I despise one way streets, they get my blood boiling istg.

One-way streets make traffic so bad in cities and cause a lot of accidents especially because they make the signs so unnoticeable, it’s honestly one of the most important traffic signs “don’t turn here cuz you’re gonna get into a head on and lose your life” and they make it so it blends in just like any other unimportant sign.

It is something completely out of the ordinary and catches almost everyone by surprise.

It makes drivers have to drive longer, cuz i guess we gotta go all the way around town just because we couldn’t turn on the street where our destination was, even if it is RIGHT THERE, and now our plans are delayed.

When those streets close for construction or for whatever other stupid reason, the traffic to get around that is INSANE!!!!!

It wastes more gas, causes unnecessary traffic, more accidents.

Also why tf can’t they just make it a regular 2 way???

AND when you’re trying to park, and you see the street parking spaces facing the opposite way on a street you don’t yet know it’s a stupid one way, you could only assume that it’s because the traffic for that lane is going opposite to yours because normally it would be a 2 way street! So you turn there, get pulled over and police treat you like you’re drunk when in actuality you were sober as a moth flicker and months later all of your charges are dropped because your blood sample came back with 0.00% for all substances, and went through all of that just because you turned the wrong way ON A STUPID ONE WAY BECAUSE THE SIGN WAS SO FUCKING SMALL AND IT WAS NIGHT… whatever man… that’s a different story.

TLDR: I have been observing these one ways for quite a while now, trying to find a logical way to explain their existence, and i just simply cannot find a reason that is better than just having a regular 2 way street.

1. Flat Character Development

Most characters arcs deal with an inner conflict that dramatically reveals an interesting, specific perspective a character has about their unique culture, world, etc. Arthur doesn't really have any such perspective: his arc revolves around him learning how to help others in a story chock full of him helping/being kind to his friends, strangers, people around camp, lovers, etc. Through character interactions, arthur tells us that he's gone through large ruminations on his life and history of crime, reflections on the relationships he's had, and searched his memory for proof and he's still unsure he's capable of loving or helping others. I find this EXTREMELY hard to believe given that the very first mission on the snowy mountain we see him and his gang rescue a widow from agressors and a burning house. His entire ragtag group of pilgrims that Dutch calls a gang are a group of seniors, women, and children that they have built a friendship with and/or rescued, and now steal money from wealthy citizens (for the most part) to defend them from other criminals to give them a better life. I understand that characters can care for people and be morally corrupt at the same time and I'm not saying he has to start out just as bad as Micah is. But the game likes to pretend at certain points that years of crime have degraded Arthur's sense of empathy and his relationships, when, for practically every story beat except for Thomas Downes, that simply isn't the case.

Its a shame since arthur himself teases a lot more complex and compelling ideas through his interactions with the gang: how his resistance to violence and development of a conscience made him an inferior cowboy (and his insecurity relating to that), his loyalty to Dutch and the turmoil of loving a morally complicated person, his fear of death and how he's used to running away from it and his problems, his addiction to the cowboy/criminal life, etc. All of these would be more interesting ideas to explore through redemption in my opinion and reveal something interesting about cowboy life in this specific era. In my opinion, the loyalty idea makes the most sense since loyalty is the main reason he does violent things for Dutch (besides wanting to HELP the people in the gang!). An arc in which a man who already has a stable conscience, is keenly aware of the violence he commits, and has an acute understanding of his moral failings... "attempt" to become a good person is less interesting to me compared to someone like Kratos (God of War) who actually has to work to discover, then understand his specific inner conflict before solving it (instead of just learning to be "good").

1. Tuberculosis

The development of arthur's diagnosis adds a very sad element to the story, but I find it very middling in terms of how it makes his character more compelling. Why isn't it a certain event, action or moment in the actual cowboy story that triggers Arthur to change? An act of violence he commits that goes too far, or someone he loves that he hurts because of his loyalty to Dutch. Instead its a disease he contracts? My understanding is that because the player is supposed to determine Arthur's morality in the moment to moment gameplay and beacuse he's the main character, the story can never show him doing anything actually strictly bad (besides righteously stealing from the gang's malicious enemies and killing hundreds of random, practically faceless lawmen/gang NPCs during routine story missions), in fear of undermining the player's choice. So it can't be a pivotal character moment based on Arthur's own decisions, but something independent from Arthur that signals when he/the player character is supposed to change. I think that makes sense with the morality system they use in game, but weakens the narrative and especially Arthur's character. It cheapens the redemption in my opinion if its not a violent act directly that flips that switch for him and makes him look at cowboy life in a different way, but rather a consequence from a violent act that inconveniences him. His disease makes his character very heartbreaking, but less compelling

