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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited December 2016
    Organichu wrote: »
    oh i see

    Genie_%28feral_child%29.jpg

    apparently her stance is also down to the fact that she was born with severe hip dysplasia

    I'm dead certain watching footage of that feral kid completely changed everything for me but such a minuscule and seemingly inarticulable way that I'm definitely eventually going to write a tortured epistle to an ex-girlfriend (EM) about the pain of being a human being

    I'm real mad I didn't know they had hip dysplasia because that walk really enhanced the uncanniness of their entire existence

    Eddy on
    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    Iron man xcom 2 run before dead rising drops

    I got @casual eddy and @Sir Landshark with me against the hordes

  • A Kobold's KoboldA Kobold's Kobold He/Him MississippiRegistered User regular
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    Switch Friend Code: SW-3011-6091-2364
  • MortiousMortious The Nightmare Begins Move to New ZealandRegistered User regular
    Iron man xcom 2 run before dead rising drops

    I got casual eddy and "Sir Landshark" with me against the hordes

    Well the Earth is doomed.

    Move to New Zealand
    It’s not a very important country most of the time
    http://steamcommunity.com/id/mortious
  • y2jake215y2jake215 certified Flat Birther theorist the Last Good Boy onlineRegistered User regular
    eddy have you seen the video of the baby monkeys they intentionally starve of all contact with anything and then release into a tiny glass enclosure with a bunch of other monkeys

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    maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    when it snows and people call out because of it, we have one of the employees who has a big, hefty truck drive around and pick them up

  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    And I'm streaming if anyone is bored

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    Those without skills shall be sent into the cold to fend for themselves. Those that return after a month will be received as equals. Those that do not, have been given to the mountains as is our way.

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  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    i just hate driving i will teach you to drive in snow if you'll drive all the time afterward

    when i go to lunch at work i always make other people drive and they sort of scornfully tolerate it

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  • A Kobold's KoboldA Kobold's Kobold He/Him MississippiRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    when it snows and people call out because of it, we have one of the employees who has a big, hefty truck drive around and pick them up

    But I have literally never driven in snow, and I've never had to before because I live in a place where it snows like twice a year at the very most and that's stretching it immensely.

    Switch Friend Code: SW-3011-6091-2364
  • y2jake215y2jake215 certified Flat Birther theorist the Last Good Boy onlineRegistered User regular
    the celtics game was just playing that james brown "i feeeeeeeel good, na na na na na na na" song

    and at the part where it goes "so good" and then two horn blasts, i ripped farts along with each horn blast

    same for the next part

    it was very nice

    C8Ft8GE.jpg
    maybe i'm streaming terrible dj right now if i am its here
  • Kid PresentableKid Presentable Registered User regular
    Oh no I didn't finish my glass of wine but I'm in bed and it's sitting way over there.

  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    i.imgur.com/KGorLhL.gifv

    this was actually horrifying for me at first because i mistook them for like, zika babies or some hannibal lecter hills have eyes shit

    shit was fucked

    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    edited December 2016
    Organichu wrote: »
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    when it snows and people call out because of it, we have one of the employees who has a big, hefty truck drive around and pick them up

    But I have literally never driven in snow, and I've never had to before because I live in a place where it snows like twice a year at the very most and that's stretching it immensely.

    it's really not a big deal. you just drive more carefully. there's advice for what you do when you slide out, or whatever. but being able to recover from those is in part luck, based on the room you have to work with and the behavior of surrounding drivers. the a+ strategy is just to avoid losing traction in the first place and realistically you do that by driving carefully.

    i shouldn't say it's not a big deal. it can be scary, especially when visibility of lane markers and stuff is killed by snow. i just think that being extra cautious is 95% of the important skill you need to drive safely in bad weather. the 'tricks' aren't nearly as important as driving carefully.

