Brush Hog

... the box blade for the brush hog on the tractor. Forecast said ...

I use a 3600 for Brush Hog / mowing work. I'll be converting ...

... it as a poor man's brush hog to mow down honeysuckle, multiflora...

...). We have a 5.5' brush hog but it is too harsh... spring without mowing that the brush hog was the only implement we ...

Ok, I’m missing something about pressing and getting the collar off so I can remove the Howse brush hog? Press notch on either side. Attachments image.jpg 5.5 MB · Views: 15

I've got a 72" squealer that has lost the retaining clip for one of the vertical shaft bearings for the cutter head. I patched it up enough to get it going last fall, but will need to replace the seal, one if not both bearings, the e-clips, spacers, etc. and re-shim the gearing. Aside from Amazon/ebay, is there a better parts source?

... actually hurt it. Hooked the brush hog up and mowed my clover ...

Need blades for this thing. Had it for 10 years and should have replaced them along time ago but any way. Place where we got it is no longer open. Any idea on a good place to buy parts for it? I honestly dont even know the model number of the cutter. Thanks for any help Only info I have on it Sent from my SM-S901U using TractorByNet mobile app

I've been pretty happy with Stirri V5 as added flux, mostly because it doesn't smell as bad as ChipQuick stuff. Otherwise, for cleaning, I use a technique similar to the one in this video (rubbing a brush over a kimwipe - I think it came up in the thread already). I use a hog brush from Aliexpress, although it's probably not technically ESD safe.

Afternoon all. Got a late start today, but managed to get a few old downed trees moved and the brush hog put back on the tractor before it opened up and started raining. The wife & I are going to her principal's retirement party here in a bit so I had to get myself cleaned up and presentable.

...Billiam, do you intend to hog that thing all night?” Toni... each pass of the brush. “Your toes are so cute!” ... and passed over the brush. Billie turned from her side ...tank top and ran the brush back and forth on her ...head. “And that’s the calligraphy brush,” Toni said, starting to stand. “...out a Pause as the brush worked her toes, the three ... Liv replied. “Told you the brush was bad!” Toni said. “And ...

... the oinking squeals of a hog squirming in his mouth. I ... a moment of wind to brush away the cloud in my ... me a whole half a hog. That was what we'd used ...

... the oinking squeals of a hog squirming in his mouth. I ... a moment of wind to brush away the cloud in my ... me a whole half a hog. That was what we'd used ...

... up the street with the brush pile is a retired county... can't do anything about the brush pile or chipmunks, but he's ... fricking chipmunks. Anyone have a brush hog and want to go drunk ...

... on the shape of the brush hog that came with it… I ...

... a heavy implement like a brush hog? If so, then the PTO...

... each mowing. I use the brush hog outside the fences and it ...

Your tractor engine smokes or the brush hog smokes?

Hardness matters, proper torque of said bolt also matters! I used to pull a 2015 or 2016 brush hog squealer 72", it used a "M10 x 1.5 x 85 Gr. 8.8" bolt. The flange the bolt head sat on was slightly sloped so as to stress the hardened bolt some. I had to argue with the dealer to call Brush Hog to find I was right to get the correct bolts for it.

Anyone DIY a rotary cutter/brush hog to the mid PTO on a Compact tractor B2620, I have increasing back problems and the hydraulic cutters are to large for my small tractor. Thaught perhaps a small rotarycutter/brush hog attach to the front loader and use mid PTO? Anyone tried this before. Thank you

... Emily out so she could hog the bathroom for an hour... that sculpture?" "I've got a brush that's very, very small," Leah...

Enos Cabell posted: Am I supposed to be seeing anything other than Neil sucking on his giant invisible hog here? Sure hope mom enjoys her bday gift! "So you guys are going to air brush a hot chick in my arms later, right?" "Oh absolutely, Neil!" ::chuckles quietly::

.... Also found out that the brush hog wasn't included in the sale ...

... attachments, one is like a brush hog and good for rough, untamed...

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I bought my first hog hair brushes and I have some question which are :- How do you guys clean brushes(any brush) like I don't paint daily but on alternate days so just keeping the brushes with soaked linseed oil enough to prevent it from hardening. 2 .Some youtuber says don't use tuerpentine but without turpentine how do you guys even change the colors and values during painting like I tried doing it but it affects the value however I wipe it on rag. New Hog hair brushes were stiff and have some sort of wax over it which as per google's recommendation I soaked them in luke warm water for few mins and then dried them with tissue paper -- but now they are spreaded like an old brush . Is it its natural condition or what ? How do you guys deal with stiffened brush after few days break like even after thorough cleaning they becomes still after few days and I have to forcefully break their shape to able to pick up paint. Am I doing something wrong or what ? Thnaks submitted by /u/Technical_League_637 to r/oilpainting [link] [comments]

