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2024.05.29 10:50 AbbreviationsDry1179 How achieve glass skin
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2024.05.29 10:41 Dependent-Painting59 Should I bother w/ ivies? Chance an anxious intl student!!
People on a2c are crazy 😭😭 Should I even bother trying for T20s?? I live in Canada and my grades are good enough to guarantee a spot in top Canadian universities (I can graduate in three years, and cheap!!) so if I want to go to the US it needs to be a god tier (want to work there). Pls lmk if I have a chance!!
Demographics: Female, Asian, Canada, your average non competitive public hs (1500 ish ppl? Nobody goes to T20s tho), no hooks 💀, need at least 50% aid 💀💀
SAT: 1500 (750 on both), will take again in June aiming for 1520-1550
UW GPA: 4.0, school doesn’t rank AP: school doesn’t offer, self studied some— 10th grade: psych 5,macroecon 4 11th(current): Stats, bio, Chinese 12(planning): calc bc, micro econ
Intended major: cog sci/ neuro
ECs: - Ice skating— 9 yrs, 2x national team (in home country), 2x provincial team (Canada) Many awards provincially/ nationally. Helped (was paid) to translate & write applications of national team members to sport grants. Taught adults & children 10th-current. Synchro skating 11th, national qualifiers, provincial champions. 20 hrs/ week on average
Predictions: LORS— 7/10s? Will give brag sheets. Teachers like me, but no specific connections w/ them? Counsellor 8/10 , maintained good relationship
Essays— 8/10s (I think& hope) pretty good writer, have ideas for lots of essays
Schools: Canada— I’ll probably get into them U of T McGill UBC SFU
US— close to no shot?? Mostly ivies cuz fin aid
Upenn ED(legacy, fin aid for Canadians) Princeton Yale Harvard (for fubsies) Cornell (fin aid) Amherst Jhu ( fin aid)
Thx for reading my rant :) pls help!!
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Demographics: Female, Asian, Canada, your average non competitive public hs (1500 ish ppl? Nobody goes to T20s tho), no hooks 💀, need at least 50% aid 💀💀
SAT: 1500 (750 on both), will take again in June aiming for 1520-1550
UW GPA: 4.0, school doesn’t rank AP: school doesn’t offer, self studied some— 10th grade: psych 5,macroecon 4 11th(current): Stats, bio, Chinese 12(planning): calc bc, micro econ
Intended major: cog sci/ neuro
ECs: - Ice skating— 9 yrs, 2x national team (in home country), 2x provincial team (Canada) Many awards provincially/ nationally. Helped (was paid) to translate & write applications of national team members to sport grants. Taught adults & children 10th-current. Synchro skating 11th, national qualifiers, provincial champions. 20 hrs/ week on average
- family responsibilities: cook half the meals & shopping in family, tutoring sister w/ schoolwork, co managing my moms small company’s finances, took care of home & my mom last summer when she had surgery
- (planned) summer lab intern w/ neuro prof @ home country national medical uni
- president of tiny psych/mental health club (11th): mostly just me, writing articles, posting on insta, holding community therapy events, making Ap psych prep packages for self study students
- Chinese culture volunteering: managed small teams of people, did translations, and managed communications at large Chinese film/ cultural festivals. 10th- current
- District leadership committee ambassador: school ambassador chosen from 300 ppl grade for school district, gave leadership advice, helped with small school environment projects
- fencing 9th, 10th, might pick up again in summer: no awards (suck too much)
Predictions: LORS— 7/10s? Will give brag sheets. Teachers like me, but no specific connections w/ them? Counsellor 8/10 , maintained good relationship
Essays— 8/10s (I think& hope) pretty good writer, have ideas for lots of essays
Schools: Canada— I’ll probably get into them U of T McGill UBC SFU
US— close to no shot?? Mostly ivies cuz fin aid
Upenn ED(legacy, fin aid for Canadians) Princeton Yale Harvard (for fubsies) Cornell (fin aid) Amherst Jhu ( fin aid)
Thx for reading my rant :) pls help!!
2024.05.29 10:37 ManInSharkCostume As a formerly suicidal and depressed teen I have realized some things TW SH AND STUFF
I fear death. It feels amazing to say that because I love being alive. I’m 15 and the past few years were rough. I’ve attempted multiple times and sh’ed in my past and made my way into intensive care. Now even at my lowest I am in love with life. I love being alive and I love taking care of myself. Every week I change my sheets, i shower every other day, i brush my teeth every morning and night, I go to school on time and I do my work- its still usually late but only by a day or two, I am going to be a camp counselor this summer. I’m putting myself out there and taking more opportunities. It feels amazing after being so low for so long. Depression is an absolute horrible bitch. I don’t want to die and I’m so happy to fear death.
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2024.05.29 10:33 proy31 Feedback from sales reps
I'm looking for some feedback for my software from sales reps of medical devices .
The software is simple: it's a chatbot that helps you get answers to technical questions and other info about products from manuals, brochures, data-sheets etc.
Do you see use of this tool in your daily work? Some of you might find it similar to ChatGPT but my goal is to make it more & more tailor-made for sales reps. Any help/feedback would be appreciated.
Here's the website: www.startraven.com
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The software is simple: it's a chatbot that helps you get answers to technical questions and other info about products from manuals, brochures, data-sheets etc.
Do you see use of this tool in your daily work? Some of you might find it similar to ChatGPT but my goal is to make it more & more tailor-made for sales reps. Any help/feedback would be appreciated.
Here's the website: www.startraven.com
2024.05.29 10:28 VainTwit My way or the highway
I worked at a big company as a cad draftsman, electrical docs. It was the 90s about the time I got my first cell phone. My imidiate boss gave me a job to fill out some wiring diagrams from some printed sheets. This is essentially just typing, tons of numbers, tons of opportunity for transposition\human error. Not to mention boring. So I called the field engineer (that created the printed list) on my cell phone and asked for the digital source files which he sent to me, no questions asked. (It was common in those days for every desk to have a phone but this employer didn't provide any because it would distract from your work...)
I took the digital docs and wrote a simple program to extract the text and paste it to the appropriate wiring diagram turning weeks of work into a 2 day job. Faster and 100% accurate. Efficient worker right? Hero on the job? Wrong. I was reprimanded for not doing as I was told. On top of this insult, I was reprimanded for talking on my phone.
In the middle of the process a higher boss, department head came through the office as i was watching my program run, 100 times faster than manual typing. noticing I wasn't working because my fingers weren't on the keyboard. I was fired the next day.
Fine with me. I don't want to work with you pricks anyway. But a fellow employee told me later that they brought everyone into a meeting and told them it was "my way or the highway" . You do as you are told or you can leave right now. The new guy they hired to replace me got up and walked out that very minute, in the middle of the meeting...
That's my favorite part of the story. I'm vindicated!
This company has a reputation like this from the CEO on down. I don't harbor any resentment. I think they're comical. They just can't be helped. Too much ego, not enough brain cells. Blind to their own best intrests. Too busy sawing to stop and sharpen the saw. Or as we say in the south "you couldn't trust em in a shit house with a muzzle on"
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I took the digital docs and wrote a simple program to extract the text and paste it to the appropriate wiring diagram turning weeks of work into a 2 day job. Faster and 100% accurate. Efficient worker right? Hero on the job? Wrong. I was reprimanded for not doing as I was told. On top of this insult, I was reprimanded for talking on my phone.
In the middle of the process a higher boss, department head came through the office as i was watching my program run, 100 times faster than manual typing. noticing I wasn't working because my fingers weren't on the keyboard. I was fired the next day.
Fine with me. I don't want to work with you pricks anyway. But a fellow employee told me later that they brought everyone into a meeting and told them it was "my way or the highway" . You do as you are told or you can leave right now. The new guy they hired to replace me got up and walked out that very minute, in the middle of the meeting...
That's my favorite part of the story. I'm vindicated!
This company has a reputation like this from the CEO on down. I don't harbor any resentment. I think they're comical. They just can't be helped. Too much ego, not enough brain cells. Blind to their own best intrests. Too busy sawing to stop and sharpen the saw. Or as we say in the south "you couldn't trust em in a shit house with a muzzle on"
2024.05.29 10:26 ReasonableSprinkles9 Best Lights for Lighting Lasercut Panel with diffuser
Hey, I’ve recently been working on a feature wall inside my companies office space. We are a roofing company so have custom cladding installed on an internal wall.
At the centre of the wall we have a large 1200x1100 matt black Sheetmetal’s panel that has had our logo laser cut out of the Sheetmetal. I have installed a led strip behind the panel along with a 3mm opal light diffuser polycarbonate sheet fixed to the back of the metal panel. You can see the led strip behind the diffuser, the panel only comes off the wall 20mm so the led light is within 20mm of the diffuser.
Is there something more suitable that would hide the led light?
The other questions I have are
I have 240v plug installed for this light so can disconnect and reconnect any lighting comparable with a standard 240v plug.
Thanks in advance any help is appreciated.
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At the centre of the wall we have a large 1200x1100 matt black Sheetmetal’s panel that has had our logo laser cut out of the Sheetmetal. I have installed a led strip behind the panel along with a 3mm opal light diffuser polycarbonate sheet fixed to the back of the metal panel. You can see the led strip behind the diffuser, the panel only comes off the wall 20mm so the led light is within 20mm of the diffuser.
Is there something more suitable that would hide the led light?
The other questions I have are
- Is 20mm just too close for a diffuser to work?
I have 240v plug installed for this light so can disconnect and reconnect any lighting comparable with a standard 240v plug.
Thanks in advance any help is appreciated.
2024.05.29 10:20 Clean_Alps_5768 Which plastic can I heat-seal into air tight shapes at home?
The plastic that inflatable air mattresses and those crappy inflatable travel neck pillows would be perfect.
Best I can understand it's polyvinyl chloride that's used but I may be wrong. Also I can't find any sources for flat sheets/rolls so I can cut them up and seal the edges myself.
If there's a better material to use or one that's easier to work with l'm all for it if anyone is familiar with some :)
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Best I can understand it's polyvinyl chloride that's used but I may be wrong. Also I can't find any sources for flat sheets/rolls so I can cut them up and seal the edges myself.
If there's a better material to use or one that's easier to work with l'm all for it if anyone is familiar with some :)
2024.05.29 10:13 2620lukas Good read by Peter Lynch on how to catch companies that are on their way back and avoid companies that are on their way out
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2024.05.29 10:01 somedevstuff Ontime - rundown and event time manager. New version, smaller, better, faster, stronger, still free
 | Hi, submitted by somedevstuff to audioengineering [link] [comments] We have been working on a new version of Ontime, a free, open-source rundown and event timer manager. We spent a long time working on it, listened to user feedback, and here it is:(marginally) Smaller, (much) better, (a little) faster, (I just had to use) stronger. Some of the views of Ontime Ontime has been in production for four years and has gained some popularity in its niche (Ontime is used by conference organisers, touring shows and receiving venues, broadcasters and streamers, theatres and opera houses and houses of worship). The app's main features include:
Download Ontime and read more on the website Read the docs And get involved in feature specification, give feedback or contribute with code on GitHub |
2024.05.29 09:53 Robothecop How to run a zip file download from github
I have zip downloaded from GitHub it's called tesseract-octesseract. I'm thinking of customizing a script which will run and grab the content of a screen and categories it and write in an Excel sheet. I took help of chatgpt. It told me in steps. I have desktop but it's very bothersome to work on it tbh. Can I run these scripts on Android phone ? I think it's majorly (project)in python which ig not mobile friendly.
I have very little knowledge of programming but I feel somehow someday I gotta start this 😨 I advised different things but I feel I can do it easily just need to do it regularly. Im sorry if it all sounds very noobish.
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I have very little knowledge of programming but I feel somehow someday I gotta start this 😨 I advised different things but I feel I can do it easily just need to do it regularly. Im sorry if it all sounds very noobish.
2024.05.29 09:48 ShuaChort MH3 Review of all colorless cards - A 10 year Kozilek, Butcher of Truth player's reaction.
My deck has been established and fully blinged out for a while and the sheer amount of must play colorless cards in MH3 is exciting and sort of dreadful. I could seriously swap out 30+ cards to accommodate the new cards and new synergies with existing cards. I'll be reviewing all the new colorless cards in MH3 and the commander cards. For context, I'm tossing in reviews of the Commander Masters cards, which had some fun options for colorless, but comparatively irrelevant compared to the impact of MH3.
Note on playstyle: The reality of bringing Kozilek, Butcher of Truth to a table is it can become a game of archenemy. While too weak for cEDH, less competitive tables dread annihilator. Often it's a solitaire-style ramp, ramp, ramp until you win strategy, with minimal interaction. To build this deck for maximum efficiency, you often have to ask this question of each card. "Is this better than a mana rock?" You often cut titans and other big flashy spells to get in a 2 mana rock or an ur-golem's eye, just to make sure your ramp to Kozilek strategy keeps on track. So pre MH3, I ran Eldritch Moon Emrakul as the only other Eldrazi above 6 mana in my deck. (Probably taking that Emrakul out to try out new cards)
Pre-MH3 Decklist: (and Pre Outlaws, need to add Fomori Vault, Cactus Preserve, etc)
https://www.archidekt.com/decks/6404251/unlimited_budget_kozilek_butcher_of_truth
Tiers:
God - So incredibly powerful, it's difficult to imagine a day this isn't in my Kozilek decklist
Auto - Clearly makes the cut, but perhaps with steady power creep, will fall out of favor someday
Solid - Worth trying out, perhaps makes it long term, but it's easy to imagine swapping out.
