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2024-02-23, 03:17 PM (ISO 8601)
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To me, dim light has always seemed more dismal than fancy.
(Doubly so if there's candlelight. At that point it just flat out looks like you can't afford electricity.)
That's another thing. While I can kind of understand it's use in fancy restaurants as being some kind of arbitrary cultural thing, it's occasional use in places that are clearly not fancy is absolutely baffling. At the place where I work the lights in the cafeteria are constantly kept dim and I won't eat in there anymore; I'll eat in my car or in a disused conference room, depending on the time of year"If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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Calling 40k a satire is both reductive and incorrect. And every time I hear it it pisses me off.
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2024-02-23, 09:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-01, 03:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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I find the whole concept of "Hanahaki disease" to be more horrifying than romantic and I can't help but feel that if it existed IRL it would be weaponized by incels.
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2024-03-02, 06:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-03-02, 08:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I've read a lot of tropes that didn't seem to be very well thought through, but that one is next-level deranged. Seriously, does anyone call it "romantic"?
(Well, maybe if you're using the word in the sense of "rather silly and thoughtless and divorced from reality".)
That's a trope that's evolved in the past generation, though. "Love potions" (and "love spells", which are practically the same) used to be seen in a dewy-eyed "wouldn't it be nice" kind of way, but more recent works (e.g. Harry Potter) have treated them as varying levels of manipulative, evil and downright freakin' dangerous.Last edited by veti; 2024-03-02 at 08:17 PM.
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2024-03-04, 02:20 PM (ISO 8601)
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"If you want to understand biology don't think about vibrant throbbing gels and oozes, think about information technology" -Richard Dawkins
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2024-03-27, 12:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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“Talking about the weather” is considered a cliche in my neck of the woods but I’ve never understood the hate. Weather is a universal experience that we really can’t control day-to-day, so it makes sense we’d make it a fixture of conversations.
What I can’t understand or tolerate is when people complain about the weather not being as extreme as forecasted.
I’m from a part of the world where snow is pretty common, so blizzards are a regular fixture and thus blizzard predictions feature heavily. Number of inches of snow, driving conditions, school and work closures, that kind of thing. And every single time the meteorologists predict any significant snowfall, whiteout conditions, or subzero temperatures, I always have to hear complaints from somebody about how it didn’t snow/it didn’t get as cold/driving wasn’t as bad as the weather predicted.
Prediction was 10-12 inches but we only got 8? You better believe someone’s gonna whine about the storm being “totally overblown”. Heaven forbid school gets fully cancelled and then the impending storm fizzles or weakens. People will gripe about it like spoiled children for days.
This isn’t just regular “oh shoot, the storm wasn’t quite as strong as expected” chatter. This is actual annoyance or criticism of the meteorologists. Calling them idiots. Cowards. People seem to take it PERSONALLY when the weather channel errs on the side of caution.
I don’t get it: better to forecast too much disruption than not enough, right?
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2024-03-28, 06:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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I think some historical context might be helpful.
Back when I wor' a kid, some... several decades ago now, weather forecasters didn't see themselves as "warning" people. They were just saying what the best guess of the weather was likely to be. They might throw in some good-natured advice of the level of "so wrap up warm" or "make sure the house is secure", but that was about as far as it ever went. Ever.
Then there were a few episodes where weather-powered disasters struck, and - something completely new happened. People started complaining that they hadn't had warning. Or, in the case of the more cautious, "adequate" warning. I think this was, if you'll pardon the pun, the watershed moment at least where I lived. For 30 years that forecast has been more talked about than the storm that followed it.
The forecasters didn't know quite what to make of that complaint at first. They'd said what was likely to happen, was it their fault if people weren't paying enough attention? But pretty soon, they shifted gear. They switched to the policy they've maintained to this day - give loud and alarming warnings of everything that anyone might consider disruptive.
To those of us who remember how it used to be - frankly, it's irritating. Yes, we'd like to know if a hurricane is blowing through, but when the warnings are false alarms as often as not, are we really any better off than we were before? Is there any chance we could go back to having just the forecast, without the "warnings" and "alert levels" and, in a word, drama?"None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2024-04-11, 01:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Space saver" or "donut" style spare tires are the worst innovation in the history of automobiles (or at least the worst one that isn't illegal)
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2024-04-11, 05:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yes. And the tire place can't fit me in until tomorrow which means that I have to spend the whole day driving around on this make believe tire that I'm not supposed to drive around too much on. And there's a lot of needless switching back and fortn. When they finally get me in I'm gonna see if they can sell me an extra rim and tire too so I can throw the donut in the garbage where it belongs
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2024-04-13, 02:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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Not even close, replacing the space-save tyre with a can of gunk to blow into the tyre to form a temporary seal is far worse. Not only does in not seal a lot of punctures (last time I tried to use one I didn't have my mobile phone with me so I had to drive5? miles on a completely flat tyre to phone the breakdown service) but what they don't tell you is that the gunk has a 3-year expiry date so most people are probably driving around with gunk that won't even work on a puncture it could fix!