For the last 2 weeks or so my (17f) brother (24m) had the flu, which has given him quite heavy congestion and he’s been coughing and lethargic, but not seriously ill. My main issue is that he’s been having long baths as the steam and warm water help with these symptoms. Now, when I say “long baths”, most people assume maybe 45 minutes, or an hour? No. Last time I timed it, he was in there for just over 6 FUCKING HOURS. Longest I’ve recorded was almost 8. Like, he brings snacks and drinks in there with him, plus his tablet and charger to watch movies. Since it’s our only bathroom, I’ve missed events because I couldn’t shower, brush my teeth, or do my makeup or hair. Last week I got my period and had to stuff kitchen roll in my underwear because he refused to open the door so I could get pads. It’s gotten to the point where there’s mould growing in the bathroom because he won’t open the window the entire time he’s in there (the fans in there suck so we open the window a crack for extra airflow, except him apparently). I have to walk to the coffee shop down the road to use their bathroom, but a few nights ago it was closed and I needed the bathroom. I asked my mom (54f) to tell him to get out (it was like 11pm at this point and he’d been in since like 4-5pm, as well as a separate bath in the morning). He refused to get out so I had to PEE OUTSIDE. Everyone is kinda annoyed but they’re all taking his side?? Like, I get he’s ill, but he’s not fucking dying? He’s got the man-flu, take a paracetamol and a nap. Anyways, yesterday I was absolutely sick of it, I just wanted a shower because even I was getting disgusted by how dirty I felt. I knew every once in a while his bath would get cold and he’d fill it up a bit with hot water, so I just went downstairs and turned the water off. About 45 mins later he trudges out the bathroom looking all annoyed and went to his room, and I immediately turned the water back on and had a shower (which was freezing because he’d used all the hot water but whatever I just needed a shower). He heard me in the shower and figured out what I did and got pissed, asking how I could be selfish to not be concerned for how sick he was. I told him that just because he was sick, doesn’t mean he gets to hog the bathroom so long I have to call of work because I can’t shower. AITAH? submitted by /u/PersoPostz to r/AITAH [link] [comments]

I need some help. First time tractor owner here, I have now bent two sets of lift arms on a brand new brush hog, I thought it was the Rops bar at first, but I made sure it wasn’t in the way on the second set and of course it happened while I was cutting so I don’t know what caused it. Someone mentioned I need spacers for the top link, so I’m getting those today but what else can I do to prevent this? Any ideas on what’s causing it or how to prevent it from happening? submitted by /u/Dfree23_ to r/tractors [link] [comments]

Runs good. Need to replace a few missing bolts and get the wheel height right. It is definitely at the limit of what this 2210d can handle. If I recall right, it’s a 22hp pto on this old gal. submitted by /u/K-Rimes to r/tractors [link] [comments]