Maybe - Might be fun to try, but doubtful to last long term unless some synergy makes it passable.
Doubtful - Starting to get really suspect to consider including this; probably messing with your deck's consistency/power.
Unplayable - Can't imagine justifying this card, unless some new synergy package makes it functional.
*Table below includes reviews of leaked MH3 commander cards; it's possible other colorless commander cards are still to be leaked/spoiled.\*
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Note on playstyle: The reality of bringing Kozilek, Butcher of Truth to a table is it can become a game of archenemy. While too weak for cEDH, less competitive tables dread annihilator. Often it's a solitaire-style ramp, ramp, ramp until you win strategy, with minimal interaction. To build this deck for maximum efficiency, you often have to ask this question of each card. "Is this better than a mana rock?" You often cut titans and other big flashy spells to get in a 2 mana rock or an ur-golem's eye, just to make sure your ramp to Kozilek strategy keeps on track. So pre MH3, I ran Eldritch Moon Emrakul as the only other Eldrazi above 6 mana in my deck. (Probably taking that Emrakul out to try out new cards)
Pre-MH3 Decklist: (and Pre Outlaws, need to add Fomori Vault, Cactus Preserve, etc)
https://www.archidekt.com/decks/6404251/unlimited_budget_kozilek_butcher_of_truth
Tiers:
God - So incredibly powerful, it's difficult to imagine a day this isn't in my Kozilek decklist
Auto - Clearly makes the cut, but perhaps with steady power creep, will fall out of favor someday
Solid - Worth trying out, perhaps makes it long term, but it's easy to imagine swapping out.
Maybe - Might be fun to try, but doubtful to last long term unless some synergy makes it passable.
Doubtful - Starting to get really suspect to consider including this; probably messing with your deck's consistency/power.
Unplayable - Can't imagine justifying this card, unless some new synergy package makes it functional.
*Table below includes reviews of leaked MH3 commander cards; it's possible other colorless commander cards are still to be leaked/spoiled.\*
| Card | Set | Tier | Function |
|---|---|---|---|
| Zhulodok, Void Gorger | Commander Masters | Maybe | Cascade, cascade is tempting value, but seems very win more. This has to stick around until you actually cast another big spell before this card has any impact on the game. Mana rocks seem better for our game plan |
| Rise of the Eldrazi | Commander Masters | Solid | It's hard to argue with the pure power of this spell and that you're a deck that could reasonably expect to cast it. Even then, you might wonder if you're better served playing a ramp card instead and increasing consistency casting Kozilek quickly. But it's certainly very tempting. |
| Darksteel Monolith | Commander Masters | Maybe | Can't be used to cast Kozilek, which is usually the payoff your ramp is leading up to. Still, it could be a very potent mana rock in a sense. Gets more powerful combined with Skittering Cicada/Liberator, Urza's Battlethopter for casting value on every turn. |
| Flayer of Loyalties | Commander Masters | Doubtful | If you're trying to lock an opponent out with annihilator, just run a haste enabler and cast your commander instead. If you're trying to outright kill with damage, it certainly has some potential for that, but colorless tends not to be a decks that trades blows back and forth and plays a fair game of magic. It's usually more ramp, ramp, ramp, you're dead. |
| Skittering Cicada | Commander Masters | Solid | Flash is really changes how the deck can play and this is one beefy creature all for 3 mana. But is it better than a mana rock and getting Kozilek out fastemore consistently? Possibly. |
| Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate | Commander Masters | Unplayable | Weird and not what Kozilek decks are trying to do. |
| Desecrate Reality | Commander Masters | Solid | Colorless can use some interaction, hitting each opponent is nice, and potential to revive is cool, though I've noticed there's not a lot of cards I'm excited/expect to consistently be able to revive with this. (Dreamstone Hedron, Hedron Archive, etc. are artifacts you could plan to send to your graveyard, but they don't have odd CMC.) |
| Calamity of the Titans | Commander Masters | Doubtful | I generally dislike cards that do nothing if you don't have the right cards in hand. And fairly likely to do nothing when my deck leans more into Kozilek for being the finisher |
| Abstruse Archaic | Commander Masters | Doubtful | Decent body, decent ability. I might be underestimating, but seems kinda awkward. Would I rather have Sisay's Ring/Ur-Golem's? |
| Ugin's Mastery | Commander Masters | Unplayable | Again with manifest, not what Kozilek decks are trying to do. |
| Emrakul, the World Anew | Modern Horizons 3 | Solid | Kozilek tends to not have much of a creature board state, so you risk less than other decks in casting this. And casting this for 6 mana is actually doable with this deck. Absolutely absurd. Though discard outlets are more restricted in colorless, Fomori Vault is a great new one, and Geier Reach Sanitarium is another decent land to accomplish this. Collector's Vault could be passable. Still runs into "is a mana rock better?" issue, but this is so much bang for your buck, seems worth it. |
| Kozilek, the Broken Reality | Modern Horizons 3 | Solid | Seems wonky, but 9 mana seems like a nice surprise when opponents think you're one mana short to cast your titan and forcing your opponents to manifest and drawing 4 cards is nice. Draws you into more ramp. Still, is it better than a mana rock? |
| Ulamog, the Defiler | Modern Horizons 3 | Solid | Exile half the library is certainly demoralizing and could shut down an opponent relying on tutoring up combo pieces. And if you can give him haste, the annihilator is much more brutal than even Kozilek. Seems unlikely to get the sequence, but if you can follow up with casting an Oblivion Sower, it's certainly cute. Is Ulamog better than a mana rock? Possibly. |
| Ugin's Labyrinth | Modern Horizons 3 | God | I'm not over the moon about this card in this deck, because having a 7+ drop in hand is not a given, but the potential upside of immediately tapping for 2 is so powerful compared to the opportunity cost of running some other land. |
| Echoes of Eternity | Modern Horizons 3 | God | It's so easy to ramp this out fast in colorless and double mana rocks, cast draw triggers, annihilator triggers… Annoyingly pushed card that's a no brainer. |
| Kozilek's Command | Modern Horizons 3 | God | Colorless desperately needs interaction and this is an absolutely perfect card for colorless because it also easily passes the "would a mana rock be better?" test because it can also ramp if you need it to. It's a kindred instant, so benefits from Eldrazi Temple/Eye of Ugin. it can creates eldrazi spawn, it can replace itself with a card draw (and if you scry 10 or whatever, perhaps you're drawing a game winning combo piece), it can exile a creature token or something with higher CMC, it can mess with your opponents grave. Couldn't ask for more. |
| Glaring Fleshraker | Modern Horizons 3 | God | In isolation, it's solid. it's sort of like reducing the cost of spells by 1/creating a treasure token per cast. That would be a fine card, but this goes insane with the right synergies. Goes infinite, burning opponents to death when combined with Mystic Forge/Sensei's Diving Top, cards that are great in isolation. If you cast Echoes of Eternity first, you get two copies of this, 4 spawn and 16 damage per subsequent spell cast. Not infinite, but game ending all the same. |
| Devourer of Destiny | Modern Horizons 3 | Solid | Having this in opening hand should smooth out the cost of this being potential dead weight in your hand. (Not a mana rock) Something you can pitch to Ugin's Labyrinth. Not terrible, but not excellent as a top deck later in game. |
| Eldrazi Ravager | Modern Horizons 3 | Solid | Cycling when needed, a super early annihilator threat. Some recursion possibility with eldrazi token generation… Could partially function as a sac outlet to sac Kozilek and recast for another draw 4. |
| Breaker of Creation | Modern Horizons 3 | Maybe | Big life gain potential since it counts lands, hexproof, annihilator… Let's say you have lightning greaves out. I like the idea of an early threat to surprise an opponent who thinks you don't have enough to cast your annihilator commander only to get hit with this one. Still, might rather have a mana rock. Bane of Bala Ged is different, but might be better at that role anyway. |
| Null Elemental Blast | Modern Horizons 3 | Auto | Only reason I didn't put this in God tier is because of the "Is it better than a mana rock" test. In some cases, you'd have been better advancing your plan (cast Kozilek) than messing with your opponents. But this is so incredibly efficient and can keep an opponent off his plan to buy you enough time to achieve your goals |
| It That Heralds The End | Modern Horizons 3 | Maybe | As a cost reducer, it will probably only reduce the cost of at most one spell you cast each turn, unlike other reducers that will help you chain multiple spells each turn, like Ugin, the Ineffable, Cloud Key, Jhoira's Familiar… So it'll effectively produce up to 1 mana each turn. A 2 mana rock that taps for 1 might be better. The +1/+1 to the team is cool, but the deck usually doesn't go wide. Maybe alongside newest Kozilek, Glaring Fleshraker, Forsaken Monument? |
| Disruptor Flute | Modern Horizons 3 | Maybe | Not the type of a card I like to include, but you could use it to keep an opponent off casting their commander. |
| Winter Moon | Modern Horizons 3 | Doubtful | Always run Winter Orb above this, if you're going that route. (Since you're likely running all or mostly nonbasics, though you have the advantage of more mana rocks than opponents.) If your opponents play mostly non-basics, you could consider this too. So awkwardly, the more casual your play environment, the worse this card is. |
| Vexing Bauble | Modern Horizons 3 | Maybe | Can disrupt certain strategies and be cycled away when needed, can be tutored with Urza's Saga… but you might just want to play another card? Seems meta dependent. |
| Idol of False Gods | Modern Horizons 3 | Maybe | Benefits from Eldrazi Temple/Eye of Ugin, being a kindred artifact. Seems a little slow, if you're aiming for the second ability. But mana ramp, chump blockers… Not bad. |
| Urza's Cave | Modern Horizons 3 | God | Tutoring lands is incredibly powerful in colorless. As a cave, can be tutored by Scampering Surveyor. Echoing Deeps can become a copy of this, which is notable. |
| Snow-Covered Wastes | Modern Horizons 3 | Solid | Not really any snow payoffs in colorless to speak of yet. Scrying Sheets? There's basic land ramp that's decent, though I'm playing around with running no basics. Tough call. Wastes and Snow-Covered Wastes are two different land names for Monument to Perfection, for what that's worth. |
| Solar Transformer | Modern Horizons 3 | Maybe | As a 2 mana rock that taps for 1, might be fine. Though since this enters tapped, you'd have to have an energy payoff for this to actually be worth it over running other 2 mana rocks. |
| Conversion Apparatus | MH3 Commander | Maybe | A 3 mana rock that taps for 1, that can store up energy to tap for 3 later? Seems a little clunky, comparing to Kyren Toy or Skyclave Relic. But if you had other energy synergy, maybe. |
| Stone Idol Generator | MH3 Commander | Unplayable | Not what this deck is trying to do, you're generally not going wide. |
| Horizon of Progress | MH3 Commander | God | Unbelievably good, I've contemplated running cards like Zoetic Cavern just for the possibility of land ramp, but this is repeatable. And can even cycle itself away. Can produce colorless. Urborg or Yavimaya can allow it to tap for mana without costing life. |
| Lazotep Quarry | MH3 Commander | Auto | Better than High Market, a card I already love? When needed, can sacrifice Kozilek to dodge problematic removal or sacrifice just to draw 4 more cards. Has desert synergy. Can even do graveyard recursion, perhaps bringing back a combo piece like Glaring Fleshraker. |
| Inversion Behemoth | MH3 Commander | Doubtful | Kills walls and illusions, I guess? Really fun design/stat line, but doesn't seem to advance the game plan the deck is aiming for. |
| Talon Gates of Madara | MH3 Commander | God | You can instant speed play this land (ramp) AND save a creature from removal/get rid of a blockeget rid of an attacker. That's insane. It's also a gate you can tutor with Maze's End/Navigation Orb. (also at instant speed for the bonus phase out effect) |
| Trenchpost | MH3 Commander | Maybe | Between Cloudpost, Glimmerpost, Planar Nexus, Vesuva, Thespian's Stage, Monument to Perfection and Expedition Map, does this get there? Seems a bit dubious, but not a huge opportunity cost for the potential for lands to produce more than one mana. |
| Planar Nexus | MH3 Commander | God | Tutorable with Maze's End, Navigation Orb, Scampering Surveyor, Monument to Perfection… Turns on urza tron, feeds Urza's workshop, cloudpost, Baldur's Gate (longshot), counts as a gate for heap gate, desert for a variety of effects…This card is the cornerstone of a new colorless land package, if you want to build around it. |
| Eldrazi Confluence | MH3 Commander | Auto | Surprise! I flash in enough mana to cast Kozilek. Or surprise! You didn't block Kozilek? My 21/3 kills you in one shot. It's flexible mana ramp/chump blockers/removal/other niche utility. Absolutely the kind of interaction this deck craves. |
| Selective Obliteration | MH3 Commander | Solid | Interesting, you'll never lose anything and at minimum destroys every multicolor card, so probably commanders. Though likely a lot of things will survive for each player. Seems solid, though awkward. Not a board wipe like all is dust, nor targeted removal. |
| Eldritch Immunity | MH3 Commander | Maybe | Great effect, though not exactly needed for this deck; Kozilek dying is usually fine and making my creatures unblockable is usually unnecessary to achieve a win. Still, could win you the game, especially if going wide. |
| Spawnbed Protector | MH3 Commander | Solid | 7 CMC for Ugin's Labyrinth. The eldrazi to hand seems powerful, though getting Eldrazi in grave is not always possible. (Eldrazi Ravager with cycling works nicely) 2 Eldrazi Scion each end step is nice, so it is a mana rock of sorts. With Echoes of Eternity, you'd get two of these and 8 scions each end step. |
| Twins of Discord | MH3 Commander | Solid | 7 CMC for Ugin's Labyrinth. If void winnower taught us anything, it's that shutting off blockers is better than you expect. And this lets you choose odd or even each combat phase, so you can adjust to whatever is on board. Though the eternal question; would I rather have a mana rock? |
| Ulamog's Dreadsire | MH3 Commander | Doubtful | Cute, but at 10 mana, I'd sooner go for a titan with immediate impact. |
2024.05.29 09:28 chomacrubic Google Gemini Cheat Sheet - the official guide (45-page PDF)
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2024.05.29 09:20 BerylDragon Best Website Builder for Video Game/Media Composer?
