Off Topic Discussion Megathread

[SturmChurro]

Churro, having trees near your house isn't the problem. I live between an orchard and a forest xD I'm talking about ones endangering your property. Because even if it's a slender twig of a tree, if it falls on a window it's going to cause a lot of damage. Worse still if someone's nearby. I'd check to see what's wrong with it, and if the problem really ends up being location, it's best to have it removed. Sad to see a tree go away, but nature won't mourn the loss of one if it means keeping you and your stuff safe.

Well, the people around here don't like trees around their house at all, or generally on their property for that matter. I had a neighbor growing up, who would eventually get every single tree cut down on his property. He had actively complained about them for years.

This one seems to be quite hollow on the inside, it was raining a lot last night, so the weight and wind might have been what snapped this next piece off. You're not wrong, for sure. If one of the other branches comes off, it could go right through my window.

[Vyrerus]

Reminds me of the time my Dad insisted on chopping down a tree with just me there to help him when I was 14.

When I was 14, I only weighed 97 pounds, and while I was in weightlifting electives at school, I was still not very strong. So we chop this tree down, and he has me as the rope man pulling on it. The ropes were too low, and I was far too weak, and what wound up happening was the tree stuttered on the stump, and then slid opposite of me, then toppling over and grazing our neighbor's house putting a huge dent in the vinyl siding. It narrowly missed caving in their roof.

If my father had been patient, he could have gotten one of my older brothers to help as well, but when he gets in the mood for yard work he waits for nothing. He insisted that it was my fault, for not magically recruiting all of my friends to help me or some bunk like that. Told him he was a moron, and my mom backed me up on it.

Surprisingly, our neighbors at the time were totally chill about it. The whole thing made me never want to help with cutting another tree down ever again, but we cut a few more down in our backyard over the next few years, fortunately with my brothers around to help.

[TheMightyMollusk]

They should also preferably be snappy with regards to how long battle animations take. In the late PS1 and PS2 lifespans, a lot of turn based RPGs really kicked up the graphics on making attacks huge and cinematic. While very cool looking the first time, do you really want to spend a minute or two every time you summon an Eidolon?

But summoning Ark with Auto-Regen equipped was a great way to heal the party! And watch a transforming robot blow stuff up!

Oh, and uh, damage enemies and stuff. Yeah.

[Vyrerus]

But summoning Ark with Auto-Regen equipped was a great way to heal the party! And watch a transforming robot blow stuff up!

Oh, and uh, damage enemies and stuff. Yeah.

Ah, yes, the Gundam summon that takes a full 2 minutes to go through its laser beams of death! Like a whole 20 seconds longer than Knights of the Round :P

Your mecha fetish is showing! :P

[TheMightyMollusk]

Ah, yes, the Gundam summon that takes a full 2 minutes to go through its laser beams of death! Like a whole 20 seconds longer than Knights of the Round :P

Your mecha fetish is showing! :P

I did have a half-idea to turn an Eclipse Gundam kit into Ark (or, well, Cruise Chaser, which is basically Ark in HD). I just don't have the skills to pull it off. Yet.

[Thaciscokidd]

I've experienced a lot of ending in Anime and Manga from personal favorites like Sailor Moon, GaoGaiGar Final, and Yu Yu Hakusho to mainstream favorites like Full Metal Alchemist (Both versions), Gundam Wing, Gundam Seed/Seed Destiny, and Dragonball Z.

But the fact that after this next monthly break that One Piece is going into its final saga is a little surreal. With how big it is, I really wonder what they are gonna do when the final chapter drops. They already have rules in place for how they release certain other games and manga. Its gonna be really big.

[MilkieTea]

Well, the people around here don't like trees around their house at all, or generally on their property for that matter. I had a neighbor growing up, who would eventually get every single tree cut down on his property. He had actively complained about them for years.

This one seems to be quite hollow on the inside, it was raining a lot last night, so the weight and wind might have been what snapped this next piece off. You're not wrong, for sure. If one of the other branches comes off, it could go right through my window.

It might be for the best if you have it removed - if it's hollow on the inside, with enough wind and rain the entire thing could come down. (It's also probably dead or dying D: )

[RobynDaBank]

Husky by the Geek posted his metal remix of Radz-at-Han's theme... and I am all here for it. Ro Panuganti and Allison Martin are so brilliant too! Being Indian it really reminded me of fusion music that used to be the rage among my school's musician students.

Whoops, should add link! https://youtu.be/31fvD1lFhlQ

[Cincierta]

So I just checked on the dragonfruit and mango sapling I have growing outside in pots, and turns out the dragonfruit are growing quite fast. Some are sprouting little growths, others are sporting newly sectioned nibs. They look so cute on top of getting slightly firmed thorns when I tried replacing their supports with something larger. A few are measuring a good 6-7 inches tall so far.

The mango sapling I'm going to have to find a bigger pot to move it to. What I think could possibly be a taproot is pushing the stalk at an angle. But it looks quite healthy for something that hasn't been grown a whole year yet.

I've also realized my new neighbors have planted trusses for their vine plants right on the borders of the properties between our houses and they don't look like they're doing too well. Which isn't good because that was the spot I was planning on propping up my dragonfruit. At least now that I know the soil there isn't good I'll have to find a better spot to plant it and the mango tree at.