Rotten Tomatoes: 46% (61 reviews) with 5.40 in average rating Metacritic: 44/100 (25 critics) As with other movies, the scores are set to change as time passes. Meanwhile, I'll post some short reviews on the movie. It's structured like this: quote first, source second. Beware, some contain spoilers. While the new film dutifully serves up the callbacks you’d expect, you never get a sense of why these buddies connected to this property more than any other. It’s enough to make me wish I could have seen Doug’s The Anaconda instead. Sure, his “indie-style” project seems to feature a nonsense plot, amateurish acting and extremely questionable action. But at least it would be a labor of love. Gormican’s Anaconda is just a big-budget IP extension trying to pretend it’s something sweeter and scrappier than it is. You don’t need to fall prey to its pretense. -Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter “Anaconda” constricts its premise a little tighter as it moves along (if only because the absurdity ratchets up in a way that forces the film to adopt a clearer sense of itself), and there are some undeniably amusing bits of stupidity along the way. The post-modern stuff tends to fall flat, but, say, the sequence where Jack Black runs for his life with a regurgitated hog strapped to his back is hard to deny. And honestly, all I’ve ever asked of a movie — any movie — is that it make at least two jokes at Jon Voight’s expense, and on that score I have no choice but to acknowledge that Gormican’s meta-sequel delivers, if only just. Still, this self-reflexive Hollywood sendup is so slapdash and unsure of itself that it ultimately feels less like a bad in-joke than a case of a snake eating its own tail. -David Ehrlich, IndieWire: C The movie could have really used some of that anarchic, industry-skewering “Tropic Thunder” energy. The only risk taken here was asking Sony — plus any surviving members of the original cast — to poke fun at themselves, which only goes so far when the film has no fangs. -Peter Debruge, Variety Anaconda is a disappointing follow-up for Gormican, who cannot crack the code on Sony's bewildering aquatic not-really-horror reboot. A cast of proven funny people are lost in a thick brush of hacky bits and ineffective storytelling, unable to machete their way through to a redeeming climax. There are brief bursts of creature-feature excitement and belly-tickling humor, but way more stretches of bafflingly unclear ambitions that feel like they're struggling to keep the "movie within a movie" gimmick afloat. It's Anaconda without the aqua-horror chills, throwback practical effects, and midnight-movie entertainment — what an odd choice. -Matt Donato, IGN: 4 out of 10 "bad" If “Anaconda” had actually been made for $40,000 — no stars, all new faces — its pluckiness might have shined through and a message of some kind might actually have been made. Or at least, to quote Gormican’s movie, “Themes!” Instead we get a movie where big name actors punch downward, at the helpless “Anaconda” movies, and at audiences who like “Anaconda” movies, and at all the low-budget filmmakers who work very hard to make good movies, even the schlocky ones. When all is said and done, it can’t hold a candle to all the genuine, ultra-low budget, unapologetic claptrap it’s lampooning. Well, except for “Anacondas: Trail of Blood.” They can’t all be winners. The new “Anaconda” proves that. -William Bibbiani, TheWrap Regrettably, the one star of Anaconda that gets the shortest shrift is the most important one: the snake. While the film features some monstrous attacks, they play out like something out of an especially uninspired SNL digital short. Sure, the original film and its increasingly lower-budgeted sequels may be funny, but they still pay respect to their creature-feature roots. If Gormican and company had more seriously considered why this particular piece of I.P. continues to resonate, the film may have potentially balanced the horror and comedy elements in a manner that would have satisfied both fans and newcomers to the series. -Mark Hanson, Slant: 2/4 Rudd and Black make the new Anaconda easy enough to accept as a comedy with a dash of clunky effects-based creature action, rather than a full-blown horror-comedy. Intense fandom of the earlier film isn’t necessary to have a good-enough time at this one, and Gormican deserves some credit for smuggling a mid-2000s-style studio comedy back into theaters under the guise of IP (the universal desire for which also gets shouted out here, naturally). Anaconda never reaches the delirious heights of Steve Martin’s similarly themed comedy Bowfinger. But it shares more DNA with that movie than some silly giant snake. -Jesse Hassenger, The Guardian: 3/5 Anaconda may be getting the benefit of the doubt here because of how few studio comedies make it to theaters. In another era, it might easily have gotten lost in a wave of post-modern updates that included The Brady Bunch and Starsky & Hutch. Its plot offers few surprises, but its simple foundations and character motivations give Rudd and Black so much room to play that it’s an amiable time. The two stars keep the energy and charisma in strong supply, while their film uses low expectations to its advantage, knowing that a good comedy doesn’t need to squeeze too hard. -Matt Schimkowitz, The A.V. Club: B– Anaconda’s early scenes, set in Buffalo and seemingly shot there, look appropriately shabby; the interiors are cluttered and drab, and filled with overexposed daylight pouring in from unshaded windows. For a couple of minutes, Rudd and Black’s characters get to act like authentic friends who’ve lost touch and reconnected over their mutual love of movies, over this art form’s power to tell stories that unite people in the dark through their shared connection and humanity. Then they go and run from a CGI snake for an hour. One sad I thought had watching Anaconda: If this is the only stuff modern Hollywood makes now, would these aspiring auteurs even want to work there anymore? -Matt Singer, Screen Crush: 4/10 The thing about a film like the original Anaconda is that arguments about whether it was good or not are beside the point — it fell squarely into that prime Blockbuster Video era in which a film could be so inescapable that its quality for a certain generation is incidental. A sequence in which Doug, Griff, Kenny, and Claire reminisce gleefully about scenes from this bit of pop-culture ephemera they caught during college gets at this fact perfectly, that what they’re pining for is not the movie itself, but this stretch of their lives in which they had time to hang out with their friends. The rest of Anaconda, which involves a quirky Brazilian snake handler played by Selton Mello and a mysterious local with dangerous secrets played by Daniela Melchior, unfolds clumsily and, worse, too earnestly, as though the point all along were to rediscover the magic of filmmaking. Son of Rambow this isn’t. Anaconda may have always been asking too much of its source material, but this reboot has been fatally defanged. -Alison Willmore, Vulture PLOT Four childhood friends: Doug, Griff, Kenny, and Claire, seeking to recapture their youth, travel to the Amazon to film an amateur remake of the 1997 film Anaconda. Their project unravels when a real giant anaconda emerges, turning the light-hearted shoot into a perilous fight to stay alive. The movie that they're dying to remake? It might just kill them, literally. DIRECTOR Tom Gormican WRITERS Tom Gormican & Kevin Etten MUSIC David Fleming CINEMATOGRAPHY Nigel Bluck EDITORS Craig Alpert & Gregory Plotkin RELEASE DATE December 25, 2025 RUNTIME 99 minutes BUDGET $45 million STARRING Paul Rudd as Ronald "Griff" Griffen Jr. Jack Black as Doug McCallister Steve Zahn as Kenny Trent Thandiwe Newton as Claire Simons Daniela Melchior as Ana Almeida Selton Mello as Santiago Braga Ione Skye as Malie McCallister submitted by /u/SanderSo47 to r/movies [link] [comments]

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Hi everyone, I began painting in May this year, and this is my tenth oil painting. I've wandered all over the place in style and technique, and I've found I really love Renoir and Monet paintings and their ability to slap color on a canvas with what appeared to be zero anxiety. Lol. This was my attempt at trying to simulate their style with cobblestone and leaves using filbert for the leaves and buildings, flat for the cobblestone, and then a tiny rigger brush for the occasional thin line here and there. I'm interested in any feedback in general. I really dig the "ugly up close, cool from afar" style of painting. submitted by /u/Busy_Pollution_5467 to r/ArtCrit [link] [comments]

My last post was about the 4 foot John Deere 403 I found. Well, I got to cut with it yesterday and got the whole barn lot done. It was bad, and I was impressed. submitted by /u/-CheeseWeezle- to r/kubota [link] [comments]

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Hey - like the title says. I don't own a tractor but have some fields that are too thick and over grown for my SCAG mower. Can any one recommend a "stand alone" machine for clearing thick tall brush? submitted by /u/7870FUNK to r/homestead [link] [comments]

Okay, so I (14M) share a bathroom with my older sister (17F), and for the past few months, she’s been basically turning it into her personal photo studio. She’ll go in there in the morning, do her makeup, and then spend 30 to 45 minutes taking selfies in the mirror with like six different outfits. Sometimes she even brings a ring light. A ring light. Into the bathroom. The problem is, when she does this, no one else can use the bathroom. I’ve been late to school because I had to wait just to brush my teeth. My younger brother (9M) has literally had to pee in the backyard once. I told her she needs to stop hogging it, but she just says “Get up earlier” or “You’re being dramatic.” So I decided to get petty. I bought a realistic-looking fake spider off Amazon (like $4), and stuck it behind the trash can in the corner where she sets up her tripod. It didn’t do anything for a few days, but this morning I heard her scream and then she ran out of the bathroom crying. She thought it was real. I told her it was fake and she called me a psycho. Now my parents are mad at me, saying I “traumatized her” and that I “need to be more respectful of her space,” but it’s literally our bathroom. I didn’t hurt her. I just wanted to get my sink back. AITA? submitted by /u/DisastrousProblem573 to r/AmItheAsshole [link] [comments]