I’m currently looking into setting up a website with my portfolio, rates, etc to send people to and am wondering if there‘s a preferred web builder amongst the industry that’s best designed for a composer’s needs. First thoughts were Wix and ReverbNation, but I’ve also seen people just make a Bandcamp or Youtube page with a linked Google Doc for their commission sheet.
Alongside my composition work, I also plan on offering arranging/transcription work and selling sheet music of my concert works.
I’m also aware I could offer the arranging services on somewhere like Fiverr and just keep my website to composition (and am open to that option).
A lot of choices and not a ton of “in the field” experience to guide decisions. Any thoughts really appreciated.
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Alongside my composition work, I also plan on offering arranging/transcription work and selling sheet music of my concert works.
I’m also aware I could offer the arranging services on somewhere like Fiverr and just keep my website to composition (and am open to that option).
A lot of choices and not a ton of “in the field” experience to guide decisions. Any thoughts really appreciated.
2024.05.29 09:19 Still_Classic3552 How do you keep up with everything?
I've lived alone before but not for nearly 20 years. I'm struggling to keep up with everything: work, maintaining the house and yard, groceries, cooking, exercise, kid duties, a bit of free time... I'm writing this at 12:15am...and in the spare bedroom because I washed the sheets and forgot, and was too lazy to put a clean set on.
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2024.05.29 09:18 somedevstuff Ontime - rundown and event time manager. New version, smaller, better, faster, stronger, still free
 | Hi, submitted by somedevstuff to VIDEOENGINEERING [link] [comments] We have been working on a new version of Ontime, a free, open-source rundown and event timer manager. We spent a long time working on it, listened to user feedback, and here it is:(marginally) Smaller, (much) better, (a little) faster, (I just had to use) stronger. Some of the views of Ontime Ontime has been in production for four years and has gained some popularity in its niche (Ontime is used by conference organisers, touring shows and receiving venues, broadcasters and streamers, theatres and opera houses and houses of worship). The app's main features include:
Download Ontime and read more on the website Read the docs And get involved in feature specification, give feedback or contribute with code on GitHub |
2024.05.29 09:13 Actual_Benefit5685 Need to change 300 sheet names as the first cell value in their respective sheet
Hello everyone, I have over 300 sheets whose name needs to be changed as the first cell (A1). I initially tried to write code from the internet
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Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) ActiveSheet.Name = Range("A1") End Sub It worked for only one sheet. I want to apply it to all.Sub vba_loop_sheets() Dim ws As Worksheet For Each ws In ThisWorkbook.Worksheets Private Sub Worksheet_Change(ByVal Target As Range) ActiveSheet.Name = Range("A1") End Sub So I tried this but it didnt work. Please help2024.05.29 09:13 spunchy M&B 2024 Reading 2: Hyman Minsky
 | For our schedule and links to other discussions, see the Money and Banking 2024 master post. submitted by spunchy to moneyview [link] [comments] The vision of Hyman P. Minsky is an intellectual biography of Hyman Minsky by Perry Mehrling from 1999. Among other things, this reading emphasizes Minsky's financial instability hypothesis and its connection to the "survival constraint": the idea that each economic actor needs to ensure that its cash inflows meet its cash commitments at any given time. We discussed the time patterns of cash flows and cash commitments in Lecture 4. Lining up your cash flows and meeting your survival constraint is the essence of liquidity. In the Lecture 1, Mehrling says he thinks of this article as the "missing chapters" at the end of his first book, The Money Interest and the Public Interest. In that book, he provides similar intellectual biographies for Allyn Young, Alvin Hansen, and Ed Shaw. Perry Mehrling says: There are five sections in this reading, and it is pretty dense reading because I was trying to fit an entire intellectual biography into the length of a journal article. For present purposes, the most important section is the third, titled "Vision", because we are trying to build some intuition about the monetary system. Second in importance is the fourth section "Minsky and the World" which shows how Minsky used his vision to engage with the concrete problems of his own time, an account that may serve as a challenge for present day students of the money view to engage the concrete problems of the present time.The five sections of the reading are as follows: 1. LifeMinsky had to decide between focusing on research or focusing on his political agenda of using full employment to fight poverty. He ended up choosing research. In his research agenda, he emphasized the role of the central bank as a lender of last resort.Minsky’s emphasis on the support functions of the central bank as lender of last resort lost out to the dominant emphasis on the control functions of the central bank as manager of the money supply.Mehrling cites Economic Policy for a Free Society by Henry Simons in reference to the influence that Simons had over Minsky's thinking. Henry Simons was the source of Minsky’s lifelong interest in finance, as well as the idea that the fundamental flaw of modern capitalism stemmed from its banking and financial structure (Simons, 1948). 2. CharacterProduction, consumption, and trade, are nothing more than flows of money in and out and between different economic units.Minsky emphasized the centrality of money. He de-emphasized the role of goods and the real side of the economy. In terms of sources and uses, the sale of a good is just a receipt of money. The purchase of a good is just an expenditure of money. The most real thing is money, but money is nothing more than a form of debt, which is to say a commitment to pay money at some time in the future. The whole system is therefore fundamentally circular and self-referential. There is nothing underneath, as it were, holding it up.If the thing you're trying to understand is the monetary system, then money is the most "real" thing. If the system is self-referencial, then a financial crisis is what happens when those self-references come under strain. 3. VisionMinsky’s worldview concerned not all economies, but only capitalist economies, by which he meant economies that are characterized by private ownership of the means of production. And it concerned not all capitalist economies, but only the ones that have developed a sophisticated system of finance to facilitate the ownership, creation, and refinance of capital assets. In these economies, so he seems to have thought, financial processes take on a life of their own, so that their logic effectively becomes the logic of finance. In Minsky’s own early words: “Capitalism is essentially a financial system, and the peculiar behavioral attributes of a capitalist economy center around the impact of finance upon system behavior” (Minsky, 1967a, p.33, my emphasis). This is the core insight that underlies all of Minsky’s work, and distinguishes his work from that of other economists. According to Minsky, we need to understand finance not because it is an important part of our modern economy, but because it is the very heart and motive force of that economy.For Minsky, the object of study was "financial capitalism," which was the label he applied to the economic system he lived under in the second half of the twentieth century. All in all, Minsky’s is a sophisticated vision of modern capitalism. Probably most people who think this way become investment bankers, from which social position it becomes difficult to see clearly the downside of the logic of finance. For an investment banker, problems may arise, but the solution is always more finance or, more precisely, refinance and restructuring of existing commitments in order to make room for new commitments. Not so for Minsky, who never forgot the lessons of Lange and Simons that the logic of finance tends to produce inequality and instability, effects which history shows tend to undermine democratic political forms.It's not clear to me how generalizable Minsky's insights are beyond our present system of financial capitalism. Where do we draw the boundaries around financial capitalism? What counts as financial capitalism and what doesn't? 4. Minsky and the worldInflation was difficult for Minsky to understand because of the thoroughgoing nominalism of his thought.Economists tend to start at the real side and then fit money into their thinking. Minsky seemed to start with money and work backwards. In either case, the price level and inflation lie at the interface between the monetary side and the real side. Minsky seems to have started from the idea that, because government faces no survival constraint, imbalance between its cash commitments and cash flows shows up not as a tendency to crisis, but as a tendency to depreciation of future cash flows relative to present cash flows. This tendency takes the form of price inflation domestically and currency depreciation internationally. In effect, socialization of a private imbalance between cash commitments and cash flows (in order to avoid crisis) does not change the fact of imbalance, but only the mechanism through which adjustment takes place.Is it true that the government faces no survival constraint? What about from the central bank? Can the central bank choose not to roll over the government's funding? Perhaps the central bank and the government jointly face no survival constraint when acting together—at least with respect to the particular money they issue. They can always pay debts denominated in their own money. But the same cash-flow imbalance that would otherwise put pressure on the survival constraint shows up in other prices of money besides par. 5. Minsky and the economistsWhat made the dollar money? Following Sayers, Minsky eventually came to the view that it is the ability of a unit to force a net cash flow in its favor that gives its liabilities liquidity (Minsky, 1986a). It was the ability of the Fed to make dollars scarce, not so much by reducing the outstanding stock of dollars as by forcing an incoming flow of dollars, that sustained the reserve currency position of the dollar in the dark years of 1979–1982 (Minsky, 1986b). In Minsky’s view, the key channel through which Volcker’s monetarism bolstered the dollar came through the effect of high interest rates on bolstering capital inflows from short-term dollar-denominated foreign debtors.If you can force cashflows in your direction, then you can always meet your cash commitments. If everyone knows this, then everyone knows that your liabilities are liquid. The question is whether this logic still make sense if your liabilities are the ultimate cash and there's no cash above you in the hierarchy. To be sure, Minsky always emphasized the ‘endogeneity’ of money, and the origin of money in business finance. Furthermore, as early as 1972b, he emphasized that the central bank does not (and should not try to) control the quantity of money, but only the conditions of refinance.We have seen that credit expands and contracts as a part of the normal funcitoning of the economy. Controlling the quantity of money means choking off credit at a particular layer of the hierarchy. Which layer that is depends on what you include in your monetary aggregate. Study QuestionsMinsky viewed the money market as the place where the balance between cash commitments and cash flows could be seen most clearly. People who have maturing commitments in excess of their current cash flows face the need to refinance in order to satisfy the “survival constraint”, and that demand for refinance shows up in the short term money rate of interest. Question 1What is a cash commitment? What is meant by the “two-edged quality” of a cash commitment? What distinguishes robust from speculative from Ponzi finance?Here's a relevant quote about the "two-edged quality" of cash commitments. On the one hand, they structure uncertainty and give definite form to an inherently open-ended system. On the other hand, they commit economic agents to perform actions that may turn out to be impossible, and so pose a threat to future coherence. Continual adjustment is required to maintain a balance between these two aspects, which means to keep the pattern of cash commitments in line with the pattern of expected cash flows. Coherence is thus not a once and for-all thing — it is not equilibrium — but a temporary and a tenuous thing, constantly in flux as time rolls forward.The cash commitment constrains the person making the commitment. But they usually get something in return for that commitment—perhaps the ability to make a profitable investment. The person receiving the cash commitment receives some predictability about future cash inflows. But they offer something in exchange (cash now). The degree of fragility or robustness in the economy as a whole ultimately depends on the fragility or robustness of financing arrangements at the level of the constituent economic units. What Minsky called ‘hedge’ finance is an arrangement where cash flows are adequate to meet all foreseeable cash commitments. ‘Speculative’ finance involves cash commitments that can be met only by rolling over debts when they come due. ‘Ponzi’ finance is a particularly precarious form of speculative finance in which it is anticipated that not only the principal, but also the interest on current debts will have to be rolled over.This classification is not a moral judgment. It's not that a Ponzi-financed firm is doing anything wrong, per se. Everyone is trying to do what they think is profitable. And it could even be that the changing state of the market pushes people's finance away from robustness and toward fragility. For example, let's say I'm a hedge-financed balance sheet. What if some of the incoming cash commitments fail to come through? This forces me to roll over my debt to others. This has moved me from hedge to speculative financing. Question 2Henry Simons “good financial society” is certainly a system of robust finance, since there is no private debt at all. Sketch the balance sheet relationships (business, household, government) that would exist in such a world. In terms of our dichotomy between government bank and bankers bank, is this an extreme version of the government bank system?Simons is imagining something like a pure-money system, which we looked at in Lecture 4. For Simons, the problem was instability and the solution was the suppression of private debt finance in favor of a system of private equity finance and public debt (100% money).Nobody can fail to meet cash commitments if they make no cash commitments in the first place. Here are the balance sheets I drew up. https://preview.redd.it/abhi2pkifb3d1.png?width=1184&format=png&auto=webp&s=902acb49dc819ea482abeac95ecc26b2f705f985 Part A shows households investing in businesses by buying ownership shares. This entitles them to a share of the businesses' net assets (assets minus liabilities). But in a world without private