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Popeyes chicken strips/tenders are easily the best of their kind I've ever had. Some of those, some cajun fries, and a biscuit and I'm good for the evening.
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Oh, that sucks. I know Nathan for You has an episode involving a lie detector. Not sure where that falls on the right/wrong direction scale.
I think nervousness and the other strong reactions are a subset of arousal.
Yeah, you're probably right. I'm assuming too much specific knowledge. Still, hopefully future feds know that polygraphs aren't reliable lie detectors.
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I am positive that they do, and anyone who "fails" is just them weeding out the weaker candidates. Those who cant stay cool under pressure.
Because lemme tell you, even knowing that they're bunk, when you're actually experiencing it and a life-changing job is on the line, things do hit different.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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I've heard this argument before. But to me they just seem like ad hoc arguments to justify polygraph use. Because if that were really the case:
- Then polygraph tests wouldn't be applied so uniformly across such a wide range of jobs. You expect different levels of stress for different jobs, but there's just one polygraph test for them all.
- Then polygraph tests are a poor substitute for the specific kinds of stress-inducing activities that they would expect to perform. Someone who freaks at a polygraph test may be an exceptional firefighter and stay cool under firefighting-relevant pressures.
- Then polygraph tests allow bias from the examiner, making it a poor test. As you mentioned, polygraphs produce physiological data, and those data are open to interpretation. Reasoning from the same set of data, the examiner may decide that you're lying, or dismiss it as an anxious fluke.
- Then polygraph tests would be advertised as a stress test and not as a truth-detecting mission. Why obscure your goal?
I admit: I may be an extremist regarding polygraphs and other forms of pseudo-science. They seem like a waste of time and effort at best, and possible carriers of injustice.
I'm guessing you passed, then. Congrats!
But this is what I mean. Why in the world should an honest "boring" (your words :P) person like you have to be anxious about this? The feds gain nothing (you're gonna be honest anyway) and you could lose a lot (examiner bias could cost you this job).
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Comparison and contrast between Marvel and DC in regards to the afterlife.
Both treat the karmic systems that determine what afterlife you go to as an automated process rather than some being making individual judgments
In DC, it's flawed: you can be sent to Hell by a glitch in the system, a bunch of little things adding up to an arbitrary cutoff point, or some other mistake or taken there while still alive even, and... Yeah, that's it, sucks to be you. If you're lucky a demon might take a shine to you and give you a job instead of eating your soul, forging you into a piece of furniture, or torturing for eternity but once you're in the only way out is to be resurrected or be a big enough badass hat you can fight your way out.
In Marvel the afterlife is rigged on the side of leniency, with extenuating circumstances taken into account and it being noted explicitly that people who died young and/or had really, really ****ty lives tend to be fast-tracked to the good place. Mortals and divine beings alike are permitted to challenge the ruler of an Infernal Realm for any souls they possess, whether that soul earned their damnation or was stolen, and the Hell-Lord in question has to release the soul if they lose. Pretty much everyone in Hell either made a deal, was dragged there by chicanery, or was just a complete and utter bastard with no mitigating circumstances. There are exploitable loopholes, but those are things that make it easier to avoid the Infernal Realms, not easier to get sent there.
The exceptions are the Ghost Riders, who are sent to Hell regardless... But they keep their powers and aren't so much prisoners as they are peacekeepers and can bring themselves back to life by just... Leaving. Gotta find a way out the hard way but once they're out they're out.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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In my own setting, hell is the last choice.
It's a permanent refusal to self-reflect or ever get better. And importantly, it's refusal, not inability.
You also don't have to go to paradise if you don't want to. You can keep reincarnating, and if you want you can choose to simply cease to exist.
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2023-03-03, 08:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2023-03-03, 08:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: BisectedBrioche's Brilliant Bread Random Banter Bthread #243
I am positive that they do. Separately, i suspect that their view may be anyone who "fails" is just them weeding out the weaker candidates. It's also possible everyone passes the polygraph and its just a remnant that they are unable to get rid of for whatever reason. But I'm more inclined towards the former.
Not extreme at all.
Passed the first time, i went through all this and got into the program already, had to leave due to a short term medical issue. Can't take too many days out before they are forced to remove you to keep their accreditation. I have to do it again at end of month.
As for why i was nervous, again, that's cause things hit different when you're in the hot seat.
Let's say you're arrested for a crime you didnt commit and are going on trial. You're going to be nervous about the verdict, even though you know you are innocent, because what actually is the case and what actually happens don't need to line up.
Man, there's a really neat parallel I could draw from this but can't.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2023-03-03, 08:51 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: BisectedBrioche's Brilliant Bread Random Banter Bthread #243
It's also possible that they're testing to see who knows how to beat a Polygraph test: There are things you can do that will give a flash positive during the calibration questions so anything you're actually nervous about will seem smaller by comparison. Thing is? Anyone who knows how that works can tell by the results who did that.