[Kolsykol]

Been feeling kinda both physically and mentally anxious these past two days but could finally breathe a sigh of relief now.
I need to vent a little.

So... Lol.
I ordered some '' adult stuff '' if ya know what I mean, because I managed to find some stuff that was HEAVILY discounted on their version of my countries site.
I believe that they just forgot putting in the correct numbers for my currency or something, because we're talking like 10 times cheaper.
I reaaaaally lucked out and got some fairly expensive stuff for a ridiculously low price.
This is where the misfortune begins.

I picked that I wanted to pick it up at a parcel point, and I picked the store I wanted it delivered to.
I get a mail that they've dispatched it and everything seems fine, later on I get an update in my mobile app for the postal office and I notice something strange.
It's scheduled for home delivery and this was my first stroke of luck because they had sent it with some kind of a flex service so that I could change it to a parcel point too.
However it seem'd strange to me and it didn't say it was being delivered to me, it said the parcel points name AND adress.
So I email my postal office and even try to call them, don't get an answer for three days and I decide to DM them on Twitter.
Couple of hours later I finally get an answer and yada yada national day plus weekend and they don't work weekend ( postal office here is actually quite good in my experience when they actually work, but they've cut down on work days a lot over the years ).
The postal office person tells me that the sender has written the parcel point as the receiver, this is like the day before delivery ( unlucky there were two public holiday days and a weekend there huh... ).
This also means that I won't be able to identify myself since it's not my name on the package.

Now I am freaking out a little because I obvivously don't want them to receive it and think that it's theirs and open it up, especially considering it's '' adult stuff '' LOL.
So I email the dispatcher since only they can make changes to name, adress etc and don't receive an answer in like 12 hours and it was way past the hours for the phone being open at their office at least, so I go to bed early because I am honestly not feeling well.
I've dealt with mental health issues and pretty severe anxiety in the past but it has gotten way better in recent years, but I was kinda starting to feel the anxiety a little.
Not super much but I could physically feel that tightening and thumping feeling, I am not even embarrassed by this stuff but there's stuff like potential legal issues because you're not allowed to order for others like that and a lot of thoughts just started going in my head.
What it was obviously made it worse but my head can start just running wild and come up with the worst possibilities and I can't stop it.

I wake up next day and another unfortunate event, they had responded to me about 0:50 or something in the night and I am usually awake during that hour but not since I went to bed early.
Shit, today is delivery.
They tell me that I've written the wrong zip code ( this is just untrue, I think it was just changed when they sent it as home delivery ).
They also tell me if I get back to them with the zip code I want it to which I did write down ( it's even in the billing part of the receipt, no extra cost for home delivery or anything either clearly says parcel pickup ), so I send them my full adress and name I need the package changed to.


Now I notice ANOTHER problem, namely I have two tracking numbers the same one but one that ends with a letter too and both are being tracked.
And they both also say the same measurements and weight etc on the package so wtf, have they sent two or what's going on here?
Support gets back to me and tells me they've forwarded it to their team and are waiting for feedback, granted there was a back and forth and they were actually very helpful not their fault at all I think it was the company that handles their packaging and shipping that's at fault which is a third party they've hired.

So I wait and wait still haven't gotten a response, but the package arrives...
And I notice that I can use my banks app to identify myself on one of the tracking numbers but not the other, so I attempt it expecting it to fail since it's not supposed to be my name but nope it actually works.
The other one I can't do that with however...
I also get a response back from support, they're still waiting for feedback but they mention that they had seen that I had collected '' the item '' but they're still waiting on feedback from their team.
Well, I hadn't yet...
Again not their fault, it said that on their countries postal office tracking website on mine tho it didn't.

I got to the parcel pickup point and get the QR code scanned that has already been identified and then he grabs the package and wtf yeah it says their name on it.
And he keeps looking at it like crazy, I had explained the situation but I think he was beginning to doubt and wonder what was going on.
Then I notice, on '' contact '' in very very small text it actually does say my name and phone number a bit bellow their name and adress in big letters indicating it's their package and all that.
So yeah his doubts vanished and he believed me.

Then I check my mobile app for the postal office and strangely enough it says I've picked up both packages o_O.
A big sigh of relief and weight off my shoulders, maybe it's the price I had to pay for lucking out and finding the stuff so cheaply LOL.
It appears that because their third party delivery service sent it as home delivery and I changed it to parcel point ( which again is what I actually ordered as ) that it registered twice in the system or something.
And on their store when I picked parcel point it set them as receiver too even tho I had typed in my name and all that.
It honestly makes little sense, because I was still able to identify with my bank app even tho I wasn't the receiver.

But yeah sorry for the huge post lol, it all worked out in the end and I am very relieved.
Venting over.

Husky by the Geek posted his metal remix of Radz-at-Han's theme... and I am all here for it. Ro Panuganti and Allison Martin are so brilliant too! Being Indian it really reminded me of fusion music that used to be the rage among my school's musician students.

Whoops, should add link! https://youtu.be/31fvD1lFhlQ

I really enjoyed the big medley of different musicians in the community, it's a really cool community effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW7thAIF8TA