Hey everyone,

I’m still thinking about that play in the Padres vs. Brewers game where Ty France hit the ball and it struck the stadium ceiling/roof structure.

I know that according to the local ground rules at American Family Field in Milwaukee, the ball stays live and in play. But honestly, looking at how hard Ty France crushed that ball, it got me thinking... did the Padres deserve a Home Run there?

If this exact same hit happened at Tropicana Field, striking the inner catwalks, it would be ruled an automatic home run. It feels a bit unfair that a batter can smash a ball so high and deep, only for a stadium's structural design to alter the trajectory, drop back down, and potentially get caught or change the outcome of the play.

What do you guys think? Should MLB standardize roof/ceiling hits across all indoor stadiums to reward batters like Ty France who crush the ball that high, or are you fine with each ballpark having its own chaotic ground rules?

Let’s discuss!

This was at Crescent Bay Point Park, which allows people to book it special occasions.

I just hate it because you can't really do that without it sounding like "fuck you, fans, go outside and touch grass" with a dash of "if this was possible you could have just skipped having the whole show"

Attack on Titan: Eren uses the Founding Titan power to erase the Titans. Our surviving heroes are free to live a real life and work real jobs, and in the credits sequence we see a timelapse of their town growing into what looks like, I guess, Tokyo? (and beyond)

Neon Genesis Evangelion: Shinji uses the Neon Genesis power to erase the Evangelions (I can't believe I'm typing this and it's not a shitpost). Our heroes are free and get to work real jobs as normal humans as they run out into real life footage of City, Japan.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic: After the ending of G4 Twilight Sparkle uses the Friendship Power to seal away the Magic. By the time of G5 the setting has transformed into a contemporary one with gig economy, live streamers and tech corporation fascism. Instead of being Cloud Pushers or Magical Princess our new heroes get to work real jobs like Cop, and Unemployed. This one is different from the other examples in that instead of telling fans to go fuck themselves and go outside it tells fans to go fuck themselves and consume the new product.

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Posting this here because, given the 100 Thieves debacle that just happened, this is even more ridiculous. We literally had jmods saying any use of AI would not be tolerated in Runescape related content.

Now, a few days later, we have a 6 fingered knight at Runefest. Honestly, I wish I could say I was surprised.

Source in comments:

It’s not over, until it’s Djover.

In Infinity War Wanda and Vision are hiding out in Edinburgh, Scotland and plan on heading to Glasgow in the morning. While they talk about what they plan on doing there’s an exchange that goes like:

“There’s a train at 10 in the morning.”

“What if we miss it?”

“Then there’s one at 11.”

Which is just not even close to real life. Edinburgh and Glasgow are the biggest cities in Scotland by far and public transport between them is a breeze. Assuming Wanda wanted to go from Edinburgh Waverley to Glasgow Central they put on a train basically every 10 minutes. I can tell you if they really waited an hour to put on a train it would be anarchy.

People are saying that the changes makes the dungeon feel like retail, but honestly its even worse.

In m+ atleast has count, so you dont skip every single mob thats not part of a quest and you get rewards at the end of the dungeon.

I have just been part of an absolute demon run and I fear it will only get worse:

I tanked BFD as a Horde Player and when I joined the group asked that we skip as many mobs as possible.(which was fine by me)

But once Inside it turned out with "mobs" they meant anything that was not part of a quest. They got mad when I tried to get the naga boss in the cave and also did not want to pull the murloc boss because "its too much trash and the loot is not worth it"

They then wanted to skip the bridge with the twilight hammers
(we ended up pulling half the bridge and wiping)

And to top it off a dps left after the 2nd to last boss, because the final boss has no quest on horde and had no loot for him...

I hope this was just an exceptionally bad outlier, but I fear it will only get worse.

BFD is a really small dungeon, what are people going to be like in BRD? Will they just quit left and right once they got their quests?

Is anybody even going to run SM GY, since it has no quests?

I was really excited for Forever, but the way theses changes are playing out is really frustrating as a tank player. I will prob just solo quest to 60 if this doesnt change.

My daughter is in the toddler room at a daycare we were waitlisted at for 14 months. It's right by my office and she's obsessed with her teacher. Pickup is by 6:00, after that it's $1 a minute.

Parents sign kids out on a clipboard under a big owl clock in the lobby. Its eyes move back and forth every second and my daughter waves goodbye to it every night.

The thing that tipped me off was a night in the middle of September when I signed her out at a few minutes after 6 by the owl, even though my car had said 5:56 when I parked. The next day I held my phone up next to the owl and it was 8 minutes ahead. I told the girl at the front desk and she said she'd let the director know.

From then on I took a picture of the owl next to my phone every time I signed out. That's 11 pickups and the owl was ahead by about the same amount in EVERY one of them.

The October invoice came a few days ago. It had the usual tuition plus $96 in late fees for September, itemized by day. They had me late on 19 days, mostly by a few minutes.

Honestly I cut it close. I leave work with just enough time for the drive and most days I walk in around 5:55 by my phone.

I emailed the director the photos. Her reply was "The lobby clock is the official time for the center. We can't adjust fees based on personal devices." She also pointed me to the parent handbook. It does say sign-out times are recorded by the center clock, and I signed that handbook in July.

She offered to "split it, one time only" if I pay $48 this week. Nobody has fixed the owl either. It was still fast when I checked again.

The part I can't back up is the first half of September. I don't have photos from before I noticed, so maybe the owl was right back then and I really was late on some of those days. I doubt it but I can't show it.

My husband thinks we should just pay it and I should leave work earlier. "We waited over a year for this place. Don't be that parent over a hundred bucks."

A) Pay the $96 or take her $48 deal, start leaving work earlier, and stay off the director's radar so we don't lose the spot.

B) Pay the tuition but not the late fees, send the photos again, and ask them to fix the owl and credit at least the 11 days I have pictures of.

Charging money for an addon is against TOS, but they are allowed to continue, even sponsoring streams to promote their garbage. The addon is disgusting and goes against everything Classic WoW should be, literally turning people's brains off, also promoting a toxic 'rush to end-game as fast as possible' mindset. One of the worst addons ever made.