u/TheDevilSurvivor

Bonjour,

Débutant complet dans la course à pied (enfin, en ce qui concerne les courses officielles), j'aimerais m'inscrire à une course qui est labélisée FFA régional.

Je ne m'y connais absolumment pas. Je n'ai pas de licence coureur ou quoi que ce soit, et je ne veux pas en obtenir une non plus.

Ma question est simple ; je peux m'inscrire à des courses labélisées sans licence, juste en tant que me lambda qui veut faire quelque chose pour passer le temps le dimanche ? Ou est-ce que c'est restreint à ceux qui ont une licence coureur ?

Merci d'avance !

The reason I started using Strava 2 years ago was as backup for other apps that had performance issues.
Notably, Adidas Running which was my main running app that kept having problems with the GPS and severely underestimating distance and pace while somehow overestimating speed.
It also allowed me to keep tracking after I was done with the daily session (because I still have to run/walk home and it can be almost a km of added distance sometimes depending on where I finish).

The problem is that ever since they added this AI bullshit a few months ago, the app keeps constistently malfunctioning.

- Sometimes it just doesn't load the entire day. No reason. It just keeps loading, infinitely, not allowing me to access anything, not even notifications or past sessions. Doesn't matter if I'm on Wi-Fi or 5G, if I have a VPN or not, if I crash the app or restart the phone. Once I've let it load for 2 hours, still nothing. And once I had to wait 3 days before it loaded.

- It used to be very consistent. I've lost over 5 sessions on other running apps because they would just freak out. But Strava would just keep working in the background, no problem.
Now, in less than 2 weeks, I've already lost 3 activities. One of them was just a phantom activity, it only tracked 3 km out of a 7km run!!! And the other two it got interrupted multiple times during the session (which I didn't get a notification for since I let the app run in the background).
It didn't use to be like this, that's why it bothers me.

- Sessions not saving. You're sweaty as balls, just want to get it done with. And you're there trying to open your door while fidgeting with Strava because the app just refuses to save the session. It loads for a long time, then gives you an error and says to try later, but you don't want to crash the app because "what if you lose your progress?" so you wait more and try again, letting it drain your phone's battery more and more. Until you're finally fed up, crash the app, launch it again and it loads infinitely. And then when the session finally saves after a few hours, you realise you lost some progress near the end as well as statistics being whack like cadence and your path map.

How hard is it to just make an app that works well? It used to be that way just a few months ago. I hated telling people that this mega greedy app is unfortunately still the most consistent one, but now it's not even that. It just causes more problems. Jesus christ.

Am I the only one having problems? Has the app worked for you recently without issues?

Ok pessoal, prometo que não estou a trollar. É apenas a minha opinião!

Quando me perguntam qual é para mim o equipamento mais icónico da selecção, digo sempre que é ou o de 2004 ou o de 2006. Nasci em 97, lembro-me da minha escola meter televisões no ginásio e parar as aulas para podermos todos ver o Euro 2004. E o mundial 2006 foi o primeiro torneio de futebol que acompanhei do inicio ao fim.

Mas quando me perguntam qual é o equipamento mais *bonito* de Portugal... Toda a gente goza comigo quando digo que é o segundo equipamento de 2014. Sim, aquele que não tem as cores da bandeira portuguesa mas sim as cores do nosso escudo e quinas. Sim, eu sei, parece-se com o da França.
Esteticamente, é perfeito. Acho que é o nosso equipamento que melhor acentua o físico dos jogadores. É absolutamente lindo, seco, molhado, de perto, de longe. É simples mas a combinação branca da camisola e azul dos calções é fantástica, mistura-se perfeitamente, com as cores dos números invertidos.

Sendo portista, podem dizer que "claro que gostas do único equipamento da selecção azul e branco" mas devo confessar que acho-o muito melhor do que QUALQUER equipamento do FC Porto e estou extremamente invejoso do meu clube ser conhecido pelo azul e branco mas nunca ter feito um equipamento tão bonito.

Com as reacções de toda a gente, pergunto-me então: é assim tão mau? Sou eu que estou completamente errado e é deveras um equipamento péssimo da selecção?

O equipamento na vida real é muito melhor do que nas imagens promocionais

Why is everyone so gung-ho about this when you're still saving up a ton of money?

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Case in point, I bought a bag for a decorative sword that would have cost me 115€ from the actual brand in Europe, for only 34€ on Aliexpress.

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Even if they impose a 3€ tax on it like... Literally who gives a fuck? It's such a little tax to the amount of money saved.

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Even for smaller things like TCG accessories for example, a deck box that usually costs 19€ a piece sells for 7€ or 8€ on Aliexpress... So if I just buy a bunch it'll still be dozens of € saved compared to the tax paid

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It feels like this will only affect products that are already cheap in price so yeah it won't be much different but it's already a small entry fee anyway so why be so up in arms?

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I understand the ethical side of it though. Fuck these companies trying to sell you something they manufacture at 5€ for over 10x the price.