debt, that's the same thing as total assets. Notice that there are no promises of future cashflows at any particular time or in any particular amount. There's just a promise that you'll get a share of what's left if it's ever time to divide up the asset pie. There is a sense in which equity is a kind of debt. Equity, as a balancing item, defines a residual. It's an IOU for whatever happens to be left over. Importantly, it's a flexible kind of debt. You can't fail to meet your commitment because you only commit to what you can do. There's no survival constraint. Part B shows households buying goods from businesses. It's a pure asset swap: an exchange of goods for money. There is no expansion or contraction of balance sheets. Similarly, Part C shows businesses buying labor from households. Same story. It's just an asset swap. Parts D and E show the government expanding and contracting the money supply through spending and taxing. This can have various effects depending on where and how the money is added or removed. Notice that I'm just showing unidirectional payments. There may sometimes be another side of the transaction. The government can buy or sell something. As to the question of government bank versus bankers bank, we usually discuss that in the context of a central bank. In the balance sheets I drew, there is no central bank. But we can imagine that the government issuing money directly is equivalent to the central bank monetizing government debt. So, in this sense, it's like an extreme version of the government bank scenario. There can't be bankers bank because there are no bankers and no private banks. You can't have private banks if you don't have private debt. I'm not sure if Simons was imagining a world without banks, per se. Maybe he didn't consider bank deposits a form of private debt if they were 100% backed by reserves. But that's how I've drawn it up in my balance sheets. Question 3The Financial Instability Hypothesis suggests that there is a tendency for robust finance to give way to speculative and then Ponzi finance. Why? Why do people make cash commitments in the first place? Why do cash commitments that finance a profitable investment wind up relaxing future survival constraints?Private credit expands over time. As credit expands, someone will have to take on the liquidity risk. It's impossible for whoever's doing that "banking" to be robustly financed because they hold long-term assets against short-term liabilities. In other words, their pattern of cash commitments is, on average, dated sooner than their pattern of cash inflows. They must therefore roll over those commitments. Robust finance gives way to fragile finance as ‘margins of safety’ are eroded and commitments leave less and less room for possible shortfalls of cash flow.The banking system is paid to take on more and more liquidity risk. The margins of safety are eroded because businesses want to borrow more and more. And it's often the case that the central bank makes this possible/worthwhile by ensuring that credit is cheap. Concretely, the cash commitments of each unit depend on the cash commitments of every other unit. The whole web of interlocking commitments is like a bridge we spin collectively out into the unknown future toward shores not yet visible. Mere ideas about the future become realities as they become embedded in financial relations, but inevitably over time the reality embodied in the pattern of cash commitments diverges from the reality embodied in the pattern of cash flows.The system can be more or less stable, depending on the extent to which cash commitments depend on other cash commitments. On the way up, during boom times, the financial system gradually becomes more "interlocked" and susceptible to collapse. If a promised cash flow fails to materialize or is delayed, that can push a formerly robust unit into speculative finance or a formerly speculative unit into Ponzi finance. During a credit contraction on the way down, even previously robust units can instantaneously turn into Ponzi units as they become unable to roll over their funding. This can quickly turn illiquid units insolvent as they're forced to sell their assets at fire-sale prices. This is true even if those assets are fundamentally sound—they would have reliably generated all the promised cash flows. Inevitably our ideas about the future are wrong, even when we all agree, indeed especially when we all agree. Just so, widespread belief in the 1960s that economists had learned to tame economic fluctuation led units to the ‘euphoric’ view that future cash commitments were relatively unproblematic, and once this view became embedded in the structure of debt contracts, it became a constraint on future action.People make cash commitments for the future if they get something worthwhile in return, such as a cash inflow today to finance a profitable new investment. Or we may need to roll over our existing cash commitments. I can promise to pay more in the future to get out of having to pay cash today. Why do cash commitments that finance a profitable investment wind up relaxing future survival constraints?A profitable investment generates cash inflows that exceed the cash outflows needed to fund the investment. You end up with more cash than had you not invested. Question 4Minsky views the lender of last resort function as central to monetary policy. How does lender of last resort work (balance sheets please)? Why does it work to forestall an incipient crisis?Lender of last resort allows borrowers to roll over their funding (refinance their positions) when the survival constraint would otherwise force them to default. https://preview.redd.it/elq3cg2lfb3d1.png?width=1125&format=png&auto=webp&s=94b9f9ea6317421e1eb594c357b061a595f0b16b In this set of balance sheets, the lender-of-last-resort operation acts to restructure the bank liabilities in a way that pushes off their cash commitments into the future. I show two different quadruple-entry transactions here. The first is a mutual obligation between the banking system and the central bank. This expands the banking system's balance sheet. Then the balance sheet contracts back down. The withdrawal of deposits drains the reserves—asset disintermediation. Without sufficient reserves, the banking system would have defaulted. From the perspective of the banking system, they have refinanced their position. But the lenders have changed. Instead of their lending being funded by deposits, that lending is now funded by loans from the central bank. By definition, speculative financing arrangements require periodic refinance, at which point both borrowers and lenders get to take a second look at the balance between the borrower’s future cash flows and future cash commitments in light of the changed financial conditions in the economy as a whole. Any evolution toward fragile finance is therefore bound to show up as increasing difficulty rolling over debts as they mature, difficulty that may manifest itself in various ways depending on the institutional framework, but which ultimately shows up as increased demand for bank lending because banks are the lenders of last resort to non-financial economic units. Significantly, banks are themselves speculative financing units that face their own problems of refinance both because of their extreme leverage and because of the short-term character of their liabilities. Thus, the ability of banks to help other units refinance depends on their ability to refinance their own positions.The central bank can also supply reserves by buying assets. The below set of balance sheets shows three different ways the central bank can act as lender of last resort. https://preview.redd.it/2sgpwainfb3d1.png?width=1104&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb73cae341d26f48d35bc2a9512eb9688d4dcfc4 Scenario A shows the central bank lending to a bank who comes to the discount window for a loan. This expands the bank's balance sheet on both sides. A reserve drain can shrink it back down smoothly. Minsky (in keeping with Bagehot) wants the discount window to be a facility that backstops the whole market rather than being associated with troubled banks. Scenario B shows the central bank buying TBills from the banking system. In this case, the asset sides of the banks' balance sheets improve, but the balance sheets do not expand. A reserve drain will leave the banking system with a smaller balance sheet. Scenario C shows the central bank lending through the repo market. This can be done at the initiative of the central bank, as in the case of open-market operations. Or it can be done at the initiative of the borrowing bank, as in the case of a standing repo facility. The standing repo facility is analogous to the discount window, but it is often available to different counterparties. Why does it work to forestall an incipient crisis? By preventing defaults at the level of individual balance sheets, lender of last resort prevents a cascading chain of defaults transmitting through multiple balance sheets. What worried Minsky was the prospect that, left to its own devices, the financial system would operate to amplify rather than to absorb the naturally cyclical process of growth, as each commitment provides the support for others on the way up, and as default on some commitments undermines other commitments on the way down. Minsky thus saw a natural role for government, as lender-of-last-resort to ensure a lower bound on downward fluctuation in times of crisis, and as regulator during more peaceful times to identify and correct imbalances before they pose a threat to the system. Question 5Minsky viewed the US in the 1970s as an “ailing bank”. Persistent negative cash flows at the international level led to persistent depreciation of the dollar and rising domestic inflation. What parts of this analysis carry over to the present day, and what parts do not?In 2024, we're coming down from a bout of inflation. But the US, in aggregate, is not as much of a bank as it was back in Minsky's time. The dollar system is global. It transcends the United States. And the United States is less the financial sector of the dollar system. There are parts of the dollar system that, in aggregate, act like a bank to the rest of the world, expanding their balance sheets on both sides by holding longer-term assets and issuing shorter-term liabilities to fund them. In 2015, Mehrling published a shorter biography of Minsky on his blog that further emphasizes the role of Joseph Schumpeter: For more on Minsky, I recommend the book Minsky by Dan Neilson (u/soon-parted). Please post responses to the study questions, or any other questions and comments below. We will have a one-hour live discussion of this lecture on Wednesday May 29th at 2:00pm EDT. |
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2024.05.29 09:04 BOfficeStats Domestic BOT Presale Tracking (May 28). Thursday Comps: Haikyu!! ($0.91M), Bad Boys: Ride or Die ($3.47M THU, $5.34M EA+THU), The Watchers ($1.00M), Inside Out 2 ($7.63M), and Deadpool and Wolverine ($30.46M).
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USA Showtimes As of May 17
- katnisscinnaplex showtimes (I've been meaning to look at shows since I wasn't able to run it last week. It looks like all of the releases this week are fairly limited. Here's what I am seeing listed so far, which is probably ~90% of final (I think...I don't usually run on Wednesday): In a Violent Nature - 440 TC (plus ~200 early shows), Summer Camp - 653 TC, Ezra - 617 TC and Haikyu - 816 TC (May 28).)
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Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle Average THU Comp: $0.91M
- abracadabra1998 ($1.00M THU comp. No movement, probs looking at around $1 Million previews (May 28). Not bad, not bad (May 27).)
- Flip (Looking at some theaters near me, Haikyu is outselling Spy x Family (May 20).)
- katnisscinnaplex ($0.81M THU comp.)
- Rorschach (These numbers seem pretty damn good. Will echo @abracadabra1998's $1 mil previews prediction (May 28).)
- el sid (Had also only showtimes in 4 of the 7 theaters but already 123 sold tickets. So where it gets shows, it does fine. Loose comps, all counted on Monday of the release week for Thursday: Tarot (715k from previews) had 97 sold tickets in 5 theaters, The Invitation (775k from previews) had 96 in 7 theaters, Pearl (1.3M OD) had 102 sold tickets in 6 theaters and The Strangers: Chapter One (1.2M from previews) had 215 sold tickets in 6 theaters (May 28).)
- katnisscinnaplex ($0.57M EA+THU comp.)
- Rorschach ($0.91M THU+FRI comp.
- el sid (Has shows in 3 of my 7 theaters and had not more than 7 sold tickets. So so far completely under the radar. Comp: Book Club 2 (6.7M OW) had also on Monday for Thursday 25 sold tickets in 5 theaters (May 28).)
- JonathanMB (I just checked showtimes near me, and in the entire Chicago suburbs it looks like it's only in 5-7 theaters for Friday. Also randomly enough it has a couple of showtimes today at 3pm at some random AMCs? Looks like they're 30-50% full (May 27).)
- abracadabra1998 (Comp: $2.61M THU. All these comps had been on sale for longer, so those will go up, with the exception of Civil War, which went on sale at T-18 so that'll go down. Feels like a walk-up movie so it's hard to find good comps (May 19). Numbers are from last THU, as per my post this morning. This is a more walk-up movie a la Aquaman or Apes so I think it's a pretty good start (May 18). Pretty good start for it honestly (May 16).)
- el sid (Counted yesterday for Thursday had 395 sold tickets with shows in 6 theaters (the small AMC Lakeline in Texas is still missing). 10 days left. Bad Boys for Life (6.36M from previews) had on Monday of the release week 915 sold tickets = 43% at the moment for Bad Boys 4 with 7 days left to come closer or maybe overtake. My guess is that BB4 could have 800-1000k tickets by next Monday, so it could be pretty much on par with BBfL. Similar to other reports here: BB4 does not have stellar presales and after several disappointments I shouldn't exaggerate but compared to the best comps it looks quite good for BB4 as you can see (May 28).)
- Flip (Decided to add one more theater but there was good growth in both of the original two (May 27).)
- katnisscinnaplex (Comp: $5.34M EA+THU.)
- keysersoze123 (Presales are again not that much at this point. I think its not going to hit the heights of last movie (May 28). It should start to amp up sometime this week (May 27). This wont be fan driven. Even the last one initially trailed Dr Do little in presales but amped up big time close to release. This will be a late bloomer. I am still expecting 50m+ OW (May 23).)
- TheFlatLannister (Comp: $5.11M THU. Steady pace, no acceleration yet. Switch to G x K since that had super strong walkups ($6.12M THU comp) and Bad Boys 4 will likely replicate this (May 27). Comps ($4.11M) would mean $40M+ Opening Weekend (May 24). Well, this is a pretty good start (May 17).)
- TwoMisfits (Aging male-skewing franchises tend to get the biggest bump from this deal. Folks are on the fence but know what they are getting. Female skewing non-sequel ones tend to get zero help. You need baseline interest to get people willing to pay anything, b/c these still are $5. The other effect of the deal is that movies releasing around the $5 hits sometimes get hurt. June TMobile $5 Atom movie. This could help it go huge, like last year's Spider-Verse (May 22).)