    Organichu on
  • SealSeal Registered User regular
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    YES

    After a failed first mission due to a lack of RCS thrusters my second mission finally snagged this god damn fuel tank, with barely enough fuel to spare. Definitely using some kind of rover next time, my piloting skills aren't quite up to the task of guiding my malformed designs onto such a small target.

    But in my haste to add RCS thrusters on my second design, I forgot parachutes. So I ploughed into a hillside at 400 km/h, 30km away from Kerbal Space Center (by sheer luck). :rotate:

    But at least it was a graceful impact. I managed to balance my craft quite well, so I came in straight as an arrow.

  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    Oh no

    I started reading Kill 6 Billion Demons

    What have you done

  • PowerpuppiesPowerpuppies drinking coffee in the mountain cabinRegistered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    when it snows and people call out because of it, we have one of the employees who has a big, hefty truck drive around and pick them up

    But I have literally never driven in snow, and I've never had to before because I live in a place where it snows like twice a year at the very most and that's stretching it immensely.

    it's really not a big deal. you just drive more carefully. there's advice for what you do when you slide out, or whatever. but being able to recover from those is in part luck, based on the room you have to work with and the behavior of surrounding drivers. the a+ strategy is just to avoid losing traction in the first place and realistically you do that by driving carefully.

    i shouldn't say it's not a big deal. it can be scary, especially when visibility of lane markers and stuff is killed by snow. i just think that being extra cautious is 95% of the important skill you need to drive safely in bad weather. the 'tricks' aren't nearly as important as driving carefully.

    also like

    very slow

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  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    the people who call out aren't afraid to drive in the snow. their cars are literally incapable of it, because of the grade of their driveway, the amount of snow encasing their car, etc

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    Organichu wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    when it snows and people call out because of it, we have one of the employees who has a big, hefty truck drive around and pick them up

    But I have literally never driven in snow, and I've never had to before because I live in a place where it snows like twice a year at the very most and that's stretching it immensely.

    it's really not a big deal. you just drive more carefully. there's advice for what you do when you slide out, or whatever. but being able to recover from those is in part luck, based on the room you have to work with and the behavior of surrounding drivers. the a+ strategy is just to avoid losing traction in the first place and realistically you do that by driving carefully.

    i shouldn't say it's not a big deal. it can be scary, especially when visibility of lane markers and stuff is killed by snow. i just think that being extra cautious is 95% of the important skill you need to drive safely in bad weather. the 'tricks' aren't nearly as important as driving carefully.

    also like

    very slow

    yeah i'd say slowness is the lion's share of it. drive slowly, err away from the right side of the road if visibility is low, and prepare for stops, yields etc way earlier than you otherwise would. just extreme caution.

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Oh no

    I started reading Kill 6 Billion Demons

    What have you done

    Beware, when you catch up it is like a special hell as it updates slowly.

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  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    the people who call out aren't afraid to drive in the snow. their cars are literally incapable of it, because of the grade of their driveway, the amount of snow encasing their car, etc

    Driving in the snow is easy. It's Mario Kart Ice Track rules.

  • OrganichuOrganichu poops peesRegistered User, Moderator mod
    i live at the top of quite a hill, with respect to my job. i'm a little nervous about my first winter here. i may end up walking to work.

  • MazzyxMazzyx Comedy Gold Registered User regular
    Snowing driving is about planning an patience. People who rush in snow ended up in the ditch.

    Also doesn't hurt to get some practice spinning out in an empty parking lot just to know the feeling of sliding and losing control in a safer setting so you don't panic when it really happens.

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  • EddyEddy Gengar the Bittersweet Registered User regular
    edited December 2016
    y2jake215 wrote: »
    the celtics game was just playing that james brown "i feeeeeeeel good, na na na na na na na" song

    and at the part where it goes "so good" and then two horn blasts, i ripped farts along with each horn blast

    same for the next part

    it was very nice

    i'm so god damned happy about this nba season

    mai husbando giannis is blossoming; westbrook, harden, and durant are all doing some fucking crazy shit on the court every night; isaiah thomas may legitimately make an all-nba team

    to say nothing of the t-wolves or the lakers or the god damned muh fuckin warriors

    Eddy on
    "and the morning stars I have seen
    and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    Flawless first mission. I put my girlfriend in direct harms way but the aliens shot at me instead what

  • Kid PresentableKid Presentable Registered User regular
    Castle let me shoot some aliens, give me cool sunglasses.