1. Uncoolness

This is a very nitpicky point, but I'm very sad that Dutch's gang are canonically not good at being cowboys. I feel as though most great cowboy stories (that aren't comedies) revolve around cowboys that are...good at what they do. Not only are the Van Der Linde gang a little stupid, they routinely fail at robberies, stick-ups, and the like. They literally attempt for seven chapters to get "one big score" and they fail constantly, which means Arthur and other characters have a lot less cinematic, cool cowboy moments. Scenes like the threeway standoff in Guarma and the buildup to the final shootout in Rhodes were fantastic moments in the game that I genuinely enjoyed, but those moments are few and far between, especially for Arthur. He's a great shot, but his loyalty (complacency) with Dutch's plans means he just goes along with whatever anyone wants him to do and makes him a little boring imo. Its not even an interesting sort of thing where he sees Dutch as a moral/parental figure and agrees with whatever he says thereby gradually losing his empathy in the process; he constantly has the same argument with him about how he's "changed after Blackwater," so that the group dynamic largely stays the same for at least 4 chapters. The final fist fight between Micah and Arthur was a super cool moment, and I wish we got more scenes like that throughout the story. If only we spent less time rounding up sheep and planning robberies on faulty info, and more time on standoffs, meeting other gunslingers, seeing other native american tribes/cultures, etc. I know its supposed to be a story about how cowboy culture is coming to an end, but still. Can't they go out with a bang?

TLDR Arthur Morgan is not a bad character but an aggresively 7/10 character. 1a - The game wants to portray him as morally tainted but also still kind to and empathetic towards the people around him in the story from beginning to end, which does a large disservice to his character. 1b - The concept of an already caring man learn how to care better is less interesting to me than an arc based on loss of empathy, violence, fear of death, etc. 2- His disease being his turning point means he doesn't get to be moved/changed by an actual violent event in the story, instead of a consequence of a violent event. 3- He's kind of an uncool cowboy and his dynamic within the group largely stays the same for most of the story.

imo the devs took an incredibly broad and uncomplex person and fleshed him out incredibly well. There are definitely examples in gaming of morally compelling characters going through character arcs that are complex and interesting, but in my opinion Arthur Morgan is not one of them.

Man who go to marriage ceremonies but have cheated, abused, or raped their spouse should be sent into the general population with those beasts, or even worse. Those men who fucked married women, think about it: one of those guys in your crowd slept with a married woman who did the same procedure as your wife. This shit is disgusting.
It’s more common than people think. And they came with all that hypocrisy and flattery shit.

A better solution is to make DNA testing mandatory at birth. Every child should have their biological parentage confirmed from the beginning, so there is no uncertainty about who the biological father is. This would prevent men from unknowingly being held responsible for children who are not biologically theirs and would establish the truth from day one.
IF WOMEN REFUSE, SEND THEM TO COURT.

Some ego is healthy, and in studies we learn of the concept of ego resilience. It's sort of like the true self and truth within an identity and life. Philosophically speaking it is occasionally referred to facticity, which is an esoteric concept relating to one's subjective history, and this shouldn't be forgotten or discarded. this is the necessary and good ego.

The bad ego is the ego that gets the bad rap. It's the idea that someone is better than people just because they think they are or because they got lucky in one way or another so they are superior to everyone. This ego is out to bring other people down to boost itself. It believes that everyone else is inferior to oneself just because of whatever mental gymnastics reason.

I think that much of society today is operating on the unhealthier version of the ego, where the pursuit is greed and egocentrism, as opposed to the healthy ego, which is in pursuit of genuinely helping other people. The line is grey though, and it is always being toed. It's just that with Social Media/META attention seeking culture, the spirituality component of one's soul and ego gets lost and becomes egocentrism. One can't completely neglect their true selves in response to the hyperbolic ego pursuits of social media "influencers" and such to the point where they feel inferior to do antagonistic things to their well being, but one also cannot live to boost their ego in and of itself. If they do, it's a shallow, vain, and empty existence.

Food for thought.

Before owning a cat, I used to wake up at 3AM every day—bipolar reasons—then re-sleep at 5AM, and wake at 9AM.

Lo’ and behold the same routine appears when cat comes, because cat wakes up around 3AM for exploring-related zoomies, and falls asleep at 4-5AM after realizing food doesn’t come this early, and is quiet until 9AM. Despite so, I’ve been noticing that I sleep better. Like a full restorative sleep.