- vafrow (Comp: $2.7M THU. It's staying pretty flat (May 28). Zero sales day when all comps seemed to have done well. Not a great result. Note: This isn't a holiday weekend in Canada, so that doesn't explain the slow sales. Hopefully it's just an anomaly. This has been very steady to date (May 27). Ghostbusters and Apes both went up in comps, but I didn't have Hunger Games included, so it's brought the average down. Still, its growing at a steady pace (May 26). I still expect this to be more walk up friendly than the comps being used, and should see a gradual rise as the date gets closer (May 25). Nothing of note here. Staying steady. Will probably pick up only in the final week (May 20). Comps are not the greatest. One, surprisingly hard to find a comparable film with similar start on sales. Plus, I think ticket buying patterns have changed pretty drastically in my market over the last few months. Very little up front sales compared to late 2023. Dune was the exception (May 17).)
- YM! (Like IO2 the pace for Bad Boys is small but mighty. EA is only available at Majestic much like Garfield. With EA, it’s a few tickets shy of Furiosa’s T-6 but without them it’s only a bit over half. Either way both is really good. I think we’ll continue to see the gap grow over the week but as of rn, I am thinking around $6-7m previews without EA solely on vibes to an OW north of $55m (May 25). Same thing as IO2 for Bad Boys (see May 23 IO2 comment), I expect this to not only skew more GA friendly and should bulk up ticket sales as we get closer to release. It’s almost at half of Furiosa’s T-6 which is a pretty great thing. Should easily outdo it by T-6 imho (May 23). Again, another solid start-ish. I expect Bad Boys to have the most diverse audience. Can't really predict much on previews but I am feeling confident in the 55-60m OW range for the past few weeks (May 17).)
- filmlover (Hasn't sold anything near me (May 26).)
- Flip (These are good numbers considering it’s only playing in 2/3 theaters I track (May 28).)
- katnisscinnaplex ($1.00M THU Comp.)
- BoxOfficePro (Fathom Events has also announced that select Regal Cinemas will present the films in 4DX on June 22/23/24 for Fellowship/Towers/Return respectively (May 14).)
- AnthonyJPHer (Fellowship of the Ring (269 tickets, 6 showtimes, 4 theaters) on Saturday, June 8, 2024 and Saturday, June 15, 2024 (21 tickets, 4 showings, 4 theaters). The Two Towers (243 tickets, 4 theaters) Saturday, June 9, 2024 and Saturday, June 16, 2024 (22 tickets, 4 showings, 4 theaters). Return of the King (281 tickets, 4 theaters) for Saturday, June 10, 2024 and Saturday, June 17, 2024 (16 tickets, 4 showings, 4 theaters). 852 tickets sold in total. 793 tickets sold for the first week. 59 tickets sold for the second week (May 28).)
- katnisscinnaplex (Up to ~1,400 shows now with new locations picking it up and others adding a second showing. LotR1 has sold 831 seats OD, LotR2 sold 715 seats OD, and LotR3 sold 735 seats OD. For comparison, Phantom Menace didn't break 800 tickets until T-3 and we're still over a month out. JW3 comp is currently around 9m (it was at 1,670 tickets sold at this point!) (May 6).)
- abracadabra1998 (Comp: $3.98M THU. Good update, hopefully this keeps on rising (May 23). Not impressed at all so far here sadly (May 19). Holy numbers of shows and seats! Multiplexes are really expecting a lot here. Sales off the bat not amazing here (May 15).)
- AniNate (Finally a little movement here. 23 Thursday, 52 Fri-Sun (compared to 18 THU and 23 FRI-SUN on May 17) (May 22). Safe to say the fan rush has ended, and it might not be immediately on casual family and radar when they're making memorial Day plans and there are two other kids movies out or about to be out (May 19).It is encouraging that Canton is already giving me something to work with with 12 THU preview sales. Same number for Fri-Sun. I do see nine sales for first THU at Canton now and I think that's a pretty solid start (May 15).)
- AnthonyJPHer (Some growth for THU, not bad but I expect sales to increase steadily as we get closer to release day. The presales are good enough to not be a disaster like Garfield, but not big enough to guarantee a 100m opening. I still like what I’m seeing though. As my local theater has finally shown some signs of life with this film. 5 tickets sold. Way better than Garfield at the same point. The numbers might not be completely accurate, but it’s looking extremely strong for Friday. 900 tickets for the five theaters I track. Maybe even 1,286 tickets if my numbers are accurate. That tells me this is not front loaded whatsoever. Or at the very least not preview heavy (May 27). Out of the 4 tracked theaters, there is at least 774 tickets sold out of 1000+ seats. Blown Garfield out of the water (~200 tickets from the theaters I tracked). At least 3 sold out (or close to sold out) showings for Inside Out 2. Looking good for Inside Out 2. Of course this might just be fan surge and all. I was looking at the THU previews in a theater near me. There is an almost completely sold out showing. Out of 195 seats, 175 were sold. Where I live there seems to be real interest. I counted about more than 400 tickets sold on THU for theaters near me, kind of shocked me (May 19).)
- charlie Jatinder (Comp: $12.33M THU at MTC2. Moving along nicely (May 21).)
- Flip (Decided to add one more theater but there was good growth in both of the original two (May 27). Fan event on the 16th has 43 tickets sold from 2 showtimes (compared to 8 showtimes and 73 tickets sold for previews), so that might be depressing previews a bit.)
- katnisscinnaplex (Comp: $6.37M THU. Early sales haven't been there lately except for the extreme fans. $12.27M Mario comp (May 18). At 180 shows for previews in my areas and still has a few theaters left to post. Godzilla x Kong finished with 197, Kingdom of Apes 190, and Kung Fu Panda 205 (May 14).)
- keysersoze123 (If you compare this to any animation movies seen recently including Minions, its doing very well. Really good this far out for sure (May 25). Chugging along at this point (May 19). Show counts show Plexes are expecting a big OW. I dont remember when we last had a animation movie start with so many shows. I wont count Mario as that was a fan driven movie. Definitely not great presales but this is not a fan driven movie. Let us see where things are in the final week (May 15). Families dont book tickets on weekday mornings. Wait until evening today to judge it. From a release perspective, easily the biggest for any animated movie in a long time. Only movie which is not comparable is Mario but that was not just a family flick (May 14).)
- Porthos (BAD COMPS: $8.96M THU. I don't agree with the undertone of concern when it comes to ticket sales for IO2. They seem perfectly fine to me, maybe even somewhat strong. It just isn't selling like a frontloaded CBM/fan driven franchise (even when adjusting for animation). So I suppose it really comes down to how much we think this will still act like a traditional kids animation film when it comes to buying pattern, how much demand has been burnt off, and how many people are still going to buy tickets but see no particular need to buy them early. Which I suppose really can't be answered until we get close to the time when kids animation films typically accelerate. But, I keep looking at the sales in Sacramento and not seeing much cause for concern. Yet, at any rate (May 25). Decided to add Nope ($12.62M) to the comp block. Not because I think it's a particularly good one (the ATP differences alone are a major red flag), but more for pace considerations considering how similar horror and kids animation are when it comes to being backloaded. The other consideration with Nope is that it was on sale for nearly two weeks longer, so it did have a small amount of extra time to pad some seats sold. But maybe the errors (ATP vs length of pre-sale) will cancel each other out. PROBABLY NOT! But the pace at the very least should be interesting (May 25). 10.0% Matinee sales, 5.3% 3D sales and 42.2% PLF sales. (May 19). Strange pre-sale pattern. Was there some sort of promo that dropped today? Either way, just a great day (for this type of movie at this point in pre-sales) (May 17). Fairly strong day. Was concentrated at a couple of theaters (May 16). I do not have good comps, especially for D1. 5.45946x Elemental on D1 [13.10m]. Will it be as backloaded as Elemental? It's tough to sell 5.5x times the amount of tickets on the final couple of days, so perhaps not. But it does show how backloaded purely kids animation is. Sonic 2 comp is perhaps a little concerning. On the other hand, nearly a weeks more of pre-sales. Of presales, 3.5% are 3D and 40.1% are PLF (May 15). On the SAT of release weekend (NOT EA) there is a special event screening for IO2: INSIDE OUT 2: FUNKO FAMILY EVENT! (2024) Sat June 15th. Might boost OW slightly depending on how wide this event is and how much more these tickets will presumably cost (May 11).)
- TheFlatLannister (Comp: $8.52M THU Florida and $7.57M THU Orlando Comp.)Excellent pace this far out. Does feel like something big is around the corner (May 27). Definitely the biggest rollout in showings since I've started tracking Florida. Bigger than even Dune 2 and it's only T-26 (May 18). This is a super super strong day 2. Probably just Orlando overindexing, but yeah starting to lean towards something big brewing. Florida presales are somehow even crazier. Sold 2357 seats and is getting a blockbuster rollout in terms of showing allocations. Kung Fu panda comp day 2: gives me $8.50M (May 15). Well, I can't really tell if this is a breakout or not yet. Looks very good especially in the first few hours. These are probably terrible comps, but might as well try something (May 14).)
- TwoMisfits (I'm kinda shocked at the opening set from my Cinemarks... 2 screens (1 PLF, 1 not) and 6 showings at my PLF 14 for THU (and 11 showings on the same screens once it runs full day - 7 PLF b/c 1 is 3d on the reg screen, 4 not)... 3 screens (.75 3d, 2.25 not) and 9 showings at the non-PLF 12 for THU (and 12 showings on 2.25 screens once it runs full day)... So, 2 and 2.25 screens for the weekend presale sets... Disney must be charging a huge % for themselves b/c this is an Elemental opening set at my PLF...a little more generous for THU at my non-PLF, but then they too drop to an Elemental opening set after the adult Disney base THU rush... (May 14).)
- vafrow (Comp: $5.6M THU. It's starting to grow (May 25). I'm surprised this hasn't been stronger. At this stage, I don't expect we'll see much activity until final week (May 19). No new sales. Whatever glitches in the system on day 1 didn't push sales to day 2. I still think the lack of base ticket options will push families to wait. Cineplex has jacked up the cost of PLFs, plus they're throwing in an increase for opening weekend of major releases. It adds up quickly for families (May 16). With the site glitching yesterday, it might account for the slow start. But, what's interesting is the format breakdown. Nothing is being made available in anything close to a regular showtime. The one non 3D showing in Dolby is a matinee showing. Everything else is carrying a hefty premium. They'll likely release regular showtimes closer to release, but right now, it's priced to get eager fans to pay the PLFs (May 15).)
- YM! (Did a bit of quick math in following some comparisons for IO2 using Keysersoze123's earlier MTC1 data out of boredom again and pace is pretty good, 6.74M average THU comp. The same caveats apply (IO2 should have higher ATP than the other animations due to skew somewhat older and having PLFs but having lower ATP than TLM as that skews older and likely has more of audience to buy upfront, and Wish being on Discount Tuesday muddies things up) but the important thing is that pace healthy and gainer ground against its comparisons. Feel like tracking is right on the money of 75-85m OW but could grow stronger if pace continues strong and reviews are strong (May 26). The pace is moving nicely as we have about two and a half weeks left. Think there’s potential for ticket count pace to grow strongly. I have no comparisons but it is at Garfield’s EA-less T-3 ticket sales. Going to probably not say much on preview predictions but my thoughts of an OW in between 75m-100m still stand. Not much to make of things until we get to around 2 weeks for rudimentary guessing and opening week for figuring things out (May 25). Little has changed as IO2 keeps on trucking along. I do theorize at least from the 250 ticket selling Funko Event, it’s plausible families and fans went for that date instead of Thursday night previews. Not much to make of things until we get to around 2 weeks for rudimentary guessing and opening week for figuring things out. At the very least, I like that it doubled its previous sales a week ago as it shows pace and outdid Garfield’s T-6 (May 23). Did some snooping around for the Funko Event as I was curious if perhaps families getting presales for the opening Saturday vs opening Thursday as those sales are kind of weak Thursday and uhm it’s at 250 tickets. Which is like 5 times Garfield’s EA showing of 50 tickets all at PLF prices despite normal theaters. Most of which at 9:30 AM with only one theater having it at 11:00 AM (May 22). Based on keysoze123's Elemental, Wish, Little Mermaid, and Kung Fu Panda 4 preview data, $5.66M THU comp and $22.2M FRI comp. Not a fan of the average comp (Disney has underperformed at MTC2 so not within history to rely on it overperforming like KFP4 and IF) but really like the True FRI although it is very inconsistent. Not sure if IO2 would jump that high from the THU average. However, there’s a lot of variable since: 1. TLM should skew more towards young adults than families by nature which should make ATP higher. 2. IO2 should and does have a higher ATP than either Wish, KFP4 or Elemental due to total PLF control and presumably skews a bit older. 3. Wish was on Discount TUES so that should muddy up the comparisons. 4. The comparisons apart from Elemental are either days before or days behind. 5. Both Wish and KFP4 opened outside the summer season so internal multiplier will be different (especially with Wish’s five day) due to how summer and fall have entirely different natures in walkups which leaves just TLM/Elemental as viable comparisons. It does show that IO2 should at least open above 65m? (May 20). Seems IO2 is playing more like a kid's animation than a family event. Pretty solid for what it is. Majestic is healthy and about 66% of Garfield T-6. Thinking anywhere from 75m-100m OW rn (May 17). Only been an hour but yeah sales are softer than I expected. However, it is a month out and will largely skew more towards kids than say TLM/Across so wasn't expecting a blitz like them. Here at Marcus theaters are going all out for IO2 with it having the lion share of PLFs with it getting both screens when there is two PLFs with tentpole like levels of screens (May 14).)
