to ESB, this duel starts with the villain getting in the heroes' way as they're there for a different mission (having waited for them from behind a closed door as well), and at least partially showing signs of following a plan to lure them into increasingly dangerous environments:
Maul arbitrarily opens the gate to the space room and leads the fight there - then he backflips onto a bridge even further away from the hangar, and is subsequently seen stepping back from Qui-Gon all up until ending up in that corridor with the red force fields, and eventually the sealed room with the gaping pit:
where he immediately reveals to have been pretending to be retreating from Qui-Gon and turns around at him the moment the force fields reactivate again.
So, just like with Bespin, there's a surreal, dream logic element here that extends and reflects the literal premise of the villain luring the heroes into a trap - the environments he's leading them into look like an evil fortress, evoke power, awe and danger, and feature both claustrophobic small rooms/corridors to make the protagonists feel trapped, as well as gaping pits and chasms showing just how deep they can fall into uncertainty and death, in what's getting brewed up by the villains here;
and analogously to Luke in Cloud City, while the 2 Jedi aren't literally "surprised" by this environment hiding behind the door of a benign looking palace (which can be attributed to it either making sense to them in terms of how real-world logic, or their reduced lucidity), it's a place they haven't been showing seeing at any earlier point, and reflects the much vaster scope of what's going on here (i.e. the Sith plan to take over the world) that's hidden from them, is shrouded by secret, and that they're only going to proceed to uncover gradually.
"There is something else behind all this, your Highness - there's no logic in the Federation's move here. My feelings tell me they will destroy you."
Unlike ESB this isn't something that they learn the full truth of in an instant, without any direct hints preceding it - with the possible exception of this:
"I cannot teach him; the boy has no patience."
"He will learn patience."
"Much anger in him - like his father."
"Was I any different when you taught me?"
Effectively, or if explicitly going with a "dream logic" reading of these movies, according to which places, characters, circumstances and hidden schemes pop into the universe's existence the moment they're imagined by the author / enter the narrative, both these environments materialize inside these buildings out of nowhere to reflect and enhance the mental states of the protagonists, the villainous intents and schemes, and the meaning of what's happening in the story;
just like, albeit on a much smaller scale, all those Death Star parts only materialized in front of the heroes in order to give them new dangers and obstacles to overcome - incl. the garbage chute beneath a latticed hole right in the prison corridor, the monster that made itself known right as someone said "could be worse", and the walls that started closing in on them right after the monster disappears.
Then she shoots a vent on the floor and somehow knows that it's a garbage chute... HOW'D SHE KNOW THAT?
And why would a garbage chute be grated like that? Usually that's just like a air vent or somethin'...
It could've led to a dead end, where they all got stuck somewhere...
Or it coulda let straight to a garbage incinerator - nobody knows what that is? So their idea is to jump in it?..
I guess it's better than nothing? I guess you're fucked one way or the other...
But shit I wouldn't follow her in there, I'd surrender...
However, exclusively comparing these ANH examples to the Theed spaceroom without mentioning the much more similar Bespin spaceroom, amounts to a very incomplete comparison - and the accompanying conclusion that:
You see we need some kind of connection to reality?, and as absurd as a planet-sized space station with a giant laser is - it's still much more believable than the fact that Naboo has a gigantic power generator under its city;
and that this warrants "complaining" about:
Now you might be saying to yourself, well, I did complain about the Theed power room, right?
But I never really complained about the look of the Theed power room - or the fact that they didn't have no railings either!
leads to the question whether Plinkett/Mike/Rich/etc. are aware of Empire engaging in a very similar (in fact directly analogous) and comparable display of environment surrealism, with "the Keymaker opening a portal into an evil dimension", and stretching this "connection to reality" a whole lot further and more noticeably than those Death Star scenes (with the garbage chute itself standing out among them all, in turn);
This trash compactor scene is really a lot of fun;
but it always felt like a "give them something to do" kind of scene, in a movie where nearly every scene is motivated.