My parents have always favored my brother (17M) over me (15M). There are so many examples I could give but I'll just list a few ways because the point of the post is someone else has called them on it. My parents talk about my brother more, they invest more time in supporting his interests, they put more money into raising him and they have way more photos of him than me. My brother's bad about it because any time I get any attention he'll bring up something he did to get attention on him again. Or he'll do something in front of everyone to get people's attention on him. He does it every single fucking time. He even does this shit in school. He's said some random shit before to get attention off me and onto him. Our extended family will typically let him hog the attention when he starts. So this past Saturday my parents had their families over for a party to welcome my dad's youngest brother home. He went all over the word for the last 10 years. He was talking to me and my brother interrupted with stuff about himself. My uncle tried to bring it back to me but my brother kept interrupting. Eventually my uncle took me to grab some ice cream for everyone since my parents forgot and we talked on the car ride and in the store. When we got back my brother went through all his football achievements. When my uncle was talking to my parents he asked about us both but they only answered about my brother and they ignored him when he asked about me. Eventually he cracked a joke that it must be strange to have some random kid living with them and that made them defensive and they asked what it was supposed to mean. He said they act like my brother is their only child and I'm just other. He mentioned the house only showing one kid, the fact that they had nothing to say about me and ignored any questions he asked about me. My brother told our uncle that there's just more interesting and worthwhile stuff to say about him and then he repeated stuff he'd told him earlier when my uncle and I were talking. Which is when my uncle called him an attention hog. Things were getting more and more awkward but I loved it. I loved hearing someone finally call them on it. My parents tried to defend the three of them but my uncle was brushing it off. My parents tried to make me defend the three of them but I ignored them. Nobody else said anything and my uncle gave me his number before he left and we've texted a bit since. My parents were so mad at me for not defending them and my brother. They keep telling me I owe them an apology and how I need to do better. I told them it should be them doing better and they told me no, I should defend my family against unfair accusations. AITA? submitted by /u/SilverteenSoresson to r/AITAH [link] [comments]

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I have a local neighbor taking hay from it but eventually I wanna take over maintaining it. What would be some budget friendly options? I can't afford the newer tractors submitted by /u/BarefootGOON to r/homestead [link] [comments]