  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    edited December 2016
    Organichu wrote: »
    Organichu wrote: »
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    when it snows and people call out because of it, we have one of the employees who has a big, hefty truck drive around and pick them up

    But I have literally never driven in snow, and I've never had to before because I live in a place where it snows like twice a year at the very most and that's stretching it immensely.

    it's really not a big deal. you just drive more carefully. there's advice for what you do when you slide out, or whatever. but being able to recover from those is in part luck, based on the room you have to work with and the behavior of surrounding drivers. the a+ strategy is just to avoid losing traction in the first place and realistically you do that by driving carefully.

    i shouldn't say it's not a big deal. it can be scary, especially when visibility of lane markers and stuff is killed by snow. i just think that being extra cautious is 95% of the important skill you need to drive safely in bad weather. the 'tricks' aren't nearly as important as driving carefully.

    1. Drive more carefully
    2. Try to keep your cool when you find out that carefully wasn't careful enough

    are really the tricks, yeah

    Abdhyius on
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  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    SniperGuy wrote: »
    Oh no

    I started reading Kill 6 Billion Demons

    What have you done

    K6BD is good

    this is coming from someone who generally thinks little of most webcomics

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Snowing driving is about planning an patience. People who rush in snow ended up in the ditch.

    Also doesn't hurt to get some practice spinning out in an empty parking lot just to know the feeling of sliding and losing control in a safer setting so you don't panic when it really happens.

    it's also 100% okay to not drive when it's icy out even if you have a shitty job where they might fire you

    better to be unemployed than in a hospital and/or sitting with a multiple thousand dollar bill (depending on deductible on your insurance) and possibly getting fired because you can't make it for the next few days now either

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    from personal experience I would also add 3. however slippery you think that intersection is, it's worse

    packed icy snow topped with a slurry of snow worked loose by turning cars = oh hey this car sure is pointing an unexpected direction all of a sudden

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  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    edited December 2016
    basically the best way to counteract the sliding is counter-intuitive

    you want to not slam on your brakes and keep the wheels turning, essentially you want to try and go back up the hill if possible, like that one delivery vehicle did by turning into the lane (this is also why it's dangerous to go too slow in wintry conditions)

    bowen on
    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • HappylilElfHappylilElf Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    when it snows and people call out because of it, we have one of the employees who has a big, hefty truck drive around and pick them up

    I remember when I got in trouble for not coming in to work because of a blizzard and my boss was like "Well, Bob made it in and he lives 20 miles outside of the city!"

    And I had to patiently explain that Bob lives on a fucking highway that is constantly plowed throughout the blizzard and connects directly to the road our workplace is on which also happens to be an emergency snow route while I lived in a residential area three blocks from the nearest emergency snow route so while Bob certainly had to snowblow his longer than normal driveway, which he did using an atv, I would have had to shovel for three blocks and then remove a five foot fucking snow drift from the plows in order to get my car on to an emergency snow route.

    To which he replied "But still, 20 miles"

  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    Castle let me shoot some aliens, give me cool sunglasses.

    Okay you are this specialist I have I will remake him in your image

    Describe yourself and how much leather you are wearing right now

  • kedinikkedinik Captain of Industry Registered User regular
    I had a dream about trying to remember another dream

    It was exhausting

    I made a game! Hotline Maui. Requires mouse and keyboard.
  • OnTheLastCastleOnTheLastCastle let's keep it haimish for the peripatetic Registered User regular
    Girlfriend and I are same class even. Intolerable I had to sit on the bench this episode cause I'm streaming >_>

  • HounHoun Registered User regular
    My first winter snow driving in Seattle (it's a rarity), I lived in this apartment complex where I could either go in the front entrance and up a hill, or down a hill to the back entrance. Rather than struggle up the hill, I decided I'd risk the back entrance despite the steepness and icyness.