I agree that a full-size spare wheel is the best though.
My current car came with the gunk, but unlike a lot of electric cars it has a spare wheel space in the boot that it actually deep enough for a full size wheel! It's a shame the plastic trays that surround the top make the hole just too small for a sull-sized tyre so you either have to buy a space-saver or remove some of the fittings to make the hole larger. I bought the space-saver, but I have a lot of local tyre places so a wait is not a problem. The newer version of the same car is horrible (not just in the boot) and has a very shallow wheel depression (not deep enough for anything) with cable trunking running across the middle of it - so why put the depression in there?
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2024-04-14, 09:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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FIL put on Mask of Zorro. Just finished watching the first big fight scene after training, where Zorro tries to steal the black horse.
Hot take: Antonio Banderas Zorro was the original Captain Jack Sparrow.Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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I'll never understand why any manufacturers put any faith in that can stuff. I assume they're not even expecting it to work, it's just a token gesture to say "we tried, not my problem anymore".
Extra tire or bust.
I miss the era of playful adventure movies. Mask of Zorro and The Mummy come to mind first and foremost. Pirates of the Carribbean 1 also fits in there, but even then the genre was already morphing into something else.
I want more movies that are inventive, playful, and don't take themselves too seriously, but also don't take themselves too comically. Being earnest is not a crime! Being a little goofy because you were a little too earnest is not a crime! At its best moments, D&D: Honor Among Thieves was like this, which is why I loved it a lot.
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2024-04-15, 09:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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Cuthalion's art is the prettiest art of all the art. Like my avatar.
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2024-04-15, 09:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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On a car I owned, the spare tire was mounted at the bottom of the car and was a pain in the ass to get loose even in a garage, I very much doubt I even would've been able to do it in an emergency.
On a more positive note, the one time I've used the aforementioned spray stuff it worked so well I didn't even have to get the tire fixed afterwards, it was just whole again. (Though in that case I bought it right before using it, so the expiration date wasn't an issue).
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The D&D movie "Honour among thieves" ain't all that.
Now granted, i was having a bit of insomnia when i was watching it at the time, so that might affect things. but when i watched, it was very boring.
Okay introduction to characters
okay fetch-quest
okay more characters
they overplay the "speak with dead" thing too much
okay fetch-quest
okay fetch-quest
okay fetch-quest
At what point is this supposed to be interesting? the fat-dragon? was the fat-dragon supposed to be interesting? it was onscreen for like three minutes.
The whole thing is just one long chain of fetch-quests and nothing of substance. I got bored and turned the movie off right at the halfway mark when they finally got the McGuffin and the one guy walked away. Like okay, that's... nice... you spent half the runtime on a boring fetch-quest, are you NOW going to begin telling the story or what?
personally i didn't stick around to find out.Avy by Thormag
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To be fair, "fetch quest, fetch quest, fetch quest, overcommit to a goofy scenario (speak with dead), fetch quest, fetch quest..." IS a pretty quintessential tabletop experience
As someone who enjoyed the film quite a lot, I'm with you on this gripe. The plot and dialogue are really nothing special - a few fun lines and moments, but the overall storytelling doesn't break a lot of new ground. The parts that I liked most were the inventive action sequences and the acting. If I had to pick a word, I'd call it "charming".
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Speaking of movies that are like types of games, has anybody else noticed that Back To The Future 1 is basically like one of those point and click adventure videogames? Marty spends the first 1/3 of the movie accumulating random objects (the clock tower flyer, the tape player, the radiation suit, etc) and the rest of the movie combining them to get out of various situations.
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Alas, they got bought out by Six Flags long ago.
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Spoiler: explanationGreat Adventure was an amusement park in southern New Jersey, that is now Six Flags Great Adventure.
Though I don't see how you get six flags for New Jersey. Dutch, British, US, and what else? Swedish?Last edited by DavidSh; 2024-04-19 at 03:22 PM.
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2024-04-19, 07:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, NJ has a state flag. It's better than the average state flag because it's not blue, but it's still just a coat of arms on a plain background, pretty forgettable.
But in case you're serious, the name comes from Texas, which really can list six flags in its history. Wikipedia has the list."None of us likes to be hated, none of us likes to be shunned. A natural result of these conditions is, that we consciously or unconsciously pay more attention to tuning our opinions to our neighbor’s pitch and preserving his approval than we do to examining the opinions searchingly and seeing to it that they are right and sound." - Mark Twain
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2024-04-19, 07:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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I was not previously aware of the French settlement in Texas. It appears to have been about as significant as the portion of the New Sweden colony in New Jersey.
And while I am a dutiful son of the Garden State, I must confess its flag is nowhere near as flashy as Maryland's.
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2024-04-19, 08:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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If you want a cool state flag, it seems like the thing that does you most good is a border with Mexico. Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California - those are the most memorable and beautiful state flags. California loses points for writing the name, but it's still memorable.
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