Hi Reddit, I'm a 26 year old woman. My older sister Tiffany (31F) has an issue with needing attention and one-upping me and my other sister Chloe (28F). Ever since we were kids if we had something big happen or won any type of award Tiffany would inject herself and try to pull attention away. It was never really confronted and our parents would tell Chloe and I that "you know she is self-conscious and paranoid about not having attention, just let it go". As an example she told Chloe that she couldn't introduce her new boyfriend (now husband) to our family or bring him to events when they started dating because they got together the same month that she (Tiffany) got engaged and it would pull attention from her because everyone would want to get to know they new guy instead of focusing on the wedding. She tried to ban him from the wedding which got overruled. Additionally she tried to schedule her wedding the same day as my college graduation, knowing it was my graduation, but trying to pick it anyway because it was the "perfect day" and "I already got the experience at my highschool graduation so it doesn't matter if I miss this one". (She got overruled on this one too). Well fast-forward to 3 weeks ago. Chloe got a new dog that she is very excied about and sent a photo to our family group chat saying "We are excited to announce a new member of our family! Meet Bess!" Everyone was messaging back commenting on how cute the dog is, how excited they are that Chloe got a dog, etc. Well cue Tiffany. Not an hour after Chloe's message she sent this: "Well congrats on the new dog. Speaking of new additions... Baby T is due this November! :-) " I was pissed. This exactly the same type of crap she always pulls and I knew how excited Chloe was about this dog and I felt it was a passive-aggressive dick move. I saw Chloe later and she was putting on a brave face, but it was clear that she knew Tiffany had done this to one-up her yet again. Here is where I would be the asshole: I know for a fact that Tiffany's worst nightmare is for one of us to be pregnant at the same time as her. She has told a family member I talk to regularly that if I or Chloe was pregnant at this same time as her it would ruin her pregnancy because we would be taking attention from her. Well, I found out yesterday I am pregnant with my first and here is where I need judgment: Would I be the asshole if I announce my pregnancy in the family group chat using Tiffany's exact message. EG: Well congrats on the new baby. Speaking of new additions... Baby M is due this January! :-)" Petty? Very. But would I be the asshole? Quick edit that came up in a comment: My husband and I are over the moon about this step towards starting our family! I am a couple months along, but didn't have symptoms (nausea) so we only just found out. Given I'm a couple months in we are ready to tell the family. Any way that we tell people is going to piss of Tiffany, it's more a question of doing this or phrasing it more delicately to microscopically reduce her anger. (Also, I am genuinely happy for her on her pregnancy, I'm just frustrated that she was petty yet again. I hoped she would be over that by now, but it seems like it's gotten worse). UPDATE: Wow this blew up! I'm going to add a little more info after reading some comments. My husband and I live across the country and the rest of the siblings live at least a couple hours from each other, the last family get-together was Christmas so it's been awhile. Due to distance majority of our big announncements happen over the group chat (although usually pregnancies come with photos and some kind of fanfare). INFO: I shouldn't have used the word overruled (on the weedding), with the boyfriend Tiffany's fiance said they should get to know him at a few events and get a sense for his vibe and then make the call on the invite. Boyfriend is a super chill , kind guy, so Tiffany said he could come and moved on to a different problem. With my graduation my parents said they would be attending and fiance stepped in saying there was another date that month that he liked better/would work better. I did call my parents and let them know, and they are excited, though told me that I should be delicate in how I phrase it to not upset Tiffany. I said this isn't her first child and she should honestly be happy for me. If I had gotten pregnant just to spite her I would get it, but my husband and I have been trying for awhile and we are super excited. They told me I should gush over her and say how happy and excited I am for her and then add how excited I am to have kids so close together. I'm not honestly sure how happy about that I am though. I want my child to have family and cousins, but I'm not sure how much I want him/her to be around Tiffany since she is a major gossip and negative busybody. I would much rather have him/her be around Chloe's kids. I also called Chloe, asked how she's been and generally caught up then told her. She is thrilled for us and super excited to be an auntie again. We talked a little about the back and forth in the group chat and she laughed and said, "It was inevitable, if it wasn't a baby it would have been a new thing about one of her other kids or a new recipe or something." She said she would leave it up to me how I announce it. She also sent me more photos of Bess, and honestly: cutest fricking dog I've ever seen. Chloe has had a really tough year and Bess is her husband's gift to her for weathering the storm and being amazing (everyone in the family knows this, so it was very apparent Tiffany was trrying to quash all that). We've put up with Tiffany's shenanigans for years and never pushed back because we wanted to be sensitive to her insecurities, but in the last couple years she has really upped the ante. Chloe's kids have allergies so Tiffany went and called several members of the family saying that she just "doing it for attention" and that the kids aren't actually allergic (they definitely are). She only calls me to gossip about other people and when I've shut it down or said "you seem really concerned and I'm not there to see for myself so maybe you need to talk to the person directly if it really is this big of an issue" she comes up with excuses and then will ghost me for weeks to months. I am honestly worried that she will try to name steal/gossip or lie about my husband and I to family members no matter what I do. I should be able to find out gender through blood test in a few weeks (Tiffany has not announced gender yet) and I'm leaning towards announcing to everyone else then. Also, to everyone who commented along the lines of as Palpatine/Sidious said: Dew it! Thanks for the laughs! 😆 It wouldn't let me update the post originally so I put it in the comments, but here is the 2nd Update: * * * * * * * * * UPDATE #2: So a lot happened over the last few days and this update is a little long. So first: one of my parents told Tiffany, not sure if it was an accident or they thought it would help to forewarn her, but based on the aftermath it did not help in the slightest. She then called a sibling asking if they knew then burst into tears saying I got pregnant just to spite her. At this point, Chloe called me and said sh*t was hitting the fan, oh, and by the way, guess who just found out she's also pregnant with her third?! We talked about how we want to do announcements and both figured I should bite the bullet and send something sooner rather than later. My husband and I had done a little photoshoot a few days ago, so I sent a cute photo announcement to the group chat (New Year, new adventure! with our ultrasound photo and a New Years gold sparkle theme). And before anyone asks: I didn't include anything about Tiffany in the announcement, or follow any script. Congratulations poured in and everyone was excited. Tiffany sent one text: 'Fun.' Well come to find out a couple days later that she called not one, but several others to demand whether or not they knew. Note: this was before we sent the announcement to the group (I think she believed it was a huge conspiracy against her). A couple of people asked her why she was telling everyone when it was my announcement and that when my husband and I want people to know we will tell them, but it's not her news and not her place to spoil it. Also, in case there were complications it is super sh*tty of her to tell people when we don't want them to know yet. The rest were mostly silent saying that they were excited for both of us: Tiffany on her last, and me on my first. Well apparently that went over like a lead balloon and Tiffany was sobbing telling them how selfish I was to do this to her. She hasn't spoken to anyone in the family since then. Lastly, I told Chloe about the suggestion to include Bess in her announcement when she decides to make it and she loved it. Not sure what she'll ultimately settle on to announce her baby, but a Bess photo is looking like a strong contender. She will probably announce sooner rather than later, so I may have one more update for y'all when Chloe's announcement drops. Thank you to everyone who gave their input. I know we all probably have someone in our life that we wish we could stick it to and get that one sweet moment of petty revenge. Everyone has had a bully, an attention hog, an intrusive coworker, etc. and we all long for some justice to happen. When it came down to it I realized something I think I've known all along: that Tiffany has dug herself into a hole thinking that everyone is always trying to one-up her and believing that everyone is against her; even those who genuinely just hope she focuses on making her life the best it can be and not comparing herself to anyone else. She has repeatedly hurt/turned people against her with constant pettiness and passive-aggression and that makes for a pretty lonely life. There is nothing I could do that is worse than what she has done to herself, and even if there was I wouldn't want to. My hope is that she realizes one day that the world isn't against her and that it doesn't diminish her successes when someone else has a big milestone. Final note: when Chloe and I talked we also agreed to stop putting up with things and start calling out comments that are inappropriate/rude/passive aggressive etc. and back each other up when it happens. We are also going to let our parents know moving forward that we will address any comments that fall into those categories and we hope they will support us because it doesn't help anyone and makes everyone else's life harder due to walking on eggshells when we try not to "rock the boat". * * * * * * * * * UPDATE #3: Ok, I thought the last update was my final one, but another character has reared her head. Chloe announced her pregnancy, and people were excited, including another female family member (not a sister, but I want to keep it vague so this isn't found by family) who we'll call Britney. She pops in with a message saying, "Congrats... well, not to steal the spotlight or anything, but I'm also pregnant!" This was within 20 minutes of Chloe's message. Now, there is a bit of history between Chloe and Britney (Chloe was requiring accountability over a major boundary cross and Britney tried to brush it off. It was completely inappropriate and there's been some tension ever since, mostly in the form of passive-aggressive jabs on Britney's side about Chloe) so this was pretty damn intentional on her side. My husband, being the direct, straightforward person he is, was fed up at this point and texted, "Dang Chloe, sorry everyone keeps overshadowing your announcements. Huge congrats to you and [Chloe's husband's name] on the newest addition!" Chloe responded with a "poor me" gif that was clearly a joke to clear the air and said, "We've all just got a lot of exciting news to share with everyone; it's a big year!" Despite her lightening the mood the chat went silent after that. There haven't been any new comments since. I think he has well and truly killed that particular group chat and the grapevine is saying that Tiffany is calling out my husband for "being rude" and "sticking his nose where he doesn't belong". I hope this is it, but at this point who knows? PS We do know our gender and have our name picked out, thank you to everyone who gave input; we are keeping the name under lock and key until the baby is born. :-) submitted by /u/ouiouiausten to r/AITAH [link] [comments]