Bonjour,

Je viens ici avec la plus grande bienveillance, et je sais bien que ça peut être différent pour chaque personne.

Je vis une situation plutôt compliquée niveau sentimental après être tombé amoureux de mon amie et collègue de travail.
Je porte ce fardeau, cet énorme poids sur mes épaules depuis un an et demi ; sans dépasser de limites, sans créer de l'ambiguïté, toujours en mettant mes sentiments derrière mon amitié et mon respect envers elle.

Le but serait d'en parler, sans ultimatums, sans attentes derrière, sans forcer quoi que ce soit. Vraiment en mode "nous sommes amis, je subit quelque chose qui me fait énormément de mal et malheureusement ça te concerne".

Presque tout ce que je lis, des anecdotes, des conseils, des situations, et même des réponses sur AskMeuf, il me semble que, systématiquement, ça se passe mal.

Est-ce que vous croyez que deux adultes peuvent avoir cette conversation sans que ça dérape, sans blesser l'autre ? Ou est-ce que ça se finit toujours par de la distance, de la froideur ; dans une amitié brisée pour toujours ?

Si cela arrivait à moi, je le prendrais comme un énorme compliment, que quelqu'un tombe amoureuse de moi. Et en même temps, j'essayerai de rejeter la personne de la façon la plus saine possible. Aucune pression, juste de l'empathie et de la tristesse de ne pas pouvoir réciproquer.
Mais il me semble que de votre point de vue, une conversation comme celle-là devient un énorme casse-tête. De la peur, de la fragilité, du mécontentement, de la gêne... Est-ce vraiment si difficile de juste dire "désole, mais non" en restant bienveillante ?

Il y en a encore des mecs qui ne sont pas des "incels", des "orbiteurs", des cassos.
Qui sont juste humains ; et tombent amoureux, sans le vouloir, sans le prévoir. Que faire, honnêtement, s'ils ne peuvent pas en parler de ce qu'ils ont dans le cœur ?
Changer de travail, déménager ? Supporter de la douleur émotionnelle quotidienne ? Passer 2 séances de psy par mois à parler d'elle, de la même chose, chaque fois ? De vivre avec des regrets ? Tuer des sentiments à la base innocents, naturels et sains ?

Merci d'avance pour toutes les réponses et d'avoir pris le temps de tout lire aussi !

Bonjour,

Je viens ici avec la plus grande bienveillance, et je sais bien que ça peut être différent pour chaque personne.

Je vis maintenant une situation plutôt compliquée niveau sentimentale ; pour faire court :

- Je suis tombé amoureux d'une amie (collègue de travail aussi). Les sentiments sont apparus depuis presque deux ans maintenant, 3 ans et demi d'amitié.

- Je n'avais aucune intention cachée dès le départ ; au contraire, j'étais bien fier car j'avais réussi à construire une amitié saine à l'âge adulte avec quelqu'un d'hyper bien, qui coïncidemment était une femme. Pour plusieurs raisons liées à mon passée, c'était vraiment un accomplissement personnel et raison de beaucoup de fierté.

- J'ai assisté à deux de ses relations s’effondrer, elle a vu une des miennes s’effondrer aussi. Aucune ambiguïté entre nous, célibataires ou en couple. Une amitié vraiment saine.

Je me suis rendu compte au fur et à mesure que cette amie avait en elle la quasi-totalité des qualités, des valeurs que je cherche chez quelqu'un avec qui je veux passer toute ma vie avec. Sans parler de tous les beaux moments passés ensemble, que ce soit pendant nos pires moments ou nos meilleurs moments.
Je porte ce fardeau, cet énorme poids sur mes épaules depuis un an et demi ; sans dépasser de limites, sans créer de l'ambiguïté, toujours en mettant mes sentiments derrière mon amitié et mon respect envers elle.

Sauf que ça devient trop lourd, trop dur à supporter. Avec l'avis de ma psy et d'une amie (qui est sur le point de devenir psy aussi), j'ai conclu qu'il faut que ça sorte. Que j'échange sur ces sentiments (j'ai bien dit échanger, je n'ai pas dit faire des ultimatums, proposer quoi que ce soit, lui mettre de la pression, etc..). Le but est vraiment de la voir en mode "nous sommes amis et adultes, j'ai besoin de toi en tant qu'amie pour parler de quelque chose qui me fait du mal et qui malheureusement t'implique toi aussi".

