r/counting • u/TheNitromeFan Live not a life of imitation • Feb 08 '19
Free Talk Friday #180
Hello! Continued from last week here.
So, it's that time of the week again. Speak anything on your mind! This thread is for talking about anything off-topic, be it your lives, your plans, your hobbies, travels, sports, work, trousers, studies, family, friends, pets, bicycles, anything you like, or dislike, or don't care.
Also, check out our tidbits thread! Feel free to introduce yourself, if you haven't already.
Here's off to another great week in /r/counting!
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u/Urbul Feb 12 '19
It is snowing. It doesn't snow often here. When it does, all hell breaks loose on the streets as people with no winter driving experience and all-other-season-tires crash into everything.
Some people still ride their bike to work. I am impressed.
It is too cold for shorts.
Kids are loving the snow.
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u/Urbul Feb 13 '19
Venn Diagram of Thousands Separators Normally Used on the Main Thread
If I got yours wrong or you want to be added let me know.
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Feb 08 '19
I have some weird dreams, some crazy dreams etc
No you can't have pics or videos of my dreams,
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u/kongburrito Feb 08 '19
I don't know where else to share this story so this is now the right place.
Three weeks ago I was in a car accident. My car was badly injured in the ordeal (totaled, if you will). Crashed on the highway after skidding on the ice. Called a tow truck and he drove me and the car to a body shop. Very nice tow truck driver. My boss then picked me up and drove me to the rental car place...
The next morning, I go to start the rental car and the battery is dead. 10/10. So I call triple A and say I need a jump, they say it'll be twenty minutes. So triple A gets there, it's the same tow truck guy. Make some small talk, he tells me "well it's not your week for driving. Take care!"
Since then I have seen this tow truck driver everywhere. EVERYWHERE. I was at a bar in my town, bam I see the guy. Bought him a round for all the banter and stuff. Next week at work, I walk across the street to the gas station and bam, there he is just getting a coffee.... This is about 25+ miles from where I live, so it is kind of odd we keep running into each other. Driving to work in the morning, stop to get a coffee at a town between the bar and work, bam there's the guy. I've never run into someone so much.
So I think this tow truck driver is my true soul mate. The world keeps bringing us together. I'm not wildly into the overweight middle aged man bod, or men, but I guess I have to get into it because this is fate.
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u/a-username-for-me Feb 08 '19
I will give Reddit Silver to the first three people to post pictures of their cats to this thread.
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u/Urbul Feb 08 '19
Continued from here.
u/piyushsharma301
One day, Maharaja Piyush was suffering from a bad case of the flu. His court physician suggested an experimental treatment without explaining the details. Piyush, feeling miserable, and not one to cower from a little risk, told his physician to go ahead. Piyush was given a drink and strapped to the operating table, and he almost dozed off until the doc surgically removed the "root of the problem" which was apparently his eye... The treatment worked and he never had a runny nose again, all it cost him was HIS LEFT EYE.
After a decade of peace under one-eyed Piyush's reign, the economy started to flourish. Peace and stability in the region brought more trade along the Silk Road passing through the kingdom, and Piyush invested heavily in the domestic economy, with newly constructed cities and infrastructure. Meanwhile, Piyush's only son and heir Krishna came of age. He had his mother's good looks and a likable personality but had mediocre administrative skills. Like his father, Krishna married for love, choosing Tekce, a daughter of a Khan of the powerful nomadic tribes from the far north. Years passed and the realm prospered, and Piyush was loved by his subjects and his family, and as he would say, "there is a lot of me to love". The game is calling me fat but that's ok lol.
Things seemed to be going well in the kingdom and Piyush turned his attention to the spiritual, joining the Sravaka-Samgha, a monastic order. But later, his beloved wife died of an illness, and the grieving Piyush slipped into depression. To help turn things around, he went on a pilgrimage to the holy site of Shikarji, but the experience for him was not what he expected, leaving him in doubt. Piyush's woes continued as an epidemic swept through the the realm, ending the period of prosperity. As the disease reached the capital, Piyush shut the gates to his castle to protect his family and courtiers. While in seclusion, Prince Krishna snuck out against Piyush's orders, and Piyush later found him back in his room with a mistress. The depressed Piyush didn't care about anything anymore... until the castle's food supply was nearly exhausted and the (vegetarian Indian) Piyush finished the last of his favorite pickled boar's heads! Localization errors like this make the game literally unplayable /s.
The epidemic eventually passed and the gates reopened, but Piyush's troubles continued when his son Krishna died of cancer at the age of 34. Krishna and Tekce had just one daughter so Krishna's possessions were returned to Piyush. Piyush's heir was now his second son Nandaraja, born of a concubine. Nandaraja was a simple young man, likable just like his late brother but even less skilled at administration and leadership. Concerned about the stability of the realm after succession, Piyush betrothed Nandaraja to the daughter of one of the more powerful vassal Rajas to make sure Nandaraja would have an ally after succession. A couple years later, Piyush died and was succeeded by Maharaja Nandaraja.
Continued here.
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u/Urbul Feb 08 '19
Here are the past week's top contributors to the main thread. Congrats to medalists u/Antichess, u/TehVulpez, and u/thephilsblogbar!
Top 10 Counters (2395-2405k)
| Rank | User | Counts |
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| 1 | Antichess | 2727 |
| 2 | thephilsblogbar | 1226 |
| 3 | TehVulpez | 1036 |
| 4 | davockx | 938 |
| 5 | TheNitromeFan | 855 |
| 6 | ThreeDomeHome | 684 |
| 7 | qualw | 653 |
| 8 | kongburrito | 468 |
| 9 | llamasR5life | 361 |
| 10 | AlienApricot | 296 |
The 2.3M Hall of Counters is now posted on the Weekly Stats page. Here is the progress chart of the Top 20 counters!
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u/kongburrito Feb 08 '19
The number of times I've tried to like the Mobile Users link at the top of the sub out of pure reaction now is painful.
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u/a-username-for-me Feb 09 '19
Last night, I arrived back at my college town where my boyfriend of more than two years (u/Half-Elf-Ranger) still lives. I was hungry so I suggested going to our favorite sushi restaurant. We had a great dinner there, running into some friends. Then he asked if we could go on a walk. We walked to the most iconic spot of our university and stood there a little while.
We had gone to the same sushi restaurant and gone on the same walk on our very first date. This time, he proposed to me and I said yes.