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If this post sounds familiar to you, you may remember that this was a topic previously on /r/HobbyDrama in the sweet Summers of 2020. I specifically remember reading this while on vacation. However, the original author seems to have either deleted their account or taken the post down, so I decided to revive the post. Back when Removeedit worked for Reddit posts I could link to the text itself but that unfortunately seems to have shut down. Anyway, let's get into this: What's Critical Role? Beginning in early 2015, Critical Role is a live-streamed game of Dungeons and Dragons helmed by several popular voice actors such as Matthew Mercer (Jotaro Kujo, Leon Kennedy, Maximus from Leo the Lion), Travis Willingham (Thor, Roy Mustang, this store owner in Nip/Tuck) and Laura Bailey (Rise from Persona 4, the Female Boss in Saints Row 3/4, Kaine in Nier). If you were an anime fan watching dubs from the mid 2000s to the mid 2010s or you just played a video game, I guarantee you heard at least one of these actors in something. It's a veritable who's-who of big name voice actors. While recording for Resident Evil 6, Mercer decided to give a birthday present to Liam O'Brien, specifically a one-shot D&D game. This was run in the... controversial... 4th edition version of the game, and presumably after Mercer took a visit to his local exorcist, realized the error of his ways. When O'Brien expressed interest in continuing the game, Mercer agreed and they shifted to Pathfinder. The crew share some stories as they go, with it becoming a frequent thing that gets brought up during convention panels as a fun aside. Back before Vine died it was very common to see the actors making Vines of tabletop moments, and some of the original campaign was preserved through Youtube. The team go by the name Vox Machina- latin for Voice Machine, but initially they operated under the name Super High Intensity Team, or... The SHITS. I will actually be shocked if they refernece that old name in the cartoon. The party for Campaign 1 consisted of: Matt Mercer as DM. Marisha Ray as Keyleth, Half-Elf Druid. Liam O'Brien as Vax, Half-Elf Rogue. Laura Bailey as Vex, Half-Elf Ranger. Travis Willingham as Grog, Goliath Barbarian. Ashley Johnson as Pike, Gnome Cleric. Sam Riegel as Scanlan, Gnome Bard. Taliesen Jaffe as Percy, Human Fighter. Orion Acaba as Tiberius, Dragonborn Sorcerer. Fast forward about two years and Ashley Johnson is at a small party where she meets up with Felicia Day, who is running a nerdy celebrity Youtube channel called Geek and Sundry. Ashley shares some stories about the game and Felicia offers them a show slot on their Twitch channel, seeing potential for this to go far. And as such, on March 3rd, 2015, after an internal conversion to Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition (a move that I'm pretty sure that the 5e team thank God for given how much money they've made that brand), Critical Role would begin its slow, gradual process towards world domination. This first episode is jank and I adore it with every fibre of my soul. Some fans these days say that it's hard to go back to the early episodes because it has none of the grandious production values, or heightened performance quality, or consistent microphone quality. I like to call those people cowards. It is full of audio peaks and them blowing their mics out and I fucking love it. It has a chaotic, rabid energy to it that feels exactly like a D&D game that went off the rails and now we're carving a path into the unknown with nothing to our names but a half-empty bottle of Pepsi, a mixtape blaring in the radio and a sense of pure energy. This is my jam. I like early Critical Role because it is a chaotic janky mess. This feels like D&D in its rawest form. The viewers are dropped in, after a quick video describing the basics of the cast, into the middle of Vox Machina's next adventure- a friend of a friend went missing in a quest into the forboding depths of the Underdark, and the team are hired to either bring back this ally, Paladin Lady Kima, or bring back a body. It's during this time that we introduce the true "star" of the show. The often-forgotten part of the initital team, and one of the new modern faces of the That Guy archetype at tabletop games: Orion Acaba. Hello, I'm Tiberius Stormwind, from Draconia! Orion Acaba is best known for his roles as Apollo Justice in some of the Ace Attorney games and playing Rico Rodriguez in Just Cause 4, alongside Tiberius and often being a guy you see listed as "Generic Mook #45." In an interview on the Geek and Sundry site released on October 22th 2015, Orion discusses how when he joined Matt's initial campaign, he inquired as to if anyone had chosen to play a spellcasting class. After some deliberation, he settled on playing the Sorcerer, a class that can be surmised as the phrase "burning twice as bright for half the length." In terms of the party, Tiberius was a Dragonborn who hailed from the country of Draconia. The son of an influential personality, Tiberius set out on his own to gather and chronicle magical artifacts, which led to him joining Vox Machina as magic items and D&D parties are drawn to each other like magnets. As a Sorcerer, Tiberius largely offered a share of magical benefits- buffing the party, access to several traversal spells like teleportation circles, academic know-how and most importantly, raw firepower. In the early episodes of the show, Tiberius was actually quite popular and a standout of the first arc for many at the time. Orion settled into the streaming side of Critical Role very quickly, being very bombastic and energetic to watch while also having some big cool spells. One of the benefits of Vox Machina being a pre-existing campaign before the streaming started was that the team started at roughly halfway through the level curve of D&D. This meant that rather than the usual slow start, the gang hit the ground running with a lot of powerful abilities and items, which suits Tiberius especially fine as it means he can casually drop a fireball as a hello greeting. But even at this point looking back, while it was overshadowed by other events or just brushed aside as the usual awkward moments that come with D&D and its improvisational nature, the cracks began to show with Orion and testing the team's patience. By this point, the team have found Kima alive after some torture and decide to go after a local infestation of Mind Flayers. During this, the party discover that a Beholder (basically a glove with eye-stalks that include several nasty anti-magic lockdown powers) has set up and they ready to fight. Except Tiberius, who says he'll sit this one out. No real reason is given in-character, Orion is just metagaming (i.e. using knowledge he has as a real person that his character would not) having read the Beholder's stat block so he knows that Tiberius will be limited in fighting it. Orion would later admit that he did this because his view of tabletop games was that they were a conflict between DM and player- Orion saw the Beholder not as a challenging but rewarding boss fight, but instead Matt trying