If you and your partner conceive you both now have several years to learn how to cook healthy meals that taste delicious. There’s so many cooking shows on YouTube that it’s really not hard at all. Forcing your child to eat shit food for their entire childhood is basically child abuse to me. If you’re too fucking stupid to be able to put a goddamn soup together you shouldn’t have fucking kids.

No, I know I’m about to get a lot of hate on this because I’ve said things like this before and I get downvoted into oblivion, but to start this off, I am not a vegan myself I eat meat. In fact me is probably my favorite type of food, but I still do think that vegans are probably at least partially correct that the world would be a better place if you stopped eating meat, respected animals more and treated them better now I do not like to eat things like veal or any sort of living squared like some people eat because I think that’s just a lot of unnecessary torture but I have no problem with eating normal steak or calamari. You can call me an asshole if you want. I probably am for this, but I don’t really care.

From being barefoot to wearing boots. From lightly brushing against a table to kicking one at full speed accidentally. Stubbing your toe just doesn't hurt that much. Whenever I stub my toe it hurts a little and goes a little numb, but I'm able to continue moving and talking without any interruption. I've seen people fall to the ground after stubbing their toes, which is crazy to me.

Note before the comments flood in: I think my pain tolerance is quite average and I'm not trying to act tough, I just don't think stubbing your toe is that big of a deal. Same with hitting your hip against a doorframe--sure it hurts but you can push through it?

Edit: despite the comments, it's actually pretty interesting the amount of people who agree with me since rule #1 of this sub

It's increasingly obvious that a bunch of sad men with too much power all around the world desperately want to prove to eachother they're the ones with the biggest dick, and the rest of civilization will crumble during their epic show and tell match.

The anticipation is driving me crazy. Tensions are high everywhere. Just get it over with, and if anyone's left alive at least we can get focused on what really matters. Building a new world where grinding 60-70 hours a week is more than barely surviving. At this point Idgaf if we all end up speaking Chinese within a couple generations, as they're likely the ones to mop everything up, if they even participate. They seem to be the only major player more interested in economic growth than flexing their scrotums.

https://www.reddit.com/r/awfuleverything/comments/px41a3/a_normal_day_at_reddit/

And then because of this I assume all these people who likes the "privacy" are piss drinkers, one thing is disliking invasive systems accessing your private pictures, another is disliking people seeing your public posts, just delete it.

And I don't need to base everything on another person experience, one time I saw a user claiming they were a Quantum Physics Major, looking at their profiles it was JUST Roblox Posts with a single Quantum Physics question, clearly a nerdy kid pretending to be someone else.

I don’t see the point of gifting stuff to people especially friends and siblings your just basically circulating 20 bucks too and from each other if not less because some of it gets taken away by tax. I don’t see why I have to buy my friend something for their birthday that they don’t want or need just to signal that I care about them same with siblings.

Edit: just to be clear guys I mean like for Christmas or birthdays if you see something on holiday and it reminds you of your friend or you think your friend may like it sure go ahead I just think doing it on a forced calendar date means your doing it more because you have too rather then because you like them and from logical perspective you may buy something for someone that’s worth 50 dollars but to them it only has a value of 30 then they’ll buy you something worth 50 dollars that to you has a value of 20 so you would both maximise utility by just spending time with each other on their special day or whatever and then spending the money on whatever you want drugs and hookers etc

I will preface this by saying that I’m not fully sure if this is a popular or unpopular opinion: I HATE when things are adjustable but have a smooth way of doing it instead of clicks.

The most obvious one is headphones. When you adjust the headband and it’s smooth, instead of a ratcheting way, it’s just worse. It’s the main gripe I have with my Sony Wh1000xm5’s.

I do want to add that this doesn’t only bother me on headphones, but knobs, a lamps swivel, everything.
I just like the feedback and on a lot of things I feel like the smooth one will eventually sag.

Edit: I’m kinda glad to get downvoted cuz for a second there I thought I was crazy for being the only one.

I've not heard of anyone else ever doing this. But yes, when I do a bad number 2, I will flush the toilet with my bum cheeks spread and close to the toilet water and then let the toilet do all the work. So far it has resulted in a very hygenic clean.. I have been doing this since I was around 10 years old. I don't see what the difference is between this and a bidet except for perhaps the bidet only targets the anus where as the flush cycle also cleans your outer cheeks.