I imagine "do they know how to cheat on a polygraph test" and/or "are they willing to cheat on a polygraph test" is something a government agency might want to know regarding their prospective operatives.Last edited by Rater202; 2023-03-03 at 08:52 AM.
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2023-03-03, 09:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: BisectedBrioche's Brilliant Bread Random Banter Bthread #243
Oh.
So that was almost certainly entirely just for show.
Polygraphs are unreliable under the best of circumstances but by my understanding, if you don't calibrate it you literally just have scribbles on a sheet of paper with no way to tell what did or did not trigger a given response.
...The alternative is that they don't actually know how polygraphs work but I'll sleep better if I assume that the mysterious government agency isn't run by incompetents.Last edited by Rater202; 2023-03-03 at 09:05 AM.
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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Re: BisectedBrioche's Brilliant Bread Random Banter Bthread #243
Is there a difference between the polygraph and the E-meter?
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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Re: BisectedBrioche's Brilliant Bread Random Banter Bthread #243
Lessons learned from classic television:
There are very few problems that can't be solved by getting together with your friends and talking about the problem over a cheesecake.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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Re: BisectedBrioche's Brilliant Bread Random Banter Bthread #243
Last setting/story idea I had regarding the afterlife was that getting into the 'reward' one required giving up knowledge of morality. Which meant that there would probably be a decent number of people who wouldn't be sent to the punishment afterlives or what got through the reform ones, but would refuse to enter 'paradise'.
In a universe with completely immortal souls and no reincarnation.
They mostly hung around Earth as half-immaterial ghosts nudging people into better lives. When your afterlife is essentially an eternal Sunday evening after the shops shut you tend to take it at a slow pace.
Reincarnation and cessation of existence both require a loss of the current self. For some people that's just a terrifying deal breaker (personally I could potentially get on the reincarnation bandwagon once paradise beings to become dull).
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Interesting! Are they spooky ghosts, or just like see-through people?
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My own writing on what happens when you die is, as stated earlier in the thread, that no one really knows in universe. Death is the cessation of the body and soul, and near anyone who has the ability to see that stuff can tell, it just kinda disperses into reality.
However! There are ghosts- when the body dies, but the soul refuses to. Particular strong feelings, particular strong wants or needs, stuff like that can tip a soul over into surviving what would otherwise be fatal... and in fact is fatal, as the body and soul split. Ghosts are free-form floating entities of energy (if you're a mancer or highly attuned to a certain form of magic, it'll be like that), can become tangible at will (though sufficient magic or magic-like things can touch them) and can pass through and possess objects (not people/living things. They just kinda bounce off that stuff if trying to phase through it). They are also a lot more susceptible to emotions and can get kinda twisted in form as a result (typically, the meat around the soul serves as a buffer for this). They also kinda low-key haunt any area they're in gradually over time, though with practice they can control and localize the bad vibes.
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Re: BisectedBrioche's Brilliant Bread Random Banter Bthread #243
Spite, I suppose. It might be like an angry, immature sore loser flipping the chessboard to the effect of "you're stupid, your rules are stupid and you may **** them; I'm not playing along" – even if they have to suffer for it.
I imagine most of them involve people (like myself) grossed out by the very thought of a cheesecake.
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In Lightbringer's world, there are two competing gods of death: Nox the Unyielding, who represents death as an inevitable finality, and the Maiden with no name, who represents death as a merciful final rest. The two both claim to be the sole legitimate ruler of the underworld, Nox by being the Firstborn son of existence and the Maiden by dint of her experience with the job (for reasons I haven't fully decided on yet Nox was sealed away for a long period and the Maiden took his place until relatively recently). Depending on where you die, how you die and the exact circumstances of your death you end up with one or the other, and are judged based on your deeds in life both from a personal cultural perspective and on a general moral perspective.
The two are in a near-constant war in the underworld that never truly ends, and whoever wins the war shall become the true god/dess of death. 'Course, you're already dead, you can't die *again*. So when you are slain in battle you are instead sent to the other's side. In many ways it's closer to a game than a true war, and some suspect that neither the Maiden nor Nox truly wants the other dead anymore.
The Underworld itself is reminiscent of something like Exalted or Wraith. It is a shadowy reflection of the mortal world, where all things are composed of the same stuff as the soul. It's full of ghosts and spirits from across all of time, playing out their former lives as best they can within that shadowy place. The gods can visit and leave, but no one else really can, and it's rare for anyone to even try.Last edited by HalfTangible; 2023-03-03 at 01:42 PM.
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