Mornin’ Throwers! I just wanted to express some appreciation for the sub and all the joy it’s brought me these last several months. Heck I even made this new account specifically for throwing shenanigans 🤣 Chatting with you all about tricks and throws and life and everything in between has been so fun.

In the early months of my returned obsession I’ve amassed several throws that just don’t get used enough and I thought it’d be fun to give one away 😁

To enter, all I’d ask for is for you to like the post and share the trick that really accelerated your skill as a thrower. For me it was the zig zag rail, it taught me a lot of abound hand placement and momentum which had helped me learn so much more.

I’ll collect entries via comments for a week and announce a winner on August 30th!

Good luck and happy throwing 🥰

Sorry if the pictures aren’t the best quality. My phone is a potato. I started playing back in 2005 so most of my stuff is older but I did buy some things in recent years.

Could be from any podcast, any genre, any year. I want to hear the episodes that are genuinely impossible not to laugh at 😂

Edit - Loving the responses to this! I made a google doc to compile all the recommendations in one place. Promise to go through every reply and add them as they come in.

Keep ’em coming! 🙌

[](https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasts/?f=flair_name%3A%22General%20Podcast%20Discussions%22)What are the podcasts that you have been obsessing over?

What do you listen to - or what have you listened to - that you would highly recommend?

Happy to hear about any genre, as long as it’s gripping!

Looking forward to your recommendations :)

I usually like to throw a podcast on when working, and I love podcast series that suck me in and I can’t stop listening to since it makes the time fly by. Does anyone have a podcast series that they literally could not stop listening to? Here are some that I think of that I couldn’t put down, so ones similar to these would be wonderful. I enjoy any type of podcast, as long as it sucks me in and I don’t want to stop listening.

• Love Trapped
• Root of Evil
• American Scandal
• Alison After NXIVM
• Muscle Man

And here are some that are on my list - would love to hear if these are worth listening to.

• Bear Brook
• My Dad Wrote a Porno
• OnlyFantasy
• Betrayal
• Scamanda

EDIT: Wow, I didn’t expect to get this many responses!! Thank you all so much :)

Radio Lab is one of the all-time great podcasts in my opinion. Really engaging, well-researched and produced. The classic duo of Jad and Robert as hosts was ao great with their chemistry, their presentation of the topics and interviews that it hardly ever missed the mark. I realize nothing can laat forever and they needed to move on. The new team for the last few years has been doing a good job keeping it going, but the tone of the show has become really grating on my nerves with the new hosts. Their overly-chipper, cutesy presentation of almost every subject dosed with infantalizing banter really turns me off at times. Like the show is just more and more made for kids. And it’s always been a staple of the show to anthropomorphize cells, animals, bacteria, etc to try and help explain heady, complicated scientific content, but I feel the new hosts use this approach so much as to make it annoying. I will continue to listen, but just wish I didn’t have the feeling I was always …

I’ll probably get eviscerated for this, but if I hadn’t listened to Season 5 of Betrayal — Saskia’s story — I don’t think I’d ever doubt this murder case. Listening to Saskia’s story of not just being betrayed by someone she deeply trusted, but severely taken advantage of while her mental and physical health were deteriorating, has left a permanent level of doubt in me when it comes to male romantic partners reporting crimes committed against them by their partners.

Lindsay Clancy’s admission of guilt was reported by her husband, after she’d just suffered extreme injuries, following her months-long battle with PPD. It’s clear the father, Patrick Clancy, was checked out of the marriage and was never fully investigated, because the case seemed open and shut. Every time people argue about how stupid others are for doubting Lindsay’s guilt, Saskia comes to mind as a reminder.

Please don’t skewer me — I’m not suggesting Lindsay Clancy is innocent. I’m not wearing pink or posting …

I really want to like behind the bastards but I have listened to several and it’s just not that good! The main guy laughs at weird inappropriate times, the guests just say “yeah” to whatever he’s saying and the girl is just there to say when it’s time for ads. Can someone help me learn to like this because I know people really love it. TIA

So I got sent here from the /Parenting group - my 5yo son has started talking about “girls” not being as strong/fun/cool as boys are, and I’m a little worried it has come through from some of the books we’re reading him (he has recently discovered Roald Dahl, which we are selectively reading to him (BFG, George’s Marvellous Medicine, The Twits) - he loves the stories, it really fires up his imagination but also has quite OTT and inflammatory language)

Can you recommend me a book/series of books suitable for age 5-6 that have strong/brave/interesting girl characters with exciting main character roles, ideally with a fantasy or adventure element? I think Roald Dahl is a bit much for him, in hindsight, but I’d like a book where we can read a couple of chapters a night and that lasts a good few days.

Thanks in advance (and please don’t judge me for the RD thing - I have lovely memories of reading them as a child but I’m realising now I was …

My husband (37) used to be a huge reader but burned out a few years back, said he’d read so much that nothing felt unique anymore. He’s recently mentioned wanting to get back into it though, specifically sci-fi and I want to surprise him with a new book or series to get into.

