u/svinyard

I need some really good clean and breakup captures

We have a 2yro 40lb mini male. Hes incredible and we love him to death. Super chill and super cuddly. Hes glued to my wife who spends a lot of time training him. He‘s nervous tho in a few situations that are kind of an issue. How do I train him to be less of a nervous nellie?

1- He doesn’t want anything to do with some older 60yro men. And gets real skittish and barks and is afraid in un-normal ways. Nipped the boot of my Father in law, whom the dog does not like. My FIL loves all dogs and tries to treat him or be nice to him in a lot of mellow ways…and the dog just doesn’t buy it. He can be in the same house but avoids him and if my FIL makes a loud noise or inadvertantly startles the dog, the dog barks and escapes.

2- Strangers in general- he’s not barking but he’s skittish around them for sure and avoids being petted by most. Moreso men but he’s not like a Golden with ladies. If guys come to the house to like, do work on something (had some roofer guys come by), he’s pretty upset about that and barking etc…which is kind of normal dog stuff usually I guess.

3- He’ll nip my sons sometimes when they are playing with him in the yard and running away. This is normal working breed stuff mostly, I grew up on a ranch with Border Collies and they loved to herd us. But prob not ideal incase of other kids. My sons are 11 and 14.

fwiw he does great around other dogs. he’ll avoid reactive ones easily and play with the others and doing great. He’s such a chill dog at home but sometimes with people around or certain people…he gets kind of amped up and nervous.

How do I train him so he’s not such a nervous Nellie? I don’t want him to fear-bite someone or be uncomfortable.

We have a 2yro 40lb mini male. Hes incredible and we love him to death. Super chill and super cuddly. Hes glued to my wife who spends a lot of time training him. He‘s nervous tho in a few situations that are kind of an issue. How do I train him to be less of a nervous nellie?

1- He doesn’t want anything to do with some older 60yro men. And gets real skittish and barks and is afraid in un-normal ways. Nipped the boot of my Father in law, whom the dog does not like. My FIL loves all dogs and tries to treat him or be nice to him in a lot of mellow ways…and the dog just doesn’t buy it. He can be in the same house but avoids him and if my FIL makes a loud noise or inadvertantly startles the dog, the dog barks and escapes.

2- Strangers in general- he’s not barking but he’s skittish around them for sure and avoids being petted by most. Moreso men but he’s not like a Golden with ladies. If guys come to the house to like, do work on something (had some roofer guys come by), he’s pretty upset about that and barking etc…which is kind of normal dog stuff usually I guess.

3- He’ll nip my sons sometimes when they are playing with him in the yard and running away. This is normal working breed stuff mostly, I grew up on a ranch with Border Collies and they loved to herd us. But prob not ideal incase of other kids. My sons are 11 and 14.

fwiw he does great around other dogs. he’ll avoid reactive ones easily and play with the others and doing great. He’s such a chill dog at home but sometimes with people around or certain people…he gets kind of amped up and nervous.

How do I train him so he’s not such a nervous Nellie? I don’t want him to fear-bite someone or be uncomfortable.

My bear canister is too full for my son and I. I’ve got peak refuel meals and the packaging is bulky. How can I repack those but also how do I best eat them? do I just get a big 32oz bowl for rehydration? I’m with my 14yro son and worry about spills

I have weird feet where my heel bone sticks out when I’m going uphill and always gets a blister within a mile or two of decent climb). I’ve got super locked in boots (Sportiva Raptor 3’s) but I still get them. it’s happened my whole life regardless of boot.

Do I switch to trail runners? I’m using a 30lb pack and have some on and off trail and a bit of rocky stuff too over 6-10 mile days in Montana. Do trail runners have the same issue tho?

i know there’s injinji liners too (I have darn stuff socks). I could go Lupkotpe tape or that gel cushion patches (coopied?(sp)).

im just not sure which is the best bang for buck here. Any advice??

I’m in need of a code if anyone has one they could PM over. thank you!

I tried on a bunch of boots yesterday at REI using a mid-weight sock. I hadn't been on my feet all day (swollen) or anything but found these Ultra Raptors were pretty damn incredible compared to most everything else there. They fit like a modern Jordan basketball shoe, but have solid pronation stability and just this really agile feel with legit locked in heel. This is a very cool boot and felt more supportive than Sportiva's leather boots too, which were a bit more "floppy" in the ankles.

So I sized up from 11.5 to a 12 and they felt great. I tried the 12.5 which felt good but when I locked in the boot, I could feel the tongue of the creases a bit over the top of my foot. So I would normally go for that 12...but I don't have a ton of experience with how my feet change. I'm gonna be using these with a 35lb pack doing 10 miles in some backcountry alpine country (some rock scambles etc). Is there some general wisdom to going up to a larger size even if it's a bit odd in the store? The 12.5 size did fit pretty well, just didn't feel as ideal as the 12's. Seems like an easy choice for the 12 but wanted to double check with those more experienced.

I played the lamest Orc game the other day on turtle rock. Im NE player and the orc just quick teched and turtled in his base with towers (upgraded eventually) and then constantly harrassed my wisps to dent my lumber economy significantly. I can handle the harass well to a degree cycling wisps into gold as they are hurt but i still lose them. Then of course he goes bats and wyrvens, constantly cancels my AOL and more wisp kills. The guy expands and builds a bunch of upgraded towers and just messes around while trying to drag the game out to 2hrs as he tries to kill buildings.

a big part of my issue is I can’t freaking stop his air of course and I also can push his fucking turtle base, I can place archers around to help protect my base like people mentione (which works, but BM snipes them). I also struggle to expand (my adjustment) as he can quick scout and kill anything, including Ancient Protectors while my units get run around. such a lame, long game, I got bored and just quit.

is there some solution when guys like Orc or Humans turtle in and expo trying to drag out a game and then do some lame strategy? both are so hard to push their bases with NE.

Two Lame Rushes:

How do you counter when human does a 2 peon tower rush? I'm blitzing to get AOW up ASAP for nearby green creep and humans show up laming me with a tower rush. My hero isn't even close to coming out. Then the hero eventually gets there and it's over. The there's like 2-3 towers firing on my bass, my AOW only has made 1-2 archers by then and DH gets chewed up. Then an Archmage gets there or Tinker or Naga etc and it's over.

Second - UD 3 Ghoul Rush with Naga. A few seconds after my DH pops out (I've got 1 archer), the Naga and 3 ghouls are on me. Naga is surprisingly effective with slow arrow and my DH is easily chewed up freeze arrow and the Ghouls. Moon wells only help so much. Even if I can fight it off, my economy/creeping etc are typically pretty jacked up due to focusing on this simple BS rush.

I'm using a tonex but want to get into NAM A2. My buddy installed it on to this computer and was just using some of the defaults etc and trying to find some good captures. It wasn't turning out very good tho.

Are there some easy favorites for a Clean (Fender DLX Revb) and a JCM800 2204, Plexi sorta reference tones to test on? Is there an easy way to find and use some of the Amalgam captures that they put out for free? I like those, tho I do typically like a DI capture with IR swapping instead of the total Amp/Cab together captures.

How do I best get started here?