Twice a car has come into the bike lane while I was in it and I swear my heart was in my throat. I was fine both times, but people get distracted and I’m all for barriers

Less traffic routes is usually my strategy as well. Annoying to lose the time, but so much less stressful having less cars around

I live in Montana in a city that is extremely bike friendly relative to nearby states. Still the little bits of friction make choosing to bike difficult. My work commute is 3 miles with a bike path most of the way, and then a bike lane for most of the rest. I biked to work every day this last year (even through the snow) and I loved it, but it made me bitter to how much cars are preferred.

Some of the crosswalks I use are parallel to a 45MPH stroad and I hate crossing them. Cars barely have to slow down to take the huge turns and they never are looking for pedestrians/bikes. I always stop and wait for a gap in cars because the chances I’m seen are just too low. Not Just Bikes has a good video on making crosswalks safer and I wish my city would take notes. One of my friends has been hit by a car 3 times because he’s more reckless on crosswalks than me - I hate saying reckless because it should be a place that’s safe for him to cross - no injuries ever.

In winter the bike paths were sometimes plowed, other times they’d just wait until the next storm. Snow drifts never were plowed. Studded tires are a must. The unreliability was a huge pain. I remember one snow storm came in while I was working and I had to walk my bike most of the way home.

Some of the lights make pedestrians wait an entire light cycle to cross so I’ll leave the bike path to ride in the road just to save time. I know they do it in the name of safety so that bikes cross right when the light is green and are more visible, but it’s hugely punishing to bike commute times, and I would argue that it’s no safer. Cars aren’t going to see bikes either way. I’ve complained to my city twice about one particularly dangerous intersection on the bike path and was told they have a 7 year plan to make it safer. No details how. I hope for once it involves slowing down cars.

Also, for the small section of my commute in the painted bike lane, I’ve been pushed off the road twice by cars. Both times on their cellphones. So I don’t see painted bike lanes as offering any protection at all.

I’m confused… how do all of you handle your merge conflicts???

Why does the sun heat the Earth if space is a vacuum?

If you enjoy science fiction, Ready Player One is super great. Do not judge it based off the movie. Quite different plots. Do skip Ready Player Two though.

Felt Table is super helpful, thanks!

Thanks! I don’t think I realized tempo during our game, but it’s obvious now. The video was super helpful as well. Gonna pummel my wife tonight (just kidding, I’ll share what I learned).

Really glad to hear that there isn’t really a “bad match-up” problem, but you just need to learn how to play against different heroes. In MTG we’ve discovered quite a few bad match-up decks. We have the most fun when it feels like skill is involved, and no player pulls too far ahead. I’ve even made some decks with the intention of them playing against each other. So FaB not suffering as much from this excites me!!

This weekend I’ll try and get a few more games in but my wife is studying for a big test so we’ll see. I might try out Fai vs Katsu for the first game to teach my brother in law. I’m hoping having more, cheap attacks means less planning during blocking so maybe the game starts to click earlier. Then we’ll hopefully move on to try other heroes.

The 8 decks I got from ebay didn’t have all the equipments for each hero. Just a pool of generics, and a few specialized. But Azalea had a bow that I don’t think the official precon has, this one lets you pay 1 to put a card from hand face up in your arsenal. I’m pretty excited to try and pick out some good equipment for each hero! Really wishing my LGS sold FaB so I didn’t have to order online.

How are they doing this though? They just black list any traffic coming from all VPNs they know about?

What if someone in the US were to use a VPN?

Or are they getting location data from the phone itself?

Do geese see god?

Update: Played Fai vs Azalea last night. It was fun but on my (Fai’s) first turn I had a huge chain and did a bunch of damage. Took a bit for my wife to figure out Azalea but the game ended up being close.

May try another game with these decks since we liked the themes, but my first impression was that Fai “forces” Azalea to block and without enough cards in hand Azalea might only get one arrow shot. Meanwhile Fai could block once or twice and still get in quite a few swings. I’m guessing blitz is more swingy since it’s such a short game. I was wondering if Katsu vs Fai might be fun since they’re both ninjas

Sorry meant to comment on @ggleblanc@kbin.social’s comment. Moved there. I’d definitely use this as well!

I’m pretty sure this is satire, right? Haha, it’s got to be. Will upvote once confirmed

I’m pretty sure this is satire, right? Haha, it’s got to be. Will upvote once confirmed

Linux would be best for reliability. Nothing’s better than untimely windows updates. Also, less power usage. If you do decide to go with Linux you should look into running jellyfin via docker. Makes it super portable and best of all makes it simple to run other docker services from the same machine (nextcloud, trillium, pihole).

You can set up duckdns for free domain names (with a docker service for dynamic IP) and use nginx as a reverse proxy to all your services (if you plan on streaming outside your house)

Rouge-likes and wave based shooters.

Love risk of rain 2, and have played years of zombies. Just discovered vampire survivors

This video gives me hope!! Wild how much push back trains and busses get in the U.S…

I sometimes buy a physical book but end up pirating a copy to my ereader so I can read in bed easier and use the dyslexic font. Makes me a bit sad that the books don’t get those creases in the spine from being read. Just looks like I own a bunch of books I didn’t read

Europe sounds great. Hard to image being able to take rail between major cities/countries! There’s just nothing like that in the US. Extremely limited passenger trains.

It’s definitely on our bucket list to tour Europe. Hard to get a large chunk of time off work though.

Turns out I had pictures of the two bus stops that looked identical to us at the large hub - I posted them in another comment

Found the pictures I took of the two similar bus stops in the same hub that tricked us up. We were looking for the “Metro Silver J 950” stop and thought we found it… Not sure how Bays work, but it seems like that has potential to clear up confusion and even make it easier to walk straight to your correct stop