A few things that might help. I know that loves Dune and Pillars of the Earth, so big sweeping stories with a lot going on are his thing. He’s also into physics and space stuff as a hobby, so he notices when the science in a book is just made up or there for vibes, and it takes him out of the story. He read The Martian and Project Hail Mary already and liked both, but said the writing itself didn’t really stick with him. He’s also into D&D and warhammer if that helps paint the picture. I thought about suggesting Red Rising but I have a feeling the science in it would bug him more than anything else.

Mostly, I just want something where the science doesn’t pull him out of the story but the writing has some …

My mother is sedated and intubated in the ICU after months of hospitalizations and her prognosis is…poor. In all likelihood, she can’t hear me speaking to her at the moment but, on the off-chance that she can, I’d like to keep her company and maybe have some nice moments with her. I’ve run out of inane observations to talk to her about and thought reading a book to her might be a nice thing for us to share.

My mother was never much of a reader (dyslexic and grew up convinced she wasn’t smart) and it’s honestly been quite a while since I’ve gotten lost in a book (though I’ve mainly stuck to the bigger titles in fantasy) so I don’t doubt that most suggestions will be new to us both. Ideally, I’d like to stay away from anything too convoluted or dense or dark, but I’m otherwise open (and thankful) for all suggestions. But yeah…if you have a book that you found to be singular in some important sense (profound, …

I feel like I see so many books where the premise is “so there’s this magical university where all the interesting people go, I went there and studied readings of the soul and learnt forbidden arts and it changed my life- anyways this is all about my life three years after I graduated. 😁😁😁”

I want to read about their time at the college or university or whathaveyou. It doesn’t necessarily need magic involved, but I would like an academia/dark academia/fantasy ect ect that actually has plenty of the study and the life of the characters learning there. I loved Babel, partly because of how mesmerising the learning was portrayed as. (Part of a wider point in the story, I’m well aware, but I enjoyed actually reading about the study life I mean)

Preferably something not meant for anyone of too young an age, but I’m not picky as long as it scratches that itch nagging at me.

If I’m being HYPER specific, lgbtq themes would be nice, but I really just …

I could really use a story about alternate history that isn’t immediately pertinent to our current political landscape. I need a little escapism. (Also, please no civil war stuff either.) Thanks in advance!

ETA: looking for fiction, if that isn’t apparent from the genre.

A child free woman (by choice, not because she’s infertile and so sad about it!) who just never found her person and is still looking. This combo is seemingly hard to find, when it’s not that uncommon in real life. Open to all scenarios that fit the bill, bonus points if she’s had a rough go of things earlier in life that hindered her love life

I love classic novels, but admittedly have quite a few I haven’t gotten to, so happy to hear more “obvious“ suggestions there. Good prose would be amazing.

Adored Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, even though it doesn’t match exactly, similar vibe suggestions are welcome. Preferably not fantasy, as I read a ton of that and am craving a book based in reality. Help me take a break from plowing through the DCC series so I can feel my feelings.

I tried searching these terms, and every suggestion was for a divorced mother of three protagonist.

edit: this post has been shared almost 200 times, so I feel like I am not alone in my request. So …

Little bit of context… I’ve (45F) never played video games but I have spent time watching my husband and kids play over the years. Stuff like fortnight and call of duty.

Well kids are now off to college, and husband travels for work a lot still. So now there’s all this gaming equipment and it’s mom’s turn lol.

But I need some recommendations. I can’t do the shooting games very well. I’m looking for something that’s maybe got a social aspect to it? I think it’s pretty cool you can interact with real people from around the world in some games.

I also don’t mind challenging myself too. Like using a mouse and a keyboard at the same time. But maybe a game that’s not all about violence would be preferable.

it doesn’t have to be zombies, could be the devastation caused by any virus, disaster, or creatures. but more than just surviving i need to build a peaceful place within that dangerous world, so the shelter mechanics need to be detailed

I’ve gotten a bit bored of being the plucky underdog, saving the innocent orphans from the faceless stormtroopers. Any suggestions for games that let me play for the evil Empire, the Imperialist bad guys, the genocidal aliens? I wanna feel like I’m the face of the Emperor’s jackboot, snuffing out cute happy villagers purely for the love of the game.

Genre agnostic, but RPGs with deep storylines are especially appreciated. Bonus points if there’s actually an orphanage to burn down.

EDIT
Thank you for all the great suggestions! I’m going with Tyranny to begin with. Haven’t found any orphans yet, but I’m loving it regardless.

An open-world realistic military shooter game where you start with minimal forces and equipment, and have to gradually take control of a large region while researching/capturing better equipment and vehicles, like the Antistasi or Liberation mods for ARMA 3. ARMA is very janky and hard to get into. I’m currently trying to start a solo playthrough of the Liberation mod and it’s a lot to figure out to get it working properly. I’d love a modern game purely dedicated to this kind of mode.