Mais nous arrivons maintenant à la question de ce post. Presque tout ce que je lis, des anecdotes, des conseils, des situations, et même des réponses sur AskMeuf, il me semble que chaque fois, ça se passe mal.
Est-ce que vous croyez que deux adultes peuvent avoir cette conversation sans que ça dérape, sans blesser l'autre ? Ou est-ce que ça se finit toujours par de la distance, de la froideur ; dans une amitié brisée pour toujours ?
Si cela arrivait à moi, je le prendrais comme un énorme compliment, que quelqu'un tombe amoureuse de moi. Et en même temps, j'essayerai de rejeter la personne de la façon la plus saine possible.
Mais il me semble que de votre point de vue, une conversation comme celle-là devient un énorme casse-tête. De la peur, de la fragilité, du mécontentement, de la gêne... Est-ce vraiment si difficile de juste dire "désole, mais non

Je ne suis pas un incel, je ne suis pas un "orbiteur", je ne suis pas un cassos. Je suis humain ; je suis tombé amoureux, sans le vouloir, sans le prévoir. Que dois-je faire, honnêtement, si je ne peux pas en parler de ce que j'ai dans le coeur ? Changer de travail, déménager ? Supporter de la douleur émotionnelle quotidienne ? Passer 2 séances de psy par mois à parler d'elle, de la même chose, chaque fois ? De vivre avec des regrets ?
Je n'attends absolument rien de cette conversation à part une paix interne

Merci d'avance pour toutes les réponses et d'avoir pris le temps de tout lire aussi !

I've noticed some weird moves from Dragon Shield recently which seems to indicate that they might be going under.

- Notably, they've migrated their card scanning app to a third-party which to me feels like they're trying to "get rid of extra costs".

- The dragon dust program, one of the reasons why I actually purchased directly from them is nowhere to be seen again years later.

- They did interviews (I was one of them) about the grading business and my general interest on it, why would I do or not do it, if DS could provide that service, etc.., nothing came out of it besides a stupid trailer for space sleeves or wtv

- Their quality has gone down the drain (better than a few years ago but still pretty average considering the overall market) even though their entire shtick was precisely how much better they were than everyone else

- They're coming out with more and more products less about sleeves and more about shit you can buy randomly at card stores. Their latest deck box was just a joke. It relies on vacuum to keep itself closed... Great product there buddy. It also took them years to bring back the D-Ring binders everyone loved from them but they're simpler, cheaper-made and more expensive.

- Finally, I just noticed this, they migrated their web store to shopify universally. Not sure if this was already the case (their website was still the same a few months ago) but it really sucks, my orders have 0 pictures of the products, a lot of the products I bought are 404 even though they exist still in the website and I can't get it to remember I'm a € customer, not a US $ even though I'm literally checking the € currency.

I heard rumors that the company is in dire straits after a corruption scandal with its CEO but I can't find anything online and all their social media is just business as usual.
It really sucks because they were my go to, despite the expensive prices (which keep rising with every new product I might add) but every time I seem to "bet" on them it's just disappointing.

Hey everyone, first post here; looking for some help. Mostly concerning Yu-gi-oh but also other TCGs in general.

I'm starting to get lost in my TCG collection. I've learned a lot of lessons along the way but I feel like I'm missing two main resources to keep my collection growing in an organized manner:

- Future-proofing the collection, making sure that it's not a matter of re-organizing and finding new solutions when I increase it but more just buying the same thing and stacking more of the same.

- Accessibility, namely, not having things spread around 50 different types of storage and being able to sift through cards easily by set, card type and having coherent storage for it.

It's also important for me to keep things away from dust whenever possible and prevent long-term damage even for bulk (so just keeping things in a cardboard box is an absolute NO).

It's gotten to the point where there are so many rarities that I can't just keep everything together with it making sense. I've already started gathering Collector Rares, Platinum Secret Rares and Ultimate Rares in the same binder but one or two more sets and I have no more space for them. I bought a wooden box with 5600+ card capacity for Commons and Super Rares but it's already more than half full. Then we get to the premium rarities like Quarter Centuries and Starlights, or one-offs like Premium Golds.

I'm starting to think if it wouldn't just be easier to have a collection organized by set and release date, with the storage compartments (whatever they are) tagged by year and 1st/last set while keeping my spreadsheet up to date so I can easily search for a card and know where it is.

Just for reference, I have over 8000 YGO cards, 4000 MTG cards, 2000 Pokémon and Weiss Schwarz cards and am precisely trying to find a good future-proof way of storing cards to start opening (and playing) F&B and Sorcery TCG.

How do you guys manage collections that just keep growing? I don't sell and I don't like leaving them unprotected even if it's bulk so it makes things more complicated (since I know in general people just put bulk in 4200+ cardboard boxes but I hate that).

Any cons to keeping everything stored by year and set? Minus the fact that if I end up opening older sets it will force me to rearrange stuff of course.

Any advice is helpful, even if it's just you talking about how you sort your own! Pictures also welcomed, don't hesitate.

I think it would give the community a lot more information if you could still access a seller's history even if the account was deleted.

Why? Because that way you can have some semblance of the reason.

For example, I noticed I a card I recently bought was from a seller that had its account deleted just a few weeks after. Why was it deleted? They wanted to? Was he selling fake cards? Overcharging? Not delivering?

Since I can't access the seller's page anymore, I have no idea, I can't judge if this was a bad person to do business with in the end or if it was something else.