It's one of those "lowest point" kinda moments, where our heroes struggle against opposition - but it doesn't really serve an overall purpose in the storyline.
It's fun, and tense, and memorable, don't get me wrong - but from a story perspective it doesn't advance the plot too much...
The plot here being that the bad guys wanna blow up the Rebel base - and Han; Luke; Chewbacca; and the useless complaining woman need to stop them.
Having them tied up in the garbage compactor only to escape and go right back to where they were? - eh, it was a little unnecessary roadblock in this series of events.
; and how exactly this fits in with their high appraisal of that movie:
Plinkett: The Star Wars Awakens
He accomplished his task of creating a sci-fi film about the Hero’s Journey; and then had to live under the shadow of “The Empire Strikes Back” – one of the greatest films ever made for which he had the least to do with creatively;
he desperately needed Star Wars to be about something bigger and greater than just popcorn entertainment - so he went back to his classic literature book and his CliffsNotes to search for ideas.
Plinkett audio commentary: SW Ep1
So at this point as we're wrapping up, you're saying to yourself: "Why does this guy get so worked up over Star Wars - these are films for babies! They're just made for 5 year olds that like to play with toys."
Well - I don't find that entirely true; and I don't think that's all this could've been.
This is more about achieving greatness; and those that make excuses for greatness when it falls horribly short.
In "Empire Strikes Back", the filmmakers took the material from the 1st Star Wars, and brought it up to the next level.
They took a movie with robots, and a floating cloud city, and a rubber green puppet, and made it completely realistic and believable;
This ANH-ESB comparison and how the latter "took it to the next level" including on the "realism" front, seems to ignore how much it turned up the gears on the surrealism and dream logic when compared to those Death Star scenes - particularly in that very same "floating cloud city" mentioned in this quote.
it's a very dark movie that's brilliantly done in every aspect - filled with heavy emotion, stark realism, and beautiful visuals.
For a brief moment, "The Empire Strikes Back" showed us what could really be done with these movies and characters.
I think people have a hard time differentiating between movies that are made for children, - and movies that children can also enjoy.
If you're any age, "Empire" can speak to you on some level; "The Phantom Menace" caps out at about age 10 - unless you're a drooling fanboy that just loves lightsabers.
And saying that "The Phantom Menace" is really "just a film for children" - is code speak for it sucking.
Even if a reasonable comparison between these analogous sections of ESB and TPM would lead to the conclusion that the former is surrealist art kino while the latter is nonsense that disconnects you from reality; that the former is "one of the greatest films ever made" while the latter "sucks" (incl. at the example of this particular comparison) - they haven't yet made such a comparison or analysis, it's missing from their thesis;
and judging by them praising ESB and its floating cloud city as "starkly realistic", as well as leaving all of this out of their Death Star / Theed comparison, strongly suggests that they haven't ever thought of any these points, and are severely overestimating the amount of rational sense-making that EpV is built on.
However unlike MauLer, who has a particularly severe case of this misconception not just about Ep5, but Ep4 as well (see his TFA review and my Mauler threads from this post's opening), and is trying to apply this rationalist approach (which he equates with "objective quality") to all movies he encounters - at least from what I've seen so far - RLM are clearly generally aware of non-rational approach to plotwriting and filmmaking:
See the Suspiria re:view, as well the somewhat mixed commentary on the evil look of the Event Horizon (also re:view) and how there doesn't seem to be an in-universe justification for its gothic design prior to it falling into the hell dimension - since Sam Neill's character isn't some kinda "hell worshipper cultist" who would construct it in that fashion.
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2023.03.22 16:49 Badgerisbest If you are personally known and trusted by any Trans individuals, Drag performers, parents of Trans kids, or visibly LGBT individuals in Texas, Florida, or (insert anti-trans state here) the time to reach out to them, check-in on safety, and suggest yourself as a trusted resource is today.