- Pinacolada (Actually sold some around me. It does seem like Focus is giving it kind of a shitty release though. Small screens. Definitely no PLFs, which 20th Century Studios was gonna get it Dolby back when they had it. There's 3 theaters really near me. Only 1 of them has this on sale as of now, though the other 2 theaters may come later? (May 26).)
- AMC ("Some 200,000 movie fans have bought their AMC tickets already. This is more Day 1 ticket sales at AMC than for any other R-rated movie ever." Insiders tell The Hollywood Reporter that first-day sales are likely around $8 million to $9 million if extrapolating the 200,000 stat cited by Aron (May 22).)
- DEADLINE (Already heating up eight weeks before its debut, having already collected some $8M in first day ticket sales. $8M is pretty remarkable for an R-rated movie two months before release. While there are no direct comps on Deadpool & Wolverine ticket sales in post-Covid history, its current cash bests the 24-hour advance ticket sales of The Batman ($6.5M), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ($6M) and John Wick: Chapter 4 ($1.4M). The Batman and GOTG3 opened to respective 3-day weekends of $134M and $118.4M (May 22).)
- FANDANGO (Broke Fandango’s best first-day ticket sales record for 2024. Best first-day pre-seller from the Deadpool franchise (May 21).)
- abracadabra1998 (Day 1/2 Comps (not serious ones): $25.82M/$28.14M THU. Pretty damn great day 2!(May 21).)
- AniNate (THU sales still largely biased towards primetime evening showings. There may be FOMO but not enough for people to take off work early. Good lord already 80+ THU previews sold for Deadpool at Canton (May 20).)
- AnthonyJPHer (Extremely strong growth from OD for Thursday. We have a monster on our hands here people. Buuut. Let me temper the excitement somewhat. The Friday numbers are good, stronger than Inside Out 2 by a considerable margin. However Inside Out 2 is looking very backloaded. This is looking extremely presales heavy right now. Much more than IO2’s 1,200 tickets for Friday. But here lies the problem. There is only 122 tickets separating Thursday and Friday for Deadpool and Wolverine, and for IO2, there is 500 tickets between the two days for that movie. This far out I’m not freaking out. I think the gap will increase. It just alarmed me a little. I still think it’s going to be massive though. Just a word of caution (May 28). Off to a hot start! At my theater in my town, there has been 8 tickets sold. That sounds low but it’s actually a lot, especially this far out and because Inside Out 2 hasn’t sold any tickets at my theater yet. Looking more broadly at 4 theaters I track other than my own, there is a mind- boggling 1,029 tickets sold! Already more than Inside Out 2 (May 20).)
- Charlie Jatinder (Comp: $28.9M THU. Moving along well (May 27). Nearly 300 sales day vs ~260 by Black Panther & ~200 of GOTG3. Another brilliant day. Given the length of sales window, comps be falling off but they have remained steady for first 4 days (May 24). Looking at keysersoze123's MTC1 data: These are incredible (May 22). $40.22M THU (MCU first day sales). Amazing day two at MiniTC2. Well ahead of BP2, GOTG3 and AM3. Not too far off from Thor 4. This is more impressive considering they all were ~25-35 days out while this is 65 days out. MTC2 has lower ATP generally due to smaller screens, less PLF, and more family friendly chain. Does much better PTA than MTC1 (May 21). MCU MTC 1 24 Hours: Doctor Strange: Multiverse of Madness ~ 210K (T-29), Thor 4 ~ 137K (T-24), DP&W ~ 120K+ (T-66), BP 2 ~ 110K (T-38), AM3 ~ 88K (T-30), and GoTG3 ~ 76K (T-30). At T-30 guess DP&W would have been around 160-170K type. Will mostly be above BP2 and below Thor 4. 3.6k so far. BP2 final was 4.6k. It’s done (crossed GOTG3 day one sales). Almost crossed GoTG3 day one sales at MiniTC2 (May 20).)
- Inceptionzq (Denver Comp: $25.69M THU. Drafthouse THU/FRI/SAT/SUN comp: $31.04M/$38.62M/$40.21M/$22.35M (May 21). Drafthouse THU/FRI/SAT/SUN comps with L&T 24 hours and MoM 11 hours: (1.03x0.968x) / (0.884x0.945x) / (0.912x1.01x) / (0.561x1.004x). Denver THU: In like for like theaters: (0.828x Thor L&T First 24 hours) and (0.628x Doctor Strange MoM first 11.5 hours) (May 20).)
- keysersoze123 (Previews was taken late yesterday and Friday data was just now. Still going quite strong. very impressive after huge OD (May 28). Still really strong 3 days later (May 25). 1st few days of PS is all about fanboys so T-x does not matter. By this FRI it will be in steady state mode. With this long a cycle that would be at very low levels. Looking at FRI sales, its IM will be closer to Thor 4 than BP2. So we can do the projections based on how the previews will go. However Its really early. Let us wait until we have T-x comps. Probably will have to wait until July to get credible comps. MTC2 early sales tend to be way weaker for all movies. The disparity for big movies is even higher. Nothing out of ordinary in day 2 pace for MTC1 (May 22). Obvious skew on previews (compared to FRI) as its 9+ weeks from release. Excellent growth even past 2:15 PM. Finished ahead of BP2 and ~20K below Thor 4 (116k for DxW and FINAL The Marvels previews at 133k). It has the longer cycle. This includes fan shows which sold 18K+ in initial check around noon PST. Fan event is just MTC1. I dont see anything for any other MTC so far or smaller chains. I think at this point we need to comp with 2022 MCU movies if OD presales are on par. Until we are within T-x cycle for this movie, we cannot comp after 1st 2-3 days. Fan shows are yuge. Adding FanShows and Previews should put it between BP2 and Thor 4 for now. Terrific OD. Over time, GotG3 should provide great comps. I can say for sure, its no where in the ballpark of DS2 which did 36m previews. Really good start. Should finish the day ahead of Ant 3 I think. Sales will taper off after fanboy rush. This does not include fan shows. No full data yet but show counts for previews (MTC1 - 7427 and MTC2 - 2914). MTC1 shows they are ready for big numbers. MTC2 is more conservative and numbers will go up close to release. If I have to guess based on really early indications, its OD between Guardians 3 and Ant 3 at MTC1. MTC2 I unfortunately cannot get data (May 20). Thor 4 is the most logical comp but that had meh WOM so IM was terrible. Previews were excellent though. Since its previews was 3 days after July 4, its final surge was stronger than even DS2. I dont think there is any difference between early and late July. All schools/colleges will still be off (May 19). Only number that matters is OD presales. after few days it will hit a trough and then it will plod along until social media reactions and reviews hit close to release. I think we can kind of predict its OW after its OD presales (May 18). RESPONSE TO PORTHOS: Captain Marvel had very strong sales on its OD despite early start. So OD is all about fans. It does not matter if you start 2 weeks before or 9 weeks. They will still book. So it would be interesting to compare OD sales not only with CM for @Porthos but also the big openers in 2022/23 period from MTC perspective. 1) DS2 - 230k ish. 2) Thor 4 - 136k ish. 3) Wakanda - 110k. 4) Ant 3 - 88K. 5) Guardians 3 - 70k ish. I wonder where Deadpool 3 will land. Anything is fine as long as it does pull in a Marvels (May 17).)
- Legion Again (Previews this early in summer are almost a THU opening, so Fri soemthing like +35-55% from Th is IM ~4.9-5.5. If we get some strong Fri sales when we’re close maybe I’ll drag it up to 5.6 or something but it will be really really tough to beat that. Expecting an IM close to Thor 4. Better reception (in avg case, just by regression to the mean) but bigger previews/more fanrush element, ~cancelling. T-65 Projection Matrix ($166M-$186M OW) (May 22).)
- Porthos (Comp: $20.87M THU. $6.72M earned so far in Sacramento (May 28). For long releases of MCU/SW Saga caliber, it usually takes about 6 to 8 days for the initial wave to stop. The Rise of Skywalker didn't really "bottom out" until D9 or so (T-51). Then at T-21, more or less, it started up its acceleration again. Can see similar patterns for MCU long runners (May 24). MCU/SW films tend to have a bit longer of a slope-down on the decent of the "u-curve" so I think I'll keep posting "Day x" comps for at least a couple more days (May 23). Pretty standard Day 2, really. Best sign, I think, is it nearly matching BP2 (that also had a long pre-sale window starting at T-38) (May 22). $22.09M THU Day 1 Comps (8.4% 3D and 58.5% PLF) (May 21). Pretty good, all things considered. BP2 and onward tell a pretty consistent picture. Do think the extra month of pre-sales is gonna mess with these comps at least a little (May 21). Since setup took 60-75 min longer, take the following with a slight grain of salt: 1:45 PM with 2,105 tickets sold. (NWH 2am: 6515), (NWH 2pm: 10685), (Batman 12:45 pm: 1693), (MoM 1:00 pm: 5030), (L&T 12:15pm: 2519), (BP2 2:15pm: 2197) and (GOTG3 12:40pm: 1317). Two theaters have not yet checked in. Seems to be broadly in line with other markets that have reported in (May 20). No comparison for a movie starting presales this early (60+ days before release). Only MCU entry which comes close is Captain Marvel (T-58) and only other Disney release is TROS (T-59). Longest pre-sale window for a major Disney release since The Last Jedi (~70 days). Longest major release since Fast X's 99 days. Probably the most on-point recent comparison will be Jurassic World 3's 43 days. Length of the pre-sale window will very likely depress D1/D2/D3 sales somewhat. It's a matter of smaller degrees when comparing something like a BP2 (starting at T-38), but that extra month is probably gonna slice some numbers off the top of the pile, especially after the first day (May 17).)
- TalismanRing (NYC Regal Local. 17 shows (3 3D, 3 RPX, 11 Reg 2): 102 tickets sold for first hour - almost half for the 7pm RPX showing. COMPS MON opening week: Marvels: 91 (11pm), Eternals: 266 (7pm), Black Widow: 239 (5pm), and Venom 2: 131 (6pm) (May 20).)
- TheFlatLannister ($150M locked imo. Don’t really see under $30M for previews and a 6x multi gets it to $180M OW. With GOTG 3 early reception I think $200M becomes a real discussion (May 22). $44.36M Dune 2 Day 2 comp. Pretty ridiculously strong day 2. Sold more tickets on T-65 than Dune 2 did in its final day of presales. $22.42M THU GOTG3 Comp. Considering this thing is 60+ days out, I'd say day 2 was amazing (May 21). Sold around 1k tickets in the last 8 hours. Keep in mind this is not T-X so once I switch to T-X 30+ days from now, comp will probably be well over $30M for GOTG. Thinking ~8k seats sold by T-30 for ~$37M comp with GOTG vol 3. DON'T TAKE THESE THU COMPS (Dune+APES+GxK) SERIOUSLY: $46.33M. Rollout is pretty insane. Has almost 200 more showings than Inside Out 2. Sold more tickets than Dune 2 did as of T-1 (Dune 2 finished with 13.6k on T-0). Also surpassed Godzilla tickets sold as of T-0. Half way finished collecting data on Deadpool for Florida and it's nearly tripled Dune 2 first 24 hours of sales and data is still flowing in. Passed GOTG3, ATSV, Dune 2 (First 24 hours) in about 3 hours. I think we can put the under $100M OW discussion to bed. To the shock of no one, this is blowing up. First 24 hours update should have average comps near $35M (May 20).)
- Tinalera (Toronto having an especially good run on pre sales- overall sales looking healthy (May 27). For a movie this far out, yea presales are doing well in Vancouver and Calgary. Its hard as very few movies open this early, but its healthy when we are getting between 5-10 percent sales for a movie not due out for 2 months (May 24).)
- TwoMisfits (Local Cinemark presale sets for DP3... 3 screens and 15 showings each - the PLF is giving 1 of 2 PLF screens and the non-PLF is doing some 3d showings. Not the set that a normal "big" Marvel movie gets, but it seems my 2 locals have taken a "put up or shut up" strategy for almost all blockbusters lately. This IS equal or more than most everything lately (although Bad Boys 4 is getting 3 screens and 14 showings at my PLF, so...). But, compared to 2019 Marvel, or even 2021 or EVEN 2023 Marvel...this is a low set (May 19).)
