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Been playing a bunch of Gloomhaven over the last 4-6 months. I have the digital version of it though, I think the physical version would be a minor nightmare to play with all the stuff to keep track of. Great game regardless.

I'm a licensed land surveyor and I've worked for a couple different companies that have used drones to do photogrammetry and lidar mapping, and a current business partner of mine has a drone with a lidar sensor that he uses on his larger topographic mapping projects. I don't have the license at this time but I wouldn't mind getting one eventually; it's just really, really, really low on my list of priorities.

I've had fast internet for quite a while now, and I fondly remember my roommates and I chipping in to get DSL in the late 90s when that first became a thing. This is century link's gigibit/fiber/whatever. I stumbled across this article last night-- 1 million gigabit internet speed, and apparently it uses the same fiber lines we're using now. I had to laugh when it said 10 million TV shows at 8K resolution with zero lag... Japan sets new record, brings world closer to internet 100,000 times faster than current speeds The world is about to get a whole lot faster — 100,000 times faster to be exact, thanks to researchers in Japan who have set a new record for data...

I'll have it on 99% of the time for movies I haven't seen before. Can't stand mumbling dialogue, ugh.

Went to the range today and ended up positioning my phone in one of the pouches where I could get a shot of myself on camera. It was indeed pretty interesting to watch. I was bending my knees slightly before but on the video I still looked stiff as a board. So I bent my knees much more like I had seen various instructional videos demonstrate. It felt really, really weird at first and I thought for sure I'd chunk the ball non-stop but that never actually happened and I was hitting some nice slightly curving iron shots like the TV cameras trace during PGA events. Anyway, there's more work to do with this new stance so I'll continue tinkering with that. I'll try posting a video here when I hit the next wall that I can't figure out.

Video would be nice I'm sure but all I have is a smartphone and no person or tripod to hold it. I'm sure I'll tinker with it eventually. I think the decceleration thing is probably spot on. I've gotten better at not steering the club and my distances for each club jumped about 10 yards.

I really think the grip and stance thing can't be mentioned enough. Every training video seems to start out with that stuff but I think a lot of people tend to gloss over it a little bit; I know I probably did at first. I've got these things to a point now where I can swing hard as hell and the thought of a brutal hook or slice never even enters my mind. That doesn't mean I'm hitting fairways and greens like a champ (not even close actually), but when you swing hard you hit the ball further and obviously the room for error shrinks. What I've found is that even with minor misses my overall efficiency shot up just from closing the gap to the hole quicker. So long story short I think I'd re-visit the grip and stance thing if you haven't and try to get into a position where you can take a full cuts throughout the round without being distracted by where the ball might go.

Looking for a tip or two on hitting irons better. Basically what I've noticed is.. until recently I had been using my hands to help steer the clubhead into the ball on the downswing. This seemed to be working, more or less, and I was generally able to brush the grass and make OK contact with the ball. However, I ended up going to the range the other day to test some things and on a whim I re-visited something I saw in a youtube video years ago. I remember in the video the guy said something along the lines of-- "at the top of your backswing, when the club is hinged... just pull the butt-end of the handle towards the ground". I did this without trying to help steer the clubhead at all and the club REALLY whipped through the ball. It would create a divot (like all the training videos say) and almost every contact this way had the awesome compressed/smash sensation with the ball, and of course the ball flew a bit further than it did the previous way. So all of this made me think my previous technique is very off. The immediate downside I've noticed is that accuracy went into the toilet, misses both left and right. Again, this is without trying to steer the clubhead at all. So this brings me to my question: I think I'm on the right track with not trying to steer the clubhead so much, but I wouldn't mind some confirmation on that. And secondly, is a certain amount of steering with the hands required, or should I be able to just adopt the proper grip and stance and execute the swing in such a way that I don't have to help steer the club at all and still hit shots precisely where I'm aiming?

I don't disagree with the OP that people are... mistaken about how far they hit the ball. I fail to see what handicap has to do with distance though. I've seen all sizes of people spray the ball all over the place every distance possible so I don't think handicap has much to do with it.

Was playing with a buddy once and we were hitting our second shots on a par 4. Some jackwads teed off thinking we were far enough ahead and hit my buddy on the ribcage right around where his elbow would be with arms at rest. He was a stocky guy so he knelt down for a bit and then got up and walked it off. I got hit in the thigh by a bouncing shank from an an old lady a few years ago. No warning and no apology in both cases. I've never hit someone but like I mentioned in another thread I hit a goose during 2 different rounds the same year the old woman hit me.