to wipe out some players. This actually gets blowback from two other party members- Taliesen Jaffe, playing human Gunslinger Pervical de Rolo and Sam Riegel, playing Gnome Bard Scanlan Shorthalt. When Taliesen presses Orion after the fight on why he stayed behind, Orion (and I do stress Orion here, this was out of character), snarls at him to back off, and when Sam/Scanlan calls him out for leaving the party high and dry, Tiberius ducks out of the conversation by using the Silence spell to lock him down: SAM: Well, you weren’t there when we needed you the most. You were out doing God-knows-what. ORION: Quite the contrary. If it wasn’t for me, you’d still be fighting that damn thing. SAM: What on earth are you talking about? ORION: Silence. SAM: Dispel Magic. Yes, I did. ORION: Counterspell. SAM: Do I have a will save? ORION: No, you’re done, you’re quiet. While Tiberius was established as socially awkward and haughty, his locking Scanlan down with a silent spell to avoid an awkward conversation does ring differently with the benefit of hindsight. There's a later scene in Episode 16 where there's a puzzle that can only be solved by a near-impossible archery shot. Vex (Laura Bailey's character), the team's Ranger and desigated sniper, lines up for the shot. The cast pile on buffs to give her every edge she can for the shot, Laura's got everyone cheering for her, she rolls a Natural 20, the cheers begin to cry out... And Orion chimes in by saying "I cast Telekinesis to guide her arrow in." (shout out to the CR Transcript team for this) LAURA: All right. (laughs) Oh, no. Okay. I add my attack bonus? MATT: Yes, you do. SAM: Plus an inspiration. LAURA: Plus an inspiration dice? MATT: Plus a d10. ORION: Oh, shit. MARISHA: (whispering) It’s so quiet. ORION: I know. LAURA: Oh, that’s awesome! Okay. 35. (yelling) TRAVIS: Good inspiration. MATT: As you release the arrow, you see the pillars slamming. The pillar comes down just as the arrow crests over it, past another pillar that just barely manages to miss it by a segment. ORION: I cast Telekinesis to swoop it up. (whoosh) SAM: Oh, god. ORION: Just to help and guide it. ASHLEY: No, but it’s already gone in. TRAVIS: We don’t need it! We don’t need it! LAURA: Oh, let me just see if I got it first! LIAM: She rolled a 35, we don’t need shit. ORION: It’s going in there, anyway. I don’t even have to roll. Matt rolls with this to the best of his ability- he doesn't wanna cause a fuss so he describes how the arrow starts to riccochet off the entrance only for a telekinetic force to guide it in. But the immediate reactions do show that the cast were unhappy with Orion's "Help." Laura had rolled a thirty five for a success, it was in the bag no matter what, but Orion felt the urge to show that he helped. Had he said it if Laura had rolled low, that would be one thing. Had he asked "would you like me guide it in with telekinesis if your shot fails to connect," that would be another. Swooping in right as everyone cheers so he can feel essential? Well that's where people begin to get annoyed. Now again, at the time, this was nothing, but looking back it and the Beholder metagaming serve as the first real instances of Orion's behavior- a trait that many D&D fans refer to as "Main Character Syndrome." The gist of it is quite self-explanatory: MC Syndrome is when a player is convinced that they are the protagonist of the story and that they must be the best character at the table. It can be limelight hogging, it can be kill-stealing, it can be dragging the game to a halt for extended roleplay, but the traits can be seen a mile away. And the red flags around Orion/Tiberius are a startling shade of crimson. The rest of the Underdark arc concludes, the team get some downtime to shop (which allows Matt to introduce some of the supporting cast from the campaign such as flamboyant merchant Gilmore and the political situation of the gang's home base, Emon) and some quick setup for the next big arc is when Percy overhears a letter being sent "to the Briarwoods." There is a short filler arc set in the religious megacity of Vasselheim, where Vox Machina piss off the local monster hunter guild, the Slayer's Take, by doing a contract that had already been assigned. The team are told to do some jobs to make up for what they did, leading to half the party getting a cool boss fight against a dragon, the B team were sent to hunt a Rakshasa. Orion proves to be a Rash-asha in Matt's backside Rakshasa are dangerous mid-tier foes in D&D. Resembling tigers with reversed palms, they're accomplished shapeshifters, masters of deception and capable of holding a long grudge. If a Rakshasa dies, it painfully regenerates in a pit of hell, wherein it decides to get painful revenge on its murderer. Oh and also they can't be hurt by magic from below a 6th level spell, which you only begin getting access to at level thirteen. So not a great combo for Orion and Tibs. Orion doesn't help during a stop-gap fight by impatiently burning his higher level resources, leaving him without any real way to hurt the Rakshasa. During the hunt for one named Hotis, Tiberius asks that the party stop for an entire night's rest so that he can recharge some spells. The team bluntly describe this as stupid and tell him that they're not gonna wait: MARISHA: Why did you burn all of your sorcerer points? We told you not to burn all of your sorcerer points. We don’t have time to sit here and take a full rest. (Orion's commentary was not transcribed as he was leaning past his microphone, but he's asking if the party would let him do a full 8 hour rest to recover his magic) MARISHA: You can ask the group, but I have a feeling that Vax and Thorbir aren’t going to want to take a full rest down here. During the fight itself, confusion breaks out further as Orion seems to deliberately misread an item granted to him, a Ring of Spell Storing. Long story short, the ring lets a caster store up to four levels of magic- so one big blast of a 4th level spell, two 2nd levels, four 1st levels, etc. Orion used the ring as if it granted four fourth level spells, prompting Matt, getting visibly short with him, to have to stop a fight to explain to Orion how the item worked. (fan thread here which includes actual math and discussion showing that during these episodes, Orion used far more spell slots than he should have) Another of Orion's bad habits became realized by the fandom during this fight, which was Orion lying dice roll results when luck didn't bless him. Fans noticed as far back as the Underdark arc instances wherein Orion would blatantly re-roll bad dice, and it seemed that during the Rakshasa fight, Orion's behavior led to a behind the scenes conversation. It became apparant later that Marisha and Taliesen had been tasked with babysitting Orion's rolls, as they frequently kept an eye out for the remainder of Orion's episodes to make sure he was telling the truth. In a thread after episode 40 when the show was accused of faking dice rolls for drama, Matt would personally chime in with a now-deleted comment confirming that the dice weren't faked and that "The only player who fudged rolls is no longer part of the show.