I know it sounds weird! I think more people do it than they'd like to admit, I also wonder if some just haven't thought to do it yet. Please do let me know if you try it!

But yes I say unpopular because I mentioned this to my neighbour ( we are fairly close don't worry ) and she said it was very dirty of me? I never thought of it like that...

Anyways what do you think?

It's ridiculous that this is normalised. After everything that white people have done to us - slavery, colonisation, Jim Crow, systematic racism, someone wants to emulate that???

A lot of women say that it protects their hair but it really doesn't. Almost every black woman is pretty much better off using her real hair. For every hairstyle that involves extensions, there is a safer protective one that can be done without extensions. For example, wigs do not protect the hair as much as the cornrows underneath without the wig because wigs can ruin edges. The cornrows can be worn without the wig. "French curl box braids" can be replaced with natural hair mini-braids - Mini-braids don't pull on the strands as much as box braids.

If she has cancer or something she could literally wear a scarf - let alone an afro wig. We have a huge scarf culture so why not just take advantage of that?

Also a lot of women just say they like to switch it up... what does that even mean? Imagine a Jew suddenly dons a Hitler moustache and he says he wears it because he likes to switch things up.... It's a similar thing. And for a lot of women that switching up never involves their real hair or mimicking their own texture.

Black women are raised pretty much being told that their hair is ugly - especially those who are unambiguous. That they must hide their hair. By wearing a loose textured wig, they are agreeing with that notion. Imagine if someone calls you and your family ugly and worthless and you smile, nod and agree. That is literally what wearing a wig is in this instance.

Imagine you're a Nigerian woman hanging out with an Indian woman and both of you have Indian hair. Isn't that so embarrassing?

Imagine a black man wearing a straight wig. One with a hairstyle that men frequently wear. He would look stupid af because it's not his texture. That is how stupid black women look with loose hair. It has just been done so much that it looks normal now.

If an Indian were to be racist towards me and say black women's hair is so ugly that they have to cover their hair with the hair of Indian people - what can I say in response to that? Nothing. I have to sit in shame because a lot of black women actually do that.

By a black woman wearing a wig, she is not only insulting herself, she is insulting her family, and she is insulting me. She is saying that black hair is not good enough to be worn out - that she hates black hair so much she would rather cover it with the hair of a people who discriminate against her.

And funnily enough this isn't something that is easy to convince black women of. They will call me a hater, that I'm judging them, that I'm stuck up because they don't want to admit that maybe they have internalised anti-blackness. So I would rather just not be friends with women that I see participating in this behaviour.

The only valid reason to wear loose hair is to avoid discrimination in the work place. And I can't be bothered to sit and interview every potential friend about whether they do it for work or not.

Edit: Every comment disagrees with me so why not upvote my post. You guys are breaking the rules by not upvoting my post.

Wash your hands afterward, of course! Sometimes that stuff needs to get out of there, and blowing your nose doesn’t always get it all, y’know? Nothing else quite gets all the junk out that I’ve tried, q-tips can’t get the little flaky boogers that builds up and eventually clogs your nostrils. Also, people shouldn’t judge others for picking their nose in public, it’s no different than blowing your nose. With both cases you MUST wash your hands afterward, though.

I live in a booming city, and I've started noticing something... The new 4–6 story apartment buildings all look really good individually. Clean lines, lots of windows, nice materials, modern colors, little retail spaces on the bottom, etc.

But then you see another one, and another, and another. Eventually you realize that you're not looking at a collection of buildings anymore. You're looking at the same building repeated over and over again.

It's not just apartments either. New warehouses and commercial developments seem to have the same problem. And I don't think this is unique to my city.

Cleveland shouldn't look like Philly shouldn't look like Atlanta shouldn't look like Utah.

A little uniformity is fine. I understand why developers do it. There are economic incentives, proven designs, construction costs, zoning, etc. And clearly people like this aesthetic.

It gives you that clean, modern, vaguely urban feeling... a sort of “fake downtown” that gives you the feeling of being in a city while still being new, clean and safe.

But I wonder if we're going to look back on this in 30 or 40 years the way we look at certain 1950s and 60s architecture today. Not necessarily because the buildings were inherently ugly. Some of them were actually pretty nice.

It's the oversaturation that makes them look dated. Once an entire generation of buildings shares the same visual language, that visual language becomes a timestamp.

Imagine traveling somewhere in the future for an adventure and realizing that the new parts of the city look exactly like the new parts of the city you just left. We travel for adventure and to see something that we've never experienced before.

I don't think every building needs to be unique or covered in ornate decoration. I just think individual places should look like individual places.