    As I came to the top of the hill, there was a car in front of me, so I stopped at the top to watch them go down, slowly sliding and trying not to fishtail. I was about to bail after watching them struggle, but then someone came up behind me, and there was no way they were stopping without running into me.

    So I went for it.

    I rolled down a bit, then gently braked... until the wheels locked and I started to spin. So I let up, pointed my nose, rolled straight, gently rebrake. Thus I went down the hill, rolling and sliding, barely keeping myself between the guy struggling ahead of me and the guy coming up far too quickly behind me. Somehow, I kept it all under control to the bottom and turned into the complex before getting rear-ended.



    Another time that same winter, I was driving to work in the morning, and came up to an intersection a bit too quick (that was entirely on me). I was going to make a right turn, and it was my green, but I couldn't slow enough and instead of turning, I just started sliding on course to smack the car waiting to make a left. He was looking me directly in the eyes, fear on his face.

    I did what any good Mario Kart player would do. I cranked the wheel hard and gunned it. I just barely managed to drag myself into turning with maybe a foot to spare.



    Bring on the snow, Seattle.

  • bowenbowen How you doin'? Registered User regular
    Organichu wrote: »
    Whenever [chat] starts holing itself up in a compound in Colorado, I elect somebody drive me everywhere because I am not used to driving in the snow.

    when it snows and people call out because of it, we have one of the employees who has a big, hefty truck drive around and pick them up

    I remember when I got in trouble for not coming in to work because of a blizzard and my boss was like "Well, Bob made it in and he lives 20 miles outside of the city!"

    And I had to patiently explain that Bob lives on a fucking highway that is constantly plowed throughout the blizzard and connects directly to the road our workplace is on which also happens to be an emergency snow route while I lived in a residential area three blocks from the nearest emergency snow route so while Bob certainly had to snowblow his longer than normal driveway, which he did using an atv, I would have had to shovel for three blocks and then remove a five foot fucking snow drift from the plows in order to get my car on to an emergency snow route.

    To which he replied "But still, 20 miles"

    I got the same spiel once

    I let them know their $9 an hour job wasn't worth my life or my property unless they were willing to sign an agreement to pay my deductible for when I got in an accident.

    not a doctor, not a lawyer, examples I use may not be fully researched so don't take out of context plz, don't @ me
  • AbdhyiusAbdhyius Registered User regular
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Snowing driving is about planning an patience. People who rush in snow ended up in the ditch.

    Also doesn't hurt to get some practice spinning out in an empty parking lot just to know the feeling of sliding and losing control in a safer setting so you don't panic when it really happens.

    it's also super fun

    from 16 to 18 when I was on my learner's permit, every time the ice came me and my dad would cruise around for parking lots without dividers, preferably where no cars had yet been

    ice like a mirror, nissan spinning wildly around in the wee hours of the day

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  • The EnderThe Ender Registered User regular
    bowen wrote: »
    Mazzyx wrote: »
    Snowing driving is about planning an patience. People who rush in snow ended up in the ditch.

    Also doesn't hurt to get some practice spinning out in an empty parking lot just to know the feeling of sliding and losing control in a safer setting so you don't panic when it really happens.

    it's also 100% okay to not drive when it's icy out even if you have a shitty job where they might fire you

    better to be unemployed than in a hospital and/or sitting with a multiple thousand dollar bill (depending on deductible on your insurance) and possibly getting fired because you can't make it for the next few days now either

    I have no idea how it could be done, but institutionalizing everyone staying home when roads are garbage, unless they are part of essential services & thus are provided with vehicles that can handle the conditions, would be a pretty good bargain for most states.

    With Love and Courage
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