Compared to a nice long career? Plus, when he had the chance to stand behind his word he took the money and ran. I don't know what the price of a reputation is but it's clearly less than whatever the NFL paid him.

Of course it'll be a jon snow + danerys partnership, duh! 👍

They didn't collude to keep him out of the league, unless you consider refusing to hire someone who is extremely bad for business collusion. The guy is a tool bag of the highest order and got what was coming to him imo.

I watched this recently as well. I thought it was a great movie but I'm a fan of Mads Mikkelson anyway and I'll watch just about any action movie I stumble across. Ultra-violent though for sure so this definitely might not be for everyone.

Exactly, which is why I couldn't understand how this case wouldn't be a walk in the park for the NFL. There must have been something in the CBA/NFLPA that gave him just enough footing where the NFL couldn't tell him to pound sand.

Haha, this guy is exactly the douchebag so many people thought he was.

1981 silver 2-door Dodge Champ hatchback. Grandparent's car but he never drove it so it was a loaner for my last couple years of highschool. Chick repellent car.

Well, I'm obviously doing something wrong... Edit: Or maybe not, I guess it's hard for me to tell where a 4 iron peaks since it's a ways out there, or at least further than a wedge.

I almost impulse bought one shortly after I started playing but then I learned about the markers and flag colors and got around fine on those things. I wouldn't mind having one now for courses that are poorly marked and for checking yardages after I hit my shot but the cost is just too high for fluff things like that imo.

I'm not saying you're bragging, or lying, or anything like that. I simply think there are very few good ways of measuring yardages out there. I think a lot of people resort to eyeballing it or referring to simulators or don't fully account for weather or terrain or some other thing and all of that stuff adds up. Like I said though if you hit it that far then I would simply work on aiming.

I'm pretty skeptical of your distances. I mean... I remember a 210 yard hole Spieth hit a 5 iron on and it came up just short and you hit a shorter club 210-225? OoooooooooK. Maybe you're just a beast I guess? The thing that jumped out at me was the store simulator. I don't trust those things at all. When I got my clubs fitted I knew nothing about the game and the machine was telling me I was driving the ball 275 yards. There was simply no way. Anyway, I think hitting the ball high is almost never a problem. If it was costing you yards, which according to these herculean stats probably isn't the case, then I would maybe change some things but to me it looks like you just need to learn to aim better.

Sure, but what will that actually accomplish? Say I know the secret and the conspirators threaten the well-being of my family members. If I tell the world the secret I can say "Oh and they'll kill my family now" which will only make my story look more true if they do. And what would be the point of killing people at that point anyway since it won't put the cat back in the bag? It seems to me if the conspirators didn't trust me they'd be better off simply killing me as soon as they decided a threat was necessary. I didn't realize it until now but it's actually kind of amusing to talk about conspiracies this way because oddly the logistics of pulling off such a thing as a worldwide, 1500 year old secret society (for example) pales in comparison to the unpredictability of human nature. And lastly did you ever wonder about the Bond movies where the maniac billionaire builds a secret military base in the desert or on the bottom of the ocean and fills it with nameless henchmen? Does the janitor in that place really have an undying loyalty to Bond's nemesis? How much could they possibly be paying that guy? What's his motivation if not money? Does he share the same thirst for world domination as his boss? lol... The things people overlook for the sake of a story.

Actually though now that I think about it technically they are right. Ha.. I'm trying to think back to physics stuff and if I remember right even something that is rotating at a constant angular rate is accelerating because the vector is constantly changing. So according to the scientific definition we are indeed accelerating yet we don't feel it. It might be kinda fun to be part of this flat earth movement and troll scientists with their own ideas.

I don't remember a tree being in the way but you also can't quite get at the window because they've got a small piece of that corner walled off with glass panels to re-create the scene. You can stand several feet to the right of the spot and see down the street though. It's a fantastic spot to snipe from because the street goes dead straight away from the window and there would be no left or right movement to keep the crosshairs on someone in a car. But yeah I'm not sure what has changed in the area over the years so maybe it was more challenging back in the day. I agree completely. People can't even keep a secret between a handful of friends and I'm expected to believe a thousand or ten thousand or hundred thousand people are colluding on something and over the course of decades or centuries without a peep? Yeah right. What about the people who are about to die of old age or from disease? What do they have to lose by spilling the beans? I find it extremely hard to believe someone somewhere wouldn't send a package to a media company on the way out... Now that is funny. I would like to see them explain what moving feels like because last I knew the only thing humans can feel is acceleration.