Maybe I'm completely wrong, but I have a feeling that today's “modern” apartment aesthetic is going to scream 2020s/2030s to future generations in the same way certain older styles scream “1960s” to us now.

Young people in the future are going to want nothing to do with living in places like these.

First of all. I agree that cheating is bad. It involves guilt and hurts your partner. But is it so bad if your partner doesn’t find out? In the words of Anaïs Nin: “I bring home to Hugo a whole woman, freed of all "possessed" fevers, cured of the poison of restlessness and curiosity which used to threaten our marriage, cured through action. Our love lives, because I live. I sustain and feed it. I am loyal to it, in my own way, which cannot be his way.” In a way you love your partner more.

Ironically this video most certainly used up more resources to upload than a AI google search would have. However, this person talks about how it’s lazy and stupid.

When Wikipedia became a thing, people would say the exact same thing. That skimming through a Wikipedia page instead of scouring multiple encyclopaedias made you lazy. Did you know a lot of schools banned Wikipedia when it gained mainstream traction, because it was seen as corner cutting?

When portable electronic calculators arrived, purists argued they would rot people's ability to think mathematically. Spending ten minutes manually looking up numbers in logarithmic tables or using a slide rule was treated as inherently superior to getting the answer in three seconds.

So, wasting an extra 5 minutes looking through a Wikipedia page instead of reading the ai overview doesn’t make you some sort of intellectual who’s morally superior to the person who read the ai response. It just means you spent an extra 5 minutes of electrical power running your device, and are unknowingly becoming the new generation of boomer who will call a helpful advancement in technology “lazy” and “stupid.”

There are far better ways to express being anti ai than this useless performative stuff. There are real detrimental parts of ai that we should all be against. But you are not an activist who is “saving the world from ai” by refusing to use ai search summaries.

It is like claiming you are fighting fossil fuel corporations by refusing to turn on an electric kettle.

I genuinely do not understand what anyone enjoys about movies, they are probably the worst means by which to convey an idea. The duration of most movies (2h) means that the creators lack enough time to write a proper story and give it room to breath. That or they end up lacking substance and feeling vapid. On the other hand longer movies feel draining and boring, and I lose interest when ive already been sat down for 4 hours. The condensed format means they also leave the watcher no time to reflect on the movies happening, making them less thought provoking and interesting, along with a myriad of other negatives. I have watched many movies and there are some movies I have enjoyed, but that is in spite of them being movies and not because of it. What do so many people enjoy about movies?

I've liked listening to music like this. At home, I can't stand it if my family is making noise. I specifically like to take time out of my day to either stare a wall or close my eyes, sitting/lying in one place with just the sound of music in the room. I really like to just soak it in. Idk I feel I'm in a trance state, almost like I'm meditating.

My dad once surprised me to an ed sheeran concert. Granted, I actually am not a fan but my dad was damn excited so I just went along. The music was nice but I felt so oddly stimulated. I was standing was hours, people shouting/singing around me and although there was enough space among us, I felt so suffocated.

I wish there was a concept of quiet concerts too. Everyone seated and quiet. Only the sound of music throughout the room. You can really catch every single detail and like all the intricate and subtle sounds of instruments that get lost in the loudness. I don't know why people think it has to be boring. Music in itself can be very immersive.

Recently I saw a sort of concert video where it was a big stadium like hall with the musicians in the center with their instruments. Everyone was seated. Nobody was shouting or screaming or singing along. Now, the hall's interior itself felt like a work of art and especially with the lighting and all but still, I was in awe.

I know a lot of people will say, then just listen to it at home but the feeling of listening to it live is just surreal. Especially the instruments. I just wish that these kind of concerts also existed.

I often see the sentiment that people are fine with tipping a waiter because they’re bringing the food to them. But they are not fine tipping baristas because they’re not really doing anything. Tbh I find this completely misses the truth of it. Most coffee shops I’ve worked at operate on a tip Poole. So when you tip, you’re tipping everyone in the store. That includes the people busting their buns to make the drinks.

I’ve worked as a line cook, I’ve been a barista, and I’ve waited In my opinion being a barista and a linecook were far more demanding that waiting tables. I don’t think people understand the pay either, both as a barista and a linecook I was making around 10 an hour, and half my check was usually tip money.

Like I said tip culture has gotten out of hand, and I wish business’ could just pay a living hourly wage to their employees. But that would most likely cause the food prices to increase as long as the cost of living and the cost of running a business stay as high as they are at the moment.