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TL;DR at the bottom. NSFW This is still fresh in my mind as I'm typing. I take some time out of my daily commute home from night shift to make a detour and spend time with my Dad (71 years young) who spends most of the week alone as my mom (62) works all day. Today was just a routine visit. My folks live in the country and don't have trash pickup so I visit with Dad while driving their garbage to the dump. As we are talking I bring up a video I had seen and suggested I share it with him. He agrees and once we get back to the house he suggests I find the video while he does something else. Commence Fuckup. My Dad has an older model Desktop PC that is quite temperamental and only likes to use Google Chrome. I go to open a window and see that my Dad has 20+ tabs open. All of them were different profiles on FetLife. For those who don't know, FetLife is like MySpace for people with fetishes (bondage, waterworks, furries, etc). I just brushed it off as my dad being a dirty old man. Unfortunately the tab I opened Chrome to was my parents profile page. I not only saw my mother in very revealing garments; I also saw my dad gagged and hog tied like a pig at a pork roast. So now, not only do I know my parents are pretty kinky, I also know what it looks like when my dad is getting stuffed like a Christmas turkey. TL;DR: Opened Google Chrome to share something with my dad, only to find out he gets butt-raunched by my mother on the regular. EDIT:words EDIT2: WOW my first Gold! Thanks Stranger!! EDIT 3: My wife is a reddit user and knows her husband posted this from the commute detail. She didn't believe me so she temporarily created a FetLife account so I could, for once, be right. Now she is very distraught and has told me she can never look at my parents the same. What do? submitted by /u/Sigmoid_Freud_ to r/tifu [link] [comments]

I live on a around .7 acres and there are areas of brush, ivy, bushes, and privet that I'd like to clear out. I've already cut some stuff back, or killed it with roundup, but the issue there is that the dead branches and stuff are a lot of work to clean up. So far I've kind of just left things in piles around the yard. These piles include beaches/thin "trunks", leaves, and pine needles. Would it be worth renting a brush hog for about $100 for a day to clear out growth, and to mulch the stuff that's piled up? Does a brush hog mulch what it cuts like a lawn mower does? I've also thought about just having a land clearing company come out, but I'm not sure if I need that much "firepower". submitted by /u/WhatHappenedToLeeds to r/HomeImprovement [link] [comments]