u/Prestigious_Gift_977

i play unrated bullet games with upper/lower bound of opponents set to infinity/negative infinity so i play all skill levels. i can play carelessly against 1000 and lower and demolish them consistently. once in a while ill get an opponent 400-500 and i get absolutely destroyed. one guy that just destroyed me has a history of 700 games, all unrated. another guy that crushed me has 10k games history, mostly unrated, and total of 625 brilliant moves. these are most likely a good player choosing to not level up right? am i just stupid occasionally?

the website only gives you invoices for the past 18 months. so i called support 2 months ago. they said they can't email me the old invoices but can mail them to me. the mail never came. called support again. after a 1 hour chat, they concluded i'm talking to support in the wrong province and that they can't do anything for me. they transferred me. again: 1 hour chat, wrong province, redirect. this time i asked if i'm talking to the right province before the 1 hour preamble explaining my situation. wrong province, redirect. finally: correct province. support said there is absolutely nothing they can do for me. those invoices are irretrievable. disappointing, upsetting, annoying. why does this have to be so difficult?

Anybody done the Sawback recently? How are the trails? (Norquay to Lake Louise)

the trail report (https://assiniboinelodge.com/trail-report) says lots of snow on assiniboine pass, but it doesn't look like the sunshine to magog route touches assiniboine pass? correct me if i'm wrong. looks like it's more Citadel pass. any ideas how the snow situation right now? i'd be going in a few days. i'm doing sunshine to magog in one day ... i've done longer single-day hikes with more elevation, but am wondering if there's any reason to make the trek in two days instead of one? i've done the mt shark -> magog route, one day in, one day out in autumn. plan is to do sunshine -> magog, one day in one day out this time July 2nd. reasonable enough or is the snow gona slow me way down? trail report says "trail is mostly stomped" ... i don't need to worry about avalanche at this time right?

i think of scales as fretboard box shapes. like i know A melodic minor is just A major with a flat third because on the 6th string, it's 5, 7, 8 instead of the 5, 7, 9 of the A major scale, all other notes are the same as the A major scale. Or like A Mixolydian is just A major with a flat 7 because on the D string it's 5, 7, 9 instead of the 6,7, 9 of the A major scale. this system kinda works and i can get around, but i am wondering just how bad it is to think like this? i've been playing for years like this but only starting to get serious about theory now. opened up Levine's Jazz Theory and i realized i need to convert notation to tabs and fretboard diagrams in my head to understand the intervals and chords, seems like it'd be better to just bypass the tab conversion step? how much of a disservice have i done to myself thinking purely in tabs and shapes? what's the next best step for me? i like fingerstyle chord-melody jazz and improvising with a pick over chord progressions

i'm a complete noob and somehow got invited to a pretty exclusive gun club with members significantly more experienced than me. how do i keep it cool ? i can chit chat and socialize like a normal person (more or less) and it is no secret at the club that i'm a noob but i kinda worry i might blow it by doing some dumb ass shit one day

looking pretty snowy ... it's unlikely i can hike in eh? how foolish is it to snowshoe in?

i'm suddenly having some unexplained shutdowns and crashes (running linux) after months of stable performance. i think a BIOS update could fix it but looks like there were some really bad BIOS updates. i'm thinking 7E49v1A95, released 2026-03-20 should do the trick but would love to hear from anyone that's familiar with this. i've been running 1.A30 which is like 15 months old this whole time

Back in my youth in the mid 2000's there was a cool PowerTab site that I loved. If I recall correctly, Ultimate Guitar didn't have PowerTabs at the time, and you'd just go to this website to get your PowerTabs. It didn't look good but it had some great (Power)Tabs. I'd love to find that site again. Anyone know what it was called or whether it still exists? Or maybe there is a mirror for it? thanks

took a Stop the Bleed course and the instructor was a badass paramedics who did military and civilian EMS stuff and he carried a badass knife. i'm trying to google "paramedic knives" to figure out what his knife was or other cool "paramedic knives" but just ending up on generic sites trying to sell knives. if there's a good blog or something you guys can vouch for or cool knives you use on the job i'd appreciate it

first time shooting a 22LR the noise and recoil was a bit much. second time it was no problem at all, and i was shocked at the difference between first and second session. i'm now up to a 12ga and 308 Win. been a few sessions and the blast and recoil are still overwhelming. i'm using in-ear + over-ear protection. i'm wondering if i'm particularly sensitive person or if there's a good strategy for getting used to this. any insights appreciated

i'm finding rear bags between 20-400$ (CAD) which is an insane range. i don't want to spend 400 but i can spend more than 20. i know the Gamechanger bag is recommended here but that's the 400$ one. maybe you guys can tell me what makes a good bag or drop some cheaper recommendations please

i do data science and software engineering work. have noticed when i am writing lots of code, i suddenly become way better at chess. this is reflected in how many games i win and how much my ELO increases. however when i'm not writing a lot of code for a while, i become clearly worse at chess. it's like coding rewires my brain to become smart somehow but when i stop it goes back to default mode, and my default is i am kind of a dumbass