- vafrow (Comp: $45.2M THU. 12% over two days is pretty strong once the rush passes. We're not at the bottom of the curve yet it seems (May 24). 8% growth at this stage is very positive. I expect another drop tomorrow, but I'm probably not going to touch this until the weekend at this stage. I'm comping high, and without a proper MCU comparison (Marvels doesn't count), it's hard to gauge, but I feel this is just doing really well here (May 22). 20% growth on day 2 when it had a really strong first day is impressive. Ahead of T-1 for Dune Previews to officially be the highest selling film I've tracked since I switched to the 5 theatre radius (May 21). MTC4 has really jacked up plf prices in the last year or so, and D&W is skewed heavily towards PLFs in my track. I'm not sure how many trackers are doing price adjustments, but lack of good MCU comps in the last year could see a big price impact. Watching L&T comps in particular because being a rare adult skewing July MCU film seems to be the most ideal (May 21). Solid jump over the course of the day. Dolby sales jumped up the most, potentially as good IMAX screens got taken. Not sure what happened for the East coast this morning, but sales seemed to have rebounded. A little hit and miss in different markets, but that's what I'd assume for that region. There's some small communities. Not sure why it took so long for sales to hit when southern Ontario was hot off the mark. People may have assumed 9:00 am eastern time. Numbers pulled around 11:00 am, so two hours worth of data. Chain is pushing 3D for the ticket premium. Exception is IMAX showings, where I think they know people just want the 2D experience. 60% of sales being those four IMAX showings. 40 minutes into presales for my area. Almost triple Dune 2 on my first measurement for that, which was Day 2. Bit ahead of my first measurement for The Marvels, which was T-21, and I think about a week into sales. They're really leaning into 3D showings. I get the desire for theatres to get the extra premium, but I can't see a lot of people wanting to see this in 3D. Has been up for sale on the Canadian East coast, presumably from 9:00 local time. I did a sweep of all showtimes on MTC4, but there's been zero sales so far (May 20).)
- YM! (Sold ~10.6x Furiosa's T-6. One theater makes up a sizeable percentage of most mid-sized Marvel's T-2 in a span of hours. Such a strong start. Definitely feels like we got a potential 25m previews/150m+ opener. Still don't buy 200m OW but am starting to see 30m previews/175m+ OW as a strong possibility. On its first day has sold over 10x Furiosa T-6 here in SE Wisconsin. At North Shore, 70% of Shang-Chi’s and Venom 2’s T-2, 47% of Homecoming’s T-2, and 41.25% of Thor: Ragnarök’s T-2 - just using DP&W’s T-66! At half of Furiosa’s T-4 sales here in the past ten minutes in just two of the theaters PLF shows (May 20). 42 showings for previews across four SE Wisconsin theaters I track. ~20% more showings than IO2 and about the same amount of PLFs spread. Likely 3-4 screens a theater for THU previews, but has SuperScreen + 2 UltraScreen screens in Majestic Cinema. Seems to be a 3D push with North Shore having primetime showings in 3D UltraScreen (May 19).)
MAY
- (May 28) Presales Start [The Forge]
- (May 29) Presales Start [A Quiet Place: Day One]
- (May 30) THU Previews [Ezra + Haikyu!! + In a Violent Nature + Summer Camp + Robot Dreams + Young Woman and the Sea]
- (May 31) Presales Start [Daddio]
- (June 3) Opening Day [MON: Spider-Man No Way Home Re-Release]
- (June 5) Presales Start [Despicable Me 4]
- (June 6) Presales Start [Twisters]
- (June 6) THU Previews [Bad Boys: Ride or Die + Watchers]
- (June 8) 1-SAT Re-Release (1st day) [LotR: Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition]
- (June 9) 1-SUN Re-Release (1st day) [LotR: Two Towers Extended Edition]
- (June 10) 1-MON Re-Release (1st day) [LotR: Return of the King Extended Edition]
- (June 13) THU Previews [Inside Out 2]
- (June 15) 1-SAT Re-Release (2nd day) [LotR: Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition]
- (June 16) 1-SUN Re-Release (2nd day) [LotR: Two Towers Extended Edition]
- (June 17) 1-MON Re-Release (2nd day) [LotR: Return of the King Extended Edition]
- (June 20) THU Previews [Bikeriders + Janet Planet]
- (June 22) 1-SAT Re-Release (3rd day) [LotR: Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition]
- (June 23) 1-SUN Re-Release (3rd day) [LotR: Two Towers Extended Edition]
- (June 24) 1-MON Re-Release (3rd day) [LotR: Return of the King Extended Edition]
- (June 27) THU Previews [Blue Lock + Daddio + Horizon: Chapter 1 + A Quiet Place: Day One]
- (July 1) Presales Start [Fly Me to the Moon + Longlegs]
- (July 2) Opening Day [WED: Despicable Me 4]
- (July 4) Opening Day [THU: Possum Trot]
- (July 4) THU Previews [MaXXXine]
- (July 11) THU Previews [Fly Me to the Moon + Untitled New Line Horror movie]
- (July 17) EA [Twisters]
- (July 18) THU Previews [Twisters]
- (July 25) THU Previews [Deadpool and Wolverine (including 1 PLF fan show at 3 PM) + Didi + Fabulous Four]
- (July 29) Presales Start [Alien: Romulus + It Ends With Us]
- (August 1) THU Previews [Harold and the Purple Crayon]
- (August 5) Presales Start [Borderlands]
- (August 8) THU Previews [Borderlands + It Ends With Us + Cuckoo + The Fire Inside + Trap]
- (August 12) Presales Start [Alien: Romulus]
- (August 15) THU Previews [Alien: Romulus + Horizon: Chapter 2 + Ryan’s World the Movie: Titan Universe Adventure]
- (August 22) THU Previews [Blink Twice + The Crow + The Forge + Slingshot]
- (August 29) THU Previews [City of Dreams + Reagan + They Listen]
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May 25
Note: I have removed most tracking data that has not been updated for 2 weeks. I think there is value in keeping data for a week or two but at a certain point they start to lose their value and should not be treated the same as more recent tracking data.
2024.05.29 08:56 kitsu_mint Is ASUS Prime B550-Plus Compatible with 3600 MHz 128GB (4x32) DDR4 RAM?
Hi! I have an ASUS Prime B550-Plus motherboard with a Ryzen 7 3700x processor. I need 128GB of RAM for rendering and other tasks. After checking the compatibility lists, I found that Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 4x32GB (F4-3200C16Q-128GTZR) is suitable for me.
However, 3600 MHz memory is not listed in the compatibility sheets for my motherboard.
For example, I found Trident Z Royal DDR4 3600 MHz 4x32GB (F4-3600C18Q-128GTRG), but it is not listed as compatible on my motherboard's website. The same goes for KF436C18RB2K4/128.
Questions:
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However, 3600 MHz memory is not listed in the compatibility sheets for my motherboard.
For example, I found Trident Z Royal DDR4 3600 MHz 4x32GB (F4-3600C18Q-128GTRG), but it is not listed as compatible on my motherboard's website. The same goes for KF436C18RB2K4/128.
Questions:
- If I buy 3600 memory instead of 3200, will there be any issues? How incompatible is the 3600 memory kit with my motherboard? Does it work for anyone?
- Is 3600 significantly better for my purposes, and does it make sense to buy it? Or can I stick with 3200 and work without any problems?
2024.05.29 08:55 GhoulGriin Best 45 Acp Reloading Kit
 | submitted by GhoulGriin to u/GhoulGriin [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/kkoplo6hcb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d34db906940e29a02550bf0afe1410af95e735d Welcome to our comprehensive review of the top 45 ACP reloading kits available in the market today. Whether you're a seasoned shooter or just starting out, reloading your own ammunition can be a cost-effective and satisfying hobby. In this article, we'll take a closer look at some of the best reloading kits on the market to help you make an informed decision and find the perfect fit for your needs. So sit back, relax, and let's dive in! The Top 8 Best 45 Acp Reloading Kit
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While they're perfectly suited for Mark 7 presses, they also work seamlessly with regular progressive presses, turret presses, and even single station presses. The Lyman Pro Die Pack boasts dies made of stainless steel for its resilience and rust resistance. It's great to see durable and anti-corrosion materials in action. The Lyman Pro even goes the extra mile with highly polished carbide rings on the sizing dies, offering unparalleled wear resistance and reduced sizing force. The spring-loaded decapping rod system ensures the primer is ejected from the primer pocket with force, eliminating any potential misfire. In the Lyman Pro Die Pack, the M die neck expander stands out. It has a specially designed two-step expander plug, ensuring just the right amount of neck tension and flair for your case mouths. The pistol sets include flare dies, designed to let bullets sit securely on the case mouth before being seated. The Micrometer Seating die, a standout feature, impresses with a micrometer adjustable seating head. It guarantees precision bullet seating length and a floating bullet seating punch that centers your bullet with pinpoint accuracy. Lastly, each set comes with a taper crimp die, micrometer adjustable, which fully removes any case mouth flare and provides improved bullet retention. However, like any review, there are pros and cons to consider. While the Lyman Pro Die Pack delivers exceptional performance with its array of features, it may lack compatibility with certain cartridge types. Always ensure it matches your intended use. Overall, the Lyman Pro Die Pack is a reliable and robust choice for reloaders looking for top-tier performance. 🔗RCBS 90366 Trim Pro-2 Kit with Spring Loaded Shell Holder - 45 ACP Reloading Kithttps://preview.redd.it/zx1l66nicb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c637a441f3e519a4f03cdad27dee99cb31deb10 With the RCBS Trim Pro-2 Kit, you'll effortlessly transform your handloading process. Picture this: you're at the range, and instead of dealing with an old, frustrating case trimmer, you have this sleek, high-quality kit in your hands. The spring-loaded shell holder catches all the trimmed brass, making cleanup a breeze. I've been using this kit for a while now, and the ease of use is truly a game-changer. Gone are the days of fiddling with collars and screwing down collets, only to unscrew them again to hold and remove brass. It's a simple press, insert, and release system that has significantly sped up my case trimming. This trimmer is incredibly precise, delivering consistent lengths time and time again. And the best part? The universal shell holder fits virtually any case, making it a versatile addition to any gunsmithing workshop. Of course, like any product, it's not perfect. A few users have reported issues with incompatible pilots or difficulty setting up the shell holder. But overall, the pros outweigh the cons, making the RCBS Trim Pro-2 Kit a must-have for any serious handloader. 🔗Carbide 4 Die Set: Durable Sizer, Expander, Seater, and Crimp Die for 45 ACPhttps://preview.redd.it/1cn8nvvicb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=143197426102f1b6cd4c09f51ca3a3d15191dbe8 I recently decided to give Lee Precision Carbide 4 Die Set 45 ACP a try in my daily life. To start, I was impressed by the sturdy build and the smooth functioning of the dies compared to some other options available in the market. The unbreakable decapper and built-in stuck-case remover worked well, ensuring a seamless reloading experience. The free-floating bullet seater was easy to adjust and resulted in consistent bullet seating, which in turn helped improve accuracy. I also appreciated the finger-adjustable locking rings that kept the dies secure during the reloading process. However, there were a couple of cons as well. The storage case could have been a bit better designed to accommodate the included shell holder, powder dipper, and load data more securely. Additionally, the bullet seating and factory crimp dies felt slightly less user-friendly compared to the powder through expanding and carbide factory-crimp dies. Overall, the Lee Precision Carbide 4 Die Set 45 ACP has been a reliable addition to my reloading setup, providing consistent and accurate results. While there may be room for improvement in certain areas, its affordability and high-quality performance make it a valuable choice for anyone looking to reload their 45 ACP ammunition. 🔗Lee Precision Carbide 3 Die Set for 45 ACP – Heavy-Duty Reloading Kithttps://preview.redd.it/8namqj8jcb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=244a92cf8c5837aa9207f72c2496fea2e4c33112 The Lee Precision Carbide Three-Die Set I've been using for reloading my 45 ACP rounds has been quite the handy tool in my arsenal. Made in the USA, it features a steel shell holder and powder measure, all conveniently stored in an airtight low-profile box for safekeeping. One of the best aspects of the Lee Carbide Die Set is its universal shell holder and powder dipper, which make it effortless to work with various calibers and ammo types. The durable design of the dies ensures they are built to last and can withstand the wear and tear that comes with frequent use. The set includes an instruction manual and load data sheet, which I found incredibly helpful when first getting started with reloading. The instruction manual was easy to follow, and the load data sheet provided guidance on optimizing each step of the reloading process, making it easier to create consistent, high-quality rounds. Overall, I have been very satisfied with the Lee Precision Carbide Three-Die Set. It's a reliable and efficient option for anyone looking to reload their 45 ACP rounds. That being said, there are a few areas in which the product could be improved. The set occasionally requires some fine-tuning to ensure the rounds are seated correctly, which can be a bit frustrating. Additionally, while it's not a major issue, the shell holder sometimes tends to get a bit dirty after multiple uses, which necessitates cleaning before starting a new session. In conclusion, the Lee Carbide Three-Die Set is a robust and versatile solution for reloading 45 ACP rounds, but it does have its minor quirks that could be addressed for an even smoother experience. 🔗RCBS Carbide 3 Die Set for .38 Super Straight-Wall reloadinghttps://preview.redd.it/96ox2isjcb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27c86ec9e7aeeabe4d8b97a8f7b5c08ece7043e1 I recently had the chance to try out the RCBS Carbide 3 Die Set for. 38 Super, and I must say, it's been quite the experience. Not only did it size the case and de-prime without the need for any lubrication, thanks to the carbide sizer ring, but it also expanded the case to the appropriate diameter to accommodate the bullet. This expander die even gave the case mouth a nice flare for smoother bullet feeding. The seater die was equally impressive, as it not only seated the bullet but also provided a secure crimp to the brass. I particularly liked the option to use a decapping unit, which made it even easier for me to clean up the cartridges after each round. However, there was one slight drawback with the product - one of the reviewers mentioned that the expander die was missing the expander plug, making it useless. I also noticed that the set didn't come with a shell holder or a storage box. Despite these minor concerns, I've had a great experience with the RCBS Carbide 3 Die Set for. 38 Super. It's a solid, reliable product that has made my reloading process a breeze. And the fact that it's proudly made in the USA is a nice added bonus. 