Similar games I know about or have tried:

Total Conflict: Resistance (on my wishlist)

Freeman: Guerilla Warfare (good game but abandoned by devs)

Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord (fits the concept well but in medieval setting)

Ghost Recon Breakpoint’s Conquest mode (will try)

Ravenfield’s Conquest mode (plan on trying it)

Hello everyone, as the title suggests, I’m addicted to xcom style games such as Gears tactics, Warhammer 40k Chaos Gate, Midnight Suns, Jagged Alliance 3, and soon to be Star Wars Zero Company. And obviously xcom enemy unknown, xcom 2, and xcom chimera squad. Are there any major titles I’m leaving out? what are some of your favorite in this specific sub genre? please help me find more games!

even better if absolutely everyone is unique

I analysed almost all the posts on anti-theft shortcuts, and this is the best system I came up with. But I have a few questions.

1. I set location to ‘best’ instead of ‘10 meters’, and that’s a good idea, right?
2. I can’t find a way to turn off auto brightness.
3. I can’t find a way to make my phone take the pictures quietly. Plus, when the pictures are sent, they make sounds. All of which are probably bad because that will alert the thief, right? Can I turn them off without affecting ringer volume, perhaps?
4. Is there anything else I should add to improve this?
5. Do I have to use Messages to send the pictures and location? Is there no way I can use WhatsApp? Cause my partner has an Android phone.
6. Are there any mistakes I’ve made?
7. Do you have suggestions to improve this?

The actual Shortcut and Automation:

• The Shortcut for the remote activation automation (Please create the automation for this cause it won’t run by itself)
• Airplane Mode shortcut

Explanation of some actions:

• White …

Hey everyone!

I made Calendarly to put my calendar, reminders and tasks right on my iPhone Lock Screen instead of checking a few different apps every time.

It uses Shortcuts to create a new wallpaper automatically every day. You can put pretty much whatever is useful to you on it:

• Calendar events
• Apple Reminders
• Todoist tasks
• Notes
• Countdowns
• Daily, monthly and yearly calendars
• Different layouts, styles and backgrounds
• Your own photos

You choose a layout, set up the automation once, and after that your Lock Screen updates every day by itself.

Download for free:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/calendarly-calendar-wallpaper/id6758898739

Website:
https://getcalendarly.com

Shortcut:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/83b54aeaae6d4b56a6b33869ac103f3c

I actually posted Calendarly here about six months ago when it was still a much simpler app. I got a lot of feedback and ideas from people here, and it helped me a lot with figuring out what to improve and build next. So thank you to …

RoutineHub Link: https://routinehub.co/shortcut/24915/

Last time I demoed QM was back in v2.7.0, when it still had all of those serif italic fonts and a couple of other things you guys simply weren’t a fan of.

I decided to make some changes, including switching the fonts to a more standard sans Unicode style, as you can see in the screenshots.

Apart from that, QM has had quite a few major changes since then, including the addition of Configs, which lets you customise your experience as much as you please and make QM your own.

What Changed

The old portrait-style QM also didn’t work particularly well in landscape. For example, when you want to play some games, you ended up having to scroll through the menu — and nobody wants to do that! Because of that, I made a dedicated Landscape mode, with only the essentials you may need while playing your favourite game.

Plug n Play has also grown significantly since it was last shown. It now has many more commands, an updated UI, and lots of …

🆕 v7.4:

• Stability improvements and smoother scrolling (no visual changes, only performance).

Additional updates since the previous post (for new users):

• Added new languages: Portuguese 🇧🇷 and Hungarian 🇭🇺

• Fixed an issue where long location names could break the Dashboard layout. Long names are now truncated, and tapping them opens a popup with the full name.

• Fixed an issue where the Refresh button was not fully visible in some languages.

• Minor visual improvements.

v7.4 Update Link:
https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/fef9cb1326714853aefd952b738abaa5

Requirements
* Toolbox Pro
* Actions
* Apple Health
* Location permission

🥈 #2 Most Downloaded on the Shortcuty app

Shortcuty app page
https://browse.shortcuty.app/shortcut/5e1bd4e4-d6d7-48d8-8b05-23c460cf0a44

RoutineHub page
https://routinehub.co/shortcut/25677/

Hey everyone,

I wanted a Shortcut way to clean up my Photos library (maybe neatly transfer my photos for offline backup) and organize every photo chronologically into dedicated monthly albums.

I put together an AppleScript inside the Shortcuts on Mac.

What it does:

• Fully Dynamic: Automatically starts from the earliest photo in your library and works up to your newest photos (no hardcoded years).
• No Duplicate Albums: Checks if an album already exists before creating a new one.
• No Empty Albums: Skips creating albums for months where no photos were taken.
• Handles Large Libraries: Uses a timeout block so macOS won’t abort halfway through large photo collections.