The trans community is rapidly considering arming themselves for self-defense, especially if they cannot currently move out of [insert state here.] These states have mounds of anti-trans bills appearing, but usually any easy path to gun ownership. Many have not been traditional gun owners or grown up near guns as much as other individuals. They will need extra reassurances on best practices, range safety, home keeping safety, or a trusted Range Buddy, aka You.
Many parents of trans kids are under assault and having state officials show up at their door just for trying to help them seek proper care.
When we straw polled our LGBT and Drag performing friends in Texas months ago, before the legislative session even started, at least 1/3 were already considering or had already made some moves to purchase a self-defense weapon. Around 8/10 of them had not grown up in gun-owning families and communities and would be first-time owners.
If Trans healthcare for adults in banned, many of these individuals will be forced to seek meds or detransition by law, some of which will be incredibly traumatic. Hormones to a trans adult are like water, and despite what misinformation is out there, many things start changing back quickly without them. Imagine being forcibly injected with testosterone or estrogen by the state without your consent.
We had a very experienced friend who has been shooting for 6+ years, assured my partner and me and show us the ropes and it calmed a lot of unease and intimidation with the whole process.
We went from considering a gun to owning two in two days after our neighbor called us "HIV AIDS riddled Fa****ts" over a minor noise dispute. Many others might have moments that push them own faster than they would like to pace themselves. You can be their teacher.
If you do not know everything about Trans kids, you do not need to other than they need respect and the ability to talk to their doctors in private. This 27-minute episode is an extremely quick get up to speed" on the entire issue and dispelling the mounds and mounds of twisting and demonization on the issue.
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2023.03.22 16:49 ElliottJames358 Anyone ever feel like even though people have hurt you in thr past and you know you can't be hurt anymore but still feel like you can and will?

TW: Abuse, Foster care, PTSD
So im 13 I've lived in foster care for a while now nearly 2 years and I've been in 2 placements Back story I used to live with S and C and now that I realise that I couldn't while living with them they abused me mostly emotional abuse by little things As a child before I went into the system I was starved of love and was hit on a daily basis So when I went to S and C they knew this and were told to prepare themselves but they never did they weren't patent with me and refused to acknowledge that I had trauma so they'd punish me for flinching and asking not to be touched And then they started ignoring me and kicked me out So I moved in with my current foster mum who I call mum now Mum was patent with me because I was her learning opportunity she only had one placement before me that didn't work out so we worked together and helped me sort out a little of my trauma But she knows that I was hurt alot as a young child so when we argue I always tell her you can't hurt me or why don't you hurt me before I hurt you then you can kick me out like S and C did
Anyone else feel this?
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2023.03.22 16:49 New-Abbreviations723 Anyone else excited about City2?

All of the hype right now is about our first team, but I'm super excited to see how City2 performs and evolves, for a few reasons:
  1. The chance to see top prospects shine before they are promoted to the first team
  2. City2 nearly won the MLS Next Pro Cup last year, in their first campaign
  3. I love the development+academy model of City SC, and the focus on developing local and young talent. As a life-long St. Louis sports fan, I see shades of Branch Rickey's farm system design. I'm also an Arsenal fan. Right now, their star player, Saka, is considered one of the top players in the world and he's only 21. But he joined Arsenal's academy at age 7. I wonder which future City stars we'll come out of the academy!
  4. The tickets are super cheap, and any game of football is super fun to watch! I snagged tix to several first team matches this season at $100+ each. And I'm looking forward to each and every one of those. But the chance drive downtown to see great soccer for something like $13? Sign me up!
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2023.03.22 16:48 Doctor_Nappa 2017 WRX STI for sale near me, thinking of trading my '17 WRX in

Not sure if this is allowed but I wanted your guys thoughts on this listing
https://www.discountautoofpenndel.com/used/Subaru/2017-Subaru-WRX-a930e9d30a0e09b0021c9c1c01c5309f.htm
It's a pretty clean/stock looking '17 STI with 62k miles
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I'm currently driving a '17 WRX premium with all the bolt-ons and pro tuned to like 360 WHP by DrunkMann Tuning. I've got 68k miles and average wear and tear but no scratches or dents.
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