🔗45 ACP Reloading Press Conversion Kit for Mark 7 Apex 10/EVOLUTIONhttps://preview.redd.it/sji41g2kcb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a963ff6416f8d3000ee2793069328a3d00eb9e0 I recently started reloading my own ammo, and let me tell you, it's been quite the journey. But one product that made the whole process easier was the Mark 7 Apex conversion kit for 45 caliber. This kit is a game-changer, allowing me to switch up my caliber with ease. The kit comes with all the essential components needed for a smooth transition - a case feed ram, a new shell plate, and a case feed adapter. The quality of the parts is top-notch, and they fit together perfectly. It made the transition from one caliber to another seamless, and I couldn't be happier with my choice. Of course, not everything was perfect. The instruction manual could have been more detailed and clearer. But once I figured things out on my own, the conversion process became a breeze. All in all, the Mark 7 Apex conversion kit for 45 caliber is a worthwhile investment for any reloader looking to simplify their ammo switching process. 🔗Premium Rifle Die Set for 45-90 Classichttps://preview.redd.it/568vezfkcb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5672087e8de08f5270ff4c4f12b4246305a0f2db As a reviewer who has daily experiences with firearms, the Lyman 45-90 Classic 3 Die Rifle Set has proven to be a dependable companion. It's a versatile rifle set that provides a range of options for resizing, de-capping, and seating bullets, especially when working with old cartridges like the. 45-90. The state-of-the-art computer control equipment used in crafting these dies is evident, with each one perfectly dimensioned, vented, polished, heat-treated, and polished once again for extra smoothness. One of the most beneficial features of this set is the availability of different bullet seating stems for varying projectile profiles. This has been especially helpful in getting my 45-90 back into action without any issues. Despite being relatively new to this set, I can already say that it's worth its price. The reviews from other users also suggest that the Lyman 45-90 Classic 3 Die Rifle Set is a good value for the money and is an excellent option for the target audience. Buyer's GuideThe 45 ACP (Automatic Colt Pistol) round and its components are widely used, making it a popular choice for reloading enthusiasts. A 45 ACP reloading kit provides all the necessary tools and components to start reloading your own cartridges. This guide will help you understand the essential features and considerations when selecting a 45 ACP reloading kit.Features to Consider in a 45 ACP Reloading Kithttps://preview.redd.it/blcj2jzkcb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8725e4828ee9c42f5a70b331ff6b0e73af41cf37
Factors to Consider When Buying a 45 ACP Reloading Kit
Additional Advice for Using a 45 ACP Reloading KitIt is crucial to understand the principles of reloading, including proper handling and safety procedures. Consult reliable resources, join a reloading club, or attend workshops to enhance your knowledge and skills. Proper case preparation, storage, and cleaning are crucial to ensure the longevity of your reloading components.Choosing the right 45 ACP reloading kit involves considering essential features and factors. By investing in a high-quality, user-friendly, and durable kit, you can ensure a safe and efficient reloading experience. Always follow proper reloading procedures and safety guidelines to enjoy the benefits of handcrafted ammunition. https://preview.redd.it/iy2gi3elcb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=18588461109ef7a41d2b67567e2aa59f97798df6 FAQWhat is a 45 ACP Reloading Kit?A 45 ACP Reloading Kit is a collection of tools and materials needed to reload 45 Automatic (45 ACP) cartridges. It includes items such as a press, dies, powder measures, shell plates, and bullet molds.Why should I consider buying a 45 ACP Reloading Kit?https://preview.redd.it/umcesgmlcb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e3afa4186231b38d9d2b26e9b1eb5e6cf69c16e Purchasing a 45 ACP Reloading Kit can be beneficial for several reasons. Firstly, it can help you save money, as reloading your own ammunition is often cheaper than buying pre-made cartridges. Secondly, it allows you to personalize your ammunition by customizing the powder charge, bullet weight, and bullet type according to your preferences or specific shooting needs. What tools are typically included in a 45 ACP Reloading Kit?A typical 45 ACP Reloading Kit may include: a progressive press, hand primer, powder scale, powder measure, shell plates, bullet molds, priming tool, and a reloading manual.Can I use any 45 ACP reloading kit with my handgun?Yes, any 45 ACP reloading kit can be used with most handguns chambered in 45 ACP. However, it is essential to ensure that the ammo you reload meets the minimum or maximum specifications recommended by your handgun's manufacturer. https://preview.redd.it/4fwzx04mcb3d1.jpg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=107d927c13700d2f5b75b9c9fa65787f5d00c5f6 Are there any safety concerns when reloading 45 ACP rounds?Like any reloading activity, it is crucial to follow safety guidelines to prevent accidents. Always use safety gear, such as eye protection and hearing protection. Read the user manual for the reloading equipment thoroughly and be familiar with the principles of reloading. Perform a thorough inspection of the finished rounds before loading the handgun.What is the difference between progressive and single-stage reloading equipment?Progressive reloading presses automate several steps in the reloading process, making them more efficient and faster. Single-stage presses, on the other hand, perform only one operation at a time, often resulting in more consistent and precise reloads but at a slightly slower pace.Do I need any experience to reload 45 ACP cartridges?While it's beneficial to have experience with reloading, it's not mandatory. With appropriate research, instruction, and attention to detail, even beginners can learn to safely and effectively reload their own 45 ACP ammo.How long does it take to reload a batch of 45 ACP cartridges?The time required to reload a batch of 45 ACP cartridges varies depending on the equipment used, the experience of the reloader, and the specific requirements of the reloading project. Generally, a reloading session can take anywhere from an hour to several hours, depending on the volume of cartridges being produced.Are there any special considerations when reloading 45 ACP rounds?Yes, there are some special considerations when reloading 45 ACP rounds. The 45 ACP cartridge is known for its high pressure, which can lead to challenges during the reloading process, such as the need for stronger reloading dies and the potential for case neck thickness shrinkage. It's essential to pay attention to proper reloading techniques and equipment recommendations to achieve reliable and safe reloading results.Where can I find more information on reloading 45 ACP ammunition?You can find more information on reloading 45 ACP ammunition through various resources, such as online forums, reloading manuals, and educational websites dedicated to firearms and reloading. Engaging with experienced reloaders, attending seminars, and participating in workshops can also provide valuable insights into this hobby or skill.As an Amazon™ Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. |
2024.05.29 08:54 AlfredoFettucine8 I'm very fed up at one of the people in our party.
This isn't incredibly serious, but it's irked me enough to the point that I just need to get this off my chest. For context, this is a joke campaign that me and my buds have wanted to play for a while, and after much time, we settled on a place and play once or twice a week. We play at a library near us on Saturdays.
Our party was... a bit scuffed, to say the least. We had an Arcane Trickster Rogue (me), an Assassin Rogue, a Cleric (problem player), a Druid and a Halfing Barbarian that joined around session 4 or 5. The first few sessions were a hot mess, and a really god damn fun one at that. I trusted the DM with my character sheet, but for the first two sessions, he forgot to bring it, so the first sessions were pure roleplay, and it was fantastic.
The world was similar to Dune, except it was mostly dirt land. Of course, there were still giant sandworms. There were rocky outcrops which the dirtworms couldn't eat, so we'd have to take refuge there. The first 4 or so sessions were going really good, but then things started to go wrong when Cleric wanted to change his character.
This would be fine, but his character was incredibly important to the story. We had tamed an enormous dirtworm, and via feeding it anything we could find, it grew very large. So, we used it to carry the Clerics church. This church was basically our 'hub-world,' and he wanted to kill his character, basically making the church's existence kinda useless, other than having a place to stay when travelling on the big dirtworm.
He was deadset on changing his character, so we had his character sacrifice himself in the name of the god he worshipped. For the next 2 sessions, he couldn't play because he had no character sheet, but he still showed up at our sessions, so we just played without him while he gamed on his laptop. Finally, he got his character sheet, but in his first session as this new character, he said one or two lines and then just played more games on his laptop for the rest of the session. It's infuriating.
The worst part of his new character is that he decided to make it a third rogue, and a second strength based one at that (Assassin Rogue was strength based). This was really annoying, because his character wasn't stealthy at all. I guess it works as a joke but I still feel irritated about it. This is still far from the worst part, though.
Our last session is the straw that broke the camels back. We had already banned laptops at the table (excusing Barbarian, who used a DnD Beyond Character Sheet) but still, about five minutes into the session, he pulled out his laptop and starting doing something on it, I can't really recall. He did next to nothing last session too, instead opting to say no lines of dialogue but do one single action.
But the worst thing was the 'jokes' he made before the session started. They weren't good jokes, they were shitty, weird, racist-uncle style jokes that made everyone at the table uncomfortable and annoyed, especially because he was saying them really loud inside of a fucking library and we really don't wanna get kicked out (the main one that stuck out was 'Flags are for countries, not people with mental disabilities' before 'faking us out' by saying some shit like 'in racing, y'know? The black and white flag that people go crazy over?' I don't even know what he meant).
Then, halfway through the session, he just started showing everyone else at the table stupid videos. By that point, the first boss was introduced and he slowed down the pace of the game by a huge amount. Obviously, the last session was a mess and not any fun at all, so we are going to confront him the next time we can about his frankly appalling behaviour at the table.
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Our party was... a bit scuffed, to say the least. We had an Arcane Trickster Rogue (me), an Assassin Rogue, a Cleric (problem player), a Druid and a Halfing Barbarian that joined around session 4 or 5. The first few sessions were a hot mess, and a really god damn fun one at that. I trusted the DM with my character sheet, but for the first two sessions, he forgot to bring it, so the first sessions were pure roleplay, and it was fantastic.
The world was similar to Dune, except it was mostly dirt land. Of course, there were still giant sandworms. There were rocky outcrops which the dirtworms couldn't eat, so we'd have to take refuge there. The first 4 or so sessions were going really good, but then things started to go wrong when Cleric wanted to change his character.
This would be fine, but his character was incredibly important to the story. We had tamed an enormous dirtworm, and via feeding it anything we could find, it grew very large. So, we used it to carry the Clerics church. This church was basically our 'hub-world,' and he wanted to kill his character, basically making the church's existence kinda useless, other than having a place to stay when travelling on the big dirtworm.
He was deadset on changing his character, so we had his character sacrifice himself in the name of the god he worshipped. For the next 2 sessions, he couldn't play because he had no character sheet, but he still showed up at our sessions, so we just played without him while he gamed on his laptop. Finally, he got his character sheet, but in his first session as this new character, he said one or two lines and then just played more games on his laptop for the rest of the session. It's infuriating.
The worst part of his new character is that he decided to make it a third rogue, and a second strength based one at that (Assassin Rogue was strength based). This was really annoying, because his character wasn't stealthy at all. I guess it works as a joke but I still feel irritated about it. This is still far from the worst part, though.
Our last session is the straw that broke the camels back. We had already banned laptops at the table (excusing Barbarian, who used a DnD Beyond Character Sheet) but still, about five minutes into the session, he pulled out his laptop and starting doing something on it, I can't really recall. He did next to nothing last session too, instead opting to say no lines of dialogue but do one single action.
But the worst thing was the 'jokes' he made before the session started. They weren't good jokes, they were shitty, weird, racist-uncle style jokes that made everyone at the table uncomfortable and annoyed, especially because he was saying them really loud inside of a fucking library and we really don't wanna get kicked out (the main one that stuck out was 'Flags are for countries, not people with mental disabilities' before 'faking us out' by saying some shit like 'in racing, y'know? The black and white flag that people go crazy over?' I don't even know what he meant).
Then, halfway through the session, he just started showing everyone else at the table stupid videos. By that point, the first boss was introduced and he slowed down the pace of the game by a huge amount. Obviously, the last session was a mess and not any fun at all, so we are going to confront him the next time we can about his frankly appalling behaviour at the table.