I guess my gripe is a lot of people are placing the blame on the workers/ businesses when in reality it is a reflection on the insane monetary demands they both face to stay afloat. It’s a huge reflection on how out of hand property values have gotten, and how unaffordable food has gotten as well.

It's ridiculous. The expense and waste is tremendous: 22 million people celebrating. Everyday. 23 million 'birthday' cakes, candles. Hats. Streamers. Noisemakers. Bags. Balloons. Plastic. Tossed out the next day. The planet cannot handle such waste anymore.

Also it's normalisation of participation trophy culture. One doesn't really have to do anything to get one. Just exist. People start expecting that sort of treatment. Birthday week. Birthday month. Gift everyday of your birthday month, darling, because you must feel like a prince /ss. And ofc drop the big one on the day itself. Better be the latest iphone or... Imma out of here. Whatever happened to earning one's celebrations...? People who are indulged for nothing regularly grow up to be ... Assholes.

Kids who can't afford decent birthday clothes, or treats for the whole class, or a party later with thank-you gift packs... they're treated like lower-class people. And parents are always trying to outdo the last party their kid was invited to. Kids look for an excuse to be cruel. I've been to a party where I was the only one who turned up. Because my pal lived in an unfashionable address. Felt fucked... his (lovely) mom had cooked for 20.

And and and... the person who really needs to be feted, and celebrated and loved extra and given some good gifts – the mother... Well, guess what... She has to slave extra to cook dinner for huge fam and friends' numbers, clean before and after, serving food and drinks, herding other people, ordering/ planning things, decorating the place... Ofc husband will insist on sx coz drunk. This after sacrificing her health (the chances of even healthy young mothers being offed during childbirth are high, something to do with their body rejecting the foetus and the foetus fighting back) and mental peace (oh a LOT of that) bringing up ungrateful little fks for EIGHTEEN YEARS!

Calling it unfair isn't even beginning to describe it. I abhor any institution that makes women work even more. For some minimal appreciation.

I stopped doing birthdays about 15 years ago. Told everyone not to bother calling etc. Made a status line on WA.

Guess what... People were OFFENDED! 'It's nice to know someone's thinking of you at least once a year' lols that's the only time we talk! Inane conversation about 'plans for the night' and gifts. You can think of me anytime you like without some damn controlling tradition forcing me to grin and be nice to people who are quite assholish.

I can think of you and talk to you if you matter. I stroll through stores while I'm on vacation in the marketplaces. IF I see something I think someone will like... I'll pick it up and gift it. On any damn day of the year. Doesn't that make for better quality of love and friendship...? You have to be present in my mind by caring for me, and keeping in touch and knowing me well. And vice versa. Which also automatically means your significant friend list gets whittled down automatically.

Oh and religions LOVE IT! One has to get going for some mass or temple visit or whatever. And ofc give the institution some money. Ffs. As an antitheist I detest whatever religions love.

Ironically, I'm not some introvert who loves being alone. I'm an actor, performer, and love killin it at the karaoke hotspots. And I like being alone. I have 2 fkin super cats, one very loud doggo and I give the outside dog pack (only ladies, 5 of them, sterilised, beautiful natured, only within an isolated part of the building complex). No-one is bothered.

I just strive to make this planet better. And if it means not turning up for birthdays, so be it.

Oh and the same thing for religious festivals lols. They fkin suck.

Maybe make your birthdays all about your mothers. Maybe surprise her with a proper breakfast in bed. Maybe get her a gift she'll appreciate, not some house dress or salad bowl set. Maybe book a spa sess. Fk mother's day, that's a con. Do great things for your mom on your birthday.

Cheers.

There are circumstances when hot showers feel good and circumstances where cold showers feel good.

I’m not saying that in all circumstances cold showers feel good. But in the cases where a cold shower is what you want (e.g. after an intense cardio workout on a hot day) it feels way better than the equivalent circumstance of taking a hot shower on a cold day.

By tennis style I mean the camera should be facing the net and the players backs. A lot of volleyball is filmed from the side even when filming/watching from the back is better. Every other net sport is broadcast from the back like tennis, badminton, table tennis, and beach volleyball even. It's more immersive, closer to player perspective and also much more zoomed in.

I think the only reason it's filmed the way it is is because it uses the camera system for basketball courts. But this system loses horizontal depth and is generally filmed much further away. I still think it's good for some shots but tennis style should be the main angle for indoor volleyball.

edit: Just to clarify the angle should be high enough to see both sides clearly, not just the players backs. example